| 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. | |
| private |
| 1. adj. Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group. | |
| Her address is private; you can't have it. | |
| private papers | |
| 2. adj. Not accessible by the public. | |
| private property | |
| 3. adj. Not in governmental office or employment. | |
| He quit public life, living quietly as a private citizen. | |
| 4. adj. Not publicly known; not open; secret. | |
| The identity of the beneficiaries of the trust is private. | |
| 5. adj. Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded. | |
| Can we go somewhere more private? | |
| 6. adj. Not traded by the public. | |
| private corporation | |
| 7. adj. Secretive; reserved. | |
| He is a very private person. | |
| 8. adj. (US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient. | |
| 9. n. A soldier of the lowest rank in the army. | |
| 10. n. (euphemism, in the plural) The genitals. | |
| 11. n. (obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication. | |
| 12. n. (obsolete) Personal interest; particular business. | |
| 13. n. (obsolete) Privacy; retirement. | |
| 14. n. (obsolete) One not invested with a public office. | |
| 15. n. (usually plural) A private lesson. | |
| If you want to learn ballet, consider taking privates. | |
| Administrator |
| 1. n. (UK) The queen's representative in some Commonwealth territories, comparable to a Governor General. | |
| 2. n. One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager | |
| 3. n. (legal) A person who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent author | |
| 4. n. (computing) One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network | |
| particularly |
| 1. adv. (focus) Especially, extremely. | |
| The apéritifs were particularly stimulating. | |
| 2. adv. (degree) To a great extent. | |
| 3. adv. Specifically, uniquely or individually. | |
| 4. adv. In detail; with regard to particulars. | |
| 5. adv. (dated) In a particular manner; fussily. | |
| anchor |
| 1. n. (nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement. | |
| 2. n. (nautical) An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501). | |
| 3. n. (nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.) | |
| 4. n. (heraldry) Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge. | |
| 5. n. Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to | |
| 6. n. (Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink. | |
| 7. n. (television) An anchorman or anchorwoman. | |
| 8. n. (athletics) The final runner in a relay race. | |
| 9. n. (archery) A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot. | |
| 10. n. (economics) A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area. | |
| 11. n. (figurative) That which gives stability or security. | |
| 12. n. (architecture) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together. | |
| 13. n. (architecture) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tong | |
| 14. n. One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges. | |
| 15. n. One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta. | |
| 16. n. (cartomancy) The thirty-fifth Lenormand card. | |
| 17. n. (obsolete) An anchorite or anchoress. | |
| 18. v. To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point. | |
| 19. v. To cast anchor; to come to anchor. | |
| Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream. | |
| 20. v. To stop; to fix or rest. | |
| 21. v. To provide emotional stability for a person in distress. | |
| 22. v. To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman. | |
| 23. v. To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position. | |
| steward |
| 1. n. A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity, particularly (historical) the chief administrator of a medieval manor. | |
| 2. n. A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions. | |
| 3. n. A flight attendant, (chiefly) a male flight attendant. | |
| 4. n. A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management. | |
| 5. n. A person who has charge of buildings and/or grounds and/or animals. | |
| 6. n. A fiscal agent of certain bodies. | |
| a steward in a Methodist church | |
| 7. n. In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students. | |
| 8. n. In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands. | |
| 9. n. In information technology, somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong. | |
| 10. v. To act as the steward or caretaker of (something) | |
