archaic |
1. n. (archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the W | |
2. n. (paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens. | |
3. adj. Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated. | |
4. adj. (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity. | |
5. adj. (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period | |
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. | |
Spanish |
1. adj. Of or pertaining to Spain. | |
2. adj. Of or pertaining to the people or culture of Spain. | |
3. adj. Of or pertaining to the Spanish language. | |
4. n. A Romance language primarily spoken in Spain and in the Americas. | |
5. n. (collective plural) People of Spain, collectively. | |
6. n. (US, informal collective in the plural) People of Hispanic origin; one whose first language is Spanish. | |
7. n. Spanish cuisine; traditional Spanish food. | |
8. v. (printing) To subject to spanishing, a printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a plastic material | |
entertainment |
1. n. An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively | |
2. n. A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others. | |
3. n. (obsolete) Maintenance or support. | |
4. n. (obsolete) Admission into service; service. | |
5. n. (obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages. | |
6. n. (obsolete) Reception; (provision of) food to guests or travellers. | |
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. | |
which |
1. det. (interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied. | |
Which song made the charts? | |
2. det. (relative) The one or ones that. | |
Show me which one is bigger. | |
They couldn't decide which song to play. | |
3. det. (relative) The one or ones mentioned. | |
He once owned a painting of the house, which painting would later be stolen. | |
For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived. | |
I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one. | |
4. pron. (interrogative) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied). | |
Which is bigger?; Which is which? | |
5. pron. (relative) Who; whom; what (of those mentioned or implied). | |
He walked by a door with a sign, which read: PRIVATE OFFICE. | |
We've met some problems which are very difficult to handle. | |
He had to leave, which was very difficult. | |
No art can be properly understood apart from the culture of which it is a part. | |
6. pron. (relative, archaic) Used of people (now generally who, whom or that). | |
7. n. An occurrence of the word which. | |
squadrons |
1. n. plural of squadron | |
squadron |
1. n. (abbreviated to: sqn) | |
2. n. (obsolete) Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square. | |
"Those half-rounding guards Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined." -Milton. | |
3. n. (military, historical army) A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers. | |
4. n. (military) A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, lead by a captain or a major. | |
5. n. (military, navy) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer | |
the North Atlantic Squadron - | |
6. n. (military, air force) A tactical air force unit; consists of at least two flights; multiple squadrons make up a group or wing (depending on particular air force). | |
of |
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. | |
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". | |
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). | |
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). | |
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. | |
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to. | |
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three. | |
6. prep. Expressing separation. | |
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.) | |
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband. | |
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.) | |
He seemed devoid of human feelings. | |
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.) | |
10. prep. Expressing origin. | |
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.) | |
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin. | |
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of. | |
The invention was born of necessity. | |
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.) | |
It is said that she died of a broken heart. | |
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.) | |
I am tired of all this nonsense. | |
15. prep. Expressing agency. | |
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).) | |
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. | |
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below). | |
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties. | |
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.) | |
It was very brave of you to speak out like that. | |
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance. | |
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.) | |
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic. | |
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.) | |
She wore a dress of silk. | |
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.) | |
What a lot of nonsense! | |
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.) | |
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich. | |
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also". | |
I'm not driving this wreck of a car. | |
25. prep. Introducing subject matter. | |
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma | |
I'm always thinking of you. | |
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning. | |
He told us the story of his journey to India. | |
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.) | |
This behaviour is typical of teenagers. | |
29. prep. Having partitive effect. | |
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among". | |
Most of these apples are rotten. | |
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.) | |
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. | |
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort. | |
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).) | |
He is a friend of mine. | |
34. prep. Expressing possession. | |
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. | |
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. | |
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. | |
The owner of the nightclub was arrested. | |
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter | |
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames. | |
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive". | |
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.) | |
She had a profound distrust of the police. | |
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics. | |
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards. | |
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner. | |
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by". | |
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain. | |
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.) | |
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%. | |
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod | |
It's not that big of a deal. | |
45. prep. Expressing a point in time. | |
