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. | |
equestrianism |
1. n. The art or sport of riding horses. | |
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 | |
jump |
1. v. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne. | |
The boy jumped over a fence. | |
Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward. | |
She is going to jump from the diving board. | |
3. v. To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap. | |
to jump a stream | |
4. v. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently. | |
The sudden sharp sound made me jump. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece. | |
The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop. | |
7. v. To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward. | |
I hate it when people jump the queue. | |
8. v. To attack suddenly and violently. | |
The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley. | |
9. v. To engage in sexual intercourse. | |
10. v. To cause to jump. | |
The rider jumped the horse over the fence. | |
11. v. To move the distance between two opposing subjects. | |
12. v. To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it. | |
13. v. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning. | |
14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard. | |
15. v. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld. | |
16. v. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset. | |
17. v. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper. | |
18. v. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with. | |
19. v. (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter. | |
20. v. (intransitive, slang) To flee; to make one's escape. | |
21. n. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. | |
22. n. An effort; an attempt; a venture. | |
23. n. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault. | |
24. n. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry. | |
25. n. An instance of propelling oneself upwards. | |
The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane. | |
26. n. An object which causes one to jump, a ramp. | |
He went off a jump. | |
27. n. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location. | |
There were a couple of jumps from the bridge. | |
28. n. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location. | |
She was terrified before the jump, but was thrilled to be skydiving. | |
29. n. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body. | |
30. n. A jumping move in a board game. | |
the knight's jump in chess | |
31. n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards). | |
Press jump to start. | |
32. n. (sports) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly. | |
Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second. | |
33. n. (with on) An early start or an advantage. | |
He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before. | |
Their research department gave them the jump on the competition. | |
34. n. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity. | |
35. n. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space. | |
36. n. (computing) A change of the path of execution to a different location. | |
37. adv. (obsolete) exactly; precisely | |
38. adj. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise. | |
39. n. A kind of loose jacket for men. | |
over |
1. adj. Discontinued; ended or concluded. | |
The show is over. | |
2. adv. Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end. | |
Let's talk over the project at tomorrow's meeting. | |
Let me think that over. | |
I'm going to look over our department's expenses. | |
3. adv. To an excessive degree; overly. | |
4. adv. From an upright position to being horizontal. | |
He tipped the bottle over, and the water came gushing out. | |
That building just fell over! | |
He bent over to touch his toes. | |
5. adv. Horizontally; left to right or right to left. | |
Slide the toilet-paper dispenser's door over when one roll is empty in order to reveal the other. | |
I moved over to make room for him to sit down. | |
6. adv. From one position or state to another. | |
Please pass that over to me. | |
He came over to our way of thinking on the new project. | |
Come over and play! | |
I'll bring over a pizza. | |
7. adv. Overnight (throughout the night). | |
We stayed over at Grandma's. | |
Can I sleep over? | |
8. adv. (US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again. | |
I lost my paper and I had to do the entire assignment over. | |
9. adv. (procedure word, military) a procedure word meaning that a station is finished transmitting and is expecting a response. | |
Bravo Six, this is Bravo Six Four. Stand by for ten mike report one dash three, over. | |
Bravo Six Four, this is Bravo Six Actual. Send your traffic, over. | |
10. n. (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled. | |
11. n. Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc. | |
12. prep. Physical positioning. | |
13. prep. On top of; above; higher than; further up. | |
Hold the sign up over your head. climb up the ladder and look over the roof | |
14. prep. Across or spanning. | |
There is a bridge over the river. | |
15. prep. In such a way as to cover. | |
drape the fabric over the table; there is a roof over the house | |
16. prep. From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards. | |
The dog jumped over the fence. | |
I'll go over the fence first and then help you. | |
Let's walk over the hill to get there. | |
17. prep. By comparison. | |
18. prep. More than; to a greater degree. | |
I prefer the purple over the pink. | |
19. prep. Beyond; past; exceeding; too much or too far. | |
I think I’m over my limit for calories for today. | |
20. prep. (in certain collocations) As compared to. | |
Sales are down this quarter over last. | |
21. prep. Indicating relative status, authority, or power | |
The owner's son lorded over the experienced managers. | |
The prince ruled over a portion of the kingdom. | |
22. prep. (mathematics) Divided by. | |
four over two equals two over one | |
23. prep. (poker) (Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.) | |
9♦9♠9♣6♥6♠ = nines over sixes | |
24. prep. Finished with; done with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two. | |
We got over the engineering problems and the prototype works great. | |
I am over my cold and feel great again. | |
I know the referee made a bad call, but you have to get over it your annoyance with the referee's decision. | |
She is finally over the distress of losing her job. | |
He is finally over his distress over the loss of the relationship with his ex-girlfriend. | |
25. prep. While using, especially while consuming. | |
26. prep. Concerning or regarding. | |
The two boys had a fight over whose girlfriend was the best. | |
27. prep. Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding. | |
We triumphed over difficulties. | |
The bill was passed over the veto. | |
It was a fine victory over their opponents. | |
28. interj. In radio communications: end of sentence, ready to receive reply. | |
How do you receive? Over! | |
29. n. (rare, dialectal, or obsolete) A shore, riverbank. | |
The sea's over. | |
a |
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
4. art. The same; one. | |
We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
Stand a tiptoe. | |
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
Torn a pieces. | |
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
A God’s name. | |
13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
To set the people a worke. | |
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
The times, they are a-changin'. | |
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
Jacob, when he was a dying | |
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
The name of John a Gaunt. | |
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
fence |
1. n. A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter. | |
2. n. Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods. | |
3. n. The place whence such a middleman operates. | |
4. n. Skill in oral debate. | |
5. n. (obsolete) The art or practice of fencing. | |
6. n. A guard or guide on machinery. | |
7. n. (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier. | |
8. n. (computing, programming) A memory barrier. | |
9. v. To enclose, contain or separate by building fence. | |
10. v. To defend or guard. | |
11. v. To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods. | |
12. v. (intransitive, sports) To engage in (the sport) fencing. | |
13. v. (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence. | |