| 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. | |
| mental |
| 1. adj. Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process. | |
| 2. adj. (colloquial, comparable) Insane, mad, crazy. | |
| He is the most mental freshman I've seen yet. | |
| He went mental on us. | |
| 3. adj. (colloquial, UK, comparable) Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way. | |
| That was a mental party last night. | |
| 4. adj. (anatomy) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial. | |
| the mental nerve; the mental region | |
| 5. adj. (biology) Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure. | |
| 6. n. (zoology) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| psychological |
| 1. adj. Of or pertaining to psychology. | |
| I'm concerned about their psychological well-being. | |
| The film was a dark psychological thriller. | |
| 2. adj. Without an objective, or reasonably logical foundation. | |
| Prices seem to have stopped rising, having hit the psychological ceiling of just under 100 dollars. | |
| trap |
| 1. n. A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. | |
| I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem. | |
| 2. n. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. | |
| Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny. | |
| 3. n. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor. | |
| Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck. | |
| 4. n. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball | |
| 5. n. The game of trapball itself. | |
| 6. n. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object. | |
| They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap. | |
| 7. n. A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids. | |
| 8. n. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet. | |
| 9. n. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs. | |
| 10. n. (slang) A person's mouth. | |
| Keep your trap shut. | |
| 11. n. (in the plural) Belongings. | |
| 12. n. (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet). | |
| I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you. | |
| 13. n. (sports) Trapshooting. | |
| 14. n. (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event. | |
| 15. n. (Australia, slang) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush. | |
| 16. n. (US, slang) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold. (Also used attributively to describe things which are used for the sale of drugs, e.g. | |
| 17. n. A kind of movable stepladder. | |
| 18. n. (slang) A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite. | |
| 19. n. (slang) A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's textual gender. | |
| 20. n. (music) A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music. | |
| 21. v. To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap. | |
| to trap foxes | |
| 22. v. To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. | |
| 23. v. To provide with a trap. | |
| to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe | |
| 24. v. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game | |
| trap for beaver | |
| 25. v. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee. | |
| 26. v. (US, slang) To sell narcotics, especially in a public area. | |
| 27. v. (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it. | |
| 28. n. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock. | |
| 29. v. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses). | |
| 30. n. (slang) The trapezius muscle. | |
