Book: Roget\'s Thesaurus

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#261. Closure. -- N. closure, occlusion, blockade; shutting up &c. v.;
obstruction &c. (hindrance) 706; embolus; contraction &c. 195; infarction;
constipation, obstipation; blind alley, blind corner; keddah; cul-de-sac,
caecum; imperforation, imperviousness &c. adj.; impermeability; stopper &c.
263.
V. close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up,
button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct &c.
(hinder) 706; bar, bolt, stop, seal, plumb; choke, throttle; ram down,
dam, cram; trap, clinch; put to the door, shut the door.
Adj. closed &c. v.; shut, operculated; unopened.
unpierced, imporous, caecal; closable; imperforate, inpervious,
impermeable; impenetrable; unpassable, impassable; invious|; pathless,
wayless; untrodden.
unventilated; air tight, water tight; hermetically sealed; tight,
snug.

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#262. Perforator. -- N. perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel,
gimlet, stylet, drill, wimble, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, crokscrew,
dibble, trocar, trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder,
lancet; punch, puncheon; spikebit, gouge; spear &c. (weapon) 727; puncher;
punching machine, punching press; punch pliers.

#263. Stopper. -- N. stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill,
stopcock, tap; rammer; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing,
padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet.
cover &c. 223; valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve.
janitor, doorkeeper, porter, warder, beadle, cerberus, ostiary.


Section IV. MOTION
1. Motion in General

#264 [Successive change of place.] Motion. -- N. motion, movement,
move; going &c. v.; unrest.
stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematicss;
telekinesis.
step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence,
carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey
&c. 266; voyage &c. 267; transit &c. 270.
restlessness &c. (changeableness) 149; mobility; movableness, motive
power; laws of motion; mobilization.
V. be in motion &c. adj.; move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass,
flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll,
roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander &c. (deviate) 279;
walk &c. 266; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters,
shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving;.
put in motion, set in motion; move; impel &c. 276; propel &c. 284;
render movable, mobilize.
Adj. moving &c. v.; in motion; transitional; motory, motive; shifting,
movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless &c. (changeable) 149; nomadic
&c. 266; erratic &c. 279.
Adv. under way; on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march.
Phr. eppur si muove [Galileo]; es bildet ein Talent sich in der
Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom derr Welt.

#265. Quiescence. -- N. rest; stillness &c. adj.; quiescence;
stagnation, stagnancy; fixity, immobility, catalepsy; indisturbance;
quietism.
quiet, tranquillity, calm; repose &c. 687; peace; dead calm,
anticyclone; statue-like repose; slience &c. 203; not a breath of air, not
a mouse stirring; sleep &c. (inactivity) 683.
pause, lull &c. (cessation) 142; stand still; standing still &c. v.;
lock; dead lock, dead stop, dead stand; full stop; fix; embargo.
resting place; gite; bivouac; home &c. (abode) 189; pillow &c.
(support) 215; haven &c. (refuge) 666' gpa; &c. (arrival) 292.
V. be quiescent &c. adj.; stand still, lie still; keep quiet, repose,
hold the hreath.
remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry,
mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop,
stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest
on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop &c. (discontinue)
142.
stagnate; quieta non movere; let alone; abide, rest and be thankful;
keep within doors, stay at home, go to bed.
dwell &c. (be present) 186; settle &c. (be located) 184; alight &c.
(arrive) 292 stick, stick fast; stand like a post; not stir a peg, not stir
a step; be at a stand &c. n. quell, becalm, hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay
an embargo on.
Adj. quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary;
immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still;
standing still &c. v.; sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed,
stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful;
cataleptic; immovable &c. (stable) 150; sleeping &c. (inactive) 683; silent
&c. 403; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as
death.
Adv. at a stand &c. adj.; tout court; at the halt.
Int. stop! stay! avast! halt! hold hard! whoa! hold! sabr karo!.
Phr. requiescat in pace; Deus nobis haec otia fecit [Vergil]; "the
noonday quiet holds the hill" [Tennyson}.

