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. | |
staff |
1. n. (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking. | |
2. n. (music, plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written. | |
3. n. (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business. | |
The company employed 10 new members of staff this month. | |
4. n. A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.W | |
5. n. A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office. | |
a constable's staff | |
6. n. A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed. | |
7. n. (archaic) The rung of a ladder. | |
8. n. A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave. | |
9. n. (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch. | |
10. n. (surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder. | |
11. n. (military) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his pe | |
12. v. To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members. | |
13. n. misspelling of staph | |
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 | |
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. | |
hooked |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of hook | |
2. adj. Having a sharp curve at the end; resembling a hook. | |
a hooked nose | |
3. adj. Addicted; unable to resist or cease doing. | |
He will never leave her because he is hooked on her chocolate chip cookies. | |
You only have to try heroin once to become hooked. | |
hook |
1. n. a rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment | |
2. n. a fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing | |
3. n. any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook | |
4. n. (informal) a ship's anchor | |
5. n. the curved needle used in the art of crochet | |
6. n. the part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns | |
7. n. a loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j | |
8. n. (music) a catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song | |
The song's hook snared me. | |
9. n. (authorship) a brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play | |
10. n. (authorship) a gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention | |
11. n. a tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely | |
12. n. (informal) removal or expulsion from a group or activity | |
He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook. | |
13. n. (cricket) a type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height | |
14. n. (baseball) a curveball | |
He threw a hook in the dirt. | |
15. n. (software) a feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more easily | |
We've added "user-defined" codepoints in several places and careful definitions of what to do with unknown message types as hooks in the standard to enable implementations to be both backward a | |
16. n. (golf) a golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice, fade | |
17. n. (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-throug | |
18. n. (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc | |
The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent. | |
19. n. (slang) A jack (the playing card) | |
20. n. (typography, rare) a háček. | |
21. n. (Scrabble) an instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word | |
22. n. (bowling) a ball that is rolled in a curved line | |
23. n. (bridge, slang) a finesse | |
24. n. a snare; a trap | |
25. n. a field sown two years in succession | |
26. n. (in the plural) the projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones | |
27. n. (geography) a spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey | |
28. v. To attach a hook to. | |
Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away. | |
29. v. To catch with a hook (hook a fish). | |
He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water. | |
30. v. To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet. | |
31. v. To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook. | |
He hooked his fingers through his belt loops. | |
32. v. To ensnare someone, as if with a hook. | |
She's only here to try to hook a husband. | |
A free trial is a good way to hook customers. | |
33. v. (US) To steal. | |
34. v. To connect (hook into, hook together). | |
If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network. | |
35. v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate. | |
He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth. | |
I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked. | |
36. v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot. | |
37. v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker). | |
38. v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player) | |
The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty. | |
39. v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends. | |
40. v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution. | |
I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window. | |
41. v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word. | |
42. v. (bridge, slang) To finesse. | |
43. v. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore. | |
44. v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn. | |
End |
1. n. A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the last character of the current line. | |
2. n. The terminal point of something in space or time. | |
At the end of the road, turn left. | |
At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love. | |
3. n. (by extension) (euphemistic) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion. | |
Is there no end to this madness? | |
4. n. (by extension) Death, especially miserable. | |
He met a terrible end in the jungle. | |
I hope the end comes quickly. | |
5. n. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide. | |
Hold the string at both ends. | |
My father always sat at the end of the table. | |
6. n. Result. | |
7. n. A purpose, goal, or aim. | |
8. n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground. | |
The Pavillion End | |
9. n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end. | |
10. n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion. | |
11. n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. | |
12. n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap. | |
odds and ends | |
13. n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. | |
14. v. To finish, terminate. | |
Is this movie never going to end? | |
The lesson will end when the bell rings. | |
The referee blew the whistle to end the game. | |
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. | |
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 | |
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. | |
shepherd |
1. n. A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock. | |
2. n. (figurative) Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody. | |
3. n. (figurative) The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion. | |
