| 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. | |
| sharpening |
| 1. v. present participle of sharpen | |
| 2. n. The act by which something is sharpened. | |
| 3. n. (in the plural) The debris produced when a pencil is sharpened. | |
| sharpen |
| 1. v. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To make sharp. | |
| to sharpen a pencil or a knife | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To become sharp. | |
| stone |
| 1. n. A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks. | |
| 2. n. A small piece of stone, a pebble. | |
| 3. n. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond. | |
| 4. n. (UK, plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ≈ 6.3503 kilograms | |
| 5. n. (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer. | |
| a peach stone | |
| 6. n. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit. | |
| kidney stone | |
| 7. n. (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go. | |
| 8. n. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones. | |
| (color panel, 8A807C) | |
| 9. n. (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice. | |
| 10. n. A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone. | |
| 11. n. (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass. | |
| 12. n. (obsolete) A testicle. | |
| 13. n. (dated, printing) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing; also called imposing stone. | |
| 14. v. To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones. | |
| She got stoned to death after they found her. | |
| 15. v. To remove a stone from (fruit etc.). | |
| 16. v. (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc. | |
| 17. v. (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive) | |
| 18. v. (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored. | |
| 19. v. To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities. | |
| 20. adj. Constructed of stone. | |
| stone walls | |
| 21. adj. Having the appearance of stone. | |
| stone pot | |
| 22. adj. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones. | |
| She is one stone fox. | |
| 23. adj. (LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it. | |
| stone butch; stone femme | |
| 24. adv. As a stone (used with following adjective). | |
| My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold. | |
| 25. adv. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives). | |
| I went stone crazy after she left. | |
| I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind. | |
| The Styistics performed a love song titled "I'm Stone in Love with You". | |
| 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. | |
| hard |
| 1. adj. (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. | |
| 2. adj. Resistant to pressure. | |
| This bread is so stale and hard, I can barely cut it. | |
| 3. adj. (of drink or drugs) Strong. | |
| 4. adj. (of water) High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium. | |
| 5. adj. (physics, of a ferromagnetic material) Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare sof | |
| 6. adj. (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. | |
| 7. adj. Requiring a lot of effort to do or understand. | |
| a hard problem | |
| 8. adj. Demanding a lot of effort to endure. | |
| a hard life | |
| 9. adj. Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal. | |
| a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character | |
| don't be so hard on yourself | |
| 10. adj. (dated) Difficult to resist or control; powerful. | |
| 11. adj. Unquestionable. | |
| hard evidence | |
| 12. adj. (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle. | |
| At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left. | |
| 13. adj. (slang) Sexually aroused. | |
| I got so hard watching two hot guys wrestle each other on the beach. | |
| 14. adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise. | |
| 15. adj. phonetics, uncomparable | |
| 16. adj. Plosive. | |
| There is a hard c in "clock" and a soft c in "centre". | |
| 17. adj. Unvoiced | |
| Hard k, t, s, ch, as distinguished from soft, g, d, z, j. | |
| 18. adj. Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized | |
| The letter m - ru in Russian is always hard. | |
| 19. adj. (arts) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment. | |
| 20. adj. Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition. | |
| 21. adj. Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading. | |
| 22. adj. (uncomparable) In the form of a hard copy. | |
| We need both a digital archive and a hard archive. | |
| 23. adv. (manner) With much force or effort. | |
| He hit the puck hard up the ice. | |
| They worked hard all week. | |
| At the intersection, bear hard left. | |
| The recession hit them especially hard. | |
| Think hard about your choices. | |
| 24. adv. (manner) With difficulty. | |
| His degree was hard earned. | |
| The vehicle moves hard. | |
| 25. adv. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties. | |
| 26. adv. (manner) Compactly. | |
| The lake had finally frozen hard. | |
| 27. adv. (now archaic) Near, close. | |
| 28. n. (nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water. | |
| 29. n. (drugs, colloquial, slang) crack cocaine. | |
| 30. n. (motorsports) (ellipsis of hard tyre) (A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.) | |
| stone |
| 1. n. A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks. | |
| 2. n. A small piece of stone, a pebble. | |
| 3. n. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond. | |
| 4. n. (UK, plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ≈ 6.3503 kilograms | |
| 5. n. (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer. | |
| a peach stone | |
| 6. n. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit. | |
| kidney stone | |
| 7. n. (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go. | |
| 8. n. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones. | |
| (color panel, 8A807C) | |
| 9. n. (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice. | |
| 10. n. A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone. | |
| 11. n. (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass. | |
| 12. n. (obsolete) A testicle. | |
| 13. n. (dated, printing) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing; also called imposing stone. | |
