music |
1. n. A sound, or the study of such sounds, organized in time. | |
I keep listening to this music because it's a masterpiece. | |
2. n. (figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting sounds. | |
3. n. An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes singing. | |
4. n. A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music. | |
5. v. To seduce or entice with music. | |
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. | |
repeated |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of repeat | |
2. adj. Having been said or done again. | |
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. | |
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. | |
often |
1. adv. Frequently, many times. | |
I often walk to work when the weather is nice. | |
I've been going to the movies more often since a new theatre opened near me. | |
2. adj. (archaic) Frequent. | |
improvised |
1. adj. created by improvisation; impromptu; unrehearsed. | |
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of improvise | |
improvise |
1. v. To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, instinct, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan. | |
He had no speech prepared, so he improvised. | |
They improvised a simple shelter with branches and the rope they were carrying. | |
She improvised a lovely solo. | |
accompaniment |
1. n. (music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation; also, the harmony of a figured bass. | |
2. n. That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. | |
usually |
1. adv. Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally. | |
Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work. | |
2. adv. Under normal conditions. | |
consisting |
1. v. present participle of consist | |
consist |
1. v. (obsolete, copulative) To be. | |
2. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To exist. | |
3. v. (intransitive, with in) To be comprised or contained | |
4. v. (intransitive, with of) To be composed, formed, or made up (of). | |
The greeting package consists of some brochures, a pen, and a notepad. | |
5. n. (rail transport) A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit. | |
The train's consist included a baggage car, four passenger cars, and a diner. | |
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. | |
one |
1. num. (cardinal) The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. | |
In some religions, there is only one god. | |
In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth. | |
One person, one vote. | |
2. num. (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers. | |
3. num. (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. | |
4. num. (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one. | |
5. pron. (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. | |
The big one looks good. I want the green one. A good driver is one who drives carefully. | |
6. pron. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. | |
She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the other. | |
7. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general). | |
One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed. One shouldn’t be too quick to judge. | |
8. pron. (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing. | |
"driver", noun: one who drives. | |
9. n. The digit or figure 1. | |
10. n. (mathematics) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. | |
11. n. (US) A one-dollar bill. | |
12. n. (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single. | |
13. n. A joke or amusing anecdote. | |
14. n. (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing. | |
15. n. (Internet slang) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1". | |
A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?! | |
Someone help me; I'm always losing! | |
B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1! | |
Why don't you just go away loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
16. adj. Of a period of time, being particular. | |
One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries. | |
17. adj. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any. | |
My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other.". | |
18. adj. Sole, only. | |
He is the one man who can help you. | |
19. adj. Whole, entire. | |
Body and soul are not separate; they are one. | |
20. adj. In agreement. | |
We are one on the importance of learning. | |
21. adj. The same. | |
The two types look very different, but are one species. | |
22. adj. Being a preeminent example. | |
He is one hell of a guy. | |
23. adj. Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain". | |
The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”. | |
24. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite. | |
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. | |
two |
1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••). Ordinal: second. | |
2. num. Describing a set or group with two elements. | |
3. n. The digit/figure 2. | |
The number 2202 contains three twos. | |
4. n. (US, informal) A two-dollar bill. | |
5. n. A child aged two. | |
This toy is suitable for the twos and threes. | |
6. n. The playing cards featuring two pips. | |
measures |
1. n. plural of measure | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of measure | |
measure |
1. n. A prescribed quantity or extent. | |
2. n. (obsolete) Moderation, temperance. | |
3. n. A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.) | |
4. n. An (unspecified) portion or quantity. | |
a measure of salt | |
5. n. The act or result of measuring. | |
6. n. (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance. | |
7. n. A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion. | |
Honesty is the true measure of a man. | |
8. n. Any of various standard units of capacity. | |
The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn. | |
9. n. A unit of measurement. | |
10. n. The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.) | |
11. n. (now rare) The act or process of measuring. | |
12. n. A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements. | |
13. n. (mathematics, now rare) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor. | |
the greatest common measure of two or more numbers | |
14. n. (geology) A bed or stratum. | |
coal measures; lead measures | |
15. n. (mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, proba | |
16. n. Metrical rhythm. | |
17. n. (now archaic) A melody. | |
18. n. (now archaic) A dance. | |
19. n. (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot. | |
a poem in iambic measure | |
20. n. (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a com | |
