All lick into shape synonyms

verb lick into shape

• arrange — If you arrange an event or meeting, you make plans for it to happen.
• instruct — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
• make ready — the state or condition of being ready.
• tutor — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
• teach — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
• train — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
• develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
• improve — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
• comb — A comb is a flat piece of plastic or metal with narrow pointed teeth along one side, which you use to tidy your hair.
• prim — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
• tend — to attend by action, care, etc. (usually followed by to).
• run — execution
• formulate — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
• form — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
• set up — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
• create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
• construct — to draw (a line, angle, or figure) so that certain requirements are satisfied
• coordinate — If you coordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
• regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
• dispose — to give a tendency or inclination to; incline: His temperament disposed him to argue readily with people.
• pigeonhole — one of a series of small, open compartments, as in a desk, cabinet, or the like, used for filing or sorting papers, letters, etc.
• catalogue — A catalogue is a list of things such as the goods you can buy from a particular company, the objects in a museum, or the books in a library.
• adjust — When you adjust to a new situation, you get used to it by changing your behaviour or your ideas.
• combine — If you combine two or more things or if they combine, they exist together.
• adapt — If you adapt to a new situation or adapt yourself to it, you change your ideas or behaviour in order to deal with it successfully.
• harmonize — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
• classify — To classify things means to divide them into groups or types so that things with similar characteristics are in the same group.
• standardize — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
• tailor — a stroke of a bell indicating someone's death; knell.
• correlate — If one thing correlates with another, there is a close similarity or connection between them, often because one thing causes the other. You can also say that two things correlate.
• straighten — make straight
• range — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
• settle — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
• marshal — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
• hone — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
• educate — to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
• prepare — to put in proper condition or readiness: to prepare a patient for surgery.
• school — a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
• drill — a large, baboonlike monkey, Mandrillus leucophaeus, of western Africa, similar to the related mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored: now endangered.
• ready — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
• cram — If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them.
• accustom — If you accustom yourself or another person to something, you make yourself or them become used to it.
• rehearse — to practice (a musical composition, a play, a speech, etc.) in private prior to a public presentation.
• practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• instruct — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
• habituate — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
• discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
• maneuver — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
• inure — to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.