English Sentence Analyser

Use this page to analyse and learn English text. You can copy text into the box below or get a random sentence from our database. Press the Analyse button to get translations of the text and words.

botany
1. n. The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve the whole plant.
2. n. The plant life of a geographical area.
the botany of Greenland
3. n. The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
4. n. A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place.
wild
1. adj. Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated).
Przewalski's horses are the only remaining wild horses.
2. adj. From or relating to wild creatures.
wild honey
3. adj. Unrestrained or uninhibited.
I was filled with wild rage when I discovered the infidelity, and punched a hole in the wall.
4. adj. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
The fraternity was infamous for its wild parties, which frequently resulted in police involvement.
5. adj. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
Her mother was wild with fear when she didn't return home after the party.
6. adj. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
After a week on the trail without a mirror, my hair was wild and dirty.
7. adj. Enthusiastic.
I'm not wild about the idea of a two day car trip with my nephews, but it's my only option.
8. adj. Inaccurate.
The novice archer fired a wild shot and hit her opponent's target.
9. adj. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
a wild roadstead
10. adj. (nautical) Hard to steer; said of a vessel.
11. adj. (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
12. adj. (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
Did you hear? Pat won the lottery! - Wow, that's wild!
13. adv. Inaccurately; not on target.
The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.
14. n. The undomesticated state of a wild animal
After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild.
15. n. (chiefly in the plural) a wilderness
16. v. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
17. n. alt form, weald
said
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of say
2. adj. Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.
The said party has denied the charges.
3. det. Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.
Said party has denied the charges.
say
1. v. To pronounce.
Please say your name slowly and clearly.
2. v. To recite.
Martha, will you say the Pledge of Allegiance?
3. v. To tell, either verbally or in writing.
He said he would be here tomorrow.
4. v. To indicate in a written form.
The sign says it’s 50 kilometres to Paris.
5. v. (impersonal) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
They say "when in Rome, do as the Romans do", which means "behave as those around you do.".
6. v. (informal, imperative) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
A holiday somewhere warm – Florida, say – would be nice.
Say he refuses. What do we do then?
Say your family is starving and you don't have any money, is it ok to steal some food?
7. v. (intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
8. v. (transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
9. n. A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision.
10. adv. For example; let us assume.
Pick a color you think they'd like, say, peach.
He was driving pretty fast, say, fifty miles per hour.
11. interj. (colloquial) Used to gain one's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion
Say, what did you think about the movie?
12. n. A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
13. v. To try; to assay.
14. n. Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
15. n. Tried quality; temper; proof.
16. n. Essay; trial; attempt.
17. n. (Scotland) A strainer for milk.
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.
plants
1. n. plural of plant
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of plant
plant
1. n. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
2. n. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloro
3. n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
4. n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
5. n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
6. n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before!
7. n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
8. n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
9. n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
10. n. Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
11. n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
12. n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
13. n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
14. n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
15. n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
16. v. To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
17. v. To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
18. v. To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one's feet on solid ground
19. v. To place in the ground.
20. v. To furnish or supply with plants.
to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
21. v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
22. v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
to plant a colony
23. v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
to plant Christianity among the heathen
24. v. To set up; to install; to instate.
growing
1. v. present participle of grow
2. n. growth; increase
3. n. (attributive) Connected with growing
The growing season here begins in March.
4. adj. That grows.
Milk is good for growing children.
grow
1. v. To become bigger.
Children grow quickly.
2. v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
Flowers grew on the trees as summer approached.
A long tail began to grow from his backside.
3. v. To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.
Have you ever grown your hair before?
4. v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
The boy grew wise as he matured.
The town grew smaller and smaller in the distance as we travelled.
You have grown strong.
5. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
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.
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.
cultivated
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of cultivate
2. adj. (of a person) cultured, refined, educated
3. adj. (of a plant) grown by cultivation (not wild)
4. adj. (of land) farmed
cultivate
1. v. To grow plants, notably crops
Most farmers in this region cultivate maize.
2. v. To nurture; to foster; to tend.
They tried to cultivate an interest in learning among their students.
3. v. To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.
field
1. n. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.
2. n. (usually plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
3. n. # An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
4. n. A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
There were some cows grazing in a field.
A crop circle was made in a corn field.
5. n. (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
oil field; gold field
6. n. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
7. n. A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
8. n. An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
soccer field
Substitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked.
9. n. # (baseball, obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
10. n. # (baseball) The outfield.
11. n. A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game.
12. n. A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
13. n. (metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field.
14. n. Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
15. n. (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that ass
magnetic field; gravitational field; scalar field
16. n. (Any of certain structures serving cognition.)
17. n. # The extent of a given perception.
# field of view
18. n. # A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
# The design needs to be field-tested before we commit to manufacture.
# Field work traditionally distinguishes true archaeologists from armchair archaeologists.
# He needs some time in the field before his judgment can be trusted.
19. n. # A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
# He was an expert in the field of Chinese history.
20. n. # An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
21. n. # (algebra) A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
# The set of rational numbers,\mathbbQ, is the prototypical field.
22. n. A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
23. n. # (heraldry) The background of the shield.
24. n. # (vexillology) The background of the flag.
25. n. # A concrete section in a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
# The form has fields for each element of the customer's home address and ship-to address.
26. n. # A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
27. n. ## (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
28. v. (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
29. v. (baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.
30. v. (transitive, sports) To place a team in (a game).
The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
31. v. To answer; to address.
She will field questions immediately after her presentation.
32. v. To defeat.
They fielded a fearsome army.
33. v. To execute research (in the field).
He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.
34. v. (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.

Dictionary entries from Wiktionary