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. | |
separate |
1. adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else). | |
This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces. | |
2. adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to). | |
I try to keep my personal life separate from work. | |
3. v. To divide (a thing) into separate parts. | |
Separate the articles from the headings. | |
4. v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect. | |
5. v. To cause (things or people) to be separate. | |
If the kids get too noisy, separate them for a few minutes. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances. | |
The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring. | |
7. v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service. | |
8. n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing. | |
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. | |
fixed |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of fix | |
2. adj. Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same. | |
fixed assets | |
I work fixed hours for a fixed salary. | |
Every religion has its own fixed ideas. | |
He looked at me with a fixed glare. | |
3. adj. Stationary. | |
4. adj. Attached; affixed. | |
5. adj. Chemically stable. | |
6. adj. Supplied with what one needs. | |
She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements. | |
7. adj. (legal) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium. | |
In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972. | |
8. adj. (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated). | |
a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed | |
9. adj. Rigged; fraudulently prearranged. | |
10. adj. (of a problem) Resolved; corrected. | |
11. adj. Repaired | |
fix |
1. n. A repair or corrective action. | |
That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's. | |
2. n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma. | |
It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix! | |
3. n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user. | |
4. n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid. | |
5. n. A determination of location. | |
We have a fix on your position. | |
6. n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace) | |
7. v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. | |
8. v. (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone. | |
He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!". | |
9. v. To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. | |
A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board. | |
A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it. | |
The Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet. | |
10. v. (transitive figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate. | |
She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor. | |
11. v. To mend, to repair. | |
That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it. | |
12. v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food). | |
She fixed dinner for the kids. | |
13. v. To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tam | |
A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent. | |
14. v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile. | |
Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him. | |
15. v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself. | |
16. v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant. | |
He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work. | |
17. v. To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light. | |
18. v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form. | |
Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen. | |
19. v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance. | |
order |
1. n. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | |
2. n. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | |
3. n. The state of being well arranged. | |
The house is in order; the machinery is out of order. | |
4. n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet. | |
to preserve order in a community or an assembly | |
5. n. A command. | |
6. n. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods. | |
7. n. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles | |
St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537. | |
8. n. An association of knights | |
the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath. | |
9. n. any group of people with common interests. | |
10. n. A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity. | |
11. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank. | |
Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales. | |
12. n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort. | |
the higher or lower orders of society | |
talent of a high order | |
13. n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural. | |
to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry | |
14. n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic featu | |
15. n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order. | |
16. n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. | |
a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter. | |
17. n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products. | |
18. n. (set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set. | |
19. n. (group theory, of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the id | |
20. n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph. | |
21. n. (order theory) A partially ordered set. | |
22. n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set. | |
23. n. (algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial. | |
A quadratic polynomial,a x^2 + b x +c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2. | |
24. v. To set in some sort of order. | |
25. v. To arrange, set in proper order. | |
26. v. To issue a command to. | |
to order troops to advance | |
He ordered me to leave. | |
27. v. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order. | |
to order groceries | |
28. v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. | |
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. | |
class |
1. n. A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes. | |
The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class. | |
That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny. | |
Often used to imply membership of a large class. | |
This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions. | |
2. n. (sociology) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class. | |
3. n. The division of society into classes. | |
Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England. | |
4. n. Admirable behavior; elegance. | |
Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class. | |
5. n. (education, and un) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher. | |
The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story. | |
6. n. A series of classes covering a single subject. | |
I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot. | |
7. n. A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class. | |
The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy. | |
8. n. A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation. | |
I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy. | |
9. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank. | |
Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida. | |
10. n. Best of its kind. | |
It is the class of Italian bottled waters. | |
11. n. (set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property. | |
The class of all sets is not a set. | |
Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class. | |
12. n. (military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft. | |
13. n. (object-oriented) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set. | |
an abstract base class | |
14. n. One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader. | |
15. v. To assign to a class; to classify. | |
I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period. | |
16. v. (intransitive) To be grouped or classed. | |
17. v. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes. | |
18. adj. (Irish, British, slang) great; fabulous | |
of |
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. | |
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". | |
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). | |
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). | |
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. | |
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to. | |
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three. | |
6. prep. Expressing separation. | |
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.) | |
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband. | |
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.) | |
He seemed devoid of human feelings. | |
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.) | |
10. prep. Expressing origin. | |
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.) | |
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin. | |
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of. | |
The invention was born of necessity. | |
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.) | |
It is said that she died of a broken heart. | |
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.) | |
