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someone
1. pron. Some person.
Can someone help me, please?
2. n. A partially specified but unnamed person.
Do you need a gift for that special someone?
3. n. an important person
He thinks he has become someone.
favorite
1. adj. (tcx, US)
2. adj. Preferred; liked more than any other
That is my favorite flavor of ice cream. I'd eat it daily if I could.
3. n. (tcx, US)
4. n. Preferred one, one with special favor
The teacher's favorite always went first.
5. n. Expected or most probable to win.
He's the favorite, he'll probably be elected.
6. n. (internet) A bookmark in a web browser.
7. v. alternative form of favor
8. v. (Internet) To bookmark.
9. v. (Internet) To add to one's list of favorites on a website that allows users to compile such lists.
As
1. n. plural of A
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As.
2. adv. To such an extent or degree.
You’re not as tall as I am.
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive.
3. adv. In the manner or role specified.
The kidnappers released him as agreed.
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues.
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend.
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as).
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what.
Do as I say!
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know.
As you wish, my lord!
6. conj. At the same instant that; when.
As I came in, she flew.
7. conj. At the same time that; while.
He sleeps as the rain falls.
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that.
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy.
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since.
As it’s too late, I quit.
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality.
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago.
It's not so complicated as I expected.
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’.
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though.
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that.
14. conj. Expressing concession; though.
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than.
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case.
You are not as tall as me.
They're big as houses.
17. prep. In the role of.
What is your opinion as a parent?
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra.
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value.
20. n. plural of a
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
Blue
1. n. A letterman at Oxford or Cambridge.
2. n. (historical) A member of the Royal Horse Guards (which merged with the 1st Dragoons in 1969)
3. n. synonym of British Blue, , a breed of cat
4. adj. Of the colour blue.
the deep blue sea
5. adj. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
6. adj. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
The candle burns blue.
7. adj. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
8. adj. (politics, in particular, in the US) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
I live in a blue constituency. Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.
9. adj. (AU, politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout
10. adj. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
11. adj. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
12. adj. (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
13. adj. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
blue and sour religionists; blue laws
14. adj. (archaic, of women) literary; bluestockinged.
15. adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.
16. adj. (entertainment) Risque or obscene
His material is too blue for prime-time
17. n. The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and
(color panel, blue, 0028E9)
18. n. A blue dye or pigment.
19. n. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
20. n. Blue clothing
The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
21. n. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
22. n. (slang) A member of law enforcement
23. n. The sky, literally or figuratively.
The ball came out of the blue and cracked his windshield.
His request for leave came out of the blue.
24. n. The ocean; deep waters.
25. n. Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
26. n. A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
27. n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
28. n. Any of the butterflies of the subfamily in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
29. n. A bluefish.
30. n. (Australia, colloquial) An argument.
31. n. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
32. n. (British) A type of firecracker.
33. n. (archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
34. n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
35. v. To make or become blue.
36. v. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
37. v. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid)
38. v. (transitive, slang) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
39. adj. (entertainment, informal) Pornographic or profane.
The air was blue with oaths.
a blue movie
eyed
1. adj. Having eyes.
2. adj. Having eye-like spots.
The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.
3. adj. (in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.
4. v. simple past tense and past participle of eye
eye
1. n. An organ through which animals see.
Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
2. n. The visual sense.
The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
3. n. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.
4. n. Attention, notice.
That dress caught her eye.
5. n. The ability to notice what others might miss.
He has an eye for talent.
6. n. A meaningful stare or look.
She was giving him the eye at the bar. When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.
7. n. A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
8. n. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
9. n. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
10. n. The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other such storm.
11. n. A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
12. n. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
13. n. A reproductive bud in a potato.
14. n. (informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
15. n. A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc. — e.g. at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; through a crank; at the end of a rope; or
16. n. That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
17. n. Tinge; shade of colour.
18. n. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
19. n. (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
20. n. (typography) The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
21. n. (game of go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
22. v. To observe carefully.
After eyeing the document for an hour she decided not to sign it.
They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
23. v. To view something narrowly, as a document or a phrase in a document.
24. v. To look at someone or something as if with the intent to do something with that person or thing.
25. v. (obsolete) To appear; to look.
26. n. A brood.
an eye of pheasants
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)

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