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. | |
freak |
1. n. A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice. | |
2. n. Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable. | |
3. n. A hippie. | |
4. n. A drug addict. | |
5. n. (of a person) A nonconformist, especially in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or business practices; an oddball, especially in physiology (i.e., "circus freak"); u | |
6. n. (bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 120 kilos (260 pounds). | |
7. n. An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something. | |
Bob's a real video-game freak. He owns every games console of the last ten years. | |
8. n. (informal, sometimes affectionate) A very sexually perverse individual. | |
She's a freak in the sack! | |
9. n. (dated) A streak of colour; variegation. | |
10. v. To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance | |
11. v. To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug | |
12. v. To streak; to variegate | |
13. v. (intransitive) To experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use. | |
14. v. (intransitive) To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure | |
15. adj. strange, weird, unexpected | |
16. n. A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man. | |
17. n. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A fellow; a petulant young man. | |
took |
1. v. simple past tense of take | |
2. v. (obsolete, dialectal) past participle of take | |
take |
1. v. To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force. | |
They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands. | |
I'll take that plate off the table. | |
2. v. To seize or capture. | |
take the guards prisoner | |
take prisoners | |
After a bloody battle, they were able to take the city. | |
3. v. To catch or get possession of (fish or game). | |
took ten catfish in one afternoon | |
4. v. (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it. | |
5. v. To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off. | |
Billy took her pencil. | |
6. v. To exact. | |
take a toll | |
take revenge | |
7. v. To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game. | |
took the next two tricks | |
took Smith's rook | |
8. v. To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc). | |
took third place | |
took bribes | |
The camera takes 35mm film. | |
9. v. To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation. | |
The store doesn't take checks. | |
She wouldn't take any money for her help. | |
Do you take credit? | |
The vending machine only takes bills, it doesn't take coins. | |
10. v. To accept and follow (advice, etc). | |
take my advice | |
11. v. To receive into some relationship. | |
take a wife | |
The school only takes new students in the fall. | |
The therapist wouldn't take him as a client. | |
12. v. (transitive, intransitive, legal) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir). | |
13. v. To remove. | |
take two eggs from the carton | |
14. v. To remove or end by death; to kill. | |
The earthquake took many lives. | |
The plague took rich and poor alike. | |
Cancer took her life. | |
He took his life last night. | |
15. v. To subtract. | |
take one from three and you are left with two | |
16. v. To have sex with. | |
17. v. To defeat (someone or something) in a fight. | |
Don't try to take that guy. He's bigger than you. | |
The woman guarding us looks like a professional, but I can take her! | |
18. v. To grasp or grip. | |
He took her hand in his. | |
19. v. To select or choose; to pick. | |
Take whichever bag you like. | |
She took the best men with her and left the rest to garrison the city. | |
I'll take the blue plates. | |
I'll take two sugars in my coffee, please. | |
20. v. To adopt (select) as one's own. | |
She took his side in every argument. | |
take a stand on the important issues | |
21. v. To carry or lead (something or someone). | |
She took her sword with her everywhere she went. | |
I'll take the plate with me. | |
22. v. (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place. | |
The next bus will take you to Metz. | |
I took him for a ride | |
I took him down to London. | |
23. v. (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching. | |
These stairs take you down to the basement. | |
Stone Street took us right past the store. | |
24. v. To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around. | |
She took the steps two or three at a time/ | |
He took the curve / corner too fast. | |
The pony took every hedge and fence in its path. | |
25. v. To escort or conduct (a person). | |
He took her to lunch at the new restaurant, took her to the movies, and then took her home. | |
26. v. (reflexive) To go. | |
27. v. To use as a means of transportation. | |
take the ferry | |
I took a plane. | |
He took the bus to London, and then took a train to Manchester. | |
He's 96 but he still takes the stairs. | |
28. v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel. | |
29. v. To obtain for use by payment or lease. | |
She took a condo at the beach for the summer. | |
He took a full-page ad in the Times. | |
30. v. To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription. | |
They took two magazines. | |
I used to take The Sunday Times. | |
31. v. To consume. | |
32. v. To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest. | |
