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. | |
position |
1. n. A place or location. | |
2. n. A post of employment; a job. | |
3. n. A status or rank. | |
Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army. | |
4. n. An opinion, stand or stance. | |
My position on this issue is unchanged. | |
5. n. A posture. | |
Stand in this position, with your arms at your side. | |
6. n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player. | |
Stop running all over the field and play your position! | |
7. n. (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm or institution. | |
8. n. (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price. | |
9. n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error. | |
10. n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn. | |
11. v. To put into place. | |
assumed |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of assume | |
2. adj. Used in a manner intended to deceive; pretended; simulated. | |
3. adj. Supposed or presumed. | |
assume |
1. v. to authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof | |
We assume that, as her parents were dentists, she knows quite a bit about dentistry. | |
2. v. to take on a position, duty or form | |
Mr. Jones will assume the position of a lifeguard until a proper replacement is found. | |
3. v. to adopt a feigned quality or manner | |
4. v. to receive, adopt | |
5. v. to adopt an idea or cause | |
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 | |
bending |
1. v. present participle of bend | |
2. n. A motion or action that bends. | |
a bending of the knees | |
3. n. An instance of something being adapted or distorted. | |
bendings of the rules | |
bend |
1. v. To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means. | |
If you bend the pipe too far, it will break. | |
Don’t bend your knees. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To become curved. | |
Look at the trees bending in the wind. | |
3. v. To cause to change direction. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To change direction. | |
The road bends to the right | |
5. v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself. | |
6. v. (intransitive usually with "down") To stoop. | |
He bent down to pick up the pieces. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission. | |
8. v. To force to submit. | |
They bent me to their will. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To submit. | |
I am bending to my desire to eat junk food. | |
10. v. To apply to a task or purpose. | |
He bent the company's resources to gaining market share. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose. | |
He bent to the goal of gaining market share. | |
12. v. To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary. | |
13. v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast. | |
Bend the sail to the yard. | |
14. v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note. | |
You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure. | |
15. v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing. | |
16. n. A curve. | |
There's a sharp bend in the road ahead. | |
17. n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines. | |
18. n. (in the medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness. | |
A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends. | |
19. n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged | |
20. n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends. | |
21. n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise. | |
22. n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind. | |
23. n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them. | |
24. n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides. | |
the midship bends | |
25. n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another. | |
deeply |
1. adv. At depth, in a deep way. | |
2. adv. To a deep extent. | |
3. adv. Profoundly. | |
at |
1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place. | |
Caesar was at Rome; at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine; at Jim’s house | |
2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.) | |
at six o’clock; at closing time; at night. | |
3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner). | |
He threw the ball at me. He shouted at her. | |
4. prep. Denotes a price. | |
3 apples at 2¢ (each) The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations. | |
5. prep. Occupied in (activity). | |
men at work | |
6. prep. In a state of. | |
She is at sixes and sevens with him. They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff. The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces. | |
7. prep. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series. | |
Sell at 90. Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders. I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost. | |
8. prep. Because of. | |
to laugh at a joke mad at their comments | |
9. prep. Indicates a means, method, or manner. | |
10. prep. Holding a given speed or rate. | |
It is growing at the rate of 3% a year. Cruising along at fifty miles per hour. | |
11. prep. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding. | |
The twins were both bad at chemistry. | |
He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation. | |
12. prep. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to | |
13. n. The at sign (@). | |
14. n. (alt form, att) (Laos currency unit) | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
knees |
1. n. plural of knee | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of knee | |
knee |
1. n. In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank. | |
Penny was wearing a miniskirt, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell. | |
2. n. In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans. | |
3. n. The part of a garment that covers the knee. | |
4. n. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent. | |
5. n. (archaic) An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy. | |
To make a knee. | |
6. n. Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line, "the knee of a graph", an inflection point. | |
7. n. A blow made with the knee; a kneeing. | |
8. v. (transitive, archaic) To kneel to. | |
9. v. To poke or strike with the knee. | |
while |
1. n. An uncertain duration of time, a period of time. | |
He lectured for quite a long while. | |
2. conj. During the same time that. | |
He was sleeping while I was singing. | |
3. conj. Although. | |
This case, while interesting, is a bit frustrating. | |
4. conj. (Northern England, Scotland) Until. | |
I'll wait while you've finished painting. | |
5. conj. As long as. | |
While you're at school you may live at home. | |
6. prep. (Northern England, Scotland) Until. | |
7. v. To pass (time) idly. | |
8. v. To loiter. | |
resting |
1. n. The action of rest | |
