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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | intertwine |
| Synonyms: | alternate, braid, entwine, interweave, knit, mix, twine, weave |
| Main Entry: | wobble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stagger, quake |
| Synonyms: | be unsteady, careen, falter, flounder, lurch, oscillate, quiver, reel, rock, roll, seesaw, shake, shimmy, stumble, sway, swing, teeter, totter, tremble, vacillate, vibrate, waver, weave, wiggle |
| Main Entry: | intertwine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | twist |
| Synonyms: | associate, braid, connect, convolute, crisscross, cross, entwine, interknit, interlace, intertwist, intervolve, interweave, interwind, interwreathe, link, mesh, network, relate, reticulate, tangle, weave |
| Main Entry: | mat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plait |
| Synonyms: | braid, dishevel, entangle, entwine, felt, snarl, tangle, twine, twist, weave |
| Main Entry: | yaw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | swerve |
| Synonyms: | curve, deviate, turn, unsteady, veer, weave, zigzag |
| Notes: | pitch is movement up and down and yaw is movement side to side on a ship, airplane, or other conveyance |
| Main Entry: | plait |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | braid |
| Synonyms: | crease, flute, fold, interweave, knit, pigtail, plat, pleach, pleat, tress, tuck, twine, weave |
| Main Entry: | yaw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | temporarily swerve off coarse |
| Synonyms: | bank, curve, deviate, slue, swerve, turn, veer, weave, zigzag |
| Notes: | pitch is movement up and down and yaw is movement side to side on a ship, airplane, or other conveyance |
| Main Entry: | intermix |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mix |
| Synonyms: | admix, adulterate, alloy, amalgamate, associate, blend, braid, coalesce, commingle, commix, compound, conjoin, cross, embody, fuse, hybridize, incorporate, infiltrate, infuse, instill, interbreed, intermingle, interweave, jumble, knead, link, lump, make up, merge, mingle, mix up, put together, saturate, stir, suffuse, synthesize, tangle, transfuse, unite, weave, work in |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | [Air in motion] Wind. |
| Category: | 2. Fluid matter; fluids in motion |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
. wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent., gust, blast, breeze, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber [Can.], candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther., windiness; ventosity; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall., anemography, aerodynamics; windgauge, weathercock, weathervane; anemometer, anemoscope., sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation; blowing, fanning; ventilation., sneezing; errhine; sternutative, sternutatory; sternutation; hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath., Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus., air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah; branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum.
-verbs
blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane; wuther; stream, issue., respire, breathe, puff; whif, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough., fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate; blow up.
-adjectives
blowing; windy, flatulent; breezy, gusty, squally; stormy, tempestuous, blustering; boisterous (violent)., pulmonic, pulmonary.
-phrases
"lull'd by soft zephyrs" [Pope]; "the storm is up and all is on the hazard" [Julius Caesar]; "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air" [Byron]; "while mocking winds are piping loud" [Milton]; "winged
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