| dialect |
| 1. n. (linguistics) A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community or social group, often differing from other varieties of the same language in minor ways as regards vocabul | |
| 2. n. (pejorative) Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong. | |
| 3. n. A lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is conside | |
| 4. n. (computing, programming) A variant of a non-standardized programming language. | |
| Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC. | |
| 5. n. (ornithology) A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population. | |
| 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. | |
| chimney |
| 1. n. A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon or hydrocarbon based fuels); a flue. | |
| 2. n. The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp. | |
| 3. n. (British) The smokestack of a steam locomotive. | |
| 4. n. A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage. | |
| 5. v. (climbing) To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc. | |
| cowl |
| 1. n. A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it. | |
| 2. n. A mask that covers the majority of the head. | |
| 3. n. A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling. | |
| 4. n. A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow. | |
| 5. n. (nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below. | |
| 6. n. (nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge. | |
| 7. v. To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood). | |
| 8. v. To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete, British) A vessel carried on a pole, a soe. | |
| 10. n. A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth). | |