| 14. v. To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones. | |
| She got stoned to death after they found her. | |
| 15. v. To remove a stone from (fruit etc.). | |
| 16. v. (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc. | |
| 17. v. (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive) | |
| 18. v. (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored. | |
| 19. v. To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities. | |
| 20. adj. Constructed of stone. | |
| stone walls | |
| 21. adj. Having the appearance of stone. | |
| stone pot | |
| 22. adj. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones. | |
| She is one stone fox. | |
| 23. adj. (LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it. | |
| stone butch; stone femme | |
| 24. adv. As a stone (used with following adjective). | |
| My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold. | |
| 25. adv. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives). | |
| I went stone crazy after she left. | |
| I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind. | |
| The Styistics performed a love song titled "I'm Stone in Love with You". | |
| 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. | |
| piece |
| 1. n. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts. | |
| I’d like another piece of pie. | |
| 2. n. A single item belonging to a class of similar items | |
| a piece of machinery | |
| a piece of software | |
| A useful piece of advice | |
| 3. n. (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; by extension, a similar counter etc. in other games. | |
| 4. n. A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency. | |
| a sixpenny piece | |
| 5. n. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc. | |
| She played two beautiful pieces on the piano. | |
| 6. n. (military) An artillery gun. | |
| 7. n. (US, colloquial) A gun. | |
| He's packin' a piece! | |
| 8. n. (US, Canada colloquial short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man. | |
| The announcer is wearing a new piece. | |
| 9. n. (Scotland, Ireland, UK, US, dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack. | |
| 10. n. (US, colloquial vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail | |
| I got a piece at lunchtime. | |
| 11. n. (US, colloquial mildly vulgar short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances). | |
| Ugh, my new computer is such a piece. I'm taking it back to the store tomorrow. | |
| 12. n. (US, slang) A cannabis pipe. | |
| 13. n. (baseball) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with got, and never used in the plura | |
| he got a piece of that one; she got a piece of the ball...and it's going foul. | |
| 14. n. (dated, sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person. | |
| 15. n. (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building. | |
| 16. n. (US) A pacifier. | |
| 17. n. (colloquial) A distance. | |
| a far piece | |
| located a fair piece away from their camp | |
| a fair piece off | |
| 18. v. (transitive usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative). | |
| These clues allowed us to piece together the solution to the mystery. | |
| 19. v. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out. | |
| to piece a garment | |
| 20. v. (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag. | |
| 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. | |
| synthetically |
| 1. adv. using synthetic methods | |
| bonded |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of bond | |
| bond |
| 1. n. (legal) Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate | |
| 2. n. (finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture. | |
| Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities ha | |
| Many say that government and corporate bonds are a good investment to balance against a portfolio consisting primarily of stocks. | |
| 3. n. A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond. | |
| 4. n. A physical connection which binds, a band; often plural. | |
| The prisoner was brought before the tribunal in iron bonds. | |
| 5. n. An emotional link, connection or union. | |
| They had grown up as friends and neighbors, and not even vastly differing political views could break the bond of their friendship. | |
| 6. n. Moral or political duty or obligation. | |
| 7. n. (chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule. | |
| Organic chemistry primarily consists of the study of carbon bonds, in their many variations. | |
| 8. n. A binding agreement, a covenant. | |
| You could rely on him. His word was his bond. | |
| Herbert resented his wife for subjecting him to the bonds of matrimony; he claimed they had gotten married while drunk. | |
| 9. n. A bail bond. | |
| The bailiff released the prisoner as soon as the bond was posted. | |
| 10. n. Any constraining or cementing force or material. | |
| A bond of superglue adhered the teacups to the ceiling, much to the consternation of the cafe owners. | |
| 11. n. (construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying. | |
| 12. n. In Scotland, a mortgage. | |
| 13. n. (railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit. | |
| 14. v. To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind. | |
| The gargantuan ape was bonded in iron chains and carted onto the stage. | |
| 15. v. To cause to adhere (one material with another). | |
| The children bonded their snapshots to the scrapbook pages with mucilage. | |
| 16. v. (transitive, chemistry) To form a chemical compound with. | |
| Under unusual conditions, even gold can be made to bond with other elements. | |
| 17. v. To guarantee or secure a financial risk. | |
| The contractor was bonded with a local underwriter. | |
| 18. v. To form a friendship or emotional connection. | |
| The men had bonded while serving together in Vietnam. | |
| 19. v. To put in a bonded warehouse. | |
| 20. v. (transitive, construction) To lay bricks in a specific pattern. | |
| 21. v. (transitive, electricity) To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors). | |
| A house's distribution panel should always be bonded to the grounding rods via a panel bond. | |
| 22. v. To bail out by means of a bail bond. | |
| 23. n. A peasant; churl. | |
