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. | |
rare |
1. adj. Very uncommon; scarce. | |
Black pearls are very rare and therefore very valuable. | |
2. adj. (of a gas) Thin; of low density. | |
3. adj. (cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense). | |
4. v. (US, intransitive) To rear, rise up, start backwards. | |
5. v. (US, transitive) To rear, bring up, raise. | |
6. adj. (obsolete) early | |
obsolete |
1. adj. (of words, equipment, etc.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often by preference for something newer, which replaces the subject). | |
It is speculated that, within a few years, the Internet's speedy delivery of news worldwide will make newspapers obsolete. | |
2. adj. (biology) Imperfectly developed; not very distinct. | |
3. v. (transitive, US) To cause to become obsolete. | |
This software component has been obsoleted. | |
We are in the process of obsoleting this product. | |
poetic |
1. adj. Relating to poetry. | |
Iambics are one form of poetic meter. | |
2. adj. Characteristic of poets; romantic, imaginative, etc. | |
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 | |
change |
1. v. (intransitive) To become something different. | |
The tadpole changed into a frog. Stock prices are constantly changing. | |
2. v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else. | |
The fairy changed the frog into a prince. I had to change the wording of the ad so it would fit. | |
3. v. To replace. | |
Ask the janitor to come and change the lightbulb. After a brisk walk, I washed up and changed my shirt. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing. | |
You can't go into the dressing room while she's changing. The clowns changed into their costumes before the circus started. | |
5. v. To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it). | |
It's your turn to change the baby. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.) | |
7. v. (archaic) To exchange. | |
8. v. To change hand while riding (a horse). | |
to change a horse | |
9. n. The process of becoming different. | |
The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it. | |
10. n. Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination. | |
Can I get change for this $100 bill please? | |
11. n. A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes | |
12. n. Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item. | |
A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change. | |
13. n. Coins (as opposed to paper money). | |
Do you have any change on you? I need to make a phone call. | |
14. n. A transfer between vehicles. | |
The train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham. | |
15. n. (baseball) A change-up pitch. | |
16. n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale. | |
17. n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange. | |
18. n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse. | |
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. | |
fix |
1. n. A repair or corrective action. | |
That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's. | |
2. n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma. | |
It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix! | |
3. n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user. | |
4. n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid. | |
5. n. A determination of location. | |
We have a fix on your position. | |
6. n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace) | |
7. v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. | |
8. v. (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone. | |
He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!". | |
9. v. To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. | |
A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board. | |
A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it. | |
The Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet. | |
10. v. (transitive figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate. | |
She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor. | |
11. v. To mend, to repair. | |
That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it. | |
12. v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food). | |
She fixed dinner for the kids. | |
13. v. To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tam | |
A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent. | |
14. v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile. | |
Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him. | |
15. v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself. | |
16. v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant. | |
He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work. | |
17. v. To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light. | |
18. v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form. | |
Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen. | |
19. v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance. | |
make |
1. v. To create. | |
2. v. To build, construct, or produce. | |
We made a bird feeder for our yard. | |
I'll make a man out of him yet. | |
3. v. To write or compose. | |
I made a poem for her wedding. | |
He made a will. | |
4. v. To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action. | |
make war | |
They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men. | |
5. v. (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing. | |
God made earth and heaven. | |
6. v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act. | |
To make like a deer caught in the headlights. | |
They made nice together, as if their fight never happened. | |
He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against. | |
8. v. To constitute. | |
They make a cute couple. | |
This makes the third infraction. | |
One swallow does not a summer make. | |
9. v. 1995, Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work, p.46: | |
10. v. To add up to, have a sum of. | |
Two and four make six. | |
11. v. (intransitive, construed with of typically interrogative) To interpret. | |
I don’t know what to make of it. | |
12. v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success. | |
This company is what made you. | |
She married into wealth and so has it made. | |
13. v. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be. | |
The citizens made their objections clear. | |
This might make you a bit woozy. | |
Did I make myself heard? | |
Scotch will make you a man. | |
14. v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as. | |
15. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something). | |
You're making her cry. | |
I was made to feel like a criminal. | |
16. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do. | |
The teacher made the student study. | |
Don’t let them make you suffer. | |
17. v. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be. | |
His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person. | |
18. v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes. | |
19. v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify. | |
20. v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time. | |
We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight. | |
21. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction). | |
They made westward over the snowy mountains. | |
Make for the hills! It's a wildfire! | |
They made away from the fire toward the river. | |
22. v. To cover (a given distance) by travelling. | |
23. v. To move at (a speed). | |
The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas. | |
This baby can make 220 miles an hour. | |
24. v. To appoint; to name. | |
25. v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man). | |
26. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate. | |
27. v. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status). | |
They hope to make a bigger profit. | |
He didn't make the choir after his voice changed. | |
She made ten points in that game. | |
28. v. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability. | |
29. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. | |
30. v. To enact; to establish. | |
31. v. To develop into; to prove to be. | |
She'll make a fine president. | |
32. v. To form or formulate in the mind. | |
make plans | |
made a questionable decision | |
33. v. To perform a feat. | |
make a leap | |
make a pass | |
make a u-turn | |
34. v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make. | |
35. v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue. | |
36. v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in. | |
37. v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what. | |
38. v. (transitive, euphemism) To take the virginity of. | |
39. v. To have sexual intercourse with. | |
40. n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model. | |
What make of car do you drive? | |
