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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
make
1. v. To create.
2. v. To build, construct, or produce.
We made a bird feeder for our yard.
I'll make a man out of him yet.
3. v. To write or compose.
I made a poem for her wedding.
He made a will.
4. v. To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
make war
They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men.
5. v. (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
God made earth and heaven.
6. v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
To make like a deer caught in the headlights.
They made nice together, as if their fight never happened.
He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands.
7. v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
8. v. To constitute.
They make a cute couple.
This makes the third infraction.
One swallow does not a summer make.
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10. v. To add up to, have a sum of.
Two and four make six.
11. v. (intransitive, construed with of typically interrogative) To interpret.
I don’t know what to make of it.
12. v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
This company is what made you.
She married into wealth and so has it made.
13. v. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
The citizens made their objections clear.
This might make you a bit woozy.
Did I make myself heard?
Scotch will make you a man.
14. v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
15. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
You're making her cry.
I was made to feel like a criminal.
16. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
The teacher made the student study.
Don’t let them make you suffer.
17. v. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.
18. v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
19. v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
20. v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.
21. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
They made westward over the snowy mountains.
Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!
They made away from the fire toward the river.
22. v. To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
23. v. To move at (a speed).
The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas.
This baby can make 220 miles an hour.
24. v. To appoint; to name.
25. v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
26. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
27. v. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
They hope to make a bigger profit.
He didn't make the choir after his voice changed.
She made ten points in that game.
28. v. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
29. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
30. v. To enact; to establish.
31. v. To develop into; to prove to be.
She'll make a fine president.
32. v. To form or formulate in the mind.
make plans
made a questionable decision
33. v. To perform a feat.
make a leap
make a pass
make a u-turn
34. v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.
35. v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
36. v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
37. v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
38. v. (transitive, euphemism) To take the virginity of.
39. v. To have sexual intercourse with.
40. n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
What make of car do you drive?
41. n. How a thing is made; construction.
42. n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
The camera was of German make.
43. n. Quantity produced, especially of materials.
44. n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
45. n. A person's character or disposition.
46. n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
47. n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
48. n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
49. n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
50. n. (slang) Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
51. n. (slang) A promotion.
52. n. A home-made project
53. n. (basketball) A made basket.
54. n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
55. n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.
irregularly
1. adv. In an irregular manner; without rule, method, or order.
repeated
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of repeat
2. adj. Having been said or done again.
repeat
1. v. To do or say again (and again).
The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.
2. v. (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
3. v. To echo the words of (a person).
4. v. (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
5. v. (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
6. v. (legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
7. v. (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insuffici
Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.
Use "say again" instead of repeat on the radio. Repeat will bring in artillery fire.
8. n. An iteration; a repetition.
We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
9. n. A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
10. n. (genetics, biochemistry) A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
11. n. (music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.
sounds
1. n. plural of sound
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of sound
sound
1. adj. Healthy.
He was safe and sound.
In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work.
2. adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
3. adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
4. adj. (UK, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
"How are you?" - "I'm sound.".
That's a sound track you're playing.
See that man over there? He's sound. You should get to know him.
5. adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
Her sleep was sound.
6. adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
a sound beating
7. adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
a sound title to land
8. adv. Soundly.
9. interj. (UK, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
- I found my jacket.- Sound.
10. n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him. Nobody made a sound.
11. n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
12. n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc
13. n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
14. n. earshot, Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
Stay within the sound of my voice.
15. v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
When the horn sounds, take cover.
16. v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
He sounded good when we last spoke.
That story sounds like a pack of lies!
17. v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
19. v. (intransitive, legal, often, with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.
20. v. To cause to produce a sound.
Sound the alarm!
He sounds the instrument.
21. v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.
22. n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
Puget Sound; Owen Sound
23. n. The air bladder of a fish.
Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
24. n. A cuttlefish.
25. v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.
26. v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.
27. v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.
28. v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra
29. n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
30. n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.
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.
low
1. adj. Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
standing on low ground in a low valley, ringed by low hills a low wall a low shelf
2. adj. Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than
the low countries Low German
3. adj. (baseball, of a ball) Below the batter's knees.
the pitch (or: the ball) was low
4. adj. Of less than normal height; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
a low bow a low tide the Mississippi is unusually low right now
5. adj. Not high in status, esteem or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar).
low birth low rank the low officials of the bureaucracy low-quality fabric playing low tricks on them a person of low mind
Now that was low even for you!
6. adj. Humble, meek, not haughty.
7. adj. Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
She had a low opinion of cats. He took a low view of dogs.
8. adj. Being a nadir, a bottom.
the low point in her career
9. adj. Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.
low spirits
10. adj. Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
a low pulse
made (or: laid) low by sickness
11. adj. Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
My credit union charges a low interest rate. Jogging during a whiteout, with such low temperatures and low visibility, is dangerous. The store sold bread at low prices, and milk a
12. adj. Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
diets low in vitamin A made from low-carbon steel
13. adj. Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply.
running low on cash
14. adj. (especially in the field of biology) Simple in complexity or development; (in several set phrases) favoring simplicity; see e.g. low church, Low Tory.
low protozoan animals, low cryptogamic plants, and other low organisms
15. adj. (in several set phrases) Being near the equator.
the low northern latitudes
16. adj. (acoustics) Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.
The note was too low for her to sing.
Generally, European men have lower voices than their Indian counterparts.
17. adj. Quiet; soft; not loud.
They spoke in low voices so I would not hear what they were saying.
Why would you want to play heavy metal at such a low volume?