take two of these and call me in the morning | |
take the blue pill | |
I take aspirin every day to thin my blood. | |
33. v. To partake of (food or drink); to consume. | |
The general took dinner at seven o'clock. | |
34. v. To experience, undergo, or endure. | |
35. v. To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to. | |
take sun-baths | |
take a shower | |
She made the decision to take chemotherapy. | |
36. v. To experience or feel. | |
She takes pride in her work. | |
an |
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
4. conj. (archaic) If | |
5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
ass |
1. n. Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden. | |
2. n. (slang) A stupid person. | |
That new kid left the cap off the syrup bottle again! What an ass. | |
3. n. (vulgar, slang) Buttocks. | |
4. n. (vulgar, slang) Sex. | |
I’m going to go down to the bar and try to get me some ass. | |
5. n. (vulgar, slang) Anus. | |
6. n. (slang) Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant. | |
I feel like ass today. - I am feeling very bad today. | |
This room smells like ass. - This room smells very bad. | |
What a bunch of ass. - What a bunch of lies/nonsense/disappointment. | |
7. n. (vulgar, slang) Used after an adjective to indicate extremes or excessiveness. | |
That was one big-ass fish! | |
That's an expensive-ass car! | |
8. n. (vulgar, slang) One's self or person, chiefly their body. | |
Get your lazy ass out of bed! | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
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. | |
head |
1. n. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. | |
Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite. | |
2. n. (people) To do with heads. | |
3. n. # Mental or emotional aptitude or skill. | |
# The company is looking for people with good heads for business. | |
# He has no head for heights. | |
# It's all about having a good head on your shoulders. | |
4. n. # Mind; one's own thoughts. | |
# This song keeps going through my head. | |
5. n. # A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication. | |
6. n. # A headdress; a covering for the head. | |
# a laced head; a head of hair | |
7. n. # An individual person. | |
# Admission is three dollars a head. | |
8. n. (animals) To do with heads. | |
9. n. # (measure word for livestock and game) A single animal. | |
# 200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses | |
# 12 head of big cattle and 14 head of branded calves | |
# at five years of age this head of cattle is worth perhaps $40 | |
# a reduction in the assessment per head of sheep | |
# they shot 20 head of quail | |
10. n. # The population of game. | |
# we have a heavy head of deer this year | |
# planting the hedges increased the head of quail and doves | |
11. n. # The antlers of a deer. | |
12. n. The topmost, foremost, or leading part. | |
What does it say at the head of the page? | |
13. n. The end of a table. | |
14. n. # The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor. | |
# During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table. | |
15. n. # (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked. | |
16. n. The principal operative part of a machine or tool. | |
17. n. # The end of a hammer, axe, golf club or similar implement used for striking other objects. | |
18. n. # The end of a nail, screw, bolt or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide. | |
# Hit the nail on the head! | |
19. n. # The sharp end of an arrow, spear or pointer. | |
# The head of the compass needle is pointing due north. | |
20. n. # (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball. | |
21. n. # (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound. | |
# Tap the head of the drum for this roll. | |
22. n. # A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium. | |
# The heads of your tape player need to be cleaned. | |
23. n. # (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data. | |
24. n. # (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs. | |
25. n. The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages. | |
Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head. | |
26. n. (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel. | |
27. n. (UK, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession. | |
28. n. (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects. | |
29. n. (music) The headstock of a guitar. | |
30. n. (nautical) A leading component. | |
31. n. # The top edge of a sail. | |
32. n. # The bow of a vessel. | |
33. n. (British) A headland. | |
34. n. (social) A leader or expert. | |
35. n. The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front. | |
36. n. Leader; chief; mastermind. | |
I'd like to speak to the head of the department. | |
Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night. | |
37. n. A headmaster or headmistress. | |
I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour. | |
38. n. (music, slang) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop. | |
Only true heads know this. | |
39. n. A significant or important part. | |
40. n. A beginning or end, a protuberance. | |
41. n. # The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it. | |
