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. | |
very |
1. adj. True, real, actual. | |
The fierce hatred of a very woman. The very blood and bone of our grammar. He tried his very best. | |
2. adj. The same; identical. | |
He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met. That's the very tool that I need. | |
3. adj. With limiting effect: mere. | |
4. adv. To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly. | |
You’re drinking very slowly. | |
That dress is very you. | |
5. adv. True, truly. | |
6. adv. (with superlatives) (ngd, Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.) | |
He was the very best runner there. | |
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. | |
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 | |
throw |
1. v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn. | |
A thrown nail. | |
2. v. To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air. | |
throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider | |
3. v. To eject or cause to fall off. | |
4. v. To move to another position or condition; to displace. | |
throw the switch | |
5. v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel. | |
6. v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery. | |
7. v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing. | |
If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid operation exception. | |
8. v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game. | |
The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match. | |
9. v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead. | |
The deliberate red herring threw me at first. | |
10. v. (figuratively) To send desperately. | |
Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle. | |
11. v. To imprison. | |
The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail. | |
12. v. To organize an event, especially a party. | |
13. v. To roll (a die or dice). | |
14. v. To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it. | |
15. v. (transitive, bridge) To discard. | |
16. v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower. | |
17. v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else. | |
18. v. To show sudden emotion, especially anger. | |
19. v. To project or send forth. | |
20. v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly. | |
21. v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole c | |
22. v. (baseball, slang) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever). | |
23. v. To install a bridge. | |
24. n. The flight of a thrown object | |
What a great throw by the quarterback! | |
25. n. The act of throwing something. | |
With an accurate throw, he lassoed the cow. | |
26. n. One's ability to throw | |
He's got a girl's throw. | |
He's always had a pretty decent throw. | |
27. n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston. | |
28. n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing. | |
29. n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance. | |
Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw. | |
30. n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe. | |
31. n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows. | |
32. v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to. | |
33. n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion. | |
34. n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while. | |
35. n. misspelling of throe | |