| a |
| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
| I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
| We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
| 4. art. The same; one. | |
| We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
| 5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
| A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
| He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
| 6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
| 7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
| The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
| 8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
| Stand a tiptoe. | |
| 9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
| Torn a pieces. | |
| 10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
| I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
| 11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
| A God’s name. | |
| 13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
| King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
| To set the people a worke. | |
| 14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
| 1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
| The times, they are a-changin'. | |
| 15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
| 1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
| Jacob, when he was a dying | |
| 16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
| 17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
| I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
| 18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
| 19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
| 20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
| The name of John a Gaunt. | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| 22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| coach |
| 1. n. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power. | |
| 2. n. (rail, UK, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit. | |
| 3. n. (originally, Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor. | |
| 4. n. (UK, Australia) A single-decked long-distance, or privately hired, bus. | |
| 5. n. (nautical) The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck. | |
| 6. n. (chiefly US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section. | |
| John flew coach to Vienna, but first-class back home. | |
| 7. v. (sports) To train. | |
| 8. v. To instruct; to train. | |
| She has coached many opera stars. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it). | |
| 10. v. To convey in a coach. | |
| director |
| 1. n. One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director). | |
| 2. n. That which directs or orientates something. | |
| 3. n. (military) A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time. | |
| 4. n. (chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal. | |
| 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. | |
| other |
| 1. adj. See other (determiner) below | |
| 2. adj. second. | |
| I get paid every other week. | |
| 3. adj. Alien. | |
| 4. adj. Different. | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right. | |
| 6. n. An other one, more often rendered as another. | |
| I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others. | |
| 7. n. The other one; the second of two. | |
| One boat is not better than the other. | |
| 8. det. Not the one or ones previously referred to. | |
| Other people would do it differently. | |
| 9. adv. Apart from; in the phrase "other than". | |
| Other than that, I'm fine. | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Otherwise. | |
| It shall none other be. — Chaucer. | |
| If you think other. — Shakespeare. | |
| 11. v. To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien. | |
| 12. v. To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise. | |
| leader |
| 1. n. any person that leads or directs | |
| 2. n. one who goes first | |
| Follow the leader. | |
| 3. n. one having authority to direct | |
| We elected her team leader. | |
| 4. n. one who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles | |
| Leader of the House of Commons | |
| Senate Majority Leader | |
| 5. n. a person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc. | |
| The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county. | |
| 6. n. (music) a performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra | |
| 7. n. (music, UK) the first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster | |
| 8. n. an animal that leads | |
| 9. n. the dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions | |
| 10. n. an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs | |
| 11. n. someone or something that leads or conducts | |
| 12. n. (botany) a fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant | |
| 13. n. a pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground | |
| 14. n. (UK) the first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story | |
| 15. n. (fishing) a section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to dete | |
| 16. n. a piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a proj | |
| 17. n. (marketing) a loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price | |
| 18. n. (printing) a type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face | |
| 19. n. (printing, in the plural) a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or num | |
| 20. n. (fishing) a net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. | |
| 21. n. (mining) a branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one | |
| 22. n. (nautical) a block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places | |
| 23. n. (engineering) the drive wheel in any kind of machinery | |
| 24. n. (meteorology) the path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning | |
