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lay down
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gamble |
| Synonyms: | ante, buy in on, chance, dice, game, hazard, lay down, lay odds, play against, play for, play the ponies, pledge, pony up, put, put money on, risk, set, speculate, tempt fortune, toss up, trust, venture, wager |
| Main Entry: | enunciate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak clearly |
| Synonyms: | affirm, announce, articulate, declare, deliver, develop, enounce, express, intone, lay down, modulate, outline, phonate, postulate, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, propound, publish, say, show, sound, state, submit, utter, vocalize, voice |
| Antonyms: | mispronounce, muffle, mumble |
| Main Entry: | impose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set, dictate |
| Synonyms: | appoint, burden, charge, command, compel, constrain, decree, demand, encroach, enforce, enjoin, establish, exact, fix, foist, force, force upon, horn in, inflict, infringe, institute, introduce, intrude, lade, lay, lay down, lay down the law, levy, move in on, oblige, obtrude, ordain, order, place, prescribe, presume, promulgate, put, put foot down, read riot act, require, saddle, take advantage, trespass, visit, wish, wreak, wreck |
| Main Entry: | leave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | forget, neglect |
| Synonyms: | allow, drop, have, lay down, leave behind, let, let be, let continue, let go, let stay, mislay, omit, permit, suffer |
| Notes: | let means to make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen, to allow; leave means to go away from a place |
| Antonyms: | care, maintain |
| Main Entry: | parlay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bet; maneuver |
| Synonyms: | engineer, gamble, jockey, lay down, manage, move, plan, play, risk, speculate, venture, wager |
| Notes: | parlay means to use one gain to make another; parley is to discuss (or as a noun, conference or discussion) |
| Main Entry: | prescribe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stipulate action to be taken |
| Synonyms: | appoint, assign, choose, command, decide, decree, define, designate, determine, dictate, direct, enjoin, establish, fix, guide, impose, lay down, ordain, order, pick out, require, rule, select, set, settle, specify, write prescription |
| Notes: | prescribe is to set down as a rule or guide or recommendation, while proscribe ('writing before') is to denounce or condemn, prohibit or forbid; tea and toast would be prescribed for an upset stomach while red-hot chili peppers would be proscribed (forbidden, labeled dangerous) |
| Main Entry: | provide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | determine, specify |
| Synonyms: | condition, lay down, postulate, require, state, stipulate |
| Main Entry: | recline |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie down |
| Synonyms: | be recumbent, cant, heel, lay down, lean, lie, list, loll, lounge, repose, rest, slant, slope, sprawl, stretch, stretch out, tilt, tip |
| Antonyms: | sit up, straighten |
| Main Entry: | record |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | write down; store information |
| Synonyms: | book, can*, catalog, chalk up, chronicle, copy, cut, cut a track, document, dub, enroll, enter, enumerate, file, indite, inscribe, insert, jot down, keep account, lay down, list, log, make a recording, mark, mark down, matriculate, note, post, preserve, put down, put in writing, put on file, put on paper, put on tape, register, report, set down, tabulate, take down, tape, tape-record, transcribe, video*, videotape, wax, write in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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