| Main Entry: | yaw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | temporarily swerve off coarse |
Synonyms: |
bank, curve, deviate, slue, swerve, turn, veer, weave, zigzag |
| Notes: | pitch is movement up and down and yaw is movement side to side on a ship, airplane, or other conveyance |
| Main Entry: | yaw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | swerve |
Synonyms: |
curve, deviate, turn, unsteady, veer, weave, zigzag |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curve |
Synonyms: |
angle, arc, bending, bow, corner, crook, curvation, curvature, deflection, deviation, flection, flexure, hook, lean, loop, round, sag, shift, tack, tilt, turn, twist, yaw, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
line |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | form or cause a curve |
Synonyms: |
angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
straighten |
| Main Entry: | gape |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be wide open |
Synonyms: |
cleave, crack, dehisce, divide, frondesce, gap, part, split, yaw, yawn |
Antonyms: |
close |
| Main Entry: | incline |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend, lean |
Synonyms: |
aim, bevel, bow, cant, cock, deviate, diverge, heel, lay, level, list, lower, nod, point, recline, skew, slant, slope, stoop, tend, tilt, tip, train, turn, veer, yaw |
| Main Entry: | lurch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move toward with jerk |
Synonyms: |
blunder, bumble, careen, dodge, duck, falter, flounder, heave, jerk, lean, list, move to the side, pitch, reel, rock, roll, seesaw, slide, slip, stagger, stumble, sway, swing, teeter, tilt, toss, totter, wallow, weave, wobble, yaw |
Antonyms: |
retreat |
| Main Entry: | pitch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dive, roll |
Synonyms: |
ascend, bend, bicker, careen, descend, dip, drive, drop, fall, flounder, go down, heave, lean, lunge, lurch, plunge, rise, rock, seesaw, slope, slump, stagger, tilt, topple, toss, tumble, vault, wallow, welter, yaw |
| Notes: | to put up a tent is to pitch it; to take down a tent is to strike it pitch is movement up and down and yaw is movement side to side on a ship, airplane, or other conveyance |
| Main Entry: | roll |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rock, sway |
Synonyms: |
billow, drift, flow, glide, heave, incline, jibe, lean, lumber, lurch, pitch, ramble, range, reel, roam, rove, run, stagger, stray, surge, swagger, swing, toss, tumble, undulate, waddle, wallow, wave, welter, yaw |
Antonyms: |
stabilize, steady |
| Main Entry: | shift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | switch, fluctuation |
Synonyms: |
about-face, alteration, bend, change, changeover, conversion, deflection, deviation, displacement, double, fault, modification, move, passage, permutation, rearrangement, removal, shifting, substitution, tack, transfer, transference, transformation, transit, translocation, turn, variation, veering, yaw |
Antonyms: |
deactivation, maintenance, stagnation |