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 | |
stand |
1. v. To position or be positioned physically.: | |
2. v. (intransitive) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position. | |
Here I stand, wondering what to do next. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up. | |
Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To remain motionless. | |
Do not leave your car standing in the road. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation. | |
6. v. To place in an upright or standing position. | |
He stood the broom in a corner and took a break. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated. | |
Paris stands on the Seine. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet. | |
9. v. (intransitive) (of tears) To be present, to have welled up (in the eyes). | |
10. v. To position or be positioned mentally.: | |
11. v. (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose. | |
He stands to get a good price for the house. | |
12. v. (transitive, negative) To tolerate. | |
I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions. | |
I can’t stand him. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe. | |
14. v. (intransitive) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition. | |
15. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist. | |
16. v. To position or be positioned socially.: | |
17. v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire. | |
18. v. To undergo; withstand; hold up. | |
The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time. | |
19. v. (intransitive, British) To seek election. | |
He is standing for election to the local council. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To be valid. | |
What I said yesterday still stands. | |
21. v. To oppose, usually as a team, in competition. | |
22. v. To cover the expense of; to pay for. | |
to stand a treat | |
23. v. (intransitive) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation. | |
Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts. | |
24. v. (intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord. | |
25. v. (intransitive) To appear in court. | |
26. v. (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.). | |
27. v. (intransitive) To remain without ruin or injury. | |
28. v. (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far. | |
29. n. The act of standing. | |
30. n. A defensive position or effort. | |
The Commander says we will make our stand here. | |
31. n. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition. | |
They took a firm stand against copyright infringement. | |
32. n. A period of performance in a given location or venue. | |
They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees. They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week. | |
33. n. A device to hold something upright or aloft. | |
He set the music upon the stand and began to play. an umbrella stand; a hat-stand | |
34. n. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box. | |
She took the stand and quietly answered questions. | |
35. n. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs. | |
This stand of pines is older than the one next to it. | |
36. n. (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit. | |
37. n. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game. | |
38. n. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand. | |
39. n. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait. | |
a taxi stand | |
40. n. (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc. | |
a good, bad, or convenient stand for business | |
41. n. (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural) | |
42. n. (cricket) A partnership. | |
43. n. (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms. | |
44. n. (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing. | |
45. n. (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment. | |
to be at a stand what to do | |
46. n. A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another | |
47. n. (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch. | |
48. n. A location or position where one may stand. | |
up |
1. adv. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity. | |
I looked up and saw the airplane overhead. | |
2. adv. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state Thoroughly, completely. | |
I will mix up the puzzle pieces. | |
Tear up the contract. | |
He really messed up. | |
Please type up our monthly report. | |
3. adv. To or from one's possession or consideration. | |
I picked up some milk on the way home. | |
The committee will take up your request. | |
She had to give up her driver's license after the accident. | |
4. adv. North. | |
I will go up to New York to visit my family this weekend. | |
5. adv. To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc. | |
Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets. | |
Turn it up, I can barely hear it. | |
Listen to your voice go up at the end of a question. | |
Cheer up, the weekend's almost here. | |
6. adv. (rail transport) Traditional term for the direction leading to the principal terminus, towards milepost zero. | |
7. adv. (sailing) Against the wind or current. | |
8. adv. (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction. | |
9. adv. (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman. | |
The bowler pitched the ball up. | |
10. adv. (hospitality, US) Without additional ice. | |
Would you like that drink up or on ice? | |
11. adv. (academia) Towards Cambridge or Oxford. | |
She's going up to read Classics this September. | |
12. adv. To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with. | |
I was up to my chin in water. | |
A stranger came up and asked me for directions. | |
13. adv. To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite. | |
Drink up. The pub is closing. | |
Can you sum up your research? | |
The comet burned up in the atmosphere. | |
I need to sew up the hole in this shirt. | |
14. adv. Aside, so as not to be in use. | |
to lay up riches; put up your weapons | |
15. prep. Toward the top of. | |
The cat went up the tree. They walk up the steps. | |
16. prep. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached. | |
The information made its way up the chain of command to the general. I felt something crawling up my arm. | |
17. prep. Further along (in any direction). | |
Go up the street until you see the sign. | |
18. prep. From south to north of | |
19. prep. From the mouth towards the source (of a river or waterway). | |
20. prep. (vulgar slang) Of a man: having sex with. | |
Phwoar, look at that bird. I'd love to be up her. | |
21. prep. (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more remote from a central location). | |
22. adj. Awake. | |
I can’t believe it’s 3 a.m. and you’re still up. | |
23. adj. Finished, to an end | |
Time is up! | |
24. adj. In a good mood. | |
I’m feeling up today. | |
25. adj. Willing; ready. | |
If you are up for a trip, let’s go. | |
26. adj. Next in a sequence. | |
Smith is up to bat. | |
27. adj. Happening; new. | |
What is up with that project at headquarters? | |
28. adj. Facing upwards; facing toward the top. | |
Put the notebook face up on the table. | |
Take a break and put your feet up. | |
29. adj. Larger; greater in quantity. | |
Sales are up from last quarter. | |
30. adj. Ahead; leading; winning. | |
The home team were up by two goals at half-time. | |
31. adj. Standing. | |
Get up and give her your seat. | |
32. adj. On a higher level. | |
The new ground is up. | |
33. adj. Available; made public. | |
The new notices are up as of last Tuesday. | |
34. adj. (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair. | |
AAKK = aces up | |
QQ33 = queens up | |
35. adj. Well-informed; current. | |
I’m not up on the latest news. What’s going on? | |
36. adj. (computing) Functional; working. | |
Is the server back up? | |
