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 | |
plunge |
1. v. To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse. | |
to plunge the body into water | |
2. v. (figuratively, transitive) To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action. | |
to plunge a dagger into the breast; to plunge a nation into war | |
3. v. (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself. | |
he plunged into the river | |
5. v. (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition. | |
to plunge into debt; to plunge into controversy | |
6. v. (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does. | |
7. v. (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling. | |
8. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle). | |
9. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower. | |
10. n. the act of plunging or submerging | |
11. n. a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water) | |
to take the water with a plunge | |
A plunge into the sea | |
12. n. (dated) A swimming pool | |
13. n. (figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse | |
14. n. (slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation | |
15. n. (obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty | |
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. | |
engage |
1. v. (heading, transitive) To interact socially. | |
2. v. To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied. | |
3. v. To draw into conversation. | |
4. v. To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone). | |
5. v. To interact antagonistically.: | |
6. v. To enter into conflict with (an enemy). | |
7. v. (intransitive) To enter into battle. | |
8. v. To interact contractually.: | |
9. v. To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.). | |
10. v. (intransitive) To guarantee or promise (to do something). | |
11. v. To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive). | |
They were engaged last month! They're planning to have the wedding next year. | |
12. v. (obsolete, transitive) To pledge, pawn (one's property); to put (something) at risk or on the line; to mortgage (houses, land). | |
13. v. To interact mechanically.: | |
14. v. To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch). | |
Whenever I engage the clutch, the car stalls out. | |
15. v. (engineering, transitive) To come into gear with. | |
The teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another. | |
16. v. (intransitive) To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in). | |
thoroughly |
1. adv. In a thorough or complete manner. | |
He went out in the rain and came back thoroughly drenched. | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
any |
1. adv. To even the slightest extent, at all. | |
I will not remain here any longer. | |
If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways! | |
2. det. At least one; of at least one kind. One at all. | |
do you have any biscuits?; do you have any food?; I haven't got any money; it won't do you any good | |
3. det. No matter what kind. | |
choose any items you want; any person may apply | |
4. pron. Any thing(s) or person(s). | |
Any may apply. | |
affair |
1. n. (often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public. | |
a difficult affair to manage | |
2. n. Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely. | |
an affair of honor, a duel; an affair of love, an intrigue | |
3. n. (military) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle. | |
4. n. A material object (vaguely designated). | |
He used a hook-shaped affair with a long handle to unlock the car. | |
5. n. An adulterous relationship. (from affaire de cœur). | |
6. n. A romantic relationship with someone who is not one's regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend). | |
7. n. A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship. | |
8. n. A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature. | |
9. n. (slang) The (male or female) genitals. | |