set the wheels in motion
maneuver
manoeuver
manoeuvre
strategy
means to an end
place
aim
direct
point
target
intention
plan
course of action
happener
procession
progress
advancement
make an effort
project
forward motion
advance
progression
onward motion
boss up
make one's own luck
on the right track
roadmap
get after
plan of action
go after
work
preconditioning
pretarget
hypothetical imperative
action plan
virtùous
fast track
activism
set the pace
measure
tactics
try for
go for
have the cards in one's hands
subtlety
tactic
bear fruit
move
make strides
labor
come
labour
drive
push
tug
timesaver
set up
make quick work of
coattail
strive
retro-engineer
goal
game plan
play to win
bear down
exit strategy
planning
policy
impel
force the pace
pull the trigger
process
procedure
furtherer
release
achievement
take the ball and run with it
teleogenesis
power play
life coach
overkill
forge ahead
hitch one's wagon to a star
pass
work at
backcast
campaign
military campaign
for it
traceability
get ahead
achievement unlocked
consummate
social movement
pursuer
virtùous
strategy
means to an end
intention
plan
course of action
happener
procession
progress
advancement
project
forward motion
advance
progression
onward motion
plan of action
preconditioning
hypothetical imperative
action plan
fast track
activism
measure
maneuver
manoeuvre
tactics
subtlety
tactic
move
timesaver
coattail
goal
game plan
exit strategy
planning
policy
process
procedure
furtherer
achievement
teleogenesis
power play
overkill
campaign
military campaign
traceability
social movement
pursuer
drive
set the wheels in motion
maneuver
manoeuver
manoeuvre
place
aim
direct
point
target
make an effort
boss up
make one's own luck
roadmap
get after
go after
work
pretarget
set the pace
try for
go for
have the cards in one's hands
bear fruit
make strides
labor
come
labour
drive
push
tug
set up
make quick work of
strive
retro-engineer
play to win
bear down
impel
force the pace
pull the trigger
release
take the ball and run with it
life coach
forge ahead
hitch one's wagon to a star
pass
work at
backcast
get ahead
process
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verb
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- place somebody in a particular situation or location
- assign a rank or rating to
- assign a location to
- to arrange for
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
- assign to (a job or a home)
- locate
- estimate
- identify the location or place of
- make an investment
- assign to a station
- finish second or better in a horse or dog race
- sing a note with the correct pitch
noun
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- any area set aside for a particular purpose
- an abstract mental location
- a general vicinity
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- a particular situation
- where you live at a particular time
- a job in an organization
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- proper or designated social situation
- a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- the passage that is being read
- proper or appropriate position or location
- a public square with room for pedestrians
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- a blank area
verb
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- propose or intend
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
- direct (a remark) toward an intended goal
- have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
noun
verb
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- command with authority
- guide the actors in (plays and films)
- govern or manage
- take somebody somewhere
- cause to go somewhere
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction
- specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- put an address on (an envelope)
- plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
adv
adj
- having no intervening persons, agents, conditions
- being an immediate result or consequence
- in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker
- lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact
adj
- direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short
- straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action
- in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
- moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth
- similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
- (of a current) flowing in one direction only
verb
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- be oriented
- direct into a position for use
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- sail close to the wind
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- be positionable in a specified manner
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- give a point to
- repair the joints of bricks
noun
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- an instant of time
- the object of an activity
- a V shape
- a very small circular shape
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- an outstanding characteristic
- sharp end
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- the gun muzzle's direction
- a wall socket
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
verb
noun
- a reference point to shoot at
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- the location of the target that is to be hit
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
noun
- A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
- A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
- A subscription to a service.
- A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
- A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.
verb
noun
- A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
- a raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough
- An urban low-income housing building.
verb
- To extend beyond a surface.
- To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard from a large distance away.
- To make plans for; to forecast.
- To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
- To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
- To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
- (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location
- To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
- To draw straight lines from a fixed point through every point of any body or figure, and let these fall upon a surface so as to form the points of a new figure.
- To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
noun
- the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
- a movement forward
- a change for the better; progress in development
- a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
- an amount paid before it is earned
- increase in price or value
adj
verb
- move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
- bring forward for consideration or acceptance
- increase or raise
- contribute to the progress or growth of
- cause to move forward
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- develop in a positive way
- develop further
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- pay in advance
- move forward
- rise in rate or price
verb
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- be employed
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform as expected when applied
- shape, form, or improve a material
- give a workout to
- proceed along a path
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- move in an agitated manner
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- cause to work
- prepare for crops
- behave in a certain way when handled
- have and exert influence or effect
- operate in or through
- cause to operate or function
- provoke or excite
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- make something, usually for a specific function
- move into or onto
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- cause to undergo fermentation
- go sour or spoil
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
noun
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- the occupation for which you are paid
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- a place where work is done
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
noun
- Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A unit of measurement.
