over |
1. adj. Discontinued; ended or concluded. | |
The show is over. | |
2. adv. Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end. | |
Let's talk over the project at tomorrow's meeting. | |
Let me think that over. | |
I'm going to look over our department's expenses. | |
3. adv. To an excessive degree; overly. | |
4. adv. From an upright position to being horizontal. | |
He tipped the bottle over, and the water came gushing out. | |
That building just fell over! | |
He bent over to touch his toes. | |
5. adv. Horizontally; left to right or right to left. | |
Slide the toilet-paper dispenser's door over when one roll is empty in order to reveal the other. | |
I moved over to make room for him to sit down. | |
6. adv. From one position or state to another. | |
Please pass that over to me. | |
He came over to our way of thinking on the new project. | |
Come over and play! | |
I'll bring over a pizza. | |
7. adv. Overnight (throughout the night). | |
We stayed over at Grandma's. | |
Can I sleep over? | |
8. adv. (US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again. | |
I lost my paper and I had to do the entire assignment over. | |
9. adv. (procedure word, military) a procedure word meaning that a station is finished transmitting and is expecting a response. | |
Bravo Six, this is Bravo Six Four. Stand by for ten mike report one dash three, over. | |
Bravo Six Four, this is Bravo Six Actual. Send your traffic, over. | |
10. n. (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled. | |
11. n. Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc. | |
12. prep. Physical positioning. | |
13. prep. On top of; above; higher than; further up. | |
Hold the sign up over your head. climb up the ladder and look over the roof | |
14. prep. Across or spanning. | |
There is a bridge over the river. | |
15. prep. In such a way as to cover. | |
drape the fabric over the table; there is a roof over the house | |
16. prep. From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards. | |
The dog jumped over the fence. | |
I'll go over the fence first and then help you. | |
Let's walk over the hill to get there. | |
17. prep. By comparison. | |
18. prep. More than; to a greater degree. | |
I prefer the purple over the pink. | |
19. prep. Beyond; past; exceeding; too much or too far. | |
I think I’m over my limit for calories for today. | |
20. prep. (in certain collocations) As compared to. | |
Sales are down this quarter over last. | |
21. prep. Indicating relative status, authority, or power | |
The owner's son lorded over the experienced managers. | |
The prince ruled over a portion of the kingdom. | |
22. prep. (mathematics) Divided by. | |
four over two equals two over one | |
23. prep. (poker) (Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.) | |
9♦9♠9♣6♥6♠ = nines over sixes | |
24. prep. Finished with; done with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two. | |
We got over the engineering problems and the prototype works great. | |
I am over my cold and feel great again. | |
I know the referee made a bad call, but you have to get over it your annoyance with the referee's decision. | |
She is finally over the distress of losing her job. | |
He is finally over his distress over the loss of the relationship with his ex-girlfriend. | |
25. prep. While using, especially while consuming. | |
26. prep. Concerning or regarding. | |
The two boys had a fight over whose girlfriend was the best. | |
27. prep. Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding. | |
We triumphed over difficulties. | |
The bill was passed over the veto. | |
It was a fine victory over their opponents. | |
28. interj. In radio communications: end of sentence, ready to receive reply. | |
How do you receive? Over! | |
29. n. (rare, dialectal, or obsolete) A shore, riverbank. | |
The sea's over. | |
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. | |
years |
1. n. plural of year. | |
2. n. (colloquial, hyperbole) A very long time. | |
It took years for the bus to come. | |
year |
1. n. A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference). | |
we moved to this town a year ago; I quit smoking exactly one year ago | |
2. n. (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution | |
Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years. | |
3. n. A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by | |
A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year. | |
I was born in the year 1950. | |
This Chinese year is the year of the Rooster. | |
4. n. A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity. | |
During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus. | |
5. n. (sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a". | |
6. n. A level or grade in school or college. | |
Every second-year student must select an area of specialization. | |
The exams in year 12 at high school are the most difficult. | |
7. n. The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year). | |
Geneticists have created baker's yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years. | |
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. | |
post |
1. n. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost. | |
2. n. (construction) A stud; a two-by-four. | |
3. n. A pole in a battery. | |
4. n. (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown. | |
5. n. (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes. | |
6. n. (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches. | |
7. n. (sports) A goalpost. | |
8. n. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt. | |
9. v. To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review. | |
Post no bills. | |
10. v. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation. | |
to post someone for cowardice | |
11. v. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger. | |
12. v. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up. | |
13. v. (transitive, poker) To pay (a blind). | |
Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand. | |
14. v. To put content online, usually through a publicly accessible mean, such as a video channel, gallery, message board, blog etc. | |
15. n. (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route. | |
16. n. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route. | |
a stage or railway post | |
17. n. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station. | |
18. n. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier. | |
19. n. An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation. | |
sent via post; parcel post | |
20. n. A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address. | |
21. n. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum. | |
22. n. A location on a basketball court near the basket. | |
23. n. (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the faci | |
Two of the receivers ran post patterns. | |
24. n. (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. | |
25. n. (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station. | |
26. v. To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier. | |
27. v. To travel quickly; to hurry. | |
28. v. (UK) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service. | |
Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day. | |
29. v. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting. | |
30. v. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc. | |
I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list. | |
31. adv. With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly | |
32. adv. Sent via the postal service. | |
33. n. An assigned station; a guard post. | |