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. | |
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river. | |
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time). | |
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while. | |
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.) | |
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off. | |
horses |
1. n. plural of horse | |
2. n. (slang) horsepower | |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of horse | |
horse |
1. n. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. | |
2. n. A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. | |
A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse. | |
3. n. (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass. | |
These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses. | |
4. n. (military, sometimes un) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category). | |
We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field. | |
All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again. | |
5. n. (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse. | |
Now just remind me how the horse moves again? | |
6. n. (slang) A large person. | |
Every linebacker they have is a real horse. | |
7. n. (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. | |
8. n. Equipment with legs. | |
9. n. In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top. | |
She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse. | |
10. n. A frame with legs, used to support something. | |
a clothes horse; a sawhorse | |
11. n. (nautical) Type of equipment. | |
12. n. A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope. | |
13. n. A breastband for a leadsman. | |
14. n. An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon. | |
15. n. A jackstay. | |
16. n. (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches | |
17. n. (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly. | |
18. n. (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a pl | |
19. n. (dated, slang) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination. | |
20. n. (dated, slang) horseplay; tomfoolery | |
21. v. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".) | |
22. v. To provide with a horse. | |
23. v. (obsolete) To get on horseback. | |
24. v. To sit astride of; to bestride. | |
25. v. (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare). | |
26. v. To take or carry on the back. | |
27. v. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment. | |
28. n. (slang) Heroin (drug). | |
Alright, mate, got any horse? | |
charge |
1. n. The scope of someone's responsibility. | |
The child was in the nanny's charge. | |
2. n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher. | |
The child was a charge of the nanny. | |
3. n. A load or burden; cargo. | |
The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings. | |
4. n. The amount of money levied for a service. | |
There will be a charge of five dollars. | |
5. n. An instruction. | |
I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month. | |
6. n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy. | |
Pickett did not die leading his famous charge. | |
7. n. An accusation. | |
That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust. | |
8. n. (physics, and chemistry) An electric charge. | |
9. n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender. | |
10. n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge. | |
11. n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon. | |
12. n. A forceful forward movement. | |
13. n. (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack. | |
to bring a weapon to the charge | |
14. n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment. | |
15. n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value. | |
16. n. (historical, or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre. | |
17. n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation. | |
18. v. To assign a duty or responsibility to. | |
19. v. To assign (a debit) to an account. | |
Let's charge this to marketing. | |
20. v. To pay on account, as by using a credit card. | |
Can I charge my purchase to my credit card? | |
Can I charge this purchase? | |
21. v. To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.). | |
to charge high for goods I won't charge you for the wheat | |
22. v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price. | |
to charge coal at $5 per unit | |
23. v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime. | |
I'm charging you with assault and battery. | |
24. v. To impute or ascribe. | |
25. v. To call to account; to challenge. | |
26. v. To place a burden or load on or in. | |
27. v. To ornament with or cause to bear. | |
to charge an architectural member with a moulding | |
28. v. (heraldry) To assume as a bearing. | |
He charges three roses. | |
29. v. (heraldry) To add to or represent on. | |
He charges his shield with three roses or. | |
30. v. To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials. | |
Charge your weapons; we're moving up. | |
31. v. To cause to take on an electric charge. | |
Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly. | |
32. v. To add energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery). | |
He charged the battery overnight. | |
Don't forget to charge the drill. | |
I charge my phone every night. | |
33. v. (intransitive) (Of a battery or a device containing a battery) To gain energy. | |
The battery is still charging: I can't use it yet. | |
His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever. | |
34. v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback. | |
35. v. (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group. | |
The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines. | |
36. v. (basketball) To commit a charging foul. | |
37. v. (cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or | |
38. v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still (A command given by a hunter to a dog). | |
at |
1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place. | |
Caesar was at Rome; at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine; at Jim’s house | |
2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.) | |
at six o’clock; at closing time; at night. | |
3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner). | |
He threw the ball at me. He shouted at her. | |
4. prep. Denotes a price. | |
3 apples at 2¢ (each) The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations. | |
5. prep. Occupied in (activity). | |
men at work | |
6. prep. In a state of. | |
She is at sixes and sevens with him. They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff. The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces. | |
7. prep. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series. | |
Sell at 90. Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders. I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost. | |
8. prep. Because of. | |
to laugh at a joke mad at their comments | |
9. prep. Indicates a means, method, or manner. | |
10. prep. Holding a given speed or rate. | |
It is growing at the rate of 3% a year. Cruising along at fifty miles per hour. | |
11. prep. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding. | |
