#300. [Forcible ingress.] Insertion. -- N. insertion

• • implantation

  • introduction

  • insinuation

  • planting

  • injection

  • inoculation

  • importation

  • infusion

  • forcible ingress

  • immersion

  • submersion

  • submergence

  • dip

  • plunge

  • bath

  • 337;

  • interment

  • clyster[Med]

  • enema

  • lavage

  • V. insert

  • introduce

  • intromit

  • put into

  • run into

  • import

  • inject;

  • interject

  • infuse

  • instill

  • inoculate

  • impregnate

  • imbue

  • imbrue

  • graft

  • bud

  • plant

  • implant

  • dovetail

  • obtrude

  • thrust in

  • stick in

  • ram in

  • stuff in

  • tuck in

  • press

  • in

  • drive in

  • pop in

  • whip in

  • drop in

  • put in

  • impact

  • empierce|

  • imbed

  • immerse

  • immerge

  • merge

  • bathe

  • soak

  • dip

  • plunge

  • bury

  • insert

  • plunge in medias res

  • Adj. inserted

#301. [Forcible egress.] Extraction. -- N. extraction

• • extracting

  • v

  • removal

  • elimination

  • extrication

  • eradication

  • evolution

  • wrench

  • expression

  • squeezing;

  • extirpation

  • extermination

  • ejection

  • export

  • extractor

  • corkscrew

  • forceps

  • pliers

  • V. extract

  • draw

  • take out

  • draw out

  • pull out

  • tear out

  • pluck out

  • pick out

  • get out

  • wring from

  • wrench

  • extort

  • root up

  • weed up

  • grub up

  • rake up

  • root out

  • weed out

  • grub out

  • rake out

  • eradicate

  • pull up by the

  • roots

  • pluck up by the roots

  • averruncate|

  • uproot

  • pull up

  • extirpate

  • dredge

  • remove

  • educe

  • elicit

  • evolve

  • extricate

  • eliminate

  • eviscerate

  • express

  • squeeze out

  • press out

  • Adj. extracted

#302. [Motion through.] Passage. -- N. passage

• • transmission;

  • permeation

  • penetration

  • interpenetration

  • transudation

  • infiltration;

  • endosmosis[Chem]

  • ingress

  • egress

  • path

  • conduit

  • opening

  • journey

  • voyage

  • V. pass

  • pass through

  • perforate

  • penetrate

  • permeate

  • thread

  • enfilade

  • go through

  • go across

  • go over

  • pass over;

  • cut across

  • ford

  • cross

  • pass and repass

  • work

  • make one's way

  • thread

  • one's way

  • worm one's way

  • force one's way

  • make a passage form a passage;

  • cut one's way through

  • find its way

  • find its vent

  • transmit

  • make way

  • clear the course

  • traverse

  • go over the ground

  • Adj. passing

  • endosmotic[Chem]

  • Adv. en passant

#303. [Motion beyond] Transcursion -- N. transcursion|

• • transgression

  • trespass

  • encroachment

  • infringement;

  • extravagation|

  • transcendence

  • redundancy

  • V. transgress

  • surpass

  • pass

  • go beyond

  • go by

  • show in front

  • come to

  • the front

  • shoot ahead of

  • steal a march upon

  • steal a gain upon

  • overstep

  • overpass

  • overreach

  • override

  • overleap

  • overlap

  • overshoot the mark

  • outstrip

  • outleap

  • outjump

  • outgo

  • outrun

  • outride

  • outrival

  • outdo;

  • beat

  • beat hollow

  • distance

  • leave in the lurch

  • leave in the rear

  • throw

  • into the shade

  • exceed

  • transcend

  • surmount

  • soar

  • encroach

  • trespass

  • infringe

  • trench upon

  • entrench on

  • intrench

  • strain

  • stretch a point

  • strain a point

  • cross the Rubicon

  • Adj. surpassing

  • Adv. beyond the mark

  • ahead

#304. [motion short of] Shortcoming -- N. shortcoming

• • failure;

  • falling short

  • default

  • defalcation

  • leeway

  • labor in vain

  • no go

  • incompleteness

  • imperfection

  • insufficiency

  • noncompletion

  • failure

  • V. 30

  • come short of

  • fall short of

  • stop short of

  • come short

  • fall

  • short

  • stop short

  • not reach

  • want

  • keep within bounds

  • keep within the

  • mark

  • keep within the compass

  • break down

  • stick in the mud

  • collapse

  • flat out [U.S.]