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#266. [Locomotion by land.] Journey. -- N. travel; traveling &c. v.
wayfaring, campaigning.
journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit,
peregrination, discursion|, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course,
ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp,
jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism;
somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt.
equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie; basophobia.
roving, vagrancy, pererration|; marching and countermarching;
nomadism; vagabondism, vagabondage; hoboism [U.S.]; gadding; flit,
flitting, migration; emigration, immigration, demigration|, intermigration;
wanderlust.
plan, itinerary, guide; handbook, roadbook; Baedeker, Bradshaw,
Murray.
procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column.
[Organs and instruments of locomotion] vehicle &c. 272; automobile,
'train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt
bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter',trolley, locomotive;
legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters.
traveler &c. 268.
depot [U.S.], railway station, station.
V. travel, journey, course; take a journey, go a journey; take a walk,
go out for walk &c. n.; have a run; take the air.
flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range,
patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the
country; peragrate|; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble,
stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about;
expatiate.
walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare;
promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, stump,
bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.
take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk,
caracoler, caracole; gallop &c. (move quickly) 274.
peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on; stir one's stumps; bend one's
steps, bend one's course; make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way,
pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way; slide,
glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession, file on, defile.
go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.
Adj. traveling &c. v.; ambulatory, intinerant, peripatetic, roving,
rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic; circumforanean,
circumforaneous; noctivagrant, mundivagrant; locomotive.
wayfaring, wayworn; travel-stained.
Adv. on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare; by the Marrowbone stage:
in transitu &c. 270; en route &c. 282.
Int. come along!

#267. [Locomotion by water, or air.] Navigation. -- N. navigation;
aquatics; boating, yachting; ship &c. 273; oar, paddle, screw, sail,
canvas, aileron.
natation, swimming; fin, flipper, fish's tail.
aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics; balloonery; balloon &c. 273;
ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation; wing, pinion.
voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus; headway,
sternway, leeway; fairway.
mariner &c. 269.
V. sail; put to sea &c. (depart) 293; take ship, get under way; set
sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail, carry
sail; plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean; walk
the waters.
navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast;
hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate.
ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam.
swim, float; buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer, dive,
wade.
fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter; take wing, take a flight; wing
one's flight, wing one's way; aviate.
Adj. sailing &c. v.; volant, aerostatic; seafaring, nautical,
maritiime, naval; seagoing, coasting; afloat; navigable; aerial,
aeronautic; grallatory.
Adv. under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam; on the wing.
Phr. bon voyage; "spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale"
[Pope].

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#268. Traveler. -- N. traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant,
passenger, commuter.
tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, Alpine
Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage;
gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays,
wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian,
gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic;
somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly;
globegirdler, globetrotter; hobo [U.S.], night walker, sleep walker;
noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman [Aust.]; trecker,
trekker, zingano, zingaro.
runner, courier; Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet.
pedestrian, walker, foot passenger; cyclist; wheelman.
rider,horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer,
breaker.
driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter,
wagoner, drayman; cabman, cabdriver; voiturier, vetturino, condottiere;
engine driver; stoker, fireman, guard; chauffeur, conductor, engineer,
gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman.
Phr. on the road

#269. Mariner. -- N. sailor, mariner, navigator; seaman, seafarer,
seafaring man; dock walloper*; tar, jack tar, salt, able seaman, A. B.;
man-of-war's man, bluejacket, galiongee, galionji, marine, jolly,
midshipman, middy; skipper; shipman, boatman, ferryman, waterman,
lighterman, bargeman, longshoreman; bargee, gondolier; oar, oarsman; rower;
boatswain, cockswain; coxswain; steersman, pilot; crew.
aerial navigator, aeronaut, balloonist, Icarus; aeroplanist, airman,
aviator, birdman, man-bird, wizard of the air.

