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figuratively
1. adv. (manner) In a figurative manner.
2. adv. (speech act) Used to indicate that what follows is to be taken as a figure of speech, not literally.
keen
1. adj. verb
2. adj. to keen is to be enthusiastic about
3. adj. Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an : showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
I’m keen about computers.
I’m keen on you. - I like you.
He is keen for help.
She’s keen to learn another language.
“Do you want to go on holiday with me?” / “Yes, I’m keen.”
4. adj. Fierce, intense, vehement.
This boy has a keen appetite.
5. adj. Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
6. adj. Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
7. adj. Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
keen satire or sarcasm
8. adj. Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
a keen wind
the cold is very keen
9. adj. (Britain) Extremely low as to be competitive.
keen prices
10. adj. (US, informal dated) Marvelous.
I just got this peachy keen new dress.
11. adj. (obsolete) Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.
12. v. (transitive, rare) To make cold, to sharpen.
13. n. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
14. v. (intransitive) To utter a keen.
15. v. To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
16. v. To mourn.
biting
1. v. present participle of bite
2. n. An instance of something being bitten.
3. adj. Causing a stinging sensation.
a biting wind
4. adj. Cutting or incisive.
a biting criticism
5. adj. Tending to bite.
a biting insect
bite
1. v. To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
2. v. To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
3. v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
That dog is about to bite!
4. v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.
5. v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.
6. v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.
7. v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
Are the fish biting today?
8. v. (intransitive, metaphor) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?
9. v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
These mosquitoes are really biting today!
10. v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
It bites like pepper or mustard.
11. v. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
Pepper bites the mouth.
12. v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
13. v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
The anchor bites.
14. v. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
The anchor bites the ground.
15. v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
This music really bites.
16. v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.
17. v. (intransitive, AAVE, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
He always be biting my moves.
18. n. The act of biting.
19. n. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
That snake bite really hurts!
20. n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.
21. n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
There were only a few bites left on the plate.
22. n. (slang) Something unpleasant.
That's really a bite!
23. n. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
That song is a bite of my song!
24. n. A small meal or snack.
I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.
25. n. (figuratively) aggression
26. n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
27. n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
28. n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
29. n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
vigorously
1. adv. With intense energy, force or vigor
The lawyer vigorously defended her client.
He knocked vigorously on the door.
effective
1. adj. Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
The pill is an effective method of birth control.
2. adj. Producing a decided or decisive effect.
The president delivered an effective speech!
3. adj. Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.
How long does it take to make a bunch of civilians an effective military force?
My effective income after taxes and child support is $500 a month.
The effective radiated power is determined by multiplying the transmitter power output with the antenna gain.
The effective voltage of an alternating current is 0.7 times its peak voltage.
4. adj. Actually in effect.
The curfew is effective at midnight.
5. adj. (geometry, of a cycle or divisor) Having no negative coefficients.
6. n. (military) A soldier fit for duty.
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.
articulate
1. adj. Clear; effective.
2. adj. Speaking in a clear and effective manner.
She’s a bright, articulate young woman.
3. adj. Consisting of segments united by joints.
The robot arm was articulate in two directions.
jointed articulate animals
4. adj. Distinctly marked off.
an articulate period in history
5. adj. (obsolete) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
6. adj. (obsolete, of sound) Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
7. n. (zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
8. v. To make clear or effective.
9. v. To speak clearly; to enunciate.
I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.
10. v. To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.
11. v. To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
an articulated bus
12. v. (music) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
Articulate that passage heavily.
13. v. (anatomy) to form a joint or connect by joints
The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.
14. v. (obsolete) To treat or make terms.
severe
1. adj. Very bad or intense.
2. adj. Strict or harsh.
a severe taskmaster
3. adj. Sober, plain in appearance, austere.
a severe old maiden aunt
As
1. n. plural of A
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As.
2. adv. To such an extent or degree.
You’re not as tall as I am.
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive.
3. adv. In the manner or role specified.
The kidnappers released him as agreed.
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues.
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend.
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as).
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what.
Do as I say!
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know.
As you wish, my lord!
6. conj. At the same instant that; when.
As I came in, she flew.
7. conj. At the same time that; while.
He sleeps as the rain falls.
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that.
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy.
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since.
As it’s too late, I quit.
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality.
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago.
It's not so complicated as I expected.
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’.
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though.
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that.
14. conj. Expressing concession; though.
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than.
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case.
You are not as tall as me.
They're big as houses.
17. prep. In the role of.
What is your opinion as a parent?
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra.
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value.
20. n. plural of a
trenchant
1. adj. (obsolete) Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
2. adj. (figuratively) Keen; biting; vigorously effective and articulate; severe.
trenchant wit
wit
1. n. (now usually in the pluralonly) Sanity.
He's gone completely out of his wits.
2. n. (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses.
3. n. Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.
4. n. The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.
5. n. Intelligence; common sense.
The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!
6. n. Humour, especially when clever or quick.
The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.
7. n. A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
Your friend is quite a wit, isn't he?
8. v. (ambitransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively).
You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.
They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.
9. prep. (Southern American English) alternative spelling of with

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