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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.
single
1. adj. Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now?
The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose.
2. adj. Not divided in parts.
The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate.
3. adj. Designed for the use of only one.
a single room
4. adj. Performed by one person, or one on each side.
a single combat
5. adj. Not married or (in modern times) not involved in a romantic relationship without being married or not dating anyone exclusively.
Forms often ask if a person is single, married, divorced or widowed. In this context, a person who is dating someone but who has never married puts "single".
Josh put down that he was a single male on the dating website.
6. adj. (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
7. adj. (obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
8. adj. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
9. adj. (obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
10. n. (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
11. n. (music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.
12. n. One who is not married.
He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
13. n. (cricket) A score of one run.
14. n. (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
15. n. (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
16. n. A bill valued at $1.
I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.
17. n. (UK) A one-way ticket.
18. n. (Canadian football) A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone. Officially known in the rules as a rouge.
19. n. (tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
20. n. One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
21. n. (Scotland) A handful of gleaned grain.
22. v. To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out or to single (something) out.
Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag.
Yvonne always wondered why Ernest had singled her out of the group of giggling girls she hung around with.
23. v. (baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.
24. v. (agriculture) To thin out.
25. v. (of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
26. v. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
27. v. To take alone, or one by one.
cut
1. adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
2. adj. Reduced.
The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
3. adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
My favourite song had been cut from the show.
4. adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
5. adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
6. adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
7. adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation
8. adj. (Australia, NZ, slang) Emotionally hurt.
9. adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
10. adj. Removed from a team roster.
11. adj. (NZ) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
12. n. An opening resulting from cutting.
Look at this cut on my finger!
13. n. The act of cutting.
He made a fine cut with his sword.
14. n. The result of cutting.
a smooth or clear cut
15. n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
a cut for a railroad
16. n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distinguished from a navigable river
17. n. A share or portion.
The lawyer took a cut of the profits.
18. n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
19. n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
20. n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
21. n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entert
22. n. (theatre) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.
23. n. (cinema) A particular version or edit of a film.
24. n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.
25. n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
I like the cut of that suit.
26. n. A slab, especially of meat.
That’s our finest cut of meat.
27. n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
28. n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
29. n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
30. n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
31. n. A haircut.
32. n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
33. n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
34. n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
a book illustrated with fine cuts
35. n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
36. n. (slang) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
37. n. A skein of yarn.
38. n. (slang) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.
39. n. (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
40. n. (bodybuilding) A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
41. v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
42. v. To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
43. v. To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
Would you please cut the cake?
44. v. To form or shape by cutting.
I have three diamonds to cut today.
45. v. (slang) To wound with a knife.
46. v. (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.
47. v. To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
48. v. To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
Sarcasm cuts to the quick.
49. v. To castrate or geld.
to cut a horse
50. v. To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
51. v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
52. v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
53. v. To separate from prior association; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
Travis was cut from the team.
54. v. To abridge a piece of printed or written work.
55. v. To reduce, especially intentionally.
They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.
56. v. To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.
57. v. To ignore as a social snub.
After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.
58. v. (intransitive, cinema, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
After the actors read their lines, the director yelled, "Cut!".
59. v. (intransitive, cinema) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.
60. v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
61. v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.
62. v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.
63. v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
This road cuts right through downtown.
64. v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
65. v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.
66. v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
If you cut then I'll deal.
67. v. (transitive, slang) To write.
cut orders; cut a check
68. v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
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?
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12. n. alternative form of withe
scissors
1. n. (usually construed as plural) A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles
Those scissors are sharp. (indicating singular or plural scissors)
That scissors is sharp. (less commonly to indicate singular scissors)
Scissors are used to cut the flowers.
Use a scissors to cut them if you don't have proper shears.
2. n. (rugby) An attacking move conducted by two players; the player without the ball runs from one side of the ball carrier, behind the ball carrier, and receives a pass from the ball carrier on the other
They executed a perfect scissors.
3. n. (skating) A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
4. n. (gymnastics) An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.
5. n. (wrestling) A scissors hold.
6. n. (rock paper scissors) A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and is loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-
7. n. (rare) plural of scissor
8. v. third-person singular present indicative of scissor
scissor
1. n. (rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.
2. n. (India) Scissors.
3. n. (noun adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.
4. v. To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
5. v. To excise or expunge something from a text.
The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
6. v. (transitive, obsolete) To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
7. v. (transitive, intransitive) To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
The runner scissored over the hurdles.
8. v. (intransitive) To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
9. v. (skating) To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
clippers
1. n. plural of clipper
2. n. A tool for clipping something.
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.
similar
1. adj. Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
2. adj. (mathematics) Of geometrical figures including triangles, squares, ellipses, arcs and more complex figures, having the same shape but possibly different size, rotational orientation, and position; in
3. n. That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.
4. n. (homeopathy) A material that produces an effect that resembles the symptoms of a particular disease.
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.

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