#270. Transference. -- N. transfer, transference; translocation,
elocation|; displacement; metastasis, metathesis; removal; remotion,
amotion; relegation; deportation, asportation; extradition, conveyance,
draft, carrying, carriage; convection, conduction, contagion; transfer &c.
(of property) 783.
transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage, porterage,
carting, cartage; shoveling &c. v.; vection|, vecture|, vectitation|;
shipment, freight, wafture; transmission, transport, transportation,
transumption, transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion
&c. 73; transposition &c. (interchange) 148; traction &c. 285.
[Thing transferred] drift.
V. transfer, transmit, transport, transplace, transplant; convey,
carry, bear, fetch and carry; carry over, ferry over; hand pass, forward;
shift; conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach; tote [U.S.].
send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship,
embark; waft; shunt; transpose &c. (interchange) 148; displace &c. 185;
throw &c. 284; drag &c. 285; mail, post.
shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse.
Adj. transferred &c. v.; drifted, movable; portable, portative;
mailable [U.S.]; contagious.
Adv. from hand to hand, from pillar to post.
on the way, by the way; on the road, on the wing; as one goes; in
transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress.

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#271. Carrier. -- N. carrier, porter, bearer, tranter|, conveyer;
cargador; express, expressman; stevedore, coolie; conductor, locomotive,
motor.
beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, plafrey, Arab, blood hose,
throughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony,
filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, tit, punch,
roadster, goer; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse,
post horse; ketch, sheltie; garran, garron; jennet, genet, bayard, marek,
stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho, cayuse [U.S.]; creature, critter [rural
U.S.]; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler; stud.
Pegasus, Bucephalus, Rocinante.
ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro,
cuddy, ladino [U.S.]; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier
pigeon.
carriage &c. (vehicle) 272; ship &c. 273.
Adj. equine, asinine.

#272. Vehicle. -- N. vehicle, conveyance, carriage, caravan, van;
wagon, waggon, wain, dray, cart, lorry.
carriole; truck, tram; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow,
hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise;
palankeen, pananquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher,
ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha,
ricksha, brett, dearborn [U.S.], dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger,
kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner [U.S.],
shay, sloven [Can.], team, tonga, wheel; velocipede, hobbyhorse, gocart;
cycle; bicycle, tricycle, quadricycle; bike.
equipage, turnout; coach, chariot, phaeton, break, mail phaeton,
wagonette, grag, curricle, tilbury, whissky, landau, barouche, victoria,
brougham, clarence, calash, caleche, britzka, araba, kibitka; berlin;
sliky, desobligeant, sociable, vis-a-vis, dormeuse; jaunting car, outside
car; dandi; doolie, dooly; munchil, palki; roller skates, skate; runabout;
ski; tonjon; vettura.
post chaise, diligence, stage; stage coach, mail coach, hackney coach,
glass coach; stage wagon, car, omnibus, fly, cabriolet, cab, hansom,
shofle, four-wheeler, growler, droshki, drosky.
dogcart, trap, whitechapel, buggy, four-in-hand, unicorn, random,
tandem; shandredhan, char-a-bancs.
motor car, automobile, limousine, motorcycle, taxicab, taxicoach.
bob, bobsled, bobsleigh; cutter; double ripper, double runner [U.S.];
jumber, sled, sledge, sleigh, toboggan.
train; accomodation train, passenger train, express trail, special
train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train,
goods train; 1st class train, 2nd class train, 3rd class train, 1st class
carriage, 2nd class carriage, 3rd class carriage, 1st class compartment,
2nd class compartment, 3rd class compartment; crolling stock; horse box,
cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, Pullman
car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car;
box car, box wagon; horse car [U.S.]; lightning express; luggage van;
mail, mail car, mail van.
shovel, spool, spatula, ladle, hod, hoe; spade, spaddle, loy; spud;
pitchfork.

