figuratively |
1. adv. (manner) In a figurative manner. | |
2. adv. (speech act) Used to indicate that what follows is to be taken as a figure of speech, not literally. | |
something |
1. pron. An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing. | |
I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what. | |
I have something for you in my bag. | |
I have a feeling something good is going to happen today. | |
2. pron. (colloquial, of someone or something) A quality to a moderate degree. | |
The performance was something of a disappointment. | |
That child is something of a genius. | |
3. pron. (colloquial, of a person) A talent or quality that is difficult to specify. | |
She has a certain something. | |
4. pron. (colloquial, often with really or quite) Somebody or something who is superlative in some way. | |
He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice. | |
She's quite something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing. | |
5. adj. Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify. | |
6. adv. (degree) Somewhat; to a degree. | |
The baby looks something like his father. | |
7. adv. (degree, colloquial) To a high degree. | |
8. v. Applied to an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song. | |
9. n. An object whose nature is yet to be defined. | |
10. n. An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense). | |
such |
1. det. (demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context. | |
I’ve never seen such clouds in the sky before. Such is life. | |
2. det. (particularly used in formal documents) Any. | |
the above address or at such other address as may notify | |
3. det. Used as an intensifier; roughly equivalent to very much of. | |
The party was such a bore. | |
4. det. (obsolete) A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned. | |
5. pron. A person, a thing, people or things like the one or ones already mentioned. | |
6. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is similar to something else. | |
As |
1. n. plural of A | |
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As. | |
2. adv. To such an extent or degree. | |
You’re not as tall as I am. | |
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive. | |
3. adv. In the manner or role specified. | |
The kidnappers released him as agreed. | |
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues. | |
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend. | |
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as). | |
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what. | |
Do as I say! | |
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know. | |
As you wish, my lord! | |
6. conj. At the same instant that; when. | |
As I came in, she flew. | |
7. conj. At the same time that; while. | |
He sleeps as the rain falls. | |
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that. | |
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy. | |
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since. | |
As it’s too late, I quit. | |
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality. | |
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago. | |
It's not so complicated as I expected. | |
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’. | |
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though. | |
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that. | |
14. conj. Expressing concession; though. | |
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than. | |
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case. | |
You are not as tall as me. | |
They're big as houses. | |
17. prep. In the role of. | |
What is your opinion as a parent? | |
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra. | |
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value. | |
20. n. plural of a | |
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. | |
idea |
1. n. (philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples. | |
2. n. (obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal. | |
3. n. (obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic. | |
4. n. An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory. | |
The mere idea of you is enough to excite me. | |
5. n. More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking. | |
6. n. A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention. | |
I have an idea of how we might escape. | |
7. n. A purposeful aim or goal; intent | |
If you keep sweet-talking her like that, you're going to talk her right out of her pants. | |
Yeah, that's the idea. | |
8. n. A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression. | |
He had the wild idea that if he leant forward a little, he might be able to touch the mountain-top. | |
9. n. (music) A musical theme or melodic subject. | |
individual |
1. n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people. | |
He is an unusual individual. | |
2. n. (legal) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation. | |
3. n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class. | |
4. n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population. | |
5. adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one. | |
As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one. | |
6. adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person. | |
individual personal pension; individual cream cakes | |
7. adj. Not divisible without losing its identity. | |
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. | |
institution |
1. n. A custom or practice of a society or community. | |
The institution of marriage is present in many cultures but its details vary widely across them. | |
2. n. An organization similarly long established and respected, particularly one involved with education, public service, or charity work. | |
The University of the South Pacific is the only internationally-accredited institution of higher education in Oceania. | |
3. n. The building or buildings which house such an organization. | |
He's been in an institution since the crash. | |
4. n. (informal) Other places or businesses similarly long established and respected. | |
Over time, the local pub has become something of an institution. | |
5. n. (informal) A person similarly long established in a place, position, or field. | |
She's not just any old scholar; she is an institution. | |
6. n. The act of instituting something. | |
The institution of higher speed limits was a popular move but increased the severity of crashes. | |
7. n. (obsolete) That which institutes or instructs, particularly a textbook or system of elements or rules. | |
conceived |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of conceive | |
conceive |
1. v. To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate. | |
2. v. To understand (someone). | |
3. v. (intransitive, or transitive) To become pregnant. | |
Assisted procreation can help those trying to conceive. | |
As |