4. n. (poetic) A swain; a rustic male lover. | |
5. v. To watch over; to guide | |
6. v. (Australian rules football) For a player to obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out o | |
crook |
1. n. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure. | |
She held the baby in the crook of her arm. | |
2. n. A bending of the knee; a genuflection. | |
3. n. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything). | |
the crook of a cane | |
4. n. (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair. | |
5. n. (obsolete) A gibbet. | |
6. n. (obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut. | |
7. n. A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds. | |
8. n. A bishop's staff of office. | |
9. n. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance. | |
10. n. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal. | |
11. n. A pothook. | |
12. n. (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. | |
13. v. To bend, or form into a hook. | |
He crooked his finger toward me. | |
14. v. (intransitive) To become bent or hooked. | |
15. v. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. | |
16. adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard. | |
That work you did on my car is crook, mate | |
Not turning up for training was pretty crook. | |
Things are crook at Tallarook. | |
17. adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick. | |
I′m feeling a bit crook. | |
18. adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset. | |
be crook at/about; go crook at | |
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. | |
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 | |
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. | |
cross |
1. n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other. | |
Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one. | |
2. n. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross. | |
3. n. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion). | |
Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross. | |
4. n. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified. | |
5. n. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross. | |
She made the cross after swearing. | |
6. n. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion. | |
She was wearing a cross on her necklace. | |
7. n. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured. | |
It's a cross I must bear. | |
8. n. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other | |
A quick cross of the road. | |
9. n. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization. | |
10. n. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind. | |
11. n. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch. | |
12. n. (football) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch. | |
13. n. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross). | |
14. n. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross) | |
15. n. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general. | |
16. n. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands. | |
17. n. A line drawn across or through another line. | |
18. n. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course. | |
19. n. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle. | |
20. n. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross. | |
21. n. (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card. | |
22. adj. Transverse; lying across the main direction. | |
At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows. | |
23. adj. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to. | |
His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness. | |
24. adj. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for. | |
25. adj. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed. | |
She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job. | |
Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me. | |
26. adj. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged. | |
cross interrogatories | |
cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other | |
27. prep. (archaic) across | |
She walked cross the mountains. | |
28. prep. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector. | |
The Lorentz force is q times v cross B. | |
29. v. To make or form a cross. | |
30. v. To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect. | |
She frowned and crossed her arms. | |
31. v. To lay or draw something across, such as a line. | |
to cross the letter t | |
32. v. To mark with an X. | |
Cross the box which applies to you. | |
33. v. To write lines at right angles.W | |
34. v. (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself. | |
35. v. To move relatively. | |
36. v. To go from one side of (something) to the other. | |
Why did the chicken cross the road? | |
You need to cross the street at the lights. | |
37. v. (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another. | |
Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way. | |
38. v. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. | |
39. v. (sports) Relative movement by a player or of players. | |
40. v. # (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs. | |
41. v. # (football) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side. | |
# He crossed the ball into the penalty area. | |
42. v. # (rugby) To score a try. | |
43. v. (social) To oppose. | |
44. v. To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of. | |
"You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain. | |
45. v. (transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off; to debar. | |
46. v. (legal) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness. | |
47. v. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed. | |
They managed to cross a sheep with a goat. | |
48. v. To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account. | |
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) | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
End |
1. n. A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the last character of the current line. | |
2. n. The terminal point of something in space or time. | |
At the end of the road, turn left. | |
At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love. | |
3. n. (by extension) (euphemistic) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion. | |
Is there no end to this madness? | |
4. n. (by extension) Death, especially miserable. | |
He met a terrible end in the jungle. | |
I hope the end comes quickly. | |
5. n. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide. | |
Hold the string at both ends. | |
My father always sat at the end of the table. | |
6. n. Result. | |
7. n. A purpose, goal, or aim. | |
8. n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground. | |
The Pavillion End | |
9. n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end. | |
10. n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion. | |
