by |
1. prep. Near or next to. | |
The mailbox is by the bus stop. | |
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval. | |
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July. | |
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of. | |
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour. | |
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of. | |
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare | |
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of. | |
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of. | |
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking. | |
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination. | |
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight. | |
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed. | |
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife. | |
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of. | |
Our stock is up by ten percent. | |
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another. | |
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches. | |
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to. | |
He cheated by his own admission. | |
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of. | |
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this. | |
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something. | |
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm. | |
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of. | |
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress. | |
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker. | |
I watched as it passed by. | |
16. adv. In the vicinity, near. | |
There was a shepherd close by. | |
The shop is hard by the High Street. | |
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business. | |
I'll stop by on my way home from work. | |
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave. | |
18. adv. Aside, away. | |
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring. | |
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary. | |
20. n. (card games) A pass | |
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye | |
extension |
1. n. The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length or breadth; an increase | |
2. n. The state of being extended | |
3. n. That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension") | |
4. n. A part of a building that has been extended from the original | |
5. n. (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension. | |
6. n. (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt. | |
7. n. (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line. | |
8. n. (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance. | |
9. n. (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward. | |
10. n. (telecommunication) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network. | |
11. n. (computing) A file extension. | |
Files with the .txt extension usually contain text. | |
12. n. (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application. | |
a browser extension | |
13. n. (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate. | |
14. n. (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages. | |
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. | |
restricted |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of restrict | |
2. adj. Limited within bounds. | |
3. adj. Available only to certain authorized groups of people. | |
restricted area | |
restricted access | |
a restricted military document | |
4. adj. (US, historical) Only available to customers who do not belong to racial, ethnic or religious minorities. | |
This hotel is restricted: no Blacks. - inline= | |
restrict |
1. v. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine | |
After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt. | |
2. v. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain. | |
If we restrict sine to-\frac\pi2,\frac\pi2, we can define its inverse. | |
3. adj. (obsolete) Restricted. | |