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. | |
widowed |
1. adj. (of a previously married person) whose spouse has died or is gone missing; who has become a widow or widower. | |
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of widow | |
widow |
1. n. A woman whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower. | |
2. n. (uncommon) A person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried). | |
3. n. (informal, in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc. | |
4. n. (card games) An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder. | |
5. n. (printing) A single line of type that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column. | |
6. n. A venomous spider, of the genus Latrodectus. | |
7. v. To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of. | |
8. v. (transitive, figurative) To strip of anything valued. | |
9. v. (transitive, obsolete) To endow with a widow's right. | |
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To be widow to. | |
pensioner |
1. n. Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension. | |
2. n. (by extension) Someone who is at the age at which one typically receives a pension; an elderly person. | |
3. n. (obsolete, UK, Cambridge University) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Oxford called a commoner. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
great |
1. adj. Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i. e. having many parts or members) or duration (i. e. relatively long); very big. | |
A great storm is approaching our shores. | |
a great assembly | |
a great wait | |
2. adj. Of larger size or more importance than others of its kind. | |
the great auk | |
3. adj. (qualifying nouns of family relationship) Involving more generations than the word qualified implies (from 1510s). see Derived terms | |
great-grandfather | |
4. adj. (obsolete, postpositive, followed by 'with') Pregnant; large with young; full of. | |
great with child | |
great with hope | |
5. adj. (obsolete, except with 'friend' and similar words such as 'mate','buddy') Intimate; familiar. | |
6. adj. Extreme or more than usual. | |
great worry | |
7. adj. Of significant importance or consequence; important. | |
a great decision | |
8. adj. (applied to actions, thoughts and feelings) Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; superior; commanding; heroic; illustrious; eminent. | |
a great deed | |
a great nature | |
a great history | |
9. adj. Impressive or striking. | |
a great show of wealth | |
10. adj. Much in use; favoured. | |
Poetry was a great convention of the Romantic era. | |
11. adj. (applied to persons) Endowed with extraordinary powers; of exceptional talents or achievements; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; remarkable; strong; powerful; mighty; noble. | |
a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, writer etc. | |
12. adj. Title referring to an important leader. | |
Alexander the Great | |
13. adj. Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic. | |
What a great buffoon! | |
He's not a great one for reading. | |
a great walker | |
14. adj. (often followed by 'at') Skilful or adroit. | |
a great carpenter | |
You are great at singing. | |
15. adj. (informal) Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic (from 1848). | |
Dinner was great. | |
16. adj. (informal, British) Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths. | |
a dirty great smack in the face | |
Great Scott! | |
17. interj. Expression of gladness and content about something. | |
Great! Thanks for the wonderful work. | |
18. interj. sarcastic inversion thereof. | |
Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order. | |
19. n. A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim. | |
Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science. | |
20. n. (music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division. | |
21. adv. very well (in a very satisfactory manner) | |
Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don't have to be sharpened. | |
grandmother |
1. n. A mother of someone's parent. | |
2. n. A female ancestor or progenitor. | |
Who |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, who | |
2. pron. (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; (asks for the identity of someone). (used in a direct or indirect question) | |
Who is that? (direct question) | |
I don't know who it is. (indirect question) | |
3. pron. (interrogative) What is one's position; (asks whether someone deserves to say or do something). | |
I don't like what you did, but who am I to criticize you? I've done worse. | |
4. pron. (relative) The person or people that. | |
It was a nice man who helped us. | |
5. pron. (relative, archaic) Whoever, he who, they who. | |
6. n. A person under discussion; a question of which person. | |
dresses |
1. n. plural of dress | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of dress | |
dress |
1. n. An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist. | |
Amy and Mary looked very pretty in their dresses. | |
2. n. Apparel, clothing. | |
He came to the party in formal dress. | |
3. n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. | |
4. n. A dress rehearsal. | |
5. v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready. | |
6. v. To adorn, ornament. | |
It was time to dress the windows for Christmas again. | |
7. v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when "dressed full", the signal flags and pennants are added. | |
8. v. To treat (a wound, or wounded person). | |
9. v. To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it. | |
10. v. To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone). | |
He was dressed in the latest fashions. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes. | |
I rose and dressed before daybreak. It's very cold out. Dress warm. | |
12. v. (sports) To put on the uniform and equipment necessary to play the game. | |
Due to a left ankle sprain, Kobe Bryant did not dress for the game against Indiana | |
13. v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other within the trousers. | |
Does sir dress to the right or the left? | |
14. v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready. | |
to dress leather or cloth; to dress a garden; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them | |
15. v. To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber). | |
16. v. To bolt or sift flour. | |
17. v. (military, ambitransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align. Sometimes an imperative command. | |
to dress the ranks | |
Right, dress! | |
18. v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal. | |
conservatively |
1. adv. In a conservative manner | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
Is |
1. n. plural of I | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of be | |
He is a doctor. He retired some time ago. | |
Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him. | |
3. n. plural of i | |
remember to dot your is | |
be |
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence. | |
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. | |
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place. | |
The cup is on the table. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place. | |
When will the meeting be? | |
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar. | |
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come. | |
I have been to Spain many times. | |
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating. | |
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same. | |
Knowledge is bliss. | |
Hi, I’m Jim. | |
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same. | |
3 times 5 is fifteen. | |
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal. | |
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995. | |
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it. | |
The sky is blue. | |
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase. | |
The sky is a deep blue today. | |
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice. | |