11. n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. | |
12. n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap. | |
odds and ends | |
13. n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. | |
14. v. To finish, terminate. | |
Is this movie never going to end? | |
The lesson will end when the bell rings. | |
The referee blew the whistle to end the game. | |
carried |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of carry | |
carry |
1. v. To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting. | |
2. v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another. | |
to carry the war from Greece into Asia | |
to carry an account to the ledger | |
3. v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend. | |
The builders are going to carry the chimney through the roof. They would have carried the road ten miles further, but ran out of materials. | |
4. v. (transitive, mostly, archaic) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide. | |
5. v. To stock or supply (something). | |
The corner drugstore doesn't carry his favorite brand of aspirin. | |
6. v. To adopt (something); take (something) over. | |
I think I can carry Smith's work while she is out. | |
7. v. To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly | |
The court carries that motion. | |
8. v. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there. | |
Five and nine are fourteen; carry the one to the tens place. | |
9. v. To have or maintain (something). | |
Always carry sufficient insurance to protect against a loss. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel. | |
The sound of the bells carried for miles on the wind. | |
11. v. (slang) To insult, to diss. | |
12. v. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding. | |
13. v. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession. | |
14. v. To have on one's person. | |
she always carries a purse; marsupials carry their young in a pouch | |
15. v. To be pregnant (with). | |
The doctor said she's carrying twins. | |
16. v. To have propulsive power; to propel. | |
A gun or mortar carries well. | |
17. v. To hold the head; said of a horse. | |
to carry well, i.e. to hold the head high, with arching neck | |
18. v. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare. | |
19. v. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win. | |
The Tories carried the election. | |
20. v. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture. | |
21. v. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply. | |
22. v. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct. | |
23. v. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another. | |
A merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance. | |
24. v. (intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed. | |
25. n. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried. | |
Adjust your carry from time to time so that you don't tire too quickly. | |
26. n. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage. | |
27. n. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation. | |
by |
1. prep. Near or next to. | |
The mailbox is by the bus stop. | |
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval. | |
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July. | |
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of. | |
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour. | |
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of. | |
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare | |
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of. | |
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of. | |
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking. | |
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination. | |
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight. | |
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed. | |
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife. | |
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of. | |
Our stock is up by ten percent. | |
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another. | |
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches. | |
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to. | |
He cheated by his own admission. | |
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of. | |
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this. | |
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something. | |
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm. | |
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of. | |
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress. | |
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker. | |
I watched as it passed by. | |
16. adv. In the vicinity, near. | |
There was a shepherd close by. | |
The shop is hard by the High Street. | |
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business. | |
I'll stop by on my way home from work. | |
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave. | |
18. adv. Aside, away. | |
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring. | |
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary. | |
20. n. (card games) A pass | |
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye | |
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. | |
abbot |
1. n. The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.(R:CDOE, page=2)R:SOED5, page=3 | |
The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary. | |
2. n. A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries. | |
3. n. (archaic, British slang) A brothel-owner's husband or lover.(R:Barrere, volume=1, page=3)R:Farmer, volume=1, pages=4 | |
4. n. (archaic, British slang) A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer. | |
Bishop |
1. n. alternative case form of bishop1, particularly as a title or term of address. | |
2. n. topics, en, Cities, Towns, California, USA, Georgia, USA, Illinois, USA, Maryland, USA, Texas, USA, West Virginia, USA | |
3. n. (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or no | |
4. n. (religion, obsolete) A similar official or chief priest in another religion. | |
5. n. (obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker. | |
6. n. (obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of (m, la, episcopus), supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc. | |
7. n. The chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day. | |
8. n. (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English. | |
9. n. Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds. | |
10. n. (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae. | |
11. n. (alcoholic beverages) A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port. | |
12. n. (US, archaic) A bustle. | |
13. n. (dialectal) A children's smock or pinafore. | |
14. v. (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church. | |
15. v. (by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses). | |
16. v. (Christianity) To make a bishop. | |