| 24. n. A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior. | |
| 25. adj. Subject to the tenure called bondage. | |
| 26. adj. In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free. | |
| 27. adj. Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave. | |
| bond fear | |
| hard |
| 1. adj. (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. | |
| 2. adj. Resistant to pressure. | |
| This bread is so stale and hard, I can barely cut it. | |
| 3. adj. (of drink or drugs) Strong. | |
| 4. adj. (of water) High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium. | |
| 5. adj. (physics, of a ferromagnetic material) Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare sof | |
| 6. adj. (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. | |
| 7. adj. Requiring a lot of effort to do or understand. | |
| a hard problem | |
| 8. adj. Demanding a lot of effort to endure. | |
| a hard life | |
| 9. adj. Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal. | |
| a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character | |
| don't be so hard on yourself | |
| 10. adj. (dated) Difficult to resist or control; powerful. | |
| 11. adj. Unquestionable. | |
| hard evidence | |
| 12. adj. (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle. | |
| At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left. | |
| 13. adj. (slang) Sexually aroused. | |
| I got so hard watching two hot guys wrestle each other on the beach. | |
| 14. adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise. | |
| 15. adj. phonetics, uncomparable | |
| 16. adj. Plosive. | |
| There is a hard c in "clock" and a soft c in "centre". | |
| 17. adj. Unvoiced | |
| Hard k, t, s, ch, as distinguished from soft, g, d, z, j. | |
| 18. adj. Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized | |
| The letter m - ru in Russian is always hard. | |
| 19. adj. (arts) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment. | |
| 20. adj. Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition. | |
| 21. adj. Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading. | |
| 22. adj. (uncomparable) In the form of a hard copy. | |
| We need both a digital archive and a hard archive. | |
| 23. adv. (manner) With much force or effort. | |
| He hit the puck hard up the ice. | |
| They worked hard all week. | |
| At the intersection, bear hard left. | |
| The recession hit them especially hard. | |
| Think hard about your choices. | |
| 24. adv. (manner) With difficulty. | |
| His degree was hard earned. | |
| The vehicle moves hard. | |
| 25. adv. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties. | |
| 26. adv. (manner) Compactly. | |
| The lake had finally frozen hard. | |
| 27. adv. (now archaic) Near, close. | |
| 28. n. (nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water. | |
| 29. n. (drugs, colloquial, slang) crack cocaine. | |
| 30. n. (motorsports) (ellipsis of hard tyre) (A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.) | |
| minerals |
| 1. n. plural of mineral | |
| mineral |
| 1. n. (geology) Any naturally occurring inorganic material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties. | |
| 2. n. Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable). | |
| 3. n. (nutrition) Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition; a dietary mineral. | |
| 4. n. (British) Mineral water. | |
| 5. n. (Ireland, South Africa, informal) A soft drink, particularly a single serve bottle or can. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) A mine or mineral deposit. | |
| 7. adj. of, related to, or containing minerals | |
| that |
| 1. conj. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement. | |
| He told me that the book is a good read. | |
| I believe that it is true. — She is convinced that he is British. | |
| 2. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that. | |
| Be glad that you have enough to eat. | |
| 3. conj. (now uncommon) Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that. | |
| 4. conj. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect. | |
| The noise was so loud that she woke up. | |
| The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed. | |
| 5. conj. (archaic, or poetic) Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that. | |
| 6. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb. | |
| Was John there? — Not that I saw. | |
| How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw. | |
| 7. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish. | |
| 8. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise. | |
| 9. det. The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction. | |
| That book is a good read. This one isn't. | |
| That battle was in 1450. | |
| That cat of yours is evil. | |
| 10. pron. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "t | |
| He went home, and after that I never saw him again. | |
| 11. pron. The known (thing); (used to refer to something just said). | |
| They're getting divorced. What do you think about that? | |
| 12. pron. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality; used together with a verb and pronoun to emphatically repeat a previous statement. | |
| The water is so cold! — That it is. | |
| 13. pron. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; (representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition). | |
| The CPR course that she took really came in handy. | |
| The house that he lived in was old and dilapidated. | |
| 14. pron. (colloquial) (Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.) | |
| the place that = where or to which I went last year | |
| the last time that = when I went to Europe | |
| 15. adv. (degree) To a given extent or degree. | |
| "The ribbon was that thin." "I disagree, I say it was not that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner...". | |
| 16. adv. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions). | |
| I'm just not that sick. | |
| I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult. | |
| 17. adv. (obsolete, outside, dialects) To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions). | |
| Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her. | |
| 18. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those. | |
| has |
| 1. v. third-person singular present indicative of have | |
