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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | embankment, wall |
| Synonyms: | bank, barrage, barrier, dike, ditch, gate, grade, hindrance, levee, milldam, millpond, obstruction, weir |
| Notes: | a dam is a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water while damn is used as an expletive meaning cursed, condemned to hell |
| Main Entry: | depository |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | storage place |
| Synonyms: | archive, arsenal, bank, bunker, cache, collection, depot, gallery, magazine, museum, repertory, repository, safe, safe-deposit box, store, storehouse, tomb, vault, warehouse |
| Notes: | depository and repository are basically synonymous, but there are special senses like a bank's (night) depository and a sepulchre as a repository |
| Main Entry: | drift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accumulation |
| Synonyms: | alluvion, bank, batch, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, deposit, heap, hill, lot, mass, mound, mountain, parcel, pile, set, shock, stack |
| Main Entry: | entrust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give custody, authority to |
| Synonyms: | allocate, allot, assign, authorize, bank, bend an ear, charge, commend, commit, confer, confide, consign, count, delegate, deliver, depend, deposit with, hand over, impose, invest, leave with, reckon, relegate, rely, trust, turn over |
| Main Entry: | finance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | offer loan money; set up in business |
| Synonyms: | back, bank, bankroll, capitalize, endow, float*, fund, go for, grubstake, guarantee, juice*, lay on one, loan shark, patronize, pay for, pick up the check, pick up the tab, prime the pump, promote, provide funds, provide security, put up money, raise dough, sponsor, stake, subsidize, support, underwrite |
| Antonyms: | call in, take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incline, slope |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascent, bank, cant, climb, declivity, descent, downgrade, elevation, embankment, gradient, height, hill, inclination, inclined plane, lean, leaning, level, obliquity, pitch, plane, ramp, rise, slant, tangent, tilt, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | gradient |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slope |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, angle, bank, cant, declivity, grade, hill, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, pitch, ramp, rise, slant, tilt |
| Main Entry: | heap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pile, accumulation |
| Synonyms: | a lot, abundance, agglomeration, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, bank, batch, bulk, bunch, bundle, cargo, clump, cluster, collection, concentration, congeries, deposit, fullness, gathering, gobs, great deal, harvest, haul, hill, hoard, jumble, load, lot, lots, lump, mass, million, mint, mound, mountain, much, ocean, oodles*, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, scad, stack, stock, stockpile, store, sum, thousand, ton, total, trillion, volume, whole |
| Antonyms: | bit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | amass, collect in pile |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, add, arrange, augment, bank, bunch, concentrate, deposit, dump, fill, fill up, gather, group, hoard, increase, load, lump, mass, mound, pack, stack, stockpile, store, swell |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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