17. v. (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops. | |
18. v. (dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses). | |
19. v. (by extension, of horses) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth. | |
20. v. (colloquial) To murder by drowning. | |
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. | |
archbishop |
1. n. In the Roman Catholic Church and other churches, a senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province. | |
As |
1. n. plural of A | |
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As. | |
2. adv. To such an extent or degree. | |
You’re not as tall as I am. | |
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive. | |
3. adv. In the manner or role specified. | |
The kidnappers released him as agreed. | |
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues. | |
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend. | |
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as). | |
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what. | |
Do as I say! | |
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know. | |
As you wish, my lord! | |
6. conj. At the same instant that; when. | |
As I came in, she flew. | |
7. conj. At the same time that; while. | |
He sleeps as the rain falls. | |
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that. | |
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy. | |
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since. | |
As it’s too late, I quit. | |
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality. | |
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago. | |
It's not so complicated as I expected. | |
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’. | |
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though. | |
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that. | |
14. conj. Expressing concession; though. | |
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than. | |
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case. | |
You are not as tall as me. | |
They're big as houses. | |
17. prep. In the role of. | |
What is your opinion as a parent? | |
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra. | |
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value. | |
20. n. plural of a | |
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. | |
symbol |
1. n. A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object. | |
$ is the symbol for dollars in the US and some other countries. | |
Chinese people use word symbols for writing. | |
The lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience. | |
2. n. Any object, typically material, which is meant to represent another (usually abstract) even if there is no meaningful relationship. | |
The dollar symbol has no relationship to the concept of currency or any related idea. | |
3. n. (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index. | |
4. n. A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith. | |
The Apostles, Nicene Creed and the confessional books of Protestantism, such as the Augsburg Confession of Lutheranism are considered symbols. | |
5. n. Visible traces or impressions, made using a writing device or tool, that are connected together and/or are slightly separated. Sometimes symbols represent objects or events that occupy space or things | |
6. n. (crystallography) The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes. | |
7. n. (obsolete) That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty. | |
8. n. (obsolete) Share; allotment. | |
9. n. (programming) An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code. | |
10. v. To symbolize. | |
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. | |
office |
1. n. (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly: | |
2. n. (Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church. | |
3. n. (particularly) Mass, label, en, particularly the introit sung at its beginning. | |
4. n. (Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin. | |
5. n. (Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist. | |
6. n. (Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons. | |
In the Latin rite, all bishops, priests, and transitional deacons are obliged to recite the Divine Office daily. | |
7. n. (Protestant) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service. | |
8. n. (Christianity) Last rites. | |
9. n. A position of responsibility. | |
When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department. | |
10. n. Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position. | |
She held office as secretary of state until she left office to run for office. | |
11. n. (figuratively) An official or group of officials; label, en, figuratively a personification of officeholders. | |
12. n. A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role;(obsolete) moral duty. | |
13. n. (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty. | |
14. n. (archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something. | |
15. n. (particularly) A bodily function, label, en, particularly urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation. | |
16. n. (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness. | |
The secretary prevailed at the negotiations through the good offices of the Freedonian ambassador. | |
17. n. (figuratively) Inside information. | |
18. n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly: | |
The office of the Secretary of State is cleaned when it is vacant. | |
19. n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping. | |
20. n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public. | |
21. n. (chiefly) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures. | |
22. n. (figuratively) The staff of such places. | |
The whole office was there... well, except you, of course. | |
23. n. (figuratively) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly: | |
He's from our public relations office. | |
24. n. (UK) A ministry or other department of government. | |
The secretary of state's British colleague heads the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. | |
25. n. (Catholicism) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy. | |
26. n. A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business. | |
He worked as the receptionist at the Akron office. | |
27. n. (now in the dated) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly(euphemism) a house or estate's facilities for urina | |
28. n. (UK) clipping of, inquest of office, : an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property. | |
29. n. (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper. | |
30. n. (figuratively) A hangout: a place where one is normally found. | |
31. n. (UK) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit. | |
32. n. (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs. | |
33. v. To provide (someone) with an office. | |
34. v. (intransitive) To have an office. | |