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. | |
utensil |
1. n. An instrument or device for domestic use, especially in the kitchen. | |
We have convenient storage for all the kitchen utensils. | |
2. n. A useful small tool, implement, or vessel. | |
He stocked up on old-style writing utensils. | |
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. | |
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. | |
weapon |
1. n. An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords. | |
The club that is now mostly used for golf was once a common weapon. | |
2. n. An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another. | |
Money is the main weapon of modern oligarchs. | |
3. n. (informal, humorous) A tool of any kind. | |
Choose your weapon. | |
4. n. (Scotland, Britain, slang) An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person. | |
usually |
1. adv. Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally. | |
Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work. | |
2. adv. Under normal conditions. | |
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. | |
compound |
1. n. an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined | |
2. n. a group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices | |
3. adj. composed of elements; not simple | |
a compound word | |
4. adj. (music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth). | |
5. n. Anything made by combining several things. | |
6. n. (chemistry, dated) A substance made from any combination elements. | |
7. n. (chemistry) A substance formed by chemical union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight. | |
8. n. (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem; compound word; for example laptop, formed from lap and top. | |
9. n. (rail) a compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. | |
10. v. To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts. | |
to compound a medicine | |
11. v. To assemble (ingredients) into a whole; to combine, mix, or unite. | |
12. v. To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else. | |
13. v. (transitive, legal) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated. | |
to compound a debt | |
14. v. To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise. | |
15. v. (intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration. | |
16. v. (transitive, obsolete) To compose; to constitute. | |
17. v. (intransitive, finance) To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest. | |
18. v. To worsen a situation | |
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. | |
article |
1. n. A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set. | |
Each of the chelicerae is composed of two articles, forming a powerful pincer. | |
The Articles of War are a set of regulations...to govern the conduct of...military...forces | |
2. n. A story, report, or opinion piece in a newspaper, magazine, journal, etc. | |
3. n. A member of a group or class. | |
an article of clothing | |
4. n. An object. | |
a sales article | |
5. n. (grammar) A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an ending (e.g. definite article in Swedish) or there may | |
6. n. A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. | |
7. n. (derogatory) A person. | |
A genuine article. | |
A shrewd article. | |
8. n. (archaic) A wench. | |
She's a prime article (whip slang), she's a devilish good piece, a hell of a goer. | |
9. n. (dated) Subject matter; concern. | |
10. n. (dated) A distinct part. | |
11. n. (obsolete) A precise point in time; a moment. | |
12. v. To bind by articles of apprenticeship. | |
to article an apprentice to a mechanic | |
13. v. (obsolete) To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles or accusations. | |
14. v. To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars. | |
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. | |
General |
1. n. (military) The military officer title | |
2. adj. Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific or particular. | |
3. adj. (sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent. | |
4. adj. Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual. | |
5. adj. Not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category. | |
6. adj. Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite. | |
7. adj. Not limited to a specific class; miscellaneous, concerned with all branches of a given subject or area. | |
8. n. (now rare) A general fact or proposition; a generality. | |
We have dealt with the generals; now let us turn to the particulars. | |
9. n. (military ranks) The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of t | |
10. n. A great strategist or tactician. | |
Hannibal was one of the greatest generals of the ancient world. | |
11. n. (Christianity) The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits. | |
12. n. (nautical) A commander of naval forces; an admiral. | |
13. n. (colloquial, now historical) A general servant; a maid with no specific duties. | |
14. n. A general anesthetic; general anesthesia. | |
15. n. (insurance) The general insurance industry. | |
I work in general. | |
16. v. to lead (soldiers) as a general | |