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. | |
striking |
1. adj. Making a strong impression. | |
He looked quite striking in his new suit and tie. | |
2. v. present participle of strike | |
3. n. The act by which something strikes or is struck. | |
strike |
1. v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate. | |
Please strike the last sentence. | |
2. v. (physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect. | |
3. v. To hit. | |
Strike the door sharply with your foot and see if it comes loose. A bullet struck him. The ship struck a reef. | |
4. v. To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows. | |
A hammer strikes against the bell of a clock. | |
6. v. To manufacture, as by stamping. | |
We will strike a medal in your honour. | |
7. v. (intransitive, dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground. | |
The ship struck in the night. | |
8. v. To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by | |
The clock struck twelve. The drums strike up a march. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows. | |
10. v. To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke. | |
to strike a light | |
11. v. To cause to ignite by friction. | |
to strike a match | |
12. v. To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate. | |
A tree strikes its roots deep. | |
13. v. (personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect. | |
14. v. To punish; to afflict; to smite. | |
15. v. (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action. | |
16. v. (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way. | |
The bank robber struck on the 2nd and 5th of May. | |
17. v. (transitive, figurative) To impinge upon. | |
The first thing to strike my eye was a beautiful pagoda. Tragedy struck when his brother was killed in a bush fire. | |
18. v. (intransitive) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions. | |
19. v. To impress, seem or appear (to). | |
Golf has always struck me as a waste of time. | |
20. v. To create an impression. | |
The news struck a sombre chord. | |
21. v. (sports) To score a goal. | |
22. v. (intransitive, UK, obsolete, slang) To steal money. | |
23. v. (transitive, UK, obsolete, slang) To take forcibly or fraudulently. | |
to strike money | |
24. v. To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion. | |
to strike the mind with surprise; to strike somebody with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror | |
25. v. To affect by a sudden impression or impulse. | |
The proposed plan strikes me favourably. May the Lord strike down those sinners! I was struck dumb with astonishment. | |
26. v. (slang) To borrow money from; to make a demand upon. | |
He struck a friend for five dollars. | |
27. v. To touch; to act by appulse. | |
28. v. To take down, especially in the following contexts. | |
29. v. (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.) | |
30. v. (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours. | |
The frigate has struck, sir! We've beaten them, the lily-livers! | |
31. v. To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.). | |
32. v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip. | |
They struck off along the river. | |
33. v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate. | |
34. v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into. | |
to strike into reputation; to strike into a run | |
35. v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters. | |
36. v. To make and ratify. | |
to strike a bargain | |
37. v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top. | |
38. v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle. | |
39. v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly. | |
My eye struck a strange word in the text. They soon struck the trail. | |
40. v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor. | |
41. v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave. | |
42. v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle. | |
43. v. To balance (a ledger or account). | |
44. n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught. | |
45. n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame. | |
46. n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest. | |
47. n. A blow or application of physical force against something. | |
Thus hand strikes now include single knuckle strikes, knife hand strikes, finger strikes, ridge hand strikes etc., and leg strikes include front kicks, knee strikes, axe kicks, ... | |
48. n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option. | |
49. n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel. | |
50. n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at. | |
* The batsmen have crossed, and Dhoni now has the strike. | |
51. n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen. | |
52. n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth. | |
53. n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle. | |
54. n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality. | |
55. n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence. | |
56. n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer. | |
57. n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail. | |
58. n. The discovery of a source of something. | |
59. n. A strike plate. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
vivid |
1. adj. (of perception) Clear, detailed or powerful. | |
2. adj. (of an image) Bright, intense or colourful. | |
3. adj. Full of life, strikingly alive. | |
4. n. (New Zealand) A felt-tipped permanent marker. | |
representation |
1. n. That which represents something else. | |
The Venus of Willendorf was an early representation of the female body. | |
2. n. The act of representing or exhibiting. | |
3. n. (legal) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court. | |
People who cannot afford representation are eligible for government assistance. | |
4. n. (politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government. | |
The lack of representation in the British parliament was one of the main factors behind the American Revolution. | |
5. n. (mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces; (more formally) a homomorphism from a group on a vector space to the general linear group | |
6. n. A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality. | |
7. n. A theatrical performance. | |
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. | |
picture |
1. n. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc. | |
2. n. An image; a representation as in the imagination. | |
3. n. A painting. | |
There was a picture hanging above the fireplace. | |
4. n. A photograph. | |
I took a picture of the church. | |
5. n. (informal) A motion picture. | |
Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture. | |
6. n. (in the informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment). | |
Let's go to the pictures. | |
7. n. A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category). | |
She's the very picture of health. | |
8. n. An attractive sight. | |
The garden is a real picture at this time of year. | |
9. n. The art of painting; representation by painting. | |
10. n. A figure; a model. | |
11. n. Situation. | |
The employment picture for the older middle class is not so good. | |
You can't just look at the election, you've got to look at the big picture. | |
12. v. To represent in or with a picture. | |
13. v. To imagine or envision. | |
14. v. To depict or describe vividly. | |