English words and phrases

under press of sail, under press of canvas, under press of sail and steam; velis et remis [Lat.], on eagle's wing, in double quick time; with rapid strides, with giant strides; a pas de geant [Fr.]; in seven league boots; whip and spur; ventre a terre [Fr.]; as fast as one's legs will carry one, as fast as one's heels will carry one; as fast as one can lay legs to the ground, at the top of one's speed; by leaps and bounds; with haste &c 684.

retardation; slackening &c v.; delay &c (lateness) 133; claudication^†.

jog trot, dog trot; mincing steps; slow march, slow time.

slow goer^†, slow coach, slow back; lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail; poke [U.S.]; dawdle &c (inactive) 683.

retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose ground.

gradually &c adj.; gradatim [Lat.]; by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little; step by step, one step at a time; inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little, seriatim; consecutively.

percussion, concussion, collision, occursion^†, clash, encounter, cannon, carambole^†, appulse^†, shock, crash, bump; impact; elan; charge &c (attack) 716; beating &c (punishment) 972.

blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff &c 972; squash, dowse, swap, whap^†, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce^†, calcitration^†; ruade^†; arietation^†; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk^†; carom, carrom^†, clip [Slang], jab, plug [Slang], sidewinder [U.S.], sidewipe^†, sideswipe [U.S.].

hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer^†; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel &c (weapon) 727; ax &c (sharp) 253.

strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse^†, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk^†; kick, calcitrate^†; butt, strike at &c (attack) 716; whip &c (punish) 972.

come into a collision, enter into collision; collide; sideswipe; foul; fall foul of, run foul of; telescope.

throw &c (propel) 284.

ducks and drakes; boomerang; spring, reactionist^†.

elastic collision, coefficient of restitution.

V. recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back; rebound, reverberate, repercuss^†, recalcitrate^†; echo, ricochet.

Adj. recoiling &c v.; refluent^†, repercussive, recalcitrant, reactionary; retroactive.

Adv. on the rebound, on the recoil &c n..

Phr. for every action there is a reaction, equal in force and opposite in direction [Newton].
4. MOTION WITH REFERENCE TO DIRECTION
278. Direction -- N. direction, bearing, course, vector; set, drift, tenor; tendency &c 176; incidence; bending, trending &c v.; dip, tack, aim, collimation; steering steerage.

point of the compass, cardinal points; North East, South, West; N by E, ENE, NE by N, NE, &c; rhumb^†, azimuth, line of collimation.

line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march; alignment, allignment^†; air line, beeline; straight shoot.

V. tend towards, bend towards, point towards; conduct to, go to; point to, point at; bend, trend, verge, incline, dip, determine.

steer for, steer towards, make for, make towards; aim at, level at; take aim; keep a course, hold a course; be bound for; bend one's steps towards; direct one's course, steer one's course, bend one's course, shape one's course; align one's march, allign one's march^†; to straight, go straight to the point; march on, march on a point.

ascertain one's direction &c n.; s'orienter [Fr.], see which way the wind blows; box the compass; take the air line.

Adj. directed &c v.. directed towards; pointing towards &c v.; bound for; aligned, with alligned with^†; direct, straight; undeviating, unswerving; straightforward; North, Northern, Northerly, &c n..

Adv. towards; on the road, on the high road to; en avant; versus, to; hither, thither, whither; directly; straight as an arrow, forwards as an arrow; point blank; in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight line with; in a line with; full tilt at, as the crow flies.

before the wind, near the wind, close to the wind, against the wind; windwards, in the wind's eye.

through, via, by way of; in all directions, in all manner of ways; quaquaversum [Lat.], from the four winds.

Phr. the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
279. Deviation -- N. deviation; swerving &c v.; obliquation^†, warp, refraction; flection^†, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure^†; declination.

diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence &c 291; zigzag; detour &c (circuit) 629; divagation.

intervert^†; deflect; divert, divert from its course; put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp.

stray, straggle; sidle; diverge &c 291; tralineate^†; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy.

fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the right about, face to the right about; waddle &c (oscillate) 314; go out of one's way &c (perform a circuit) 629; lose one's way.

obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.

follower, attendant, satellite, shadow, dangler, train.