| have |
| Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst. | |
| 1. v. To possess, own, hold. | |
| I have a house and a car. | |
| Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street! | |
| 2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship). | |
| I have two sisters. | |
| I have a lot of work to do. | |
| 3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action. | |
| I have breakfast at six o'clock. | |
| Can I have a look at that? | |
| I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now. | |
| 4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in. | |
| What class do you have right now? I have English. | |
| Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day. | |
| 5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.) | |
| I have already eaten today. | |
| I had already eaten. | |
| 6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to. | |
| I have to go. | |
| 7. v. To give birth to. | |
| The couple always wanted to have children. | |
| My wife is having the baby right now! | |
| My mother had me when she was 25. | |
| 8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with. | |
| He's always bragging about how many women he's had. | |
| 9. v. To accept as a romantic partner. | |
| Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me. | |
| 10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation. | |
| They had me feed their dog while they were out of town. | |
| 11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be. | |
| He had him arrested for trespassing. | |
| The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears. | |
| 12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.) | |
| The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week. | |
| I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice. | |
| 13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being. | |
| Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening. | |
| 14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.)) | |
| We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we? | |
| Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she? | |
| (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he? | |
| 15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take. | |
| I could have him! | |
| I'm gonna have you! | |
| 16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language. | |
| I have no German. | |
| 17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of. | |
| Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before. | |
| 18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from. | |
| He had a cold last week. | |
| 19. v. To experience, go through, undergo. | |
| We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that. | |
| He had surgery on his hip yesterday. | |
| I'm having the time of my life! | |
| 20. v. To trick, to deceive. | |
| You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke. | |
| 21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate. | |
| The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it. | |
| I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night. | |
| 22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by. | |
| I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it. | |
| 23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest. | |
| Thank you for having me! | |
| 24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation. | |
| What do you have for problem two? | |
| I have two contacts on my scope. | |
| 25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case. | |
| We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon. | |
| 26. n. A wealthy or privileged person. | |
| 27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | |
| 28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading. | |
| They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have. | |
| been |
| 1. v. past participle of be | |
| 2. v. (obsolete) plural present of be | |
| 3. v. (Southern US) of be | |
| 4. n. (UK dialectal) plural of bee | |
| be |
| 1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence. | |
| 2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. | |
| There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place. | |
| The cup is on the table. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place. | |
| When will the meeting be? | |
| 5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar. | |
| The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come. | |
| I have been to Spain many times. | |
| Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating. | |
| 6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same. | |
| Knowledge is bliss. | |
| Hi, I’m Jim. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same. | |
| 3 times 5 is fifteen. | |
| 8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal. | |
| François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995. | |
| 9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it. | |
| The sky is blue. | |
| 10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase. | |
| The sky is a deep blue today. | |
| 11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice. | |
| The dog was drowned by the boy. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses. | |
| The woman is walking. | |
| I shall be writing to you soon. | |
| We liked to chat while we were eating. | |
| 13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go". | |
| 14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic. | |
| I am to leave tomorrow. | |
| I would drive you, were I to obtain a car. | |
| 15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement. | |
| This building is three hundred years old. | |
| I am 75 kilograms. | |
| He’s about 6 feet tall. | |
| 16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years. | |
| I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.) | |
| 17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day. | |
| It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.) | |
| It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo. | |
| What time is it there? It’s night. | |
| 18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event. | |
| It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period) | |
