musical |
1. adj. Of or relating to music. | |
2. adj. Gifted or skilled in music. | |
3. adj. Pleasing to the ear. | |
Her voice had a musical quality. | |
4. adj. Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions. | |
5. n. A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting. | |
instruments |
1. n. plural of instrument | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of instrument | |
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. | |
small |
1. adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number. | |
A small serving of ice cream. | |
A small group. | |
He made us all feel small. | |
2. adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child. | |
Remember when the children were small? | |
3. adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters. | |
4. adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean. | |
5. adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short. | |
a small space of time | |
6. adj. topics, en, Size | |
7. adv. In a small fashion. | |
8. adv. In or into small pieces. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) To a small extent. | |
10. n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back. | |
11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle. | |
portable |
1. adj. Able to be carried or easily moved. | |
2. adj. (computing) Of software, able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems. | |
3. n. A portable building used for temporary purposes, particularly: | |
4. n. (clipping of portable toilet) | |
5. n. A trailer or other portable structure used for classes at a school. | |
6. n. (computing) (clipping of portable computer) | |
7. n. (video games) A hand-held video gaming device. | |
organ |
1. n. A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions. | |
2. n. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions. | |
3. n. (musical instruments) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such. | |
4. n. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization. | |
5. n. A species of cactus. | |
6. n. (slang) The penis. | |
7. v. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs. | |
whose |
1. det. (interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom. | |
Whose wallet is this? | |
2. det. (relative) Of whom, belonging to whom. | |
This is the man whose dog caused the accident. (=This man's dog caused the accident.) | |
3. det. (relative) Of which, belonging to which. | |
We saw several houses whose roofs are falling off. (=The roofs are falling off several houses that we saw.) | |
4. pron. (interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom. | |
Whose is this book? | |
He does not know whose this is. | |
5. pron. (relative, rare) Of whom, belonging to whom. | |
sound |
1. adj. Healthy. | |
He was safe and sound. | |
In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work. | |
2. adj. Complete, solid, or secure. | |
Fred assured me the floorboards were sound. | |
3. adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness. | |
4. adj. (UK, slang) Good; acceptable; decent. | |
"How are you?" - "I'm sound.". | |
That's a sound track you're playing. | |
See that man over there? He's sound. You should get to know him. | |
5. adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply. | |
Her sleep was sound. | |
6. adj. Heavy; laid on with force. | |
a sound beating | |
7. adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective. | |
a sound title to land | |
8. adv. Soundly. | |
9. interj. (UK, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm. | |
- I found my jacket.- Sound. | |
10. n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. | |
He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him. Nobody made a sound. | |
11. n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations. | |
12. n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc | |
13. n. Noise without meaning; empty noise. | |
14. n. earshot, Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard. | |
Stay within the sound of my voice. | |
15. v. (intransitive) To produce a sound. | |
When the horn sounds, take cover. | |
16. v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound. | |
He sounded good when we last spoke. | |
That story sounds like a pack of lies! | |
17. v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound. | |
18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound. | |
19. v. (intransitive, legal, often, with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law. | |
20. v. To cause to produce a sound. | |
Sound the alarm! | |
He sounds the instrument. | |
21. v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce. | |
The "e" in "house" isn't sounded. | |
22. n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean. | |
Puget Sound; Owen Sound | |
23. n. The air bladder of a fish. | |
Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food. | |
24. n. A cuttlefish. | |
25. v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale. | |
The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive. | |
26. v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe. | |
When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal. | |
27. v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device. | |
Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope. | |
28. v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion. | |
to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra | |
29. n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde. | |
30. n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra. | |
Is |
1. n. plural of I | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of be | |
He is a doctor. He retired some time ago. | |
Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him. | |
3. n. plural of i | |
remember to dot your is | |
be |
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence. | |
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. | |
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place. | |
The cup is on the table. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place. | |
When will the meeting be? | |
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar. | |
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come. | |
I have been to Spain many times. | |
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating. | |
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same. | |
Knowledge is bliss. | |
Hi, I’m Jim. | |
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same. | |
3 times 5 is fifteen. | |
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal. | |
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995. | |
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it. | |
The sky is blue. | |
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase. | |
The sky is a deep blue today. | |
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice. | |
The dog was drowned by the boy. | |
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses. | |
The woman is walking. | |
I shall be writing to you soon. | |
We liked to chat while we were eating. | |
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go". | |
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic. | |
I am to leave tomorrow. | |
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car. | |
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement. | |
This building is three hundred years old. | |
I am 75 kilograms. | |
He’s about 6 feet tall. | |
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years. | |
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.) | |
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day. | |
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.) | |
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo. | |
What time is it there? It’s night. | |
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event. | |
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period) | |
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him. | |
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like. | |
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid. | |
Why is it so dark in here? | |
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way. | |
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.". | |
Why is he being nice to me? | |
produced |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of produce | |
