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. | |
pore |
1. n. A tiny opening in the skin. | |
2. n. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid. | |
3. v. to study meticulously; to go over again and again. | |
4. v. to meditate or reflect in a steady way. | |
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. | |
opening |
1. v. present participle of open | |
2. n. An act or instance of making or becoming open. | |
The daily openings of the day lily bloom gives it its name. | |
He remembered fondly the Christmas morning opening of presents. | |
3. n. Something that is open. | |
A salamander darted out of an opening in the rocks. | |
He slipped through an opening in the crowd. | |
4. n. An act or instance of beginning. | |
There have been few factory and store openings in the US lately. | |
Their opening of the concert with Brass in Pocket always fires up the crowd. | |
5. n. Something that is a beginning. | |
6. n. The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe. | |
They were disappointed at the turnout for their opening, but hoped that word would spread. | |
7. n. The initial period a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening. | |
8. n. The first few measures of a musical composition. | |
9. n. (chess) The first few moves in a game of chess. | |
John spends two hours a day studying openings, and another two hours studying endgames. | |
10. n. A vacant position, especially in an array. | |
Are there likely to be any openings on the Supreme Court in the next four years? | |
11. n. A time available in a schedule. | |
If you'd like to make a booking with us, we have an opening at twelve o'clock. | |
The only two-hour openings for the hockey rink are between 1AM and 5AM. | |
12. n. An unoccupied employment position. | |
We have an opening in our marketing department. | |
13. n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity. | |
14. n. (math) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set. | |
15. adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing a batsman who opens the innings or a bowler who opens the attack | |
open |
1. adj. (not comparable) Not closed; accessible; unimpeded. | |
Turn left after the second open door. | |
It was as if his body had gone to sleep standing up and with his eyes open. | |
2. adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded. | |
an open hand; an open flower; an open prospect | |
3. adj. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business. | |
Banks are not open on bank holidays. | |
4. adj. (comparable) Receptive. | |
I am open to new ideas. | |
5. adj. (not comparable) Public | |
He published an open letter to the governor on a full page of the New York Times. | |
6. adj. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character. | |
The man is an open book. | |
7. adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable. | |
8. adj. (mathematics, topology, of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets ofX, that defines a topological space onX. | |
9. adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different. | |
10. adj. (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory. | |
I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same file open. | |
11. adj. (business) Not fulfilled. | |
I've got open orders for as many containers of red durum as you can get me. | |
12. adj. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration. | |
an open question | |
to keep an offer or opportunity open | |
13. adj. (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard. | |
14. adj. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate. | |
an open winter | |
15. adj. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels. | |
16. adj. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure. | |
17. adj. (phonetics, of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda. | |
18. adj. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence. | |
19. adj. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body. | |
20. v. To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position. | |
Turn the doorknob to open the door. | |
21. v. To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility. | |
He opened a path through the undergrowth. | |
22. v. To bring up, broach. | |
I don't want to open that subject. | |
23. v. To enter upon, begin. | |
to open a discussion | |
to open fire upon an enemy | |
to open trade, or correspondence | |
to open a case in court, or a meeting | |
24. v. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position. | |
to open a closed fist | |
to open matted cotton by separating the fibres | |
to open a map, book, or scroll | |
25. v. To make accessible to customers or clients. | |
I will open the shop an hour early tomorrow. | |
26. v. To start (a campaign). | |
Vermont will open elk hunting season next week. | |
27. v. (intransitive) To become open. | |
The door opened all by itself. | |
28. v. (intransitive) To begin conducting business. | |
The shop opens at 9:00. | |
29. v. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen. | |
30. v. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker. | |
After the first two players fold, Julie opens for $5. | |
31. v. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand. | |
Jeff opens his hand revealing a straight flush. | |
32. v. (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing. | |
33. v. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain. | |
34. n. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open. | |
35. n. (electronics) A wire that is broken midway. | |
The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing. | |
36. n. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location. | |
I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon! | |
Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket. | |
37. n. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view. | |
We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open. | |
used |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of use | |
You used me! | |
2. v. (intransitive, as an auxiliary verb, now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed to doing something | |
He used to live here, but moved away last year. | |
3. adj. That is or has or have been used. | |
The ground was littered with used syringes left behind by drug abusers. | |
4. adj. That has or have previously been owned by someone else. | |
He bought a used car. | |
5. adj. Familiar through use; usual; accustomed. | |
I got used to this weather. | |
use |
1. n. The act of using. | |
the use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations; there is no use for your invention | |
2. n. (followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit. | |
What's the use of a law that nobody follows? | |
3. n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed. | |
