theology |
1. n. The study of God, or a god, or gods, and the truthfulness of religion in general. | |
2. n. An organized method of interpreting spiritual works and beliefs into practical form. | |
3. n. (computing, slang) Subjective marginal details. | |
Biblical |
1. adj. alternative case form of biblical. | |
2. adj. Of or relating to the Bible. | |
Tithing is both a quranic and biblical virtue. | |
3. adj. In accordance with the teachings of the Bible (according to some interpretation of it). | |
The biblical teaching is that... | |
biblical morality | |
4. adj. Very great; especially, exceeding previous records in scale. | |
of biblical proportions; with biblical fury | |
studies |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of study | |
2. n. plural of study | |
3. n. (plural only) An academic field of study concerning the given subject. | |
My boyfriend is taking media studies. | |
Absolute |
1. n. (philosophy) That which is totally unconditioned, unrestricted, pure, perfect, or complete; that which can be thought of without relation to others. | |
2. adj. Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional. | |
3. adj. Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic. | |
4. adj. # Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory. | |
5. adj. Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree. | |
absolute purity, absolute liberty | |
6. adj. Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed. | |
absolute alcohol | |
7. adj. Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way. | |
When caught, he told an absolute lie. an absolute denial of all charges | |
8. adj. Positive, certain; unquestionable. | |
9. adj. (archaic) Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction). | |
10. adj. (especially, philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards. | |
the doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible, an absolute principle | |
Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations. | |
11. adj. (physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative. | |
absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position | |
12. adj. Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length. | |
13. adj. Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin. | |
14. adj. (grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, l | |
15. adj. (of a case form) Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominati | |
16. adj. (of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry". | |
17. adj. (of a comparative, or superlative) Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with re | |
18. adj. (of an, adjective form) Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative). | |
19. adj. (of a usually-transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill". | |
20. adj. (Irish, Welsh) Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of articles or compounded with a preverb. | |
21. adj. (math) As measured using an absolute value. | |
absolute deviation | |
absolute square | |
mean absolute difference | |
22. adj. (math) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional. | |
23. adj. (education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students. | |
24. adj. (art, music, dance) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art. | |
absolute music | |
25. adj. (obsolete) Absolved; free. | |
26. n. That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental. | |
moral absolutes | |
27. n. Anything that is absolute. | |
28. n. (geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity. | |
29. n. (philosophy, usually capitalized) A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego. | |
30. n. (philosophy, usually capitalized) The unity of spirit and nature; God. | |
31. n. (philosophy, usually capitalized) The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced. | |
32. n. Concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
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). | |
explanation |
1. n. The act or process of explaining. | |
The explanation was long and drawn-out. | |
2. n. Something that explains, makes understandable. | |
An explanation for the UFO sightings was easily found. | |
3. n. A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation. | |
As |
1. n. plural of A | |
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As. | |
2. adv. To such an extent or degree. | |
You’re not as tall as I am. | |
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive. | |
3. adv. In the manner or role specified. | |
The kidnappers released him as agreed. | |
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues. | |
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend. | |
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as). | |
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what. | |
Do as I say! | |
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know. | |
As you wish, my lord! | |
6. conj. At the same instant that; when. | |
As I came in, she flew. | |
7. conj. At the same time that; while. | |
He sleeps as the rain falls. | |
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that. | |
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy. | |
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since. | |
As it’s too late, I quit. | |
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality. | |
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago. | |
It's not so complicated as I expected. | |
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’. | |
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though. | |
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that. | |
14. conj. Expressing concession; though. | |
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than. | |
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case. | |
You are not as tall as me. | |
They're big as houses. | |
17. prep. In the role of. | |
What is your opinion as a parent? | |
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra. | |
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value. | |
20. n. plural of a | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
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. | |
command |
1. n. An order to do something. | |
I was given a command to cease shooting. | |
2. n. The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience. | |
to have command of an army | |
3. n. power of control, direction or disposal; mastery. | |
he had command of the situation | |
England has long held command of the sea | |
a good command of language | |
4. n. A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control. | |
General Smith was placed in command. | |
5. n. The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence. | |
6. n. (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge. | |
7. n. Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook. | |
8. n. (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task. | |
9. n. (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches. | |
He's got good command tonight. | |
10. v. To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority. | |
The soldier was commanded to cease firing. | |
The king commanded his servant to bring him dinner. | |
11. v. To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control. | |
to command an army or a ship | |
12. v. To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin. | |
he commanded silence | |
If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread. (Mat. IV. 3.) | |
13. v. to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook. | |
Bridges commanded by a fortified house. (Motley.) | |
14. v. To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim. | |
A good magistrate commands the respect and affections of the people. | |
Justice commands the respect and affections of the people. | |
The best goods command the best price. | |
This job commands a salary of £30,000. | |
15. v. To hold, to control the use of. | |
The fort commanded the bay. | |
16. v. (intransitive, archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position. | |
17. v. (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow. | |
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. | |
God |