produce |
1. v. To yield, make or manufacture; to generate. | |
2. v. To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection. | |
3. v. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public. | |
4. v. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line. | |
to produce a side of a triangle | |
5. v. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong. | |
to produce a man's life to threescore | |
6. v. (music) To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing. | |
highly produced sound | |
7. n. Items produced. | |
8. n. Amount produced. | |
9. n. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms. | |
10. n. Offspring. | |
11. n. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies. | |
by |
1. prep. Near or next to. | |
The mailbox is by the bus stop. | |
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval. | |
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July. | |
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of. | |
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour. | |
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of. | |
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare | |
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of. | |
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of. | |
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking. | |
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination. | |
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight. | |
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed. | |
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife. | |
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of. | |
Our stock is up by ten percent. | |
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another. | |
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches. | |
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to. | |
He cheated by his own admission. | |
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of. | |
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this. | |
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something. | |
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm. | |
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of. | |
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress. | |
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker. | |
I watched as it passed by. | |
16. adv. In the vicinity, near. | |
There was a shepherd close by. | |
The shop is hard by the High Street. | |
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business. | |
I'll stop by on my way home from work. | |
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave. | |
18. adv. Aside, away. | |
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring. | |
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary. | |
20. n. (card games) A pass | |
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye | |
beating |
1. n. The action by which someone or something is beaten. | |
the beating of a drum | |
secret beatings of prisoners | |
2. n. A heavy defeat or setback. | |
3. n. The pulsation of the heart. | |
4. v. present participle of beat | |
beat |
1. n. A stroke; a blow. | |
2. n. A pulsation or throb. | |
a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse | |
3. n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. | |
4. n. A rhythm. | |
5. n. (music) specifically The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians. | |
6. n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency | |
7. n. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development. | |
8. n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard. | |
to walk the beat | |
9. n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially | |
10. n. In journalism, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.). | |
11. n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop. | |
12. n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others. | |
the beat of him | |
13. n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort. | |
14. n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler. | |
a dead beat | |
15. n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music. | |
16. n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively. | |
17. n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade. | |
18. v. To hit; strike | |
As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled. | |
19. v. To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm. | |
He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. | |
21. v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing. | |
22. v. To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event. | |
Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row. | |
No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him. | |
I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game. | |
23. v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind. | |
24. v. To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting. | |
25. v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip. | |
Beat the eggs and whip the cream. | |
26. v. (transitive, UK, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price | |
He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35. | |
27. v. To indicate by beating or drumming. | |
to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters | |
28. v. To tread, as a path. | |
29. v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. | |
30. v. To be in agitation or doubt. | |
31. v. To make a sound when struck. | |
The drums beat. | |
32. v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum. | |
The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters. | |
33. v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. | |
34. v. To arrive at a place before someone. | |
He beat me there. | |
The place is empty, we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch. | |
35. v. (transitive, US, slang) to masturbate. | |
This was the second time he beat off today. | |
36. v. (intransitive, UK, slang) to have sexual intercourse. | |
Bruv, She came in just as we started to beat. | |
37. adj. (US slang) exhausted | |
After the long day, she was feeling completely beat. | |
38. adj. dilapidated, beat up | |
Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys. | |
39. adj. (gay slang) fabulous | |
Her makeup was beat! | |
40. adj. (slang) boring | |
41. adj. (slang) ugly | |
42. n. A beatnik. | |
reeds |
1. n. plural of reed | |
reed |
1. n. Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water. | |
2. n. The hollow stem of these plants. | |
3. n. (music) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it. | |
4. n. (music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed. | |
5. n. (weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving. | |
6. n. (architecture) reeding | |
7. n. (mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting. | |
8. n. Straw prepared for thatching a roof. | |
9. v. To mill or mint with reeding. | |
10. v. simple past tense and past participle of ree | |
11. n. (Scotland) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. | |
without |
1. adv. (archaic, or literary) Outside, externally. | |
2. adv. Lacking something. | |
Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without. | |
3. adv. (euphemism) In prostitution: without a condom being worn. | |
4. prep. (archaic, or literary) Outside of, beyond. | |
The snow was swirling without the cottage, but it was warm within. | |
5. prep. Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc. | |
It was a mistake to leave my house without a coat. | |
6. prep. Not doing or not having done something. | |
He likes to eat everything without sharing. | |
He shot without warning anyone. | |
7. conj. (archaic, otherwise nonstandard) Unless, except (introducing a clause). | |
amplifying |
1. v. present participle of amplify | |
amplify |
1. v. To render larger, more extended, or more intense | |
amplify the loudspeaker | |
amplify a telescope | |
amplify a microscopes | |
amplify the message | |
amplify an image on the screen | |
amplify the impactof the project | |
2. v. (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand | |
3. v. To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current. | |
amplify a signal | |
resonators |
1. n. plural of resonator | |