# The expedition followed the river all the way to the head. | |
42. n. # A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum. | |
# Give me a head of lettuce. | |
43. n. ## An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal. | |
44. n. ## The leafy top part of a tree. | |
45. n. # (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint. | |
46. n. # (nautical) The toilet of a ship. | |
# I've got to go to the head. | |
47. n. # (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. | |
48. n. A component. | |
49. n. # (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece. | |
50. n. # (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a memb | |
51. n. Headway; progress. | |
We are having a difficult time making head against this wind. | |
52. n. Topic; subject. | |
We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements. | |
53. n. Denouement; crisis. | |
These isses are going to come to a head today. | |
54. n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy. | |
55. n. A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head. | |
Let the engine build up a good head of steam. | |
56. n. The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point. | |
57. n. More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight. | |
58. n. (slang) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex. | |
She gave great head. | |
59. n. (slang) The glans penis. | |
60. n. (slang) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs. | |
61. n. (obsolete) Power; armed force. | |
62. adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head. | |
63. adj. Foremost in rank or importance. | |
the head cook | |
64. adj. Placed at the top or the front. | |
65. adj. Coming from in front. | |
head sea | |
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. | |
He |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, he | |
I love the Lord for He is Great and Holy. | |
2. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied. | |
3. pron. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant. | |
The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna? | |
4. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown. | |
5. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he". | |
6. n. (informal) A male. | |
Alex totally is a he. | |
7. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). | |
goes |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of go | |
2. n. plural of go | |
go |
1. v. To move: | |
2. v. (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like | |
Why don’t you go with us? This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going? &nbs | |
3. v. (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's m | |
Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell. | |
Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc). | |
5. v. To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). | |
We've only gone twenty miles today. This car can go circles around that one. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. | |
We went swimming. Let's go shopping. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To leave; to move away. | |
Please don't go! I really must be going. Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night. | |
8. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To walk; to travel on one's feet. | |
9. v. (intransitive, chiefly of a, machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). | |
The engine just won't go anymore. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process). | |
Get ready, get set, go! On your marks, get set, go! On your marks, set, go! | |
Here goes nothing. Let's go and hunt. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game. | |
It’s your turn; go. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To attend. | |
I go to school at the schoolhouse. She went to Yale. They only go to church on Christmas. | |
13. v. To proceed: | |
14. v. (intransitive) To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state). | |
That went well. "How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks.". | |
15. v. (intransitive, colloquial, with another verb, sometimes linked by and) To proceed (especially to do something foolish). | |
Why'd you have to go and do that? | |
Why'd you have to go do that? | |
He just went and punched the guy. | |
16. v. To follow or travel along (a path): | |
17. v. To follow or proceed according to (a course or path). | |
Let's go this way for a while. | |
She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was. | |
18. v. To travel or pass along. | |
19. v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another). | |
This property goes all the way to the state line. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to. | |
Does this road go to Fort Smith? | |
21. v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.) | |
You'll go blind. I went crazy / went mad. After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight. | |
22. v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as. | |
23. v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state. | |
I don't want my children to go hungry. We went barefoot in the summer. | |
24. v. To come to (a certain condition or state). | |
they went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock, the local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global | |
25. v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend. | |
