| 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. | |
| local |
| 1. adj. From or in a nearby location. | |
| We prefer local produce. | |
| 2. adj. (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program. | |
| 3. adj. (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole. | |
| 4. adj. (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism. | |
| The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia. | |
| 5. adj. Descended from an indigenous population. | |
| Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population. | |
| 6. n. A person who lives near a given place. | |
| It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists. | |
| 7. n. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. | |
| I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6. | |
| 8. n. (rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones. | |
| The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local. | |
| 9. n. (British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar. | |
| I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink. | |
| 10. n. (programming) A locally scoped identifier. | |
| Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable. | |
| 11. n. (US, slang) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published. | |
| 12. n. (colloquial, medicine) (clipping of local anesthetic) | |
| 1989, Road House, 39:59: | |
| Well, Mr. Dalton, you may add nine staples to your dossier of thirty‐one broken bones, two bullet wounds, nine puncture wounds and four steel screws. That’s an estimate, of course. I’ll give yo | |
| political |
| 1. adj. Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing. | |
| Political principles are rarely absolute, as political logic holds an imperfect result by compromise is better than a theoretically perfect abstention from the political process in the oppositi | |
| 2. adj. Concerning a polity or its administrative components. | |
| Good political staff is hard to find, they may neither be ambitious and corrupted by power nor tempted by private sector careers. | |
| 3. adj. (pejorative) Motivated, especially inappropriately, by political (electoral or other party political) calculation. | |
| “The Court invalidates Minnesota’s political apparel ban based on its inability to define the term ‘political'” | |
| 4. adj. Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power or authority. | |
| 5. adj. (of a person) Interested in politics. | |
| 6. n. A political agent or officer. | |
| 7. n. A publication focusing on politics. | |
| division |
| 1. n. The act or process of dividing anything. | |
| 2. n. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division. | |
| 3. n. (arithmetic) The process of dividing a number by another. | |
| 4. n. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process. | |
| I've got ten divisions to do for my homework. | |
| 5. n. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades. | |
| 6. n. A section of a large company. | |
| 7. n. (taxonomy) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank. | |
| Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta. | |
| 8. n. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument. | |
| 9. n. (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote. | |
| The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords. | |
| 10. n. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones. | |
| 11. n. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied. | |
| 12. n. (legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt. | |
| 13. n. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code | |
| 14. n. (Eton College) A lesson; a class. | |
| 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. | |
| many |
| 1. det. An indefinite large number of. | |
| many people enjoy playing chess; there are many different ways to cook a meal | |
| 2. pron. A collective mass of people. | |
| Democracy must balance the rights of the few against the will of the many | |
| A great many do not understand this. | |
| 3. pron. An indefinite large number of people or things. | |
| Many are called, but few are chosen. | |
| 4. n. A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd. | |
| 5. n. A considerable number. | |
| European |
| 1. adj. Related to Europe or the European Union. | |
| 2. adj. (AU, dated) Of the white ethnicity. | |
| Stamps like this were common on furniture made in Australia in the first half of last century, when there were a number of Chinese furniture makers in Australia who were seen as competition to | |
| 3. adj. (finance) (of an option, not comparable) Can be exercised only at the expiry date. | |
| 4. n. person living or originating from Europe | |
| 5. n. person who resides within the European Union | |
| countries |
| 1. n. plural of country. | |
| country |
| 1. n. (chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region. | |
| 2. n. A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, language speakers etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, speci | |
| 3. n. The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area. | |
| 4. n. (usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside. | |
| 5. n. (ellipsis of country music) | |
| 6. n. (mining) The rock through which a vein runs. | |
| 7. n. (vulgar,) The female genitalia, especially the vagina. | |
| 8. adj. From or in the countryside or connected with it. | |
| 9. adj. Of or connected to country music. | |
