| 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. | |
| small |
| 1. adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number. | |
| A small serving of ice cream. | |
| A small group. | |
| He made us all feel small. | |
| 2. adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child. | |
| Remember when the children were small? | |
| 3. adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters. | |
| 4. adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean. | |
| 5. adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short. | |
| a small space of time | |
| 6. adj. topics, en, Size | |
| 7. adv. In a small fashion. | |
| 8. adv. In or into small pieces. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) To a small extent. | |
| 10. n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back. | |
| 11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle. | |
| horizontal |
| 1. adj. Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat. | |
| 2. adj. (marketing) Relating to horizontal markets. | |
| 3. adj. (archaic) Pertaining to the horizon. | |
| 4. adj. (wine tasting) Involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries. | |
| 5. n. A horizontal component of a structure. | |
| 6. n. (geology) horizon | |
| 7. n. A Tasmanian shrub or small tree whose main trunk tends to lean over and grow horizontally,. | |
| brace |
| 1. n. (obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace. | |
| 2. n. (obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms. | |
| 3. n. A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock. | |
| 4. n. That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop. | |
| 5. n. A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension. | |
| 6. n. A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum. | |
| 7. n. The state of being braced or tight; tension. | |
| 8. n. Harness; warlike preparation. | |
| 9. n. (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": or connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in role, roll; in music, use | |
| 10. n. A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural), this is | |
| 11. n. A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie | |
| 12. n. (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon. | |
| 13. n. (Cornwall) The mouth of a shaft. | |
| 14. n. (mostly) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders. | |
| 15. n. (plural in the US, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite. | |
| 16. n. (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game. | |
| 17. v. (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow. | |
| All hands, brace for impact! | |
| Brace yourself! | |
| The boy has no idea about everything that's been going on. You need to brace him for what's about to happen. | |
| 18. v. To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly. | |
| He braced himself against the crowd. | |
| 19. v. (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind. | |
| to brace the yards | |
| 20. v. To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police. | |
| 21. v. To confront with questions, demands or requests. | |
| 22. v. To furnish with braces; to support; to prop. | |
| to brace a beam in a building | |
| 23. v. To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen. | |
| to brace the nerves | |
| 24. v. To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly. | |
| 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. | |
| girder |
| 1. n. A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure. | |
| 2. n. One who girds; a satirist. | |
