| Main Entry: | perch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | object placed high for sitting on |
Synonyms: |
branch, landing place, lounge, pole, post, resting place, roost, seat |
| Main Entry: | perch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sit atop of |
Synonyms: |
alight, balance, land, light, rest, roost, set down, settle, sit on, squat, touch down |
Antonyms: |
lower |
| Main Entry: | abide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | live in a certain place |
Synonyms: |
bide, bunk out, bunk, crash*, dwell, hang out*, inhabit, lodge, nest, perch, reside, room, roost, settle, squat, stay |
Antonyms: |
depart, go, leave, migrate, move, reject, resist |
| Main Entry: | alight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | land |
Synonyms: |
come down, debark, descend, disembark, dismount, get off, light, perch, settle, touch down |
| Main Entry: | dwell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | live in |
Synonyms: |
abide, bide, bunk, continue, crash*, establish oneself, exist, flop, hang one's hat, hang out*, hole up, inhabit, keep house, locate, lodge, make one's home, nest, occupy, park*, perch*, pitch tent, quarter, remain, rent, reside, rest, room, roost, settle, sojourn, squat, stay, stop, tarry, tenant, tent |
| Main Entry: | inhabit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take up residence in |
Synonyms: |
abide, crash, dwell, indwell, live, locate, lodge, make one's home, occupy, park, people, perch, populate, possess, reside, roost, settle, squat, stay, tenant |
Antonyms: |
depart, leave, move, vacate |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | step down; land |
Synonyms: |
alight, arrive, come down, deplane, detrain, disembark, drop, fly down, get down, perch, rest, roost, set down, settle, settle down, sit, sit down, stop, touch down |
Antonyms: |
mount |
| Main Entry: | live |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inhabit a dwelling |
Synonyms: |
abide, bide, bunk, crash*, dwell, hang one's hat, hang out*, locate, lodge, nest, occupy, perch, reside, roost, settle |
Antonyms: |
not use |
| Main Entry: | lodge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stay at temporary residence |
Synonyms: |
abide, accommodate, bestow, board, bunk, canton, crash, domicile, dwell, entertain, harbor, hole up, hostel, house, locate, nest, park*, perch*, put up, quarter, rent, reside, room, roost, shelter, sojourn, squat, station, stay, stay over, stop |
Antonyms: |
leave |
| Main Entry: | rack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frame, framework |
Synonyms: |
arbor, bed, box, bracket, counter, furniture, holder, ledge, perch, receptacle, shelf, stand, structure, trestle |
| Notes: | rack is the linear gear and pinion is the circular gear in a mechanism rack is destruction and ruin is destitution; in rack and ruin, rack is a variation of wrack and wreck |