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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.
tool
1. n. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
Hand me that tool, would you? I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine.
2. n. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
These are the tools of the trade.
3. n. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
4. n. (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools. a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk
5. n. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
He was a tool, no more than a pawn to her.
6. n. (slang) Penis.
7. n. (by extension, slang) An obnoxious or uptight person.
He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool.
8. v. To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
9. v. To equip with tools.
10. v. (intransitive) To work very hard.
11. v. (transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.
12. v. (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
13. v. (transitive, UK, slang) To drive (a coach, etc.)
14. v. (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
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
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.
indented
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of indent
2. adj. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
3. adj. Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
a heavily indented coastline
4. adj. (heraldry) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.
an indented border or ordinary
5. adj. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.
an indented servant
6. adj. (zoology) Notched along the margin with a different color, like the feathers of some birds.
indent
1. n. A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
2. n. A stamp; an impression.
3. n. A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
4. n. A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
5. v. To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
to indent the edge of paper
6. v. (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
7. v. To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
indent a smooth surface with a hammer
to indent wax with a stamp
8. v. (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
9. v. (intransitive, reflexive, obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant
11. v. (typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "hanging indent" pulls the line ou
to indent the first line of a paragraph one em
to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first
12. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
13. v. (military, India dated) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
head
1. n. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.
2. n. (people) To do with heads.
3. n. # Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
# The company is looking for people with good heads for business.
# He has no head for heights.
# It's all about having a good head on your shoulders.
4. n. # Mind; one's own thoughts.
# This song keeps going through my head.
5. n. # A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
6. n. # A headdress; a covering for the head.
# a laced head; a head of hair
7. n. # An individual person.
# Admission is three dollars a head.
8. n. (animals) To do with heads.
9. n. # (measure word for livestock and game) A single animal.
# 200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses
# 12 head of big cattle and 14 head of branded calves
# at five years of age this head of cattle is worth perhaps $40
# a reduction in the assessment per head of sheep
# they shot 20 head of quail
10. n. # The population of game.
# we have a heavy head of deer this year
# planting the hedges increased the head of quail and doves
11. n. # The antlers of a deer.
12. n. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
What does it say at the head of the page?
13. n. The end of a table.
14. n. # The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
# During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table.
15. n. # (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
16. n. The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
17. n. # The end of a hammer, axe, golf club or similar implement used for striking other objects.
18. n. # The end of a nail, screw, bolt or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
# Hit the nail on the head!
19. n. # The sharp end of an arrow, spear or pointer.
# The head of the compass needle is pointing due north.
20. n. # (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
21. n. # (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
# Tap the head of the drum for this roll.
22. n. # A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
# The heads of your tape player need to be cleaned.
23. n. # (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
24. n. # (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
25. n. The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.
26. n. (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
27. n. (UK, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
28. n. (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
29. n. (music) The headstock of a guitar.
30. n. (nautical) A leading component.
31. n. # The top edge of a sail.
32. n. # The bow of a vessel.
33. n. (British) A headland.
34. n. (social) A leader or expert.
35. n. The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
36. n. Leader; chief; mastermind.
I'd like to speak to the head of the department.
Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night.
37. n. A headmaster or headmistress.
I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.
38. n. (music, slang) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
Only true heads know this.
39. n. A significant or important part.
40. n. A beginning or end, a protuberance.
41. n. # The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
# The expedition followed the river all the way to the head.
42. n. # A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
# Give me a head of lettuce.
43. n. ## An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
44. n. ## The leafy top part of a tree.
45. n. # (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
46. n. # (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
# I've got to go to the head.
47. n. # (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
48. n. A component.
49. n. # (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
50. n. # (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a memb
51. n. Headway; progress.
We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.
52. n. Topic; subject.
We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.
53. n. Denouement; crisis.
These isses are going to come to a head today.
54. n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
55. n. A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
Let the engine build up a good head of steam.
56. n. The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
57. n. More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
58. n. (slang) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
She gave great head.
59. n. (slang) The glans penis.
60. n. (slang) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
61. n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
62. adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
63. adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
the head cook
64. adj. Placed at the top or the front.
65. adj. Coming from in front.
head sea
for
1. conj. (dated) Because.
2. prep. Towards.
The astronauts headed for the moon.
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to.
I have something for you.
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of.
We're having a birthday party for Janet.
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary.
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala.
5. prep. Supporting.
All those for the motion raise your hands.
