nautical |
1. adj. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen. | |
nautical charts | |
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? | |
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 | |
windward |
1. adj. Towards the wind, or the direction from which the wind is blowing. | |
2. adj. On the side exposed to the wind. | |
3. adv. In a direction from which the wind blows, against or towards the wind. | |
We beat our way windward. | |
4. n. The direction from which the wind blows. | |
5. n. The side receiving the wind's force. | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
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. | |
vessel |
1. n. (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat. | |
2. n. A craft designed for transportation through air or space. | |
3. n. (obsolete, or dialectal) Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals. | |
4. n. A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher. | |
5. n. A person as a container of qualities or feelings. | |
6. n. (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant. | |
Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants. | |
7. v. To put into a vessel. | |
especially |
1. adv. (manner) In a special manner; specially. | |
2. adv. (focus) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal. | |
3. adv. (focus) Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something. | |
Invite them all, especially Molly. | |
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 | |
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. | |
'round |
1. prep. contraction of around | |