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 | |
fall |
1. n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity. | |
2. n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc. | |
3. n. (chiefly North America, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. | |
4. n. A loss of greatness or status. | |
the fall of Rome | |
5. n. That which falls or cascades. | |
6. n. (sport) A crucial event or circumstance. | |
7. n. (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out. | |
8. n. (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction. | |
9. n. (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat. | |
10. n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss. | |
11. n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed. | |
He set up his rival to take the fall. | |
12. n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural). | |
Have the goodness to secure the falls of the mizzen halyards. | |
13. n. See falls | |
14. n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells. | |
15. n. A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker. | |
16. v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards. | |
17. v. To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity. | |
Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground. | |
18. v. To come down, to drop or descend. | |
The rain fell at dawn. | |
19. v. To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself. | |
He fell to the floor and begged for mercy. | |
20. v. To be brought to the ground. | |
21. v. To be moved downwards. | |
22. v. (obsolete) To let fall; to drop. | |
23. v. (obsolete) To sink; to depress. | |
to fall the voice | |
24. v. (US) To fell; to cut down. | |
to fall a tree | |
25. v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively. | |
26. v. (copulative) To become. | |
She has fallen ill. The children fell asleep in the back of the car. When did you first fall in love? | |
27. v. To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); said of an instance of a recurring event such as a holiday or date. | |
Thanksgiving always falls on a Thursday. Last year, Commencement fell on June 3. | |
28. v. (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated. | |
Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD. | |
29. v. (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease. | |
This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War. | |
30. v. (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.). | |
The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal. | |
31. v. (followed by a determining word or phrase) To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by words follow | |
Our senator fell into disrepute because of the banking scandal. | |
32. v. (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance. | |
And so it falls to me to make this important decision. The estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals. | |
33. v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower. | |
34. v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth. | |
to fall lambs | |
35. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals. | |
36. v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin. | |
37. v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before. | |
to fall into error; to fall into difficulties | |
38. v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face. | |
39. v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon). | |
40. v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry. | |
After arguing, they fell to blows. | |
41. v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly. | |
An unguarded expression fell from his lips. | |
heavily |
1. adv. In a heavy manner. | |
She fell heavily into bed. | |
He clomped heavily up the stairs in his boots. | |
The great clod trod heavily on my toes! | |
2. adv. With a great weight. | |
heavily burdened | |
3. adv. To a considerable degree, to a great extent. | |
He relied heavily on the data collected by the others. | |
He drank heavily. | |
heavily in debt; heavily tattooed | |
4. adv. In a manner designed for heavy duty. | |
heavily armed soldiers; heavily armoured tanks; heavily reinforced walls | |
5. adv. So as to be thick or heavy. | |
heavily built young men; his heavily muscled arms | |
6. adv. In a laboured manner. | |
he breathed heavily | |
due |
1. adj. Owed or owing. | |
He is due four weeks of back pay. | |
The amount due is just three quid. | |
The due bills total nearly seven thousand dollars. | |
He can wait for the amount due him. | |
2. adj. Appropriate. | |
With all due respect, you're wrong about that. | |
3. adj. Scheduled; expected. | |
Rain is due this afternoon. | |
The train is due in five minutes. | |
When is your baby due? | |
4. adj. Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time. | |
The baby is just about due. | |
5. adj. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause. | |
The dangerously low water table is due to rapidly growing pumping. | |
6. adj. On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass | |
The town is 5 miles due North of the bridge. | |
7. adv. (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly. | |
The river runs due north for about a mile. | |
8. n. Deserved acknowledgment. | |
Give him his due — he is a good actor. | |
9. n. (in plural dues) A membership fee. | |
10. n. That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty. | |
11. n. Right; just title or claim. | |
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 | |
lack |
1. n. (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy. | |
2. n. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want. | |
3. v. To be without, to need, to require. | |
My life lacks excitement. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something). | |
He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money. | |
5. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want. | |
6. v. (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach. | |
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. | |
energy |
1. n. The impetus behind all motion and all activity. | |
2. n. The capacity to do work. | |
3. n. (physics) A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent. | |
Units: | |
SI: joule (J), kilowatt-hour (kW·h) | |
CGS: erg (erg) | |
Customary: foot-pound-force, calorie, kilocalorie (i.e. dietary calories), BTU, liter-atmosphere, ton of TNT | |
4. n. An intangible, modifiable force (often characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed in some New Age religions to emanate from a person, place or thing and which is (or can be) preserved | |
5. n. (RPG, video games, board games) A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana. | |