6. prep. Because of.
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him.
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight.
She was the worse for drink.
7. prep. Over a period of time.
I've lived here for three years.
They fought for days over a silly pencil.
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space.
9. prep. On behalf of.
I will stand in for him.
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of.
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire.
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday.
He's going for his doctorate.
Do you want to go for coffee?
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers.
Can you go to the store for some eggs?
I'm saving up for a car.
Don't wait for an answer.
What did he ask you for?
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward.
Run for the hills!
He was headed for the door when he remembered.
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect.
Fair for its day.
She's spry for an old lady.
14. prep. Despite, in spite of.
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive.
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.)
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.)
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
At close of play, England were 305 for 3.
18. prep. To be, or as being.
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.)
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs).
shaping
1. n. The action of the verb to shape.
2. n. (psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in operant conditioning.
3. v. present participle of shape
shape
1. n. The status or condition of something
The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
2. n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
We exercise to keep in good physical shape.
3. n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
He cut a square shape out of the cake.
What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
4. n. Form; formation.
5. n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
6. n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
7. n. (cookery, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
8. n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
9. v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
Earth was shapen by God for God's folk.
10. v. To give something a shape and definition.
Shape the dough into a pretzel. For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl.
11. v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
12. v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
13. v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
14. v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.
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.
head
1. n. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.
2. n. (people) To do with heads.
3. n. # Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
# The company is looking for people with good heads for business.
# He has no head for heights.
# It's all about having a good head on your shoulders.
4. n. # Mind; one's own thoughts.
# This song keeps going through my head.
5. n. # A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
6. n. # A headdress; a covering for the head.
# a laced head; a head of hair
7. n. # An individual person.
# Admission is three dollars a head.
8. n. (animals) To do with heads.
9. n. # (measure word for livestock and game) A single animal.
# 200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses
# 12 head of big cattle and 14 head of branded calves
# at five years of age this head of cattle is worth perhaps $40
# a reduction in the assessment per head of sheep
# they shot 20 head of quail
10. n. # The population of game.
# we have a heavy head of deer this year
# planting the hedges increased the head of quail and doves
11. n. # The antlers of a deer.
12. n. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
What does it say at the head of the page?
13. n. The end of a table.
14. n. # The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
# During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table.
15. n. # (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
16. n. The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
17. n. # The end of a hammer, axe, golf club or similar implement used for striking other objects.
18. n. # The end of a nail, screw, bolt or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
# Hit the nail on the head!
19. n. # The sharp end of an arrow, spear or pointer.
# The head of the compass needle is pointing due north.
20. n. # (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
21. n. # (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
# Tap the head of the drum for this roll.
22. n. # A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
# The heads of your tape player need to be cleaned.
23. n. # (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
24. n. # (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
25. n. The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.
26. n. (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
27. n. (UK, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
28. n. (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
29. n. (music) The headstock of a guitar.
30. n. (nautical) A leading component.
31. n. # The top edge of a sail.
32. n. # The bow of a vessel.
33. n. (British) A headland.
34. n. (social) A leader or expert.
35. n. The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
36. n. Leader; chief; mastermind.
I'd like to speak to the head of the department.
Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night.
37. n. A headmaster or headmistress.
I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.
38. n. (music, slang) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
Only true heads know this.
39. n. A significant or important part.
40. n. A beginning or end, a protuberance.
41. n. # The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
# The expedition followed the river all the way to the head.
42. n. # A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
# Give me a head of lettuce.
43. n. ## An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
44. n. ## The leafy top part of a tree.
45. n. # (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
46. n. # (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
# I've got to go to the head.
47. n. # (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
48. n. A component.
49. n. # (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
50. n. # (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a memb
51. n. Headway; progress.
We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.
52. n. Topic; subject.
We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.
53. n. Denouement; crisis.
These isses are going to come to a head today.
54. n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
55. n. A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
Let the engine build up a good head of steam.
56. n. The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
57. n. More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
58. n. (slang) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
She gave great head.
59. n. (slang) The glans penis.
60. n. (slang) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
61. n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
62. adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
63. adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
the head cook
64. adj. Placed at the top or the front.
65. adj. Coming from in front.
head sea
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.
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.
rivet
1. n. A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.
2. n. (figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
3. n. (obsolete) A light kind of footman's armour (back-formation from almain-rivet).
4. v. To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.
5. v. To install rivets.
6. v. (transitive, figurative) To command the attention of.

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