English Sentence Analyser

Use this page to analyse and learn English text. You can copy text into the box below or get a random sentence from our database. Press the Analyse button to get translations of the text and words.

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
fish
1. n. A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Salmon is a fish.
The Sun Mother created all the fishes of the world.
The Sun Mother created all the fish of the world.
We have many fish in our aquarium.
2. n. (archaic, or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
3. n. The flesh of the fish used as food.
The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
4. n. A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
5. n. (derogatory, slang) A woman.
6. n. (slang) An easy victim for swindling.
7. n. (poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
8. n. (nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
9. n. (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
10. n. (nautical) A torpedo.
11. n. (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
12. n. Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
13. n. Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
14. n. Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
15. n. # Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
16. n. # Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
17. n. (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
18. n. A period of time spent fishing.
The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
19. n. An instance of seeking something.
Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
20. v. (intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.
She went to the river to fish for trout.
21. v. To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
22. v. (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
Why are you fishing through my things?
He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
23. v. (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something.
The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
24. v. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
25. v. (nautical) To repair a spar or mast by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
26. n. (obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
11. adv. -->
12. n. alternative form of withe
stakes
1. n. plural of stake
2. n. The money wagered in gambling.
3. n. Risks.
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of stake
stake
1. n. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
2. n. (croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
3. n. A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.
4. n. (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
5. n. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.
6. n. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
7. n. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming t
8. n. (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
9. v. To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
to stake vines or plants
10. v. To pierce or wound with a stake.
11. v. To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
12. v. To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him.
His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
nets
1. n. plural of net
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of net
net
1. n. A mesh of string, cord or rope.
a net for the hair; a mosquito net; a tennis net
2. n. A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
3. n. A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
4. n. Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
Petri net
5. n. (by extension) A trap.
caught in the prosecuting attorney's net
6. n. (geometry) Of a polyhedron, any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form the polyhedron.
7. n. A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
a computer network; a road network; an electricity distribution network
8. n. (electronics) A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.
9. n. (sports) A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
The striker headed the ball into the net to make it 1-0.
10. n. (sports) A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
11. n. (tennis, by extension) The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
12. v. To catch by means of a net.
13. v. (transitive, figuratively) To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
14. v. To enclose or cover with a net.
to net a tree
15. v. (transitive, football) To score (a goal).
Evans netted the winner in the 80th minute.
16. v. (tennis) To hit the ball into the net.
17. v. To form network or netting; to knit.
18. adj. (obsolete) Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.
19. adj. Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat.
net wine
20. adj. Remaining after expenses or deductions.
net profit; net weight
21. adj. Final; end.
net result; net conclusion
22. adv. After expenses or deductions.
You'll have $5000 net.
23. n. The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit.
24. v. To receive as profit.
The company nets $30 on every sale.
25. v. To yield as profit for.
The scam netted the criminals $30,000.
26. v. To fully hedge a position.
Every party is netting their position with a counter-party
that
1. conj. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
He told me that the book is a good read.
I believe that it is true. — She is convinced that he is British.
2. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
Be glad that you have enough to eat.
3. conj. (now uncommon) Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that.
4. conj. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect.
The noise was so loud that she woke up.
The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed.
5. conj. (archaic, or poetic) Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
6. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
Was John there? — Not that I saw.
How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw.
7. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.
8. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.
9. det. The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
That book is a good read. This one isn't.
That battle was in 1450.
That cat of yours is evil.
10. pron. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "t
He went home, and after that I never saw him again.
11. pron. The known (thing); (used to refer to something just said).
They're getting divorced. What do you think about that?
12. pron. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality; used together with a verb and pronoun to emphatically repeat a previous statement.
The water is so cold! — That it is.
13. pron. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; (representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition).
The CPR course that she took really came in handy.
The house that he lived in was old and dilapidated.
14. pron. (colloquial) (Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.)
the place that = where or to which I went last year
the last time that = when I went to Europe
15. adv. (degree) To a given extent or degree.
"The ribbon was that thin." "I disagree, I say it was not that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner...".
