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. | |
stern |
1. adj. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner. | |
2. adj. Grim and forbidding in appearance. | |
3. n. (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel. | |
4. n. (figurative) The post of management or direction. | |
5. n. The hinder part of anything. | |
6. n. The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog. | |
7. n. A bird, the black tern. | |
authoritarian |
1. adj. Of, or relating to, absolute obedience to an authority. | |
2. adj. Characterised by a tyrannical obedience to an authority; dictatorial. | |
The authoritarian government was demanding stricter laws for low-wage peasants. | |
3. adj. Tending to impose one's demands upon others as if one were an authority. | |
4. n. One who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority. | |
The dictator was an authoritarian. | |
5. n. One who follows and is excessively obedient to authority. | |
demanding |
1. adj. Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience. | |
2. v. present participle of demand | |
demand |
1. n. The desire to purchase goods and services. | |
Prices usually go up when demand exceeds supply. | |
2. n. (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price. | |
3. n. A forceful claim for something. | |
Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality. | |
4. n. A requirement. | |
His job makes many demands on his time. | |
There is a demand for voluntary health workers in the poorer parts of Africa and Asia. | |
5. n. An urgent request. | |
She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention. | |
6. n. An order. | |
7. n. (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time i | |
8. v. To request forcefully. | |
I demand to see the manager. | |
9. v. To claim a right to something. | |
The bank is demanding the mortgage payment. | |
10. v. To ask forcefully for information. | |
I demand an immediate explanation. | |
11. v. To require of someone. | |
This job demands a lot of patience. | |
12. v. (legal) To issue a summons to court. | |
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. | |
respect |
1. n. an attitude of consideration or high regard | |
He is an intellectual giant, and I have great respect for him. | |
we do respect people for their dignity and worth. | |
2. n. good opinion, honor, or admiration | |
3. n. (always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death. | |
The mourners paid their last respects to the deceased poet. | |
4. n. a particular aspect, feature or detail of something | |
This year's model is superior to last year's in several respects. | |
5. n. Good will; favor | |
6. v. To have respect for. | |
She is an intellectual giant, and I respect her greatly. | |
7. v. To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right. | |
I respect your right to hold that belief, although I think it is nonsense. | |
8. v. To abide by an agreement. | |
They failed to respect the treaty they had signed, and invaded. | |
9. v. To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed. | |
10. v. (transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with. | |
11. v. (obsolete) To regard; to consider; to deem. | |
12. v. (obsolete) To look toward; to face. | |
13. interj. (Jamaica) hello, hi | |