| okay |
| 1. n. alternative spelling of OK | |
| 2. v. alternative spelling of OK | |
| 3. adj. alternative spelling of OK | |
| 4. adv. alternative spelling of OK | |
| 5. interj. alternative spelling of OK | |
| boy |
| 1. n. A young male, particularly | |
| Kate is dating a boy named Jim. | |
| 2. n. A male child or teenager, as distinguished from infants or adults. | |
| 3. n. (diminutive) A male child: a son of any age. | |
| 4. n. (affectionate, diminutive) A male of any age, particularly one rather younger than the speaker. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave. | |
| 6. n. (now rare and usually offensive outside some Commonwealth nations) A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularly: | |
| 7. n. A younger such worker. | |
| 8. n. (historical, or offensive) A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) A male camp follower. | |
| 10. n. (now offensive) Any non-white male, regardless of age. | |
| 11. n. A male animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male dog. | |
| C'mere, boy! Good boy! Who's a good boy? | |
| Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat? | |
| 12. n. (historical, military) A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank. | |
| 13. n. (US, slang) Heroin. | |
| 14. interj. Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing. | |
| Boy, that was close! | |
| Boy, that tastes good! | |
| Boy, I wish I could go to Canada! | |
| 15. v. to use the word boy to refer to someone | |
| Don't boy me! | |
| 16. v. to act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage) | |
| what's |
| 1. contraction. What is. | |
| What's going on? | |
| 2. contraction. What has. | |
| What's that got to do with it? | |
| 3. contraction. What does. | |
| What's that mean? | |
| what |
| 1. pron. (interrogative) Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: (used interrogatively in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.) | |
| 2. pron. (relative, nonstandard) That; which; who. | |
| 3. pron. That which; those that; the thing that. | |
| He knows what he wants. | |
| What goes up must come down. | |
| Keep up with what your friends are doing. | |
| 4. pron. Whatever. | |
| I will do what I can to help you. | |
| 5. adv. (usually followed by "with") In some manner or degree; in part; partly. See also what with | |
| What with singing and joking, the time passed quickly. | |
| 6. adv. Such. | |
| What a pity. | |
| What a beautiful day! | |
| 7. adv. (obsolete) Why? | |
| 8. adv. (now rare) Used to introduce each of two coordinate phrases or concepts; both…and. | |
| 9. adv. (Singlish) (alt form, wat) (used to contradict an assumption) | |
| 10. interj. An expression of surprise or disbelief. | |
| What! That’s amazing. | |
| 11. interj. Response that enquires what the asker desires (usually said unhappily). | |
| 12. interj. (UK, colloquial, dated) (clipping of what do you say)? | |
| It’s a nice day, what? | |
| 13. interj. What did you say? I beg your pardon? | |
| 14. det. Which; which kind of. | |
| What shirt are you going to wear? | |
| What time is it? | |
| What kind of car is that? | |
| 15. det. How much; how great (used in an exclamation). | |
| What talent he has! | |
| What a talent! | |
| 16. det. (relative) Whatever | |
| Write down what things come into your mind. | |
| 17. n. (obsolete) Something; thing; stuff. | |
| 18. n. The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what. | |
| 19. n. Something that is addressed by , as opposed to a person, addressed by who. | |
| is |
| 1. 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. | |
| 2. n. plural of i | |
| remember to dot your is | |
| 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. | |
| gist |
| 1. n. The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith. | |
| 2. n. (legal, dated) The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action. | |
| 3. n. (obsolete) Resting place (especially of animals), lodging. | |
| 4. v. To summarize, to extract and present the most important parts of. | |
