| chiefly |
| 1. adv. (focus) Especially or primarily; above all. | |
| 2. adv. (focus) Mainly or principally; almost entirely. | |
| 3. adj. of, or relating to a chief | |
| plural |
| 1. adj. Consisting of or containing more than one of something. | |
| 2. adj. (comparable) Pluralistic. | |
| 3. n. (grammar) The plural number. | |
| 4. n. (grammar) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form. | |
| inferior |
| 1. adj. of lower quality | |
| Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades. | |
| 2. adj. of lower rank | |
| an inferior officer | |
| 3. adj. located below | |
| 4. adj. (typography) Printed in subscript. | |
| an inferior figure or letter | |
| 5. adj. (botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx. | |
| 6. adj. (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior. | |
| 7. adj. (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is. | |
| the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus | |
| 8. adj. (astronomy) Below the horizon. | |
| the inferior part of a meridian | |
| 9. n. a person of lower stature to another | |
| As you are my inferior, I can tell you to do anything I want. | |
| weak |
| 1. adj. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability. | |
| The child was too weak to move the boulder. | |
| They easily guessed his weak computer password. | |
| 2. adj. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain. | |
| a weak timber; a weak rope | |
| 3. adj. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable. | |
| weak resolutions; weak virtue | |
| 4. adj. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency. | |
| We were served stale bread and weak tea. | |
| 5. adj. (grammar) Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including: | |
| 6. adj. (Germanic languages, of verbs) Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense with -d- or -t-. | |
| 7. adj. (Germanic languages, of nouns) Showing less distinct grammatical endings. | |
| 8. adj. (Germanic languages, of adjectives) Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word. | |
| 9. adj. (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution. | |
| a weak acid; a weak base | |
| 10. adj. (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay. | |
| 11. adj. (slang) Bad or uncool. | |
| This place is weak. | |
| 12. adj. (mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.) | |
| 13. adj. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish. | |
| 14. adj. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained. | |
| The prosecution advanced a weak case. | |
| 15. adj. Lacking in vigour or expression. | |
| a weak sentence; a weak style | |
| 16. adj. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble. | |
| 17. adj. (stock exchange) Tending towards lower prices. | |
| a weak market; wheat is weak at present | |
| 18. adj. (photography) Lacking contrast. | |
| a weak negative | |
| drink |
| 1. v. To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | |
| He drank the water I gave him. | |
| You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. | |
| 2. v. (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | |
| Jack drank the whole bottle by himself. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages. | |
| You've been drinking, haven't you? | |
| No thanks, I don't drink. | |
| 4. v. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe. | |
| 5. v. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see. | |
| 6. v. (transitive, obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco. | |
| 7. n. A beverage. | |
| I’d like another drink please. | |
| 8. n. A (served) alcoholic beverage. | |
| Can I buy you a drink? | |
| 9. n. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have. | |
| He was about to take a drink from his root beer. | |
| 10. n. A type of beverage (usually mixed). | |
| My favourite drink is the White Russian. | |
| 11. n. Alcoholic beverages in general. | |
| 12. n. (colloquial, with the) Any body of water. | |
| If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink! | |
| 13. n. (archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink | |
| 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. | |
| liquid |
| 1. n. A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative | |
| A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas. | |
| 2. n. (phonetics) A class of consonant sounds that includes l and r. | |
| 3. adj. Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure. | |
| liquid nitrogen | |
| 4. adj. (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value. | |
| 5. adj. (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy. | |
| 6. adj. Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones. | |
| a liquid melody | |
| 7. adj. (phonology) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth. | |
| L and R are liquid letters. | |
| 8. adj. Fluid and transparent. | |
| the liquid air | |
| food |
| 1. n. Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. | |
| The innkeeper brought them food and drink. | |
| 2. n. A foodstuff. | |
| 3. n. (figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains. | |
| The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought. | |
| Mozart and Bach are food for my soul. | |
