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 | |
knives |
1. n. plural of knife | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of knive | |
knive |
1. v. (uncommon) (alt form, knife) | |
forks |
1. n. plural of fork | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of fork | |
fork |
1. n. A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc. | |
2. n. (obsolete) A gallows. | |
3. n. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting. | |
4. n. A tuning fork. | |
5. n. An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two. | |
6. n. One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. | |
7. n. A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions. | |
8. n. (geography) Used in the names of some river tributaries, e.g. West Fork White River and East Fork White River, joining together to form the White River of Indiana | |
9. n. (figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths. | |
10. n. (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight). | |
11. n. (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program. | |
12. n. (software) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects. | |
13. n. (software) The, or one of the, software project(s) that underwent changes in such an event; a software project split off from a main project. | |
LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice. | |
14. n. (British) Crotch. | |
15. n. (colloquial) A forklift. | |
16. n. The individual blades of a forklift. | |
17. n. (cycling) In a bicycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance. | |
The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes. | |
18. v. To divide into two or more branches. | |
A road, a tree, or a stream forks. | |
19. v. To move with a fork (as hay or food). | |
20. v. (computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process. | |
21. v. (computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects. | |
22. v. (computer science) To split a (software) distributed version control repository | |
23. v. (British) To kick someone in the crotch. | |
24. v. To shoot into blades, as corn does. | |
25. v. euphemistic form of fuck | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
spoons |
1. n. plural of spoon | |
2. n. A child's card game. | |
3. n. (musical instrument) A pair of spoons used as a musical instrument by tapping them on parts of the body. | |
4. v. en-third person singular of spoon | |
spoon |
1. n. An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle. | |
2. n. An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon. | |
3. n. A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful. | |
4. n. (sports) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood. | |
5. n. (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon. | |
6. n. (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator. | |
7. n. (figuratively, slang) A simpleton, a spooney. | |
8. n. (US, military) A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger. | |
9. v. To serve using a spoon. | |
Sarah spooned some apple sauce onto her plate. | |
10. v. (intransitive, dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously. | |
11. v. (transitive, or intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons. | |
12. v. (tennis, golf, croquet) To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait. | |
14. v. To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait. | |
15. v. alternative form of spoom | |