The twins were both bad at chemistry. | |
He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation. | |
12. prep. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to | |
13. n. The at sign (@). | |
14. n. (alt form, att) (Laos currency unit) | |
each |
1. det. All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every). | |
make sure you wash each bowl well; the sun comes up each morning and sets each night | |
2. det. Every one; every thing. | |
I'm going to give each of you a chance to win. | |
3. det. For one; per. | |
The apples cost 50 cents each. | |
4. n. (operations, philosophy) An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping. | |
other |
1. adj. See other (determiner) below | |
2. adj. second. | |
I get paid every other week. | |
3. adj. Alien. | |
4. adj. Different. | |
5. adj. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right. | |
6. n. An other one, more often rendered as another. | |
I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others. | |
7. n. The other one; the second of two. | |
One boat is not better than the other. | |
8. det. Not the one or ones previously referred to. | |
Other people would do it differently. | |
9. adv. Apart from; in the phrase "other than". | |
Other than that, I'm fine. | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Otherwise. | |
It shall none other be. — Chaucer. | |
If you think other. — Shakespeare. | |
11. v. To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien. | |
12. v. To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise. | |
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. | |
riders |
1. n. plural of rider | |
rider |
1. n. One who rides, often a horse or motorcycle. | |
2. n. (politics) A provision annexed to a bill under the consideration of a legislature, having little connection with the subject matter of the bill. | |
3. n. (by extension) Something extra or burdensome that is imposed. | |
4. n. An amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements. | |
5. n. (insurance) An additional benefit attached to an insurance contract. | |
6. n. A small, sliding piece of aluminium on a chemical balance, used to determine small weights. | |
7. n. (archaic) An agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveller. | |
8. n. (obsolete) One who breaks in or manages a horse. | |
9. n. (cartomancy) The first Lenormand card, also known as either the horseman or the cavalier. | |
10. n. (math) A problem of extra difficulty added to another on an examination paper. | |
11. n. An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it. | |
12. n. (mining) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it. | |
13. n. (shipbuilding) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen the frame. | |
14. n. (nautical) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold. | |
15. n. A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard. | |
16. n. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A robber. | |
17. n. (chess) A piece, such as the rook or bishop, which moves any distance in one direction, as long as no other piece is in the way. | |
fighting |
1. v. present participle of fight | |
2. adj. Engaged in war or other conflict. | |
3. adj. Apt to provoke a fight. | |
4. n. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight | |
fight |
1. v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | |
A wounded animal will fight like a maniac, relentless, savage and murderous. | |
2. v. (reciprocal) To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | |
The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success. | |
He fought for the Democrats in the last election. | |
4. v. To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.). | |
The battle was fought just over that hill. | |
5. v. To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with. | |
My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II. | |
6. v. To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract. | |
The government pledged to fight corruption. | |
7. v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight. | |
to fight cocks; to fight one's ship | |
8. n. An occasion of fighting. | |
One of them got stuck in a chokehold and got stabbed to death during the fight. | |
9. n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies. | |
10. n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups. | |
Watch your language, are you looking for a fight? | |
11. n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match. | |
I'm going to Nick’s to watch the big fight tomorrow night. | |
12. n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife. | |
I'll put up a fight to save this company. | |
13. n. The will or ability to fight. | |
That little guy has a bit of fight in him after all. As soon as he saw the size of his opponent, all the fight went out of him. | |
14. n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships. | |
with |
1. prep. Against. | |
He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
He went with his friends. | |
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
5. prep. In support of. | |
We are with you all the way. | |
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by. | |
slain with robbers | |
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
cut with a knife | |
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
9. prep. Having, owning. | |
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
Do you want to come with? | |
11. adv. --> | |
12. n. alternative form of withe | |
bucklers |
1. n. plural of buckler | |
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. | |
canes |
1. n. plural of cane | |
2. n. (plural only) The genus , the sole temperate genus of bamboo native to the New World. | |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of cane | |
cane |
1. n. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof. | |
2. n. The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae. | |
3. n. The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed. | |
4. n. Sugar cane. | |
5. n. (US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar. | |
6. n. The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool. | |
7. n. A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment. | |
8. n. Corporal punishment by beating with a cane. | |
The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper. | |
9. n. A lance or dart made of cane. | |
10. n. A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane. | |
11. n. A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick. | |
After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk. | |
12. n. (glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking. | |
13. n. A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their co | |
14. n. Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like. | |
15. n. A local European measure of length; the canna. | |
16. v. To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement. | |
17. v. (UK, New Zealand, slang) To destroy; to comprehensively defeat. | |
Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0. | |
18. v. (UK, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion. | |
19. v. (slang) To produce extreme pain. | |
Don't hit me with that. It really canes! | |
Mate, my legs cane! | |
20. v. To make or furnish with cane or rattan. | |
to cane chairs | |