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. | |
traffic |
1. n. Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof. | |
The traffic is slow during rush hour. | |
2. n. Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people. | |
3. n. Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs. | |
4. n. Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network. | |
5. n. Commodities of the market. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods | |
7. v. (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain. | |
8. v. To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration. | |
cone |
1. n. (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line. | |
2. n. (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes. | |
3. n. (topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point. | |
4. n. Anything shaped like a cone.The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1998 | |
5. n. The fruit of a conifer. | |
6. n. An ice cream cone. | |
7. n. A traffic cone | |
8. n. A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use. | |
9. n. Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina. | |
10. n. (slang) The bowl piece on a bong. | |
11. n. (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong. | |
12. n. (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint. | |
13. n. (slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them) | |
14. n. (category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. | |
15. n. A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form. | |
16. n. A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages. | |
17. v. (pottery) To fashion into the shape of a cone. | |
18. v. (frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones | |