MANE Synonyms

• the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)

• the amount of fluid that flows in a given time

• the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

• any uninterrupted stream or discharge

• something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously

• dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas

• the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

• move or progress freely as if in a stream

• move along, of liquids

• cause to flow

• be abundantly present

• fall or flow in a certain way

• cover or swamp with water

• undergo menstruation

• the outside boundary or surface of something

• a part of the city far removed from the center

• one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light

• a social group holding marginal or extreme views

• a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead

• an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels

• adorn with a fringe

• decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe

• a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss

• a very small distance or space

• filamentous hairlike growth on a plant

• any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal

• cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments

• a filamentous projection or process on an organism

• cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors

• to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop

• make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

• American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

• a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

• lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl

• form a curl, curve, or kink

• shape one's body into a curl

• wind around something in coils or loops

• twist or roll into coils or ringlets

• play the Scottish game of curling

• a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed

• a strand or cluster of hair

• a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun

• enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it

• a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key

• any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured

• fasten with a lock

• keep engaged

• become rigid or immoveable

• hold in a locking position

• become engaged or intermeshed with one another

• hold fast (in a certain state)

• place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

• pass by means through a lock in a waterway

• build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

• a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

• lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl

• a little ring

• any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae

• a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole

• a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels

• line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable

• a necklace made by stringing objects together

• a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

• a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)

• leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue

• drive (a vessel) ashore

• bring to the ground

• a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

• growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being