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. | |
wet |
1. adj. Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water. | |
Synonyms: wetting | |
Water is wet. | |
2. adj. Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water. | |
Synonyms: damp, saturated, soaked, Thesaurus:wet | |
I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet. | |
3. adj. Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce. | |
4. adj. Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed. | |
This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper. | |
5. adj. Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied. | |
6. adj. Of weather or a time period: rainy. | |
Synonyms: damp, raining, rainy | |
It’s going to be wet tomorrow. | |
7. adj. (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie. | |
Synonyms: green, wet behind the ears | |
That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday. | |
8. adj. (slang) (of women) Sexually aroused and thus having a vulva moistened with vaginal secretions. | |
Synonyms: horny, moist, Thesaurus:randy | |
He got me all wet. | |
9. adj. (Britain, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character. | |
Synonyms: feeble, hopeless, useless | |
Don’t be so wet. | |
10. adj. (slang) Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition. | |
11. adj. (slang) Refreshed with liquor; drunk. | |
12. adj. (biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter. | |
13. adj. (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid. | |
the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed | |
14. n. Liquid or moisture. | |
15. n. Rainy weather. | |
Don't go out in the wet. | |
16. n. (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized) | |
17. n. (UK, pejorative) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, contrasted with dry. | |
18. n. (colloquial) An alcoholic drink. | |
19. n. (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition. | |
20. v. To cover or impregnate with liquid. | |
21. v. To accidentally urinate in or on. | |
Johnny wets the bed several times a week. | |
22. v. (intransitive) To make or become wet. | |
23. v. (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate. | |
24. v. misspelling of whet | |
putrid |
1. adj. Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction. | |
2. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh. | |
3. adj. Vile, disgusting. | |
4. adj. Morally corrupt | |
5. adj. Totally objectionable | |
pressure |
1. n. A pressing; a force applied to a surface. | |
Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding. | |
2. n. A contrasting force or impulse of any kind | |
the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization. | |
3. n. Distress. | |
She has felt pressure lately because her boss expects her to get the job done by the first. | |
4. n. Urgency | |
the pressure of business | |
5. n. (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed. | |
6. n. (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area. | |
7. v. To encourage or heavily exert force or influence. | |
Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want. | |
between |
1. prep. In the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree. (See Usage notes below.) | |
John stood between Amy and Mary. Let's meet between two and three. | |
I want to buy one that costs somewhere between forty and fifty dollars. | |
2. prep. Done together or reciprocally. | |
conversation between friends | |
3. prep. Shared in confidence. | |
Between you and me, I think the boss is crazy. Let's keep this between ourselves. | |
4. prep. In transit from (one to the other, or connecting places). | |
He's between jobs right now. The shuttle runs between the town and the airport. | |
5. prep. Combined (by effort or ownership). | |
Between us all, we shall succeed. We've only got £5 between us. | |
Between the leaky taps and the peeling wallpaper, there isn't much about this house to appeal to a buyer. | |
6. prep. One of (representing a choice). | |
You must choose between him and me. | |
Some colour-blind people can't distinguish between red and green. | |
7. n. A kind of needle, shorter than a sharp, with a small rounded eye, used for making fine stitches on heavy fabrics. | |
My |
1. n. megayear | |
2. pron. alternative case form of my often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context. | |
3. det. First-person singular possessive determiner. See. | |
4. det. Belonging to me. | |
I can't find my book. | |
5. det. Associated with me. | |
My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable. | |
Don't you know my name? | |
I recognised him because he had attended my school. | |
6. det. Related to me. | |
My parents won't let me go out tonight. | |
7. det. In the possession of me. | |
I have to take my books back to the library soon. | |
8. interj. Used to express surprise, shock or amazement. | |
My, what big teeth you have! | |
legs |
1. n. plural of leg | |
2. n. (bingo) eleven | |
3. n. viscous streaks left on the inside of the glass when certain wines are swirled around before tasting | |
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of leg | |
leg |
1. n. The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle. | |
Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches. | |
2. n. (anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. | |
3. n. A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg. | |
The left leg of these jeans has a tear. | |
4. n. A stage of a journey, race etc. | |
After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip. | |
5. n. (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other. | |
6. n. (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race. | |
7. n. (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest. | |
8. n. (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse. | |
9. n. (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely. | |
10. n. A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath. | |
the legs of a chair or table | |
11. n. (usually used in plural) evidence, the ability for a thing or idea to succeed or persist | |
12. n. (slang) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg. | |
13. n. An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also wat | |
14. n. In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets. | |
15. n. (cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter. | |
16. n. (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line. | |
17. n. (electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system. | |
18. n. (US, slang) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper. | |
19. v. To remove the legs from an animal carcass. | |
20. v. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support. | |
21. v. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market. | |
22. v. To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse'). | |
23. n. abbreviation of legislature | |
One argument made a lot in the leg was that the bill would simplify voting. | |
24. adj. abbreviation of legislative | |
The party wants to tackle social issues in the next leg term. | |