All prop synonyms
prop
P p verb prop
- give a leg up β to help to mount
- fortify β to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
- lean β to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- beetle β A beetle is an insect with a hard covering to its body.
- lend a hand β the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hold to β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- firmed β not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- angeled β one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels).
- gelled β Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- bolster β If you bolster something such as someone's confidence or courage, you increase it.
- jellied β containing or made, spread, or topped with jelly or syrup; jellied: jelly apples.
- make a living β earn money
- firming β not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- gelling β Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- ballasted β Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- bottoming β the lowest level of foundation material for a road or other structure
- base β The base of something is its lowest edge or part.
- angeling β one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels).
- heat up β the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- beetling β a heavy hammering or ramming instrument, usually of wood, used to drive wedges, force down paving stones, compress loose earth, etc.
- ballasting β Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- ballyhooed β a clamorous and vigorous attempt to win customers or advance any cause; blatant advertising or publicity.
- curdled β Containing curds.
- help β to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- charge up β to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- candied β Food such as candied fruit has been covered with sugar or has been cooked in sugar syrup.
- garrisoned β a body of troops stationed in a fortified place.
- go with β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
noun prop
- buttress β Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
- backbone β Your backbone is the column of small linked bones down the middle of your back.
- flotation β an act or state of floating.
- minaret β a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- newel β newel post.
- foundation β the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- co-worker β Your co-workers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
- endorser β A person who endorses.
- apologist β An apologist is a person who writes or speaks in defence of a belief, a cause, or a person's life.
- crutch β A crutch is a stick whose top fits round or under the user's arm, which someone with an injured foot or leg uses to support their weight when walking.
- beam β If you say that someone is beaming, you mean that they have a big smile on their face because they are happy, pleased, or proud about something.
- breastwork β a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
- lintel β a horizontal architectural member supporting the weight above an opening, as a window or a door.
- breastworks β a defensive work, usually breast high.
- leg β either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
- abutment β the state or process of abutting
- fulcra β the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body.
- coworker β Your coworkers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
- crosspiece β a transverse beam, joist, etc
- fulcrum β the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body.
- linchpin β a pin inserted through the end of an axletree to keep the wheel on.