obsolete |
1. adj. (of words, equipment, etc.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often by preference for something newer, which replaces the subject). | |
It is speculated that, within a few years, the Internet's speedy delivery of news worldwide will make newspapers obsolete. | |
2. adj. (biology) Imperfectly developed; not very distinct. | |
3. v. (transitive, US) To cause to become obsolete. | |
This software component has been obsoleted. | |
We are in the process of obsoleting this product. | |
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. | |
king |
1. n. A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation. | |
Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547. | |
2. n. A powerful or majorly influential person. | |
Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media". | |
3. n. Something that has a preeminent position. | |
In times of financial panic, cash is king. | |
4. n. A component of certain games. | |
5. n. (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest | |
6. n. (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit. | |
7. n. A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking | |
8. n. (slang) A king skin. | |
Oi mate, have you got kings? | |
9. n. A male dragonfly; a drake. | |
10. n. A king-sized bed. | |
11. v. To crown king, to make (a person) king. | |
12. v. To rule over as king. | |
13. v. To perform the duties of a king. | |
14. v. To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over. | |
15. v. To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards. | |
16. v. To dress and perform as a drag king. | |
17. n. alternative form of qinges (Chinese musical instrument) | |
man |
1. n. An adult male human. | |
The show is especially popular with middle-aged men. | |
2. n. (collective) All human males collectively: mankind. | |
3. n. A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.) | |
every man for himself | |
4. n. (collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.) | |
5. n. (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens. | |
6. n. (obsolete) A sentient being, whether human or supernatural. | |
7. n. An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch. | |
8. n. (obsolete, uncommon) Manliness; the quality or state of being manly. | |
9. n. A husband. | |
10. n. A lover; a boyfriend. | |
11. n. A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.) | |
Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I’m a cherry pie man. | |
12. n. A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.) | |
I wanted to be a guitar man on a road tour, but instead I’m a flag man on a road crew. | |
13. n. A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter. | |
14. n. A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc. | |
15. n. An adult male servant. | |
16. n. (historical) A vassal. A subject. | |
Like master, like man. (old proverb) | |
all the king's men | |
17. n. A piece or token used in board games such as chess. | |
18. n. (Multicultural London English, slang) Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; (non-gloss definition, construed in the third person). | |
19. n. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste. | |
Come on, man, we've got no time to lose! | |
20. n. A friendly term of address usually reserved for other adult males. | |
Hey, man, how's it goin'? | |
21. n. (sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact. | |
22. adj. only used in, man enough | |
23. interj. Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing a man. | |
Man, that was a great catch! | |
24. v. To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex). | |
The ship was manned with a small crew. | |
25. v. To take up position in order to operate (something). | |
Man the machine guns! | |
26. v. (reflexive, possibly dated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.) | |
27. v. (transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort. | |
28. v. (transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people. | |
any |
1. adv. To even the slightest extent, at all. | |
I will not remain here any longer. | |
If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways! | |
2. det. At least one; of at least one kind. One at all. | |
do you have any biscuits?; do you have any food?; I haven't got any money; it won't do you any good | |
3. det. No matter what kind. | |
choose any items you want; any person may apply | |
4. pron. Any thing(s) or person(s). | |
Any may apply. | |
officer |
1. n. One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations. | |
2. n. One who holds a public office. | |
3. n. An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative. | |
4. n. (colloquial, military) A commissioned officer. | |
5. v. To supply with officers. | |
6. v. To command like an officer. | |
nominated |
1. adj. Having received a nomination. | |
The nominated candidates will each give a speech before the election. | |
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of nominate | |
nominate |
1. v. To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office. | |
2. v. (obsolete) To entitle, confer a name upon. | |
3. adj. (zoology) nominotypical | |
the nominate subspecies | |
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 | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
English |
1. adj. Of or pertaining to England. | |
2. adj. English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England. | |
Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English. | |
3. adj. Of or pertaining to the people of England (to Englishmen and Englishwomen). | |
4. adj. Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure. | |
an English ton | |
5. adj. (Amish) Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German. | |
6. n. (collective plural) The people of England; Englishmen and Englishwomen. | |
The Scottish and the English have a history of conflict. | |
7. n. The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world. | |
English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca. | |
How do you say ‘à peu près’ in English? | |
8. n. (Amish, collective plural) The non-Amish; non-Amish people. | |
9. n. One's ability to employ the English language correctly. | |
My coworker has pretty good English for a non-native speaker. | |
10. n. The English-language term or expression for something. | |
What's the English for ‘à peu près’? | |
11. n. Specific language or wording in English; English text or statements in speech, whether in translation or otherwise. | |
The technical details are correct, but the English is not very clear. | |
12. n. A variety or dialect of spoken and or written English. | |
13. n. (printing, dated) The size of type between pica and great primer, standardized as 14-point. | |
14. n. (North American) Spin or side given to a ball, especially in pool or billiards. | |
Put more English on the ball. | |
15. v. (transitive, archaic) To translate, adapt or render into English. | |
16. n. (US) Spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in billiards or bowling. | |
You can't hit it directly, but maybe if you give it some english. | |
17. n. (figurative) An unusual or unexpected interpretation of a text or idea, a spin, a nuance. | |
crown |
1. n. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem. | |
2. n. (heraldry) A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists, no physical crown, as in the case of the kingdom of Belgium; by analogy such crowns can be a | |
3. n. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor. | |
4. n. (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor. | |
the martyr's crown | |
5. n. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it. | |
6. n. (metonym) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state. | |
7. n. (by extension, especially in legal) The state, the government (headed by a monarch). | |
Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown. | |
8. n. The topmost part of the head. | |
9. n. The highest part of a hill. | |
10. n. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna | |
11. n. (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings. | |
12. n. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet. | |
13. n. (forestry) The top of a tree. | |
14. n. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums. | |
15. n. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth. | |
16. n. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling | |
17. n. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet | |
18. n. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line. | |
19. n. (nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable. | |
20. n. (paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 x 15 inches. | |
21. n. (paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 x 15 inches. | |
22. n. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location | |
23. n. (medical) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina | |
24. n. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening | |
25. n. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond. | |
26. n. The dome of a furnace. | |
27. n. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters. | |
28. n. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure. | |
29. n. A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat. | |
30. n. The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands | |
31. adj. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown. | |
crown prince | |
32. adj. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees. | |
a crown fire | |
33. v. To place a crown on the head of. | |
34. v. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc. | |
35. v. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify. | |
36. v. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect. | |
37. v. To declare (someone) a winner. | |
38. v. (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening. | |
The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives. | |
39. v. To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley. | |
40. v. To hit on the head. | |
41. v. (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game. | |
42. v. (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king. | |
“Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row. | |
43. v. (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel. | |
44. v. (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach. | |
45. v. (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other. | |
46. v. (archaic) past participle of crow | |