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. | |
funeral |
1. n. A ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person. Often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased. | |
No one likes to go to funerals. | |
2. n. (dated, chiefly in the plural) A funeral sermon. | |
3. adj. (uncommon) (alt form of funereal) | |
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. | |
someone |
1. pron. Some person. | |
Can someone help me, please? | |
2. n. A partially specified but unnamed person. | |
Do you need a gift for that special someone? | |
3. n. an important person | |
He thinks he has become someone. | |
whose |
1. det. (interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom. | |
Whose wallet is this? | |
2. det. (relative) Of whom, belonging to whom. | |
This is the man whose dog caused the accident. (=This man's dog caused the accident.) | |
3. det. (relative) Of which, belonging to which. | |
We saw several houses whose roofs are falling off. (=The roofs are falling off several houses that we saw.) | |
4. pron. (interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom. | |
Whose is this book? | |
He does not know whose this is. | |
5. pron. (relative, rare) Of whom, belonging to whom. | |
business |
1. n. A specific commercial enterprise or establishment. | |
I was left my father's business. | |
2. n. A person's occupation, work, or trade. | |
He is in the motor and insurance businesses. | |
I'm going to Las Vegas on business. | |
3. n. Commercial, industrial, or professional activity. | |
He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business! | |
We do business all over the world. | |
4. n. The volume or amount of commercial trade. | |
Business has been slow lately. | |
They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend. | |
5. n. One's dealings; patronage. | |
I shall take my business elsewhere. | |
6. n. Private commercial interests taken collectively. | |
This proposal will satisfy both business and labor. | |
7. n. The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management. | |
I studied business at Harvard. | |
8. n. A particular situation or activity. | |
This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business. | |
9. n. An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with. | |
Our principal business here is to get drunk. | |
Let's get down to business. | |
10. n. Something involving one personally. | |
That's none of your business. | |
11. n. (parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action. | |
If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business. | |
12. n. (travel) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach. | |
13. n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene. | |
14. n. (rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets. | |
15. n. (slang) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees") | |
These new phones are the business! | |
16. n. (slang) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal. | |
Your ferret left his business all over the floor. | |
As the cart went by, its horse lifted its tail and did its business. | |
17. adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes. | |
"Please do not use this phone for personal calls; it is a business phone.". | |
18. adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice. | |
19. adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business. | |
Is |
1. n. plural of I | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of be | |
He is a doctor. He retired some time ago. | |
Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him. | |
3. n. plural of i | |
remember to dot your is | |
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? | |
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 | |
manage |
1. v. To direct or be in charge of. | |
2. v. To handle or control (a situation, job). | |
3. v. To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.). | |
4. v. (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt. | |
He managed to climb the tower. | |
5. v. To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help. | |
It's a tough job, but I'll manage. | |
6. v. To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action. | |
7. v. (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband. | |
8. v. (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive. | |
9. n. (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something. | |
10. n. (horseriding) Manège. | |
funerals |
1. n. plural of funeral | |
funeral |
1. n. A ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person. Often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased. | |
No one likes to go to funerals. | |
2. n. (dated, chiefly in the plural) A funeral sermon. | |
3. adj. (uncommon) (alt form of funereal) | |
burials |
1. n. plural of burial | |
burial |
1. n. The act of burying; interment | |
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. | |
cremations |
1. n. plural of cremation | |
cremation |
1. n. A burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead, burning a corpse. | |
Cremation removes a significant amount of "closure" from the process of death. | |