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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.
dip
1. n. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
There is a dip in the road ahead.
2. n. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
3. n. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
4. n. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
5. n. A dip stick.
6. n. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
I'm going for a dip before breakfast.
7. n. (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
8. n. A sauce for dipping.
This onion dip is just scrumptious.
9. n. (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
10. n. (archaic) A dipped candle.
11. n. (dance) a move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader
12. n. A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straighte
13. n. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
14. n. (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
15. n. The moist form of snuff tobacco.
16. v. To lower into a liquid.
Dip your biscuit into your tea.
17. v. (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
18. v. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
19. v. To lower a light's beam.
Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.
20. v. To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag bei
“The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.”
21. v. To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.
22. v. To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
23. v. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
24. v. To immerse for baptism.
25. v. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
26. v. (intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
27. v. To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water
28. v. (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
29. v. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
30. v. To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
31. v. (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
Strata of rock dip.
32. v. (transitive, dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
33. v. To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
34. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave.
He dipped out of the room so fast.
35. n. A foolish person.
36. n. (computer graphics) (initialism of device-independent pixel)
37. n. (informal) A diplomat.
Stick
1. n. (Ireland) A member of the Official IRA.
2. n. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.
3. n. A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
I found several good sticks in the brush heap.
What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.
4. n. (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.
5. n. A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.
6. n. A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.
7. n. (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
8. n. (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
9. n. (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.
10. n. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.
The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.
Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!
11. n. (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick.
12. n. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
13. n. A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
(US) My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.
14. n. (archaic) A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
15. n. (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves
16. n. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
17. n. (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (th
I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn’t.
18. n. # (US, colloquial) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
# I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't.
19. n. (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to
20. n. (aviation) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
21. n. (computing) A memory stick.
22. n. (dated, metal typesetting) A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
23. n. (jazz, slang) The clarinet. (more often called the liquorice stick)
24. n. (sports) A stick-like item:
Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules.
25. n. (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
26. n. (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.
27. n. (US, slang) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.
28. n. # The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
# He shoots a mean stick of pool.
29. n. (sports) Ability; specifically:
30. n. (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
31. n. (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
32. n. (baseball) General hitting ability.
33. n. (hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
34. n. (slang) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
35. n. A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.
36. n. (magic) An assistant planted in the audience.
37. n. A stiff, stupidly obstinate person.
38. n. (military aviation, from joystick) A fighter pilot.
39. n. (military, South Africa) A small group of (infantry) soldiers.
40. n. Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
41. n. A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to
42. n. (slang) Corporal punishment; beatings.
43. n. (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
He really gave that digging some stick. = he threw himself into the task of digging
She really gave that bully some stick. = she berated him (this sense melts into the previous sense, "punishment")
Give it some stick!
44. n. (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
45. n. A measure.
46. n. (obsolete) An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
47. n. (archaic, rare) A quantity of eels, usually 25.
48. v. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
49. v. (transitive, printing, slang) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
to stick type
50. n. (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
51. n. (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
52. n. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
53. v. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
The tape will not stick if it melts.
54. v. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
The lever sticks if you push it too far up.
55. v. To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
56. v. (intransitive) To persist.
His old nickname stuck.
57. v. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
58. v. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
Just stick to your strategy, and you will win.
59. v. (dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
60. v. (dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
61. v. (dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
62. v. To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
Stick the label on the jar.
63. v. To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
Stick your bag over there and come with me.
64. v. To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it.
to stick a needle into one's finger
65. v. (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
66. v. To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
to stick an apple on a fork
67. v. (transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
68. v. (transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.
Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.

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