Roget's Thesaurus Part 34

Adj. inserted &c. v.

#301. [Forcible egress.] Extraction. -- N. extraction; extracting &c.

v.; removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution.

evulsion[obs3], avulsion[obs3]; wrench; expression, squeezing; extirpation, extermination; ejection &c. 297; export &c. (egress) 295.

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 ; unroot[obs3]; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge.

remove; educe, elicit; evolve, extricate; eliminate &c. (eject) 297; eviscerate &c. 297.

express, squeeze out, press out.

Adj. extracted &c. v.

#302. [Motion through.] Pa.s.sage. -- N. pa.s.sage, transmission; permeation; penetration, interpenetration; transudation, infiltration; endosmose exosmose[obs3]; endosmosis[Chem]; intercurrence[obs3]; ingress &c. 294; egress &c. 295; path &c. 627; conduit &c. 350; opening &c. 260; journey &c. 266; voyage &c. 267.

V. pa.s.s, pa.s.s through; perforate &c. (hole) 260; penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid[obs3], enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pa.s.s over; cut across; ford, cross; pa.s.s and repa.s.s, work; make one's way, thread one's way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a pa.s.sage form a pa.s.sage; cut one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear the course; traverse, go over the ground.

Adj. pa.s.sing &c. v.; intercurrent[obs3]; endosmosmic[obs3], endosmotic[Chem].

Adv. en pa.s.sant &c. (transit) 270[Fr].

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#303. [Motion beyond] Transcursion -- N. transcursion , transiliency[obs3], transgression; trespa.s.s; encroachment, infringement; extravagation , transcendence; redundancy &c. 641.

V. transgress, surpa.s.s, pa.s.s; go beyond, go by; show in front, come to the front; shoot ahead of; steal a march upon, steal a gain upon.

overstep, overpa.s.s, overreach, overgo[obs3], override, overleap, overjump[obs3], overskip[obs3], overlap, overshoot the mark; outstrip, outleap, outjump, outgo, outstep[obs3], outrun, outride, outrival, outdo; beat, beat hollow; distance; leave in the lurch, leave in the rear; throw into the shade; exceed, transcend, surmount; soar &c. (rise) 305.

encroach, trespa.s.s, infringe, trench upon, entrench on, intrench on[obs3]; strain; stretch a point, strain a point; cross the Rubicon.

Adj. surpa.s.sing &c. v.

Adv. beyond the mark, ahead.

#304. [motion short of] Shortcoming -- N. shortcoming, failure; falling short &c v.; default, defalcation; leeway; labor in vain, no go.

incompleteness &c. 53; imperfection &c. 651; insufficiency &c. 640; noncompletion &c. 730; failure &c. 732.

V. 303, 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 compa.s.s.

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 &c. (neglect) 460.

Adv. within the mark, within the compa.s.s, 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 &c.

309; acclivity, hill &c. 217; 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, escalade[obs3], surmount; s.h.i.+n, s.h.i.+nny, s.h.i.+nney; scale, scale the heights.

[cause to go up] raise, elevate &c. 307.

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 &c. 309.

Adj. rising &c. v. scandent , buoyant; supernatant, superfluitant ; excelsior.

Adv. uphill.

#306. [Motion downwards] Descent. -- N. descent, descension[obs3], declension, declination; fall; falling &c. v.: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute[obs3]; t.i.tubation[obs3], 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 &c. 308; fall prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall &c. 308.

tumble, trip, stumble, t.i.tubate[obs3], lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper.

Adj. descending &c. v.; descendent; decurrent[obs3], decursive[obs3]; labent[obs3], deciduous; nodding to its fall.

Adv. downhill, downwards.

Phr. the bottom fell out.

#307. Elevation. -- N. elevation; raising &c. v.; erection, lift; sublevation[obs3], upheaval; sublimation, exaltation; prominence &c.

(convexity) 250.

lever &c. 633; crane, derrick, windla.s.s, 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, upbear[obs3], upcast[obs3], uphoist[obs3], upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.

[ref] escalate (increase) 35, 102, 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 &c. v.; stilted, attollent[obs3], rampant.

Adv. on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind legs.

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#308. Depression. -- N. lowering &c. v.; depression; dip &c.

(concavity) 252; abas.e.m.e.nt; detrusion[obs3]; reduction.

overthrow, overset[obs3], overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation.

bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion[obs3], 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, detrude[obs3], pitch, precipitate.

overthrow, overturn, overset[obs3]; 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 ground[obs3]; 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 &c. (be horizontal) 213.

Adj. depressed &c. v.; at a low ebb; prostrate &c. (horizontal) 213; detrusive[obs3].

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

#309. Leap. -- N. leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation[obs3].

ance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade , gambado ; capriole, demivolt[obs3]; buck, buck jump; hop skip and jump; falcade[obs3].

kangaroo, jerboa; chamois, goat, frog, gra.s.shopper, flea; buckjumper[obs3]; 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 &c. (amus.e.m.e.nt) 840; jump about &c. (agitation) 315; trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.

Adj. leaping &c. v.; saltatory[obs3], frisky.

Adv. on the light fantastic toe.

Phr. di salto in salto[It].

#310. Plunge -- N. plunge, dip, dive, header; ducking &c. v.; diver.

V. plunge, dip, souse, duck; dive, plump; take a plunge, take a header; make a plunge; bathe &c.(water) 337.

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.

#311. [Curvilinear motion.] Circuition. -- N. circuition[obs3], circulation; turn, curvet; excursion, circ.u.mvention, circ.u.mnavigation, circ.u.mambulation; northwest pa.s.sage; circuit &c. 629.

turning &c. v.; 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, pa.s.s through 180x, pa.s.s through 360x.

circ.u.mnavigate, circ.u.mambulate, circ.u.mvent; "put a girdle round about the earth" [M.N.D.]; go the round, make the round of.

wind, circulate, meander; whisk, twirl; twist &c. (convolution) 248; make a detour &c. (circuit) 629.

Adj. turning &c. v.; circuitous; circ.u.mforaneous[obs3], circ.u.mfluent[obs3].

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; circ.u.mrotation[obs3], circ.u.mvolution, circ.u.mgyration[obs3]; volutation[obs3], circination , turbination[obs3], pirouette, convolution.