-v. 3. record, put on record, set down, mark; document, register, calendar, Law. docket; enroll; chronologize, set forth in order; report, relate, recount, write an historic account of, take minutes, list, enter, chronicler, n. historian, historiographer, chronolo-gist, chronologer, annalist, documenter; registrar, recorder, clerk; autobiographer, biographer, memorialist; narrator, reporter, chronological, adj. in sequence, sequential, sequent, consecutive, in order of time, measured in time, properly dated, ordered, progressive, serial; horologic, chronometric, chronographic, chronoscopic, temporal. chubby, adj. 1. tubby, pudgy, Chiefly Brit, podgy, plump, round, rounded out, rotund; fat, obese, corpulent, overweight, flabby, stout, portly, pursy, Scot. fodgel; fleshy, filled-out, well-fed; ample, substantial, full.
2. paunchy, potbellied, round-bellied, big-bellied, large-bellied, great-bellied, abdominous, Inf. bay-windowed, Inf. corporational, Sl. beerbellied, Obs. gorbellied.
3. dumpy, stumpy, stubby, squabbish, squabby, squat, squatty; chunky, stodgy, thick, thickset. chuck, v. 1. pat, poke, tap, fillip; tweak, pinch, squeeze; fondle, caress.
2. toss, cast, throw, dart, shy, pitch, Baseball, peg; fling, flirt, jerk, cant, heave; hurl, dash, sling, let fly, send; propel, launch, catapult.
3. Informal, relinquish, give up, resign from, quit, drop, Sl. pack it in; abandon, desert, forsake.
-n. 4. pat, poke, tap, fillip; tweak, pinch, squeeze; fondle, caress.
5. Chiefly British, toss, cast, throw, pitch, fling, jerk, cant. chuckle, v. 1. laugh quietly or to oneself, grin jovially or complacently, smile playfully, purr, grin like a Cheshire cat; chirp, chirrup, laugh gleefully, chortle good-humoredly.
-n. 2. suppressed laughter, playful smile, jovial grin, Cheshire grin; good-humored chortle, gentle laughter; jollity, merriment, jocundity, chum, n. 1. companion, friend, comrade, Obs. copemate, crony, copain, U.S. Inf. buddy, Inf. pal; sidekick, shadow, alter ego, other self, Scot. and North Eng. marrow; playmate, schoolmate, schoolfellow, classmate; messmate, dinner companion, commensal.
2. confidant, familiar, Inf. bosom buddy, roommate, bunkmate, Sl. bunkie; cohort, collaborator, helper, helpmate; teammate, co-worker, fellow worker. chunk, n. mass, lump, hunk; block, square, clump; wad, squab, Inf. hunch, nugget, clod; cut, slice, wedge, quantity, portion, chop, Sl. whack, Inf. gob; slab, rasher, Brit. Dial, collop; piece, fragment, bit, butt, bite, mouthful; dollop, blob, mound, chunky, adj. 1. stout, stodgy, stocky, thick, thickset; fat, obese, corpulent, overweight, flabby, portly, pursy, Scot. fodgel; fleshy, filled-out, well-fed.
2. dumpy, stumpy, stubby, squabbish, squabby, squat, squatty.
3. large, bulky, hulky, hulking; lumpy, lumpish, heavy, beefy, brawny, burly, sturdy; strapping. church, n. 1. place of worship, house of prayer, house of God, the Lord's house, meeting house, (usu. in reference to Nonconformists) conventicle; basilica, cathedral, minster; chapel, oratory, sacellum, chantry, shrine, vestry, bethel; sanctuary, tabernacle; pantheon, mosque, temple, synagogue.