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. | |
twisting |
1. v. present participle of twist | |
2. n. gerund of twist | |
3. adj. Having many twists | |
The mountain road is even more twisting than the valley road. | |
twist |
1. n. A twisting force. | |
2. n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting. | |
3. n. The form given in twisting. | |
4. n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted. | |
5. n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together. | |
6. n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc. | |
7. n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc. | |
8. n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage. | |
9. n. (authorship) An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc. | |
10. n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Wikipedia:Twist (dance) | |
11. n. A rotation of the body when diving. | |
12. n. A sprain, especially to the ankle. | |
13. n. (obsolete) A twig. | |
14. n. (slang) A girl, a woman. | |
15. n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked. | |
16. n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together. | |
Damascus twist | |
17. n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon. | |
18. n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin. | |
19. n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination. | |
a twist toward fanaticism | |
20. v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force. | |
21. v. To join together by twining one part around another. | |
22. v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. | |
23. v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. | |
24. v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate. | |
Avarice twists itself into all human concerns. | |
25. v. To turn a knob etc. | |
26. v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating. | |
27. v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings). | |
28. v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction. | |
29. v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends. | |
30. v. To cause to rotate. | |
31. v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips). | |
32. v. To coax. | |
33. v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card. | |
struggle |
1. n. A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task. | |
2. n. (figurative) Strife, contention, great effort. | |
3. v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend. | |
During the centuries, the people of Ireland struggled constantly to assert their right to govern themselves. | |
4. v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. | |
She struggled to escape from her assailant's grasp. | |