| us |
| 1. pron. (personal) Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we. | |
| 2. pron. (colloquial) Me. | |
| Give us a look at your paper. | |
| Give us your wallet! | |
| 3. pron. (Northern England) Our. | |
| We'll have to throw us food out. | |
| 4. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person. | |
| It's not good enough for us teachers. | |
| 5. n. plural of u | |
| an |
| 1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
| 2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
| 3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
| 4. conj. (archaic) If | |
| 5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
| An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
| 6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
| 7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
| 8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
| I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
| important |
| 1. adj. Having relevant and crucial value. | |
| It is very important to give your daughter independence in her life so she learns from experience. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| critical |
| 1. adj. Inclined to find fault or criticize | |
| A good teacher is fair but critical. | |
| 2. adj. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point. | |
| This is a critical moment. | |
| 3. adj. Extremely important. | |
| It's critical that you deliver this on time. | |
| 4. adj. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism. | |
| The movie was a critical success, but bombed at the box-office. | |
| 5. adj. (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care o | |
| The patient's condition is critical. | |
| 6. adj. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable. | |
| The political situation was so critical that the government declared the state of siege. | |
| 7. adj. (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining. | |
| The reaction was about to become critical. | |
| 8. adj. (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied. | |
| 9. n. A critical value, factor, etc. | |
| 10. n. In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other. | |
| situation |
| 1. n. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings. | |
| The Botanical Gardens are in a delightful situation on the river bank. | |
| 2. n. The place in which something is situated; a location. | |
| 3. n. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances. | |
| 4. n. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs. | |
| The United States is in an awkward situation with debt default looming. | |
| 5. n. (dated) A position of employment; a post. | |
| 6. n. A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem. | |
| Boss, we've got a situation here... | |