1. n. plural of A | |
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As. | |
2. adv. To such an extent or degree. | |
You’re not as tall as I am. | |
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive. | |
3. adv. In the manner or role specified. | |
The kidnappers released him as agreed. | |
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues. | |
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend. | |
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as). | |
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what. | |
Do as I say! | |
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know. | |
As you wish, my lord! | |
6. conj. At the same instant that; when. | |
As I came in, she flew. | |
7. conj. At the same time that; while. | |
He sleeps as the rain falls. | |
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that. | |
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy. | |
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since. | |
As it’s too late, I quit. | |
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality. | |
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago. | |
It's not so complicated as I expected. | |
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’. | |
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though. | |
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that. | |
14. conj. Expressing concession; though. | |
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than. | |
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case. | |
You are not as tall as me. | |
They're big as houses. | |
17. prep. In the role of. | |
What is your opinion as a parent? | |
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra. | |
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value. | |
20. n. plural of a | |
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. | |
autonomous |
1. adj. Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently. | |
2. adj. Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules. | |
3. adj. (Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the | |
creative |
1. adj. Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these. | |
a creative dramatist who avoids cliche | |
2. adj. (of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative. | |
a creative new solution to an old problem | |
3. adj. (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic. | |
a creative set | |
4. adj. Designed or executed to deceive or mislead. | |
creative accounting | |
5. n. A person directly involved in a creative marketing process. | |
He is a visionary creative. | |
6. n. Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video. | |
The design team has completed the creative for next month's multi-part ad campaign. | |
I've included in my portfolio all the creative I've completed in my five year design career. | |
force |
1. n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect. | |
the force of an appeal, an argument, or a contract | |
2. n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion. | |
3. n. Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing. | |
4. n. (physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body which is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn) | |
5. n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else. | |
6. n. A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain. | |
police force | |
7. n. The ability to attack, control, or constrain. | |
show of force | |
8. n. A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person. | |
9. n. (legal) Legal validity. | |
The law will come into force in January. | |
10. n. (legal) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion. | |
11. n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning. | |
12. n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. | |
13. v. To violate (a woman); to rape. | |
14. v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost. | |
15. v. To compel (someone or something) to do something. | |
16. v. To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of. | |
17. v. To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb). | |
18. v. To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force. | |
The comedian's jokes weren't funny, but I forced a laugh now and then. | |
19. v. To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.). | |
To force a lock. | |
20. v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress. | |
21. v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground. | |
Jones forced the runner at second by stepping on the bag. | |
22. v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold. | |
23. v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. | |
24. v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison. | |
25. v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for. | |
26. n. (Northern England) A waterfall or cascade. | |
27. v. To stuff; to lard; to farce. | |
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. | |
decisive |
1. adj. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive. | |
A decisive battle is fatal for one side's war chances | |
A decisive vote | |
2. adj. Marked by promptness and decision. | |
decisive action | |
A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive character. -J. Foster. | |
Power |
1. n. A button of a computer, a video game console, or similar device, that when pressed, causes the device to be either shut down or powered up. | |
2. n. (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control. | |
3. n. Ability to affect or influence. | |
4. n. Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction). | |
5. n. (metonymy) (chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government. | |
6. n. (metonymy) An influential nation, company, or other such body. | |
7. n. (physical) Effectiveness. | |
8. n. Physical force or strength. | |
He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium. | |
9. n. Electricity or a supply of electricity. | |
After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days. | |
10. n. A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy. | |
11. n. A rate to magnify an optical image by a lens or mirror. | |
We need a microscope with higher power. | |
12. n. Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw). | |
the mechanical powers | |
13. n. mathematics | |
14. n. A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion):x^n, read as "x to the power ofn" or the like, is called a power and denotes the produc | |
15. n. (set theory) Cardinality. | |
16. n. (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true. | |
17. n. (biblical, in plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme. | |
18. v. To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device). | |
This CD player is powered by batteries. | |
19. v. To hit or kick something forcefully. | |
20. v. To enable or provide the impetus for. | |
21. adj. (Singapore, colloquial) Impressive. | |