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 | |
make |
1. v. To create. | |
2. v. To build, construct, or produce. | |
We made a bird feeder for our yard. | |
I'll make a man out of him yet. | |
3. v. To write or compose. | |
I made a poem for her wedding. | |
He made a will. | |
4. v. To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action. | |
make war | |
They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men. | |
5. v. (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing. | |
God made earth and heaven. | |
6. v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act. | |
To make like a deer caught in the headlights. | |
They made nice together, as if their fight never happened. | |
He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against. | |
8. v. To constitute. | |
They make a cute couple. | |
This makes the third infraction. | |
One swallow does not a summer make. | |
9. v. 1995, Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work, p.46: | |
10. v. To add up to, have a sum of. | |
Two and four make six. | |
11. v. (intransitive, construed with of typically interrogative) To interpret. | |
I don’t know what to make of it. | |
12. v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success. | |
This company is what made you. | |
She married into wealth and so has it made. | |
13. v. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be. | |
The citizens made their objections clear. | |
This might make you a bit woozy. | |
Did I make myself heard? | |
Scotch will make you a man. | |
14. v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as. | |
15. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something). | |
You're making her cry. | |
I was made to feel like a criminal. | |
16. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do. | |
The teacher made the student study. | |
Don’t let them make you suffer. | |
17. v. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be. | |
His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person. | |
18. v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes. | |
19. v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify. | |
20. v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time. | |
We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight. | |
21. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction). | |
They made westward over the snowy mountains. | |
Make for the hills! It's a wildfire! | |
They made away from the fire toward the river. | |
22. v. To cover (a given distance) by travelling. | |
23. v. To move at (a speed). | |
The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas. | |
This baby can make 220 miles an hour. | |
24. v. To appoint; to name. | |
25. v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man). | |
26. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate. | |
27. v. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status). | |
They hope to make a bigger profit. | |
He didn't make the choir after his voice changed. | |
She made ten points in that game. | |
28. v. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability. | |
29. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. | |
30. v. To enact; to establish. | |
31. v. To develop into; to prove to be. | |
She'll make a fine president. | |
32. v. To form or formulate in the mind. | |
make plans | |
made a questionable decision | |
33. v. To perform a feat. | |
make a leap | |
make a pass | |
make a u-turn | |
34. v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make. | |
35. v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue. | |
36. v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in. | |
37. v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what. | |
38. v. (transitive, euphemism) To take the virginity of. | |
39. v. To have sexual intercourse with. | |
40. n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model. | |
What make of car do you drive? | |
41. n. How a thing is made; construction. | |
42. n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture. | |
The camera was of German make. | |
43. n. Quantity produced, especially of materials. | |
44. n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing. | |
45. n. A person's character or disposition. | |
46. n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand. | |
47. n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit. | |
48. n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility. | |
49. n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence. | |
50. n. (slang) Past or future target of seduction (usually female). | |
51. n. (slang) A promotion. | |
52. n. A home-made project | |
53. n. (basketball) A made basket. | |
54. n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion. | |
55. n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny. | |
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. | |
shrill |
1. adj. High-pitched and piercing. | |
The woods rang with shrill cries of the birds. | |
2. adj. Having a shrill voice. | |
3. adj. Sharp or keen to the senses. | |
4. adj. (figuratively, derogatory) Especially of a complaint or demand: fierce, loud, strident. | |
5. v. To make a shrill noise. | |
6. n. A shrill sound. | |
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. | |
high |
1. adj. Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty. | |
The balloon rose high in the sky. The wall was high. a high mountain | |
2. adj. Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions. | |
3. adj. (baseball, of a ball) Above the batter's shoulders. | |
the pitch (or: the ball) was high | |
4. adj. Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured. | |
5. adj. Having a specified elevation or height; tall. | |
three feet high three Mount Everests high | |
6. adj. Elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character. | |
The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish. | |
7. adj. Most exalted; foremost. | |
the high priest, the high officials of the court, the high altar | |
8. adj. Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive). | |
high crimes, the high festival of the sun | |
9. adj. Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith. | |
high (i.e. intense) heat; high (i.e. full or quite) noon; high (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i.e. complete) pleasure; high (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; high (i.e. extensive, thorough) s | |
10. adj. Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend). | |
11. adj. (in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time. | |
high latitude, high antiquity | |
12. adj. (in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing things; see e.g. high church, High Tory. | |
13. adj. Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc. | |
in high spirits | |
14. adj. (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich. | |
high living, the high life | |
15. adj. Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud. | |
a high tone | |
16. adj. (with "on" or "about") Keen, enthused. | |
17. adj. (of a body of water) With tall waves. | |
18. adj. Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc). | |
My bank charges me a high interest rate. I was running a high temperature and had high cholesterol. high voltage high prices high winds a high number | |
19. adj. Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, (which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative)). | |
Carrots are high in vitamin A. made from a high-copper alloy | |
20. adj. (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations). | |
The note was too high for her to sing. | |
21. adj. (phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate. | |
