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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.
brewing
1. v. present participle of brew
2. n. The production of alcoholic beverages, such as beer, by fermentation; the process of being brewed.
3. n. The business or occupation of a brewer.
4. n. The quantity of a brew made in a single batch.
5. n. The forming of a storm or the gathering of clouds.
brew
1. v. (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
2. v. To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
3. v. (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
4. v. (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
5. v. To foment or prepare, as by brewing
6. v. (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
7. v. (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
9. n. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as a cup of tea.
10. n. (slang) A beer.
11. n. (UK, informal) A hill.
oenology
1. n. The scientific study of wine, wines and winemaking.
Even though I can't drink wine, I can still study oenology and enjoy knowing about the great wines of the world.
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
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
secondary
1. adj. enum, primary, tertiary, Latinate
2. adj. Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
3. adj. Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body
the work of secondary hands
4. adj. (organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals
5. adj. (geology) Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
6. adj. (geology) Developed by pressure or other causes.
secondary cleavage
7. adj. (anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
8. adj. (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.
the secondary symptoms of syphilis
9. adj. Of less than primary importance.
a secondary issue
10. adj. (education) Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
11. adj. (industry) Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
12. adj. (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.
13. n. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
14. n. (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
15. n. (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
16. n. (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar
17. n. One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
the secondary, or undersheriff, of the city of London
18. n. (astronomy) A secondary circle.
19. n. (astronomy) A satellite.
20. n. (education) A secondary school.
There are four secondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.
21. n. Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
fermentation
1. n. (biochemistry) Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the co
2. n. A state of agitation or excitement; a ferment.
fermentation
1. n. (biochemistry) Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the co
2. n. A state of agitation or excitement; a ferment.
occurring
1. v. present participle of occur
2. n. An instance of something occurring; an event or happening.
3. adj. (in combination) That occurs in a specified manner.
naturally-occurring macromolecules
occur
1. v. (intransitive) To happen or take place.
The liftoff will occur in exactly twelve seconds.
2. v. (intransitive) To present or offer itself.
I will write if the opportunity occurs.
3. v. (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself.
4. v. (intransitive, sciences) To be present or found.
The chemical monofluoroacetate occurs in all parts of Dichapetalum cymosum, and is responsible for its toxic effects.
after
1. adv. Behind; later in time; following.
They lived happily ever after.
I left the room, and the dog bounded after.
2. prep. Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
We had a few beers after the game.
The time is quarter after eight.
The Cold War began shortly after the Second World War.
3. prep. Behind.
He will leave a trail of destruction after him.
4. prep. In pursuit of, seeking.
He's after a job; run after him; inquire after her health.
5. prep. In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
We named him after his grandfather; a painting after Leonardo da Vinci.
6. prep. Next in importance or rank.
The princess is next in line to the throne after the prince.
7. prep. As a result of.
After your bad behaviour, you will be punished.
8. prep. In spite of.
After all that has happened, he is still my friend.
I can't believe that, after all our advice against gambling, you walked into that casino!
9. prep. (Irish usually preceded by a form of be followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity
I was after finishing my dinner when there was a knock on the door.
10. prep. (dated) According to an author or text.
11. prep. Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
to look after workmen; to enquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness
12. prep. (obsolete) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.
13. conj. Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
I went home after we had decided to call it a day.
14. adj. (dated) Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent
15. adj. (nautical, where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship.
The after gun is mounted aft.
The after gun is abaft the forward gun.
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.
conversion
1. n. The act of converting something or someone.
His conversion to Christianity
The conversion of the database from ASCII to Unicode
2. n. (computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
3. n. (chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
4. n. (rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
5. n. (American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
6. n. (marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
7. n. (law) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the ut
the conversion of a horse
8. n. (linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
9. n. (obsolete) The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
10. n. (logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
11. n. (math) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
sugar
1. n. Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
2. n. A specific variety of sugar.
3. n. (chemistry) Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
4. n. A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.
5. n. A term of endearment.
I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.
6. n. (slang) A kiss.
7. n. (chiefly southern US, slang) Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.
8. n. (informal) Diabetes.
9. n. (dated) Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste.
10. n. Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
11. n. (US, slang) heroin Heroin.
12. v. To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
John heavily sugars his coffee.
13. v. To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
14. v. (US, Canada regional) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the prepositi
15. v. (entomology) To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moth, moths.
16. v. (programming, transitive) To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
17. interj. (informal, euphemistic) Used in place of shit!
Oh, sugar!
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
alcohol
1. n. (organic compound) Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).
2. n. (colloquial) Ethanol.
3. n. Beverages containing ethanol, collectively.
4. n. (obsolete) Any very fine powder.
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.
beers
1. n. plural of beer
beer
1. n. An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
Beer is brewed all over the world.
2. n. A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
3. n. A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid.
4. n. A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.
I bought a few beers from the shop for the party.
Can I buy you a beer?
I'd like two beers and a glass of white wine.
5. n. A variety of the above beverages.
