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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | carry out, accomplish |
| Synonyms: | achieve, actualize, actuate, begin, bring about, bring off, bring on, buy, carry through, cause, complete, conceive, conclude, consummate, create, do a number, do one's thing, do the job, do the trick, do to a T, draw on, effectuate, enact, enforce, execute, fulfill, generate, get across, get to, give rise to, implement, induce, initiate, invoke, make, make it, make waves, perform, procure, produce, pull it off, put across, realize, render, secure, sell, turn out, turn the trick, unzip, yield |
| Notes: | as a noun, affect means 'a feeling or emotion,' whereas effect means 'the result or consequence of some action or process'; as a verb, to affect means 'to exert an influence upon,' and implies the action of a stimulus that can produce a response or reaction, whereas to effect means 'to bring about as a result' effect is a noun referring to a thing, but if you mean an action, that is affect; if you want the verb meaning 'achieve, bring about,' that is effect |
| Antonyms: | fail, forget, ignore, neglect, overlook |
| Main Entry: | embark on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | begin undertaking, journey |
| Synonyms: | broach, commence, engage, enter, get off, initiate, jump off, launch, open, plunge into, set about, set out, set to, start, take up, tee off |
| Main Entry: | enlist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sign up for responsibility |
| Synonyms: | admit, appoint, assign, attract, call to arms, call up, conscribe, conscript, draft, embody, employ, engage, enroll, enter, enter into, gather, get, hire, hitch, incorporate, induct, initiate, inscribe, interest, join, join up, levy, list, mobilize, muster, oblige, obtain, place, press into service, procure, record, recruit, register, reserve, secure, serve, sign on, take on, volunteer |
| Antonyms: | avoid, dodge, shun |
| Main Entry: | entrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person entering competition, starting new activity |
| Synonyms: | aspirant, beginner, candidate, competitor, contestant, convert, entry, incomer, initiate, neophyte, new member, newcomer, novice, participant, petitioner, player, probationer, rival, solicitor, tenderfoot |
| Antonyms: | fan, spectator |
| Main Entry: | erect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build; establish |
| Synonyms: | assemble, bring about, cobble up, cock, compose, construct, create, effect, elevate, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, found, frame, fudge together, heighten, hoist, initiate, institute, join, knock together, lift, make, make up, manufacture, mount, organize, pitch, plant, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, run up, set up, shape, stand, stand up, throw together, throw up, upraise, uprear |
| Antonyms: | raze, topple |
| Main Entry: | found |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring into being |
| Synonyms: | begin, commence, constitute, construct, create, endow, erect, establish, fashion, fix, form, get going, inaugurate, initiate, institute, launch, organize, originate, plant, raise, ring in, settle, settle up, start, start the ball rolling, start up |
| Antonyms: | destroy, end |
| Main Entry: | generate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce, create |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, bear, beget, breed, bring about, bring to pass, cause, develop, effect, engender, form, found, get up, give birth to, give rise to, hatch, inaugurate, induce, initiate, institute, introduce, make, multiply, muster, occasion, originate, parent, perform, procreate, propagate, provoke, reproduce, set up, spawn, whip up, work up |
| Antonyms: | break, destroy |
| Main Entry: | ground |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | base, set; educate |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, bottom, coach, discipline, establish, familiarize, fit, fix, found, indoctrinate, inform, initiate, instruct, introduce, predicate, prepare, prime, qualify, rest, settle, stay, teach, train, tutor |
| Main Entry: | inaugurate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | begin; install |
| Synonyms: | bow, break in, break the ice, commence, commission, dedicate, get things rolling, get under way, induct, initiate, instate, institute, introduce, invest, jump, kick off, launch, make up, open, ordain, originate, set in motion, set up, start, usher in |
| Antonyms: | adjourn, close, end, stop, uninstall |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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