The dog was drowned by the boy. | |
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses. | |
The woman is walking. | |
I shall be writing to you soon. | |
We liked to chat while we were eating. | |
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go". | |
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic. | |
I am to leave tomorrow. | |
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car. | |
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement. | |
This building is three hundred years old. | |
I am 75 kilograms. | |
He’s about 6 feet tall. | |
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years. | |
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.) | |
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day. | |
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.) | |
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo. | |
What time is it there? It’s night. | |
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event. | |
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period) | |
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him. | |
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like. | |
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid. | |
Why is it so dark in here? | |
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way. | |
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.". | |
Why is he being nice to me? | |
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. | |
bit |
1. n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal. | |
A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth. | |
2. n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes. | |
3. n. (dated, British) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean, and a fourpenny piece, or groat, in the British West Indies.) | |
a threepenny bit | |
4. n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime. | |
5. n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first came into use, the Spanish 8 reales coin was widely used as a dollar equivalent, and thus the 1 re | |
A quarter is two bits. | |
6. n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents. | |
7. n. A small amount of something. | |
There were bits of paper all over the floor. Does your leg still hurt? / Just a bit now. I've done my bit; I expect you to do yours. | |
8. n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time. | |
I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first. He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out. | |
9. n. A portion of something. | |
I'd like a big bit of cake, please. | |
10. n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. | |
Am I bored? Not a bit of it! | |
11. n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one. | |
12. n. (anchor, An excerpt of material) An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc. | |
His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show. | |
13. n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers. | |
14. n. The cutting iron of a plane. | |
15. adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a"). | |
That's a bit too sweet. | |
16. v. To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse). | |
17. v. simple past tense of bite | |
Your dog bit me! | |
18. v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past of bite, bitten | |
I have been bit by your dog! | |
19. adj. (colloquial) bitten. | |
Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him. | |
20. adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten. | |
21. n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0. | |
22. n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit. | |
23. n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values. | |
status bits on IRC; permission bits in a file system | |
24. n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy. | |
25. n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC). | |
bite |
1. v. To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth. | |
As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is. | |
2. v. To hold something by clamping one's teeth. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth. | |
That dog is about to bite! | |
4. v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances. | |
If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with. | |
I needed snow chains to make the tires bite. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative. | |
For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite. | |
7. v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught. | |
Are the fish biting today? | |
8. v. (intransitive, metaphor) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor. | |
I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite? | |
9. v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting. | |
These mosquitoes are really biting today! | |
10. v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent. | |
It bites like pepper or mustard. | |
11. v. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense. | |
Pepper bites the mouth. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold. | |
The anchor bites. | |
14. v. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to. | |
The anchor bites the ground. | |
15. v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck. | |
This music really bites. | |
16. v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective. | |
You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me. | |
17. v. (intransitive, AAVE, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate. | |
He always be biting my moves. | |
18. n. The act of biting. | |
19. n. The wound left behind after having been bitten. | |
That snake bite really hurts! | |
20. n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. | |
After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites. | |
21. n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful. | |
There were only a few bites left on the plate. | |
22. n. (slang) Something unpleasant. | |
That's really a bite! | |
23. n. (slang) An act of plagiarism. | |
That song is a bite of my song! | |
24. n. A small meal or snack. | |
I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner. | |
25. n. (figuratively) aggression | |
26. n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another. | |
27. n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud. | |
28. n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats. | |
29. n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper. | |
of |
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. | |
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". | |
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). | |
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). | |
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. | |
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to. | |
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three. | |
6. prep. Expressing separation. | |
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.) | |
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband. | |
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.) | |
He seemed devoid of human feelings. | |
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.) | |
10. prep. Expressing origin. | |
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.) | |
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin. | |
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of. | |
The invention was born of necessity. | |
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.) | |
It is said that she died of a broken heart. | |
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.) | |
I am tired of all this nonsense. | |
15. prep. Expressing agency. | |
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).) | |
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. | |
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below). | |
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties. | |
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.) | |
It was very brave of you to speak out like that. | |
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance. | |
