math |
1. n. A mowing; what is gathered from mowing. | |
2. n. (North America) (clipping of mathematics) | |
3. n. (North America) Arithmetic calculations; (see do the math). | |
If you do the math, you'll see that it’s not such a bargain. | |
$170 a month? That doesn’t sound right. Let me check your math. | |
4. n. (North America) A math course. | |
They needed to take two more maths in order to graduate. | |
5. v. (colloquial, informal) to do mathematical calculations | |
6. n. (Hinduism, Jainism) (clipping of matha) | |
dated |
1. adj. Marked with a date. | |
The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922. | |
2. adj. Outdated. | |
"Omnibus" is a dated term for a bus. | |
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of date | |
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. | |
repeating |
1. v. present participle of repeat | |
2. adj. That repeats; repetitive. | |
3. adj. Of a firearm: capable of firing multiple times without needing recharging. | |
4. adj. (mathematics) Of a decimal: recurring. | |
5. n. repetition | |
repeat |
1. v. To do or say again (and again). | |
The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To happen again; recur. | |
3. v. To echo the words of (a person). | |
4. v. (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does. | |
5. v. (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. | |
6. v. (legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received). | |
7. v. (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insuffici | |
Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over. | |
Use "say again" instead of repeat on the radio. Repeat will bring in artillery fire. | |
8. n. An iteration; a repetition. | |
We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring. | |
9. n. A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun. | |
10. n. (genetics, biochemistry) A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein). | |
11. n. (music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated. | |
decimal |
1. n. A number expressed in the base-ten system, (particularly) a fractional numeral written in this system. | |
What is 7/23 as a decimal? | |
2. n. (informal) The decimal system itself. | |
3. n. (informal) A decimal place. | |
Pi has a value of 3.142, to three decimals. | |
4. n. (informal) A decimal point. | |
5. adj. (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal. | |
6. v. to represent with numbers after a decimal point | |