| what |
| 1. pron. (interrogative) Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: (used interrogatively in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.) | |
| 2. pron. (relative, nonstandard) That; which; who. | |
| 3. pron. That which; those that; the thing that. | |
| He knows what he wants. | |
| What goes up must come down. | |
| Keep up with what your friends are doing. | |
| 4. pron. Whatever. | |
| I will do what I can to help you. | |
| 5. adv. (usually followed by "with") In some manner or degree; in part; partly. See also what with | |
| What with singing and joking, the time passed quickly. | |
| 6. adv. Such. | |
| What a pity. | |
| What a beautiful day! | |
| 7. adv. (obsolete) Why? | |
| 8. adv. (now rare) Used to introduce each of two coordinate phrases or concepts; both…and. | |
| 9. adv. (Singlish) (alt form, wat) (used to contradict an assumption) | |
| 10. interj. An expression of surprise or disbelief. | |
| What! That’s amazing. | |
| 11. interj. Response that enquires what the asker desires (usually said unhappily). | |
| 12. interj. (UK, colloquial, dated) (clipping of what do you say)? | |
| It’s a nice day, what? | |
| 13. interj. What did you say? I beg your pardon? | |
| 14. det. Which; which kind of. | |
| What shirt are you going to wear? | |
| What time is it? | |
| What kind of car is that? | |
| 15. det. How much; how great (used in an exclamation). | |
| What talent he has! | |
| What a talent! | |
| 16. det. (relative) Whatever | |
| Write down what things come into your mind. | |
| 17. n. (obsolete) Something; thing; stuff. | |
| 18. n. The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what. | |
| 19. n. Something that is addressed by , as opposed to a person, addressed by who. | |
| a |
| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
| I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
| We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
| 4. art. The same; one. | |
| We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
| 5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
| A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
| He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
| 6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
| 7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
| The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
| 8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
| Stand a tiptoe. | |
| 9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
| Torn a pieces. | |
| 10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
| I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
| 11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
| A God’s name. | |
| 13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
| King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
| To set the people a worke. | |
| 14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
| 1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
| The times, they are a-changin'. | |
| 15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
| 1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
| Jacob, when he was a dying | |
| 16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
| 17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
| I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
| 18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
| 19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
| 20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
| The name of John a Gaunt. | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| 22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| tangle |
| 1. v. (intransitive) to become mixed together or intertwined | |
| Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight | |
| Don't tangle with someone three times your size. | |
| He tangled with the law. | |
| 3. v. to mix together or intertwine | |
| 4. v. to catch and hold; to ensnare. | |
| 5. n. A tangled twisted mass. | |
| 6. n. A complicated or confused state or condition. | |
| I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere. | |
| 7. n. An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight. | |
| 8. n. (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times. | |
| 9. n. A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns. | |
| 10. n. Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria. | |
| 11. n. (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and ot | |
| web |
| The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web. | |
| 1. n. Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web. | |
| 2. n. Specifically, the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web). | |
| Let me search the web for that. | |
| 3. n. (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing. | |
| He caught the ball in the web. | |
| 4. n. A latticed or woven structure. | |
| The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood. | |
| 5. n. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member. | |
| 6. n. (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail. Profile of flat-bottomed and bullhead railway rail showing the web | |
| 7. n. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals. | |
| 8. n. The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. | |
| 9. n. (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing. | |
| 10. n. (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper. | |
| 11. n. (dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage. | |
| 12. n. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead. | |
| 13. n. The blade of a sword. | |
| 14. n. The blade of a saw. | |
| 15. n. The thin, sharp part of a colter. | |
| 16. n. The bit of a key. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To construct or form a web. | |
| 18. v. To cover with a web or network. | |
| 19. v. To ensnare or entangle. | |
| 20. v. To provide with a web. | |
| 21. v. (transitive, obsolete) To weave. | |
| He |
| 1. pron. honoraltcaps, he | |
| I love the Lord for He is Great and Holy. | |
| 2. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied. | |
| 3. pron. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant. | |
| The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna? | |
| 4. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown. | |
| 5. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he". | |
| 6. n. (informal) A male. | |
| Alex totally is a he. | |
| 7. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). | |
| weaves |
| 1. n. plural of weave | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of weave | |
| weave |
| 1. v. To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | |
| This loom weaves yarn into sweaters. | |
| 2. v. To spin a cocoon or a web. | |
| Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs. | |
| 3. v. To unite by close connection or intermixture. | |
| 4. v. To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate. | |
| to weave the plot of a story | |
| 5. n. A type or way of weaving. | |
| That rug has a very tight weave. | |
| 6. n. Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To move by turning and twisting. | |
| The drunk weaved into another bar. | |
| 8. v. To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side. | |
| The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic. | |