The traffic light went straight from green to red. | |
26. v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result). | |
How did your meeting with Smith go? | |
27. v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result). | |
Well, that goes to show you. These experiences go to make us stronger. | |
28. v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result. | |
qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter | |
29. v. To pass, to be used up: | |
30. v. (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.) | |
The time went slowly. | |
31. v. (intransitive) To end or disappear. (Compare go away.) | |
After three days, my headache finally went. | |
32. v. (intransitive) To be spent or used up. | |
His money went on drink. | |
33. v. (intransitive) To die. | |
34. v. (intransitive) To be discarded. | |
This chair has got to go. | |
35. v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out: | |
36. v. (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket) To be lost. | |
37. v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To be out. | |
38. v. To break down or apart: | |
39. v. (intransitive) To collapse or give way, to break apart. | |
40. v. (intransitive) To break down or decay. | |
This meat is starting to go off. My mind is going. She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go. | |
41. v. (intransitive) To be sold. | |
Everything must go. The car went for five thousand dollars. | |
42. v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted. | |
The property shall go to my wife. The award went to Steven Spielberg. | |
43. v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time. | |
How long can you go without water? We've gone without your help for a while now. I've gone ten days now without a cigarette. Can you two go twenty minutes wi | |
44. v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record. | |
They've gone one for three in this series. The team is going five in a row. | |
45. v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid: | |
46. v. (intransitive) To have (final) authority; to be authoritative. | |
Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand? | |
47. v. (intransitive) To be accepted. | |
Anything goes around here. | |
48. v. (intransitive) To be valid. | |
49. v. To say (something), to make a sound: | |
50. v. (transitive, slang) To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.) | |
I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!". | |
As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid.". | |
51. v. To make the (specified) sound. | |
Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom". | |
52. v. (intransitive) To sound; to make a noise. | |
I woke up just before the clock went. | |
53. v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way). | |
The tune goes like this. As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic. | |
54. v. (intransitive) To resort (to). | |
I'll go to court if I have to. | |
55. v. To apply or subject oneself to: | |
56. v. To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.) | |
I'm going to join a sports team. I wish you'd go and get a job. He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach. | |
into |
1. prep. Going inside (of). | |
Mary danced into the house. | |
2. prep. Going to a geographic region. | |
We left the house and walked into the street. | |
The plane flew into the open air. | |
3. prep. Against, especially with force or violence. | |
The car crashed into the tree; I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall | |
4. prep. Producing, becoming; (indicates transition into another form or substance). | |
I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale. Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf! | |
5. prep. After the start of. | |
About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board. | |
6. prep. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to. | |
She's really into Shakespeare right now; I'm so into you! | |
7. prep. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values. | |
The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself. | |
8. prep. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.(R:OED Online) | |
Five into three is fifteen. | |
9. prep. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes". | |
Three into two won't go. | |
24 goes into 48 how many times? | |
10. prep. Investigating the subject (of). | |
Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees. | |
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. | |
woods |
1. n. plural of wood | |
2. n. (usually sometimes singular) A dense collection of trees covering a relatively small area; smaller than a forest. | |
Woods are lovely, dark places. | |
These woods are near a field. | |
This woods is near a field. (uncommon) | |
3. n. (military, attributive) For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests). | |
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of wood | |
wood |
1. n. The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel. | |
This table is made of wood. | |
There was lots of wood on the beach. | |
2. n. The wood of a particular species of tree. | |
Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc. | |
3. n. A forested or wooded area. | |
He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle. | |
