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 | |
harsh |
1. adj. Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses. | |
2. adj. Severe or cruel. | |
3. v. (intransitive, slang) To negatively criticize. | |
Quit harshing me already, I said that I was sorry! | |
4. v. (transitive, slang) to put a damper on (a mood). | |
Dude, you're harshing my buzz. | |
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. | |
sharp |
1. adj. Able to cut easily. | |
I keep my knives sharp so that they don't slip unexpectedly while carving. | |
2. adj. (colloquial) Intelligent. | |
My nephew is a sharp lad; he can count to 100 in six languages, and he's only five years old. | |
3. adj. Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded. | |
Ernest made the pencil too sharp and accidentally stabbed himself with it. | |
a sharp hill; a face with sharp features | |
4. adj. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note). | |
5. adj. (music) Higher in pitch than required. | |
The orchestra's third violin several times was sharp about an eighth of a tone. | |
6. adj. Having an intense, acrid flavour. | |
Milly couldn't stand sharp cheeses when she was pregnant, because they made her nauseated. | |
7. adj. Sudden and intense. | |
A pregnant woman during labor normally experiences a number of sharp contractions. | |
8. adj. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest. | |
Michael had a number of sharp ventures that he kept off the books. | |
9. adj. (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd. | |
a sharp dealer; a sharp customer | |
10. adj. Exact, precise, accurate; keen. | |
You'll need sharp aim to make that shot. | |
11. adj. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious. | |
sharp criticism; When the two rivals met, first there were sharp words, and then a fight broke out. | |
12. adj. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive. | |
You look so sharp in that tuxedo! | |
13. adj. Observant; alert; acute. | |
Keep a sharp watch on the prisoners. I don't want them to escape! | |
14. adj. Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees. | |
Drive down Main for three quarters of a mile, then make a sharp right turn onto Pine. | |
15. adj. Steep; precipitous; abrupt. | |
a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve | |
16. adj. (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible. | |
Sure, any planar graph can be five-colored. But that result is not sharp: in fact, any planar graph can be four-colored. That is sharp: the same can't be said for any lower number. | |
17. adj. (chess) Tactical; risky. | |
18. adj. Piercing; keen; severe; painful. | |
a sharp pain; the sharp and frosty winter air | |
19. adj. Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification. | |
a sharp appetite | |
20. adj. (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous. | |
21. adj. Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty. | |
22. adj. (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced. | |
23. adv. To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply. | |
24. adv. (notcomp) Exactly. | |
I'll see you at twelve o'clock sharp. | |
25. adv. (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable. | |
I didn't enjoy the concert much because the tenor kept going sharp on the high notes. | |
26. n. (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher. | |
The pitch pipe sounded out a perfect F♯ (F sharp). | |
Transposition frequently is harder to read because of all the sharps and flats on the staff. | |
27. n. (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯. | |
28. n. (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key. | |
The piece was difficult to read after it had been transposed, since in the new key many notes were sharps. | |
29. n. (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic. | |
Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is written in C♯ minor (C sharp minor.) | |
30. n. (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp. | |
Place sharps in the specially marked red container for safe disposal. | |
31. n. A sharp tool or weapon. | |
32. n. (medicine) A hypodermic syringe. | |
33. n. (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery. | |
34. n. A dishonest person; a cheater. | |
The casino kept in the break room a set of pictures of known sharps for the bouncers to see. | |
This usage is often classified as variant spelling of shark, and unrelated to the 'pointed' or 'cutting' meanings of sharp. | |
35. n. Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly. | |
36. n. A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between. | |
37. n. (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings. | |
38. n. (slang) An expert. | |
39. n. A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s). | |
40. v. (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp. | |
That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song! | |
41. v. To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
bitter |
1. adj. Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance). | |
The coffee tasted bitter. | |
2. adj. Harsh, piercing or stinging. | |
3. adj. Hateful or hostile. | |
They're bitter enemies. | |
4. adj. Cynical and resentful. | |
I've been bitter ever since that defeat. | |
5. n. (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic. | |
6. n. A type of beer heavily flavored with hops. | |
7. n. (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts. | |
8. v. To make bitter. | |
9. n. (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits). | |
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. | |
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. | |
pleasant |
1. adj. Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner. | |
We had a pleasant walk around the town. | |
It wasn't so hot outside, but pleasant enough to have lunch in the garden. | |
2. adj. (obsolete) Facetious, joking. | |
3. n. (obsolete) A wit; a humorist; a buffoon. | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
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. | |
taste |
1. n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals. | |
2. n. A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc. | |
Dr. Parker has good taste in wine. | |
3. n. Personal preference; liking; predilection. | |
I have developed a taste for fine wine. | |
4. n. (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole. | |
5. n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon. | |
6. v. To sample the flavor of something orally. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished. | |
The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic. | |
8. v. To experience. | |
I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise. | |
They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. | |
9. v. To take sparingly. | |
10. v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of. | |
11. v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle. | |
acrid |
1. adj. Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent. | |
Sodium polyacrylate is an acrid salt. | |
2. adj. Causing heat and irritation; corrosive. | |
The bombardier beetle sprays acrid secretions to defend itself. | |
3. adj. Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating. | |
That man has an acrid temper. | |
pungent |
1. adj. Having a strong odor that stings the nose, said especially of acidic or spicy substances. | |
I accidentally dropped the bottle of ammonia and after few seconds, a very pungent stench could be detected. | |
2. adj. Having a strong taste that stings the tongue, said especially of hot (spicy) food, which has a strong and sharp or bitter taste. | |
3. adj. (figurative) Stinging; acerbic. | |
The critic gave a pungent review. | |
4. adj. (botany) Having a sharp and stiff point. | |