| 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. | |
| clumsy |
| 1. adj. Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous. | |
| He's very clumsy. I wouldn't trust him with carrying the dishes. | |
| 2. adj. Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety. | |
| It is a clumsy solution, but it might work for now. | |
| What a clumsy joke... | |
| 3. adj. Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape. | |
| 4. n. (informal, fairly rare) A clumsy person. | |
| 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. | |
| embarrassing |
| 1. v. present participle of embarrass | |
| 2. n. The action of the verb to embarrass; embarrassment. | |
| 3. adj. Causing embarrassment; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable shame or self-consciousness. | |
| embarrass |
| 1. v. to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash | |
| The crowd's laughter and jeers embarrassed him. | |
| 2. v. To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct. | |
| Business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed. | |
| 3. v. To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands. | |
| A man or his business is embarrassed when he cannot meet his pecuniary engagements. | |
| mistake |
| 1. n. An error; a blunder. | |
| 2. n. (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place. | |
| 3. v. To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another. | |
| Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar. | |
| 4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To misunderstand (someone). | |
| 5. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong. | |
| 6. v. (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly. | |
