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. | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
place |
1. n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area. | |
2. n. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard. | |
3. n. A group of houses. | |
They live at Westminster Place. | |
4. n. An inhabited area: a village, town, or city. | |
5. n. Any area of the earth: a region. | |
He is going back to his native place on vacation. | |
6. n. The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit. | |
We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places. | |
7. n. The area where one lives: one's home, formerly(chiefly) country estates and farms. | |
Do you want to come over to my place later? | |
8. n. An area of the skin. | |
9. n. (euphemism) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory. | |
10. n. (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle. | |
11. n. A location or position in space. | |
12. n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader. | |
13. n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document. | |
14. n. (obsolete) A topic. | |
15. n. A frame of mind. | |
I'm in a strange place at the moment. | |
16. n. (chess) A chess position; a square of the chessboard. | |
17. n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization. | |
18. n. A role or purpose; a station. | |
It is really not my place to say what is right and wrong in this case. | |
19. n. The position of a contestant in a competition. | |
We thought we would win but only ended up in fourth place. | |
20. n. (horse-racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position. | |
to win a bet on a horse for place | |
21. n. The position as a member of a sports team. | |
He lost his place in the national team. | |
22. n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town. | |
23. n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity. | |
three decimal places; the hundreds place | |
24. n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding. | |
That's what I said in the first place! | |
25. n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for. | |
26. v. To put (an object or person) in a specific location. | |
He placed the glass on the table. | |
27. v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition. | |
The Cowboys placed third in the league. | |
28. v. (intransitive, racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs. | |
In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars. | |
29. v. To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered. | |
I've seen him before, but I can't quite place where. | |
30. v. (transitive, in the passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race. | |
Run Ragged was placed fourth in the race. | |
31. v. To sing (a note) with the correct pitch. | |
32. v. To arrange for or to make (a bet). | |
I placed ten dollars on the Lakers beating the Bulls. | |
33. v. To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job. | |
They phoned hoping to place her in the management team. | |
34. v. (sports) To place-kick (a goal). | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
original |
1. adj. (not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others. | |
the original state of mankind; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process | |
2. adj. (not comparable) First in a series or copies/versions. | |
The original manuscript contained spelling errors which were fixed in later versions. | |
This recording is by the original broadway cast. | |
3. adj. (not comparable) Newly created. | |
Tonight we will hear an original work by one of our best composers. | |
4. adj. (comparable) Fresh, different. | |
The paper contains a number of original ideas about color perception. | |
5. adj. (not comparable) Pioneering. | |
Parker was one of the original bebop players. | |
6. adj. (not comparable) Having as its origin. | |
This kind of barbecue is original to North Carolina. | |
7. n. An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived. | |
This manuscript is the original. | |
8. n. A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent. | |
You’re a real original. | |
9. n. (archaic) An eccentric. | |
stock |
1. n. A store or supply. | |
2. n. (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory. | |
We have a stock of televisions on hand. | |
3. n. A supply of anything ready for use. | |
Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season. | |
4. n. Railroad rolling stock. | |
5. n. (cards, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players. | |
6. n. Farm or ranch animals; livestock. | |
7. n. The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use. | |
8. n. (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder. | |
9. n. The price or value of the stock for a company on the stock market. | |
When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously. | |
10. n. (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued. | |
After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here. | |
11. n. Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one. | |
12. n. The raw material from which things are made; feedstock. | |
13. n. Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup. | |
14. n. The type of paper used in printing. | |
The books were printed on a heavier stock this year. | |
15. n. Undeveloped film; film stock. | |
16. n. Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed. | |
17. n. Stock theater, summer stock theater. | |
18. n. The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches. | |
19. n. (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted. | |
20. n. lineage, family, ancestry. | |
21. n. # (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily. | |
22. n. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola. | |
23. n. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached. | |
24. n. (firearm) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder. | |
25. n. The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc. | |
26. n. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place. | |
27. n. The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc. | |
28. n. The tailstock of a lathe. | |
29. n. A bar, stick or rod. | |
30. n. A ski pole. | |
31. n. (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes. | |
32. n. (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder. | |
33. n. (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore) | |
34. n. A type of (now formal or official) neckwear. | |
35. n. A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competit | |
36. n. A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar. | |
37. n. A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle | |
38. n. (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings. | |
39. n. (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking. | |
40. n. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post. | |
41. n. (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense. | |
42. n. (historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. | |
43. n. (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction. | |
44. n. (in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings. | |
45. n. (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc. | |
46. n. The beater of a fulling mill. | |