  • come to

  • nothing

  • fall through

  • fall to the ground

  • cave in

  • end in smoke

  • miss the

  • mark

  • fail

  • lose ground

  • miss stays

  • Adj. unreached

  • deficient

  • short

  • short of

  • minus

  • out of depth;

  • perfunctory

  • Adv. within the mark

  • within the compass

  • within the bounds;

  • behindhand

  • re infecta[Lat]

  • to no purpose

  • for from it

  • Phr. the bubble burst

#305. [Motion upwards] Ascent. -- N. ascent

• • ascension

  • rising

  • 30

  • acclivity

  • hill

  • flight of steps

  • flight of stairs

  • ladder

  • rocket

  • lark

  • sky rocket

  • sky lark

  • Alpine Club

  • V. ascend

  • rise

  • mount

  • arise

  • uprise

  • go up

  • get up

  • work one's way

  • up

  • start up

  • shoot up

  • go into orbit

  • float up

  • bubble up

  • aspire

  • climb

  • clamber

  • ramp

  • scramble

  • surmount

  • shin

  • shinny

  • shinney

  • scale

  • scale the heights

  • [cause to go up] raise

  • elevate

  • go aloft

  • fly aloft

  • tower

  • soar

  • take off

  • spring up

  • pop up

  • jump

  • up

  • catapult upwards

  • explode upwards

  • hover

  • spire

  • plane

  • swim

  • float

  • surge

  • leap

  • Adj. rising

  • buoyant

  • supernatant

  • superfluitant|;

  • excelsior

  • Adv. uphill

#306. [Motion downwards] Descent. -- N. descent

• • declension

  • declination

  • fall

  • falling

  • drop

  • plunge

  • plummet

  • cadence

  • subsidence

  • collapse

  • lapse

  • downfall

  • tumble

  • slip

  • tilt

  • trip

  • lurch

  • cropper

  • stumble

  • fate

  • of Icarus

  • avalanche

  • debacle

  • landslip

  • landslide

  • declivity

  • dip

  • hill

  • [equipment for descending by rappeling] rappel

  • V. descend

  • go down

  • drop down

  • come down

  • fall

  • gravitate

  • drop

  • slip

  • slide

  • rappel

  • settle

  • plunge

  • plummet

  • crash

  • decline

  • set

  • sink

  • droop

  • come down a peg

  • slump

  • dismount

  • alight

  • light

  • get down

  • swoop

  • stoop

  • fall

  • prostrate

  • precipitate oneself

  • let fall

  • tumble

  • trip

  • stumble

  • lurch

  • pitch

  • swag

  • topple

  • topple over

  • tumble over

  • topple down

  • tumble down

  • tilt

  • sprawl

  • plump

  • down

  • come down a cropper

  • Adj. descending

  • descendent

  • deciduous

  • nodding to its fall

  • Adv. downhill

  • downwards

  • Phr. the bottom fell out

#307. Elevation. -- N. elevation

• • raising

  • erection

  • lift;

  • upheaval

  • sublimation

  • exaltation

  • prominence

  • (convexity) 250

  • lever

  • crane

  • derrick

  • windlass

  • capstan

  • winch

  • dredge

  • dredger

  • dredging machine

  • dumbwaiter

  • elevator

  • escalator

  • lift

  • V. heighten

  • elevate

  • raise

  • lift

  • erect

  • set up

  • stick up

  • perch up

  • perk up

  • tilt up

  • rear

  • hoist

  • heave

  • uplift

  • upraise

  • uprear

  • upheave

  • buoy

  • weigh mount

  • give

  • a lift

  • exalt

  • sublimate

  • place on a pedestal

  • set on a pedestal

  • [ref] escalate (increase)

