| chemistry |
| 1. n. The branch of natural science that deals with the composition and constitution of substances and the changes that they undergo as a consequence of alterations in the constitution of their molecules. | |
| 2. n. An application of chemical theory and method to a particular substance. | |
| the chemistry of iron | |
| the chemistry of indigo | |
| 3. n. (informal) The mutual attraction between two people; rapport. | |
| any |
| 1. adv. To even the slightest extent, at all. | |
| I will not remain here any longer. | |
| If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways! | |
| 2. det. At least one; of at least one kind. One at all. | |
| do you have any biscuits?; do you have any food?; I haven't got any money; it won't do you any good | |
| 3. det. No matter what kind. | |
| choose any items you want; any person may apply | |
| 4. pron. Any thing(s) or person(s). | |
| Any may apply. | |
| salt |
| 1. n. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative. | |
| 2. n. (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid. | |
| 3. n. (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea. | |
| 4. n. (slang) A sailor (also old salt). | |
| 5. n. (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult. | |
| 6. n. A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning. | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense. | |
| Attic salt | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar. | |
| 10. n. (figurative) Skepticism and common sense. | |
| Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt. | |
| 11. n. (Internet slang) Indignation; outrage; arguing. | |
| There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision. | |
| 12. adj. Salty; salted. | |
| salt beef; salt tears | |
| 13. adj. Saline. | |
| a salt marsh; salt grass | |
| 14. adj. Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use. | |
| a salt mine | |
| The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure. | |
| 15. adj. (figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent. | |
| 16. adj. (figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat. | |
| 17. v. To add salt to. | |
| to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter | |
| 18. v. (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution. | |
| The brine begins to salt. | |
| 19. v. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber. | |
| 20. v. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have. | |
| 21. v. (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam. | |
| 22. v. (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site. | |
| 23. v. To include colorful language in. | |
| 24. v. (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive. | |
| 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. | |
| ester |
| 1. n. (organic compound) A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid, with elimination of water, which contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond joined via carbo | |
| 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. | |
| fulminic |
| 1. adj. Of or pertaining to fulminic acid or its derivatives | |
| acid |
| 1. adj. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar. | |
| acid fruits or liquors | |
| 2. adj. (figuratively) Sour-tempered. | |
| 3. adj. Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic. | |
| 4. adj. (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock. | |
| 5. n. A sour substance. | |
| 6. n. (chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties: | |
| 7. n. Any of a class of water-soluble compounds, having sour taste, that turn blue litmus red, and react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and with base | |
| 8. n. Any compound that easily donates protons; a Brønsted acid | |
| 9. n. Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid | |
| 10. n. (slang) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) | |
| mostly |
| 1. adv. Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole. | |
| They're mostly good people, although they have made a few mistakes. | |
| 2. adv. (obsolete) To the greatest extent; most. | |
| explosive |
| 1. adj. With the capability to, or likely to, explode. | |
| 2. adj. Having the character of an explosion. | |
| explosive fire | |
| 3. adj. (figurative) Shocking; startling. | |
| an explosive accusation | |
| 4. adj. (slang) Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person. | |
| He has an explosive personality. | |
| 5. n. Any explosive substance. | |