34. n. An appointed position in an organization, job. | |
35. v. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc. | |
36. v. To assign to a station; to set; to place. | |
Post a sentinel in front of the door. | |
37. prep. After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications. | |
38. n. (film, informal) Post-production. | |
had |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of have. | |
2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (with a past participle). | |
3. v. (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have. | |
4. adj. (obsolete) Available. | |
have |
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst. | |
1. v. To possess, own, hold. | |
I have a house and a car. | |
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street! | |
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship). | |
I have two sisters. | |
I have a lot of work to do. | |
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action. | |
I have breakfast at six o'clock. | |
Can I have a look at that? | |
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now. | |
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in. | |
What class do you have right now? I have English. | |
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day. | |
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.) | |
I have already eaten today. | |
I had already eaten. | |
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to. | |
I have to go. | |
7. v. To give birth to. | |
The couple always wanted to have children. | |
My wife is having the baby right now! | |
My mother had me when she was 25. | |
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with. | |
He's always bragging about how many women he's had. | |
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner. | |
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me. | |
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation. | |
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town. | |
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be. | |
He had him arrested for trespassing. | |
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears. | |
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.) | |
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week. | |
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice. | |
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being. | |
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening. | |
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.)) | |
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we? | |
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she? | |
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he? | |
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take. | |
I could have him! | |
I'm gonna have you! | |
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language. | |
I have no German. | |
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of. | |
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before. | |
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from. | |
He had a cold last week. | |
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo. | |
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that. | |
He had surgery on his hip yesterday. | |
I'm having the time of my life! | |
20. v. To trick, to deceive. | |
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke. | |
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate. | |
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it. | |
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night. | |
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by. | |
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it. | |
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest. | |
Thank you for having me! | |
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation. | |
What do you have for problem two? | |
I have two contacts on my scope. | |
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case. | |
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon. | |
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person. | |
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | |
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading. | |
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have. | |
warped |
1. adj. Distorted by warping; twisted out of shape | |
2. adj. (figuratively) Of a person's mind, attitudes, etc, perverse, strange, aberrant or deviant. | |
a warped sense of humour | |
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of warp | |
warp |
1. n. The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally: | |
2. n. The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape. | |
3. n. The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally. | |
4. n. A distortion: | |
5. n. A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively). | |
6. n. A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration. | |
7. n. (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft. | |
8. n. (figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding. | |
9. n. (nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag. | |
10. n. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp. | |
11. n. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp. | |
12. n. The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them. | |
13. n. (obsolete, outside, dialects) A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure: about four fish, though sometimes three or even two), oysters, etc. | |
a warp of fish | |
14. v. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally: | |
15. v. To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform. | |
The moisture warped the board badly. | |
to warp space and time | |
The trauma had permanently warped her mind. | |
16. v. (intransitive) To become twisted out of shape; to deform. | |
Over the years the post had warped and checked and needed to be replaced | |
17. v. To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias. | |
His perspective had warped after his extreme experiences. | |
18. v. (intransitive) To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate. | |
19. v. (ambitransitive, obsolete, ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred. | |
20. v. To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving. | |
21. v. (ambitransitive, rare, obsolete, figurative) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme). | |
22. v. (transitive, rare, obsolete, poetic) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing). | |
23. v. To move: | |
24. v. (transitive, nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship throug | |
25. v. (intransitive, nautical, of a ship) To move or be moved by this method. | |
26. v. (intransitive, rare, dated) To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects. | |
27. v. To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp. | |
28. v. (ambitransitive, obsolete, outside, dialects, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely. | |
29. v. (ambitransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter. | |
30. v. (transitive, very, rare, obsolete) To throw. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
checked |
1. adj. (North America) Having a pattern of checks; checkered. | |
a checked tie | |
2. adj. (phonology) Of syllables, having a coda. | |
3. adj. (phonology) Of consonants, glottalized. | |
4. adj. Verified or validated in some way. | |
a computer program using checked arithmetic | |
5. v. simple past tense and past participle of check | |
He checked his watch for the third time. | |