  • 194

  • take up

  • drag up

  • fish up

  • dredge

  • stand up

  • rise up

  • get up

  • jump up

  • spring to one's feet

  • hold

  • oneself

  • hold one's head up

  • drawn oneself up to his full height

  • Adj. elevated

  • stilted

  • rampant

  • Adv. on stilts

  • on the shoulders of

  • on one's legs

  • on one's hind

  • legs

#308. Depression. -- N. lowering

• • depression

  • dip

  • (concavity)

  • abasement

  • reduction

  • overthrow

  • overturn

  • upset

  • prostration

  • subversion

  • precipitation

  • bow

  • courtesy

  • curtsy

  • genuflection

  • kowtow

  • obeisance

  • salaam

  • V. depress

  • lower

  • let down

  • take down

  • let down a peg

  • take down a

  • peg

  • cast

  • let drop

  • let fall

  • sink

  • debase

  • bring low

  • abase

  • reduce

  • pitch

  • precipitate

  • overthrow

  • overturn

  • upset

  • subvert

  • prostate

  • level

  • fell

  • cast down

  • take down

  • throw down

  • fling down

  • dash down

  • pull down

  • cut down

  • knock down

  • hew down

  • raze

  • raze to the ground

  • rase to the

  • trample in the dust

  • pull about one's ears

  • sit

  • sit down

  • couch

  • squat

  • crouch

  • stoop

  • bend

  • bow

  • courtesy

  • curtsy

  • bob

  • duck

  • dip

  • kneel

  • bend the knee

  • bow the knee

  • bend the head

  • bow the head

  • cower

  • recline

  • Adj. depressed

  • at a low ebb

  • prostrate

  • Phr. facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lat][Lucan]

#309. Leap. -- N. leap

• • jump

  • hop

  • spring

  • bound

  • vault

  • ance

  • caper

  • curvet

  • caracole

  • gambade|

  • gambado|

  • capriole

  • buck

  • buck jump

  • hop skip and jump

  • kangaroo

  • jerboa

  • chamois

  • goat

  • frog

  • grasshopper

  • flea;

  • wallaby

  • V. leap

  • jump up

  • jump over the moon

  • hop

  • spring

  • bound

  • vault

  • ramp

  • cut capers

  • trip

  • skip

  • dance

  • caper

  • buck

  • buck jump

  • curvet

  • caracole;

  • foot it

  • bob

  • bounce

  • flounce

  • start

  • frisk

  • jump about

  • trip it on the light fantastic toe

  • trip the light

  • fantastic

  • dance oneself off one's legs

  • dance off one's shoes

  • Adj. leaping

  • frisky

  • Adv. on the light fantastic toe

  • Phr. di salto in salto[It]

#310. Plunge -- N. plunge

• • dip

  • dive

  • header

  • ducking

  • diver

  • V. plunge

  • dip

  • souse

  • duck

  • dive

  • plump

  • take a plunge

  • take a

  • header

  • make a plunge

  • bathe

  • submerge

  • submerse

  • immerse

  • douse

  • sink

  • engulf

  • send to the bottom

  • get out of one's depth

  • go to the bottom

  • go down like a stone

  • drop

  • like a lead balloon

  • founder

  • welter

  • wallow

  • circulation

  • turn

  • curvet

  • excursion

  • circumvention

  • circumnavigation

  • circumambulation

  • northwest passage

  • circuit

  • turning

  • wrench

  • evolution

  • coil

  • corkscrew

  • V. turn

  • bend

  • wheel

  • go about

  • put about

  • heel

  • go round to the right

  • about

  • turn round to the right about

  • turn on one's heel

  • make a circle

  • make a complete circle

  • describe a circle

  • describe a complete circle

  • go

  • through 180x

  • go through 360x

  • pass through 180x

  • pass through 360x

  • circumnavigate

  • circumambulate

  • circumvent

  • "put a girdle round about

  • the earth" [M.N.D.]