21. n. A course of action. | |
22. n. (in plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans. | |
23. n. A piece of legislation. | |
24. v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard. | |
We measured the temperature with a thermometer. You should measure the angle with a spirit level. | |
25. v. To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement) | |
The window measured two square feet. | |
26. v. To estimate the unit size of something. | |
I measure that at 10 centimetres. | |
27. v. To judge, value, or appraise. | |
28. v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments. | |
29. v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over. | |
30. v. To adjust by a rule or standard. | |
31. v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off. | |
often |
1. adv. Frequently, many times. | |
I often walk to work when the weather is nice. | |
I've been going to the movies more often since a new theatre opened near me. | |
2. adj. (archaic) Frequent. | |
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. | |
single |
1. adj. Not accompanied by anything else; one in number. | |
Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now? | |
The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose. | |
2. adj. Not divided in parts. | |
The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate. | |
3. adj. Designed for the use of only one. | |
a single room | |
4. adj. Performed by one person, or one on each side. | |
a single combat | |
5. adj. Not married or (in modern times) not involved in a romantic relationship without being married or not dating anyone exclusively. | |
Forms often ask if a person is single, married, divorced or widowed. In this context, a person who is dating someone but who has never married puts "single". | |
Josh put down that he was a single male on the dating website. | |
6. adj. (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals. | |
7. adj. (obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit. | |
8. adj. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. | |
9. adj. (obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly. | |
10. n. (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B. | |
11. n. (music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track. | |
The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album. | |
12. n. One who is not married. | |
He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there. | |
13. n. (cricket) A score of one run. | |
14. n. (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base. | |
15. n. (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end. | |
16. n. A bill valued at $1. | |
I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change. | |
17. n. (UK) A one-way ticket. | |
18. n. (Canadian football) A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone. Officially known in the rules as a rouge. | |
19. n. (tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis. | |
20. n. One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness. | |
21. n. (Scotland) A handful of gleaned grain. | |
22. v. To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out or to single (something) out. | |
Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag. | |
Yvonne always wondered why Ernest had singled her out of the group of giggling girls she hung around with. | |
23. v. (baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base. | |
Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention. | |
24. v. (agriculture) To thin out. | |
25. v. (of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot. | |
26. v. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. | |
27. v. To take alone, or one by one. | |
chord |
1. n. (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. | |
2. n. (geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve. | |
3. n. (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss. | |
4. n. (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow. | |
5. n. (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P. | |
6. n. The string of a musical instrument. | |
7. n. (anatomy) A cord. | |
8. n. (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle. | |
9. v. To write chords for. | |
10. v. (music) To accord; to harmonize together. | |
This note chords with that one. | |
11. v. To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune. | |
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. | |
simple |
1. adj. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added. | |
2. adj. Without ornamentation; plain. | |
3. adj. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward. | |
4. adj. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank. | |
5. adj. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant. | |
6. adj. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish. | |
7. adj. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated. | |
8. adj. (chemistry) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded. | |
9. adj. (mathematics) Of a group: having no normal subgroup. | |
10. adj. (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed. | |
11. adj. (of a steam engine) Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and l | |
12. adj. (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound. | |
a simple ascidian | |
13. adj. (mineralogy) Homogenous. | |
14. adj. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only. | |
15. n. (medicine) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant. | |
16. n. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above. | |
17. n. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition. | |
18. n. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded. | |
19. n. (weaving) A drawloom. | |
20. n. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom. | |
21. n. (Roman Catholic) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble. | |
22. v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs. | |
chord |
1. n. (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. | |
2. n. (geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve. | |
3. n. (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss. | |
4. n. (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow. | |
5. n. (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P. | |
6. n. The string of a musical instrument. | |
7. n. (anatomy) A cord. | |
8. n. (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle. | |
9. v. To write chords for. | |
10. v. (music) To accord; to harmonize together. | |
This note chords with that one. | |
11. v. To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune. | |
progression |
1. n. The act of moving from one thing to another. | |