2. n. A place where one can rest; a resting-place. | |
3. n. A pause; a break; an interlude. | |
4. adj. That which rests; that which is not in action or in the process of growth. | |
5. adj. Unemployed. | |
6. adj. Remaining; stationary. | |
7. v. present participle of rest | |
rest |
1. n. (of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep. | |
I need to get a good rest tonight; I was up late last night. | |
The sun sets, and the workers go to their rest. | |
2. n. Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation. | |
We took a rest at the top of the hill to get our breath back. | |
3. n. Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility. | |
It was nice to have a rest from the phone ringing when I unplugged it for a while. | |
4. n. (of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion. | |
The boulder came to rest just behind the house after rolling down the mountain. | |
The ocean was finally at rest. | |
Now that we're all in agreement, we can put that issue to rest. | |
5. n. (euphemistic) A final position after death. | |
She was laid to rest in the village cemetery. | |
6. n. (music) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music. | |
Remember there's a rest at the end of the fourth bar. | |
7. n. (music) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music. | |
8. n. (physics) Absence of motion. | |
The body's centre of gravity may affect its state of rest. | |
9. n. (snooker) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach. | |
Higgins can't quite reach the white with his cue, so he'll be using the rest. | |
10. n. Any object designed to be used to support something else. | |
She put the phone receiver back in its rest. | |
He placed his hands on the arm rests of the chair. | |
11. n. A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance. | |
12. n. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode. | |
13. n. (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura. | |
14. n. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital. | |
15. n. (dated) A set or game at tennis. | |
16. v. (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion. | |
17. v. (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end. | |
18. v. (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed. | |
19. v. (intransitive, transitive, reflexive) To be or to put into a state of rest. | |
My day's work is over; now I will rest. We need to rest the horses before we ride any further. I shall not rest until I have uncovered the truth. Rest assure | |
20. v. (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated. | |
The blame seems to rest with your father. | |
21. v. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay. | |
A column rests on its pedestal. | |
I rested my head in my hands. She rested against my shoulder. I rested against the wall for a minute. | |
22. v. (intransitive, transitive, legal, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions | |
The defense rests, your Honor. I rest my case. | |
23. v. (intransitive) To sleep; slumber. | |
24. v. (intransitive) To lie dormant. | |
25. v. (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead. | |
26. v. (intransitive) To rely or depend on. | |
The decision rests on getting a bank loan. | |
27. v. To be satisfied; to acquiesce. | |
28. n. That which remains. | |
She ate some of the food, but was not hungry enough to eat it all, so she put the rest in the refrigerator to finish later. | |
29. n. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others. | |
30. n. (finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities. | |
31. v. (obsolete) To remain. | |
32. v. (obsolete) To arrest. | |
on |
1. adj. In the state of being active, functioning or operating. | |
2. adj. Performing according to schedule. | |
Are we still on for tonight? | |
Is the show still on? | |
3. adj. (chiefly UK, informal, usually negative) Acceptable, appropriate. | |
You can't do that; it's just not on. | |
4. adj. (informal) Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed. | |
"Five bucks says the Cavs win tonight." ―"You're on!". | |
Mike just threw coffee onto Paul's lap. It's on now. | |
5. adj. (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter. | |
6. adj. (euphemistic) Menstruating. | |
7. adv. To an operating state. | |
turn the television on | |
8. adv. Along, forwards (continuing an action). | |
drive on, rock on | |
9. adv. In continuation, at length. | |
and so on. | |
He rambled on and on. | |
10. adv. (not US) Later. | |
Ten years on, nothing had changed in the village. | |
11. prep. Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above. | |
on the table; on the couch | |
The parrot was sitting on Jim's shoulder. | |
12. prep. At or near; adjacent to. | |
Soon we'll pass a statue on the left. | |
The fleet is on the American coast. | |
Croton-on-Hudson, Rostov-on-Don, Southend-on-Sea | |
13. prep. Covering. | |
He wore old shoes on his feet. | |
14. prep. At the date of. | |
Born on the 4th of July. | |
15. prep. Some time during the day of. | |
I'll see you on Monday. The bus leaves on Friday. Can I see you on a different day? On Sunday I'm busy. | |
16. prep. Dealing with the subject of, about, or concerning something. | |
A book on history. The World Summit on the Information Society. | |
17. prep. Touching; hanging from. | |
The fruit ripened on the trees. The painting hangs on the wall. | |
18. prep. (informal) In the possession of. | |
I haven't got any money on me. | |
19. prep. Because of, or due to. | |
To arrest someone on suspicion of bribery. To contact someone on a hunch. | |
20. prep. Upon; at the time of (and often because of). | |
On Jack's entry, William got up to leave. | |
On the addition of ammonia, a chemical reaction begins. | |
21. prep. Paid for by. | |
The drinks are on me tonight, boys. The meal is on the house. I paid for the airfare and meals for my family, but the hotel room was on the company. | |
22. prep. Used to indicate a means or medium. | |
I saw it on television. Can't you see I'm on the phone? | |
23. prep. Indicating a means of subsistence. | |
They lived on ten dollars a week. The dog survived three weeks on rainwater. | |
24. prep. Away or occupied with (e.g. a scheduled activity). | |
He's on his lunch break. on vacation; on holiday | |
25. prep. Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with. | |
to play on a violin or piano | |
Her words made a lasting impression on my mind. | |
26. prep. Regularly taking (a drug). | |
You've been on these antidepressants far too long. He's acting so strangely, I think he must be on something. | |
27. prep. Under the influence of (a drug). | |
He's acting crazy because he's on crack right now. | |
28. prep. (mathematics) Having identical domain and codomain. | |
a function on | |
29. prep. (mathematics) HavingV^n as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n. | |
an operator on | |
