sometimes |
1. adv. On certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always. | |
Sometimes I sit and think, but mostly I just sit. | |
2. adv. (obsolete) On a certain occasion in the past; once. | |
3. adj. (obsolete) Former; sometime. | |
derogatory |
1. adj. (usually with to) Tending to derogate, or lessen in value of someone; expressing derogation; detracting | |
2. adj. (legal, of a clause in a testament) Being or pertaining to a derogatory clause. | |
3. n. A trade-line on a credit report that includes negative credit history. | |
calling |
1. v. present participle of call | |
2. n. A strong urge to become religious. | |
3. n. A job or occupation. | |
call |
1. n. A telephone conversation. | |
I received several phone calls today. | |
I received several calls today. | |
2. n. A short visit, usually for social purposes. | |
I paid a call to a dear friend of mine. | |
3. n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port. | |
The ship made a call at Southampton. | |
4. n. A cry or shout. | |
He heard a call from the other side of the room. | |
5. n. A decision or judgement. | |
That was a good call. | |
6. n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal. | |
That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird. | |
7. n. A beckoning or summoning. | |
I had to yield to the call of the wild. | |
8. n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor. | |
The Prime Minister has the call. | |
I give the call to the Manager of Opposition Business. | |
9. n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time. | |
10. n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman. | |
11. n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.) | |
12. n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call). | |
13. n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point. | |
14. n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. | |
There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9. | |
15. n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting. | |
16. n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt. | |
17. n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty. | |
18. n. A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call. | |
19. n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. | |
20. n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling. | |
21. n. (US, legal) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land. | |
22. n. (informal, slang) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job. | |
23. v. To use one's voice.: | |
24. v. (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon. | |
That person is hurt; call for help! | |
25. v. (intransitive) To cry or shout. | |
26. v. To utter in a loud or distinct voice. | |
to call the roll of a military company | |
27. v. (transitive, intransitive) To contact by telephone. | |
Why don't you call me in the morning? Why don't you call tomorrow? | |
28. v. To declare in advance. | |
The captains call the coin toss. | |
29. v. To rouse from sleep; to awaken. | |
30. v. To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure. | |
After the third massive failure, John called the whole initiative. | |
31. v. (heading, intransitive) To visit. | |
32. v. To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again). | |
We could always call on a friend. The engineer called round whilst you were away. | |
33. v. To stop at a station or port. | |
This train calls at Reading, Slough and London Paddington. Our cruise ship called at Bristol Harbour. | |
34. v. To name, identify or describe.: | |
35. v. (ditransitive) To name or refer to. | |
Why don't we dispense with the formalities. Please call me Al. | |
36. v. (in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name. | |
I'm called John. A very tall building is called a skyscraper. | |
37. v. To predict. | |
He called twelve of the last three recessions. | |
38. v. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact. | |
They call the distance ten miles. That's enough work. Let's call it a day and go home. | |
39. v. (obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify. | |
40. v. (heading, sport) Direct or indirect use of the voice. | |
41. v. (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run. | |
42. v. (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions). | |
43. v. (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting. | |
I bet $800 and Jane raised to $1600. My options: call (match her $1600 bet), reraise or fold. | |
44. v. (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to anno | |
I'll call your 300, and raise to 600! | |
45. v. To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. | |
My partner called two spades. | |
46. v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand. | |
He felt called to help the old man. | |
47. v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium. | |
48. v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan. | |
49. v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion. | |
A recursive function is one that calls itself. | |
attention |
1. n. Mental focus. | |
Please direct your attention to the following words. | |
2. n. An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest. | |
3. n. (military) A state of alertness in the standing position. | |
The company will now come to attention. | |
4. interj. (military) Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position. | |
flashy |
1. adj. Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing. | |
The dancers wore flashy costumes featuring shiny sequins in many vibrant colors. | |
2. adj. (dated, poetic) Flashing; producing flashes. | |
a flashy light | |
3. adj. (archaic) drunk; tipsy | |
standing |
1. v. present participle of stand | |
