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. | |
shady |
1. adj. Abounding in shades. | |
2. adj. Causing shade. | |
3. adj. Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. | |
4. adj. (informal) Not trustworthy; disreputable. | |
He is a shady character. | |
5. adj. (slang) Mean, cruel. | |
Don't be shady, give us a go. | |
sitting |
1. n. A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose. | |
Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal. | |
The Queen had three sittings for her portrait. | |
2. n. A legislative session. | |
3. n. The act (of a bird) of incubating eggs. | |
4. n. A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird. | |
we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs | |
5. v. present participle of sit | |
6. adj. Executed from a sitting position. | |
7. adj. Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent. | |
sit |
1. v. (intransitive, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. | |
After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax. | |
2. v. (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position. | |
I asked him to sit. | |
3. v. (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position permanently. | |
The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries. | |
4. v. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition. | |
5. v. (government) To be a member of a deliberative body. | |
I currently sit on a standards committee. | |
6. v. (legal, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session. | |
In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session. | |
7. v. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh. | |
8. v. To be adjusted; to fit. | |
Your new coat sits well. | |
9. v. (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work. | |
How will this new contract sit with the workers? | |
I don’t think it will sit well. | |
The violence in these video games sits awkwardly with their stated aim of educating children. | |
10. v. (transitive, causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to. | |
Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours. | |
11. v. To accommodate in seats; to seat. | |
The dining room table sits eight comfortably. | |
12. v. (intransitive) shortened form of babysit. | |
I'm going to sit for them on Thursday. | |
13. v. (transitive, US) To babysit | |
I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours. | |
14. v. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test). | |
15. v. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate. | |
16. v. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust. | |
I'm sitting for a painter this evening. | |
17. v. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction. | |
18. n. (rare, Buddhism) An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation. | |
place |
1. n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area. | |
2. n. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard. | |
3. n. A group of houses. | |
They live at Westminster Place. | |
4. n. An inhabited area: a village, town, or city. | |
5. n. Any area of the earth: a region. | |
He is going back to his native place on vacation. | |
6. n. The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit. | |
We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places. | |
7. n. The area where one lives: one's home, formerly(chiefly) country estates and farms. | |
Do you want to come over to my place later? | |
8. n. An area of the skin. | |
9. n. (euphemism) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory. | |
10. n. (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle. | |
11. n. A location or position in space. | |
12. n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader. | |
13. n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document. | |
14. n. (obsolete) A topic. | |
15. n. A frame of mind. | |
I'm in a strange place at the moment. | |
16. n. (chess) A chess position; a square of the chessboard. | |
17. n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization. | |
18. n. A role or purpose; a station. | |
It is really not my place to say what is right and wrong in this case. | |
19. n. The position of a contestant in a competition. | |
We thought we would win but only ended up in fourth place. | |
20. n. (horse-racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position. | |
to win a bet on a horse for place | |
21. n. The position as a member of a sports team. | |
He lost his place in the national team. | |
22. n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town. | |
23. n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity. | |
three decimal places; the hundreds place | |
24. n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding. | |
That's what I said in the first place! | |
25. n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for. | |
26. v. To put (an object or person) in a specific location. | |
He placed the glass on the table. | |
27. v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition. | |
The Cowboys placed third in the league. | |
28. v. (intransitive, racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs. | |
In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars. | |
29. v. To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered. | |
I've seen him before, but I can't quite place where. | |
30. v. (transitive, in the passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race. | |
Run Ragged was placed fourth in the race. | |
31. v. To sing (a note) with the correct pitch. | |
32. v. To arrange for or to make (a bet). | |
I placed ten dollars on the Lakers beating the Bulls. | |
33. v. To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job. | |
They phoned hoping to place her in the management team. | |
34. v. (sports) To place-kick (a goal). | |
usually |
1. adv. Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally. | |
Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work. | |
2. adv. Under normal conditions. | |
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. | |
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. | |
park |
1. n. An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation. | |
