rare |
1. adj. Very uncommon; scarce. | |
Black pearls are very rare and therefore very valuable. | |
2. adj. (of a gas) Thin; of low density. | |
3. adj. (cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense). | |
4. v. (US, intransitive) To rear, rise up, start backwards. | |
5. v. (US, transitive) To rear, bring up, raise. | |
6. adj. (obsolete) early | |
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 | |
free |
1. adj. (social) Unconstrained. | |
He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted. | |
2. adj. Not imprisoned or enslaved. | |
a free man | |
3. adj. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust | |
4. adj. Generous; liberal. | |
He's very free with his money. | |
5. adj. (obsolete) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent. | |
6. adj. Without obligations. | |
free time | |
7. adj. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a t | |
a free school | |
8. adj. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said | |
This is a free country. | |
9. adj. (software) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification. | |
OpenOffice is free software. | |
10. adj. (software) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version. | |
11. adj. Obtainable without any payment. | |
The government provides free health care. | |
12. adj. (by extension, chiefly advertising slang) complimentary | |
Buy a TV to get a free DVD player! | |
13. adj. (abstract) Unconstrained. | |
14. adj. (mathematics) Unconstrained by relators. | |
the free group on three generators | |
15. adj. (mathematics, logic) Unconstrained by quantifiers. | |
z is the free variable in\forall x\exists y:xy=z. | |
16. adj. (programming) Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound. | |
17. adj. (linguistics) (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme. | |
18. adj. (physical) Unconstrained. | |
19. adj. Unobstructed, without blockages. | |
the drain was free | |
20. adj. Unattached or uncombined. | |
a free radical | |
21. adj. Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied. | |
You can sit on this chair; it's free. | |
22. adj. (botany, mycology) Not attached; loose. | |
In this group of mushrooms, the gills are free. | |
23. adj. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated. | |
We had a wholesome, filling meal, free of meat. I would like to live free from care in the mountains. | |
24. adj. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited. | |
a free horse | |
25. adj. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of. | |
26. adj. (legal) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base. | |
free service; free socage | |
27. adj. (legal) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common. | |
a free fishery; a free warren | |
28. adv. Without needing to pay. | |
I got this bike free. | |
29. adv. (obsolete) Freely; willingly. | |
30. v. To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses. | |
31. n. (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) (abbreviation of free kick). | |
32. n. free transfer | |
33. n. (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed. | |
from |
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at. | |
This wine comes from France. | |
I got a letter from my brother. | |
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. | |
He had books piled from floor to ceiling. | |
He left yesterday from Chicago. | |
Face away from the wall! | |
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation. | |
20 from 31 leaves 11. | |
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of. | |
An umbrella protects from the sun. | |
He knows right from wrong. | |
intricacies |
1. n. plural of intricacy | |
intricacy |
1. n. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled. | |
the intricacy of a knot | |
the intricacy of accounts | |
the intricacy of a cause in controversy | |
2. n. Perplexity | |
3. n. Something which is intricate or complex. | |
There are many intricacies in the plot of this novel. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
perplexity |
1. n. The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused. | |
2. n. Something that perplexes. | |
3. n. A measurement in information theory: see Perplexity. | |