| a |
| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
| I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
| We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
| 4. art. The same; one. | |
| We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
| 5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
| A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
| He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
| 6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
| 7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
| The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
| 8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
| Stand a tiptoe. | |
| 9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
| Torn a pieces. | |
| 10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
| I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
| 11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
| A God’s name. | |
| 13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
| King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
| To set the people a worke. | |
| 14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
| 1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
| The times, they are a-changin'. | |
| 15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
| 1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
| Jacob, when he was a dying | |
| 16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
| 17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
| I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
| 18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
| 19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
| 20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
| The name of John a Gaunt. | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| 22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| ballet |
| 1. n. A classical form of dance. | |
| 2. n. A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story. | |
| 3. n. The company of persons who perform this dance. | |
| 4. n. (music) A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers. | |
| 5. n. (heraldry) A bearing in coats of arms representing one or more balls, called bezants, plates, etc., according to colour. | |
| 6. v. To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing. | |
| flat |
| 1. adj. Having no variations in height. | |
| The land around here is flat. | |
| 2. adj. (music, voice) Without variations in pitch. | |
| 3. adj. (slang) Describing certain features, usually the breasts and/or buttocks, that are extremely small or not visible at all. | |
| That girl is completely flat on both sides. | |
| 4. adj. (music, note) Lowered by one semitone. | |
| 5. adj. (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be. | |
| Your A string is too flat. | |
| 6. adj. (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture. | |
| 7. adj. Uninteresting. | |
| The party was a bit flat. | |
| 8. adj. Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles. | |
| 9. adj. (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet. | |
| 10. adj. (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead. | |
| 11. adj. (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless. | |
| 12. adj. (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; dull and boring. | |
| The market is flat. | |
| The dialogue in your screenplay is flat -- you need to make it more exciting. | |
| 13. adj. Absolute; downright; peremptory. | |
| His claim was in flat contradiction to experimental results. | |
| I'm not going to the party and that's flat. | |
| 14. adj. (phonetics, dated, of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant | |
| 15. adj. (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "t | |
| Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English. | |
| 16. adj. (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft. | |
| 17. adj. (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends. | |
| 18. adj. (authorship figuratively, esp. of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional. | |
| The author created the site to flesh out the books' flatter characters, who were actually quite well developed in her own mind. | |
| 19. adv. So as to be flat. | |
| Spread the tablecloth flat over the table. | |
| 20. adv. Bluntly. | |
| I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he turned me down flat. | |
| 21. adv. (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding. | |
| He can run a mile in four minutes flat. | |
| 22. adv. Completely. | |
| I am flat broke this month. | |
| 23. adv. Directly; flatly. | |
| 24. adv. (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest. | |
| 25. n. An area of level ground. | |
| 26. n. (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪). | |
| 27. n. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire. | |
| 28. n. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels. | |
| She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels. | |
| 29. n. (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes. | |
| 30. n. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting. | |
| 31. n. The flat part of something: | |
| 32. n. (swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge. | |
| 33. n. The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers. | |
| 34. n. A wide, shallow container. | |
| a flat of strawberries | |
| 35. n. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes. | |
| 36. n. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension. | |
| 37. n. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. | |
| 38. n. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. | |
| 39. n. (rail, US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar. | |
| 40. n. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions. | |
| 41. n. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. | |
| 42. n. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton. | |
| 43. n. (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts a building or other part of a scene, also called backcloth and backdrop. | |
| 44. v. (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising. | |
| 45. v. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface. | |
| 46. v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch. | |
| 47. v. (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone. | |
| 48. v. (transitive, dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level. | |
| 49. v. (transitive, dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. | |
| 50. n. (chiefly British, New England, New Zealand, and Australian, archaic elsewhere) An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room. | |
| shoe |
| 1. n. A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generall | |
| Get your shoes on now, or you'll be late for school. | |
| 2. n. A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe. | |
| Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling (a ringer) or touching the far stake. | |
| 3. n. (card games) A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles. | |
| 4. n. Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe. | |
| Remember to turn the rotors when replacing the brake shoes, or they will wear out unevenly. | |
| 5. n. A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow. | |
| 6. n. A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill. | |
| 7. n. The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion. | |
| 8. n. (architecture) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off | |
| 9. n. A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone. | |
| 10. n. An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill. | |
| 11. n. An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter. | |
| 12. n. An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile. | |
| 13. n. (engineering) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means | |
| 14. n. Part of a current collector on electric trains which provides contact either with a live rail or an overhead wire (fitted to a pantograph in the latter | |
| 15. n. The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile. | |
| 16. v. To put shoes on one's feet. | |
| 17. v. To put horseshoes on a horse. | |
| 18. v. To equip an object with a protection against wear. | |
| The billiard cue stick was shod in silver. | |