| It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him. | |
| 19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like. | |
| It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid. | |
| Why is it so dark in here? | |
| 20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way. | |
| "What do we do?" "We be ourselves.". | |
| Why is he being nice to me? | |
| formed |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of form | |
| form |
| 1. n. To do with shape.: | |
| 2. n. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. | |
| 3. n. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. | |
| 4. n. (dated) A long bench with no back. | |
| 5. n. (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. | |
| 6. n. (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. | |
| 7. n. (social) To do with structure or procedure. | |
| 8. n. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual. | |
| 9. n. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula. | |
| 10. n. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system. | |
| a republican form of government | |
| 11. n. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality. | |
| a matter of mere form | |
| 12. n. (archaic) A class or rank in society. | |
| 13. n. (UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area). | |
| 14. n. (education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form). | |
| 15. n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. | |
| To apply for the position, complete the application form. | |
| 16. n. Level of performance. | |
| The team's form has been poor this year. | |
| The orchestra was on top form this evening. | |
| 17. n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech. | |
| participial forms; verb forms | |
| 18. n. The den or home of a hare. | |
| 19. n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box. | |
| 20. n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank. | |
| 21. n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. | |
| 22. n. (geometry) A quantic. | |
| 23. n. (sports) A specific way of performing a movement. | |
| 24. v. To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). | |
| When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies. | |
| 25. v. To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. | |
| Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet. | |
| 26. v. (intransitive) To take shape. | |
| When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy. | |
| 27. v. To put together or bring into being; assemble. | |
| The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government. | |
| Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960. | |
| 28. v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation. | |
| By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective. | |
| 29. v. To constitute, to compose, to make up. | |
| Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders. | |
| 30. v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline. | |
| Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality. | |
| 31. v. To provide (a hare) with a form. | |
| 32. v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead pero | |
| 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 | |
| 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) | |
| least |
| 1. det. superlative form of little: most little; the smallest amount of something. | |
| He earns the least money in his family. Of all the sisters, she has the least patience. I can only afford to pay the least of the bills. | |
| 2. adv. Used for forming superlatives of adjectives, especially those that do not form the superlative by adding -est. | |
| It was the least surprising thing. | |
| 3. adv. In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others. | |
| to reward those who least deserve it | |
| 4. n. (philosophy) Something of the smallest possible extent; an indivisible unit. | |
| 5. adj. superlative form of less: most less | |
| 6. adj. superlative form of little: most little | |
| 7. prep. (informal, nonstandard) At least. | |
| 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. | |
| flat |
| 1. adj. Having no variations in height. | |
| The land around here is flat. | |
| 2. adj. (music, voice) Without variations in pitch. | |
| 3. adj. (slang) Describing certain features, usually the breasts and/or buttocks, that are extremely small or not visible at all. | |
| That girl is completely flat on both sides. | |
| 4. adj. (music, note) Lowered by one semitone. | |
| 5. adj. (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be. | |
| Your A string is too flat. | |
| 6. adj. (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture. | |
| 7. adj. Uninteresting. | |
| The party was a bit flat. | |
| 8. adj. Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles. | |
| 9. adj. (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet. | |
| 10. adj. (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead. | |
| 11. adj. (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless. | |
| 12. adj. (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; dull and boring. | |
| The market is flat. | |
| The dialogue in your screenplay is flat -- you need to make it more exciting. | |
| 13. adj. Absolute; downright; peremptory. | |
| His claim was in flat contradiction to experimental results. | |
| I'm not going to the party and that's flat. | |
| 14. adj. (phonetics, dated, of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant | |
| 15. adj. (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "t | |
| Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English. | |
| 16. adj. (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft. | |
| 17. adj. (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends. | |
| 18. adj. (authorship figuratively, esp. of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional. | |
| The author created the site to flesh out the books' flatter characters, who were actually quite well developed in her own mind. | |
| 19. adv. So as to be flat. | |
| Spread the tablecloth flat over the table. | |
| 20. adv. Bluntly. | |
| I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he turned me down flat. | |
| 21. adv. (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding. | |
| He can run a mile in four minutes flat. | |
