bodybuilding |
1. n. A sport in which the aesthetics of muscular development is the basis for competition. | |
2. n. (dated) Work done to construct or repair the body of an automobile. | |
having |
1. v. present participle of have | |
2. n. Something owned; possession; goods; estate. | |
have |
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst. | |
1. v. To possess, own, hold. | |
I have a house and a car. | |
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street! | |
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship). | |
I have two sisters. | |
I have a lot of work to do. | |
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action. | |
I have breakfast at six o'clock. | |
Can I have a look at that? | |
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now. | |
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in. | |
What class do you have right now? I have English. | |
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day. | |
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.) | |
I have already eaten today. | |
I had already eaten. | |
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to. | |
I have to go. | |
7. v. To give birth to. | |
The couple always wanted to have children. | |
My wife is having the baby right now! | |
My mother had me when she was 25. | |
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with. | |
He's always bragging about how many women he's had. | |
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner. | |
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me. | |
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation. | |
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town. | |
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be. | |
He had him arrested for trespassing. | |
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears. | |
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.) | |
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week. | |
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice. | |
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being. | |
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening. | |
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.)) | |
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we? | |
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she? | |
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he? | |
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take. | |
I could have him! | |
I'm gonna have you! | |
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language. | |
I have no German. | |
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of. | |
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before. | |
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from. | |
He had a cold last week. | |
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo. | |
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that. | |
He had surgery on his hip yesterday. | |
I'm having the time of my life! | |
20. v. To trick, to deceive. | |
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke. | |
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate. | |
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it. | |
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night. | |
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by. | |
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it. | |
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest. | |
Thank you for having me! | |
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation. | |
What do you have for problem two? | |
I have two contacts on my scope. | |
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case. | |
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon. | |
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person. | |
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | |
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading. | |
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have. | |
extreme |
1. adj. Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost. | |
At the extreme edges, the coating is very thin. | |
2. adj. In the greatest or highest degree; intense. | |
He has an extreme aversion to needles, and avoids visiting the doctor. | |
3. adj. Excessive, or far beyond the norm. | |
His extreme love of model trains showed in the rails that criscrossed his entire home. | |
4. adj. Drastic, or of great severity. | |
I think the new laws are extreme, but many believe them necessary for national security. | |
5. adj. Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment. | |
Television has begun to reflect the growing popularity of extreme sports such as bungee jumping and skateboarding. | |
6. adj. (archaic) Ultimate, final or last. | |
the extreme hour of life | |
7. n. The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition. | |
8. n. Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale. | |
extremes of temperature | |
9. n. A drastic expedient. | |
10. n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6. | |
11. adv. (archaic) Extremely. | |
muscular |
1. adj. Of, relating to, or connected with muscles. | |
2. adj. Brawny, thewy, having strength. | |
3. adj. Having large, well-developed muscles. | |
4. adj. (figurative) Strong, robust. | |
definition |
1. n. (semantics, lexicography) A statement of the meaning of a word or word group or a sign or symbol (dictionary definitions). | |
2. n. A statement expressing the essential nature of something; formulation | |
3. n. The action or process of defining. | |
4. n. The act of defining; determination of the limits. | |
5. n. A product of defining. | |
6. n. The action or power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear. | |
Her comic genius is beyond definition. | |
7. n. Clarity of visual presentation, distinctness of outline or detail. | |
The definition of a telescope. | |
Improve the definition of an image. | |
8. n. Clarity, especially of musical sound in reproduction. | |
9. n. Sharp demarcation of outlines or limits. | |
A jacket with distinct waist definition. | |
10. n. (bodybuilding) The degree to which individual muscles are distinct on the body. | |
11. n. (programming) A statement which provides a previous declaration with a value or body of a subroutine (in the case of function). | |
12. n. (mathematics) A statement that establishes the referent of a term or notation. | |