- A piece of legislation.
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- A bed or stratum.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
verb
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
noun
- The quality of being able to achieve one's aims through clever, delicate or indirect methods.
- The quality of being done in a clever way that is not obvious or not direct; the quality of being carefully thought out.
- The quality of being able to notice or understand things that are not obvious.
- An instance of being subtle, a subtle thing, especially a subtle argument or distinction.
- The quality of being scarcely noticeable or difficult to discern.
- An ornate medieval illusion dish or table decoration, especially when made from one thing but crafted to look like another.
noun
- An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- The event of changing one's residence.
- A change in strategy.
- A round, in which each player has a turn.
- The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
- The act of moving; a movement.
- A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
verb
- To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
- To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
- To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
- To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
- To request an action from the court.
- To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
- To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
- To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
- To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
- To act; to take action; to begin to act
verb
noun
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
verb
- To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
- To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
- To carry through; to succeed in.
- To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
- To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
- To become butter by being churned.
- Happen.
- To have a certain social background.
- To move from further away to nearer to.
- To move towards the listener.
- To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.
- To appear, to manifest itself.
- To be or have been a resident or native.
- To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- To move towards an unstated agent.
- To move towards the speaker.
- To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
- To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.
- To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- To germinate.
- To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
- To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- To arrive.
- To have been brought up by or employed by.
noun
intj
- An exclamation to express annoyance.
- An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
prep
verb
noun
verb
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- operate or control a vehicle
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- cause to move back by force or influence
- compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment
- push, propel, or press with force
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- have certain properties when driven
- work as a driver
- move by being propelled by a force
- urge forward
- proceed along in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- (hunting) search for game
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
noun
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a road leading up to a private house
- the trait of being highly motivated
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
verb
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- move with force
- press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action
- make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
- press against forcefully without moving
- approach a certain age or speed
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs)
- move strenuously and with effort
- make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
noun
verb
- To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- To trick someone in order to make them do something.
- To cause to happen.
- To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
- To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- To arrange logically.
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- To establish someone in a business or position.
- To gel or harden.
- To trap or ensnare.
- To ready something for use.
- To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- To ready for use.
- To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
adj
noun
- The act of placing the object into the goal.
- A result that one is attempting to achieve.
- A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
- A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.
- In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
verb
verb
- To intensify one's efforts.
- To approach in a determined manner.
- To steer away from the wind; to approach from windward.
- To exert downward pressure on one's abdomen, as in giving birth, forcing out feces, and some similar bodily maneuvers.
- To push (someone) to the ground; to defeat, overcome.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, down.
noun
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant
- a mental process that you are not directly aware of
- a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
- a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
verb
- subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
- deal with in a routine way
- perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information
- institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
- shape, form, or improve a material
- deliver a warrant or summons to someone
verb
verb
- To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
- To set free a chemical substance.
- To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
- To make available to the public.
- To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
- To free or liberate; to set free.
- (of a call) To hang up.
- To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
- to come out; be out.
- To discharge.
- To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
noun
- The act or manner of ending a sound.
- In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
- The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
- Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
- A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
- The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
- The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken
- Orgasm.
- A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
- The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.
- The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
- The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
- That which is released, untied or let go.
- Liberation from pain or suffering.
noun
- The successful completion of a socially defined goal or task, highlighting individual or group accomplishment.
- The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
- A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness.
- The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in an instant.
- An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.
- An escutcheon or ensign armorial; a full display or depiction of all the heraldic components to which the bearer of a coat of arms is entitled; (now especially) a funeral shield: the hatchment.
noun
- A strategy or maneuver with a similar intention.
- A similar situation in other ball games, such as lacrosse, indoor soccer, rugby, and cricket.
- Tactics used to magnify power or influence.
- A situation where a team has a numerical advantage on the ice due to one or more penalties given to the opposing team.
- A play used to move the stones to the side of the sheet.
verb
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
- To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.
- To change retrospectively; reverse.
adj
noun
- Retrospect; hindsight.
- backwater
- A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
- A cast or throw back.
- Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
- Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
adv
noun
- several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints)
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa)
verb
noun
- An effort by a group of people to achieve a social or political goal.
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