| 22. adv. Completely. | |
| I am flat broke this month. | |
| 23. adv. Directly; flatly. | |
| 24. adv. (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest. | |
| 25. n. An area of level ground. | |
| 26. n. (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪). | |
| 27. n. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire. | |
| 28. n. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels. | |
| She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels. | |
| 29. n. (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes. | |
| 30. n. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting. | |
| 31. n. The flat part of something: | |
| 32. n. (swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge. | |
| 33. n. The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers. | |
| 34. n. A wide, shallow container. | |
| a flat of strawberries | |
| 35. n. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes. | |
| 36. n. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension. | |
| 37. n. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. | |
| 38. n. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. | |
| 39. n. (rail, US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar. | |
| 40. n. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions. | |
| 41. n. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. | |
| 42. n. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton. | |
| 43. n. (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts a building or other part of a scene, also called backcloth and backdrop. | |
| 44. v. (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising. | |
| 45. v. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface. | |
| 46. v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch. | |
| 47. v. (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone. | |
| 48. v. (transitive, dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level. | |
| 49. v. (transitive, dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. | |
| 50. n. (chiefly British, New England, New Zealand, and Australian, archaic elsewhere) An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room. | |
| surface |
| 1. n. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid. | |
| 2. n. The outside hull of a tangible object. | |
| 3. n. (figurative) Outward or external appearance. | |
| On the surface, the spy looked like a typical businessman. | |
| 4. n. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space. | |
| 5. n. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion. | |
| 6. v. To provide something with a surface. | |
| 7. v. To apply a surface to something. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To rise to the surface. | |
| 9. v. To bring to the surface. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To come out of hiding. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known. | |
| 12. v. To make information or facts known. | |
| 13. v. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive) To appear or be found. | |
| used |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of use | |
| You used me! | |
| 2. v. (intransitive, as an auxiliary verb, now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed to doing something | |
| He used to live here, but moved away last year. | |
| 3. adj. That is or has or have been used. | |
| The ground was littered with used syringes left behind by drug abusers. | |
| 4. adj. That has or have previously been owned by someone else. | |
| He bought a used car. | |
| 5. adj. Familiar through use; usual; accustomed. | |
| I got used to this weather. | |
| use |
| 1. n. The act of using. | |
| the use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations; there is no use for your invention | |
| 2. n. (followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit. | |
| What's the use of a law that nobody follows? | |
| 3. n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed. | |
| This tool has many uses. | |
| 4. n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity. | |
| I have no further use for these textbooks. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury. | |
| 6. n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience. | |
| 8. n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese. | |
| the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc. | |
| 9. n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging. | |
| 10. v. To utilize or employ. | |
| 11. v. To employ; to apply; to utilize. | |
| Use this knife to slice the bread. | |
| We can use this mathematical formula to solve the problem. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, often with up) To expend; to consume by employing. | |
| I used the money they allotted me. | |
| We should use up most of the fuel. | |
| She used all the time allotted to complete the test. | |
| 13. v. To exploit. | |
| You never cared about me; you just used me! | |
| 14. v. To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly. | |
| He uses cocaine. I have never used drugs. | |
| 15. v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted. | |
| Richard began experimenting with cocaine last year; now he uses almost every day. | |
| 16. v. (transitive, with auxiliary "could") To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand. | |
| I could use a drink. My car could use a new coat of paint. | |
| 17. v. To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Note: This usage uses the nounal pronunciation of the word rather than the typically verbal one.) | |
| soldiers who are used to hardships and danger (still common) | |
| to use the soldiers to hardships and danger (now rare) | |
| 18. v. (reflexive, obsolete, with "to") To become accustomed, to accustom oneself. | |
| 19. v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do. | |
| 20. v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually employ; to be wont to employ. | |
| 21. v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to. | |
| I used to get things done. | |
| 22. v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat. | |
| to use an animal cruelly | |
| 23. v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself. | |
| to |
| 1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
| I want to leave. | |
