| 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. | |
| long |
| 1. adj. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below). | |
| It's a long way from the Earth to the Moon. | |
| 2. adj. Having great duration. | |
| The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time. | |
| 3. adj. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring. | |
| 4. adj. (UK, dialect) Not short; tall. | |
| 5. adj. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value. | |
| I'm long in DuPont; I have a long position in DuPont. | |
| 6. adj. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position). | |
| 7. adj. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out). | |
| No! That forehand is longnb.... | |
| 8. adj. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. | |
| 9. adv. Over a great distance in space. | |
| He threw the ball long. | |
| 10. adv. For a particular duration. | |
| How long is it until the next bus arrives? | |
| 11. adv. For a long duration. | |
| Will this interview take long? | |
| Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world. | |
| 12. n. (linguistics) A long vowel. | |
| 13. n. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long. | |
| A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment. | |
| 14. n. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset. | |
| Every uptick made the longs cheer. | |
| 15. n. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. | |
| 16. v. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true) | |
| She longed for him to come back. | |
| 18. adj. (archaic) On account of, because of. | |
| 19. v. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to. | |
| 20. n. longitude | |
| having |
| 1. v. present participle of have | |
| 2. n. Something owned; possession; goods; estate. | |
| have |
| Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst. | |
| 1. v. To possess, own, hold. | |
| I have a house and a car. | |
| Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street! | |
| 2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship). | |
| I have two sisters. | |
| I have a lot of work to do. | |
| 3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action. | |
| I have breakfast at six o'clock. | |
| Can I have a look at that? | |
| I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now. | |
| 4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in. | |
| What class do you have right now? I have English. | |
| Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day. | |
| 5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.) | |
| I have already eaten today. | |
| I had already eaten. | |
| 6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to. | |
| I have to go. | |
| 7. v. To give birth to. | |
| The couple always wanted to have children. | |
| My wife is having the baby right now! | |
| My mother had me when she was 25. | |
| 8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with. | |
| He's always bragging about how many women he's had. | |
| 9. v. To accept as a romantic partner. | |
| Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me. | |
| 10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation. | |
| They had me feed their dog while they were out of town. | |
| 11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be. | |
| He had him arrested for trespassing. | |
| The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears. | |
| 12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.) | |
| The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week. | |
| I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice. | |
| 13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being. | |
| Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening. | |
| 14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.)) | |
| We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we? | |
| Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she? | |
| (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he? | |
| 15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take. | |
| I could have him! | |
| I'm gonna have you! | |
| 16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language. | |
| I have no German. | |
| 17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of. | |
| Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before. | |
| 18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from. | |
| He had a cold last week. | |
| 19. v. To experience, go through, undergo. | |
| We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that. | |
| He had surgery on his hip yesterday. | |
| I'm having the time of my life! | |
| 20. v. To trick, to deceive. | |
| You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke. | |
| 21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate. | |
| The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it. | |
| I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night. | |
| 22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by. | |
| I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it. | |
| 23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest. | |
| Thank you for having me! | |
| 24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation. | |
| What do you have for problem two? | |
| I have two contacts on my scope. | |
| 25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case. | |
| We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon. | |
| 26. n. A wealthy or privileged person. | |
| 27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | |
| 28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading. | |
| They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have. | |
| great |
| 1. adj. Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i. e. having many parts or members) or duration (i. e. relatively long); very big. | |
| A great storm is approaching our shores. | |
| a great assembly | |
| a great wait | |
| 2. adj. Of larger size or more importance than others of its kind. | |
| the great auk | |
| 3. adj. (qualifying nouns of family relationship) Involving more generations than the word qualified implies (from 1510s). see Derived terms | |
| great-grandfather | |
| 4. adj. (obsolete, postpositive, followed by 'with') Pregnant; large with young; full of. | |
| great with child | |
| great with hope | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete, except with 'friend' and similar words such as 'mate','buddy') Intimate; familiar. | |
| 6. adj. Extreme or more than usual. | |
| great worry | |
| 7. adj. Of significant importance or consequence; important. | |
| a great decision | |
| 8. adj. (applied to actions, thoughts and feelings) Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; superior; commanding; heroic; illustrious; eminent. | |
| a great deed | |
| a great nature | |
| a great history | |
| 9. adj. Impressive or striking. | |
| a great show of wealth | |
| 10. adj. Much in use; favoured. | |
| Poetry was a great convention of the Romantic era. | |
| 11. adj. (applied to persons) Endowed with extraordinary powers; of exceptional talents or achievements; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; remarkable; strong; powerful; mighty; noble. | |
| a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, writer etc. | |
| 12. adj. Title referring to an important leader. | |
| Alexander the Great | |
| 13. adj. Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic. | |
| What a great buffoon! | |
| He's not a great one for reading. | |
| a great walker | |
| 14. adj. (often followed by 'at') Skilful or adroit. | |
| a great carpenter | |
| You are great at singing. | |
| 15. adj. (informal) Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic (from 1848). | |
| Dinner was great. | |
| 16. adj. (informal, British) Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths. | |
| a dirty great smack in the face | |
| Great Scott! | |
| 17. interj. Expression of gladness and content about something. | |
| Great! Thanks for the wonderful work. | |
| 18. interj. sarcastic inversion thereof. | |
| Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order. | |
| 19. n. A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim. | |
| Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science. | |
| 20. n. (music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division. | |
| 21. adv. very well (in a very satisfactory manner) | |
| Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don't have to be sharpened. | |
| length |
| 1. n. The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object. | |
| 2. n. Duration. | |
| 3. n. (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race. | |
| 4. n. (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment. | |
| 5. n. (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman. | |
| 6. n. (figuratively) Total extent. | |
| the length of a book | |
| 7. n. Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something. | |
| a length of rope | |
| 8. v. (obsolete) To lengthen. | |