16. adv. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
I'm just not that sick.
I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult.
17. adv. (obsolete, outside, dialects) To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her.
18. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
serve
1. n. (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
Whose serve is it?
2. n. (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
3. v. (personal) To provide a service.
4. v. To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
5. v. To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
6. v. To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
7. v. (intransitive) To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service.
8. v. To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
9. v. (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner.
10. v. (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
11. v. To be effective.
12. v. To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
13. v. (intransitive) To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
14. v. (intransitive) To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.
15. v. (transitive, legal) To deliver a document.
16. v. To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
17. v. To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
to serve a witness with a subpoena
18. v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
19. v. To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
20. v. (intransitive) To be in military service.
21. v. (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
22. v. To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
23. v. (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
24. v. To perform a public obligation.
I've received a summons for jury duty. It says I serve one day or one trial.
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
prevent
1. v. To stop; to keep from.
I brushed my teeth to prevent them from going yellow.
2. v. (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
3. v. (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
4. v. (obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass.
5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
fish
1. n. A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Salmon is a fish.
The Sun Mother created all the fishes of the world.
The Sun Mother created all the fish of the world.
We have many fish in our aquarium.
2. n. (archaic, or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
3. n. The flesh of the fish used as food.
The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
4. n. A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
5. n. (derogatory, slang) A woman.
6. n. (slang) An easy victim for swindling.
7. n. (poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
8. n. (nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
9. n. (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
10. n. (nautical) A torpedo.
11. n. (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
12. n. Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
13. n. Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
14. n. Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
15. n. # Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
16. n. # Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
17. n. (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
18. n. A period of time spent fishing.
The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
19. n. An instance of seeking something.
Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
20. v. (intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.
She went to the river to fish for trout.
21. v. To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
22. v. (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
Why are you fishing through my things?
He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
23. v. (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something.
The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
24. v. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
25. v. (nautical) To repair a spar or mast by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
26. n. (obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
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.
getting
1. v. present participle of get
2. n. The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
3. n. That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.
get
1. v. (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.
Lance is going to get Mary a ring.
2. v. To receive.
I got a computer from my parents for my birthday.
You need to get permission to leave early.
He got a severe reprimand for that.
3. v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. (See usage notes.)
I've got a concert ticket for you.
4. v. (copulative) To become.
I'm getting hungry; how about you?
Don't get drunk tonight.
5. v. To cause to become; to bring about.
That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it.
I'll get this finished by lunchtime.
I can't get these boots off upright - (or on'upright,).
6. v. To fetch, bring, take.
Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?
I need to get this to the office.
7. v. To cause to do.
Somehow she got him to agree to it.
I can't get it to work.
8. v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards
The actors are getting into position.
When are we going to get to London?
I'm getting into a muddle.
We got behind the wall.
9. v. To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
to get a mile
10. v. To cause to come or go or move.
11. v. To cause to be in a certain status or position.
12. v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
We ought to get moving or we'll be late.
After lunch we got chatting.
13. v. To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
I normally get the 7:45 train.
I'll get the 9 a.m. flight to Boston.
14. v. To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
Can you get that call, please? I'm busy.
15. v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).
I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live!
The finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure.
16. v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny.
I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!
I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. She gets me.
17. v. (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
"You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot.".
18. v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
He got bitten by a dog.
19. v. To become ill with or catch (a disease).
I went on holiday and got malaria.
20. v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time.
21. v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
That question's really got me.
22. v. To find as an answer.
What did you get for question four?
23. v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
The cops finally got me.
I'm gonna get him for that.
24. v. To hear completely; catch.
Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?
25. v. To getter.
I put the getter into the container to get the gases.
26. v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
27. v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
to get a lesson; to get out one's Greek lesson
28. v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
Get her with her new hairdo.
29. v. (informal, mostly, imperative) Go away; get lost.
30. v. (euphemism) To kill.
They’re coming to get you, Barbara.
31. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
32. n. (dated) Offspring.
33. n. Lineage.
34. n. (sports) A difficult return or block of a shot.