2. n. A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like. | |
3. n. A piece of ground in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation. | |
Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York | |
4. n. An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant. | |
5. n. (US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region. | |
6. n. An area used for specific purposes. | |
7. n. An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores. | |
a wagon park; an artillery park | |
8. n. A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown. | |
9. n. An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose. | |
business park; industrial park; science park | |
10. n. An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch. | |
11. n. (UK) An inventory of matériel. | |
A country's tank park or artillery park. | |
12. n. (Australia, NZ) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space. | |
13. v. To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place. | |
You can park the car in front of the house. | |
I parked the drive heads of my hard disk before travelling with my laptop. | |
14. v. (transitive, informal) To defer (a matter) until a later date. | |
Let's park that until next week's meeting. | |
15. v. To bring together in a park, or compact body. | |
to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc. | |
16. v. To enclose in a park, or as in a park. | |
17. v. (transitive, baseball) To hit a home run, to hit the ball out of the park. | |
He really parked that one. | |
18. v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle. | |
They stopped at a romantic overlook, shut off the engine, and parked. | |
19. v. (transitive, informal, sometimes reflexive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time. | |
He came in and parked himself in our living room. | |
Park your bags in the hall. | |
20. v. (transitive, finance) To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities. | |
We decided to park our money in a safe, stable, low-yield bond fund until market conditions improve. | |
21. v. (Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking) | |
22. v. (transitive, oyster culture) To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin. | |
23. v. (intransitive, dated) To promenade or drive in a park. | |
24. v. (intransitive, dated, of horses) To display style or gait on a park drive. | |
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. | |
garden |
1. n. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. | |
a vegetable garden a flower garden | |
2. n. (in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access. | |
You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens. | |
3. n. (attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden. | |
a garden party; a garden spade; a garden path | |
4. n. The grounds at the front or back of a house. | |
This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden. We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden. Our garden is overgrown with weeds. | |
5. n. (cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card. | |
6. n. (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks. | |
7. v. (intransitive, chiefly North America) to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden. | |
I love to garden — this year I'm going to plant some daffodils. | |
8. v. (intransitive, cricket) of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities. | |
9. adj. Common, ordinary, domesticated. | |
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. | |
usually |
1. adv. Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally. | |
Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work. | |
2. adv. Under normal conditions. | |
surrounded |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of surround | |
surround |
1. v. To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions. | |
2. v. To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape. | |
3. v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate. | |
to surround the world | |
4. n. (British) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something. | |
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 | |
climbing |
1. n. The sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer. | |
The next day, the team had to wear special ice climbing footwear while repairing other research devices on the glacier. | |
2. n. Climb; ascent. | |
3. v. present participle of climb | |
4. adj. (botany, of a plant) That climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface. | |
climb |
1. v. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up. | |
Prices climbed steeply. | |
2. v. To mount; to move upwards on. | |
They climbed the mountain. | |
Climbing a tree | |
3. v. To scale; to get to the top of something. | |
4. v. To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet. | |
5. v. (intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing | |
6. v. (intransitive) to jump high | |
7. v. To move to a higher position on the social ladder. | |
8. v. (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something. | |
9. n. An act of climbing. | |
10. n. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated. | |
11. n. An upwards struggle | |
shrubs |
1. n. plural of shrub | |
shrub |
1. n. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base. | |
2. v. (obsolete) To lop; to prune. | |
3. v. (transitive, Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation. | |
For example, (IPAchar, /ʃɹʌb/) → IPAchar, /sɹʌb/ | |
4. n. A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier tim | |
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. | |
Vines |
1. n. plural of Vine | |
2. n. plural of vine | |
vine |
1. n. The climbing plant that produces grapes. | |
2. n. Any plant of the genus Vitis. | |
3. n. (US, by extension) Any similar climbing or trailing plant. | |
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. | |
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. | |
vegetation |
1. n. Plants, taken collectively. | |
There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest. | |
2. n. (pathology) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth | |
3. n. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. | |