attend, beset, dance attendance on, dog; tread in the steps of, tread close upon; be in the wake of, be in the trail of, be in the rear of, go in the wake of, go in the trail of, go in the rear of, follow in the wake of, follow in the trail of, follow in the rear of; follow as a shadow, hang on the skirts of; tread on the heels of, follow on the heels of; camp on the trail.

refluence^†, reflux; backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return; resilience reflection, reflexion [Brit.] (recoil) 277; flip-flop, volte-face [Fr.].

counter motion, retrograde motion, backward movement, motion in reverse, counter movement, counter march; veering, tergiversation, recidivation^†, backsliding, fall; deterioration &c 659; recidivism, recidivity^†.

reversal, relapse, turning point &c (reversion) 145.

turn tail, turn round, turn upon one's heel, turn one's back upon; retrace one's steps, dance the back step; sound a retreat, beat a retreat; go home.

shooter; shot; archer, toxophilite^†; bowman, rifleman, marksman; good shot, crack shot; sharpshooter &c (combatant) 726.

dart, lance, tilt; ejaculate, jaculate^†; fulminate, bolt, drive, sling, pitchfork.

send; send off, let off, fire off; discharge, shoot; launch, release, send forth, let fly; put in orbit, send into orbit, launch into orbit dash.

put in motion, set in motion; set agoing^†, start; give a start, give an impulse to; impel &c 276; trundle &c (set in rotation) 312; expel &c 297.

carry one off one's legs; put to flight.

Adj. propelled &c v.; propelling &c v.; propulsive, projectile.
285. [Motion given to an object situated behind.] Traction -- N. traction; drawing &c v.; draught, pull, haul; rake; a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together; towage^†, haulage.

V. draw, pull, haul, lug, rake, drag, tug, tow, trail, train; take in tow.

wrench, jerk, twitch, touse^†; yank [U.S.].

remove, shunt, distance.

electrical attraction, electricity, static electricity, static, static cling; magnetism, magnetic attraction; gravity, attraction of gravitation.

electrical charge; positive charge, negative charge.

magnetic pole; north pole, south pole; magnetic monopole.

V. attract, draw; draw towards, pull towards, drag towards; adduce.

Adj. attracting &c v.; attrahent^†, attractive, adducent^†, adductive^†.

centrifugal.

magnetic repulsion, magnetic levitation; antigravity.

keep at arm's length, turn one's back upon, give the cold shoulder; send off, send away with a flea in one's ear.

centripetal

assemblage &c 72; resort &c (focus) 74; asymptote.

gather together, unite, concentrate, bring into a focus.

home, goal, goalpost; landing place, landing stage; bunder^†; resting place; destination, harbor, haven, port, airport, spaceport; terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip, runway, terminal; journey's end; anchorage &c (refuge) 666.

return, remigration^†; meeting; rencounter^†, encounter.

completion &c 729.

recursion [Comp.].

V. arrive; get to, come to; come; reach, attain; come up with, come up to; overtake, make, fetch; complete &c 729; join, rejoin.

light, alight, dismount; land, go ashore; debark, disembark; put in, put into; visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent; sit down &c (be located) 184; get to one's journey's end; make the land; be in at the death; come back, get back, come home, get home; return; come in &c (ingress) 294; make one's appearance &c (appear) 446; drop in; detrain, deplane; outspan; de-orbit.

come to hand; come at, come across; hit; come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon; meet; encounter, rencounter^†; come in contact.

Adj. arriving &c v.; homeward bound.

Adv. here, hither.

Int. welcome!, hail!, all Hail!, good-day, good morrow!,

Phr. any port in a storm.
293. [Initial motion from.] Departure -- N. departure, decession^†, decampment; embarkation; outset, start; removal; exit &c (egress) 295; exodus, hejira, flight.

leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen [G.], sayonara, dosvidanya [Rus.], ciao, aloha, hasta la vista [Sp.]; stirrup cup; valedictorian.

starting point, starting post; point of departure, point of embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation; port of embarkation; airport, take-off point, taxiing runway, runway, launching pad, spaceport.

V. depart; go away; take one's departure, set out; set off, march off, put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off, take oneself off; start, issue, march out, debouch; go forth, sally forth; sally, set forward; be gone; hail from.

leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose [Slang], vamose [U.S.]; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye &c n.; disappear &c 449; abscond &c (avoid) 623; entrain; inspan^†.