Adj. advancing &c. v.; progressive, profluent[obs3]; advanced. Adv

refluence[obs3], reflux; backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return; resilience reflection, reflexion (recoil) 277[Brit]; flip-flop, volte-face[Fr].

counter motion, retrograde motion, backward movement, motion in reverse, counter movement, counter march; veering, tergiversation, recidivation[obs1], backsliding, fall; deterioration &c. 659; recidivism, recidivity[obs3].

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.

regressive, refluent[obs3], reflex, recidivous, resilient.

crab-like; balky.

{{similar_to: reactionary &c. 277}}.

[Science of propulsion] projectiles, ballistics, archery.

[devices to give propulsion] propeller, screw, twin screws, turbine, jet engine.

[objects propelled] missile, projectile, ball, discus, quoit, brickbat, shot;

[weapons which propel] arrow, gun, ballista &c. (arms) 727[obs3].

[preparation for propulsion] countdown, windup.

shooter; shot; archer, toxophilite[obs3]; bowman, rifleman, marksman; good shot, crack shot; sharpshooter &c. (combatant) 726.

V. propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk, heave, shy, hurl; flirt, fillip.

dart, lance, tilt; ejaculate, jaculate[obs3]; 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[obs3], 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[obs3], haulage.

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

wrench, jerk, twitch, touse[obs1]; yank [U.S.].

remove, shunt, distance.

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

lodestone[objects which attract by physical force], loadstone, lodestar, loadstar[obs3]; magnet, permanent magnet, siderite, magnetite; electromagnet; magnetic coil, voice coil; magnetic dipole; motor coil, rotor, stator.

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[obs3], attractive, adducent[obs3], adductive[obs3].

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

Phr. like charges repel; opposite charges attract; like poles repel,

opposite poles attract.

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

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

home, goal, goalpost; landing place, landing stage; bunder[obs3]; 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[obs3]; meeting; rencounter[obs3], encounter.

completion &c. 729.

recursion[Math, 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[obs3]; 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[obs3], decampment; embarkation; outset, start; removal; exit &c. (egress) 295; exodus, hejira, flight.

leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen[Ger], sayonara, dosvidanya[Russ], 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, bow out, remove, remove oneself from the scene; vamoose[quaint], vamose[obs3][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, board.

set sail, put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor.

strike tents, decamp, break camp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick.

take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye &c. n..

disappear &c. 449; entrain; inspan[obs3].

[ref: abscond &c. (avoid) 623].

beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steal off, steal away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate [obs3][U.S.], cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce.

[ref] escape &c. 671.

inlet; way in; mouth, door, &c. (opening) 260; barway[obs3]; path &c. (way) 627; conduit &c. 350; immigrant.

give entrance to &c. (receive) 296; insert &c. 300.

export, expatriation; emigration, remigration[obs3]; debouch, debouche; emunctory[obs3]; exodus &c. (departure) 293; emigrant.

outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory, outgate[obs3], sally port; way out; mouth, door &c. (opening) 260; path &c. (way) 627; conduit &c. 350; airpipe &c. 351[obs3].

V. emerge, emanate, issue; egress; go out of, come out of, move out of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of; pass out of, evacuate.

exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate[obs1]; egurgitate[obs3]; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle, &c. (water in motion) 348; effuse, extravasate[Med], disembogue[obs3], discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape &c. 671.

emesis, vomiting, vomition[obs3].

egestion[obs3], evacuation; ructation[obs3], eructation; bloodletting, venesection[Med], phlebotomy, paracentesis[obs3]; expuition, exspuition; tapping, drainage; clearance, clearage[obs3].

deportation; banishment &c. (punishment ) 972; rouge's march; relegation, extradition; dislodgment.

bouncer [U.S.], chucker-out*[obs3].

[material vomited] vomit, puke, barf[coll].

tap, draw off; bale out, lade out; let blood, broach.

eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser[Fr]; banish &c. (punish) 972; show the door to; bounce [U.S.]; fire out *; throw &c. 284 throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push &c. 276 throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll &c. (abrogate) 756; turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders[obs2], turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho.

[end employment of a person][trans] terminate, dismiss, fire, discharge, let go.

turn out of doors, turn out of house and home; evict, oust; unhouse, unkennel; dislodge; unpeople[obs3], dispeople[obs3]; depopulate; relegate, deport.

empty; drain to the dregs; sweep off; clear off, clear out, clear away; suck, draw off; clean out, make a clean sweep of, clear decks, purge.

eviscerate, gut, disembowel, embowel[obs3], disbowel[obs3].

unearth, root out, root up; averuncate[obs1].

weed out, get out; eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off; exenterate[obs3].

weed, cull, separate &c. 44.

vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck[obs3], retch, heave, upchuck, chuck up, barf; belch out; cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick, worship the porcelain god.

disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hack, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter; eructate.

drool, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber[obs3].

unpack, unlade, unload, unship, offload; break bulk; dump.

be let out.

spew forth, erupt, ooze &c. (emerge) 295.

and P2.3.2.1 Vitality -->

clyster[Med], enema, glyster[obs3], lavage, lavement[obs3].

graft, ingraft[obs3], bud, plant, implant; dovetail.

obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in , whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce[obs1] &c. (make a hole) 260[obs3].

imbed; immerse, immerge, merge; bathe, soak &c. (water) 337; dip, plunge &c. 310.

bury &c. (inter) 363.

insert &c. itself; plunge in medias res.

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[obs1]; 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.] Passage. -- N. passage, 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. pass, pass through; perforate &c. (hole) 260; penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid[obs3], enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over; cut across; ford, cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread one's way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage; cut one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear the course; traverse, go over the ground.

Adj. passing &c. v.; intercurrent[obs3]; endosmosmic[obs3], endosmotic[Chem].

Adv. en passant &c. (transit) 270[Fr].
#303. [Motion beyond] Surpassing -- N. surpassing, transcursion[obs1], transiliency[obs3], transgression; trespass; encroachment, infringement; extravagation[obs1], transcendence; redundancy &c. 641.

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

overstep, overpass, 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, trespass, infringe, trench upon, entrench on, intrench on[obs3]; strain; stretch a point, strain a point; cross the Rubicon.

Adj. surpassing &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.

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.

rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club.