All gaff synonyms
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- jailing β a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
- offense β a violation or breaking of a social or moral rule; transgression; sin.
- failing β Slang. an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance: Their app update is a massive fail. the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way: His online post is full of fail. a person who fails in this way.
- miscue β a stroke in which the cue fails to make solid contact with the cue ball.
- negligence β the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities.
- violation β the act of violating.
- fault β a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- indiscretion β lack of discretion; imprudence.
- omission β the act of omitting.
- blunder β A blunder is a stupid or careless mistake.
- failure β an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
- transgression β an act of transgressing; violation of a law, command, etc.; sin.
- breach β If you breach an agreement, a law, or a promise, you break it.
- crime β A crime is an illegal action or activity for which a person can be punished by law.
- oversight β an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
- sin β the 12th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- lapse β an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- misstep β a wrong step.
- mistake β an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- gear β Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- means β to have in mind as one's purpose or intention; intend: I meant to compliment you on your work. Synonyms: contemplate.
- appliance β An appliance is a device or machine in your home that you use to do a job such as cleaning or cooking. Appliances are often electrical.
- mechanism β an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.
- machine β an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine.
- machinery β an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- device β A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
- gizmo β gismo.
- capture β If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
- incarceration β the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure: The incarceration rate has increased dramatically.
- imprisonment β to confine in or as if in a prison.
- detention β Detention is when someone is arrested or put into prison, especially for political reasons.
- apprehension β Apprehension is a feeling of fear that something bad may happen.
- pinch β to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
- drop β a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- bag β A bag is a container made of thin paper or plastic, for example one that is used in shops to put things in that a customer has bought.
- confinement β Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
- grab β to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
- pickle β a single grain or kernel, as of barley or corn.
- glom β to steal.
- mitt β Baseball. a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers. a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
verb gaff
- incarcerate β to imprison; confine.
- seize β to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp: to seize a weapon.
- apprehend β If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
- detain β When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
- jail β a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
- imprison β to confine in or as if in a prison.
- catch β If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
- round up β having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- secure β free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- tag β a children's game in which one player chases the others in an effort to touch one of them, who then takes the role of pursuer.