scouting |
1. n. The act of one who scouts. | |
2. n. The Scout Movement. | |
3. n. The activities of boy scouts and girl scouts. | |
a |
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
4. art. The same; one. | |
We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
Stand a tiptoe. | |
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
Torn a pieces. | |
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
A God’s name. | |
13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
To set the people a worke. | |
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
The times, they are a-changin'. | |
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
Jacob, when he was a dying | |
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
The name of John a Gaunt. | |
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
gathering |
1. n. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function. | |
I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists. | |
2. n. A group of people or things. | |
A gathering of fruit. | |
3. n. (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half. | |
This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation. | |
4. n. A charitable contribution; a collection. | |
5. n. (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess. | |
6. v. present participle of gather | |
She enjoyed gathering wildflowers. | |
gather |
1. v. To collect; normally separate things. | |
I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with. | |
She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair. | |
2. v. Especially, to harvest food. | |
We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane. | |
3. v. To accumulate over time, to amass little by little. | |
Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble. | |
People gathered round as he began to tell his story. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion. | |
6. v. To bring parts of a whole closer. | |
She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold. | |
7. v. (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width. | |
A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped. | |
8. v. (knitting) To bring stitches closer together. | |
Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting. | |
If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline. | |
9. v. (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of t | |
10. v. (nautical) To haul in; to take up. | |
to gather the slack of a rope | |
11. v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source. | |
From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well. | |
I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match. | |
12. v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus | |
Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst. | |
13. v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool. | |
14. v. To gain; to win. | |
15. n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. | |
16. n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. | |
17. n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb). | |
18. n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe. | |
19. n. A gathering. | |
of |
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. | |
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". | |
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). | |
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). | |
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. | |
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to. | |
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three. | |
6. prep. Expressing separation. | |
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.) | |
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband. | |
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.) | |
He seemed devoid of human feelings. | |
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.) | |
10. prep. Expressing origin. | |
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.) | |
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin. | |
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of. | |
The invention was born of necessity. | |
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.) | |
It is said that she died of a broken heart. | |
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.) | |
I am tired of all this nonsense. | |
15. prep. Expressing agency. | |
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).) | |
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. | |
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below). | |
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties. | |
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.) | |
It was very brave of you to speak out like that. | |
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance. | |
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.) | |
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic. | |
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.) | |
She wore a dress of silk. | |
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.) | |
What a lot of nonsense! | |
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.) | |
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich. | |
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also". | |
I'm not driving this wreck of a car. | |
25. prep. Introducing subject matter. | |
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma | |
I'm always thinking of you. | |
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning. | |
He told us the story of his journey to India. | |
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.) | |
This behaviour is typical of teenagers. | |
29. prep. Having partitive effect. | |
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among". | |
Most of these apples are rotten. | |
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.) | |
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. | |
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort. | |
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).) | |
He is a friend of mine. | |
34. prep. Expressing possession. | |
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. | |
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. | |
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. | |
The owner of the nightclub was arrested. | |
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter | |
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames. | |
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive". | |
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.) | |
She had a profound distrust of the police. | |
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics. | |
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards. | |
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner. | |
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by". | |
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain. | |
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.) | |
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%. | |
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod | |
It's not that big of a deal. | |
45. prep. Expressing a point in time. | |
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. | |
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river. | |
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time). | |
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while. | |
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.) | |
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off. | |
Rovers |
1. n. plural of Rover | |
2. n. plural of rover | |
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26 |
1. n. (Canada, informal) A 26-ounce bottle of alcoholic drink. | |
year |
1. n. A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference). | |
we moved to this town a year ago; I quit smoking exactly one year ago | |
2. n. (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution | |
Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years. | |
3. n. A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by | |
A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year. | |
I was born in the year 1950. | |
This Chinese year is the year of the Rooster. | |
4. n. A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity. | |
During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus. | |
5. n. (sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a". | |
6. n. A level or grade in school or college. | |
Every second-year student must select an area of specialization. | |
The exams in year 12 at high school are the most difficult. | |
7. n. The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year). | |
Geneticists have created baker's yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years. | |
old |
1. adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time. | |
an old abandoned building; an old friend | |
2. adj. Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years. | |
a wrinkled old man | |
3. adj. Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life. | |
an old loaf of bread | |
4. adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused). | |
I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with. | |
5. adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time. | |
How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child. | |
My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old. | |
6. adj. Of an earlier time.: | |
7. adj. Former, previous. | |
My new car is not as good as my old one. a school reunion for Old Etonians | |
8. adj. That is no longer in existence. | |
The footpath follows the route of an old railway line. | |
9. adj. Obsolete; out-of-date. | |
That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way. | |
10. adj. Familiar. | |
When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho. | |
11. adj. Tiresome. | |
Your constant pestering is getting old. | |
12. adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time. | |
13. adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.) | |
We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV. My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas. | |
14. adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant. | |
15. n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group. | |
A civilised society should always look after the old in the community. | |
Scouts |
1. n. plural of Scout | |
2. n. plural of scout | |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of scout | |