N. existence, being,
entity,
ens, esse,
subsistence, reality,
actuality, positiveness, fact, matter of fact, sober reality, truth, actual existence, presence,
coexistence, stubborn fact, hard fact, not a dream, no joke, center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital principle,
[Science of existence],
ontology V. exist, be, have being,
subsist, live,
breathe, stand, obtain, be the case, occur, have place, prevail, find oneself, pass the time,
vegetate, consist in, lie in, be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted by, come into existence, arise, come forth, become, bring into existence,
abide, continue,
endure, last, remain, stay
Adj. existing,
existent, under the sun, in existence, extant,
afloat,
afoot, on foot,
current, prevalent, undestroyed, real, actual, positive, absolute, true, substantial,
substantive, self-existing,
self-existent, essential, well-founded,
well-grounded, unideal, unimagined, not potential, authentic
Adv. actually, in fact, in point of fact, in reality, indeed, de facto, ipso facto
Phr. ens rationis; ergo sum cogito; "thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?"
N. the present, the present time, the present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present occasion, the times, the existing time, the time being,
today, these days,
nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century,
nonce,
crisis, epoch, day, hour, age, time of life
Adj. present, actual, instant, current, existing, extant, that is, present-day, up-to-date, up-to-the-moment
Adv. at this time, at this moment, at the present time, now, at present, at hand, at this time of day,
today,
nowadays, already, even now, but now, just now, on the present occasion, for the time being, for the nonce, pro hac vice, on the nail, on the spot, on the spur of the moment, until now, to this day, to the present day
Phr. "the present hour alone is man's"
N. eventuality, event, occurrence, incident,
affair, matter, thing,
episode, happening, proceeding,
contingency,
juncture, experience, fact, matter of fact, naked fact, bare facts, just the facts, phenomenon,
advent, business,
concern,
transaction, dealing, proceeding, circumstance, particular,
casualty, accident,
adventure, passage,
crisis, pass,
emergency,
contingency, consequence, opportunity (occasion) 143, the world, life, things, doings, affairs in general, things in general, affairs in general, the times, state of affairs, order of the day, course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of events, ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life, chapter of accidents, situation
V. happen, occur, take place, take effect, come, become of, come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on, pass, present itself, fall, fall out, turn out, run, be on foot, fall in,
befall,
betide,
bechance, prove,
eventuate, draw on, turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up,
supervene,
survene, issue, arrive,
ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course, pass off, meet with, experience, enjoy,
encounter, undergo, suffer, pass through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to, fall to the lot of, be one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot, find,
endure Adj. happening, going on, doing,
current, in the wind, in the air,
afloat, on foot,
afoot, on the tapis, at issue, in question,
incidental, eventful,
stirring,
bustling, full of incident, memorable,
momentous, signal
Adv. eventually, in the event of, in case, just in case, in the course of things, as things, times go, as the world goes, wags, as the tree falls, cat jumps, as it may turn out, happen
Phr. that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles, you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring, the plot thickens, "breasts the blows of circumstance", "so runs round of life from hour to hour" "sprinkled along the waste of years", future events
River Roget’s Thesaurus §348 N. running water,
jet,
spirt,
spurt,
squirt,
spout,
spray,
splash,
rush,
gush,
jet d'eau,
sluice, water spout, water fall,
cascade, force,
foss,
lin,
linn,
ghyll,
niagara,
cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe|,
cataclysm,
debacle,
inundation,
deluge,
chute,
washout, rain, rainfall,
serein, shower,
scud,
downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology,
hyetography, predominance of aquarius, reign of st. swithin,
mizzle,
drizzle, stillicidum,
plash,
dropping, falling weather,
northeaster,
hurricane,
typhoon, stream, course,
flux, flow,
profluence,
effluence,
defluxion, flowing,
current, tide, race,
coulee, spring, artesian well,
fount, fountain,
rill,
rivulet, gill,
gullet,
rillet,
streamlet,
brooklet, branch,
runnel,
sike, burn,
beck,
creek,
brook,
bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary,
geyser,
spout,
waterspout, body of water,
torrent, rapids,
flush, flood,
swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore,
eagre, hygre, fresh,
freshet, indraught,
reflux, undercurrent,
eddy,
vortex,
gurge,
whirlpool,
