opposed |
1. adj. Acting in opposition; opposing. | |
2. adj. Being, of having an opponent; not unopposed. | |
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of oppose | |
oppose |
1. v. To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand. | |
to oppose the king in battle; to oppose a bill in Congress | |
There is still time to oppose this plan. | |
2. v. To object to. | |
Many religious leaders oppose cloning humans. | |
3. v. To present or set up in opposition; to pose. | |
They are opposed to any form of hierarchy. | |
4. v. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. | |
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 | |
social |
1. n. A festive gathering to foster introductions. | |
They organized a social at the dance club to get people to know each other. | |
2. n. (Canadian Prairies) A dance held to raise money for a couple to be married. | |
3. n. (UK, colloquial) (with definite article) Abbreviation of social security, referring to the UK state welfare system, or of related terms such as Social Security Office or Social Security Benefit. | |
Fred hated going down to the social to sign on. | |
4. n. (US, colloquial) (abbreviation of social security number) | |
What's your social? | |
5. n. (dated, Ireland) A dinner dance event, usually held annually by a company or sporting club. | |
6. n. (Canada) (clipping of social studies) | |
7. adj. Being extroverted or outgoing. | |
James is a very social guy; he knows lots of people. | |
8. adj. Of or relating to society. | |
Teresa feels uncomfortable in certain social situations. | |
Unemployment is a social problem. | |
9. adj. (Internet) Relating to social media or social networks. | |
social gaming | |
10. adj. (rare) Relating to a nation's allies (compare the Social War) | |
11. adj. (botany, zoology) Cooperating or growing in groups. | |
a social insect | |
order |
1. n. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | |
2. n. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | |
3. n. The state of being well arranged. | |
The house is in order; the machinery is out of order. | |
4. n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet. | |
to preserve order in a community or an assembly | |
5. n. A command. | |
6. n. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods. | |
7. n. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles | |
St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537. | |
8. n. An association of knights | |
the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath. | |
9. n. any group of people with common interests. | |
10. n. A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity. | |
11. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank. | |
Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales. | |
12. n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort. | |
the higher or lower orders of society | |
talent of a high order | |
13. n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural. | |
to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry | |
14. n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic featu | |
15. n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order. | |
16. n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. | |
a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter. | |
17. n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products. | |
18. n. (set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set. | |
19. n. (group theory, of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the id | |
20. n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph. | |
21. n. (order theory) A partially ordered set. | |
22. n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set. | |
23. n. (algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial. | |
A quadratic polynomial,a x^2 + b x +c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2. | |
24. v. To set in some sort of order. | |
25. v. To arrange, set in proper order. | |
26. v. To issue a command to. | |
to order troops to advance | |
He ordered me to leave. | |
27. v. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order. | |
to order groceries | |
28. v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
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. | |
principles |
1. n. plural of principle | |
principle |
1. n. A fundamental assumption or guiding belief. | |
We need some sort of principles to reason from. | |
2. n. A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem. | |
The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs. | |
3. n. (sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect. | |
I don't doubt your principles. | |
You are clearly a person of principle. | |
It's the principle of the thing; I won't do business with someone I can't trust. | |
4. n. (physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied. | |
Bernoulli's Principle | |
The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents two fermions from occupying the same state. | |
The principle of the internal combustion engine | |
5. n. A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality. | |
Many believe that life is the result of some vital principle. | |
6. n. (obsolete) A beginning. | |
7. n. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause. | |
8. n. An original faculty or endowment. | |
9. v. To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct. | |
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. | |
society |
1. n. A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms. | |
This society has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure. | |
2. n. A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization. | |
It was then that they decided to found a society of didgeridoo-playing unicyclists. | |
3. n. The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals. | |
The gap between Western and Eastern societies seems to be narrowing. | |
4. n. The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole. | |
Our global society develops in fits and starts. | |
5. n. High society. | |
Smith was first introduced into society at the Duchess of Grand Fenwick's annual rose garden party. | |
6. n. (legal) A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal. | |
hostile |
1. adj. not friendly, appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure | |
a hostile force | |
hostile intentions | |
a hostile country | |
hostile to a sudden change | |
2. adj. Aggressive, antagonistic. | |
3. adj. Of a hostile takeover. | |
Microsoft may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo as soon as Friday, according to a published report. | |
4. n. (chiefly in the plural) An enemy. | |
toward |
1. prep. In the direction of. | |
She moved toward the door. | |
2. prep. In relation to (someone or something). | |
What are your feelings toward him? | |
3. prep. For the purpose of attaining (an aim). | |
I'm saving money toward retirement. | |
4. prep. Located close to; near (a time or place). | |
Our place is over toward the station. | |
5. adj. Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward. | |
6. adj. (obsolete) Future; to come. | |
7. adj. (dated) Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand. | |
8. adj. (obsolete, or archaic) Promising, likely. | |
society |
1. n. A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms. | |
This society has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure. | |
2. n. A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization. | |
It was then that they decided to found a society of didgeridoo-playing unicyclists. | |
3. n. The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals. | |
The gap between Western and Eastern societies seems to be narrowing. | |
4. n. The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole. | |
Our global society develops in fits and starts. | |
5. n. High society. | |
Smith was first introduced into society at the Duchess of Grand Fenwick's annual rose garden party. | |
6. n. (legal) A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal. | |