| 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. | |
| large |
| 1. adj. Of considerable or relatively great size or extent. | |
| Russia is a large country. The fruit-fly has large eyes for its body size. He has a large collection of stamps. | |
| 2. adj. (obsolete) Abundant; ample. | |
| 3. adj. (archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse. | |
| 4. adj. (obsolete) Free; unencumbered. | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language. | |
| 6. adj. (nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. | |
| 7. adj. topics, en, Size | |
| 8. n. (music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) Liberality, generosity. | |
| 10. n. (slang) A thousand dollars/pounds. | |
| Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large. | |
| 11. n. A large serving of something. | |
| One small coffee and two larges, please. | |
| 12. adv. (nautical) Before the wind. | |
| party |
| 1. n. (legal) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action. | |
| The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee. | |
| 2. n. A person. | |
| 3. n. (slang) A person; an individual. | |
| He is a queer party. | |
| 4. n. With to: an accessory, someone who takes part. | |
| I can't possibly be a party to that kind of reckless behaviour. | |
| 5. n. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc. | |
| 6. n. (RPG, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group. | |
| 7. n. (video games) A group of characters controlled by the player. | |
| 8. n. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government. | |
| The green party took 12% of the vote. | |
| 9. n. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose. | |
| The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party. | |
| 10. n. A social gathering. | |
| 11. n. A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing. | |
| I'm throwing a huge party for my 21st birthday. | |
| 12. n. A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity. | |
| We're expecting a large party from the London office. | |
| 13. n. A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them. | |
| Tupperware party | |
| lingerie party | |
| 14. n. (obsolete) A part or division. | |
| 15. v. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself. | |
| We partied until the early hours. | |
| 16. v. (intransitive, slang) To take recreational drugs. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats. | |
| 18. v. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with). | |
| If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer. | |
| 19. adj. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part. | |
| 20. adj. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries. | |
| an escutcheon party per pale | |
| 21. adv. (obsolete) Partly. | |
| Gala |
| 1. n. A type of apple, a cross-pollination between Kidd's Orange Red and Golden Delicious. | |
| 2. adj. Celebratory; festive. | |
| 3. n. Pomp, show, or festivity. | |
| 4. n. A showy and festive party. | |
| 5. n. (historical) A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. | |
| event |
| 1. n. An occurrence; something that happens. | |
| 2. n. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.) | |
| I went to an event in San Francisco last week. | |
| Where will the event be held? | |
| 3. n. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition. | |
| 4. n. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases). | |
| In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway. | |
| 5. n. (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate. | |
| 6. n. (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a s | |
| 7. n. (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space. | |
| IfX is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as 1,2,3,4,5,6. Examples of events could be:X = 1,X = 2, X \ge 5, X \not = 4, andX \isi | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise. | |
| 9. n. (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions. | |
| 10. v. (obsolete) To occur, take place. | |
| 11. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate. | |
| 12. v. (obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate. | |
| 13. v. cln, en, basic words | |