  • go the round

  • make the round of

  • wind

  • circulate

  • meander

  • whisk

  • twirl

  • twist

  • make a detour

  • Adj. turning

  • circuitous

  • Adv. round about

#312. [Motion in a continued circle.] Rotation. -- N. rotation

• • revolution

  • spinning

  • gyration

  • turning about an axis

  • turning around an

  • axis

  • circulation

  • roll

  • circumvolution

  • circination|

  • pirouette

  • convolution

  • verticity|

  • whir

  • whirl

  • eddy

  • vortex

  • whirlpool

  • countercurrent

  • Maelstrom

  • Charybdis

  • Ixion

  • [rotating air] cyclone

  • tornado

  • whirlwind

  • dust devil

  • [rotation of an automobile] spin-out

  • axis

  • axis of rotation

  • swivel

  • pivot

  • pivot point

  • axle

  • spindle

  • pin

  • hinge

  • pole

  • arbor

  • bobbin

  • mandrel

  • axle shaft

  • gymbal

  • hub

  • hub of

  • rotation

  • [rotation and translation together] helix

  • helical motion

  • [measure of rotation] angular momentum

  • angular velocity

  • revolutions

  • per minute

  • RPM

  • [result of rotation] centrifugal force

  • surge

  • vertigo

  • dizzy round;

  • coriolus force

  • [things that go around] carousel

  • merry-go-round

  • Ferris wheel

  • top

  • gyroscope

  • turntable

  • lazy suzan

  • screw

  • whirligig

  • water wheel

  • windmill

  • wheel

  • pulley wheel

  • roulette

  • wheel

  • potter's wheel

  • pinwheel

  • gear

  • roller

  • flywheel

  • jack

  • caster;

  • centrifuge

  • ultracentrifuge

  • bench centrifuge

  • refrigerated centrifuge

  • gas

  • centrifuge

  • microfuge

  • drill

  • augur

  • oil rig

  • wagon wheel

  • wheel

  • tire

  • tyre[Brit][Brit]

  • [person who rotates] whirling dervish

  • V. rotate

  • roll along

  • revolve

  • spin

  • turn round

  • circulate

  • gyre

  • gyrate

  • wheel

  • whirl

  • pirouette

  • twirl

  • trundle

  • troll

  • bowl

  • roll up

  • furl

  • wallow

  • welter

  • box the compass

  • spin like a top

  • spin

  • like a teetotum|!

  • [of an automobile] spin out

  • Adj. rotating

  • rotary

  • rotary

  • vertiginous

  • gyratory

  • vortical

  • Adv. head over heels

  • round and round

  • like a horse in a mill

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  • change section!!

  • revolution

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#313. [Motion in the reverse circle.] Evolution. -- N. evolution

• • unfolding

  • development

  • evolvement

  • unfoldment

  • eversion

  • 218

  • V. evolve

  • unfold

  • unroll

  • unwind

  • uncoil

  • untwist

  • unfurl

  • untwine

  • unravel

  • untangle

  • disentangle

  • develop

  • Adj. evolving

  • evolved

#314. [Reciprocating motion

• • motion to and fro.] Oscillation. -- N

  • oscillation

  • vibration

  • libration

  • motion of a pendulum

  • nutation;

  • undulation

  • pulsation

  • pulse

  • alternation

  • coming and going

  • ebb and flow

  • flux and reflux

  • ups and down

  • fluctuation

  • vacillation

  • wave

  • swing

  • beat

  • shake

  • wag

  • seesaw

  • dance

  • lurch

  • dodge

  • rocking-stone

  • V. oscillate

  • vibrate

  • alternate

  • undulate

  • wave

  • rock

  • swing

  • pulsate

  • beat

  • wag

  • waggle

  • nod

  • bob

  • courtesy

  • curtsy

  • tick

  • play;

  • dangle

  • swag

  • fluctuate

  • dance

  • curvet

  • reel

  • quake

  • quiver

  • quaver

  • shake

  • flicker;

  • wriggle

  • roll

  • toss

  • pitch

  • flounder

  • stagger

  • totter

  • move up and down

  • bob up and down

  • pass and repass

  • ebb and flow

  • come and go;

  • vacillate

  • teeter [U.S.]