#273. Ship. -- N. ship, vessel, sail; craft, bottom.
navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping.
man of war &c. (combatant) 726; transport, tender, storeship; merchang
ship, merchangman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster,
lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala; floating
hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound.
ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine,
barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted
schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl,
dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel;
windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruise ship;
mail steamer, riverboat, showboat, paddle steamer, paddle wheeler,
sidewheeler, screw steamer tug; line of steamer.
boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly
boat, cock boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully [Nfld.],
bateau [Can.] battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, droughter; dugout, durham
boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow,
cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar,
pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice
canoe, ice yacht.
catamaran, coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel; felucca, caique, canoe;
galley, galleyfoist; bilander, dogger, hooker, howker; argosy, carack;
galliass, galleon; polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa,
prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah; nuggah; kayak, keel boat
[U.S.], log canoe, pirogue; quadrireme, trireme; stern-wheeler [U.S.];
wanigan, wangan [U.S.], warf boat.
balloon; airship, aeroplane; biplane, monoplane, triplane; hydroplane;
aerodrome; air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon; aerostat, Montgolfier;
kite, parachute.
Adv. afloat, aboard; on board, on ship board; hard a lee, hard a port,
hard a starboard, hard a weather.

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2. Degrees of Motion

#274. Velocity. -- N. velocity, speed, celerity; swiftness &c. adj.;
rapidity, eagle speed; expedition &c. (activity) 682; pernicity|;
acceleration; haste &c. 684.
spurt, rush, dash, race, steeple chase; smart rate, lively rate, swift
rate &c. adj.; rattling rate, spanking rate, strapping rate, smart pace,
lively pace, swift pace, rattling pace, spanking pace, straping pace; round
pace; flying, flight.
lightning, light, electricity, wind; cannon ball, rocket, arrow, dart,
hydrargyrum, quicksilver; telegraph, express train; torrent.
eagle, antelope, courser, race horse, gazelle, greyhound, hare, doe,
squirrel, camel bird, chickaree, chipmunk, hackee [U.S.], ostrich,
scorcher*.
Mercury, Ariel, Camilla, Harlequin.
[Measurement of velocity] log, log line.
V. move quickly, trip, fisk|; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank,
scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat
it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, sweep, skim, brush;
cut along, bowl along; scorch; rush &c. (be violent) 173; dash on, dash
off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring,
dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over
the ground.
hurry &c. (hasten) 684; accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's
pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid
strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best
leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry
sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain
ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind.
keep up with, keep pace with; outstrip &c. 303; outmarch.
Adj. fast, speedy, swift, rapid, quick, fleet; aliped; nimble, agile,
expeditious; express; active &c. 682; flying, galloping &c. v.; light
footed, nimble footed; winged, eagle winged, mercurial, electric,
telegraphic; light-legged, light of heel; swift as an arrow &c. n.; quick
as lightning &c. n., quick as a thought.
Adv. swiftly &c. adj.; with speed &c. n.; apace; at a great rate, at
full speed, at railway speed; full drive, full gallop; posthaste, in full
sail, tantivy; trippingly; instantaneously &c. 113.
under press of sail, under press of canvas, under press of sail and
steam; velis et remis, on eagle's wing, in double quick time; with rapid
strides, with giant strides; a pas de geant; in seven league boots; whip
and spur; ventre a terre; as fast as one's legs will carry one, as fast as
one's heels will carry one; as fast as one can lay legs to the grount, at
the top of one;s speed; by leaps and bounds; with haste &c. 684.
Phr. vires acquirit eundo; "I'll put a girdle about the earth in forty
minutes" [M.N.D.]; "swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow" [M.N.D.]; go
like a bat out of hell; tempus fugit.

#275. Slowness. -- N. slowness &c. adj.; languor &c. (inactivity) 683;
drawl; creeping &c. v., lentor.
retardation; slackening &c. v.; delay &c. (lateness) 133;
claudication|.
jog trot, dog trot; mincing steps; slow march, slow time.
slow goer, slow coach, slow back; lingerer, loiterer, sluggard,
tortoise, snail; poke* [U.S.]; dawdle &c. (inactive) 683.
V. move slowly &c. adv.; creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger,
loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle &c.
(be inactive) 683; grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on,
bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt,
hobble, limp, caludicate|, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince,
step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's
time; hang fire &c. (be late) 133.
retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike
sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip
the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose
ground.
Adj. slow, slack; tardy; dilatory &c. (inactive) 683; gentle, easy;
leisurely; deliberate, gradual; insensible, imperceptible; glacial,
languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like; creeping &c. v.;
reptatorial.
Adv. slowly &c. adj.; leisurely; piano, adagio; largo, larghetto; at
half speed, under easy sail; at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a
funeral pace; in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings; haud
passibus aequis [Vergil].
gradually &c. adj.; gradatim; by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches,
by little and little; step by step, one step at a time; inch by inch, bit
by bit, little by little, seriatim; consecutively.
Phr. dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit; at a glacial pace.