4. n. Firewood. | |
We need more wood for the fire. | |
5. n. (golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood. | |
6. n. (music) A woodwind instrument. | |
7. n. (slang) An erection of the penis. | |
That girl at the strip club gave me wood. | |
8. n. (chess, slang) Chess pieces. | |
9. v. To cover or plant with trees. | |
10. v. (reflexive, intransitive) To hide behind trees. | |
11. v. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for. | |
to wood a steamboat or a locomotive | |
12. v. (intransitive) To take or get a supply of wood. | |
13. adj. (obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed. | |
14. n. (US, sometimes offensive chiefly prison slang) A peckerwood. | |
masquerading |
1. v. present participle of masquerade | |
2. n. The act of one who masquerades. | |
masquerade |
1. n. A party or assembly of people wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. | |
2. n. (fandom) A cosplay event at which costumed attendees perform skits on a stage. | |
3. n. (obsolete) A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See “mask” | |
4. n. Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise. | |
I was invited to the masquerade at their home. | |
5. n. (archaic) A Spanish entertainment in which squadrons of horses charge at each other, the riders fighting with bucklers and canes. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade. | |
I'm going to masquerade as the wikipede. What are you going to dress up as? | |
7. v. (intransitive) To frolic or disport in disguise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not. | |
He masqueraded as my friend until the truth finally came out. | |
A freak took an ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin - Roger L'Estrange | |
8. v. To conceal with masks; to disguise. | |
up |
1. adv. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity. | |
I looked up and saw the airplane overhead. | |
2. adv. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state Thoroughly, completely. | |
I will mix up the puzzle pieces. | |
Tear up the contract. | |
He really messed up. | |
Please type up our monthly report. | |
3. adv. To or from one's possession or consideration. | |
I picked up some milk on the way home. | |
The committee will take up your request. | |
She had to give up her driver's license after the accident. | |
4. adv. North. | |
I will go up to New York to visit my family this weekend. | |
5. adv. To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc. | |
Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets. | |
Turn it up, I can barely hear it. | |
Listen to your voice go up at the end of a question. | |
Cheer up, the weekend's almost here. | |
6. adv. (rail transport) Traditional term for the direction leading to the principal terminus, towards milepost zero. | |
7. adv. (sailing) Against the wind or current. | |
8. adv. (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction. | |
9. adv. (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman. | |
The bowler pitched the ball up. | |
10. adv. (hospitality, US) Without additional ice. | |
Would you like that drink up or on ice? | |
11. adv. (academia) Towards Cambridge or Oxford. | |
She's going up to read Classics this September. | |
12. adv. To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with. | |
I was up to my chin in water. | |
A stranger came up and asked me for directions. | |
13. adv. To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite. | |
Drink up. The pub is closing. | |
Can you sum up your research? | |
The comet burned up in the atmosphere. | |
I need to sew up the hole in this shirt. | |
14. adv. Aside, so as not to be in use. | |
to lay up riches; put up your weapons | |
15. prep. Toward the top of. | |
The cat went up the tree. They walk up the steps. | |
16. prep. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached. | |
The information made its way up the chain of command to the general. I felt something crawling up my arm. | |
17. prep. Further along (in any direction). | |
Go up the street until you see the sign. | |
18. prep. From south to north of | |
19. prep. From the mouth towards the source (of a river or waterway). | |
20. prep. (vulgar slang) Of a man: having sex with. | |
Phwoar, look at that bird. I'd love to be up her. | |
21. prep. (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more remote from a central location). | |
22. adj. Awake. | |
I can’t believe it’s 3 a.m. and you’re still up. | |
23. adj. Finished, to an end | |
Time is up! | |
24. adj. In a good mood. | |
I’m feeling up today. | |
25. adj. Willing; ready. | |
If you are up for a trip, let’s go. | |
26. adj. Next in a sequence. | |
Smith is up to bat. | |
27. adj. Happening; new. | |
What is up with that project at headquarters? | |
28. adj. Facing upwards; facing toward the top. | |
Put the notebook face up on the table. | |
Take a break and put your feet up. | |
29. adj. Larger; greater in quantity. | |
Sales are up from last quarter. | |
30. adj. Ahead; leading; winning. | |
The home team were up by two goals at half-time. | |
31. adj. Standing. | |
Get up and give her your seat. | |
32. adj. On a higher level. | |
The new ground is up. | |
33. adj. Available; made public. | |
The new notices are up as of last Tuesday. | |
34. adj. (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair. | |
