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. | |
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 | |
fix |
1. n. A repair or corrective action. | |
That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's. | |
2. n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma. | |
It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix! | |
3. n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user. | |
4. n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid. | |
5. n. A determination of location. | |
We have a fix on your position. | |
6. n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace) | |
7. v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. | |
8. v. (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone. | |
He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!". | |
9. v. To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. | |
A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board. | |
A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it. | |
The Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet. | |
10. v. (transitive figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate. | |
She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor. | |
11. v. To mend, to repair. | |
That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it. | |
12. v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food). | |
She fixed dinner for the kids. | |
13. v. To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tam | |
A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent. | |
14. v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile. | |
Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him. | |
15. v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself. | |
16. v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant. | |
He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work. | |
17. v. To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light. | |
18. v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form. | |
Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen. | |
19. v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
settle |
1. v. To conclude or resolve (something): | |
2. v. To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, e | |
His fears were settled | |
She hopes to settle and questions about the plans. | |
The question of the succession to a throne needs to be settled. | |
3. v. To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish. | |
to settle a quarrel | |
4. v. # In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties. | |
5. v. To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due. | |
6. v. (transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill). | |
to settle a bill | |
7. v. (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute. | |
He has settled with his creditors. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court. | |
9. v. To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something). | |
to settle my affairs | |
to settle her estate | |
10. v. To put into (proper) place; to make sit properly. | |
11. v. To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc). | |
12. v. (dialectal) To silence, especially by force; by extension, to kill. | |
13. v. To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition. | |
clear weather settles the roads | |
14. v. (intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated. | |
the weather settled; wait until the crowd settles before speaking | |
15. v. (intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared. | |
the roads settled late in the spring. | |
16. v. To establish or become established in a steady position: | |
17. v. To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or f | |
18. v. In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc. | |
19. v. # (transitive, obsolete, US) In particular, to establish in pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish. | |
# to settle a minister | |
20. v. (transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person). | |
21. v. (intransitive) To become married, or a householder. | |
22. v. (intransitive, with "in") To be established in a profession or in employment. | |
23. v. (intransitive, usually with "down", "in", "on" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest. | |
they settled down at an inn; the hawk settled on a branch | |
24. v. (intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down). | |
the Saxons who settled in Britain | |
25. v. (transitive, in particular) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc). | |
the French first settled Canada | |
the Puritans settled New England | |
Plymouth was settled in 1620. | |
26. v. To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place). | |
27. v. To sink, or cause (something, or impurities within it) to sink down, especially so as to become clear or compact. | |
28. v. To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink. | |
to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee | |
29. v. To cause to sink down or to be deposited (as dregs, sediment, etc). | |
to settle the sediment out of the water | |
30. v. To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down. | |
to settle the chips in the potato chip bag by shaking it | |
31. v. (intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir. | |
32. v. (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc. | |
33. v. (intransitive) To become compact due to sinking. | |
the chips in the bag of potato chips settled during shipping | |
34. v. (intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. also used figuratively.) | |
wine settles by standing | |
35. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make a jointure for a spouse. | |
36. v. (transitive, intransitive, of an, animal) To make or become pregnant. | |
37. n. (archaic) A seat of any kind. | |
38. n. (now rare) A long bench with a high back and arms, often with chest or storage space underneath. | |
39. n. (obsolete) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. (Compare a depression.) | |
after |
1. adv. Behind; later in time; following. | |
They lived happily ever after. | |
I left the room, and the dog bounded after. | |
2. prep. Subsequently to; following in time; later than. | |
We had a few beers after the game. | |
The time is quarter after eight. | |
The Cold War began shortly after the Second World War. | |
3. prep. Behind. | |
He will leave a trail of destruction after him. | |
4. prep. In pursuit of, seeking. | |
He's after a job; run after him; inquire after her health. | |
5. prep. In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing. | |
We named him after his grandfather; a painting after Leonardo da Vinci. | |
6. prep. Next in importance or rank. | |
The princess is next in line to the throne after the prince. | |
7. prep. As a result of. | |
After your bad behaviour, you will be punished. | |
8. prep. In spite of. | |
After all that has happened, he is still my friend. | |
I can't believe that, after all our advice against gambling, you walked into that casino! | |
9. prep. (Irish usually preceded by a form of be followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity | |
I was after finishing my dinner when there was a knock on the door. | |
10. prep. (dated) According to an author or text. | |
11. prep. Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to. | |
to look after workmen; to enquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness | |
12. prep. (obsolete) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting. | |
13. conj. Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause. | |
I went home after we had decided to call it a day. | |
14. adj. (dated) Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent | |
15. adj. (nautical, where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship. | |
The after gun is mounted aft. | |
The after gun is abaft the forward gun. | |
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. | |
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 | |
time |
1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past. | |
Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time | |
2. n. (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension. | |
Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time. | |
3. n. (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy. | |
Time slows down when you approach the speed of light. | |
4. n. (physics, reductionistic definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration. | |
An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change. | |
5. n. A duration of time. | |
6. n. A quantity of availability of duration. | |
More time is needed to complete the project. You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute. Are you finish | |
7. n. A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression. | |
a long time; Record the individual times for the processes in each batch. Only your best time is compared with the other compet | |
8. n. (slang) The serving of a prison sentence. | |
The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time. He is not living at home because he is doing time. | |
9. n. An experience. | |
We had a wonderful time at the party. | |
10. n. An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs. | |
Roman times; the time of the dinosaurs | |
11. n. (with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day. | |
In my time, we respected our elders. | |
12. n. (only in singular, sports) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play. | |
13. n. An instant of time. | |
14. n. How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device. | |
Excuse me, have you got the time? What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock? A computer keeps time using a clock battery | |
15. n. A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive). | |
it’s time for bed; it’s time to sleep; we must wait for the right time; it's time we were going | |
16. n. A numerical indication of a particular moment. | |
at what times do the trains arrive?; these times were erroneously converted between zones | |
17. n. An instance or occurrence. | |
When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember. | |
see you another time; that’s three times he’s made the same mistake | |
Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that! | |
18. n. (of pubs) Closing time. | |
Last call: it's almost time. | |
19. n. The hour of childbirth. | |
20. n. (as someone's time) The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined. | |
It was his time. | |
21. n. The measurement under some system of region of day or moment. | |
Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time. | |
22. n. Ratio of comparison. | |
your car runs three times faster than mine; that is four times as heavy as this | |
23. n. (grammar, dated) Tense. | |
the time of a verb | |
24. n. (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division. | |
common or triple time; the musician keeps good time. | |
25. v. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of. | |
I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block. | |
26. v. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts. | |
The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl. | |
The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m. | |
27. v. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. | |
28. v. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay. | |
29. v. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement. | |
30. v. To measure, as in music or harmony. | |
31. interj. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause. | |
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 | |
entrench |
1. v. (construction, archaeology) To dig or excavate a trench; to trench. | |
2. v. (military) To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in. | |
The army entrenched its camp, or entrenched itself. | |
3. v. (figuratively) To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc. | |
4. v. To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon. | |
5. v. To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon. | |