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| sorry |
| 1. adj. (of a person) Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone. | |
| I am sorry I stepped on your toes. It was an accident. | |
| I am sorry to hear of your uncle's death. | |
| 2. adj. Poor, sad or regrettable. | |
| The storm left his garden in a sorry state. | |
| 3. adj. Pathetic and inferior to the point of causing others disgust. | |
| Bob is a sorry excuse for a football player. | |
| 4. interj. Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow. | |
| Sorry! I didn't see that you were on the phone. | |
| 5. interj. Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly. | |
| Sorry? What was that? The phone cut out. | |
| 6. interj. Used to correct oneself in speech. | |
| There are four — sorry, five — branches of the store locally. | |
| 7. n. The act of saying sorry; an apology. | |
| chicken |
| 1. n. A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young. | |
| 2. n. The meat from this bird eaten as food. | |
| 3. n. (slang) A coward. | |
| 4. n. (slang) A young or inexperienced person. | |
| 5. n. (Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk. | |
| 6. n. The game of dare. | |
| 7. n. A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid col | |
| Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose. | |
| 8. n. A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated. | |
| 9. adj. (informal) Cowardly. | |
| Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of. | |
| 11. n. (UK dialectal or obsolete) plural of chick | |
| off |
| 1. adv. In a direction away from the speaker or object. | |
| He drove off in a cloud of smoke. | |
| 2. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence. | |
| Please switch off the light when you leave. | |
| die off | |
| 3. adv. So as to be removed or separated. | |
| He bit off more than he could chew. | |
| Some branches were sawn off. | |
| 4. adj. Inoperative, disabled. | |
| All the lights are off. | |
| 5. adj. Rancid, rotten. | |
| This milk is off! | |
| 6. adj. (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman. | |
| 7. adj. Less than normal, in temperament or in result. | |
| sales are off this quarter | |
| 8. adj. Circumstanced (as in well off, better off, poorly off). | |
| 9. adj. Started on the way. | |
| off to see the wizard | |
| And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose. | |
| 10. adj. Far; off to the side. | |
| the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse | |
| 11. adj. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent. | |
| He took an off day for fishing. an off year in politics; the off season | |
| 12. adj. (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable. | |
| — I'll have the chicken please. | |
| — Sorry, chicken's off today. | |
| 13. adj. Right-hand (in relation to the side of a horse or a vehicle). | |
| 14. prep. Used to indicate movement away from a position on | |
| I took it off the table. | |
| Come off the roof! | |
| 15. prep. (colloquial) Out of the possession of. | |
| He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him. | |
| 16. prep. Away from or not on. | |
| He's off the computer, but he's still on the phone. | |
| Keep off the grass. | |
| 17. prep. Disconnected or subtracted from. | |
| We've been off the grid for three days now. | |
| He took 20% off the list price. | |
| 18. prep. Distant from. | |
| We're just off the main road. | |
| The island is 23 miles off the cape. | |
| 19. prep. No longer wanting or taking. | |
| He's been off his feed since Tuesday. | |
| He's off his meds again. | |
| 20. prep. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering(topics, en, Engineering). | |
| Tantalum bar 6 off 3/8" Dia × 12" — Atom, Great Britain Atomic Energy Authority, 1972 | |
| samples submitted … 12 off Thermistors type 1K3A531 … — BSI test report for shock and vibration testing, 2000 | |
| I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off. | |
| 21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill. | |
| He got in the way so I had him offed. | |
| 22. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) To switch off. | |
| Can you off the light? | |
| 23. n. (rare) Beginning; starting point. | |
| He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off. | |
| today |
| 1. adv. On the current day or date. | |
| I want this done today. | |
| Today, my brother went to the shops. | |
| 2. adv. In the current era; nowadays. | |
| In the 1500s, people had to do things by hand, but today we have electric can openers. | |
| 3. n. A current day or date. | |
| Today is the day we'll fix this once and for all. | |
| 4. n. (US, meteorology) From 6am to 6pm on the current day. | |
