together |
1. adv. At the same time, in the same place; in close association or proximity. | |
We went to school together. | |
2. adv. Into one place; into a single thing; combined. | |
He put all the parts together. | |
3. adv. In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership. | |
Bob and Andy went into business together. Jenny and Mark have been together since they went on holiday to Mexico. | |
4. adj. (colloquial) Coherent; well organized. | |
He's really together. | |
they |
1. pron. (the third-person plural) A group of people, animals, plants or objects previously mentioned. | |
Fred and Jane? They just arrived. Dogs may bark if they want to be fed. Plants wilt if they are not watered. | |
I have a car and a truck, but they are both broken. | |
2. pron. (the third-person singular, sometimes proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender, but not if previously named and identified as male or female. | |
3. pron. (indefinite pronoun, vague meaning) People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker. | |
They say it’s a good place to live. | |
They didn’t have computers in the old days. | |
They should do something about this. | |
They have a lot of snow in winter. | |
4. det. (now Southern England dialect, or nonstandard) The, those. | |
5. det. (US dialects including AAVE) Their. | |
6. pron. (US dialectal) There (especially as an expletive subject of be). | |
slowly |
1. adv. (manner) At a slow pace. | |
collapse |
1. v. (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely. | |
Pyramid schemes tend to generate profits for a while and then collapse. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To fold compactly. | |
4. v. (Computing) To hide additional directory (folder) levels below the selected directory (folder) levels. When a folder contains no additional folders, a minus sign (-) appears next to the f | |
5. v. (cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession | |
6. v. To cause something to collapse. | |
Hurry up and collapse the tent so we can get moving. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint. | |
The exhausted singer collapsed on stage and had to be taken to the hospital. | |
8. n. The act of collapsing. | |
wither |
1. adv. (obsolete, or chiefly in compounds) Against, in opposition to. | |
2. v. (obsolete) To go against, resist; oppose. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water. | |
4. v. To cause to shrivel or dry up. | |
5. v. (intransitive, figurative) To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To become helpless due to emotion. | |
7. v. To make helpless due to emotion. | |
8. n. singular of withers, , part of the back of a four-legged animal that is between the shoulder blades | |
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. | |
die |
1. v. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. | |
2. v. followed by of; general use: | |
He died of embarrassment. | |
3. v. followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine(topics, en, Medicine) or the sciencestopics, en, Sciences: | |
He died from heart failure. | |
4. v. followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes: | |
He died for the one he loved. | |
5. v. (now rare) followed by with as an indication of direct cause: | |
6. v. (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner: | |
She died with dignity. | |
7. v. To stop living and undergo (a specified death). | |
He died a hero's death. | |
They died a thousand deaths. | |
8. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely. | |
I'm dying for a packet of crisps. | |
I'm dying for a piss. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead. | |
The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother. | |
10. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope. | |
He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him. | |
11. v. (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation. | |
If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die. | |
12. v. (figurative, intransitive, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated. | |
When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died. | |
13. v. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working, to break down. | |
My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning. | |
14. v. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition). | |
15. v. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct. | |
16. v. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. | |
17. v. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject. | |
to die to pleasure or to sin | |
18. v. (intransitive, video games) To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition. | |
I can't believe I just died to a squirrel! | |
19. v. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. | |
20. v. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. | |
21. v. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience. | |
Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal... | |
22. n. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth. | |
23. n. A device for cutting into a specified shape. | |
24. n. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.) | |
25. n. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects. | |
26. n. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals. | |
27. n. (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit. | |
28. n. Any small cubical or square body. | |
29. n. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance. | |
30. n. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. | |
31. n. (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit. | |
32. v. topics, en, Death, Dice games | |