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3. Motion conjoined with Force


#276. Impulse. -- N. impulse, impulsion, impetus; momentum; push,
pulsion, thrust, shove, jog, jolt, brunt, booming, boost [U.S.], throw;
explosion &c. (violence) 173; propulsion &c. 284.
percussion, concussion, collision, occursion|, clash, encounter,
cannon, carambole, appulse, shock, crash, bump; impact; elan; charge &c.
(attack) 716; beating &c. (punishment) 972.
blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip;
slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff &c. 972; squash, dowse, swap, whap,
punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce|, calcitration; ruade; arietation|; cut,
thrust, lunge, yerk|; carom, carrom, clip *, jab, plug y, sidewinder y
[U.S.], sidewipe y [U.S.].
hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer;
battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel
&c. (weapon) 727; ax &c. (sharp) 253.
[Science of mechanical forces] dynamics; seismometer, accelerometer,
earthquake detector.
V. give an impetus &c. n.; impel, push; start, give a start to, set
going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin; cant; elbow, shoulder,
jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against,
bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head
against; impinge; boost [U.S.]; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab,
plug *.
strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow,
bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap,
batter, dowse|, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow;
poke at, pink, lunge, yerk; kick, calcitrate; butt, strike at &c. (attack)
716; whip *c. (punish) 972.
come into a collision, enter into collision; collide; foul; fall foul
of, run foul of; telescope.
throw &c. (propel) 284.
Adj. impelling &c. v.; impulsive, impellent; booming; dynamic,
dynamical; impelled &c. v.
Phr. "a hit, a very palpable hit" [Hamlet].

#277. Recoil. -- N. recoil; reaction, retroaction; revulsion; bounce,
rebound, ricochet; repercussion, recalcitration; kick, contrecoup;
springing back &c. v.; elasticity &c. 325; reflexion, reflex, reflux;
reverberation &c. (resonance) 408; rebuff, repulse; return.
ducks and drakes; boomerang; spring, reactionist.
V. recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back;
rebound, reverberate, repercuss, recalcitrate; echo, ricochet.
Adj. recoiling &c. v.; refluent, repercussive, recalcitrant,
reactionary; retroactive.
Adv. on the rebound, on the recoil &c. n.

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4. Motion with reference to Direction


#278. Direction. -- N. direction, bearing, course, vector; set, drift,
tenor; tendency &c. 176; incidence; bending, trending &c. v.; dip, tack,
aim, collimation; steering steerage.
point of the compass, cardinal points; North East, South, West; N by
E, ENE, NE by N, NE, &c; rhumb, azimuth, line of collimation.
line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march; alignment,
allignment; air line, beeline; straight shoot.
V. tend towards, bend towards, point towards; conduct to, go to; point
to, point at; bend, trend, verge, incline, dip, determine.
steer for, steer towards, make for, make towards; aim at, level at;
take aim; keep a course, hold a course; be bound for; bend one's steps
towards; direct one's course, steer one's course, bend one's course, shape
one's course; align one's march, allign one's march; to straight, go
straight to the point; march on, march on a point.
ascertain one's direction &c. n.; s'o rienter, see which way the wind
blows; box the compass; take the air line.
Adj. directed &c. v. directed towards; pointing towards &c. v.; bound
for; aligned, with alligned with; direct, straight; undeviating,
unswerving; straightforward; North, Northern, Northerly, &c. n.
Adv. towards; on the road, on the high road to; en avant; versus, to;
hither, thither, whither; directly; straight as an arrow, forwards as an
arrow; point blank; in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow
flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a
straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight
line with; in a line with; full tilt at, as the crow flies.
before the wind, near the wind, close to the wind, against the wind;
windwards, in the wind's eye.
through, via, by way of; in all directions, in all manner of ways;
quaquaversum, from the four winds.

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