| He asked me what to do. | |
| I don’t know how to say it. | |
| I have places to go and people to see. | |
| 2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
| "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
| If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
| 3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
| I have to do laundry today. | |
| 4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
| We are walking to the shop. | |
| 5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
| He devoted himself to education. | |
| They drank to his health. | |
| 6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
| His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
| 7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
| similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
| With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
| 9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
| one to one = 1:1 | |
| ten to one = 10:1. | |
| I have ten dollars to your four. | |
| 10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
| Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
| Three to the power of two is nine. | |
| Three to the second is nine. | |
| 11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
| I gave the book to him. | |
| 12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
| ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
| 13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
| Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
| There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
| 14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
| Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
| 15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
| Please push the door to. | |
| 16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
| 17. adv. misspelling of too | |
| sharpen |
| 1. v. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To make sharp. | |
| to sharpen a pencil or a knife | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To become sharp. | |
| 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. | |
| hone |
| 1. n. A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool. | |
| 2. n. A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores. | |
| 3. v. To sharpen with a hone; to whet. | |
| 4. v. To use a hone to produce a precision bore. | |
| 5. v. To refine or master (a skill). | |
| 6. v. To make more acute, intense, or effective. | |
| 7. n. A kind of swelling in the cheek. | |
| 8. v. (US) To grumble. | |
| 9. v. (US) To pine, lament, or long. | |
| an |
| 1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
| 2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
| 3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
| 4. conj. (archaic) If | |
| 5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
| An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
| 6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
| 7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
| 8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
| I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
| edged |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of edge | |
| Already a mentally fragile boy, he now edged towards insanity. | |
| 2. adj. That has a sharp planar surface. | |
| The monks were forbidden to carry edged weapons such as swords and axes. - | |
| 3. adj. (followed by with:) Having an edging of a certain material, color, and so on. | |
| a coat edged with fur - | |
| black feathers edged with gray - | |
| edge |
| 1. n. The boundary line of a surface. | |
| 2. n. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet. | |
| 3. n. An advantage. | |
| I have the edge on him. | |
| 4. n. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc. | |
| 5. n. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge. | |
| The cup is right on the edge of the table. | |
| He is standing on the edge of a precipice. | |
| 6. n. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. | |
| 7. n. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time) | |
| in the edge of evening | |
| 8. n. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally. | |
| 9. n. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph. | |
| 10. n. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging. | |
| 11. v. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | |
| He edged the book across the table. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | |
| He edged away from her. | |
| 13. v. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin. | |
| 14. v. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection. | |
| 15. v. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger. | |
| 16. v. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging. | |
| 17. v. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. | |
| 18. v. (figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. | |
| 19. v. (intransitive) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm. | |
| tool |
| 1. n. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier. | |
| Hand me that tool, would you? I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine. | |
| 2. n. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade. | |
| These are the tools of the trade. | |
| 3. n. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means. | |
| 4. n. (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations. | |
| The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools. a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk | |
| 5. n. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group. | |
| He was a tool, no more than a pawn to her. | |
| 6. n. (slang) Penis. | |
| 7. n. (by extension, slang) An obnoxious or uptight person. | |
| He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool. | |
| 8. v. To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather. | |
| 9. v. To equip with tools. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To work very hard. | |
| 11. v. (transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal. | |
| Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds. | |
| 13. v. (transitive, UK, slang) To drive (a coach, etc.) | |
| 14. v. (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive. | |