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.) | |
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic. | |
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.) | |
She wore a dress of silk. | |
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.) | |
What a lot of nonsense! | |
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.) | |
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich. | |
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also". | |
I'm not driving this wreck of a car. | |
25. prep. Introducing subject matter. | |
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma | |
I'm always thinking of you. | |
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning. | |
He told us the story of his journey to India. | |
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.) | |
This behaviour is typical of teenagers. | |
29. prep. Having partitive effect. | |
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among". | |
Most of these apples are rotten. | |
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.) | |
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. | |
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort. | |
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).) | |
He is a friend of mine. | |
34. prep. Expressing possession. | |
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. | |
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. | |
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. | |
The owner of the nightclub was arrested. | |
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter | |
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames. | |
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive". | |
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.) | |
She had a profound distrust of the police. | |
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics. | |
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards. | |
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner. | |
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by". | |
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain. | |
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.) | |
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%. | |
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod | |
It's not that big of a deal. | |
45. prep. Expressing a point in time. | |
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. | |
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river. | |
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time). | |
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while. | |
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.) | |
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off. | |
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. | |
recluse |
1. adj. (now rare) Sequestered; secluded, isolated. | |
a recluse monk or hermit | |
2. adj. (now rare) Hidden, secret. | |
3. n. A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit. | |
4. n. (obsolete) The place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion. | |
5. n. (US) A brown recluse spider. | |
6. v. (obsolete) To shut; to seclude. | |
since |
1. adv. From a specified time in the past. | |
I met him last year, but haven't seen him since. | |
2. prep. From: (referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred.) | |
3. prep. Continuously during that period of time. | |
I have known her since last year. | |
4. prep. At certain points during that period of time. | |
5. conj. From the time that. | |
I have loved you since I first met you. | |
6. conj. Because. | |
Since you didn't call, we left without you. | |
7. conj. (obsolete) When or that. | |
Her |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, her | |
2. det. Belonging to her. | |
This is her book | |
3. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc. | |
Give it to her (after preposition) | |
He wrote her a letter (indirect object) | |
He treated her for a cold (direct object) | |
4. n. (informal) A female person or animal. | |
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her. | |
husband |
1. n. (obsolete) The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder. | |
2. n. (obsolete) A tiller of the ground; a husbandman. | |
3. n. (archaic) A prudent or frugal manager. | |
4. n. A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse. | |
You should start dating so you can find a suitable husband. | |
5. n. The male of a pair of animals. | |
6. n. (UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist. | |
7. n. A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position. | |
While reading her book, Sally leaned back against her husband, wishing it were the human kind. | |
8. n. (UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard. | |
9. v. To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise. | |
For my means, I'll husband them so well, / They shall go far. — Shakespeare. | |
10. v. To conserve. | |
11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture. | |
12. v. To provide with a husband. | |
13. v. To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own. | |
died |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of die | |
die |
1. v. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. | |
2. v. followed by of; general use: | |
He died of embarrassment. | |
3. v. followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine(topics, en, Medicine) or the sciencestopics, en, Sciences: | |
He died from heart failure. | |
4. v. followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes: | |
He died for the one he loved. | |
5. v. (now rare) followed by with as an indication of direct cause: | |
6. v. (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner: | |
She died with dignity. | |
7. v. To stop living and undergo (a specified death). | |
He died a hero's death. | |
They died a thousand deaths. | |
8. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely. | |
I'm dying for a packet of crisps. | |
I'm dying for a piss. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead. | |
The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother. | |
10. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope. | |
He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him. | |
11. v. (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation. | |
If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die. | |
12. v. (figurative, intransitive, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated. | |
When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died. | |
13. v. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working, to break down. | |
My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning. | |
14. v. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition). | |
15. v. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct. | |
16. v. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. | |
17. v. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject. | |
to die to pleasure or to sin | |
18. v. (intransitive, video games) To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition. | |
I can't believe I just died to a squirrel! | |
19. v. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. | |
20. v. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. | |
21. v. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience. | |
Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal... | |
22. n. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth. | |
23. n. A device for cutting into a specified shape. | |
24. n. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.) | |
25. n. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects. | |
26. n. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals. | |
27. n. (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit. | |
28. n. Any small cubical or square body. | |
29. n. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance. | |
30. n. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. | |
31. n. (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit. | |
32. v. topics, en, Death, Dice games | |