satellite |
1. n. A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one. | |
The Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth. | |
A spent upper stage is a derelict satellite. | |
2. n. A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth. | |
Many telecommunication satellites orbit at 36000km above the equator. | |
3. n. A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body. | |
4. n. (now rare) An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman. | |
5. n. (colloquial) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that utilize man-made satellite technology. | |
Do you have satellite at your house? | |
6. n. (grammar) A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light". | |
telecommunications |
1. n. plural of telecommunication | |
2. n. alternative form of telecommunication | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
process |
1. n. A series of events which produce a result (the product). | |
This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed. | |
2. n. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries. | |
3. n. A path of succession of states through which a system passes. | |
4. n. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health. | |
5. n. (legal) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ. | |
6. n. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell. | |
7. n. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface. | |
8. n. (computing) An executable task or program. | |
9. n. The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails. | |
10. v. to perform a particular process on a thing | |
11. v. to retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques. | |
We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions. | |
12. v. to think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state. | |
I didn't know she had a criminal record. That will take me a while to process. | |
13. v. (mostly, British) To walk in a procession. | |
of |
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. | |
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". | |
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). | |
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). | |
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. | |
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to. | |
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three. | |
6. prep. Expressing separation. | |
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.) | |
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband. | |
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.) | |
He seemed devoid of human feelings. | |
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.) | |
10. prep. Expressing origin. | |
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.) | |
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin. | |
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of. | |
The invention was born of necessity. | |
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.) | |
It is said that she died of a broken heart. | |
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.) | |
I am tired of all this nonsense. | |
15. prep. Expressing agency. | |
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).) | |
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. | |
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below). | |
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties. | |
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.) | |
It was very brave of you to speak out like that. | |
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance. | |
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.) | |
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic. | |
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.) | |
She wore a dress of silk. | |
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.) | |
What a lot of nonsense! | |
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.) | |
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich. | |
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also". | |
I'm not driving this wreck of a car. | |
25. prep. Introducing subject matter. | |
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma | |
I'm always thinking of you. | |
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning. | |
He told us the story of his journey to India. | |
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.) | |
This behaviour is typical of teenagers. | |
29. prep. Having partitive effect. | |
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among". | |
Most of these apples are rotten. | |
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.) | |
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. | |
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort. | |
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).) | |
He is a friend of mine. | |
34. prep. Expressing possession. | |
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. | |
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. | |
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. | |
The owner of the nightclub was arrested. | |
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter | |
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames. | |
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive". | |
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.) | |
She had a profound distrust of the police. | |
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics. | |
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards. | |
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner. | |
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by". | |
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain. | |
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.) | |
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%. | |
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod | |
It's not that big of a deal. | |
45. prep. Expressing a point in time. | |
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. | |
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river. | |
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time). | |
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while. | |
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.) | |
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off. | |
transferring |
1. v. present participle of transfer | |
2. n. The act by which something is transferred; a transfer. | |
transfer |
1. v. To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another. | |
to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion | |
2. v. To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another. | |
to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone | |
3. v. (intransitive) To be or become transferred. | |
4. v. (transitive, legal) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else. | |
The title to land is transferred by deed. | |
5. n. The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another. | |
6. n. An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal. | |
7. n. A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer. | |
8. n. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another. | |
9. n. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side. | |
10. n. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another. | |
satellite |
1. n. A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one. | |
The Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth. | |
A spent upper stage is a derelict satellite. | |
2. n. A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth. | |
Many telecommunication satellites orbit at 36000km above the equator. | |
3. n. A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body. | |
4. n. (now rare) An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman. | |
5. n. (colloquial) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that utilize man-made satellite technology. | |
