| 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 Outdated.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 | |
| loon |
| 1. n. An idler, a lout. | |
| 2. n. (chiefly Scotland, Ulster) A boy, a lad. | |
| 3. n. (chiefly Scotland) A harlot; mistress. | |
| 4. n. (chiefly Scotland) A simpleton. | |
| 5. n. (slang) A crazy or deranged person. | |
| 6. n. (Ireland, historical) An English soldier of an expeditionary army in Ireland. | |
| 7. n. (US, Canada) Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry. | |
| bird |
| 1. n. A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs. | |
| Ducks and sparrows are birds. | |
| 2. n. (slang) A man, fellow. | |
| 3. n. (US) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive. | |
| 4. n. (Ireland) Girlfriend. | |
| Mike went out with his bird last night. | |
| 5. n. (slang) An airplane. | |
| 6. n. (slang) A satellite. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve. | |
| 11. n. (slang) A prison sentence. | |
| He’s doing bird. | |
| 12. n. The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended. | |
| 13. n. (Asian slang) A penis. | |
| 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. | |
| order |
| 1. n. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | |
| 2. n. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | |
| 3. n. The state of being well arranged. | |
| The house is in order; the machinery is out of order. | |
| 4. n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet. | |
| to preserve order in a community or an assembly | |
| 5. n. A command. | |
| 6. n. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods. | |
| 7. n. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles | |
| St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537. | |
| 8. n. An association of knights | |
| the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath. | |
| 9. n. any group of people with common interests. | |
| 10. n. A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity. | |
| 11. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank. | |
| Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales. | |
| 12. n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort. | |
| the higher or lower orders of society | |
| talent of a high order | |
| 13. n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural. | |
| to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry | |
| 14. n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic featu | |
| 15. n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order. | |
| 16. n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. | |
| a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter. | |
| 17. n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products. | |
| 18. n. (set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set. | |
| 19. n. (group theory, of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the id | |
| 20. n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph. | |
| 21. n. (order theory) A partially ordered set. | |
| 22. n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set. | |
| 23. n. (algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial. | |
| A quadratic polynomial,a x^2 + b x +c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2. | |
| 24. v. To set in some sort of order. | |
| 25. v. To arrange, set in proper order. | |
| 26. v. To issue a command to. | |
| to order troops to advance | |
| He ordered me to leave. | |
| 27. v. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order. | |
| to order groceries | |
| 28. v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. | |
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