| you |
| 1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object. | |
| 2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself. | |
| 3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) | |
| 4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.) | |
| Both of you should get ready now. | |
| You are all supposed to do as I tell you. | |
| 5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.) | |
| 6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object). | |
| 7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to. | |
| Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus? | |
| 8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis. | |
| You idiot! | |
| 9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal. | |
| can't |
| 1. v. Cannot (negative auxiliaryArnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, , Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513); is unable to; does not have the ability to. | |
| I can’t quite get it to work. | |
| 2. v. Is forbidden to; is not permitted to. | |
| You can’t enter the hall without a ticket. | |
| 3. v. Often with be: is logically impossible. | |
| The butler can’t be the murderer because he was in London that evening. | |
| can |
| 1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to. | |
| She can speak English, French, and German. I can play football. Can you remember your fifth birthday? | |
| 2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to. | |
| You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework. Can I use your pen? | |
| 3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible. | |
| Can it be Friday already? | |
| Teenagers can really try their parents' patience. | |
| Animals can experience emotions. | |
| 4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception. | |
| Can you hear that?. | |
| I can feel the baby moving inside me. | |
| 5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know. | |
| 6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top. | |
| 7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can). | |
| 8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish. | |
| 9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory. | |
| Shit or get off the can. | |
| Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me. | |
| 10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks. | |
| 11. n. (slang) Jail or prison. | |
| Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years. | |
| 12. n. (slang) Headphones. | |
| 13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup. | |
| 14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark | |
| 15. n. A chimney pot. | |
| 16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar. | |
| They spent August canning fruit and vegetables. | |
| 17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.). | |
| He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail. | |
| 18. v. To shut up. | |
| Can your gob. | |
| 19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee. | |
| The boss canned him for speaking out. | |
| not |
| 1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb. | |
| Did you take out the trash? No, I did not. | |
| Not knowing any better, I went ahead. | |
| 2. adv. To no degree. | |
| That is not red; it's orange. | |
| 3. conj. And not. | |
| I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken. | |
| He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple. | |
| 4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. | |
| I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not! | |
| Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not! | |
| 5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function. | |
| You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip. | |
| 6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not. | |
| fault |
| 1. n. A defect; something that detracts from perfection. | |
| 2. n. A mistake or error. | |
| No!. This is my fault, not yours | |
| 3. n. A weakness of character; a failing. | |
| For all her faults, she's a good person at heart. | |
| 4. n. A minor offense. | |
| 5. n. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake. | |
| The fault lies with you. | |
| 6. n. (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity. | |
| 7. n. (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam. | |
| slate fault, dirt fault, etc. | |
| 8. n. (tennis) An illegal serve. | |
| 9. n. (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit. | |
| 10. n. (obsolete) want; lack | |
| 11. n. (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent. | |
| 12. v. To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone. | |
| 13. v. (intransitive, geology) To fracture. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error. | |
| 15. v. (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault. | |
| Her |
| 1. pron. honoraltcaps, her | |
| 2. det. Belonging to her. | |
| This is her book | |
| 3. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc. | |
| Give it to her (after preposition) | |
| He wrote her a letter (indirect object) | |
| He treated her for a cold (direct object) | |
| 4. n. (informal) A female person or animal. | |
| I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her. | |
| for |
| 1. conj. (dated) Because. | |
| 2. prep. Towards. | |
| The astronauts headed for the moon. | |
| 3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to. | |
| I have something for you. | |
| 4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of. | |
| We're having a birthday party for Janet. | |
| The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary. | |
| The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala. | |
| 5. prep. Supporting. | |
| All those for the motion raise your hands. | |
| 6. prep. Because of. | |
| He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him. | |
| (UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight. | |
| She was the worse for drink. | |
| 7. prep. Over a period of time. | |
| I've lived here for three years. | |
| They fought for days over a silly pencil. | |
| 8. prep. Throughout an extent of space. | |
| 9. prep. On behalf of. | |
| I will stand in for him. | |
| 10. prep. Instead of, or in place of. | |
| 11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire. | |
| I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday. | |
| He's going for his doctorate. | |
| Do you want to go for coffee? | |
| People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers. | |
| Can you go to the store for some eggs? | |
| I'm saving up for a car. | |
| Don't wait for an answer. | |
| What did he ask you for? | |
| 12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward. | |
| Run for the hills! | |
| He was headed for the door when he remembered. | |
| 13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect. | |
| Fair for its day. | |
| She's spry for an old lady. | |
| 14. prep. Despite, in spite of. | |
| 15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive. | |
| For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.) | |
| All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.) | |
| 16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio | |
| In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day | |
| 17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen. | |
| At close of play, England were 305 for 3. | |
| 18. prep. To be, or as being. | |
| 19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.) | |
| 20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs). | |
| consistency |
| 1. n. Local coherence. | |
| 2. n. Correspondence or compatibility. | |
| 3. n. Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent. | |
| They want to achieve a high degree of consistency in their process and their product. | |
| 4. n. The degree of viscosity of something. | |
| Mix it until it has the consistency of a thick paste. | |
| 5. n. (logic) Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency. | |
