| sports |
| 1. n. plural of sport | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of sport | |
| 3. v. To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question. | |
| 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. | |
| winning |
| 1. v. present participle of win | |
| Our horse was winning the race, but fell back just before the finish line. | |
| 2. adj. That constitutes a win. | |
| the winning entry in the competition | |
| the winning lotto numbers | |
| 3. adj. That leads to success. | |
| a winning formula, strategy, etc. | |
| 4. adj. Attractive. | |
| a winning smile | |
| 5. n. The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition. | |
| 6. n. (chiefly in the plural) The money, etc., gained by success in competition or contest, especially in gambling. | |
| 7. n. (mining) A new opening. | |
| 8. n. The portion of a coalfield out for working. | |
| win |
| 1. v. (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat. | |
| 2. v. (transitive, intransitive) To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb). | |
| 3. v. To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.). | |
| 4. v. To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest. | |
| to win the jackpot in a lottery; to win a bottle of wine in a raffle | |
| 5. v. To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over). | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To achieve victory. | |
| Who would win in a fight between an octopus and a dolphin? | |
| 7. v. To obtain (something desired). | |
| The company hopes to win an order from the government worth over 5 million dollars. | |
| 8. v. To cause a victory for someone. | |
| The success of the economic policies should win Mr. Smith the next elections. | |
| The policy success should win the elections for Mr. Smith. | |
| 9. v. (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.). | |
| 10. n. gain; profit; income | |
| 11. n. wealth; owndom; goods | |
| 12. n. an individual victory (opposite of a loss) | |
| Our first win of the season put us in high spirits. | |
| 13. n. (slang) a feat, an (extraordinary) achievement (opposite of a fail) | |
| 14. n. (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight. | |
| 15. v. (transitive, Scotland) To dry by exposure to the wind. | |
| streak |
| 1. n. An irregular line left from smearing or motion. | |
| The picture I took out the car window had streaks. | |
| 2. n. A continuous series of like events. | |
| I hope I can keep up this streak of accomplishments. | |
| I was on a winning streak until the fourth game, where I was dealt terrible cards. | |
| 3. n. The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain. | |
| 4. n. A moth of the family Geometridae. | |
| 5. n. A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one. | |
| She's a quiet, bookish person, but she has a rebellious streak. | |
| 6. n. (shipbuilding) A strake. | |
| 7. n. A rung or round of a ladder. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To have or obtain streaks. | |
| If you clean a window in direct sunlight, it will streak. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive, slang) To run naked in public. (Contrast flash.) | |
| It was a pleasant game until some guy went streaking across the field. | |
| 10. v. To create streaks. | |
| You will streak a window by cleaning it in direct sunlight. | |
| 11. v. To move very swiftly. | |
| 12. v. (obsolete, UK, Scotland) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. | |