This tool has many uses. | |
4. n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity. | |
I have no further use for these textbooks. | |
5. n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury. | |
6. n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit. | |
7. n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience. | |
8. n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese. | |
the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc. | |
9. n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging. | |
10. v. To utilize or employ. | |
11. v. To employ; to apply; to utilize. | |
Use this knife to slice the bread. | |
We can use this mathematical formula to solve the problem. | |
12. v. (transitive, often with up) To expend; to consume by employing. | |
I used the money they allotted me. | |
We should use up most of the fuel. | |
She used all the time allotted to complete the test. | |
13. v. To exploit. | |
You never cared about me; you just used me! | |
14. v. To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly. | |
He uses cocaine. I have never used drugs. | |
15. v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted. | |
Richard began experimenting with cocaine last year; now he uses almost every day. | |
16. v. (transitive, with auxiliary "could") To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand. | |
I could use a drink. My car could use a new coat of paint. | |
17. v. To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Note: This usage uses the nounal pronunciation of the word rather than the typically verbal one.) | |
soldiers who are used to hardships and danger (still common) | |
to use the soldiers to hardships and danger (now rare) | |
18. v. (reflexive, obsolete, with "to") To become accustomed, to accustom oneself. | |
19. v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do. | |
20. v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually employ; to be wont to employ. | |
21. v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to. | |
I used to get things done. | |
22. v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat. | |
to use an animal cruelly | |
23. v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself. | |
especially |
1. adv. (manner) In a special manner; specially. | |
2. adv. (focus) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal. | |
3. adv. (focus) Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something. | |
Invite them all, especially Molly. | |
by |
1. prep. Near or next to. | |
The mailbox is by the bus stop. | |
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval. | |
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July. | |
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of. | |
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour. | |
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of. | |
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare | |
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of. | |
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of. | |
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking. | |
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination. | |
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight. | |
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed. | |
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife. | |
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of. | |
Our stock is up by ten percent. | |
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another. | |
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches. | |
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to. | |
He cheated by his own admission. | |
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of. | |
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this. | |
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something. | |
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm. | |
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of. | |
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress. | |
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker. | |
I watched as it passed by. | |
16. adv. In the vicinity, near. | |
There was a shepherd close by. | |
The shop is hard by the High Street. | |
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business. | |
I'll stop by on my way home from work. | |
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave. | |
18. adv. Aside, away. | |
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring. | |
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary. | |
20. n. (card games) A pass | |
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye | |
spiders |
1. n. plural of spider | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of spider | |
spider |
1. n. Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey. | |
2. n. (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information. | |
3. n. (chiefly Australia, and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade). | |
4. n. (slang) A spindly person. | |
5. n. (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar. | |
6. n. (snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension; a bridge. | |
7. n. (cookware, US, UK, chiefly historical, and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery. | |
8. n. (cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer | |
9. n. A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached | |
10. n. (slang) Heroin (street drug). | |
11. n. (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points. | |
12. n. A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a | |
13. n. (fly fishing, England,) a soft-hackle fly | |
14. n. (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard | |
15. v. To move like a spider. | |
16. v. To cover a surface like a cobweb. | |
17. v. (Internet, of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information. | |
The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines. | |
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. | |
some |
1. pron. A certain number, at least one. | |
Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder. | |
2. pron. An indefinite quantity. | |
Can I have some of them? | |
3. pron. An indefinite amount, a part. | |
please give me some of the cake; everyone is wrong some of the time | |
4. det. A certain proportion of, at least one. | |
Some people like camping. | |
5. det. An unspecified quantity or number of. | |
Would you like some grapes? | |
6. det. An unspecified amount of (something un). | |
Would you like some water? | |
After some persuasion, he finally agreed. | |
7. det. A certain, an unspecified or unknown. | |
I've just met some guy who said he knew you. | |
The sequence S converges to zero for some initial value v. | |
8. det. A considerable quantity or number of; approximately. | |
