football |
1. n. (general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team. | |
Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football. | |
2. n. Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, A | |
Each team scored three goals when they played football. | |
3. n. (US) American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory. | |
Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football. | |
4. n. (Canada) Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory. | |
They played football in the snow. | |
5. n. (Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory) Australian rules football. | |
6. n. (Ireland) Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball. | |
7. n. (Australia, New South Wales, Queensland) rugby league. | |
8. n. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) rugby union. | |
9. n. The ball used in any game called "football". | |
The player kicked the football. | |
10. n. Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them. | |
11. n. (figuratively) An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner | |
That budget item became a political football. | |
12. n. (slang) The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
snooker |
1. n. A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries. | |
2. n. (snooker, pool) The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the opponent cannot directly hit the required ball with it. | |
3. v. To play snooker. | |
4. v. To fool or bamboozle. | |
5. v. (snooker, pool) To place the cue ball in such a position that the opponent cannot directly hit the required ball with it. | |
6. v. (by extension) To put someone in a difficult situation. | |
7. v. To become or cause to become inebriated. | |
slang |
1. n. Language outside of conventional usage. | |
2. n. Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon. | |
3. n. The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant. | |
4. v. (transitive, dated) To vocally abuse, or shout at. | |
5. v. (archaic) simple past tense of sling | |
6. n. (dialect) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. | |
7. n. (obsolete) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. | |
8. n. (obsolete) A counterfeit weight or measure. | |
9. n. (obsolete) A travelling show, or one of its performances. | |
10. n. (obsolete) A hawker's license. | |
11. n. (obsolete) A watchchain. | |
12. v. (transitive, AAVE, MLE) To sell (especially illegal drugs). | |
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. | |
very |
1. adj. True, real, actual. | |
The fierce hatred of a very woman. The very blood and bone of our grammar. He tried his very best. | |
2. adj. The same; identical. | |
He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met. That's the very tool that I need. | |
3. adj. With limiting effect: mere. | |
4. adv. To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly. | |
You’re drinking very slowly. | |
That dress is very you. | |
5. adv. True, truly. | |
6. adv. (with superlatives) (ngd, Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.) | |
He was the very best runner there. | |
easy |
1. adj. (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease. | |
Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night. | |
2. adj. Requiring little skill or effort. | |
It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up. | |
The teacher gave an easy test to her students. | |
3. adj. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour. | |
Rich people live in easy circumstances. | |
an easy chair | |
4. adj. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth. | |
easy manners; an easy style | |
5. adj. (informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex. | |
He has a reputation for being easy; they say he slept with half the senior class. | |
6. adj. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant. | |
7. adj. (finance, dated) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight. | |
The market is easy. | |
8. adv. In a relaxed or casual manner. | |
After his illness, John decided to take it easy. | |
9. adv. In a manner without strictness or harshness. | |
Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm. | |
10. adv. Used an intensifier for large magnitudes. | |
This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy. | |
11. n. Something that is easy | |
12. v. (rowing) (synonym of easy-oar) | |
scoring |
1. adj. Of something or someone that scores. | |
The highest scoring team will win the match. | |
2. n. The process of keeping score in a sport or contest. | |
The scoring of a tennis match is overseen by a single referee. | |
3. n. The process of winning points in a sport or contest. | |
Scoring a basket in basketball is worth two or three points. | |
4. n. The action of scratching paper or other material to make it easier to fold. | |
5. n. A deep groove made by glacial action or similar. | |
6. v. present participle of score | |
score |
1. n. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game. | |
The player with the highest score is the winner. | |
2. n. The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers. | |
The score is 8-1 even though it's not even half-time! | |
3. n. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade. | |
The test scores for this class were high. | |
4. n. Twenty, 20 (number). | |
Some words have scores of meanings. | |
5. n. A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery. | |
6. n. A weight of twenty pounds. | |
7. n. (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each other. | |
8. n. (music) The music of a movie or play. | |
9. n. Subject. | |
10. n. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf. | |
11. n. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account. | |
12. n. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness. | |
13. n. (US, crime slang) A robbery; a criminal act. | |
Let's pull a score! | |
14. n. (US, crime slang) A bribe paid to a police officer. | |
15. n. (US, crime slang) An illegal sale, especially of drugs. | |
He made a big score. | |
16. n. (US, crime slang) A prostitute's client. | |
17. n. (US, vulgar slang) A sexual conquest. | |
18. v. To cut a notch or a groove in a surface. | |
The baker scored the cake so that the servers would know where to slice it. | |
19. v. (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination. | |
20. v. To obtain something desired. | |
21. v. To earn points in a game. | |
It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game. | |
Pelé scores again! | |
22. v. To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test. | |
23. v. (slang) To acquire or gain. | |
I scored some drugs last night. | |
Did you score tickets for the concert? | |
24. v. (US, crime slang) To extract a bribe. | |
25. v. (vulgar, slang) To obtain a sexual favor. | |
Chris finally scored with Pat last week. | |
26. v. To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score. | |
27. interj. (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success | |
chance |
1. n. An opportunity or possibility. | |
We had the chance to meet the president last week. | |
2. n. Random occurrence; luck. | |
Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome? | |
3. n. The probability of something happening. | |
There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow. | |
4. n. (archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate. | |
5. adj. Happening by chance, casual. | |
6. adv. (obsolete) Perchance; perhaps. | |
7. v. (archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur. | |
It chanced that I found a solution the very next day. | |
8. v. (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to. | |
9. v. To try or risk. | |
Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm? | |
10. v. To discover something by chance. | |
He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way. | |
11. v. (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone. | |
I was chanced out of my money by that fast-talking salesman. | |