AAKK = aces up | |
QQ33 = queens up | |
35. adj. Well-informed; current. | |
I’m not up on the latest news. What’s going on? | |
36. adj. (computing) Functional; working. | |
Is the server back up? | |
37. adj. (anchor, Adj_railway)(of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus. | |
The London train is on the up line. | |
38. adj. Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc. | |
39. adj. (bar tending) Chilled and strained into a stemmed glass. | |
A Cosmopolitan is typically served up. | |
40. adj. (slang) Erect. | |
41. adj. (of the Sun or Moon) Above the horizon, in the sky (i.e. during daytime or night-time) | |
42. adj. (slang) well-known; renowned | |
43. n. The direction opposed to the pull of gravity. | |
Up is a good way to go. | |
44. n. A positive thing. | |
I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home. | |
45. n. An upstairs room of a two story house. | |
She lives in a two-up two-down. | |
46. v. (transitive, colloquial) To increase or raise. | |
If we up the volume, we'll be able to make out the details. | |
We upped anchor and sailed away. | |
47. v. (transitive, colloquial) To promote. | |
It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President. | |
48. v. (intransitive) To act suddenly, usually with another verb. | |
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. | |
down |
1. n. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland | |
We went for a walk over the downs. | |
The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England. | |
2. n. (usually plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing. | |
3. n. (mostly) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep. | |
4. n. (American football) Any of the four chances for a team to successfully move the ball for the yards needed to keep possession of the ball. | |
first down, second down, etc. | |
5. adv. (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards. | |
The cat jumped down from the table. | |
6. adv. (comparable) At a lower and/or further along or away place or position along a set path. | |
His place is farther down the road. | |
The company was well down the path to bankruptcy. | |
7. adv. South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps). | |
I went down to Miami for a conference. | |
8. adv. (Ireland) Away from the city (even if the location is to the North). | |
He went down to Cavan. | |
down on the farm | |
down country | |
9. adv. (sport) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports). | |
10. adv. Into a state of non-operation. | |
The computer has been shut down. | |
They closed the shop down. | |
11. adv. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank. | |
Smith was sent down to the minors to work on his batting. | |
After the incident, Kelly went down to Second Lieutenant. | |
12. adv. (anchor, Adv_rail)(rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero. | |
13. adv. (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down. | |
Down, boy! (such as to direct a dog to stand on four legs from two, or to sit from standing on four legs.) | |
14. adv. (academia) Away from Oxford or Cambridge. | |
He's gone back down to Newcastle for Christmas. | |
15. adv. From a remoter or higher antiquity. | |
16. adv. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence. | |
17. adv. From less to greater detail. | |
18. adv. (intensifier) Used with verbs to add emphasis to the action of the verb. | |
They tamped (down) the asphalt to get a better bond. | |
19. adv. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, rather than being of indefinite duration. | |
He boiled the mixture./He boiled down the mixture. | |
He sat waiting./He sat down and waited. | |
20. prep. From the higher end to the lower of. | |
The ball rolled down the hill. | |
21. prep. From one end to another of. | |
The bus went down the street. | |
They walked down the beach holding hands. | |
22. adj. (informal) sad, unhappy, Depressed, feeling low. | |
23. adj. Sick or ill. | |
He is down with the flu. | |
24. adj. At a lower level than before. | |
The stock market is down. | |
Prices are down. | |
25. adj. Having a lower score than an opponent. | |
They are down by 3-0 with just 5 minutes to play. | |
He was down by a bishop and a pawn after 15 moves. | |
At 5-1 down, she produced a great comeback to win the set on a tiebreak. | |
26. adj. (baseball, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out. | |
Two down and one to go in the bottom of the ninth. | |
27. adj. (colloquial) With "on", negative about, hostile to | |
Ever since Nixon, I've been down on Republicans. | |
28. adj. (not comparable, North America, slang) Comfortable with, accepting of. | |
He's chill enough; he'd probably be totally down with it. | |
Are you down to hang out at the mall, Jamal? | |
As long as you're down with helping me pick a phone, Tyrone. | |
29. adj. (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service. | |
The system is down. | |
30. adj. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining). | |
Two down and three to go. (Two tasks completed and three more still to be done.) | |
Ten minutes down and nothing's happened yet. | |
31. adj. (not comparable military, police slang) Wounded and unable to move normally; killed. | |
We have an officer down outside the suspect's house. | |
