affording |
1. v. present participle of afford | |
afford |
1. v. To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious;—with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough. | |
I think we can afford the extra hour it will take. We can only afford to buy a small car at the moment. | |
2. v. To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury. | |
A affords his goods cheaper than B. A man can afford a sum yearly in charity. | |
3. v. To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue. | |
Grapes afford wine. Olives afford oil. The earth affords fruit. The sea affords an abundant supply of fish. | |
4. v. To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish. | |
A good life affords consolation in old age. | |
short |
1. adj. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically. | |
2. adj. (of a person) Of comparatively little height. | |
3. adj. Having little duration; opposite of long. | |
Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it's been at least twenty minutes long. | |
4. adj. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another). | |
“Phone” is short for “telephone” and "asap" short for "as soon as possible". | |
5. adj. (cricket, of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman. | |
6. adj. (cricket, of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman. | |
7. adj. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole. | |
8. adj. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust.) | |
9. adj. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant. | |
He gave a short answer to the question. | |
10. adj. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty. | |
a short supply of provisions | |
11. adj. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking. | |
to be short of money | |
The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift. | |
12. adj. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard. | |
an account which is short of the truth | |
13. adj. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand. | |
14. adj. Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future. | |
I'm short General Motors because I think their sales are plunging. | |
15. adv. Abruptly, curtly, briefly. | |
They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street. | |
He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting. | |
The boss got a message and cut the meeting short. | |
16. adv. Unawares. | |
The recent developments at work caught them short. | |
17. adv. Without achieving a goal or requirement. | |
His speech fell short of what was expected. | |
18. adv. (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full. | |
19. adv. (finance) With a negative ownership position. | |
We went short most finance companies in July. | |
20. n. A short circuit. | |
21. n. A short film. | |
22. n. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size | |
38 short suits fit me right off the rack. | |
Do you have that size in a short. | |
23. n. (baseball) A shortstop. | |
Jones smashes a grounder between third and short. | |
24. n. (finance) A short seller. | |
The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne. | |
25. n. (finance) A short sale. | |
He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months. | |
26. n. A summary account. | |
27. n. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel. | |
28. n. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long. | |
29. v. To cause a short circuit in (something). | |
30. v. (intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit. | |
31. v. To shortchange. | |
32. v. To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount. | |
This is the third time I've caught them shorting us. | |
33. v. (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short. | |
34. v. (obsolete) To shorten. | |
35. prep. Deficient in. | |
We are short a few men on the second shift. | |
He's short common sense. | |
36. prep. (finance) Having a negative position in. | |
I don't want to be short the market going into the weekend. | |
term |
1. n. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. | |
Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing. | |
2. n. That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary. | |
3. n. (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits. | |
A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid. | |
4. n. A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge. | |
"Algorithm" is a term used in computer science. | |
5. n. Relations among people. | |
We are on friendly terms with each other. | |
6. n. Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year. | |
7. n. Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length. | |
He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison. | |
near-term, mid-term and long-term goals | |
the term allowed to a debtor to discharge his debt | |
8. n. (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force. | |
9. n. (archaic) A menstrual period. | |
10. n. (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table. | |
All the terms of this sum cancel out. | |
One only term is odd nobr - in ( 12; 3; 4 ). | |
11. n. (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. | |
12. n. (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart. | |
13. n. (architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr. | |
14. n. (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. | |
15. v. To phrase a certain way; to name or call. | |
16. adj. (medicine, colloquial) Born or delivered at term. | |
term neonate | |
17. n. (computing, informal) terminal (computer program that emulates a physical terminal) | |
18. v. To terminate one's employment | |
19. n. One whose employment has been terminated | |
benefit |
1. n. An advantage; help or aid from something. | |
It was for her benefit. His benefit was free beer. | |
2. n. (insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme. | |
3. n. An event such as a performance, given to raise funds for some cause. | |
4. n. (obsolete) beneficence; liberality | |
5. v. To be or to provide a benefit to. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary. | |
often |
1. adv. Frequently, many times. | |
I often walk to work when the weather is nice. | |
I've been going to the movies more often since a new theatre opened near me. | |
2. adj. (archaic) Frequent. | |
at |
1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place. | |
Caesar was at Rome; at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine; at Jim’s house | |
2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.) | |
at six o’clock; at closing time; at night. | |
3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner). | |
He threw the ball at me. He shouted at her. | |
4. prep. Denotes a price. | |
3 apples at 2¢ (each) The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations. | |
5. prep. Occupied in (activity). | |
men at work | |
6. prep. In a state of. | |
She is at sixes and sevens with him. They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff. The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces. | |
7. prep. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series. | |
Sell at 90. Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders. I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost. | |
8. prep. Because of. | |
to laugh at a joke mad at their comments | |
9. prep. Indicates a means, method, or manner. | |
10. prep. Holding a given speed or rate. | |
It is growing at the rate of 3% a year. Cruising along at fifty miles per hour. | |
11. prep. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding. | |
The twins were both bad at chemistry. | |
He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation. | |
12. prep. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to | |
13. n. The at sign (@). | |
14. n. (alt form, att) (Laos currency unit) | |
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. | |
expense |
1. n. A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds. | |
She went to great expense to ensure her children would get the best education. | |
Buying the car was a big expense, but will be worth it in the long run. | |
We had a training weekend in New York, at the expense of our company. | |
2. n. The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated. | |
Jones reached the final at the expense of Smith, who couldn't beat him. | |
3. n. (obsolete) Loss. | |
4. v. To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works. | |
It should be acceptable to expense a business lunch with a client. | |
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. | |
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. | |
long |
1. adj. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below). | |
It's a long way from the Earth to the Moon. | |
2. adj. Having great duration. | |
The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time. | |
3. adj. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring. | |
4. adj. (UK, dialect) Not short; tall. | |
5. adj. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value. | |
I'm long in DuPont; I have a long position in DuPont. | |
6. adj. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position). | |
7. adj. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out). | |
No! That forehand is longnb.... | |
8. adj. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. | |
9. adv. Over a great distance in space. | |
He threw the ball long. | |
10. adv. For a particular duration. | |
How long is it until the next bus arrives? | |
11. adv. For a long duration. | |
Will this interview take long? | |
Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world. | |
12. n. (linguistics) A long vowel. | |
13. n. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long. | |
A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment. | |
14. n. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset. | |
Every uptick made the longs cheer. | |
15. n. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. | |
16. v. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in. | |
17. v. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true) | |
She longed for him to come back. | |
18. adj. (archaic) On account of, because of. | |
19. v. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to. | |
20. n. longitude | |
term |
1. n. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. | |
Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing. | |
2. n. That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary. | |
3. n. (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits. | |
A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid. | |
4. n. A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge. | |
"Algorithm" is a term used in computer science. | |
5. n. Relations among people. | |
We are on friendly terms with each other. | |
6. n. Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year. | |
7. n. Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length. | |
He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison. | |
near-term, mid-term and long-term goals | |
the term allowed to a debtor to discharge his debt | |
8. n. (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force. | |
9. n. (archaic) A menstrual period. | |
10. n. (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table. | |
All the terms of this sum cancel out. | |
One only term is odd nobr - in ( 12; 3; 4 ). | |
11. n. (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. | |
12. n. (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart. | |
13. n. (architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr. | |
14. n. (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. | |
15. v. To phrase a certain way; to name or call. | |
16. adj. (medicine, colloquial) Born or delivered at term. | |
term neonate | |
17. n. (computing, informal) terminal (computer program that emulates a physical terminal) | |
18. v. To terminate one's employment | |
19. n. One whose employment has been terminated | |