intransitive |
1. adj. (grammar, of a verb) not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object | |
The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often.". | |
2. adj. (rare) not transitive or passing further; kept; detained | |
And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further. — Jeremy Taylor. | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
come |
1. v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to. | |
She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes... | |
2. v. To move towards the speaker. | |
I called the dog, but she wouldn't come. | |
Stop dawdling and come here! | |
3. v. To move towards the listener. | |
Hold on, I'll come in a second. | |
You should ask the doctor to come to your house. | |
4. v. To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence. | |
No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit. | |
Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year. | |
5. v. (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause. | |
King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming. | |
He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him. | |
6. v. To move towards an unstated agent. | |
The butler should come when called. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To arrive. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself. | |
The pain in his leg comes and goes. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence. | |
Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn. | |
10. v. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate. | |
He came after a few minutes. | |
11. v. (copulative figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment. | |
They came very close to leaving on time. His test scores came close to perfect. | |
One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart. | |
12. v. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something. | |
He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits. | |
13. v. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be. | |
He was a dream come true. | |
14. v. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist. | |
He's as tough as they come. Our milkshakes come in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavours. | |
15. v. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in. | |
You can't come any tricks here. | |
16. v. (intransitive) Happen. | |
This kind of accident comes when you are careless. | |
17. v. (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate. | |
18. v. To have a certain social background. | |
19. v. To be or have been a resident or native. | |
Where did you come from? | |
20. v. To have been brought up by or employed by. | |
She comes from a good family. | |
He comes from a disreputable legal firm. | |
21. v. To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from). | |
The river comes from Bear Lake. | |
Where does this road come from? | |
22. v. (intransitive, of grain) To germinate. | |
23. n. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach. | |
24. n. (vulgar, slang) Semen | |
25. n. (vulgar, slang) Female ejaculatory discharge. | |
26. prep. Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time. | |
Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests. | |
Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on. | |
27. interj. An exclamation to express annoyance. | |
Come come! Stop crying. Come now! You must eat it. | |
28. interj. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request. | |
Come come! You can do it. Come now! It won't bite you. | |
29. n. (typography) alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon. | |
from |
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at. | |
This wine comes from France. | |
I got a letter from my brother. | |
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. | |
He had books piled from floor to ceiling. | |
He left yesterday from Chicago. | |
Face away from the wall! | |
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation. | |
20 from 31 leaves 11. | |
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of. | |
An umbrella protects from the sun. | |
He knows right from wrong. | |
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. | |
source |
1. n. The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired. | |
The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling. | |
2. n. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates. | |
The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers. | |
3. n. A reporter's informant. | |
4. n. (computing) Source code. | |
5. n. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET). | |
6. v. (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource. | |
7. v. To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for. | |
Issue |
1. n. A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia. | |
2. n. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly: | |
3. n. (military) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie. | |
4. n. (now) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly label, en, now, _, rare in abnormal amounts. | |
The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision. | |
5. n. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly: | |
6. n. (medical) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue. | |
7. n. (now) Offspring: one's natural child or children. | |
He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up. | |
8. n. (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants. | |
Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe. | |
9. n. (figuratively) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor. | |
10. n. (now) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties. | |
3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents | |
11. n. (historical) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves. | |
12. n. (obsolete) The entrails of a slaughtered animal. | |
13. n. (rare) Any action or deed performed by a person. | |
14. n. (obsolete) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God. | |
15. n. (publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication. | |
Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy. | |
16. n. The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly(publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a w | |
The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane. | |
17. n. (finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company. | |
The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities. | |
18. n. The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period. | |
19. n. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly: | |
20. n. (obsolete) A sewer. | |
21. n. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly: | |
22. n. (obsolete) An exit from a room or building. | |
23. n. (now) A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water. | |
24. n. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly: | |
The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency. | |
25. n. (historical) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object. | |
26. n. The production or distribution of something for general use. | |
Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913. | |
27. n. The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group. | |
The uniform was standard prison issue. | |
28. n. (finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities. | |
The company's stock issue diluted his ownership. | |
29. n. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly: | |
Please stand by. We are having technical issues. | |
30. n. (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court. | |
The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute. | |
31. n. (figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided. | |
For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want. | |
32. n. (rare) A dispute between two alternatives, a dilemma. | |
33. n. (now) A psychological or emotional difficulty, label en now _ informal figurative _ and _ usually _ euphemistic any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty. | |
She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... Imma just sayin', girl's got issues. | |
34. n. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly: | |
35. n. (obsolete) The end of any action or process. | |
36. n. (obsolete) The end of any period of time. | |
37. n. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly: | |
38. n. (now) The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement. | |
39. n. (obsolete) The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion. | |
40. n. (figurative) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion. | |
41. n. (figurative) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition. | |
42. n. (figuratively) All of something. | |
The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit. | |
43. v. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from. | |
The water issued forth from the spring. | |
The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means. | |
44. v. To rush out, to sally forth. | |
The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers. | |
45. v. To extend into, to open onto. | |
The road issues into the highway. | |
46. v. To turn out in a certain way, to result in. | |
47. v. (legal) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue. | |
48. v. To send out; to put into circulation. | |
The Federal Reserve issues US dollars. | |
49. v. To deliver for use. | |
The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates. | |
50. v. To deliver by authority. | |
The court issued a writ of mandamus. | |
from |
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at. | |
This wine comes from France. | |
I got a letter from my brother. | |
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. | |
He had books piled from floor to ceiling. | |
He left yesterday from Chicago. | |
Face away from the wall! | |
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation. | |
20 from 31 leaves 11. | |
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of. | |
An umbrella protects from the sun. | |
He knows right from wrong. | |