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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | divide into four equal parts |
| Synonyms: | cleave, cut, cut up, dismember, fourth |
| Main Entry: | accommodate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make room, lodging available |
| Synonyms: | board, contain, domicile, entertain, furnish, harbor, hold, house, put up, quarter, receive, rent, shelter, supply, take in, welcome |
| Antonyms: | turn away, turn out |
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | provide food and sleeping quarters |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, bed, canton, care for, feed, harbor, house, let crash, lodge, put up, quarter, room |
| Notes: | a board is a committee having supervisory powers, a plank, or food served to lodgers - while bored is tired of the world a plank is thicker than a board |
| Antonyms: | turn out |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise |
| Synonyms: | amputate, behead, bisect, bite, carve, chine, chip, chisel, cleave, clip, crop, curtail, decussate, dice, dispatch, dissect, dissever, divide, facet, fell, flitch, gash, guillotine, hack, hash, hew, intersect, lacerate, lay open, level, lop, massacre, mince, mow, mow down, nick, notch, part, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prune, puncture, quarter, rabbet, raze, reap, rend, rip, rive, saber, saw, scarify, scissor, score, scythe, separate, shave, shear, sickle, skive, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, sliver, snip |
| Main Entry: | dissect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut up; take apart |
| Synonyms: | anatomize, break up, cut, dichotomize, disjoin, disjoint, dislimb, dismember, dissever, divide, exscind, exsect, lay open, operate, part, prosect, quarter, section, sever, slice, sunder |
| Antonyms: | connect, join, mend, sew |
| Main Entry: | divide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | separate, disconnect |
| Synonyms: | abscind, bisect, branch, break, break down, carve, chop, cleave, cross, cut, cut up, demarcate, detach, dichotomize, disengage, disentangle, disjoin, dislocate, dismember, dissect, dissever, dissociate, dissolve, disunite, divorce, halve, intersect, isolate, loose, part, partition, pull away, quarter, rend, rupture, section, segment, segregate, sever, shear, split, subdivide, sunder, tear, unbind, undo |
| Antonyms: | append, attach, collect, combine, connect, couple, gather, join, link, unite |
| Main Entry: | dwell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | live in |
| Synonyms: | abide, bide, bunk, continue, crash*, establish oneself, exist, flop, hang one's hat, hang out*, hole up, inhabit, keep house, locate, lodge, make one's home, nest, occupy, park*, perch*, pitch tent, quarter, remain, rent, reside, rest, room, roost, settle, sojourn, squat, stay, stop, tarry, tenant, tent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entertain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accommodate visitors |
| Synonyms: | admit, be host, board, chaperone, dine, do the honors, feed, foster, give a party, harbor, have a do, have a get-together, have company, have guests, have visitors, house, invite, lodge, nourish, pick up the check, pop for, put up, quarter, receive, recreate, regale, room, show hospitality, spring for, throw a party, treat, welcome, wine and dine |
| Antonyms: | refuse, reject, turn away |
| Main Entry: | harbor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hide, protect |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, board, bunk, conceal, defend, domicile, entertain, guard, hold back, house, lodge, nurse, nurture, provide refuge, put up, quarter, relieve, safeguard, screen, secrete, secure, shelter, shield, suppress, withhold |
| Notes: | harbor first meant 'shelter' and 'lodging' and that is how the word first entered English place-names, as a 'place of shelter; refuge' for a crowd of people; a port is a haven for vessels and it is equipped for loading and unloading ships, while a harbor is a haven for vessels but does not necessarily have onshore facilities |
| Antonyms: | eject, let out, uncover |
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