| attributive |
| 1. adj. (grammar, of a word or phrase) Modifying a noun, while in the same phrase as that noun. | |
| In "this big house", "big" is attributive, whereas in "this house is big", it is predicative. | |
| 2. adj. Having the nature of an attribute. | |
| 3. n. (grammar) An attributive word or phrase (see above), contrasted with predicative or substantive. | |
| In "this big house," "big" is an attributive, while in "this house is big," it is a predicative. | |
| In "this tiger is a man-eater," "man" is an attributive noun. | |
| average |
| 1. n. (mathematics) The arithmetic mean. | |
| The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18. | |
| 2. n. (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode. | |
| 3. n. (legal, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss. | |
| 4. n. Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods. | |
| 5. n. Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense. | |
| 6. n. (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc. | |
| batting average | |
| 7. n. (in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets. | |
| 8. adj. (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average. | |
| The average age of the participants was 18.5. | |
| 9. adj. Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category. | |
| I soon found I was only an average chess player. | |
| 10. adj. Typical. | |
| The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product. | |
| 11. adj. (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor. | |
| 12. v. To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean. | |
| If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18. | |
| 13. v. Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of. | |
| The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C. | |
| I averaged 75% in my examinations this year. | |
| 14. v. To divide among a number, according to a given proportion. | |
| to average a loss | |
| 15. v. (intransitive) To be, generally or on average. | |
| 16. n. (legal) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc. | |
| projected |
| 1. adj. displayed | |
| 2. v. simple past tense and past participle of project | |
| project |
| 1. n. A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages. | |
| 2. n. (usually US) An urban low-income housing building. | |
| Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished. | |
| 3. n. (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design. | |
| a man given to projects | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) A projectile. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) A projection. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) The place from which a thing projects. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface. | |
| 8. v. To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth. | |
| 9. v. To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward. | |
| 10. v. To make plans for; to forecast. | |
| The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007. | |
| 11. v. (transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality. | |
| 13. v. (cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection. | |
| value |
| 1. n. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable. | |
| The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world. | |
| 2. n. The degree of importance given to something. | |
| The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife. | |
| 3. n. That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system. | |
| He does not share his parents' values. | |
| family values | |
| 4. n. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else. | |
| 5. n. (music) The relative duration of a musical note. | |
| The value of a crotchet is twice that of a quaver. | |
| 6. n. (arts) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc. | |
| 7. n. (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined. | |
| The exact value of pi cannot be represented in decimal notation. | |
| 8. n. Precise meaning; import. | |
| the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument | |
| 9. n. (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc. | |
| The vein carries good values. | |
| the values on the hanging walls | |
| 10. n. (obsolete) Esteem; regard. | |
| 11. n. (obsolete) Valour; (also spelled) valew. | |
| 12. v. To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something. | |
| I will have the family jewels valued by a professional. | |
| 13. v. To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work. | |
| 14. v. To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon. | |
| Gold was valued highly among the Romans. | |
| 15. v. To hold dear. | |
| I value these old photographs. | |
