haven't |
1. v. have not (negative form of haveArnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, , Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513) | |
have |
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst. | |
1. v. To possess, own, hold. | |
I have a house and a car. | |
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street! | |
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship). | |
I have two sisters. | |
I have a lot of work to do. | |
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action. | |
I have breakfast at six o'clock. | |
Can I have a look at that? | |
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now. | |
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in. | |
What class do you have right now? I have English. | |
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day. | |
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.) | |
I have already eaten today. | |
I had already eaten. | |
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to. | |
I have to go. | |
7. v. To give birth to. | |
The couple always wanted to have children. | |
My wife is having the baby right now! | |
My mother had me when she was 25. | |
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with. | |
He's always bragging about how many women he's had. | |
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner. | |
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me. | |
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation. | |
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town. | |
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be. | |
He had him arrested for trespassing. | |
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears. | |
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.) | |
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week. | |
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice. | |
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being. | |
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening. | |
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.)) | |
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we? | |
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she? | |
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he? | |
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take. | |
I could have him! | |
I'm gonna have you! | |
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language. | |
I have no German. | |
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of. | |
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before. | |
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from. | |
He had a cold last week. | |
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo. | |
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that. | |
He had surgery on his hip yesterday. | |
I'm having the time of my life! | |
20. v. To trick, to deceive. | |
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke. | |
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate. | |
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it. | |
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night. | |
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by. | |
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it. | |
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest. | |
Thank you for having me! | |
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation. | |
What do you have for problem two? | |
I have two contacts on my scope. | |
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case. | |
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon. | |
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person. | |
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | |
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading. | |
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have. | |
not |
1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb. | |
Did you take out the trash? No, I did not. | |
Not knowing any better, I went ahead. | |
2. adv. To no degree. | |
That is not red; it's orange. | |
3. conj. And not. | |
I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken. | |
He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple. | |
4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. | |
I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not! | |
Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not! | |
5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function. | |
You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip. | |
6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not. | |
you |
1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object. | |
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself. | |
3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) | |
4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.) | |
Both of you should get ready now. | |
You are all supposed to do as I tell you. | |
5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.) | |
6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object). | |
7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to. | |
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus? | |
8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis. | |
You idiot! | |
9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal. | |
heard |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of hear | |
hear |
1. v. (intransitive) To perceive sounds through the ear. | |
I was deaf, and now I can hear. | |
2. v. To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | |
I heard a sound from outside the window. | |
3. v. To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. | |
4. v. To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.). | |
Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties. | |
5. v. To receive information about; to come to learn of. | |
6. v. (with from) To be contacted by. | |
7. v. To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try. | |
Your case will be heard at the end of the month. | |
8. v. (transitive, informal) To sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of. | |
You're tired of all the ads on TV? I hear ya. | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
moot |
1. adj. (current in UK, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve. | |
2. adj. (North America, chiefly legal) Being an exercise of thought; academic. | |
Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day (1903) Moot Points: Friendly Disputes on Art and Industry Between Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day | |
3. adj. (North America) Having no practical impact or relevance. | |
That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot. | |
4. n. A moot court. | |
5. n. A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties. | |
6. n. (Scouting) A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks. | |
7. n. (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house. | |
8. n. (historical) An assembly (usually for decision making in a locality). | |
9. n. (shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins. | |
10. v. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose. | |
11. v. To discuss or debate. | |
12. v. (US) To make or declare irrelevant. | |
13. v. To argue or plead in a supposed case. | |
14. v. (regional, obsolete) To talk or speak. | |
'Tis no boot to moot again of it. | |
15. v. (Scotland, Northern England) To say, utter, also insinuate. | |
He could not moot the words. | |
16. n. (Scotland, Northern England) A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors. | |
Na, I haven't heard a moot of it. | |
Haven't you heard the moot, mate? There are going to be layoffs. They are going to shit-can the lot of us. | |
17. n. (Scotland, Northern England, rural) Talk. | |
No, there's no moot of it on the streets. | |
There's some moot of charges, but nothing concrete yet. | |
18. n. (Australia) Vagina. | |
19. n. (West Country) The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree. | |
20. v. (West Country) To take root and begin to grow. | |
21. v. (West Country) To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with the snout. | |
mate |
1. n. A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate. | |
2. n. (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner. | |
3. n. (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) A friend, usually of the same sex. | |
I'm going to the pub with a few mates. | |
He's my best mate. | |
4. n. (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) a colloquial "sir"; an informal and friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age | |
Excuse me, mate, have you got the time? | |
5. n. (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc). | |
6. n. (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship. | |
7. n. (nautical) A first mate. | |
8. n. A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice. | |
9. n. The other member of a matched pair of objects. | |
I found one of the socks I wanted to wear, but I couldn't find its mate. | |
10. n. A suitable companion; a match; an equal. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between. | |
The pieces of the puzzle mate perfectly. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To copulate. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring | |
14. v. To arrange in matched pairs. | |
15. v. To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding. | |
16. v. (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with. | |
17. v. To marry; to match (a person). | |
18. v. To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with. | |
19. v. To fit (objects) together without space between. | |
20. v. (transitive, aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it. | |
21. n. (chess) Short for checkmate. | |
22. v. (intransitive) To win a game of chess by putting the opponent in checkmate | |
23. v. To confuse; to confound. | |
24. n. alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté. | |
25. n. The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea | |