| 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. | |
| obsolete |
| 1. adj. (of words, equipment, etc.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often by preference for something newer, which replaces the subject). | |
| It is speculated that, within a few years, the Internet's speedy delivery of news worldwide will make newspapers obsolete. | |
| 2. adj. (biology) Imperfectly developed; not very distinct. | |
| 3. v. (transitive, US) To cause to become obsolete. | |
| This software component has been obsoleted. | |
| We are in the process of obsoleting this product. | |
| 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. | |
| sudden |
| 1. adj. Happening quickly and with little or no warning. | |
| The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused. | |
| 2. adj. (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid. | |
| 3. adj. (obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate. | |
| 4. adv. (poetic) Suddenly. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise. | |
| brightening |
| 1. v. present participle of brighten | |
| 2. n. An instance of becoming brighter. | |
| brighten |
| 1. v. To make bright or brighter in color. | |
| We brightened the room with a new coat of paint. | |
| 2. v. To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to | |
| 3. v. (transitive, figuratively) To make more cheerful and pleasant; to enliven | |
| to brighten one's prospects; Having Mark around the place really brightens things up. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To grow bright, or more bright in color; to clear up | |
| The sun starts to brighten around this time of the year. The sky brightened as the storm moved on. | |
| 5. v. (intransitive) To become brighter or more cheerful in mood | |
| She brightened when I changed the subject. | |
| 6. v. To make acute or witty; to enliven. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| fused |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of fuse | |
| 2. adj. Joined together by fusing | |
| 3. adj. Melted | |
| 4. adj. Furnished with a fuse | |
| 5. adj. (organic chemistry) Having at least one bond between two atoms that is part of two or more separate rings | |
| fuse |
| 1. n. A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device. | |
| 2. n. (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device. | |
| 3. n. (electrical engineering) A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit. | |
| 4. n. (figurative) Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper. | |
| When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse. | |
| 5. n. A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind. | |
| 6. n. A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip. | |
| 7. v. To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To melt together. | |
| 9. v. To furnish with or install a fuse. | |
| 10. v. (organic chemistry) To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings | |
| globule |
| 1. n. A small round particle of substance; a drop. | |
| 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. | |
| gold |
| 1. n. A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au. | |
| 2. n. (lb or un) A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so. | |
| 3. n. A bright yellow colour, resembling the metal gold. | |
| (color panel, FFD700) | |
| 4. n. The bullseye of an archery target. | |
| 5. n. A gold medal. | |
| France has won three golds and five silvers. | |
| 6. n. (figuratively) Anything or anyone that is very valuable. | |
| 7. n. (slang) A grill (qual, jewellery worn on front teeth) made of gold. | |
| 8. adj. Made of gold. | |
| 9. adj. Having the colour of gold. | |
| 10. adj. (of commercial services) Premium, superior. | |
| 11. v. To pyrolyze or burn food until the color begins to change to a light brown, but not as dark as browning | |
| 12. adj. (programming, of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing. | |
| 13. adv. of or referring to a gold version of something | |
| 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. | |
| silver |
| 1. n. elements, Ag, palladium, Pd, cadmium, Cd | |
| 2. n. A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag. | |
| 3. n. (collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal. | |
| 4. n. (collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal. | |
| 5. n. (collectively) Any items made from silver or any other white metal. | |
| 6. n. A shiny gray color. | |
| (color panel, C0C0C0) | |
| 7. n. Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white. | |
| 8. adj. Made from silver. | |
| 9. adj. Made from another white metal. | |
| 10. adj. Having a color like silver: a shiny gray. | |
| 11. adj. Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding. | |
| 12. adj. (of commercial services) Premium, but inferior to gold. | |
| 13. adj. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound. | |
| a silver-voiced young girl | |
| 14. v. To acquire a silvery colour. | |
| 15. v. To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal. | |
| to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury | |
| 16. v. To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver. | |
| 17. v. To make hoary, or white, like silver. | |
| when |
| 1. adv. (interrogative) Used to introduce questions about time. | |
| When will they arrive? | |
| 2. adv. Used to introduce indirect questions about time. | |
| Do you know when they arrived? | |
| Do you know when they will arrive? | |
| Do you know when they arrive? | |
| 3. adv. At an earlier and less prosperous time. | |
| He's mister high and mighty now, but I remember him when. | |
| 4. adv. (indirect question) Used to refer to doubts about time. | |
| 5. adv. (relative) At which, on which, during which. Often omitted or replaced with that. | |
| That was the day when the Twin Towers fell. | |
| 6. conj. At what time. | |
| They were told when to sleep. | |
| He doesn't know when to stop talking. | |
| 7. conj. At such time as. | |
| I’m happiest when I’m working. | |
| 8. conj. At the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase. | |
| It was raining when I came yesterday. | |
| The show will begin when I get there. | |
| The game is over when the referee says it is. | |
| Be careful when crossing the street. | |
| Pay attention when spoken to. | |
| When (you are) angry, count to ten before speaking or acting. | |
| That time when the dog stole the turkey from the table. | |
| 9. conj. Since; given the fact that. | |
| I don't see the point of putting up Christmas decorations when I am the only person who is going to see them. | |
| 10. pron. (interrogative) What time; which time. | |
| Since when do I need your permission? | |
| 11. n. The time at which something happens. | |
| A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how. | |
| 12. interj. That's enough, a command to stop adding something, especially an ingredient of food or drink. | |
