intransitive |
1. adj. (grammar, of a verb) not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object | |
The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often.". | |
2. adj. (rare) not transitive or passing further; kept; detained | |
And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further. — Jeremy Taylor. | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
fight |
1. v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | |
A wounded animal will fight like a maniac, relentless, savage and murderous. | |
2. v. (reciprocal) To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | |
The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success. | |
He fought for the Democrats in the last election. | |
4. v. To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.). | |
The battle was fought just over that hill. | |
5. v. To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with. | |
My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II. | |
6. v. To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract. | |
The government pledged to fight corruption. | |
7. v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight. | |
to fight cocks; to fight one's ship | |
8. n. An occasion of fighting. | |
One of them got stuck in a chokehold and got stabbed to death during the fight. | |
9. n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies. | |
10. n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups. | |
Watch your language, are you looking for a fight? | |
11. n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match. | |
I'm going to Nick’s to watch the big fight tomorrow night. | |
12. n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife. | |
I'll put up a fight to save this company. | |
13. n. The will or ability to fight. | |
That little guy has a bit of fight in him after all. As soon as he saw the size of his opponent, all the fight went out of him. | |
14. n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships. | |
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. | |
struggle |
1. n. A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task. | |
2. n. (figurative) Strife, contention, great effort. | |
3. v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend. | |
During the centuries, the people of Ireland struggled constantly to assert their right to govern themselves. | |
4. v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. | |
She struggled to escape from her assailant's grasp. | |
confusedly |
1. adv. In a confused manner. | |
at |
1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place. | |
Caesar was at Rome; at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine; at Jim’s house | |
2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.) | |
at six o’clock; at closing time; at night. | |
3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner). | |
He threw the ball at me. He shouted at her. | |
4. prep. Denotes a price. | |
3 apples at 2¢ (each) The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations. | |
5. prep. Occupied in (activity). | |
men at work | |
6. prep. In a state of. | |
She is at sixes and sevens with him. They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff. The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces. | |
7. prep. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series. | |
Sell at 90. Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders. I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost. | |
8. prep. Because of. | |
to laugh at a joke mad at their comments | |
9. prep. Indicates a means, method, or manner. | |
10. prep. Holding a given speed or rate. | |
It is growing at the rate of 3% a year. Cruising along at fifty miles per hour. | |
11. prep. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding. | |
The twins were both bad at chemistry. | |
He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation. | |
12. prep. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to | |
13. n. The at sign (@). | |
14. n. (alt form, att) (Laos currency unit) | |
close |
1. v. (physical) To remove a gap. | |
2. v. To obstruct (an opening). | |
3. v. To move so that an opening is closed. | |
Close the door behind you when you leave. | |
Jim was listening to headphones with his eyes closed. | |
4. v. To make (e.g. a gap) smaller. | |
The runner in second place is closing the gap on the leader. | |
to close the ranks of an army | |
5. v. To grapple; to engage in close combat. | |
6. v. (social) To finish, to terminate. | |
7. v. To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate. | |
close the session; to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction | |
8. v. To come to an end. | |
The debate closed at six o'clock. | |
9. v. (marketing) To make a sale. | |
10. v. (baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game. | |
He has closed the last two games for his team. | |
11. v. (figurative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc. | |
12. v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine. | |
13. v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon. | |
14. n. An end or conclusion. | |
We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close. | |
15. n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction. | |
16. n. A grapple in wrestling. | |
17. n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence. | |
18. n. (music) A double bar marking the end. | |
19. adj. (now rare) Closed, shut. | |
20. adj. Narrow; confined. | |
a close alley; close quarters | |
21. adj. At a little distance; near. | |
Is your house close? | |
22. adj. Intimate; well-loved. | |
He is a close friend. | |
23. adj. (legal) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held. | |
24. adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude. | |
25. adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind. | |
26. adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate. | |
27. adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded. | |
a close prisoner | |
28. adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden. | |
29. adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced. | |
a close contest | |
30. adj. Short. | |
to cut grass or hair close | |
31. adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact. | |
32. adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point. | |
close reasoning | |
33. adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain. | |
Money is close. | |
34. adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy. | |
35. adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact. | |
a close translation | |
36. adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict. | |
The patient was kept under close observation. | |
37. adj. Marked, evident. | |
38. n. (now rare) An enclosed field. | |
39. n. (British) A street that ends in a dead end. | |
40. n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor. | |
41. n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement. | |
42. n. A cathedral close. | |
43. n. (legal) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed. | |
quarters |
1. n. plural of quarter. | |
2. n. (pluralonly, military) Housing, barracks or other habitation or living space. Compare cuarto. | |
3. n. (by extension) The place where someone or something lives | |
4. n. A commonly played university drinking game in North America. | |
5. n. Quarterfinals. | |
quarter |
1. adj. Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter. | |
2. adj. (chiefly) Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (1/4, 25%). | |
a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound | |
3. adj. (chiefly) Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year. | |
A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year. | |
A quarter session is one held quarterly at the end of a quarter. | |
4. n. Any fourth of something, particularly: | |
5. n. A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada. | |
6. n. (now primarily, financial) A quarter of the year, 3 months; a season. | |
7. n. (historical) The quarter-ton or tun, divided into 8 bushels, the medieval English unit of volume and weight named by the Magna Carta as the basis for m | |
8. n. (historical) The quarter-yard, divided into 4 nails, an obsolete English unit of length long used in the cloth trade | |
9. n. (historical) The watch: A quarter of the night, nominally 3 hours but varying over the year. | |
10. n. (heraldry) A charge occupying a fourth of a coat of arms, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line fr | |
11. n. (basketball) A period into which a game is divided. (usually 8, 10 or 12 minutes according to the rules). | |
12. n. quarterfinal | |
13. n. Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly: | |
14. n. A division or section of a town or other area, whether or not it constituted a fourth of the whole. | |
15. n. (usually plural) A living place, from which: | |
16. n. # (military slang) A quartermaster; a quartermaster sergeant. | |
17. n. # (obsolete except in phrase no quarter) Amity, friendship, concord; (now) accommodation given to a defeated opponent, mercy. | |
18. n. The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin. | |
19. n. (nautical) The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern. | |
20. v. To divide into quarters; to divide by four. | |
21. v. To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment. | |
Quarter the horses in the third stable. | |
22. v. (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence. | |
23. v. To quartersaw. | |
24. v. (obsolete) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels. | |
25. v. topics, en, Four, Coins | |