often |
1. adv. Frequently, many times. | |
I often walk to work when the weather is nice. | |
I've been going to the movies more often since a new theatre opened near me. | |
2. adj. (archaic) Frequent. | |
figurative |
1. adj. Metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs". | |
2. adj. Metaphorically so called. | |
3. adj. With many figures of speech. | |
4. adj. Emblematic; representative | |
twisted |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of twist | |
2. adj. Contorted. | |
3. adj. Wound spirally. | |
4. adj. Mentally disturbed or unsound. | |
The murders were committed by a twisted sociopath. | |
twist |
1. n. A twisting force. | |
2. n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting. | |
3. n. The form given in twisting. | |
4. n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted. | |
5. n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together. | |
6. n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc. | |
7. n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc. | |
8. n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage. | |
9. n. (authorship) An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc. | |
10. n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Wikipedia:Twist (dance) | |
11. n. A rotation of the body when diving. | |
12. n. A sprain, especially to the ankle. | |
13. n. (obsolete) A twig. | |
14. n. (slang) A girl, a woman. | |
15. n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked. | |
16. n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together. | |
Damascus twist | |
17. n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon. | |
18. n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin. | |
19. n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination. | |
a twist toward fanaticism | |
20. v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force. | |
21. v. To join together by twining one part around another. | |
22. v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. | |
23. v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. | |
24. v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate. | |
Avarice twists itself into all human concerns. | |
25. v. To turn a knob etc. | |
26. v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating. | |
27. v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings). | |
28. v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction. | |
29. v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends. | |
30. v. To cause to rotate. | |
31. v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips). | |
32. v. To coax. | |
33. v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card. | |
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. | |
many |
1. det. An indefinite large number of. | |
many people enjoy playing chess; there are many different ways to cook a meal | |
2. pron. A collective mass of people. | |
Democracy must balance the rights of the few against the will of the many | |
A great many do not understand this. | |
3. pron. An indefinite large number of people or things. | |
Many are called, but few are chosen. | |
4. n. A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd. | |
5. n. A considerable number. | |
turns |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of turn | |
2. n. plural of turn | |
turn |
1. v. to make a non-linear physical movement.: | |
2. v. (intransitive) Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself. | |
the Earth turns; turn on the spot | |
3. v. To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation. | |
Turn the knob clockwise. | |
4. v. (intransitive) to change one's direction of travel. | |
She turned right at the corner. | |
5. v. (intransitive, figuratively) to change the course of. | |
6. v. To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe. | |
She turned the table legs with care and precision. | |
7. v. (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt. | |
8. v. To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds. | |
turn the bed covers; turn the pages | |
9. v. (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material. | |
turn to page twenty; turn through the book | |
10. v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces. | |
11. v. (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces. | |
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12. v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude. | |
13. v. (copulative) To become (begin to be). | |
The leaves turn brown in autumn. When I asked him for the money, he turned nasty. | |
14. v. To change the color of the leaves in the autumn. | |
The hillside behind our house isn't generally much to look at, but once all the trees turn it's gorgeous. | |
15. v. To change fundamentally; to metamorphose. | |
Midas made everything turn to gold. He turned into a monster every full moon. | |
16. v. # (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad. | |
# This milk has turned; it smells awful. | |
17. v. # To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle. | |
# to turn cider or wine | |
18. v. To reach a certain age. | |
Charlie turns six on September 29. | |
19. v. To hinge; to depend. | |
The decision turns on a single fact. | |
20. v. To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated. | |
The prisoners turned on the warden. | |
21. v. To change personal condition. | |
22. v. # (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa. | |
23. v. # To become giddy; said of the head or brain. | |
24. v. # To sicken; to nauseate. | |
# The sight turned my stomach. | |
25. v. # To be nauseated; said of the stomach. | |
26. v. #: | |
27. v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach. | |
28. v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete. | |
They say they can turn the parts in two days. | |
29. v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control. | |
30. v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe. | |
Ivory turns well. | |
31. v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery. | |
32. v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted. | |
33. v. (archaic) To translate. | |
to turn the Iliad | |
34. v. (transitive, role-playing games) To magically or divinely attack undead. | |
35. n. A change of direction or orientation. | |
Give the handle a turn, then pull it. | |
36. n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation. | |
37. n. (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement. | |
38. n. A single loop of a coil. | |
39. n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others. | |
They took turns playing with the new toy. | |
40. n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule. | |
I cooked tonight, so it's your turn to do the dishes. | |
41. n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players. | |
42. n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again. | |
43. n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project. | |
They quote a three-day turn on parts like those. | |
44. n. A fit or a period of giddiness. | |
I've had a funny turn. | |
45. n. A change in temperament or circumstance. | |
She took a turn for the worse. | |
46. n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight). | |
47. n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em. | |
48. n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em. | |
49. n. A deed done to another. | |
One good turn deserves another. | |
I felt that the man was of a vindictive nature, and would do me an evil turn if he found the opportunitynb.... | |
50. n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object. | |
51. n. Character; personality; nature. | |
52. n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control. | |
53. n. (circus, theatre, especially, physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine. | |
convoluted |
1. adj. Having numerous overlapping coils or folds. | |
2. adj. Complex, intricate or complicated. | |
He gave a convoluted explanation that amounted to little more than a weak excuse for his absence. | |