2. adj. Erect, not cut down. | |
3. adj. Performed from an erect position. | |
standing ovation | |
4. adj. Remaining in force or status. | |
standing committee | |
5. adj. Stagnant; not moving or flowing. | |
standing water | |
6. adj. Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting. | |
a standing colour | |
7. adj. Not movable; fixed. | |
a standing bed, distinguished from a trundle-bed | |
the standing rigging of a ship | |
8. n. Position or reputation in society or a profession. | |
He does not have much of a standing as a chemist. | |
9. n. Duration. | |
a member of long standing | |
10. n. The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands. | |
I will provide you a good standing to see his entry. — Francis Bacon. | |
I think in deep mire, where there is no standing. — Psalms lxix. 2. | |
11. n. (sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list. | |
After their last win, their standing went up three places. | |
12. n. (British) room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles | |
13. n. (legal) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates. | |
He may be insulting, a miserable rotter and a fool, but unless he slanders or libels you, or damages your property, you do not have standing to sue him. | |
stand |
1. v. To position or be positioned physically.: | |
2. v. (intransitive) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position. | |
Here I stand, wondering what to do next. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up. | |
Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To remain motionless. | |
Do not leave your car standing in the road. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation. | |
6. v. To place in an upright or standing position. | |
He stood the broom in a corner and took a break. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated. | |
Paris stands on the Seine. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet. | |
9. v. (intransitive) (of tears) To be present, to have welled up (in the eyes). | |
10. v. To position or be positioned mentally.: | |
11. v. (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose. | |
He stands to get a good price for the house. | |
12. v. (transitive, negative) To tolerate. | |
I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions. | |
I can’t stand him. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe. | |
14. v. (intransitive) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition. | |
15. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist. | |
16. v. To position or be positioned socially.: | |
17. v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire. | |
18. v. To undergo; withstand; hold up. | |
The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time. | |
19. v. (intransitive, British) To seek election. | |
He is standing for election to the local council. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To be valid. | |
What I said yesterday still stands. | |
21. v. To oppose, usually as a team, in competition. | |
22. v. To cover the expense of; to pay for. | |
to stand a treat | |
23. v. (intransitive) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation. | |
Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts. | |
24. v. (intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord. | |
25. v. (intransitive) To appear in court. | |
26. v. (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.). | |
27. v. (intransitive) To remain without ruin or injury. | |
28. v. (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far. | |
29. n. The act of standing. | |
30. n. A defensive position or effort. | |
The Commander says we will make our stand here. | |
31. n. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition. | |
They took a firm stand against copyright infringement. | |
32. n. A period of performance in a given location or venue. | |
They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees. They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week. | |
33. n. A device to hold something upright or aloft. | |
He set the music upon the stand and began to play. an umbrella stand; a hat-stand | |
34. n. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box. | |
She took the stand and quietly answered questions. | |
35. n. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs. | |
This stand of pines is older than the one next to it. | |
36. n. (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit. | |
37. n. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game. | |
38. n. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand. | |
39. n. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait. | |
a taxi stand | |
40. n. (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc. | |
a good, bad, or convenient stand for business | |
41. n. (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural) | |
42. n. (cricket) A partnership. | |
43. n. (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms. | |
44. n. (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing. | |
45. n. (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment. | |
to be at a stand what to do | |
46. n. A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another | |
47. n. (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch. | |
48. n. A location or position where one may stand. | |
out |
See also individual phrasal verbs such as come out, go out, put out, take out, pull out, and so on. | |
1. adv. Away from the inside or the centre. | |
The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat. | |
2. adv. Away from home or one's usual place. | |
Let's eat out tonight | |
3. adv. Outside; not indoors. | |
Last night we slept out under the stars. | |
4. adv. Away from; at a distance. | |
Keep out! | |
5. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence. | |
Switch the lights out. | |
Put the fire out. | |
6. adv. To the end; completely. | |
I hadn't finished. Hear me out. | |
7. adv. Used to intensify or emphasize. | |
The place was all decked out for the holidays. | |
8. adv. (of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc. | |
The sun came out after the rain, and we saw a rainbow. | |
9. adv. (cricket, baseball) Of a player, so as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket). | |
Wilson was bowled out for five runs. | |
10. prep. (nonstandard, contraction of out of) Away from the inside. | |
He threw it out the door. | |
11. prep. (colloquial) Outside. | |
It's raining out. | |
It's cold out. | |
12. n. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc. | |
They wrote the law to give those organizations an out. | |
13. n. (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fieldi | |
14. n. (cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicke | |
15. n. (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner. | |
16. n. (dated) A trip out; an outing. | |
17. n. (mostly, in plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office. | |
18. n. A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space. | |
19. n. (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission. | |
20. v. To eject; to expel. | |
21. v. To reveal (a person) to be gay, bisexual, or transgender. | |
22. v. To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective. | |
23. v. To reveal (a secret). | |
A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design. | |
24. v. (intransitive, archaic) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public. | |
25. v. To become apparent. | |
26. adj. Not at home; not at one's office or place of employment. | |
I'm sorry, Mr Smith is out at the moment. | |
27. adj. Released, available for purchase, download or other use. | |
Did you hear? Their newest CD is out! | |
28. adj. (in various games; used especially of a batsman or batter in cricket or baseball) Dismissed from play under the rules of the game. | |
He bowls, Johnson pokes at it ... and ... Johnson is out! Caught behind by Ponsonby! | |
29. adj. Openly acknowledging that one is gay or transgender. | |
It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business. | |
30. adj. (of flowers) In bloom. | |
The garden looks beautiful now that the roses are out. | |
31. adj. (of the sun, moon or stars) Visible in the sky; not obscured by clouds. | |
The sun is out, and it's a lovely day. | |
32. adj. (of lamps, fires etc.) Not shining or burning. | |
I called round to the house but all the lights were out and no one was home. | |
33. adj. (of ideas, plans, etc.) Discarded; no longer a possibility. | |
Right, so that idea's out. Let's move on to the next one. | |
34. adj. No longer popular or in fashion. | |
Black is out this season. The new black is white. | |
35. adj. Without; no longer in possession of; not having more | |
Do you have any bread? Sorry, we're out. | |
36. adj. (of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies; in error by a stated amount. | |
Nothing adds up in this report. All these figures are out. | |
The measurement was out by three millimetres. | |
37. adj. (obsolete) Of a young lady: having entered society and available to be courted. | |
38. interj. (procedure word, especially, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response. | |
Destruction. Two T-72s destroyed. Three foot mobiles down. Out. | |
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 | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
eye |
1. n. An organ through which animals see. | |
Bright lights really hurt my eyes. | |
2. n. The visual sense. | |
The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical. | |
3. n. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour. | |
Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes. | |
4. n. Attention, notice. | |
That dress caught her eye. | |
5. n. The ability to notice what others might miss. | |
He has an eye for talent. | |
6. n. A meaningful stare or look. | |
She was giving him the eye at the bar. When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye. | |
7. n. A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator. | |
8. n. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed. | |
9. n. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line. | |
10. n. The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other such storm. | |
11. n. A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye. | |
12. n. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea. | |
13. n. A reproductive bud in a potato. | |
14. n. (informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower. | |
15. n. A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc. — e.g. at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; through a crank; at the end of a rope; or | |
16. n. That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty. | |
17. n. Tinge; shade of colour. | |
18. n. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese. | |
19. n. (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute. | |
20. n. (typography) The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e. | |
21. n. (game of go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones. | |
22. v. To observe carefully. | |
After eyeing the document for an hour she decided not to sign it. | |
They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding. | |
23. v. To view something narrowly, as a document or a phrase in a document. | |
24. v. To look at someone or something as if with the intent to do something with that person or thing. | |
25. v. (obsolete) To appear; to look. | |
26. n. A brood. | |
an eye of pheasants | |