| 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. | |
| inequality |
| 1. n. An unfair, not equal, state. | |
| The inequality in living standards led to a civil war as the have nots rebelled. | |
| 2. n. (mathematics) A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: or\leq or> or\geq or\ne, as appropriate. | |
| The inequalityx is less thany, together with thaty, allows us to deduce the inequalityx. | |
| 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. | |
| marriage |
| 1. n. The state of being married. | |
| You should enter marriage for love. | |
| 2. n. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities. | |
| 3. n. (often specifically) The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others. | |
| My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years. | |
| Pat and Leslie's marriage to each other lasted forty years. | |
| 4. n. (sometimes specifically) The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others. | |
| 5. n. A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed. | |
| You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe. | |
| 6. n. (figuratively) A close union. | |
| 7. n. A joining of two parts. | |
| 8. n. (card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in Texas hold 'em or melded in pinochle. | |
| 9. n. (card games) In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value. | |
| marriage |
| 1. n. The state of being married. | |
| You should enter marriage for love. | |
| 2. n. A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities. | |
| 3. n. (often specifically) The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others. | |
| My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years. | |
| Pat and Leslie's marriage to each other lasted forty years. | |
| 4. n. (sometimes specifically) The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others. | |
| 5. n. A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed. | |
| You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe. | |
| 6. n. (figuratively) A close union. | |
| 7. n. A joining of two parts. | |
| 8. n. (card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in Texas hold 'em or melded in pinochle. | |
| 9. n. (card games) In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value. | |
| with |
| 1. prep. Against. | |
| He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
| 2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
| He went with his friends. | |
| 3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
| She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
| 4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
| 5. prep. In support of. | |
| We are with you all the way. | |
| 6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by. | |
| slain with robbers | |
| 7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
| cut with a knife | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
| 9. prep. Having, owning. | |
| 10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
| Do you want to come with? | |
| 11. adv. --> | |
| 12. n. alternative form of withe | |
| an |
| 1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
| 2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
| 3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
| 4. conj. (archaic) If | |
| 5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
| An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
| 6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
| 7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
| 8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
| I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
| inferior |
| 1. adj. of lower quality | |
| Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades. | |
| 2. adj. of lower rank | |
| an inferior officer | |
| 3. adj. located below | |
| 4. adj. (typography) Printed in subscript. | |
| an inferior figure or letter | |
| 5. adj. (botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx. | |
| 6. adj. (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior. | |
| 7. adj. (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is. | |
| the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus | |
| 8. adj. (astronomy) Below the horizon. | |
| the inferior part of a meridian | |
| 9. n. a person of lower stature to another | |
| As you are my inferior, I can tell you to do anything I want. | |