| 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. | |
| last |
| 1. adj. Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind. | |
| “Eyes Wide Shut” was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick. | |
| 2. adj. Most recent, latest, last so far. | |
| The last time I saw him, he was married. | |
| I have received your note dated the 17th last, and am responding to say that.... (archaic usage) | |
| 3. adj. Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable. | |
| He is the last person to be accused of theft. | |
| The last person I want to meet is Helen. | |
| More rain is the last thing we need right now. | |
| 4. adj. Being the only one remaining of its class. | |
| Japan is the last empire. | |
| 5. adj. Supreme; highest in degree; utmost. | |
| 6. adj. Lowest in rank or degree. | |
| the last prize | |
| 7. det. The (one) immediately before the present. | |
| We went there last year. | |
| 8. det. (of a day of the week) Closest to seven days (one week) ago. | |
| It's Wednesday, and the party was last Tuesday; that is, not yesterday, but eight days ago. | |
| 9. adv. Most recently. | |
| When we last met, he was based in Toronto. | |
| 10. adv. (sequence) after everything else; finally | |
| I'll go last. | |
| last but not least | |
| 11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To perform, carry out. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To endure, continue over time. | |
| Summer seems to last longer each year. | |
| They seem happy now, but that won't last long. | |
| 13. v. (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire. | |
| I don't know how much longer we can last without reinforcements. | |
| 14. n. A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes. | |
| 15. v. To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last. | |
| to last a boot | |
| 16. n. (obsolete) A burden; load; a cargo; freight. | |
| 17. n. (obsolete) A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned. | |
| 18. n. (obsolete) An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons. | |
| 19. n. A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value. | |
| film |
| 1. n. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity. | |
| a clear plastic film for wrapping food | |
| 2. n. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera. | |
| 3. n. A movie. | |
| 4. n. (cinema) Cinema; movies as a group. | |
| 5. n. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb. | |
| 6. v. To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film. | |
| A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC. | |
| I tried to film the UFO as it passed overhead. | |
| 7. v. To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| oxide |
| 1. n. (chemistry) A binary chemical compound of oxygen with another chemical element. | |
| 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. | |
| lead |
| 1. n. A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other m | |
| 2. n. A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots. | |
| 3. n. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. | |
| 4. n. (typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading. | |
| This copy has too much lead; I prefer less space between the lines. | |
| 5. n. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs. | |
| 6. n. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. | |
| 7. n. A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils. | |
| 8. n. (slang) Bullets; ammunition. | |
| They pumped him full of lead. | |
| 9. v. To cover, fill, or affect with lead | |
| continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle. | |
| 10. v. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of. | |
| to lead a page; leaded matter | |
| 11. v. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct. | |
| 12. v. To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection. | |
| a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man | |
| 13. v. To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in a | |
| The guide was able to lead the tourists through the jungle safely. | |
| 14. v. (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct | |
| A good teacher should lead their students to the right answer. | |
| 15. v. To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit. | |
| to lead a political party | |
| to lead the search team | |
| 16. v. To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spe | |
| The evidence leads me to believe he is guilty. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of t | |
| 18. v. To begin, to be ahead.: | |
| 19. v. To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among. | |
| the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages | |
| 20. v. (intransitive) To lead off or out, to go first; to begin. | |
| 21. v. (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others. | |
| 22. v. (heading, sport) | |
| 23. v. # (transitive, cards, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with | |
| # to lead trumps | |
| # He led the ace of spades. | |
| 24. v. # (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race. | |
| 25. v. # (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game. | |
| 26. v. # (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base. | |
| # The batter always leads off base. | |
| 27. v. # (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes. | |
| 28. v. # (transitive, climbing) Lead climb. | |
| 29. v. To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure | |
| to lead someone to a righteous cause | |
| 30. v. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place. | |
| the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices | |
| 31. v. To produce (with to). | |
| The shock led to a change in his behaviour. | |
| 32. v. misspelling of led | |
| 33. n. The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course | |
| to take the lead | |
| to be under the lead of another | |
| * At the time I speak of, and having a momentary lead, (...) I am sure I did my country important service. — Edmund Burke | |
| 34. n. Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game. | |
| the white horse had the lead. | |
| to be in the lead | |
| She lost the lead. | |
| Smith managed to extend her lead over the second place to half a second. | |
| 35. n. An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment. | |
| 36. n. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown. | |
| The runner took his lead from first. | |
| 37. n. (card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played | |
| your partner has the lead | |
| 38. n. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role. | |
| 39. n. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor. | |
| 40. n. A channel of open water in an ice field. | |
| 41. n. (mining) A lode. | |
| 42. n. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end. | |
| 43. n. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash | |
| 44. n. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke. | |
| 45. n. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment. | |
| 46. n. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. | |
| 47. n. Hypothesis that has not been pursued | |
| The investigation stalled when all leads turned out to be dead ends. | |
| 48. n. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident. | |
| The police have a couple of leads they will follow to solve the case. | |
| 49. n. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer. | |
| Joe is a great addition to our sales team, he has numerous leads in the paper industry. | |
| 50. n. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details. | |
| 51. n. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team. | |
| 52. n. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.) | |
| 53. n. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast | |
| 54. n. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts. | |
| 55. n. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor | |
| 56. n. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts. | |
| 57. n. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others. | |
| 58. n. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft. | |
| 59. n. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles. | |
| 60. n. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it. | |
| 61. adj. (not comparable) Foremost. | |
| The contestants are all tied; no one has the lead position. | |
| 62. adj. (music) main, principal | |
| the lead guitarist | |
| lead trumpet | |
| 63. v. misspelling of led | |
| 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. | |
| copper |
| 1. n. A reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29. | |
| 2. n. Something made of copper. | |
| 3. n. The reddish-brown colour/color of copper. | |
| (color panel, BB5836) | |
| 4. n. A copper coin. | |
| 5. n. (AU) A large pot, often used for heating water or washing clothes over a fire. In Australasia at least, it could also be a fixed installation made of copper, with a fire underneath and its own chimney | |
| Mum would heat the water in a copper in the kitchen and transfer it to the tin bath. | |
| I explain that socks can’t be boiled up in the copper with the sheets and towels or they shrink. | |
| 6. adj. Made of copper. | |
| 7. adj. Having the reddish-brown colour/color of copper. | |
| 8. v. To sheathe or coat with copper. | |
| 9. n. (slang) A police officer. | |
| leaves |
| 1. n. plural of leaf | |
| 2. n. plural of leave | |
| 3. v. third-person singular present indicative of leave | |
| leave |
| 1. v. To have a consequence or remnant. | |
| 2. v. To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (somet | |
| I left my car at home and took a bus to work. The ants did not leave so much as a crumb of bread. There's not much food left. We'd be | |
| 3. v. To cause, to result in. | |
| The lightning left her dazzled for several minutes. Infantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life. | |
| 4. v. To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself. | |
| Leave your hat in the hall. We should leave the legal matters to lawyers. I left my sewing and went to the window to watch the fallin | |
| 5. v. To depart; to separate from. | |
| 6. v. To let be or do without interference. | |
| I left him to his reflections. I leave my hearers to judge. | |
| 7. v. To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with. | |
| I left the country and I left my wife. | |
| 8. v. To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project). | |
| I left the band. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state. | |
| I think you'd better leave. | |
| 10. v. To transfer something. | |
| 11. v. To transfer possession of after death. | |
| When my father died, he left me the house. | |
| 12. v. To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit. | |
| I'll leave the car in the station so you can pick it up there. | |
| 13. v. To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with. | |
| Can't we just leave this to the experts? | |
| 14. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay. | |
| 15. v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund). | |
| 16. n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball. | |
| 17. n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or onl | |
| 18. n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work. | |
| I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss. | |
| 19. n. (dated, or legal) Permission. | |
| Might I beg leave to accompany you? | |
| The applicant now seeks leave to appeal and, if leave be granted, to appeal against these sentences. | |
| 20. n. (dated) Farewell, departure. | |
| I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance. | |
| 21. v. To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant. | |
| 22. v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. | |
| 23. v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy. | |
| leaf |
| 1. n. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. | |
| 2. n. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant. | |
| 3. n. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin. | |
| gold leaf | |
| 4. n. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf). | |
| 5. n. (in the plural) Tea leaves. | |
| 6. n. A flat section used to extend the size of a table. | |
| 7. n. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement. | |
| The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side. | |
| 8. n. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into. | |
| 9. n. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants. | |
| 10. n. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat. | |
| 11. n. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage. | |
| 13. v. To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves. | |
| The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed. | |
| its |
| 1. det. Belonging to it. | |
| 2. pron. The one (or ones) belonging to it. | |
| 3. n. plural of it | |
| surface |
| 1. n. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid. | |
| 2. n. The outside hull of a tangible object. | |
| 3. n. (figurative) Outward or external appearance. | |
| On the surface, the spy looked like a typical businessman. | |
| 4. n. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space. | |
| 5. n. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion. | |
| 6. v. To provide something with a surface. | |
| 7. v. To apply a surface to something. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To rise to the surface. | |
| 9. v. To bring to the surface. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To come out of hiding. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known. | |
| 12. v. To make information or facts known. | |
| 13. v. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive) To appear or be found. | |