22. adj. (card games) Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc. | |
23. adj. (poker) Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush. | |
I have KT742 of the same suit. In other words, a K-high flush. | |
9-high straight = 98765 unsuited | |
Royal Flush = AKQJT suited = A-high straight flush | |
24. adj. (of a card or hand) Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc. | |
North's hand was high. East was in trouble. | |
25. adj. (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose. | |
Epicures do not cook game before it is high. | |
The tailor liked his meat high. | |
26. adj. (slang) Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly (until the early 20th century) usually alcohol, but now (by the mid 20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, c | |
27. adj. (nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind. | |
28. adv. In or to an elevated position. | |
How high above land did you fly? | |
29. adv. In or at a great value. | |
Costs have grown higher this year again. | |
30. adv. In a pitch of great frequency. | |
I certainly can't sing that high. | |
31. n. A high point or position, literally or figuratively; an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven. | |
32. n. A point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best. | |
It was one of the highs of his career. | |
33. n. A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs. | |
That pill gave me a high for a few hours, before I had a comedown. | |
34. n. A drug that gives such a high. | |
35. n. (informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone. | |
A large high is centred on the Azores. | |
36. n. The maximum value attained by some quantity within a specified period. | |
Inflation reached a ten-year high. | |
37. n. The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period. | |
Today's high was 32°C. | |
38. n. (card games) The highest card dealt or drawn. | |
39. v. (obsolete) To rise. | |
The sun higheth. | |
40. n. (obsolete) Thought; intention; determination; purpose. | |
41. v. To hie; to hasten. | |
pitched |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of pitch | |
2. adj. Having a slope. | |
a pitched roof | |
3. adj. (not comparable) Having a specified tonal range. | |
a high-pitched scream. | |
4. adj. (not comparable) Fought from predetermined positions at a specified time and place. | |
a pitched battle | |
5. adj. (not comparable) Covered in pitch. | |
pitch |
1. n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap. | |
It is hard to get this pitch off my hand. | |
2. n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar. | |
They put pitch on the mast to protect it. | |
The barrel was sealed with pitch. | |
It was pitch black because there was no moon. | |
3. n. (geology) Pitchstone. | |
4. v. To cover or smear with pitch. | |
5. v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure. | |
6. n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand. | |
a good pitch in quoits | |
7. n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball. | |
The pitch was low and inside. | |
8. n. (sports) (Australia) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) Not used in America, where "field" i | |
The teams met on the pitch. | |
9. n. An effort to sell or promote something. | |
He gave me a sales pitch. | |
10. n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font. | |
The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch. | |
The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood. | |
A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning. | |
11. n. The angle at which an object sits. | |
the pitch of the roof or haystack | |
12. n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree. | |
13. n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis. | |
14. n. (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare | |
the pitch of an aircraft | |
15. n. (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller. | |
The propeller blades' pitch went to zero as the engine was feathered. | |
16. n. The place where a busker performs. | |
17. n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader. | |
18. n. An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar. | |
19. n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression. | |
20. n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances. | |
21. n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders. | |
The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope. | |
22. n. (now British, regional) A person or animal's height. | |
23. n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled. | |
24. n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down. | |
25. n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant. | |
a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof | |
26. n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out. | |
27. v. To throw. | |
He pitched the horseshoe. | |
28. v. (transitive, or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate. | |
(transitive) The hurler pitched a curveball. | |
(intransitive) He pitched high and inside. | |
29. v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher. | |
Bob pitches today. | |
30. v. To throw away; discard. | |
He pitched the candy wrapper. | |
31. v. To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell. | |
He pitched the idea for months with no takers. | |
32. v. To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind. | |
At which level should I pitch my presentation? | |
33. v. To assemble or erect (a tent). | |
Pitch the tent over there. | |
34. v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp. | |
35. v. (ambitransitive, aviation, or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down. | |
(transitive) The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship. | |
(intransitive) The airplane pitched. | |
36. v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin. | |
The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker. | |
37. v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface. | |
The ball pitched well short of the batsman. | |
38. v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting. | |
39. v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight. | |
40. v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice. | |
41. v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope. | |
to pitch from a precipice | |
The field pitches toward the east. | |
42. v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones. | |
43. v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix. | |
44. v. (transitive, card games, slang) To discard for some gain. | |
45. n. (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note. | |
The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians. | |
46. n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by. | |
Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start. | |
47. v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch. | |
48. v. To fix or set the tone of. | |
noise |
1. n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant. | |
He knew that it was trash day, when the garbage collectors made all the noise. | |
2. n. Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations. | |
3. n. (technology) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio) | |
4. n. (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population. | |
5. n. Rumour or complaint. | |
The problems with the new computer system are causing a lot of noise at Head Office. | |
6. n. (obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band. | |
7. n. (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound. | |
9. v. To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip. | |