check |
1. n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece. | |
2. n. An inspection or examination. | |
I don't know if she will be there, but it's worth a check. | |
3. n. A control; a limit or stop. | |
checks and balances | |
The castle moat should hold the enemy in check. | |
4. n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: sc=Latinx, ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK). | |
Place a check by the things you have done. | |
5. n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada). | |
I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a check for the amount. | |
6. n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant. | |
I summoned the waiter, paid the check, and hurried to leave. | |
7. n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play. | |
The hockey player gave a good hard check to obtain the puck. | |
8. n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines. | |
9. n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood. | |
10. n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified. | |
a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad | |
11. n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. | |
12. n. A small chink or crack. | |
13. v. To inspect; to examine. | |
Check the oil in your car once a month. | |
Check whether this page has a watermark. | |
14. v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit). | |
15. v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or veri | |
Check the items on the list that interest you. | |
Check off the items that you've checked (inspected). | |
Check the correct answer to each question. | |
16. v. To control, limit, or halt. | |
Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation. | |
17. v. To verify or compare with a source of information. | |
Check your data against known values. | |
18. v. To leave in safekeeping. | |
Check your hat and coat at the door. | |
19. v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping. | |
Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight. | |
20. v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play. | |
He checked the ball and then proceeded to perform a perfect layup. | |
That basket doesn't count—you forgot to check! | |
21. v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body. | |
The hockey player checked the defenceman to obtain the puck. | |
22. v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet. | |
Tom didn't think he could win, so he checked. | |
23. v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check. | |
24. v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove. | |
25. v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended. | |
26. v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc. | |
27. v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack. | |
The sun checks timber. | |
28. v. To make a stop; to pause; with at. | |
29. v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere. | |
30. v. To act as a curb or restraint. | |
31. v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds. | |
32. n. (textiles usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern. | |
The tablecloth had red and white checks. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
needed |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of need | |
2. adj. Necessary; being required. | |
need |
1. n. A requirement for something; something needed. | |
There's no need to speculate; we can easily find out for sure. | |
She grew irritated with his constant need for attention. | |
Our needs are not being met. | |
I've always tried to have few needs beyond food, clothing and shelter. | |
2. n. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. | |
3. v. To have an absolute requirement for. | |
Living things need water to survive. | |
4. v. To want strongly; to feel that one must have something. | |
After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave. | |
5. v. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something). | |
You need not go if you don't want to. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary. | |
7. v. (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone). | |
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 | |
be |
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence. | |
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. | |
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place. | |
The cup is on the table. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place. | |
When will the meeting be? | |
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar. | |
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come. | |
I have been to Spain many times. | |
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating. | |
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same. | |
Knowledge is bliss. | |
Hi, I’m Jim. | |
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same. | |
3 times 5 is fifteen. | |
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal. | |
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995. | |
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it. | |
The sky is blue. | |
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase. | |
The sky is a deep blue today. | |
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice. | |
The dog was drowned by the boy. | |
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses. | |
The woman is walking. | |
I shall be writing to you soon. | |
We liked to chat while we were eating. | |
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go". | |
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic. | |
I am to leave tomorrow. | |
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car. | |
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement. | |
This building is three hundred years old. | |
I am 75 kilograms. | |
He’s about 6 feet tall. | |
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years. | |
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.) | |
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day. | |
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.) | |
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo. | |
What time is it there? It’s night. | |
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event. | |
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period) | |
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him. | |
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like. | |
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid. | |
Why is it so dark in here? | |
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way. | |
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.". | |
Why is he being nice to me? | |
replaced |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of replace | |
replace |
1. v. To restore to a former place, position, condition, etc.; to put back | |
When you've finished using the telephone, please replace the handset. | |
2. v. To refund; to repay; to restore | |
You can take what you need from the petty cash, but you must replace it tomorrow morning. | |
3. v. To supply or substitute an equivalent for. | |
I replaced my car with a newer model. | |
The batteries were dead so I replaced them | |
4. v. To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfill the end or office of. | |
This security pass replaces the one you were given earlier. | |
5. v. To demolish a building and build an updated form of that building in its place. | |
6. v. (transitive, rare) To place again. | |
7. v. (transitive, rare) To put in a new or different place. | |