47. v. To have on hand for sale. | |
The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables. | |
48. v. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply. | |
to stock a warehouse with goods | |
to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools | |
to stock land, i.e. to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass | |
49. v. To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale. | |
50. v. To put in the stocks as punishment. | |
51. v. (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place. | |
52. v. (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck. | |
53. adj. Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock. | |
stock items | |
stock sizes | |
54. adj. (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car. | |
55. adj. Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic. | |
That band is quite stock | |
He gave me a stock answer | |
56. n. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado. | |
from |
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at. | |
This wine comes from France. | |
I got a letter from my brother. | |
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. | |
He had books piled from floor to ceiling. | |
He left yesterday from Chicago. | |
Face away from the wall! | |
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation. | |
20 from 31 leaves 11. | |
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of. | |
An umbrella protects from the sun. | |
He knows right from wrong. | |
which |
1. det. (interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied. | |
Which song made the charts? | |
2. det. (relative) The one or ones that. | |
Show me which one is bigger. | |
They couldn't decide which song to play. | |
3. det. (relative) The one or ones mentioned. | |
He once owned a painting of the house, which painting would later be stolen. | |
For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived. | |
I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one. | |
4. pron. (interrogative) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied). | |
Which is bigger?; Which is which? | |
5. pron. (relative) Who; whom; what (of those mentioned or implied). | |
He walked by a door with a sign, which read: PRIVATE OFFICE. | |
We've met some problems which are very difficult to handle. | |
He had to leave, which was very difficult. | |
No art can be properly understood apart from the culture of which it is a part. | |
6. pron. (relative, archaic) Used of people (now generally who, whom or that). | |
7. n. An occurrence of the word which. | |
anything |
1. pron. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; a thing of any kind; something or other. | |
I would not do it for anything or any ring. | |
2. pron. (with “as” or “like”) Expressing an indefinite comparison. | |
3. n. Someone or something of importance. | |
4. adv. In any way, any extent or any degree. | |
That isn't anything like a car. | |
She's not anything like as strong as me. | |
Is |
1. n. plural of I | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of be | |
He is a doctor. He retired some time ago. | |
Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him. | |
3. n. plural of i | |
remember to dot your is | |
be |
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence. | |
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. | |
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place. | |
The cup is on the table. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place. | |
When will the meeting be? | |
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar. | |
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come. | |
I have been to Spain many times. | |
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating. | |
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same. | |
Knowledge is bliss. | |
Hi, I’m Jim. | |
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same. | |
3 times 5 is fifteen. | |
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal. | |
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995. | |
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it. | |
The sky is blue. | |
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase. | |
The sky is a deep blue today. | |
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice. | |
The dog was drowned by the boy. | |
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses. | |
The woman is walking. | |
I shall be writing to you soon. | |
We liked to chat while we were eating. | |
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go". | |
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic. | |
I am to leave tomorrow. | |
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car. | |
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement. | |
This building is three hundred years old. | |
I am 75 kilograms. | |
He’s about 6 feet tall. | |
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years. | |
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.) | |
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day. | |
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.) | |
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo. | |
What time is it there? It’s night. | |
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event. | |
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period) | |
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him. | |
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like. | |
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid. | |
Why is it so dark in here? | |
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way. | |
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.". | |
Why is he being nice to me? | |
brought |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of bring | |
bring |
1. v. To transport toward somebody/somewhere. | |
Waiter, please bring me a single malt whiskey. | |
2. v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute. | |
The new company director brought a fresh perspective on sales and marketing. | |
3. v. To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody. | |
4. v. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide. | |
5. v. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch. | |
What does coal bring per ton? | |
6. v. (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball. | |
The closer Jones can really bring it. | |
7. interj. The sound of a telephone ringing. | |
8. interj. cln, en, basic words, irregular verbs, onomatopoeias | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
produced |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of produce | |
produce |
1. v. To yield, make or manufacture; to generate. | |
2. v. To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection. | |
3. v. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public. | |
4. v. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line. | |
to produce a side of a triangle | |
5. v. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong. | |
to produce a man's life to threescore | |
6. v. (music) To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing. | |
highly produced sound | |
7. n. Items produced. | |
8. n. Amount produced. | |
9. n. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms. | |
10. n. Offspring. | |
11. n. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies. | |