30. prep. (mathematics) Generated by. | |
the free group on four letters | |
31. prep. Supported by (the specified part of itself). | |
A table can't stand on two legs. After resting on his elbows, he stood on his toes, then walked on his heels. | |
32. prep. At a given time after the start of something; at. | |
33. prep. In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series. | |
heaps on heaps of food | |
mischief on mischief; loss on loss | |
34. prep. (obsolete, regional) of | |
35. prep. Indicating dependence or reliance; with confidence in. | |
I depended on them for assistance. | |
He will promise on certain conditions. | |
Do you ever bet on horses? | |
36. prep. Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion. | |
Have pity or compassion on him. | |
37. prep. (obsolete) At the peril of, or for the safety of. | |
38. prep. In the service of; connected with; of the number of. | |
He is on a newspaper; I am on the committee. | |
39. prep. By virtue of; with the pledge of. | |
He affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honour. | |
40. prep. To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon. | |
On us be all the blame. | |
A curse on him! | |
Please don't tell on her and get her in trouble. | |
He turned on her and has been her enemy ever since. | |
He went all honest on me, making me listen to his confession. | |
41. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) to switch on | |
Can you on the light? | |
42. prep. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Without. | |
43. n. In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun. | |
Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun". | |
one |
1. num. (cardinal) The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. | |
In some religions, there is only one god. | |
In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth. | |
One person, one vote. | |
2. num. (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers. | |
3. num. (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. | |
4. num. (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one. | |
5. pron. (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. | |
The big one looks good. I want the green one. A good driver is one who drives carefully. | |
6. pron. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. | |
She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the other. | |
7. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general). | |
One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed. One shouldn’t be too quick to judge. | |
8. pron. (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing. | |
"driver", noun: one who drives. | |
9. n. The digit or figure 1. | |
10. n. (mathematics) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. | |
11. n. (US) A one-dollar bill. | |
12. n. (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single. | |
13. n. A joke or amusing anecdote. | |
14. n. (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing. | |
15. n. (Internet slang) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1". | |
A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?! | |
Someone help me; I'm always losing! | |
B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1! | |
Why don't you just go away loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
16. adj. Of a period of time, being particular. | |
One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries. | |
17. adj. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any. | |
My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other.". | |
18. adj. Sole, only. | |
He is the one man who can help you. | |
19. adj. Whole, entire. | |
Body and soul are not separate; they are one. | |
20. adj. In agreement. | |
We are one on the importance of learning. | |
21. adj. The same. | |
The two types look very different, but are one species. | |
22. adj. Being a preeminent example. | |
He is one hell of a guy. | |
23. adj. Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain". | |
The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”. | |
24. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite. | |
feet |
1. n. plural form of foot. | |
2. n. (obsolete) Fact; performance; feat. | |
foot |
1. n. A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. | |
A spider has eight feet. | |
2. n. (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. | |
Southern Italy is shaped like a foot. | |
3. n. (often used attributively) Travel by walking. | |
We went there by foot because we could not afford a taxi. | |
There is a lot of foot traffic on this street. | |
4. n. The base or bottom of anything. | |
I'll meet you at the foot of the stairs. | |
5. n. The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest. | |
We came and stood at the foot of the bed. | |
6. n. The end of a rectangular table opposite the head. | |
The host should sit at the foot of the table. | |
7. n. A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it. | |
The feet of the stove hold it a safe distance above the floor. | |
8. n. A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres. | |
The flag pole at the local high school is about 20 feet high. | |
9. n. (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm. | |
10. n. (military, collective) Foot soldiers; infantry. | |
King John went to battle with ten thousand foot and one thousand horse. | |
11. n. (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting. | |
12. n. (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward. | |
13. n. (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page. | |
14. n. (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove. | |
15. n. (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem. | |
16. n. (phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads. | |
17. n. (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail. | |
To make the mainsail fuller in shape, the outhaul is eased to reduce the tension on the foot of the sail. | |
18. n. (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked. | |
19. n. (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant. | |
20. n. (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface. | |
21. n. (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein. | |
22. n. (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it. | |
23. n. (qualifier) Fundamental principle; basis; plan. | |
24. n. (qualifier) Recognized condition; rank; footing. | |
25. v. To use the foot to kick (usually a ball). | |
26. v. To pay (a bill). | |
27. v. To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip. | |
28. v. To walk. | |
29. v. To tread. | |
to foot the green | |
30. v. (obsolete) To set on foot; to establish; to land. | |
31. v. To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.). | |
32. v. To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up. | |
to foot (or foot up) an account | |