35. n. Something gained.
36. n. (UK, regional) A git.
37. n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
back
1. adj. (not comparable) Near the rear.
Go in the back door of the house.
2. adj. (not comparable) Not current.
I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine.
3. adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area.
They took a back road.
4. adj. (not comparable) In arrear; overdue.
They still owe three months' back rent.
5. adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating backward.
back action
6. adj. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
The vowel of smallcaps - lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England.
7. adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
He gave back the money. He needs his money back. He was on vacation, but now he’s back. The office fell into chaos when you left, but now order is back.
8. adv. Away from the front or from an edge.
Sit all the way back in your chair.
Step back from the curb.
9. adv. In a manner that impedes.
Fear held him back.
10. adv. In a reciprocal manner.
If you hurt me, I'll hurt you back.
11. adv. Earlier, ago.
many years back
12. n. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
Could you please scratch my back?
13. n. The spine and associated tissues.
I hurt my back lifting those crates.
14. n. (slang) Large and attractive buttocks.
15. n. (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
I still need to finish the back of your dress.
16. n. The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
Can you fix the back of this chair?
17. n. (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
18. n. That which is farthest away from the front.
He sat in the back of the room.
19. n. The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
Turn the book over and look at the back.
20. n. # The edge of a book which is bound.
# The titles are printed on the backs of the books.
21. n. # (printing) The inside margin of a page.
22. n. # The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
# Tap it with the back of your knife.
23. n. The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
I hung the clothes on the back of the door.
24. n. Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
We'll meet out in the back of the library.
25. n. The part of something that goes last.
The car was near the back of the train.
26. n. (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
The backs were lined up in an I formation.
27. n. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
The small boat raced over the backs of the waves.
28. n. A support or resource in reserve.
29. n. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
The ship's back broke in the pounding surf.
30. n. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
31. n. (slang) Effort, usually physical.
Put some back into it!
32. n. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
Could I get a martini with a water back?
33. n. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
34. v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
the train backed into the station; the horse refuses to back
35. v. To support.
I back you all the way; which horse are you backing in this race?
36. v. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
37. v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
38. v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
39. v. (of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
40. v. To push or force backwards.
to back oxen
The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet.
41. v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
42. v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
43. v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
to back books
44. v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
45. v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
to back a letter; to back a note or legal document
46. v. (legal, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
47. v. To row backward with (oars).
to back the oars
48. n. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
49. n. A ferryboat.
into
1. prep. Going inside (of).
Mary danced into the house.
2. prep. Going to a geographic region.
We left the house and walked into the street.
The plane flew into the open air.
3. prep. Against, especially with force or violence.
The car crashed into the tree; I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall
4. prep. Producing, becoming; (indicates transition into another form or substance).
I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale. Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
5. prep. After the start of.
About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
6. prep. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
She's really into Shakespeare right now; I'm so into you!
7. prep. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself.
8. prep. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.(R:OED Online)
Five into three is fifteen.
9. prep. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
Three into two won't go.
24 goes into 48 how many times?
10. prep. Investigating the subject (of).
Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees.
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
sea
1. n. A large body of salt water.
2. n. The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
3. n. A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.
The Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Sea of Crete, etc.
4. n. A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc.
5. n. The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow.
6. n. (attributive, in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.
7. n. (figurative) Anything resembling the vastness of the sea.
8. n. (planetology) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
The Apollo 11 mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility.
9. n. (planetology) A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
11. adv. -->
12. n. alternative form of withe
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
ebb
1. n. The receding movement of the tide.
The boats will go out on the ebb.
2. n. A gradual decline.
3. n. A low state; a state of depression.
4. n. A European bunting, the corn bunting (, syn. ,).
5. v. (intransitive) to flow back or recede
The tides ebbed at noon.
6. v. (intransitive) to fall away or decline
The dying man's strength ebbed away.
7. v. (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
8. v. To cause to flow back.
9. adj. low, shallow
The water there is otherwise very low and ebb. (Holland)

Dictionary entries from Wiktionary