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 | |
Is |
1. n. plural of I | |
2. 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. | |
3. n. plural of i | |
remember to dot your is | |
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? | |
No |
1. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No. | |
2. n. Alternative form of No. | |
3. n. Alternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama. | |
4. det. Not any. | |
no one | |
There is no water left. | |
No hot dogs were sold yesterday. | |
No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous. | |
There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.) | |
5. det. Hardly any. | |
We'll be finished in no time at all. | |
6. det. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something). | |
No smoking | |
There's no stopping her once she gets going. | |
7. det. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully. | |
My mother's no fool. | |
Working nine to five every day is no life. | |
8. adv. (now only used with comparatives, except in Scotland) Not, not at all. | |
It is a different kind of torture, but no less gruesome. | |
I just want to find out whether she's coming or no. | |
9. part. Used to show disagreement or negation. | |
No, you are mistaken. | |
No, you may not watch television now. | |
10. part. Used to show agreement with a negative question. | |
"Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.") | |
11. part. (colloquial) As if to say, "No, don’t doubt this!", or to deny an imagined contradictory statement, used to show intense agreement | |
No, totally. | |
No, yeah, that's exactly right. | |
"Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!". | |
No, yeah | |
12. n. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval. | |
13. n. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition. | |
The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no". | |
14. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No. | |
15. n. Alternative form of No. | |
Absolute |
1. n. (philosophy) That which is totally unconditioned, unrestricted, pure, perfect, or complete; that which can be thought of without relation to others. | |
2. adj. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional. | |
3. adj. Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic. | |
4. adj. # Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory. | |
5. adj. Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree. | |
absolute purity, absolute liberty | |
6. adj. Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed. | |
absolute alcohol | |
7. adj. Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way. | |
When caught, he told an absolute lie. an absolute denial of all charges | |
8. adj. Positive, certain; unquestionable. | |
9. adj. (archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction). | |
10. adj. (especially, philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards. | |
the doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible, an absolute principle | |
Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations. | |
11. adj. (physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative. | |
absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position | |
12. adj. Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length. | |
13. adj. Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin. | |
14. adj. (grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, l | |
15. adj. (of a case form) Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominati | |
16. adj. (of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry". | |
17. adj. (of a comparative, or superlative) Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with re | |
18. adj. (of an, adjective form) Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative). | |
19. adj. (of a usually-transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill". | |
20. adj. (Irish, Welsh) Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of articles or compounded with a preverb. | |
21. adj. (math) As measured using an absolute value. | |
absolute deviation | |
absolute square | |
mean absolute difference | |
22. adj. (math) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional. | |
23. adj. (education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students. | |
24. adj. (art, music, dance) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art. | |
absolute music | |
25. adj. (obsolete) Absolved; free. | |
26. n. That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental. | |
moral absolutes | |
27. n. Anything that is absolute. | |
28. n. (geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity. | |
29. n. (philosophy, usually capitalized) A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego. | |
30. n. (philosophy, usually capitalized) The unity of spirit and nature; God. | |
31. n. (philosophy, usually capitalized) The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced. | |
32. n. Concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes. | |
reference |
1. n. (literary, or archaic) A relationship or relation (to something). | |
2. n. A measurement one can compare to. | |
3. n. Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted. | |
4. n. A person who provides this information; a referee. | |
5. n. A reference work. | |
6. n. (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object. | |
7. n. (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text. | |
8. n. (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source. | |
9. n. (programming) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself. | |
10. n. (programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as™ for the ™ symbol. | |
11. n. (obsolete) Appeal. | |
12. v. To provide a list of references for (a text). | |
You must thoroughly reference your paper before submitting it. | |
13. v. To refer to, to use as a reference. | |
Reference the dictionary for word meanings. | |
14. v. To mention, to cite. | |
In his speech, the candidate obliquely referenced the past failures of his opponent. | |
15. v. (programming) To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory. | |
The given pointer will reference the actual generated data. | |
frame |
1. v. To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust. | |
2. v. To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts. | |
3. v. To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise. | |
4. v. Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements. | |
Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof. | |
5. v. Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border. | |
6. v. To position visually within a fixed boundary. | |
The director frames the fishing scene very well. | |
7. v. To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation. | |
How would you frame your accomplishments? | |
The way the opposition has framed the argument makes it hard for us to win. | |
8. v. (transitive, criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person. | |
The gun had obviously been placed in her car in an effort to frame her. | |
9. v. (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame. | |
10. v. (intransitive, dialectal) To move. | |
11. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To proceed; to go. | |
12. v. (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit). | |
13. v. (transitive, obsolete) To strengthen; refresh; support. | |
14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To execute; perform. | |
All have sworn him an oath that they should frame his will on earth. | |
15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce. | |
16. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To profit; avail. | |
17. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fit; accord. | |
18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage. | |
19. n. The structural elements of a building or other constructed object. | |
Now that the frame is complete, we can start on the walls. | |
20. n. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure. | |
21. n. The structure of a person's body. | |
His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame. | |
22. n. A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material. | |
The painting was housed in a beautifully carved frame. | |
23. n. A piece of photographic film containing an image. | |
A film projector shows many frames in a single second. | |
24. n. A context for understanding or interpretation. | |
In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed. | |
25. n. (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted. | |
26. n. (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network. | |
27. n. (bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the | |
28. n. (horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants. | |
a forcing-frame; a cucumber frame | |
29. n. (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change. | |
30. n. (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark. | |
31. n. (film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second. | |
32. n. (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage. | |
33. n. (baseball, slang) An inning. | |
34. n. (engineering, dated, mostly, UK) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework. | |
a stocking frame; a lace frame; a spinning frame | |
35. n. (dated) frame of mind; disposition | |
to be always in a happy frame | |
36. n. (obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming. | |
37. n. (dated, video games) A stage or level of a video game. | |
38. n. (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets. | |
39. n. (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence. | |
40. n. (mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins. | |
thus |
1. adv. (manner) In this way or manner. | |
If you throw the ball thus, as I’m showing you, you’ll have better luck hitting the target. | |
2. adv. (conjunctive) As a result. | |
I have all the tools I need; thus, I will be able to fix the car without having to call a mechanic. | |
3. n. alternative spelling of thuris | |
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 | |
Is |
1. n. plural of I | |
2. 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. | |
3. n. plural of i | |
remember to dot your is | |
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? | |
No |
1. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No. | |
2. n. Alternative form of No. | |
3. n. Alternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama. | |
4. det. Not any. | |
no one | |
There is no water left. | |
No hot dogs were sold yesterday. | |
No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous. | |
There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.) | |
5. det. Hardly any. | |
We'll be finished in no time at all. | |
6. det. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something). | |
No smoking | |
There's no stopping her once she gets going. | |
7. det. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully. | |
My mother's no fool. | |
Working nine to five every day is no life. | |
8. adv. (now only used with comparatives, except in Scotland) Not, not at all. | |
It is a different kind of torture, but no less gruesome. | |
I just want to find out whether she's coming or no. | |
9. part. Used to show disagreement or negation. | |
No, you are mistaken. | |
No, you may not watch television now. | |
10. part. Used to show agreement with a negative question. | |
"Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.") | |
11. part. (colloquial) As if to say, "No, don’t doubt this!", or to deny an imagined contradictory statement, used to show intense agreement | |
No, totally. | |
No, yeah, that's exactly right. | |
"Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!". | |
No, yeah | |
12. n. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval. | |
13. n. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition. | |
The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no". | |
14. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No. | |
15. n. Alternative form of No. | |
such |
1. det. (demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context. | |
I’ve never seen such clouds in the sky before. Such is life. | |
2. det. (particularly used in formal documents) Any. | |
the above address or at such other address as may notify | |
3. det. Used as an intensifier; roughly equivalent to very much of. | |
The party was such a bore. | |
4. det. (obsolete) A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned. | |
5. pron. A person, a thing, people or things like the one or ones already mentioned. | |
6. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is similar to something else. | |
Thing |
1. n. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country. | |
2. n. That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept. | |
3. n. A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity. | |
4. n. An individual object or distinct entity. | |
5. n. (informal) Something that is existent or generally recognised. | |
Bacon pie? Is that a thing? | |
6. n. legal | |
7. n. Whatever can be owned. | |
8. n. Corporeal object. | |
9. n. (somewhat dated) The latest fad or fashion. | |
What do you mean you don't twerk, Stacy? It's the latest thing! | |
10. n. (in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment. | |
Hold on, let me just grab my things. | |
11. n. (informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods. | |
get me a thing of apple juice at the store; I just ate a whole thing of jelly beans | |
12. n. (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor. | |
The car looks cheap, but the thing is, I have doubts about its safety. | |
13. n. (slang) A penis. | |
14. n. A living being or creature. | |
you poor thing; she's a funny old thing, but her heart's in the right place; I met a pretty blond thing at the bar | |
15. n. That which matters; the crux. | |
that's the thing: we don't know where he went; the thing is, I don't have any money | |
16. n. Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent. | |
Oh yeah, I'm supposed to promote that vision thing. | |
17. n. (informal) That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.) | |
18. n. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country. | |
19. v. (rare) To express as a thing; to reify. | |
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 | |
an |
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
4. conj. (archaic) If | |
5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
objective |
1. adj. Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality. | |
2. adj. Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices. | |
3. adj. Based on observed facts. | |
4. adj. (grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb. | |
5. adj. (linguistics, grammar) Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.) | |
6. n. A material object that physically exists. | |
7. n. A goal that is striven for. | |
8. n. (grammar) The objective case. | |
Synonyms: object case, objective case | |
9. n. (grammar) a noun or pronoun in the objective case. | |
10. n. The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined. | |
viewpoint |
1. n. The position from which something is observed or considered; an angle, outlook or point of view. | |