flags |
1. n. plural of flag | |
2. v. en-third person singular of flag | |
flag |
1. n. A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol. | |
2. n. An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites). | |
3. n. (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship. | |
4. n. (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag. | |
5. n. (construction) (abbreviation of flagstone:) a construction material used for paving, flooring, roofing or tiling | |
6. n. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event. | |
7. n. (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain option | |
8. n. (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked. | |
9. n. (British) An abbreviation for capture the flag. | |
10. n. (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itsel | |
11. n. (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) i | |
12. v. To furnish or deck out with flags. | |
13. v. To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something. | |
14. v. (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc. | |
Please flag down a taxi for me. | |
15. v. To convey (a message) by means of flag signals. | |
to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance | |
16. v. (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention. | |
I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this. | |
Users of the Internet forum can flag others' posts as inappropriate. | |
17. v. (computing) To signal (an event). | |
The compiler flagged three errors. | |
18. v. (computing) To set a program variable to true. | |
Flag the debug option before running the program. | |
19. v. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity. | |
20. v. (sports) To penalize for an infraction. | |
The defender was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. | |
21. v. (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble. | |
His strength flagged toward the end of the race. | |
22. v. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp. | |
23. v. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness. | |
to flag the wings | |
24. v. To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of. | |
25. n. Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus. | |
26. n. (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod. | |
27. n. A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving. | |
28. n. (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones. | |
29. v. To pave with flagstones. | |
Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend. | |
30. n. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc. | |
31. n. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks. | |
32. n. The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter. | |
33. n. (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value | |
fluttering |
1. n. Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation. | |
2. v. present participle of flutter | |
flutter |
1. v. (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly. | |
flags fluttering in the wind | |
2. v. (intransitive, of a winged animal) To flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings. | |
3. v. To cause something to flap. | |
A bird flutters its wings. | |
4. v. To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To be in a state of agitation or uncertainty. | |
6. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be frivolous. | |
7. n. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion. | |
the flutter of a fan | |
8. n. A state of agitation. | |
9. n. An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart. | |
10. n. (British) A small bet or risky investment. | |
11. n. (audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency. | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
wind |
1. n. Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure. | |
The wind blew through her hair as she stood on the deck of the ship. | |
As they accelerated onto the motorway, the wind tore the plywood off the car's roof-rack. | |
The winds in Chicago are fierce. | |
There was a sudden gust of wind. | |
2. n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action. | |
the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows | |
3. n. The ability to breathe easily. | |
After the second lap he was already out of wind. | |
The fall knocked the wind out of him. | |
4. n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.) | |
Steve caught wind of Martha's dalliance with his best friend. | |
5. n. (India, and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements). | |
6. n. (colloquial) Flatus. | |
Eww. Someone just passed wind. | |
7. n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument. | |
8. n. (music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section. | |
9. n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds". | |
10. n. Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds. | |
11. n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing. | |
12. n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words. | |
13. n. A bird, the dotterel. | |
14. n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury. | |
15. v. To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound. | |
16. v. To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen. | |
The boxer was winded during round two. | |
17. v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath. | |
I can’t run another step — I’m winded. | |
18. v. (British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side. | |
19. v. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate. | |
20. v. To perceive or follow by scent. | |
The hounds winded the game. | |
21. v. To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe. | |
22. v. To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something. | |
to wind thread on a spool or into a ball | |
23. v. To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock. | |
Please wind that old-fashioned alarm clock. | |
24. v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle. | |
25. v. To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight. | |
Vines wind round a pole. The river winds through the plain. | |
26. v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern. | |
27. v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate. | |
28. v. To cover or surround with something coiled about. | |
to wind a rope with twine | |
29. v. To make a winding motion. | |
30. n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist. | |
31. n. topics, en, Atmospheric phenomena | |