I am tired of all this nonsense. | |
15. prep. Expressing agency. | |
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).) | |
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. | |
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below). | |
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties. | |
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.) | |
It was very brave of you to speak out like that. | |
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance. | |
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.) | |
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic. | |
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.) | |
She wore a dress of silk. | |
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.) | |
What a lot of nonsense! | |
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.) | |
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich. | |
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also". | |
I'm not driving this wreck of a car. | |
25. prep. Introducing subject matter. | |
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma | |
I'm always thinking of you. | |
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning. | |
He told us the story of his journey to India. | |
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.) | |
This behaviour is typical of teenagers. | |
29. prep. Having partitive effect. | |
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among". | |
Most of these apples are rotten. | |
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.) | |
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. | |
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort. | |
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).) | |
He is a friend of mine. | |
34. prep. Expressing possession. | |
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. | |
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. | |
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. | |
The owner of the nightclub was arrested. | |
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter | |
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames. | |
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive". | |
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.) | |
She had a profound distrust of the police. | |
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics. | |
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards. | |
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner. | |
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by". | |
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain. | |
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.) | |
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%. | |
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod | |
It's not that big of a deal. | |
45. prep. Expressing a point in time. | |
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. | |
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river. | |
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time). | |
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while. | |
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.) | |
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off. | |
persons |
1. n. plural of person; used to refer to them individually, rather than as a group. Contrast people. | |
Which persons are responsible for this mess? | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of person | |
person |
1. n. An individual; usually a human being. | |
Each person is unique, both mentally and physically. | |
2. n. A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represent | |
3. n. (Christianity) Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit. | |
4. n. (chiefly in science fiction) Any sentient or socially intelligent being. | |
5. n. (in a compound noun or noun phrase) Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing). | |
Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats. | |
6. n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc. | |
7. n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts. | |
At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person. | |
8. n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis. | |
9. n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is speaking. See grammatical person. | |
10. n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. | |
11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. | |
12. v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man. | |
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. | |
society |
1. n. A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms. | |
This society has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure. | |
2. n. A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization. | |
It was then that they decided to found a society of didgeridoo-playing unicyclists. | |
3. n. The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals. | |
The gap between Western and Eastern societies seems to be narrowing. | |
4. n. The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole. | |
Our global society develops in fits and starts. | |
5. n. High society. | |
Smith was first introduced into society at the Duchess of Grand Fenwick's annual rose garden party. | |
6. n. (legal) A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal. | |
Who |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, who | |
2. pron. (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; (asks for the identity of someone). (used in a direct or indirect question) | |
Who is that? (direct question) | |
I don't know who it is. (indirect question) | |
3. pron. (interrogative) What is one's position; (asks whether someone deserves to say or do something). | |
I don't like what you did, but who am I to criticize you? I've done worse. | |
4. pron. (relative) The person or people that. | |
It was a nice man who helped us. | |
5. pron. (relative, archaic) Whoever, he who, they who. | |
6. n. A person under discussion; a question of which person. | |
chiefly |
1. adv. (focus) Especially or primarily; above all. | |
2. adv. (focus) Mainly or principally; almost entirely. | |
3. adj. of, or relating to a chief | |
Associate |
1. n. (slang) An associate's degree. | |
2. adj. Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status. | |
He is an associate editor. | |
3. adj. Having partial status or privileges. | |
He is an associate member of the club. | |
4. adj. Following or accompanying; concomitant. | |
5. adj. (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy. | |
associate motions: those that occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions | |
6. n. A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner. | |
7. n. Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague. | |
8. n. A companion; a comrade. | |
9. n. One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance. | |
10. n. A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges. | |
11. n. (algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of th | |
12. v. (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company. | |
She associates with her coworkers on weekends. | |
14. v. To join as a partner, ally, or friend. | |
15. v. To connect or join together; combine. | |
particles of gold associated with other substances | |
16. v. To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination. | |
17. v. (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse. | |
18. v. (mathematics) To be associative. | |
19. v. (transitive, obsolete) To accompany; to be in the company of. | |
with |
1. prep. Against. | |
He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
He went with his friends. | |
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
5. prep. In support of. | |
We are with you all the way. | |
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by. | |
slain with robbers | |
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
cut with a knife | |
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
9. prep. Having, owning. | |
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
Do you want to come with? | |
11. adv. --> | |
12. n. alternative form of withe | |
each |
1. det. All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every). | |
make sure you wash each bowl well; the sun comes up each morning and sets each night | |
2. det. Every one; every thing. | |
I'm going to give each of you a chance to win. | |
3. det. For one; per. | |
The apples cost 50 cents each. | |
4. n. (operations, philosophy) An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping. | |
other |
1. adj. See other (determiner) below | |
2. adj. second. | |
I get paid every other week. | |
3. adj. Alien. | |
4. adj. Different. | |
5. adj. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right. | |
6. n. An other one, more often rendered as another. | |
I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others. | |
7. n. The other one; the second of two. | |
One boat is not better than the other. | |
8. det. Not the one or ones previously referred to. | |
Other people would do it differently. | |
9. adv. Apart from; in the phrase "other than". | |
Other than that, I'm fine. | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Otherwise. | |
It shall none other be. — Chaucer. | |
If you think other. — Shakespeare. | |
11. v. To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien. | |
12. v. To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise. | |