He had edited the paper for some years. | |
9. det. (informal) A remarkable. | |
He is some acrobat! | |
10. adv. Of a measurement: approximately, roughly | |
I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos. | |
Some 30,000 spectators witnessed the feat. | |
Some 4,000 acres of land were flooded. | |
fish |
1. n. A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills. | |
Salmon is a fish. | |
The Sun Mother created all the fishes of the world. | |
The Sun Mother created all the fish of the world. | |
We have many fish in our aquarium. | |
2. n. (archaic, or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water. | |
3. n. The flesh of the fish used as food. | |
The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta. | |
4. n. A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank. | |
5. n. (derogatory, slang) A woman. | |
6. n. (slang) An easy victim for swindling. | |
7. n. (poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player). | |
8. n. (nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship. | |
9. n. (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor. | |
10. n. (nautical) A torpedo. | |
11. n. (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups: | |
12. n. Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra) | |
13. n. Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw) | |
14. n. Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda) | |
15. n. # Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays | |
16. n. # Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish. | |
17. n. (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card. | |
18. n. A period of time spent fishing. | |
The fish at the lake didn't prove successful. | |
19. n. An instance of seeking something. | |
Merely two fishes for information told the whole story. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals. | |
She went to the river to fish for trout. | |
21. v. To search (a body of water) for something other than fish. | |
They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body. | |
22. v. (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects. | |
Why are you fishing through my things? | |
He was fishing for the keys in his pocket. | |
23. v. (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something. | |
The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information. | |
The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments. | |
24. v. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it. | |
25. v. (nautical) To repair a spar or mast by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above). | |
26. n. (obsolete) A counter, used in various games. | |
for |
1. conj. (dated) Because. | |
2. prep. Towards. | |
The astronauts headed for the moon. | |
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to. | |
I have something for you. | |
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of. | |
We're having a birthday party for Janet. | |
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary. | |
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala. | |
5. prep. Supporting. | |
All those for the motion raise your hands. | |
6. prep. Because of. | |
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him. | |
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight. | |
She was the worse for drink. | |
7. prep. Over a period of time. | |
I've lived here for three years. | |
They fought for days over a silly pencil. | |
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space. | |
9. prep. On behalf of. | |
I will stand in for him. | |
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of. | |
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire. | |
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday. | |
He's going for his doctorate. | |
Do you want to go for coffee? | |
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers. | |
Can you go to the store for some eggs? | |
I'm saving up for a car. | |
Don't wait for an answer. | |
What did he ask you for? | |
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward. | |
Run for the hills! | |
He was headed for the door when he remembered. | |
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect. | |
Fair for its day. | |
She's spry for an old lady. | |
14. prep. Despite, in spite of. | |
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive. | |
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.) | |
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.) | |
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio | |
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day | |
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen. | |
At close of play, England were 305 for 3. | |
18. prep. To be, or as being. | |
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.) | |
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs). | |
breathing |
1. v. present participle of breathe | |
2. n. The act of respiration; a single instance of this. | |
3. n. A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof. | |
4. n. (archaic) Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time. | |
5. n. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration. | |
the breathings of the Holy Spirit | |
6. n. Aspiration; secret prayer. | |
breathe |
1. v. (top, en, Bodily functions) (intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way. | |
Fish have gills so they can breathe underwater. | |
3. v. To inhale (a gas) to sustain life. | |
While life as we know it depends on oxygen, scientists have speculated that alien life forms might breathe chlorine or methane. | |
4. v. (intransitive, figurative) To live. | |
I will not allow it, as long as I still breathe. | |
5. v. To draw something into the lungs. | |
Try not to breathe too much smoke. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs, exhale. | |
If you breathe on a mirror, it will fog up. | |
7. v. To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath. | |
The flowers breathed a heady perfume. | |
8. v. To give an impression of, to exude. | |
The decor positively breathes classical elegance. | |
9. v. To whisper quietly. | |
He breathed the words into her ear, but she understood them all. | |
10. v. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently. | |
The wind breathes through the trees. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To exchange gases with the environment. | |
Garments made of certain new materials breathe well and keep the skin relatively dry during exercise. | |
12. v. (intransitive, now rare) To rest; to stop and catch one's breath. | |
13. v. To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath. | |
At higher altitudes you need to breathe your horse more often. | |
14. v. (transitive, figurative) To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.). | |
Do you like hiking? Are you kidding? I breathe hiking. | |