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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end, shaft |
| Synonyms: | base, bottom, edge, extremity, fag end, foot, fundament, haft, handle, hilt, shank, stock, stub, stump, tail, tip |
| Main Entry: | butt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cigarette |
| Synonyms: | cancer stick, cig, coffin nail, fag, smoke*, tobacco |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | butt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bang up against with head |
| Synonyms: | batter, buck, buffet, bump, bunt, collide, gore, hook, horn, jab, knock, poke, prod, punch, push, ram, run into, shove, smack, strike, thrust, toss |
| Main Entry: | butt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch, adjoin |
| Synonyms: | abut, border, bound, communicate, join, jut, meet, neighbor, project, protrude, verge |
| Main Entry: | butt/buttocks |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animate rear end |
| Synonyms: | back end, backside, behind, bottom, bum*, derrière, fanny, fundament, gluteus maximus, haunches, hindquarters, posterior, rear, rump, seat, tush |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adjoin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be next to |
| Synonyms: | abut, approximate, be adjacent to, border, butt, communicate, connect, join, lie, lie beside, link, neighbor, touch, verge |
| Main Entry: | backside |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rear end |
| Synonyms: | behind, bottom, butt*, buttocks, derrière, fanny, posterior, rear, rump, seat*, tail, tush |
| Antonyms: | front |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | barrel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cylindrical container |
| Synonyms: | butt, cask, cylinder, drum, firkin, hogshead, keg, pipe, receptacle, tub, tun, vat, vessel |
| Main Entry: | bit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiny piece |
| Synonyms: | atom, butt, chicken feed, chip, chunk, crumb, dab, dash, division, dollop, dose, dot, driblet, droplet, end, excerpt, flake, fraction, fragment, grain, iota, item, jot, lick*, lump, mite, modicum, moiety, molecule, morsel, niggle, parcel, part, particle, peanuts, pinch, portion, sample, scale, scintilla, scrap, section, segment, shard, share, shaving, shred, slice, sliver, smidgen, snatch, snip, snippet, specimen, speck, splinter, sprinkling, stub, stump, taste, tittle, trace, trickle |
| Notes: | a bit is a single unit of computer information and a byte is a sequence of adjacent bits, usually eight, operated on as a unit by a computer |
| Antonyms: | whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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