maelstrom,
regurgitation, overflow,
confluence, corrivation|, wave,
billow,
surge, swell,
ripple, ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα,
beach comber,
riffle, rollers, ground swell,
surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea,
hydrodynamics,
hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart,
hydrant,
syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk
V. flow, run,
meander,
gush, pour,
spout, roll,
jet, well, issue, drop,
drip,
dribble,
plash,
spirtle,
trill,
trickle, distill,
percolate, stream, overflow,
inundate,
deluge, flow over,
splash,
swash,
guggle,
murmur,
babble,
bubble,
purl,
gurgle,
sputter,
spurt,
spray,
regurgitate,
ooze, flow out, rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks, pour with rain,
drizzle,
spit, set in,
mizzle, flow into, fall into, open into, drain into, discharge itself,
disembogue, pour, pour out, shower down,
irrigate,
drench,
spill,
splash,
stanch,
dam, up,
obstruct Adj. fluent,
diffluent,
profluent,
affluent, tidal, flowing,
meandering,
meandry,
meandrous,
fluvial,
fluviatile,
streamy,
showery,
rainy,
pluvial, stillicidous|,
stillatitious Phr. "for men may come and men may go but i go on forever", "that old man river, he just keeps rolling along"
Wind Roget’s Thesaurus §349 N. n, wind, draught,
flatus,
afflatus,
efflation, eluvium, air, breath, breath of air,
puff,
whiff,
zephyr, blow,
breeze, drift,
aura, stream,
current, jet stream, undercurrent,
gust, blast,
squall,
gale, half a gale, storm,
tempest,
hurricane,
whirlwind,
tornado,
samiel,
cyclone,
anticyclone,
typhoon,
simoon,
simoom,
harmattan,
monsoon, trade wind,
sirocco,
mistral,
bise,
tramontane,
levanter, capful of wind, fresh breeze, stiff breeze, keen blast,
blizzard,
barber, candelia,
chinook, foehn,
khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther,
windiness, ventosity|, rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather, dirty sky, mare's tail, thick squall, black squall, white squall,
anemography,
aerodynamics, wind gauge,
weathercock,
vane, weather-vane, wind sock,
anemometer,
anemoscope,
sufflation,
insufflation,
perflation,
inflation,
afflation, blowing,
fanning,
ventilation,
sneezing,
errhine,
sternutative,
sternutatory,
sternutation, hiccup,
hiccough, catching of the breath, eolus,
boreas,
zephyr, cave of eolus,
air pump, air blower, lungs,
bellows,
blowpipe,
fan,
ventilator, punkah,
branchiae, gills,
flabellum, vertilabrum, whiffle ball
V. blow,
waft, blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane, wuther, stream, issue,
respire,
breathe,
puff,
whiff,
whiffle,
gasp,
wheeze,
snuff,
snuffle,
sniff,
sniffle,
sneeze,
cough,
fan,
ventilate,
inflate, perflate|, blow up
Adj. blowing,
windy,
flatulent,
breezy,
gusty,
squally,
stormy,
tempestuous,
blustering,
boisterous,
pulmonic,
pulmonary Phr. "lull'd by soft zephyrs", "the storm is up and all is on the hazard", "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air", "while mocking winds are piping loud", "winged with red lightning and tempestuous rage"
N. publication, public announcement,
promulgation,
propagation,
proclamation, pronunziamento, circulation,
indiction, edition, hue and cry,
publicity,
notoriety, currency,
flagrancy, cry,
bruit, hype, vox populi, report, the press, public press,
newspaper, journal,
gazette, daily,
telegraphy,
publisher, imprint, circular, circular letter,
manifesto,
advertisement, ad,
placard, bill, affiche,
broadside, poster, notice
V. publish, make public, make known, speak of, talk of,
broach, utter, put forward,
circulate,
propagate,
promulgate, spread, spread abroad,
rumor,
diffuse,
disseminate, evulugate, put forth, give forth, send forth,
emit,
edit, get out, issue, bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public, give out, give to the world, put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about, drag into the open day, voice,
proclaim,
herald,
blazon, blaze abroad, noise abroad, sound a trumpet, trumpet forth, thunder forth, give tongue, announce with beat of drum, announce with flourish of trumpets, proclaim from the housetops, proclaim at charing cross,
advertise,
placard, post, post up afficher, publish in the gazette, send round the crier, raise a cry, raise a hue and cry, raise a report, set news afloat, be published &c, be public, become public, come out, go about, fly about, buzz about, blow about, get about, get abroad, get afloat, get wind, find vent, see the light, go forth, take air, acquire currency, pass current, go the rounds, go the round of the newspapers, go through the length and breadth of the land, virum volitare per ora, pass from mouth to mouth, spread, run like wildfire, spread like wildfire
Adj. published,
current, in circulation, public,
notorious,
flagrant,
arrant, open,
trumpet-tongued,
encyclical,
encyclic, promulgatory,
exoteric Adv. publicly, in open court, with open doors
Int. oyez, o yes, notice, phr, notice is hereby given, this is to give, these are to give notice, nomina stultorum parietibus haerent, semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum
News Roget’s Thesaurus §532 N. news, information, piece of news, budget of news, budget of information, intelligence,
tidings, word, advice,
aviso, message,
dispatch,
despatch,
telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication,
errand,
embassy, report,
rumor,
hearsay,
on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry,
buzz,
bruit, fame, talk, oui dire,
scandal,
eavesdropping, town tattle, table talk, tittle tattle,
canard, topic of the day, idea afloat,
bulletin, fresh news, stirring news, glad tidings,
flash, news just in, on-the-spot coverage, live coverage, old story, old news, stale news, stale story, chestnut*,
narrator,
newsmonger, scandalmonger,
talebearer,
telltale,
gossip,
tattler,
journalism, media, news media, the press, the information industry,
newspaper, magazine, tract, journal,
gazette, publication, radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission), united press international, upi, associated press, ap, the dow jones news service, dj, the new york times news service, nyt, reuters, tass, the nikkei, newscaster,
newsman, newswoman, reporter,
journalist,
correspondent, foreign correspondent, special correspondent, war correspondent, news team, news department, anchorman, anchorwoman, sportscaster, weatherman, press secretary, public relations department, public relations man
Adj. many-tongued,
rumored, publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported,
rife,
current, floating,
afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town, in progress, live, on the spot, in person
Adv. as the story goes, as the story runs, as they say, it is said, by telegraph, by wireless
Phr. "airy tongues that syllable men's names", what's up?, what's the latest?, what's new?, what's the latest poop?
N. language,
phraseology, speech, tongue,
lingo,
vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, king's english, queen's english, dialect, confusion of tongues,
babel, pasigraphie,
pantomime,
onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism,
nunnation,
pasigraphy,
lexicology,
philology,
glossology,
glottology,
linguistics,
chrestomathy,
paleology,
paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres,
muses,
humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language,
scholarship V. express by words
Phr. "syllables govern the world"
Habit Roget’s Thesaurus §613 N. habit,
habitude, assuetude|, assuefaction|,
wont, run, way, common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things, matter of course, beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground,
prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice,
prevalence,
observance,
conventionalism,
conventionality, mode, fashion,
vogue,
etiquette, order of the day, cry, conformity,
consuetude, dustoor, one's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae, laudator temporis acti, rule, standing order,
precedent,
routine,
red-tape,
red-tapism,
pipe clay,
rut, groove,
cacoethes, bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit &c,
addiction,
trick, training, seasoning, second nature,
acclimatization, knack &c
V. be wont, fall into a rut, fall into a custom, tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten, stare super antiquas vias, move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way,
habituate,
inure,
harden, season,
caseharden,
accustom,
familiarize,
naturalize,
acclimatize, keep one's hand in, train, get into the way, get into the knack of, learn, cling to, adhere to,
repeat, acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick, addict oneself to, take to, get into, be habitual, prevail, come into use, become a habit, take root, gain upon one, grow upon one
Adj. habitual,
accustomary,
prescriptive, accustomed, of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence,
consuetudinary,
wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent,
everyday, household, garden variety,
jog,
trot, well-trodden,
well-known, familiar,
vernacular,
trite,
commonplace,
conventional, regular, set, stock, established,
stereotyped, prevailing, prevalent,
current, received, acknowledged, recognized,
accredited, of course, admitted, understood,
conformable,
&c. 82, according to use, according to custom, according to routine, in vogue, in fashion, in, with it, fashionable,
wont, used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to,
habituated, in the habit of,
habitue, at home in, seasoned, imbued with, devoted to, wedded to,
hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted,
ingrafted, permanent,
inveterate,
besetting,
naturalized, ingrained
Adv. habitually, always, as usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards, more suo, more solito, ex more, as a rule, for the most part, usually, generally, typically, most often, most frequently
Phr. cela s'entend, abeunt studia in mores, adeo in teneris consuescere multum est, consuetudo quasi altera natura, hoc erat in more majorum, "how use doth breed a habit in a man!", magna est vis consuetudinis, morent fecerat usus
