notwithstanding |
1. adv. Nevertheless, all the same. | |
2. conj. Although. | |
3. prep. In spite of, despite. | |
4. post. In spite of, despite. | |
5. n. An instance of the word "notwithstanding", often characteristic of legalese. | |
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! | |
aversion |
1. n. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike. | |
Due to her aversion to the outdoors she complained throughout the entire camping trip. | |
2. n. An object of dislike or repugnance. | |
Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine. | |
3. n. (obsolete) The act of turning away from an object. | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
fortune |
1. n. Destiny, especially favorable. | |
She read my fortune. Apparently I will have a good love life this week, but I will have a bad week for money. | |
2. n. A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller. | |
3. n. A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie. | |
4. n. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident. | |
5. n. Good luck. | |
Fortune favors the brave. | |
6. n. One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast. | |
He's amassed a small fortune working in the Middle East. | |
My vast fortune was a result of inheritance and stock market nous. | |
Her fortune is estimated at 3 million dollars. | |
7. n. A large amount of money. | |
That car must be worth a fortune! How could you afford it? | |
8. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To happen, take place. | |
9. v. To provide with a fortune. | |
10. v. To presage; to tell the fortune of. | |
tellers |
1. n. plural of teller | |
teller |
1. n. A person who tells stories. | |
2. n. (chiefly US) A bank clerk who receives and pays out money. | |
3. n. An automated teller machine. | |
4. n. A person who counts the votes in an election. | |
maybe |
1. adv. Modifies a verb, indicating a lack of certainty. | |
2. adv. (as a pro-sentence) Perhaps that is true (expressing no commitment to a decision or a neutral viewpoint to a statement). | |
3. adj. Possible; uncertain. | |
Then add those may-be years thou hast to live ― Dryden. | |
4. n. (informal) Something that is possibly true. | |
5. n. (informal) An answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement. | |
The results of the poll were inconclusive. We got two yeses, three nos, and four maybes. | |
6. n. (informal) A future event that may or may not happen. | |
About your raise: it's a big maybe. | |
there |
1. adv. (location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here). | |
2. adv. (figuratively) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place. | |
He did not stop there, but continued his speech. | |
They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there. | |
3. adv. (location) To or into that place; thither. | |
4. adv. (obsolete) Where, there where, in which place. | |
5. adv. In existence or in this world; see pronoun section below. | |
6. interj. Used to offer encouragement or sympathy. | |
There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right. | |
7. interj. Used to express victory or completion. | |
There! That knot should hold. | |
8. n. That place. | |
9. n. That status; that position. | |
You get it ready; I'll take it from there. | |
10. pron. Used as an expletive subject of be in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied. | |
There are two apples on the table. =Two apples are on the table. | |
There is no way to do it. =No way to do it exists. | |
Is there an answer? =Does an answer exist? | |
No, there isn't. =No, one doesn't exist. | |
11. pron. Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence. | |
If x is a positive number, then there exists =there is a positive number y less than x. | |
There remain several problems with this approach. =Several problems remain with this approach. | |
Once upon a time, in a now-forgotten kingdom, there lived a woodsman with his wife. =There was a woodsman, who lived with his wife. | |
There arose a great wind out of the east. =There was now a great wind, arising in the east. | |
12. pron. Used with other verbs, when raised. | |
There seems to be some difficulty with the papers. =It seems that there is some difficulty with the papers. | |
I expected there to be a simpler solution. =I expected that there would be a simpler solution. | |
There are beginning to be complications. =It's beginning to be the case that there are complications. | |
13. pron. (in combination with certain prepositions, no longer productive) That. | |
therefor, thereat, thereunder | |
14. pron. (colloquial) Used to replace an unknown name, principally in greetings and farewells | |
Hi there, young fellow. | |
15. contraction. misspelling of they’re | |
16. det. misspelling of their | |
Will |
1. n. (American football) A weak-side linebacker. | |
2. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
Do what you will. | |
3. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
4. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
5. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
6. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
7. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
8. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. | |
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason. | |
9. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
10. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
Most creatures have a will to live. | |
11. n. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes. | |
12. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
13. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
14. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
15. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
16. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
17. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
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. | |
funding |
1. v. present participle of fund | |
2. n. The action of the verb fund. | |
3. n. Money provided as funds. | |
The council is providing funding to the church to repair the roof. | |
fund |
1. n. A sum or source of money. | |
the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc. | |
a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students | |
2. n. An organization managing such money. | |
3. n. A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund. | |
Several major funds were declared insolvent recently. | |
4. n. A large supply of something to be drawn upon. | |
He drew on his immense fund of knowledge. | |
5. v. To pay for. | |
body |
1. n. Physical frame. | |
2. n. The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. | |
I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light. | |
3. n. The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul. | |
The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace. | |
4. n. A corpse. | |
Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder. | |
5. n. (archaic, or informal except in compounds) A person. | |
What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here? | |
6. n. Main section. | |
7. n. The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). | |
The boxer took a blow to the body. | |
8. n. The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. | |
The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape. | |
9. n. (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms. | |
Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress. | |
10. n. The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. | |
11. n. (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters. | |
In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces. | |
12. n. Coherent group. | |
13. n. A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. | |
I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards. | |
14. n. An organisation, company or other authoritative group. | |
The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track. | |
15. n. A unified collection of details, knowledge or information. | |
We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion. | |
16. n. Material entity. | |
17. n. Any physical object or material thing. | |
All bodies are held together by internal forces. | |
18. n. Substance; physical presence. | |
We have given body to what was just a vague idea. | |
19. n. Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). | |
The red wine, sadly, lacked body. | |
20. n. An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise un. | |
The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France. | |
21. n. (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated). | |
a nonpareil face on an agate body | |
22. n. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone. | |