Pilsner is one of the most commonly served beers in Europe.
I haven't tried this beer before.
6. v. (informal, transitive) To give beer to (someone)
7. n. One who is or exists.
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.
wine
1. n. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of grapes.
Wine is stronger than beer.
She ordered some wine for the meal.
2. n. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable; for example, "dandelion wine".
3. n. A serving of wine.
I'd like three beers and two wines, please.
4. n. A dark purplish red colour; the colour of red wine.
(color panel, wine, 704A43)
5. v. To entertain with wine.
6. v. (intransitive) To drink wine.
7. n. (nonstandard, British) wind
take
1. v. To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.
I'll take that plate off the table.
2. v. To seize or capture.
take the guards prisoner
take prisoners
After a bloody battle, they were able to take the city.
3. v. To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
took ten catfish in one afternoon
4. v. (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
5. v. To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
Billy took her pencil.
6. v. To exact.
take a toll
take revenge
7. v. To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
took the next two tricks
took Smith's rook
8. v. To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
took third place
took bribes
The camera takes 35mm film.
9. v. To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
The store doesn't take checks.
She wouldn't take any money for her help.
Do you take credit?
The vending machine only takes bills, it doesn't take coins.
10. v. To accept and follow (advice, etc).
take my advice
11. v. To receive into some relationship.
take a wife
The school only takes new students in the fall.
The therapist wouldn't take him as a client.
12. v. (transitive, intransitive, legal) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
13. v. To remove.
take two eggs from the carton
14. v. To remove or end by death; to kill.
The earthquake took many lives.
The plague took rich and poor alike.
Cancer took her life.
He took his life last night.
15. v. To subtract.
take one from three and you are left with two
16. v. To have sex with.
17. v. To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
Don't try to take that guy. He's bigger than you.
The woman guarding us looks like a professional, but I can take her!
18. v. To grasp or grip.
He took her hand in his.
19. v. To select or choose; to pick.
Take whichever bag you like.
She took the best men with her and left the rest to garrison the city.
I'll take the blue plates.
I'll take two sugars in my coffee, please.
20. v. To adopt (select) as one's own.
She took his side in every argument.
take a stand on the important issues
21. v. To carry or lead (something or someone).
She took her sword with her everywhere she went.
I'll take the plate with me.
22. v. (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
The next bus will take you to Metz.
I took him for a ride
I took him down to London.
23. v. (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
These stairs take you down to the basement.
Stone Street took us right past the store.
24. v. To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
She took the steps two or three at a time/
He took the curve / corner too fast.
The pony took every hedge and fence in its path.
25. v. To escort or conduct (a person).
He took her to lunch at the new restaurant, took her to the movies, and then took her home.
26. v. (reflexive) To go.
27. v. To use as a means of transportation.
take the ferry
I took a plane.
He took the bus to London, and then took a train to Manchester.
He's 96 but he still takes the stairs.
28. v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
29. v. To obtain for use by payment or lease.
She took a condo at the beach for the summer.
He took a full-page ad in the Times.
30. v. To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
They took two magazines.
I used to take The Sunday Times.
31. v. To consume.
32. v. To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
take two of these and call me in the morning
take the blue pill
I take aspirin every day to thin my blood.
33. v. To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
The general took dinner at seven o'clock.
34. v. To experience, undergo, or endure.
35. v. To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
take sun-baths
take a shower
She made the decision to take chemotherapy.
36. v. To experience or feel.
She takes pride in her work.
place
1. n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
2. n. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
3. n. A group of houses.
They live at Westminster Place.
4. n. An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
5. n. Any area of the earth: a region.
He is going back to his native place on vacation.
6. n. The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places.
7. n. The area where one lives: one's home, formerly(chiefly) country estates and farms.
Do you want to come over to my place later?
8. n. An area of the skin.
9. n. (euphemism) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
10. n. (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
11. n. A location or position in space.
12. n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
13. n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
14. n. (obsolete) A topic.
15. n. A frame of mind.
I'm in a strange place at the moment.
16. n. (chess) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
17. n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
18. n. A role or purpose; a station.
It is really not my place to say what is right and wrong in this case.
19. n. The position of a contestant in a competition.
We thought we would win but only ended up in fourth place.
20. n. (horse-racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
to win a bet on a horse for place
21. n. The position as a member of a sports team.
He lost his place in the national team.
22. n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
23. n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
three decimal places; the hundreds place
24. n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
That's what I said in the first place!
25. n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
26. v. To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
He placed the glass on the table.
27. v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
The Cowboys placed third in the league.
28. v. (intransitive, racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars.
29. v. To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
I've seen him before, but I can't quite place where.
30. v. (transitive, in the passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
Run Ragged was placed fourth in the race.
31. v. To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
32. v. To arrange for or to make (a bet).
I placed ten dollars on the Lakers beating the Bulls.
33. v. To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
They phoned hoping to place her in the management team.
34. v. (sports) To place-kick (a goal).

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