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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.
figurative
1. adj. Metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs".
2. adj. Metaphorically so called.
3. adj. With many figures of speech.
4. adj. Emblematic; representative
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
lose
1. v. To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons.
If you lose that ten-pound note, you'll be sorry.
He lost his hearing in the explosion.
She lost her position when the company was taken over.
2. v. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
I lost my way in the forest.
3. v. To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
Johnny lost a tooth, but kept it for the tooth fairy.
He lost his spleen in a car wreck.
4. v. To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc).
We lost the football match.
5. v. To shed (weight).
I’ve lost five pounds this week.
6. v. To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
The policeman lost the robber he was chasing.
Mission control lost the satellite as its signal died down.
7. v. To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
We managed to lose our pursuers in the forest.
8. v. To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
She lost all her sons in the war.
9. v. To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
10. v. (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
When we get into the building, please lose the hat.
11. v. Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
My watch loses five minutes a week.
It's already 5:30? My watch must have lost a few minutes.
12. v. To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
13. v. To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
I lost a part of what he said.
14. v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to part with; to deprive of.
15. n. (obsolete) Fame, renown; praise.
vigour
1. n. Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
2. n. (biology) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
A plant grows with vigour.
3. n. Strength; efficacy; potency.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
Power
1. n. A button of a computer, a video game console, or similar device, that when pressed, causes the device to be either shut down or powered up.
2. n. (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control.
3. n. Ability to affect or influence.
4. n. Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
5. n. (metonymy) (chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
6. n. (metonymy) An influential nation, company, or other such body.
7. n. (physical) Effectiveness.
8. n. Physical force or strength.
He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.
9. n. Electricity or a supply of electricity.
After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days.
10. n. A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
11. n. A rate to magnify an optical image by a lens or mirror.
We need a microscope with higher power.
12. n. Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
the mechanical powers
13. n. mathematics
14. n. A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion):x^n, read as "x to the power ofn" or the like, is called a power and denotes the produc
15. n. (set theory) Cardinality.
16. n. (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
17. n. (biblical, in plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
18. v. To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
This CD player is powered by batteries.
19. v. To hit or kick something forcefully.
20. v. To enable or provide the impetus for.
21. adj. (Singapore, colloquial) Impressive.
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
languish
1. v. (intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
2. v. (intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
He languished without his girlfriend
3. v. (intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.
He languished in prison for years
4. v. (intransitive) To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.
The case languished for years before coming to trial.
5. v. (transitive, obsolete) To make weak; to weaken, devastate.
6. v. (intransitive, now rare) To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously.
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
pass
1. v. Physical movement.
2. v. (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
They passed from room to room.
3. v. To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
You will pass a house on your right.
4. v. (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make
The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.
John passed Suzie a note.
The torch was passed from hand to hand.
5. v. (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.
The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.
6. v. (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
7. v. (sport) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
8. v. # (transitive, football) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
9. v. # To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
10. v. # (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
11. v. (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
12. v. To put in circulation; to give currency to.
pass counterfeit money
13. v. (lbl, en, transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
pass a person into a theater or over a railroad
14. v. To change in state or status
15. v. (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
He passed from youth into old age.
16. v. (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.
17. v. (intransitive) To die.
His grandmother passed yesterday.
18. v. (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
He passed his examination.
He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
19. v. (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legis
Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.
The bill passed both houses of Congress.
The bill passed the Senate, but did not pass in the House.
20. v. (intransitive, legal) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son.
When the old king passed away with only a daughter as an heir, the throne passed to a woman for the first time in centuries.
21. v. To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal
He passed the bill through the committee.
22. v. (intransitive, legal) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
23. v. To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
24. v. (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
25. v. To move through time.
26. v. (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
Their vacation passed pleasantly.
27. v. (transitive, of time) To spend.
What will we do to pass the time?
28. v. To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
29. v. (intransitive) To continue.
30. v. (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
You're late, but I'll let it pass.
31. v. To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
She loved me for the dangers I had passed.
32. v. (intransitive) To happen.
It will soon come to pass.
33. v. To be accepted.
34. v. (intransitive) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
It isn't ideal, but it will pass.
35. v. (sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex or other group to which they would not otherwise regard one as belonging (or belonging
36. v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
37. v. (intransitive) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
38. v. To do or be better.
39. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
40. v. To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
41. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
42. n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
a mountain pass
43. n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
the passes of the Mississippi
44. n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over or along anything.
45. n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
46. n. An attempt.
My pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.
47. n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
48. n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
49. n. A sexual advance.
The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
50. n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
51. n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
52. n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
53. n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass
54. n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
55. n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
56. n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
57. n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
58. n. (cookery) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
59. n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
A pass would have seen her win the game, but instead she gave a wrong answer and lost a point, putting her in second place.
60. n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.
61. n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
Anyone want to trade passes?
away
1. adv. From a place, hence.
He went away on vacation.
2. adv. Aside; off; in another direction.
3. adv. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
4. adv. (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.
5. adv. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
sing away
6. adv. Without restraint.
You've got questions? Ask away!
7. adv. Being so engaged for the entire time.
That's where tourists go to hear great Cuban bands and dance the night away.
8. adv. At a distance in time or space.
Christmas is only two weeks away.
9. interj. (Northern England) come on!; go on!
10. adj. Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
The master is away from home.
Would you pick up my mail while I'm away.
11. adj. (following the noun modified) At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
He's miles away by now.
Spring is still a month away.
12. adj. (chiefly sports) Not on one's home territory.
Entrance for away supporters.
Next, they are playing away in Dallas.
13. adj. (baseball, following the noun modified) Out.
Two men away in the bottom of the ninth.
14. adj. misspelling of aweigh

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