37. adj. (anchor, Adj_railway)(of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus. | |
The London train is on the up line. | |
38. adj. Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc. | |
39. adj. (bar tending) Chilled and strained into a stemmed glass. | |
A Cosmopolitan is typically served up. | |
40. adj. (slang) Erect. | |
41. adj. (of the Sun or Moon) Above the horizon, in the sky (i.e. during daytime or night-time) | |
42. adj. (slang) well-known; renowned | |
43. n. The direction opposed to the pull of gravity. | |
Up is a good way to go. | |
44. n. A positive thing. | |
I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home. | |
45. n. An upstairs room of a two story house. | |
She lives in a two-up two-down. | |
46. v. (transitive, colloquial) To increase or raise. | |
If we up the volume, we'll be able to make out the details. | |
We upped anchor and sailed away. | |
47. v. (transitive, colloquial) To promote. | |
It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President. | |
48. v. (intransitive) To act suddenly, usually with another verb. | |
arise |
1. v. To come up from a lower to a higher position. | |
to arise from a kneeling posture | |
2. v. To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up. | |
He arose early in the morning. | |
3. v. To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself. | |
A cloud arose and covered the sun. | |
be |
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence. | |
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. | |
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place. | |
The cup is on the table. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place. | |
When will the meeting be? | |
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar. | |
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come. | |
I have been to Spain many times. | |
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating. | |
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same. | |
Knowledge is bliss. | |
Hi, I’m Jim. | |
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same. | |
3 times 5 is fifteen. | |
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal. | |
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995. | |
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it. | |
The sky is blue. | |
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase. | |
The sky is a deep blue today. | |
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice. | |
The dog was drowned by the boy. | |
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses. | |
The woman is walking. | |
I shall be writing to you soon. | |
We liked to chat while we were eating. | |
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go". | |
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic. | |
I am to leave tomorrow. | |
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car. | |
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement. | |
This building is three hundred years old. | |
I am 75 kilograms. | |
He’s about 6 feet tall. | |
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years. | |
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.) | |
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day. | |
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.) | |
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo. | |
What time is it there? It’s night. | |
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event. | |
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period) | |
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him. | |
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like. | |
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid. | |
Why is it so dark in here? | |
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way. | |
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.". | |
Why is he being nice to me? | |
erect |
1. adj. Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards. | |
2. adj. Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly. | |
3. adj. (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed. | |
4. adj. (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted. | |
5. adj. Watchful; alert. | |
6. adj. (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc. | |
7. v. To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. | |
to erect a house or a fort | |
8. v. To cause to stand up or out. | |
9. v. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise. | |
to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc. | |
10. v. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify. | |
11. v. To animate; to encourage; to cheer. | |
12. v. (astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.). | |
13. v. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc. | |
14. v. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. | |
rise |
1. v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. | |
2. v. To move upwards. | |
We watched the balloon rise. | |
3. v. To grow upward; to attain a certain height. | |
This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet. | |
4. v. To slope upward. | |
The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill. | |
5. v. (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation. | |
The sun was rising in the East. | |
6. v. To become erect; to assume an upright position. | |
to rise from a chair or from a fall | |
7. v. To leave one's bed; to get up. | |
8. v. (figurative) To be resurrected. | |
he rose from the grave; he is risen! | |
9. v. (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn. | |
The committee rose after agreeing to the report. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing. | |
11. v. To attain a higher status. | |
12. v. Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase. | |
13. v. To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse. | |
to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest. | |
14. v. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch. | |
to rise a tone or semitone | |
15. v. To begin; to develop. | |
16. v. To develop. | |
17. v. To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light. | |
Has that dough risen yet? | |
18. v. (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place). | |
19. v. To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight. | |
a noise rose on the air; odour rises from the flower | |
20. v. To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. | |
21. v. To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur. | |
22. v. To go up; to ascend; to climb. | |
to rise a hill | |
23. v. To cause to go up or ascend. | |
to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water | |
to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it | |
24. v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege. | |
25. v. To come; to offer itself. | |
26. v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form. | |
27. n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater. | |
The rise of the tide. | |
There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday. | |
Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure. | |
28. n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence. | |
The rise of the working class. | |
The rise of the printing press. | |
The rise of the feminists. | |
29. n. (chiefly UK) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc). | |
30. n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts. | |
The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed. | |
31. n. (Ireland) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US). | |
The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six. | |
32. n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names. | |
33. n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope. | |
34. n. (informal) An angry reaction. | |
I knew that would get a rise out of him. | |
35. n. alternative form of rice (twig) | |