transitive |
1. adj. Making a transit or passage. | |
2. adj. Affected by transference of signification. | |
3. adj. (grammar, of a verb) Taking an object or objects. | |
The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticeda problem". | |
4. adj. (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x is related to y and y is related to z, then x is necessarily related to z. | |
"Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol. | |
5. adj. (algebra, of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second. | |
6. adj. (graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other. | |
obsolete |
1. adj. (of words, equipment, etc.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often by preference for something newer, which replaces the subject). | |
It is speculated that, within a few years, the Internet's speedy delivery of news worldwide will make newspapers obsolete. | |
2. adj. (biology) Imperfectly developed; not very distinct. | |
3. v. (transitive, US) To cause to become obsolete. | |
This software component has been obsoleted. | |
We are in the process of obsoleting this product. | |
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 | |
cut |
1. adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut. | |
2. adj. Reduced. | |
The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch. | |
Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor. | |
3. adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work. | |
My favourite song had been cut from the show. | |
4. adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw. | |
5. adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point. | |
6. adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles. | |
7. adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation | |
8. adj. (Australia, NZ, slang) Emotionally hurt. | |
9. adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive. | |
10. adj. Removed from a team roster. | |
11. adj. (NZ) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol. | |
12. n. An opening resulting from cutting. | |
Look at this cut on my finger! | |
13. n. The act of cutting. | |
He made a fine cut with his sword. | |
14. n. The result of cutting. | |
a smooth or clear cut | |
15. n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove. | |
a cut for a railroad | |
16. n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distinguished from a navigable river | |
17. n. A share or portion. | |
The lawyer took a cut of the profits. | |
18. n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point. | |
19. n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball. | |
20. n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball. | |
21. n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entert | |
22. n. (theatre) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play. | |
The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts. | |
23. n. (cinema) A particular version or edit of a film. | |
24. n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards. | |
The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top. | |
25. n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in. | |
I like the cut of that suit. | |
26. n. A slab, especially of meat. | |
That’s our finest cut of meat. | |
27. n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point. | |
28. n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance. | |
29. n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc. | |
The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified. | |
30. n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit. | |
31. n. A haircut. | |
32. n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups. | |
33. n. A string of railway cars coupled together. | |
34. n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving. | |
a book illustrated with fine cuts | |
35. n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding. | |
36. n. (slang) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise. | |
37. n. A skein of yarn. | |
38. n. (slang) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug. | |
Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut. | |
39. n. (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow. | |
40. n. (bodybuilding) A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass. | |
41. v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something. | |
42. v. To perform an incision on, for example with a knife. | |
43. v. To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument. | |
Would you please cut the cake? | |
44. v. To form or shape by cutting. | |
I have three diamonds to cut today. | |
45. v. (slang) To wound with a knife. | |
46. v. (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin. | |
The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen. | |
47. v. To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to. | |
48. v. To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce. | |
Sarcasm cuts to the quick. | |
49. v. To castrate or geld. | |
to cut a horse | |
50. v. To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs. | |
51. v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. | |
52. v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce. | |
53. v. To separate from prior association; to remove a portion of a recording during editing. | |
Travis was cut from the team. | |
54. v. To abridge a piece of printed or written work. | |
55. v. To reduce, especially intentionally. | |
They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent. | |
56. v. To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.). | |
I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela. | |
57. v. To ignore as a social snub. | |
After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street. | |
58. v. (intransitive, cinema, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities. | |
After the actors read their lines, the director yelled, "Cut!". | |
59. v. (intransitive, cinema) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another. | |
The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy. | |
60. v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage. | |
61. v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use. | |
Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application. | |
62. v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place. | |
One student kept trying to cut in front of the line. | |
63. v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so. | |
This road cuts right through downtown. | |
64. v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat. | |
65. v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly. | |
The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle. | |
66. v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two. | |
If you cut then I'll deal. | |
67. v. (transitive, slang) To write. | |
cut orders; cut a check | |
68. v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug. | |
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. | |
carve |
1. v. (archaic) To cut. | |
2. v. To cut meat in order to serve it. | |
You carve the roast and I'll serve the vegetables. | |
3. v. To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work. | |
to carve a name into a tree | |
4. v. (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path. | |
5. v. (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. | |
6. v. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. | |
7. n. (obsolete) A carucate. | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
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. | |
ornamental |
1. adj. Serving as an ornament; having no purpose other than to make more beautiful | |
Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. | |
2. n. An ornamental plant. | |
way |
1. n. To do with a place or places.: | |
2. n. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another. | |
Do you know the way to the airport? Come this way and I'll show you a shortcut. It's a long way from here. | |
3. n. A means to enter or leave a place. | |
We got into the cinema through the back way. | |
4. n. A roughly-defined geographical area. | |
If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me. | |
5. n. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism. | |
You're going about it the wrong way. He's known for his quirky ways. I don't like the way she looks at me. | |
6. n. A state or condition | |
When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way. | |
7. n. Personal interaction.: | |
8. n. Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way'). | |
There's no way I'm going to clean up after you. | |
9. n. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct. | |
My little sister always whines until she gets her way. | |
10. n. (paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc. | |
11. n. (nautical) Speed, progress, momentum. | |
12. n. A degree, an amount, a sense. | |
In a large way, crocodiles and alligators are similar. | |
13. n. (US, As the head of an interjectory clause) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation. | |
Way to ruin the moment, guys. | |
14. n. (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched. | |
15. n. (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves. | |
16. interj. (only in reply to no way) It is true. | |
17. v. (obsolete) To travel. | |
18. adv. (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much. | |
I'm way too tired to do that. | |
I'm a way better singer than Emma. | |
19. adv. (slang) Very. | |
I'm way tired | |
String theory is way cool, except for the math. | |
20. adv. (informal) Far. | |
I used to live way over there. | |
The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill. | |
21. n. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand. | |