| dated |
| 1. adj. Marked with a date. | |
| The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922. | |
| 2. adj. Outdated. | |
| "Omnibus" is a dated term for a bus. | |
| 3. v. simple past tense and past participle of date | |
| an |
| 1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
| 2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
| 3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
| 4. conj. (archaic) If | |
| 5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
| An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
| 6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
| 7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
| 8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
| I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
| impertinent |
| 1. adj. insolent, ill-mannered | |
| 2. adj. irrelevant (opposite of pertinent) | |
| 3. n. An impertinent individual. | |
| 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. | |
| mischievous |
| 1. adj. Causing mischief; injurious. | |
| 2. adj. Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved. | |
| Matthew had a twin brother called Edward, who was always mischievous and badly behaved. | |
| person |
| 1. n. An individual; usually a human being. | |
| Each person is unique, both mentally and physically. | |
| 2. n. A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represent | |
| 3. n. (Christianity) Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit. | |
| 4. n. (chiefly in science fiction) Any sentient or socially intelligent being. | |
| 5. n. (in a compound noun or noun phrase) Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing). | |
| Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats. | |
| 6. n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc. | |
| 7. n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts. | |
| At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person. | |
| 8. n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis. | |
| 9. n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is speaking. See grammatical person. | |
| 10. n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. | |
| 11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man. | |
