transitive |
1. adj. Making a transit or passage. | |
2. adj. Affected by transference of signification. | |
3. adj. (grammar, of a verb) Taking an object or objects. | |
The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticeda problem". | |
4. adj. (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x is related to y and y is related to z, then x is necessarily related to z. | |
"Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol. | |
5. adj. (algebra, of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second. | |
6. adj. (graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other. | |
figuratively |
1. adv. (manner) In a figurative manner. | |
2. adv. (speech act) Used to indicate that what follows is to be taken as a figure of speech, not literally. | |
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 | |
Issue |
1. n. A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia. | |
2. n. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly: | |
3. n. (military) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie. | |
4. n. (now) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly label, en, now, _, rare in abnormal amounts. | |
The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision. | |
5. n. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly: | |
6. n. (medical) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue. | |
7. n. (now) Offspring: one's natural child or children. | |
He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up. | |
8. n. (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants. | |
Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe. | |
9. n. (figuratively) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor. | |
10. n. (now) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties. | |
3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents | |
11. n. (historical) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves. | |
12. n. (obsolete) The entrails of a slaughtered animal. | |
13. n. (rare) Any action or deed performed by a person. | |
14. n. (obsolete) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God. | |
15. n. (publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication. | |
Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy. | |
16. n. The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly(publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a w | |
The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane. | |
17. n. (finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company. | |
The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities. | |
18. n. The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period. | |
19. n. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly: | |
20. n. (obsolete) A sewer. | |
21. n. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly: | |
22. n. (obsolete) An exit from a room or building. | |
23. n. (now) A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water. | |
24. n. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly: | |
The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency. | |
25. n. (historical) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object. | |
26. n. The production or distribution of something for general use. | |
Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913. | |
27. n. The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group. | |
The uniform was standard prison issue. | |
28. n. (finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities. | |
The company's stock issue diluted his ownership. | |
29. n. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly: | |
Please stand by. We are having technical issues. | |
30. n. (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court. | |
The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute. | |
31. n. (figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided. | |
For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want. | |
32. n. (rare) A dispute between two alternatives, a dilemma. | |
33. n. (now) A psychological or emotional difficulty, label en now _ informal figurative _ and _ usually _ euphemistic any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty. | |
She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... Imma just sayin', girl's got issues. | |
34. n. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly: | |
35. n. (obsolete) The end of any action or process. | |
36. n. (obsolete) The end of any period of time. | |
37. n. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly: | |
38. n. (now) The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement. | |
39. n. (obsolete) The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion. | |
40. n. (figurative) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion. | |
41. n. (figurative) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition. | |
42. n. (figuratively) All of something. | |
The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit. | |
43. v. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from. | |
The water issued forth from the spring. | |
The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means. | |
44. v. To rush out, to sally forth. | |
The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers. | |
45. v. To extend into, to open onto. | |
The road issues into the highway. | |
46. v. To turn out in a certain way, to result in. | |
47. v. (legal) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue. | |
48. v. To send out; to put into circulation. | |
The Federal Reserve issues US dollars. | |
49. v. To deliver for use. | |
The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates. | |
50. v. To deliver by authority. | |
The court issued a writ of mandamus. | |
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 | |
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. | |
denunciation |
1. n. Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. | |
2. n. The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment. | |
3. n. That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment. | |