Do you have satellite at your house? | |
6. n. (grammar) A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light". | |
control |
1. v. To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of. | |
With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck. | |
2. v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated. | |
3. n. Influence or authority over something. | |
The government has complete control over the situation. | |
4. n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary variable is low or non-existent. | |
5. n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button. | |
6. n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control. | |
7. n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure. | |
8. n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan. | |
9. n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register. | |
10. n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box. | |
11. n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric- | |
12. n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control. | |
responsibility |
1. n. The state of being responsible, ac, or answerable. | |
Responsibility is a heavy burden. | |
2. n. A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held ac. | |
Why didn't you clean the house? That was your responsibility! | |
The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world - Harry S. Truman | |
3. n. (military) The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success. | |
4. n. (military) The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual. | |
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. | |
one |
1. num. (cardinal) The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. | |
In some religions, there is only one god. | |
In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth. | |
One person, one vote. | |
2. num. (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers. | |
3. num. (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. | |
4. num. (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one. | |
5. pron. (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. | |
The big one looks good. I want the green one. A good driver is one who drives carefully. | |
6. pron. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. | |
She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the other. | |
7. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general). | |
One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed. One shouldn’t be too quick to judge. | |
8. pron. (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing. | |
"driver", noun: one who drives. | |
9. n. The digit or figure 1. | |
10. n. (mathematics) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. | |
11. n. (US) A one-dollar bill. | |
12. n. (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single. | |
13. n. A joke or amusing anecdote. | |
14. n. (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing. | |
15. n. (Internet slang) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1". | |
A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?! | |
Someone help me; I'm always losing! | |
B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1! | |
Why don't you just go away loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
16. adj. Of a period of time, being particular. | |
One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries. | |
17. adj. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any. | |
My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other.". | |
18. adj. Sole, only. | |
He is the one man who can help you. | |
19. adj. Whole, entire. | |
Body and soul are not separate; they are one. | |
20. adj. In agreement. | |
We are one on the importance of learning. | |
21. adj. The same. | |
The two types look very different, but are one species. | |
22. adj. Being a preeminent example. | |
He is one hell of a guy. | |
23. adj. Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain". | |
The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”. | |
24. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite. | |
earth |
1. n. Soil. | |
This is good earth for growing potatoes. | |
2. n. Any general rock-based material. | |
She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth. | |
3. n. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea). | |
Birds are of the sky, not of the earth. | |
4. n. (British) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner. | |
5. n. A fox's home or lair. | |
6. n. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife). | |
7. n. (alchemy, philosophy, and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements. | |
8. v. To connect electrically to the earth. | |
That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed. | |
9. v. To bury. | |
10. v. To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To burrow. | |
station |
1. n. (obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis. | |
2. n. (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion. | |
3. n. A stopping place. | |
4. n. A regular stopping place for ground transportation. | |
The next station is Esperanza. | |
5. n. A ground transportation depot. | |
It's right across from the bus station. | |
6. n. A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay. | |
From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor. | |
All ships are on station, Admiral. | |
7. n. (US) A gas station, service station. | |
8. n. A place where workers are stationed. | |
9. n. An official building from which police or firefighters operate. | |
The police station is opposite the fire station. | |
10. n. A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task. | |
The waitress was at her station preparing three checks. | |
The station is part of a group of stations run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. | |
11. n. A military base. | |
She had a boyfriend at the station. | |
12. n. A place used for broadcasting radio or television. | |
I used to work at a radio station. | |
13. n. (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm. | |
14. n. One of the Stations of the Cross. | |
15. n. The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion. | |
16. n. A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers. | |
17. n. Standing; rank; position. | |
She had ambitions beyond her station. | |
18. n. A broadcasting entity. | |
I used to listen to that radio station. | |
19. n. (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing. | |
20. n. (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path. | |
21. n. The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat. | |
22. n. (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc. | |
23. n. Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment. | |
24. n. (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres. | |
25. v. To put in place to perform a task. | |
The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors. | |
26. v. To put in place to perform military duty. | |
They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out. | |
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 | |
another |
1. det. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. | |
Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks. | |
2. det. Not the same; different. | |
Do you know another way to do this job? | |
3. det. Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; anyone else; someone else. | |
He has never known another like her. | |
4. pron. An additional one of the same kind. | |
This napkin fell to the floor, could you please bring me another? | |
5. pron. One that is different from the current one. | |
I saw one movie, but I think I will see another. | |
6. pron. One of a group of things of the same kind. | |
His interests keep shifting from one thing to another. | |
without |
1. adv. (archaic, or literary) Outside, externally. | |
2. adv. Lacking something. | |
Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without. | |
3. adv. (euphemism) In prostitution: without a condom being worn. | |
4. prep. (archaic, or literary) Outside of, beyond. | |
The snow was swirling without the cottage, but it was warm within. | |
5. prep. Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc. | |
It was a mistake to leave my house without a coat. | |
6. prep. Not doing or not having done something. | |
He likes to eat everything without sharing. | |
He shot without warning anyone. | |
7. conj. (archaic, otherwise nonstandard) Unless, except (introducing a clause). | |
loss |
1. n. an instance of losing, such as a defeat | |
The match ended in their first loss of the season. | |
2. n. The result of an alteration in a function or characteristic of the body, or of its previous integrity. | |
Loss of an arm ; loss of weight ; loss of cognitive functions ; loss of appetite. | |
In other areas, glacier loss creates serious risk of a dry period across the Third Pole, Wang said. | |
3. n. the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone, particularly in death. | |
We mourn his loss. | |
4. n. (in the plural) casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict | |
The battle was won, but losses were great. | |
5. n. (financial) the sum an entity loses on balance | |
The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive. | |
6. n. destruction, ruin | |
It was a terrible crash: both cars were total losses | |
7. n. (engineering) electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work | |
The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss before the subsequent losses during transport over the grid | |
8. v. (colloquial) alternative spelling of lost | |
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. | |
interruption |
1. n. The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted. | |
2. n. A time interval during which there is a cessation of something. | |
of |
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. | |
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". | |
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). | |
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). | |
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. | |
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to. | |
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three. | |
6. prep. Expressing separation. | |
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.) | |
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband. | |
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.) | |
He seemed devoid of human feelings. | |
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.) | |
10. prep. Expressing origin. | |
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.) | |
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin. | |
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of. | |
The invention was born of necessity. | |
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.) | |
It is said that she died of a broken heart. | |
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.) | |
I am tired of all this nonsense. | |
15. prep. Expressing agency. | |
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).) | |
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. | |
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below). | |
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties. | |
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.) | |
It was very brave of you to speak out like that. | |
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance. | |
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.) | |
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic. | |
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.) | |
She wore a dress of silk. | |
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.) | |
What a lot of nonsense! | |
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.) | |
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich. | |
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also". | |
I'm not driving this wreck of a car. | |
25. prep. Introducing subject matter. | |
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma | |
I'm always thinking of you. | |
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning. | |
He told us the story of his journey to India. | |
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.) | |
This behaviour is typical of teenagers. | |
29. prep. Having partitive effect. | |
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among". | |
Most of these apples are rotten. | |
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.) | |
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. | |
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort. | |
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).) | |
He is a friend of mine. | |
34. prep. Expressing possession. | |
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. | |
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. | |
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. | |
The owner of the nightclub was arrested. | |
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter | |
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames. | |
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive". | |
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.) | |
She had a profound distrust of the police. | |
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics. | |
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards. | |
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner. | |
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by". | |
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain. | |
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.) | |
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%. | |
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod | |
It's not that big of a deal. | |
45. prep. Expressing a point in time. | |
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. | |
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river. | |
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time). | |
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while. | |
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.) | |
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off. | |
service |
1. n. An act of being of assistance to someone. | |
I say I did him a service by ending our relationship - now he can freely pursue his career. | |
2. n. (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity. | |
Hair care is a service industry. | |
3. n. A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc. | |
4. n. (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another. | |
This machine provides the name service for the LAN. | |
5. n. The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group | |
Lancelot was at the service of King Arthur. | |
6. n. The military. | |
I did three years in the service before coming here. | |
7. n. (anchor, silverware)A set of dishes or utensils. | |
She brought out the silver tea service. | |
8. n. (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games. | |
The player had four service faults in the set. | |
9. n. A religious rite or ritual. | |
The funeral service was touching. | |
10. n. (legal) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ. | |
The service happened yesterday. | |
11. n. (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities. | |
12. n. A musical composition for use in churches. | |
13. n. (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed. | |
14. n. (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines. | |
15. v. To serve. | |
They service the customer base. | |
16. v. To perform maintenance. | |
He is going to service the car. | |
17. v. (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse | |
18. v. (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act. | |
He was going to service her. | |
19. n. service tree | |