1. n. A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe. | |
2. interj. (short for, oh God): non-gloss, expressing annoyance or frustration. | |
God, is this because of the "I don't love you anymore" T-shirt I bought? It was a joke fer chrissakes. | |
3. n. A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers. | |
The most frequently used name for the Islamic god is Allah. | |
4. n. alternative case form of God. | |
5. n. An idol. | |
6. n. A representation of a deity, especially a statue or statuette. | |
7. n. Something or someone particularly revered, worshipped, idealized, admired and/or followed. | |
8. n. (metaphor) A person in a high position of authority, importance or influence. | |
9. n. (metaphor) A powerful ruler or tyrant. | |
10. n. (colloquial) An exceedingly handsome man. | |
Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods. | |
11. n. (Internet) The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon. | |
12. v. To idolize. | |
13. v. To deify. | |
like |
1. v. (transitive, archaic) To please. | |
2. v. To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of. | |
I like hamburgers | |
I like skiing in winter | |
I like the Seattle Mariners this season | |
3. v. (obsolete) To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something. | |
4. v. To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity. | |
I like to go to the dentist every six months | |
She likes to keep herself physically fit | |
we like to keep one around the office just in case | |
5. v. (obsolete) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition). | |
6. v. (archaic) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly. | |
He liked to have been too late. | |
7. v. To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for. | |
I really like Sandra but don't know how to tell her. | |
8. v. (obsolete) To liken; to compare. | |
9. v. (Internet, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote. | |
I liked my friend's last status on Facebook. | |
I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition. | |
10. n. (usually plural) Something that a person likes (prefers). | |
Tell me your likes and dislikes. | |
11. n. (internet) An individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet. | |
12. adj. Similar. | |
My partner and I have like minds. | |
13. adj. (obsolete) Likely; probable. | |
14. adv. (informal) For example, such as: to introduce an example or list of examples. | |
There are lots of birds, like ducks and gulls, in this park. | |
15. adv. (archaic, colloquial) Likely. | |
16. adv. (obsolete) In a like or similar manner. | |
17. n. (sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort. | |
There were bowls full of sweets, chocolates and the like. | |
It was something the likes of which I had never seen before. | |
18. n. (golf) The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side. | |
to play the like | |
19. conj. (colloquial) As, the way. | |
20. conj. As if; as though. | |
It looks like you've finished the project. | |
It seemed like you didn't care. | |
21. prep. Similar to, reminiscent of. | |
These hamburgers taste like leather. | |
22. part. (colloquial, Scotland, Geordie, Teesside, Scouse) A delayed filler. | |
He was so angry, like. | |
23. part. (colloquial) A mild intensifier. | |
She was, like, sooooo happy. | |
24. part. (colloquial) indicating approximation or uncertainty | |
There were, like, twenty of them. | |
And then he, like, got all angry and left the room. | |
25. part. (colloquial, slang) When preceded by any form of the verb to be, used to mean “to say” or “to think”; used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase. | |
I was like, “Why did you do that?” and he's like, “I don't know.” | |
26. interj. (Liverpool, Geordie) Used to place emphasis upon a statement. | |
divint ye knaa, like? | |
Thou |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, thou | |
2. pron. (archaic, literary, religious, ceremonial,, or dialectal) you singular nominative case | |
3. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of familiarity or contempt. | |
I thou thee, thou traitor! (Edward Coke to Walter Raleigh) | |
Avaunt, caitiff, dost thou thou me! I am come of good kin, I tell thee! (The morality play Hickscorner, ca. 1530) | |
If thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss ... (Twelfth Night 3.2, Sir Toby Belch to Sir Andrew, egging him on to pick a fight with another, where one would expect one knight courte | |
Don't thou them as thous thee! (Yorkshire English admonition to overly familiar children) | |
4. v. (intransitive) To use the word thou. | |
5. n. (dated, British) A unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch. | |
6. n. (slang) A thousand, especially a thousand dollars, a thousand pounds sterling, etc. | |
7. adv. misspelling of though | |
8. conj. misspelling of though | |
shalt |
1. v. en-archaic second-person singular of shall | |
Thou shalt not kill. | |
not |
1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb. | |
Did you take out the trash? No, I did not. | |
Not knowing any better, I went ahead. | |
2. adv. To no degree. | |
That is not red; it's orange. | |
3. conj. And not. | |
I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken. | |
He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple. | |
4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. | |
I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not! | |
Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not! | |
5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function. | |
You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip. | |
6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not. | |
kill |
1. v. To put to death; to extinguish the life of. | |
Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined. | |
2. v. To render inoperative. | |
He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting. | |
3. v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease or render void; to terminate. | |
The editor decided to kill the story. | |
The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it. | |
My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes. | |
4. v. (transitive figuratively, hyperbole) To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate. | |
That night, she was dressed to kill. | |
That joke always kills me. | |
5. v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in. | |
It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad. | |
It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries. | |
6. v. To use up or to waste. | |
I'm just doing this to kill time. | |
He told the bartender, pointing at the bottle of scotch he planned to consume, "Leave it, I'm going to kill the bottle.". | |
7. v. (transitive figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on. | |
Between the two of us, we killed the rest of the case of beer. | |
Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate anymore. | |
8. v. (transitive figuratively, hyperbole) To overpower, overwhelm or defeat. | |
The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations. | |
9. v. To force a company out of business. | |
10. v. (intransitive, informal, hyperbolic) To produce intense pain. | |
You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill. | |
11. v. (figuratively, informal hyperbole transitive) To punish severely. | |
My parents are going to kill me! | |
12. v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point. | |
13. v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy. | |
14. v. (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero. | |
15. v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network. | |
16. v. (metallurgy) To deadmelt. | |
17. n. The act of killing. | |
The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives. | |
18. n. Specifically, the death blow. | |
The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head. | |
19. n. The result of killing; that which has been killed. | |
The fox dragged its kill back to its den. | |
20. n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally. | |
21. n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea. | |
The channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills. | |
Schuylkill, Catskill, etc. | |
22. n. A kiln. | |