Synonyms Dictionary
5. representation, image, picture, icon; effigy, sculpture, statue, bust, mold, cast; illustration, drawing, diagram; design, pattern, device; emblem, symbol, type, representative, sign.
6. character, personality, personage, somebody notable, worthy.
7. Usu. figures of speech metaphor, simile, conceit, trope, personification, image, imagery; All Rhet. antithesis, metonymy, synecdoche, antonomasia, enallage. ,
-v. 8. compute, calculate, reckon, cipher, work out; count, numerate, enumerate; total, add up, sum up; appraise, assess.
9. adorn, ornament, bedeck, embellish; variegate, diversify, mark.
10. portray, impersonate, take the part of, appear as; perform, act.
11. metaphorize, personify, allegorize, fable; symbolize, signify, emblemize; represent, stand for.
12. outline, trace, sketch, adumbrate; draw, delineate, limn, depict, portray, picture; shape, form, image.
13. Informal, reason, think about, ponder over; conclude, judge, opine; surmise, conjecture, suppose, believe. figurehead, n. 1. titular head, nominal head, assumed head, acting head.
2. (on prow of a ship) sculpture, carving, bust, statue, image. figurine, n. statuette, carving, china figure; knick-knack, trinket, gimcrack, ornament, filament, n. fiber, fibril, fibrilla, strand; string, thread, floss, twist, yarn; twine, packthread, cord, rope, cable, wire; hair, tendril, cilia, lash, cobweb, gossamer, Biol, membrane, Zool. webbing, filch, v. 1. steal, thieve, rob, pilfer, purloin, finger, pick, Inf. snitch, cabbage, abstract, Chiefly Brit. prig, Brit. SI. snaffle, Euph. borrow, Archaic, nim; peculate, embezzle, Law. defalcate, misappropriate, convert; shoplift, palm, SI. boost, walk off or away with, Euph. remove; All SI. heist, pinch, hook, swipe, hustle, rip off, frisk, crook, cop, lift..
2. appropriate, expropriate, arrogate, usurp; pirate, plagiarize, copy, Inf. lift, Inf. crib, forge, counterfeit.
3. swindle, defraud, mulct, shark, cheat, fleece, Inf. flimflam, rook, bilk, Inf. welsh, Inf. do [s.o.] out of, Inf. gyp, SI. pluck, SI. chisel, SI. clip.
4. mooch, scrounge, scavenge, freeload, sponge, SI. bum. file1, n. 1. dossier, organized collection or assortment, arrangement; folder, organizer, envelope, container, holder; filing cabinet, cabinet, drawer, box, pigeonhole, receptacle, repository, compartment.
2. line, queue, row, rank; string, chain, range, series, -v. 3. organize, categorize, systematize, classify, set up; arrange, put or place in order, alphabetize; pigeonhole, interfile, insert, put in place, replace.
4. march or walk in a line or row, parade, pass in formation, follow the leader.
5. file for, apply, make application, fill out or turn in an application, put in for, put in or make a bid for, make a claim for; register, sign up, get one's name on the list. file2, n. 1. rasp, emery board, nail file, abrasive. -v. 2. rasp, scrape, grate, shred; grind, whet, sand, sandpaper, pumice; abrade, rub, rub down, scour; polish, burnish, buff, smooth, wax, shine; trim, cut down, reduce, shave, plane, shape, filial, adj. 1. sonly, daughterly, sonlike, daughterlike.
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