41. n. How a thing is made; construction. | |
42. n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture. | |
The camera was of German make. | |
43. n. Quantity produced, especially of materials. | |
44. n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing. | |
45. n. A person's character or disposition. | |
46. n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand. | |
47. n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit. | |
48. n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility. | |
49. n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence. | |
50. n. (slang) Past or future target of seduction (usually female). | |
51. n. (slang) A promotion. | |
52. n. A home-made project | |
53. n. (basketball) A made basket. | |
54. n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion. | |
55. n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny. | |
fixed |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of fix | |
2. adj. Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same. | |
fixed assets | |
I work fixed hours for a fixed salary. | |
Every religion has its own fixed ideas. | |
He looked at me with a fixed glare. | |
3. adj. Stationary. | |
4. adj. Attached; affixed. | |
5. adj. Chemically stable. | |
6. adj. Supplied with what one needs. | |
She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements. | |
7. adj. (legal) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium. | |
In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972. | |
8. adj. (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated). | |
a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed | |
9. adj. Rigged; fraudulently prearranged. | |
10. adj. (of a problem) Resolved; corrected. | |
11. adj. Repaired | |
fix |
1. n. A repair or corrective action. | |
That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's. | |
2. n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma. | |
It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix! | |
3. n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user. | |
4. n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid. | |
5. n. A determination of location. | |
We have a fix on your position. | |
6. n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace) | |
7. v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. | |
8. v. (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone. | |
He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!". | |
9. v. To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. | |
A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board. | |
A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it. | |
The Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet. | |
10. v. (transitive figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate. | |
She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor. | |
11. v. To mend, to repair. | |
That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it. | |
12. v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food). | |
She fixed dinner for the kids. | |
13. v. To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tam | |
A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent. | |
14. v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile. | |
Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him. | |
15. v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself. | |
16. v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant. | |
He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work. | |
17. v. To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light. | |
18. v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form. | |
Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen. | |
19. v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance. | |
for |
1. conj. (dated) Because. | |
2. prep. Towards. | |
The astronauts headed for the moon. | |
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to. | |
I have something for you. | |
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of. | |
We're having a birthday party for Janet. | |
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary. | |
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala. | |
5. prep. Supporting. | |
All those for the motion raise your hands. | |
6. prep. Because of. | |
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him. | |
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight. | |
She was the worse for drink. | |
7. prep. Over a period of time. | |
I've lived here for three years. | |
They fought for days over a silly pencil. | |
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space. | |
9. prep. On behalf of. | |
I will stand in for him. | |
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of. | |
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire. | |
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday. | |
He's going for his doctorate. | |
Do you want to go for coffee? | |
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers. | |
Can you go to the store for some eggs? | |
I'm saving up for a car. | |
Don't wait for an answer. | |
What did he ask you for? | |
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward. | |
Run for the hills! | |
He was headed for the door when he remembered. | |
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect. | |
Fair for its day. | |
She's spry for an old lady. | |
14. prep. Despite, in spite of. | |
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive. | |
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.) | |
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.) | |
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio | |
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day | |
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen. | |
At close of play, England were 305 for 3. | |
18. prep. To be, or as being. | |
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.) | |
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs). | |
example |
1. n. Something that is representative of all such things in a group. | |
2. n. Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule. | |
3. n. Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example). | |
4. n. A person punished as a warning to others. | |
5. n. A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model. | |
6. n. An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule. | |
7. v. To be illustrated or exemplified (by). | |
by |
1. prep. Near or next to. | |
The mailbox is by the bus stop. | |
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval. | |
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July. | |
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of. | |
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour. | |
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of. | |
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare | |
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of. | |
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of. | |
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking. | |
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination. | |
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight. | |
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed. | |
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife. | |
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of. | |
Our stock is up by ten percent. | |
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another. | |
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches. | |
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to. | |
He cheated by his own admission. | |
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of. | |
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this. | |
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something. | |
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm. | |
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of. | |
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress. | |
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker. | |
I watched as it passed by. | |
16. adv. In the vicinity, near. | |
There was a shepherd close by. | |
The shop is hard by the High Street. | |
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business. | |
I'll stop by on my way home from work. | |
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave. | |
18. adv. Aside, away. | |
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring. | |
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary. | |
20. n. (card games) A pass | |
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye | |
freezing |
1. adj. (literally) Suffering or causing frost | |
2. adj. (by extension, chiefly hyperbole) Very cold | |
3. n. (physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature. | |
4. n. (medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics. | |
5. v. present participle of freeze | |