| it |
| 1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals. | |
| Put it over there. | |
| Take each day as it comes. | |
| I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today. | |
| 2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender. | |
| She took the baby and held it in her arms. | |
| 3. pron. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation. | |
| It's me. John. | |
| Is it her? | |
| 4. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it) | |
| It is nearly 10 o’clock. | |
| It’s 10:45 read ten-forty-five. | |
| It’s very cold today. | |
| It’s lonely without you. | |
| 5. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms. | |
| stick it out | |
| live it up | |
| rough it | |
| 6. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject i | |
| It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see) | |
| I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that) | |
| It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing) | |
| He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that) | |
| It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if) | |
| 7. pron. All or the end; something after which there is no more. | |
| Are there more students in this class, or is this it? | |
| That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you. | |
| 8. pron. (chiefly pejorative, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male. | |
| 9. pron. (obsolete) (Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun): That which; what. | |
| 10. det. (obsolete) its | |
| 11. n. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being. | |
| 12. n. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag. | |
| In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it… | |
| 13. n. (British) The game of tag. | |
| Let's play it at breaktime. | |
| 14. n. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty. | |
| 15. n. (euphemism) Sexual activity. | |
| caught them doing it | |
| 16. adj. (colloquial) Most fashionable. | |
| just |
| 1. adj. Factually right, correct; factual. | |
| It is a just assessment of the facts. | |
| 2. adj. Rationally right, correct. | |
| 3. adj. Morally right; upright, righteous, equitable; fair. | |
| It looks like a just solution at first glance. | |
| 4. adj. Proper, adequate. | |
| 5. adv. Only, simply, merely. | |
| Plant just a few tomatoes, unless you can freeze or dry them. | |
| He calls it vermilion, but it's just red to me. | |
| 6. adv. (sentence adverb) Used to reduce the force of an imperative; simply. | |
| Just follow the directions on the box. | |
| 7. adv. (speech act) Used to convey a less serious or formal tone | |
| I just called to say "hi". | |
| 8. adv. (speech act) Used to show humility. | |
| Lord, we just want to thank You and praise Your Name. | |
| 9. adv. (degree) absolutely, positively | |
| It is just splendid! | |
| 10. adv. Moments ago, recently. | |
| They just left, but you may leave a message at the desk. | |
| 11. adv. By a narrow margin; closely; nearly. | |
| The fastball just missed my head! | |
| The piece just might fit. | |
| 12. adv. Exactly, precisely, perfectly. | |
| He wants everything just right for the big day. | |
| 13. interj. (slang) Expressing dismay or discontent. | |
| 14. n. A joust, tournament. | |
| 15. v. To joust, fight a tournament. | |
| more |
| 1. det. comparative degree of many, : in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.) | |
| More people are arriving. | |
| There are more ways to do this than I can count. | |
| 2. det. comparative degree of much, : in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.) | |
| I want more soup; I need more time | |
| There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places. | |
| 3. adv. To a greater degree or extent. | |
| He walks more in the morning these days. | |
| 4. adv. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. | |
| 5. adv. Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. | |
| You're more beautiful than I ever imagined. | |
| 6. adv. (now dialectal, or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18thc.) | |
| I was more better at English than you. | |
| 7. adv. rather | |
| He is more clever than wise. | |
| 8. n. An extra amount or extent. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip. | |
| 10. n. (dialectal) a root; stock. | |
| 11. n. A plant. | |
| 12. v. To root up. | |
| 13. pron. a greater amount of people or things | |
| laws |
| 1. n. plural of law | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of law | |
| law |
| 1. n. The body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities. | |
| the courts interpret the law; entrapment is against the law | |
| 2. n. The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic. | |
| property law; commercial hunting and fishing law | |
| 3. n. Common law, as contrasted with equity. | |
| 4. n. A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way. | |
| There is a law against importing wallabies. A new law forbids driving on that road. The court ruled that the executive order was not law and nullified it. | |
| 5. n. (more generally) (A rule, such as:) | |
| 6. n. Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores). | |
| "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow. the law of self-preservation | |
| 7. n. A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art. | |
| the laws of playwriting and poetry | |
| 8. n. A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions | |
| the laws of thermodynamics | |
| Newton's third law of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction. This is one of several laws derived from | |
| 9. n. (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule. | |
| Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation. | |
| 10. n. Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences. | |
| the law of scarcity; the law of supply and demand | |
| 11. n. (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC. | |
| 12. n. The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules. | |
| They worked to maintain law and order. It was a territory without law, marked by violence. | |
| 13. n. (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers). | |
| Here comes the law — run! | |
| 14. n. The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc). | |
| He is studying for a career in law. She has practiced law in New York for twenty years. | |
| 15. n. Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules. | |
| She went to university to study law. | |
| 16. n. Litigation, legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc). | |
| They were quick to go to law. | |
| 17. n. (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair. | |
| 18. n. (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos. | |
| 19. n. (legal, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law)", "(m", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".) | |
| 20. v. (obsolete) To work as a lawyer; to practice law. | |
| 21. v. (ambitransitive, chiefly dialectal) To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate. | |
| 22. v. (nonstandard) To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; govern. | |
| 23. v. (informal) To enforce the law. | |
| 24. v. To subject to legal restrictions. | |
| 25. n. (obsolete) A tumulus of stones. | |
| 26. n. (Scottish, and Northern England, archaic) A hill. | |
| 27. interj. (dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks. | |
| 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. | |
| Red |
| 1. n. A Communist. | |
| 2. n. A supporter of a sports team who wears red as part of their kit. | |
| 3. adj. Communist | |
| the Red Army | |
| 4. adj. Having red as its color. | |
| The girl wore a red skirt. | |
| 5. adj. (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger. | |
| Her hair had red highlights. | |
| 6. adj. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black | |
| I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens. | |
| 7. adj. (often, capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red: | |
| 8. adj. (US, modern) the U.S. Republican party | |
| a red state | |
| a red Congress | |
| 9. adj. (also British) Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germ | |
| the red-black grand coalition in Germany | |
| 10. adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations | |
| 11. adj. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation. | |
| 12. adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red. | |
| 13. n. Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from | |
| (color panel, F00000) | |
| 14. n. A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. | |
| 15. n. (snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours. | |
| 16. n. Red wine. | |
| 17. n. (informal, birdwatching) A redshank. | |
| 18. n. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind. | |
| 19. n. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug. | |
| 20. n. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal) | |
| 21. n. (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) red lemonade | |
| 22. n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks. | |
| 23. n. (US, colloquial) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red") | |
| 24. v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede | |
| 25. v. alternative spelling of redd | |
| tape |
| 1. n. Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape. | |
| Hand me some tape. I need to fix a tear in this paper. | |
| 2. n. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll. | |
| After the party there was tape all over the place. | |
| 3. n. Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race. | |
| Jones broke the tape in 47.77 seconds, a new world record. | |
| 4. n. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape. | |
| Did you get that on tape? | |
| 5. n. (informal, by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it. | |
| 6. n. (informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus. | |
| Old couples will sometimes play tapes at each other during a fight. | |
| 7. n. (trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades. | |
| Don’t fight the tape. | |
| 8. n. (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick | |
| His pass was right on the tape. | |
| 9. v. To bind with adhesive tape. | |
| Be sure to tape your parcel securely before posting it. | |
| 10. v. To record, particularly onto magnetic tape. | |
| You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping. | |
| 11. v. (informal, passive) To understand, figure out. | |
| I've finally got this thing taped. | |