23. v. To give body or shape to something. | |
24. v. To construct the bodywork of a car. | |
25. v. To embody. | |
26. v. (transitive, slang) To murder someone. | |
27. v. (transitive, slang) To utterly defeat someone. | |
28. v. (transitive, slang) to hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by. | |
willing |
1. adj. Ready to do something that is not (can't be expected as) a matter of course. | |
If my boyfriend isn't willing to change his drinking habits, I will split up with him. | |
2. n. (rare, or obsolete) The execution of a will. | |
3. v. present participle of will | |
will |
1. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
Do what you will. | |
2. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
3. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
4. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
5. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
6. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
7. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. | |
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason. | |
8. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
9. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
Most creatures have a will to live. | |
10. n. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes. | |
11. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
12. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
13. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
14. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
15. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
16. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
cross |
1. n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other. | |
Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one. | |
2. n. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross. | |
3. n. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion). | |
Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross. | |
4. n. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified. | |
5. n. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross. | |
She made the cross after swearing. | |
6. n. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion. | |
She was wearing a cross on her necklace. | |
7. n. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured. | |
It's a cross I must bear. | |
8. n. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other | |
A quick cross of the road. | |
9. n. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization. | |
10. n. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind. | |
11. n. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch. | |
12. n. (football) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch. | |
13. n. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross). | |
14. n. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross) | |
15. n. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general. | |
16. n. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands. | |
17. n. A line drawn across or through another line. | |
18. n. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course. | |
19. n. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle. | |
20. n. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross. | |
21. n. (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card. | |
22. adj. Transverse; lying across the main direction. | |
At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows. | |
23. adj. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to. | |
His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness. | |
24. adj. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for. | |
25. adj. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed. | |
She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job. | |
Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me. | |
26. adj. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged. | |
cross interrogatories | |
cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other | |
27. prep. (archaic) across | |
She walked cross the mountains. | |
28. prep. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector. | |
The Lorentz force is q times v cross B. | |
29. v. To make or form a cross. | |
30. v. To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect. | |
She frowned and crossed her arms. | |
31. v. To lay or draw something across, such as a line. | |
to cross the letter t | |
32. v. To mark with an X. | |
Cross the box which applies to you. | |
33. v. To write lines at right angles.W | |
34. v. (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself. | |
35. v. To move relatively. | |
36. v. To go from one side of (something) to the other. | |
Why did the chicken cross the road? | |
You need to cross the street at the lights. | |
37. v. (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another. | |
Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way. | |
38. v. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. | |
39. v. (sports) Relative movement by a player or of players. | |
40. v. # (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs. | |
41. v. # (football) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side. | |
# He crossed the ball into the penalty area. | |
42. v. # (rugby) To score a try. | |
43. v. (social) To oppose. | |
44. v. To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of. | |
"You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain. | |
45. v. (transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off; to debar. | |
46. v. (legal) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness. | |
47. v. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed. | |
They managed to cross a sheep with a goat. | |
48. v. To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account. | |
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. | |
Palm |
1. n. (Scouting) alternative capitalization of palm | |
2. n. Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics. | |
3. n. A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. | |
4. n. (figurative, by extension) Triumph; victory. | |
5. n. (Scouting) Any of 23 awards that can be earned after obtaining the Eagle Scout rank, but generally only before turning 18 years old. | |
6. n. The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers. | |
7. n. The corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal. | |
8. n. A linear measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; used in measuring a horse's height. | |
9. n. (sailmaking) A metallic disk attached to a strap and worn in the palm of the hand; used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc. | |
10. n. The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers. | |
11. n. (nautical) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke. | |
12. v. To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something. | |
13. v. To hold something without bending the fingers significantly. | |
John palmed the ball. | |
14. v. To move something with the palm of the hand. | |
with |
1. prep. Against. | |
He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
He went with his friends. | |
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
5. prep. In support of. | |
We are with you all the way. | |
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by. | |
slain with robbers | |
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
cut with a knife | |
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
9. prep. Having, owning. | |
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
Do you want to come with? | |
11. adv. --> | |
12. n. alternative form of withe | |
silver |
1. n. elements, Ag, palladium, Pd, cadmium, Cd | |
2. n. A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag. | |
3. n. (collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal. | |
4. n. (collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal. | |
5. n. (collectively) Any items made from silver or any other white metal. | |
6. n. A shiny gray color. | |
(color panel, C0C0C0) | |
7. n. Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white. | |
8. adj. Made from silver. | |
9. adj. Made from another white metal. | |
10. adj. Having a color like silver: a shiny gray. | |
11. adj. Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding. | |
12. adj. (of commercial services) Premium, but inferior to gold. | |
13. adj. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound. | |
a silver-voiced young girl | |
14. v. To acquire a silvery colour. | |
15. v. To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal. | |
to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury | |
16. v. To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver. | |
17. v. To make hoary, or white, like silver. | |