  • brandish

  • shake

  • flourish

  • Adj. oscillating

  • oscillatory

  • undulatory

  • libratory

  • rectilinear

  • vibratory

  • pendulous

  • Adv. to and fro

  • up and down

  • backwards and forwards

  • hither and yon

  • seesaw

  • zigzag

  • in and out

  • from side to side

  • like

  • buckets in a well

#315. [Irregular motion] Agitation. -- N. agitation

• • stir

  • tremor

  • shake

  • ripple

  • jog

  • jolt

  • jar

  • jerk

  • shock

  • trepidation

  • quiver

  • quaver

  • dance

  • jactitation|

  • quassation|

  • shuffling 7c. v.;

  • twitter

  • flicker

  • flutter

  • turbulence

  • perturbation

  • commotion

  • turmoil

  • disquiet

  • tumult

  • tumultuation|

  • hubbub

  • rout

  • bustle

  • fuss

  • racket

  • staggers

  • megrims

  • epilepsy

  • fits

  • chorea

  • the jerks

  • St. Vitus's dance

  • spasm

  • throe

  • throb

  • palpitation

  • convulsion

  • disturbance

  • chaos

  • restlessness

  • (changeableness) 149

  • ferment

  • fermentation

  • ebullition

  • effervescence

  • hurly-burly

  • tempest

  • storm

  • ground swell

  • heavy sea

  • whirlpool

  • vortex

  • whirlwind

  • V. be agitated

  • shake

  • tremble

  • tremble like an aspen leaf;

  • quiver

  • quaver

  • quake

  • shiver

  • twitter

  • writhe

  • toss

  • shuffle

  • tumble

  • stagger

  • bob

  • reel

  • sway

  • wag

  • waggle

  • wriggle

  • wriggle like an

  • eel

  • dance

  • stumble

  • shamble

  • flounder

  • totter

  • flounce

  • flop

  • curvet

  • prance

  • cavort [U.S.]

  • squirm

  • throb

  • pulsate

  • beat

  • palpitate

  • go pitapat

  • flutter

  • flitter

  • flicker

  • bicker

  • bustle

  • ferment

  • effervesce

  • foam

  • boil

  • boil over

  • bubble up

  • simmer

  • toss about

  • jump about

  • jump like a parched pea

  • shake like an aspen

  • leaf

  • shake to its center

  • shake to its foundations

  • be the sport of the

  • winds and waves

  • reel to and fro like a drunken man

  • move from post to

  • pillar and from pillar to post

  • drive from post to pillar and from pillar

  • to post

  • keep between hawk and buzzard

  • agitate

  • shake

  • convulse

  • toss

  • tumble

  • bandy

  • wield

  • brandish

  • flap

  • flourish

  • whisk

  • jerk

  • hitch

  • jolt

  • jog

  • joggle

  • jostle

  • buffet

  • hustle

  • disturb

  • stir

  • shake up

  • churn

  • jounce

  • wallop

  • whip

  • Adj. shaking

  • agitated

  • tremulous

  • desultory

  • subsultory|;

  • shambling

  • giddy-paced

  • convulsive

  • unquiet

  • restless

  • all of a twitter

  • Adv. by fits and starts

  • subsultorily|

  • per

  • saltum[Lat]

  • hop skip and jump

  • in convulsions

  • in fits

#316. MATERIALITY. -- N. materiality

• • materialness

  • substantiality

  • substantialness

  • flesh and blood

  • plenum

  • physical condition

  • matter

  • body

  • substance

  • brute matter

  • stuff

  • element

  • principle

  • parenchyma[Biol]

  • material

  • substratum

  • corpus

  • pabulum

  • frame

  • object

  • article

  • thing

  • something

  • still life

  • stocks and stones;

  • materials

  • [Science of matter] physics

  • somatics

  • natural

  • philosophy

  • experimental philosophy

  • physical science

  • materialism

  • materialist

  • physicist;

  • Adj. material

  • bodily

  • corporeal

  • corporal

  • physical

  • somatic

  • sensible

  • tangible

  • ponderable

  • palpable

  • substantial

  • objective

  • impersonal

  • neuter

  • unspiritual

  • materialistic

#317. Immateriality. -- N. immateriality

• • immaterialness;

  • spirituality

  • astral plane

  • personality

  • I

  • myself

  • me

  • ego

  • spirit

  • astral body;

  • spiritualism

  • spiritualist

  • V. disembody

  • spiritualize

  • Adj. immaterial

  • incorporeal

  • incorporate

  • disembodied

  • extramundane

  • unearthly;

  • spiritual

  • personal

  • subjective

  • nonobjective

#318. World. -- N. world

• • creation

  • nature

  • universe

  • earth

  • globe

  • wide world

  • cosmos

  • sphere;

  • macrocosm

  • music of the spheres

  • heavens

  • sky

  • welkin|

  • empyrean

  • starry cope

  • starry heaven

  • starry

  • host

  • firmament

  • Midgard

  • varuna

  • vault of

  • heaven

  • canopy of heaven

  • celestial spaces

  • heavenly bodies

  • stars

  • asteroids

  • nebulae

  • galaxy

  • milky way

  • galactic circle

  • via lactea[Lat]

  • ame no kawa [Jap.]

  • sun

  • orb of day

  • Phoebus

  • photosphere

  • chromosphere;

  • solar system

  • planet

  • planetoid

  • comet

  • satellite

  • moon

  • orb of night

  • Diana

  • silver-footed queen

  • meteor

  • planetary ring

  • falling

  • star

  • shooting star

  • meteorite

  • constellation

  • zodiac

  • signs of the zodiac

  • Charles's wain

  • Big

  • Dipper

  • Little Dipper

  • Great Bear

  • Southern Cross

  • Orion's belt

  • Cassiopea's chair

  • Pleiades

  • equator

  • ecliptic

  • orbit

  • [Science of heavenly bodies] astronomy

  • uranography

  • cosmology

  • cosmogony

  • orrery

  • geodesy

  • star gazing

  • astronomer;

  • observatory

  • planetarium

  • Adj. cosmic

  • mundane

  • terrestrial

  • terrestrious|

  • terrene

  • terreous|

  • telluric

  • earthly

  • under the sun

  • solar

  • lunar

  • celestial

  • heavenly

  • starry

  • stellar

  • sidereal

  • astral

  • nebular

  • uranic

  • Adv. in all creation

  • on the face of the globe

  • here below

  • under the

  • sun

  • Phr. die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht[Ger]

  • "earth is but the

  • frozen echo of the silent voice of God" [Hageman]

  • "green calm below

  • blue

  • quietness above" [Whittier]

  • "hanging in a golden chain this pendant World"

  • [Paradise Lost]

  • "nothing in nature is unbeautiful" [Tennyson]

  • "silently

  • as a dream the fabric rose" [Cowper]

  • "some touch of nature's genial glow"

  • [Scott]

  • "this majestical roof fretted with golden fire" [Hamlet]

  • "through

  • knowledge we behold the World's creation" [Spenser]

#319. Gravity. -- N. gravity

• • gravitation

  • weight

  • heaviness

  • specific gravity

  • pressure

  • load

  • burden

  • ballast

  • counterpoise

  • lump of

  • mass of

  • weight of

  • lead

  • millstone

  • mountain

  • Ossa on Pelion

  • weighing

  • trutination|

  • weights

  • avoirdupois

  • weight

  • troy weight

  • apothecaries' weight

  • grain

  • scruple

  • ounce

  • pound

  • lb

  • load

  • stone

  • hundredweight

  • cwt

  • ton

  • long

  • ton

  • metric ton

  • quintal

  • carat

  • pennyweight

  • [metric weights] gram

  • centigram

  • milligram

  • microgram

  • kilogram;

  • nanogram

  • picogram

  • femtogram

  • attogram

  • [Weighing Instrument] balance

  • scale

  • scales

  • steelyard

  • beam

  • spring balance

  • piezoelectric balance

  • analytical

  • balance

  • two-pan balance

  • one-pan balance

  • postal scale

  • baby scale

  • [Science of gravity] statics

  • V. be heavy

  • gravitate

  • weigh

  • press

  • cumber

  • load

  • [Measure the weight of] weigh

  • poise

  • Adj. weighty

  • weighing

  • heavy as lead

  • ponderous

  • ponderable;

  • lumpy

  • cumbersome

  • burdensome

  • cumbrous

  • unwieldy

  • massive

  • incumbent