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. | |
three |
1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••). | |
2. num. Describing a set or group with three elements. | |
3. n. The digit/figure 3. | |
4. n. Anything measuring three units, as length. | |
Put all the threes in a separate container. | |
5. n. A person who is three years old. | |
All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives. | |
6. n. The playing card featuring three pips. | |
7. n. (basketball) (abbreviation of three-pointer) | |
goals |
1. n. plural of goal | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of goal | |
goal |
1. n. A result that one is attempting to achieve. | |
My lifelong goal is to get into a Hollywood movie. | |
She failed in her goal to become captain of the team. | |
2. n. In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object. | |
3. n. The act of placing the object into the goal. | |
4. n. A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal. | |
5. n. A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer. | |
6. v. (Gaelic football, Australian rules) To score a goal | |
7. v. (C, en, Directives, Football (soccer), Ice hockey, Lacrosse) | |
victories |
1. n. plural of victory | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of victory | |
victory |
1. n. An instance of having won a competition or battle or succeeded in an effort. | |
It was a great victory on the battlefield. | |
2. n. The condition of having succeeded in a conflict or other effort. | |
3. n. A winged figure representing victory, common in Roman official iconography. See Winged victory. | |
4. v. (rare) To achieve a victory | |
victory |
1. n. An instance of having won a competition or battle or succeeded in an effort. | |
It was a great victory on the battlefield. | |
2. n. The condition of having succeeded in a conflict or other effort. | |
3. n. A winged figure representing victory, common in Roman official iconography. See Winged victory. | |
4. v. (rare) To achieve a victory | |
awards |
1. n. plural of award | |
award |
1. n. (legal) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted. | |
2. n. (legal) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded. | |
3. n. A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit. | |
4. n. (obsolete) Care, keeping. | |
5. n. (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award. | |
6. v. (transitive, legal) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge | |
the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant | |
7. v. (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award. | |
8. v. To give an award (prize) for merit. | |
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. | |
etc |
1. adv. alternative form of etc. | |