showing |
1. v. present participle of show | |
2. n. An occasion when something is shown. | |
We went to the midnight showing of the new horror movie. | |
3. n. A result, a judgement. | |
He made a poor showing at his first time at bat. | |
show |
1. v. To display, to have somebody see (something). | |
The car's dull finish showed years of neglect. | |
All he had to show for four years of attendance at college was a framed piece of paper. | |
2. v. To bestow; to confer. | |
to show mercy; to show favour; (dialectal) show me the salt please | |
3. v. To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. | |
4. v. To guide or escort. | |
Could you please show him on his way. He has overstayed his welcome. | |
They showed us in. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear. | |
Your bald patch is starting to show. | |
At length, his gloom showed. | |
6. v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up. | |
We waited for an hour, but they never showed. | |
7. v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant. | |
8. v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs. | |
In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars. | |
9. v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear. | |
10. n. A play, dance, or other entertainment. | |
11. n. An exhibition of items. | |
art show; dog show | |
12. n. A demonstration. | |
show of force | |
13. n. A broadcast program/programme. | |
radio show; television show | |
14. n. A movie. | |
Let's catch a show. | |
15. n. A project or presentation. | |
Let's get on with the show. Let's get this show on the road. They went on an international road show to sell the shares to investors. It was Apple's usual do | |
16. n. Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".) | |
The dog sounds ferocious but it's all show. | |
17. n. Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance. | |
18. n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues. | |
He played AA ball for years, but never made it to the show. | |
19. n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp. | |
20. n. (archaic) Pretence. | |
21. n. (archaic) Sign, token, or indication. | |
22. n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance. | |
23. n. (obsolete) Plausibility. | |
24. n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor. | |
disregard |
1. n. The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard. | |
The government's disregard for the needs of disabled people is outrageous. | |
2. v. To ignore; pay no attention to. | |
indicating |
1. v. present participle of indicate | |
indicate |
1. v. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known. | |
The guard blew his whistle to indicate imminent departure. | |
2. v. To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies. | |
Great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants. | |
3. v. To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left. | |
4. v. To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator. | |
rejection |
1. n. The act of rejecting. | |
2. n. The state of being rejected. | |
3. n. (sports) A blocked shot. | |
serving |
1. adj. That or who serves or serve. | |
serving marines | |
a serving-girl | |
2. n. The action of the verb to serve. | |
3. n. A portion (especially, of a meal) served to someone. | |
4. n. A layer added to the outside of an electrical cable to protect it. | |
5. v. present participle of serve | |
serve |
1. n. (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games. | |
Whose serve is it? | |
2. n. (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving. | |
3. v. (personal) To provide a service. | |
4. v. To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity. | |
5. v. To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by. | |
6. v. To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service. | |
8. v. To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person. | |
9. v. (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner. | |
10. v. (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of. | |
11. v. To be effective. | |
12. v. To be useful to; to meet the needs of. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something. | |
14. v. (intransitive) To usefully take the place as, instead of something else. | |
15. v. (transitive, legal) To deliver a document. | |
16. v. To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.). | |
17. v. To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.) | |
to serve a witness with a subpoena | |
18. v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc. | |
19. v. To copulate with (of male animals); to cover. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To be in military service. | |
21. v. (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon). | |
22. v. To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence). | |
23. v. (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. | |
24. v. To perform a public obligation. | |
I've received a summons for jury duty. It says I serve one day or one trial. | |
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 | |
dismiss |
1. v. To discharge; to end the employment or service of. | |
The company dismissed me after less than a year. | |
2. v. To order to leave. | |
The soldiers were dismissed after the parade. | |
3. v. To dispel; to rid one's mind of. | |
He dismissed all thoughts of acting again. | |
4. v. To reject; to refuse to accept. | |
The court dismissed the case. | |
5. v. To send or put away. | |
She dismissed him with a wave of the hand. | |
6. v. (transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out. | |
He was dismissed for 99 runs. | |
7. v. (transitive, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off. | |