2. n. The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward. | |
3. n. (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant. | |
4. n. Development, increase, evolution. | |
5. n. (music) chord progression | |
repeated |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of repeat | |
2. adj. Having been said or done again. | |
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. | |
As |
1. n. plural of A | |
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As. | |
2. adv. To such an extent or degree. | |
You’re not as tall as I am. | |
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive. | |
3. adv. In the manner or role specified. | |
The kidnappers released him as agreed. | |
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues. | |
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend. | |
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as). | |
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what. | |
Do as I say! | |
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know. | |
As you wish, my lord! | |
6. conj. At the same instant that; when. | |
As I came in, she flew. | |
7. conj. At the same time that; while. | |
He sleeps as the rain falls. | |
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that. | |
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy. | |
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since. | |
As it’s too late, I quit. | |
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality. | |
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago. | |
It's not so complicated as I expected. | |
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’. | |
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though. | |
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that. | |
14. conj. Expressing concession; though. | |
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than. | |
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case. | |
You are not as tall as me. | |
They're big as houses. | |
17. prep. In the role of. | |
What is your opinion as a parent? | |
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra. | |
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value. | |
20. n. plural of a | |
necessary |
1. adj. Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty. | |
Although I wished to think that all was false, it was yet necessary that that I, who thus thought, must in some sense exist. | |
It is absolutely necessary that you call and confirm your appointment. | |
2. adj. Unavoidable, inevitable. | |
If it is absolutely necessary to use public computers, you should plan ahead and forward your e-mail to a temporary, disposable account. | |
3. adj. (obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will. | |
4. n. (archaic euphemism) A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory. | |
for |
1. conj. (dated) Because. | |
2. prep. Towards. | |
The astronauts headed for the moon. | |
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to. | |
I have something for you. | |
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of. | |
We're having a birthday party for Janet. | |
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary. | |
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala. | |
5. prep. Supporting. | |
All those for the motion raise your hands. | |
6. prep. Because of. | |
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him. | |
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight. | |
She was the worse for drink. | |
7. prep. Over a period of time. | |
I've lived here for three years. | |
They fought for days over a silly pencil. | |
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space. | |
9. prep. On behalf of. | |
I will stand in for him. | |
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of. | |
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire. | |
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday. | |
He's going for his doctorate. | |
Do you want to go for coffee? | |
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers. | |
Can you go to the store for some eggs? | |
I'm saving up for a car. | |
Don't wait for an answer. | |
What did he ask you for? | |
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward. | |
Run for the hills! | |
He was headed for the door when he remembered. | |
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect. | |
Fair for its day. | |
She's spry for an old lady. | |
14. prep. Despite, in spite of. | |
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive. | |
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.) | |
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.) | |
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio | |
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day | |
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen. | |
At close of play, England were 305 for 3. | |
18. prep. To be, or as being. | |
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.) | |
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs). | |
example |
1. n. Something that is representative of all such things in a group. | |
2. n. Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule. | |
3. n. Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example). | |
4. n. A person punished as a warning to others. | |
5. n. A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model. | |
6. n. An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule. | |
7. v. To be illustrated or exemplified (by). | |
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 | |
accommodate |
1. v. (transitive, often, reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt. | |
to accommodate ourselves to circumstances | |
2. v. To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile. | |
to accommodate differences | |
3. v. To provide housing for. | |
to accommodate an old friend for a week | |
4. v. To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient. | |
to accommodate a friend with a loan | |
5. v. To do a favor or service for; to oblige. | |
6. v. To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc. | |
to accommodate prophecy to events | |
7. v. To give consideration to; to allow for. | |
8. v. To contain comfortably; to have space for. | |
This venue accommodates three hundred people. | |
9. v. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted. | |
10. adj. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. | |
D |
1. n. (snooker) The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off. | |
2. n. (football) The penalty arc on a football pitch. | |
3. n. a grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be F or E depending on the institution) and worse than a C | |