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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.
substance
1. n. Physical matter; material.
2. n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
3. n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
Some textile fabrics have little substance.
4. n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
a man of substance
5. n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
6. n. Drugs (illegal narcotics)
substance abuse
7. n. (theology) Hypostasis.
8. v. (rare, transitive) To give substance to; to make real or substantial.
formed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of form
form
1. n. To do with shape.:
2. n. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
3. n. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
4. n. (dated) A long bench with no back.
5. n. (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
6. n. (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
7. n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
8. n. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
9. n. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
10. n. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
a republican form of government
11. n. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
a matter of mere form
12. n. (archaic) A class or rank in society.
13. n. (UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
14. n. (education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
15. n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
To apply for the position, complete the application form.
16. n. Level of performance.
The team's form has been poor this year.
The orchestra was on top form this evening.
17. n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
participial forms; verb forms
18. n. The den or home of a hare.
19. n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
20. n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
21. n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
22. n. (geometry) A quantic.
23. n. (sports) A specific way of performing a movement.
24. v. To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.
25. v. To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.
26. v. (intransitive) To take shape.
When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.
27. v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.
28. v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.
29. v. To constitute, to compose, to make up.
Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.
30. v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.
31. v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
32. v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead pero
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
trapping
1. v. present participle of trap
2. n. An instance of ensnaring something or someone.
3. n. An ornamental covering or harness for a horse; caparison.
trap
1. n. A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
2. n. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.
3. n. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.
4. n. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball
5. n. The game of trapball itself.
6. n. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.
7. n. A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.
8. n. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
9. n. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
10. n. (slang) A person's mouth.
Keep your trap shut.
11. n. (in the plural) Belongings.
12. n. (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you.
13. n. (sports) Trapshooting.
14. n. (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
15. n. (Australia, slang) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
16. n. (US, slang) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold. (Also used attributively to describe things which are used for the sale of drugs, e.g.
17. n. A kind of movable stepladder.
18. n. (slang) A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite.
19. n. (slang) A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's textual gender.
20. n. (music) A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music.
21. v. To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
to trap foxes
22. v. To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
23. v. To provide with a trap.
to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe
24. v. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game
trap for beaver
25. v. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
26. v. (US, slang) To sell narcotics, especially in a public area.
27. v. (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
28. n. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
29. v. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
30. n. (slang) The trapezius muscle.
pockets
1. n. plural of pocket
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of pocket
pocket
1. n. A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
2. n. Such a receptacle seen as housing someone's money; hence, financial resources.
I paid for it out of my own pocket.
3. n. (sports) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
4. n. An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.
5. n. (Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
6. n. (Australian rules football) The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roug
7. n. (American Football) The region directly behind the offensive line in which the quarterback executes plays.
8. n. (military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
9. n. (rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
10. n. A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries.
11. n. (architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
12. n. (mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
13. n. (nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
14. n. The pouch of an animal.
15. n. (bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
16. n. A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
17. n. A bight on a lee shore.
18. n. (dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
19. v. To put (something) into a pocket.
20. v. (sports) To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
21. v. (slang) To take and keep (especially money) that which is not one's own.
22. v. (slang) To shoplift, to steal.
23. v. (transitive, obsolete) To receive (an insult, an affront, etc.) without open resentment, or without seeking redress.
24. adj. Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
pocket dictionary
25. adj. Smaller or more compact than usual.
pocket battleship, pocket beach
26. adj. (Texas hold'em poker) Referring to the two initial hole cards.
A pocket pair of kings.
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.
gas
1. n. (chemistry) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull)
A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.
2. n. (chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases.
3. n. A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines i
Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.
4. n. A hob on a gas cooker.
She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.
5. n. (US) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.
My tummy hurts so bad, I have gas.
6. n. (slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
He is such a gas!
7. n. (baseball) A fastball.
The closer threw him nothing but gas.
8. n. (medicine, colloquial) Arterial or venous blood gas.
9. v. To kill with poisonous gas.
10. v. (intransitive) To talk, chat.
11. v. (intransitive) To emit gas.
The battery cell was gassing.
12. v. To impregnate with gas.
to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder
13. v. To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
to gas thread
14. n. (US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
15. n. (US) Gas pedal.
16. v. (US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
The cops are coming. Gas it!
17. v. (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
18. adj. (Ireland, colloquial) comical, zany; fun, amusing
Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.
It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom.
19. adj. topics, en, Automotive, Matter
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
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.
liquid
1. n. A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative
A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
2. n. (phonetics) A class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
3. adj. Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
liquid nitrogen
4. adj. (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
5. adj. (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
6. adj. Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
a liquid melody
7. adj. (phonology) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth.
L and R are liquid letters.
8. adj. Fluid and transparent.
the liquid air
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.
solid
1. adj. (of an object or substance) That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid or a gas.
Almost all metals are solid at room temperature.
2. adj. Large in size, quantity, or value.
3. adj. Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
solid gold, solid chocolate
4. adj. Strong or unyielding.
a solid foundation
5. adj. (slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
That's a solid plan.
Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid.
I don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude.
6. adj. Hearty; filling.
a solid meal
7. adj. Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
8. adj. Sound; not weak.
a solid constitution of body
9. adj. (typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
American English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates.
10. adj. (printing, dated) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
11. adj. (US, politics slang) United; without division; unanimous.
The delegation is solid for a candidate.
12. adj. Of a single color throughout.
John painted the walls solid white.
He wore a solid shirt with floral pants.
13. adj. (of drawn lines) Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.
The solid lines show roads, and the dotted lines footpaths.
14. adj. (dated) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.
A solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
15. n. (chemistry) A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas).
16. n. (geometry) A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
17. n. (informal) A favor.
Please do me a solid: lend me your car for one week.
I owe him; he did me a solid last year.
18. n. An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
I prefer solids over paisleys.
19. n. (in the plural) Food which is not liquid-based.
The doctor said I can't eat any solids four hours before the operation.
20. adv. Solidly.
21. adv. (not comparable, typography) Without spaces or hyphens.
Many long-established compounds are set solid.

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