There are three soldiers down and one walking wounded. | |
32. adj. (not comparable military, aviation slang) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly. | |
We have a chopper down near the river. | |
33. adj. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.) | |
It's two weeks until opening night and our lines are still not down yet. | |
34. adj. (obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive. | |
35. v. To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty. | |
He downed an ale and ordered another. | |
36. v. To cause to come down; to knock down or subdue. | |
The storm downed several old trees along the highway. | |
37. v. (transitive, pocket billiards) To put a ball in a pocket; to pot a ball. | |
He downed two balls on the break. | |
38. v. (transitive, American football) To bring a play to an end by touching the ball to the ground or while it is on the ground. | |
He downed it at the seven-yard line. | |
39. v. To write off; to make fun of. | |
40. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go down; to descend. | |
41. n. A negative aspect; a downer. | |
I love almost everything about my job. The only down is that I can't take Saturdays off. | |
42. n. (dated) A grudge (on someone). | |
43. n. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once. | |
44. n. (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed. | |
I bet after the third down, the kicker will replace the quarterback on the field. | |
45. n. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid. | |
I haven't solved 12 or 13 across, but I've got most of the downs. | |
46. n. A downstairs room of a two-story house. | |
She lives in a two-up two-down. | |
47. n. Down payment. | |
48. n. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets. | |
49. n. (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle. | |
50. n. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear. | |
51. n. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down. | |
52. v. To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down. | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
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. | |
lion |
1. n. A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly to much of Europe. The term may apply to the species as a whole, to individuals, or to male individuals. It also applies to related specie | |
Tigers and lions share a common ancestor from a few million years ago. | |
2. n. A male lion. | |
3. n. (heraldry) A stylized representation of a large cat, used on a coat of arms. | |
4. n. A Chinese foo dog. | |
5. n. An individual who shows strength and courage, attributes associated with the lion. | |
6. n. A famous person regarded with interest and curiosity. | |
(color panel, C19A6B) | |
7. n. (historical) An old Scottish coin, with a lion on the obverse, worth 74 shillings. | |
8. adj. Of the light brown color that resembles the fur of a lion. | |
skin |
1. n. The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human. | |
He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl. | |
2. n. The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant. | |
3. n. The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc. | |
4. n. A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid. | |
In order to get to the rest of the paint in the can, you′ll have to remove the skin floating on top of it. | |
5. n. (computing, graphical user interface) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program. | |
You can use this skin to change how the browser looks. | |
6. n. (slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes. | |
Pass me a skin, mate. | |
7. n. (slang) (clipping of skinhead) | |
8. n. (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.1994, Macquarie Aboriginal Words, Macquarie University, paperback ( | |
9. n. (video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game. | |
10. n. (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts. | |
Let me see a bit of skin. | |
11. n. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. | |
12. n. (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole. | |
13. n. (nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing. | |
14. v. To injure the skin of. | |
He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete. | |
15. v. To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human. | |
16. v. (colloquial) To high five. | |
17. v. (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program). | |
Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it? | |
18. v. (soccer) To use tricks to go past a defender. | |
19. v. (intransitive) To become covered with skin. | |
A wound eventually skins over. | |
20. v. To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially. | |
21. v. (US, slang) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited. | |
22. v. (slang) To strip of money or property; to cheat. | |
roger |
1. interj. (radio telecommunications) Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood) | |
1950: "Pilot: CESSNA TWO THREE FOUR—ROGER—OUT." Flying Magazine, May 1950,. | |
2. v. (transitive, coarse slang) Of a man, to have sexual intercourse with (someone), especially in a rough manner. | |
3. v. (intransitive, coarse slang) To have sexual intercourse. | |
l'estrange |
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