18. adj. (phonetics) Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.
19. adj. (card games) Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
a low card
20. adj. (archaic) Not rich, seasoned, or nourishing; plain, simple.
a low diet
21. adj. (of an, automobile, gear, etc) Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed.
low gear
22. n. Something that is low; a low point.
You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank.
Economic growth has hit a new low.
23. n. The minimum value attained by some quantity within a specified period.
Unemployment has reached a ten-year low.
24. n. A depressed mood or situation.
He is in a low right now
25. n. (meteorology) An area of low pressure; a depression.
A deep low is centred over the British Isles.
26. n. The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour.
27. n. (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
28. n. (slang) (usually accompanied by "the") a cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous payment or expense.
He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low.
29. adv. Close to the ground.
30. adv. Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
31. adv. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
to speak low
32. adv. Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
He sold his wheat low.
33. adv. In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
34. adv. In a time approaching our own.
35. adv. (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.
The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.
36. v. (obsolete, transitive) To depress; to lower.
37. v. (obsolete) simple past tense of laugh.
38. v. (intransitive) To moo.
The cattle were lowing.
39. n. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
40. v. (Scotland) To burn; to blaze.
41. n. (archaic, or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus.
42. n. (Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.
43. n. cln, en, basic words, three-letter words
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
moderate
1. adj. Not excessive; acting in moderation
moderate language
a moderate Calvinist
travelling at a moderate speed
2. adj. Mediocre
3. adj. Average priced; standard-deal
4. adj. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
a moderate winter
5. adj. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
6. n. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
While the moderates usually propose political compromise, it's often only achieved when the extremists allow them so
The moderates are the natural advocates of ecumenism against the fanatics of their churches.
7. v. To reduce the excessiveness of (something)
to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.
8. v. (intransitive) To become less excessive
9. v. To preside over (something) as a moderator
to moderate a synod
10. v. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise
magnitude
1. n. The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.
2. n. An order of magnitude.
3. n. (mathematics) A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically
4. n. (mathematics) Of a vector, the norm, most commonly, the two-norm.
5. n. (astronomy) The apparent brightness of a star (on a negative, logarithmic scale); apparent magnitude
6. n. (seismology) A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
lower
1. adj. comparative form of low: more low
2. adj. bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
3. adj. (geology, of strata or geological time periods) older
4. adv. comparative form of low: more low
5. v. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
lower a bucket into a well
to lower a sail of a boat
6. v. to pull down
to lower a flag
7. v. To reduce the height of
lower a fence or wall
lower a chimney or turret
8. v. To depress as to direction
lower the aim of a gun
9. v. To make less elevated
to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes
10. v. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
lower the temperature
lower one's vitality
lower distilled liquors
11. v. To bring down; to humble
lower one's pride
12. v. (reflexive) (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.
13. v. To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
lower the price of goods
lower the interest rate
14. v. (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
15. v. (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
16. v. alternative spelling of lour.
than
1. conj. (obsolete, outside, dialects, usually used with for) Because; for.
2. conj. Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
she's taller than I am; she found his advice more witty than helpful; we have less work today than we had yesterday; it's bigger than I thought it was
3. prep. introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two
Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.
4. adv. (now chiefly dialectal) At that time; then.
average
1. n. (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.
2. n. (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
3. n. (legal, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
4. n. Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
5. n. Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
6. n. (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
batting average
7. n. (in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
8. adj. (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
The average age of the participants was 18.5.
9. adj. Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
I soon found I was only an average chess player.
10. adj. Typical.
The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.
11. adj. (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
12. v. To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.
13. v. Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.
I averaged 75% in my examinations this year.
14. v. To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
to average a loss
15. v. (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
16. n. (legal) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.
pitch
1. n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.
2. n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
They put pitch on the mast to protect it.
The barrel was sealed with pitch.
It was pitch black because there was no moon.
3. n. (geology) Pitchstone.
4. v. To cover or smear with pitch.
5. v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
6. n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
a good pitch in quoits
7. n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
The pitch was low and inside.
8. n. (sports) (Australia) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) Not used in America, where "field" i
The teams met on the pitch.
9. n. An effort to sell or promote something.
He gave me a sales pitch.
10. n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.
The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood.
A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.
11. n. The angle at which an object sits.
the pitch of the roof or haystack
12. n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
13. n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
14. n. (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare
the pitch of an aircraft
15. n. (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
The propeller blades' pitch went to zero as the engine was feathered.
16. n. The place where a busker performs.
17. n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
18. n. An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
19. n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
20. n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
21. n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope.
22. n. (now British, regional) A person or animal's height.
23. n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
24. n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
25. n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof
26. n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
27. v. To throw.
He pitched the horseshoe.
28. v. (transitive, or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
(transitive) The hurler pitched a curveball.
(intransitive) He pitched high and inside.
29. v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
Bob pitches today.
30. v. To throw away; discard.
He pitched the candy wrapper.
31. v. To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
He pitched the idea for months with no takers.
32. v. To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
At which level should I pitch my presentation?
33. v. To assemble or erect (a tent).
Pitch the tent over there.
34. v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
35. v. (ambitransitive, aviation, or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down.
(transitive) The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
(intransitive) The airplane pitched.
36. v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.
37. v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
The ball pitched well short of the batsman.
38. v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
39. v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
40. v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
41. v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
to pitch from a precipice
The field pitches toward the east.
42. v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
43. v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
44. v. (transitive, card games, slang) To discard for some gain.
45. n. (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
46. n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.
47. v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
48. v. To fix or set the tone of.

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