after |
1. adv. Behind; later in time; following. | |
They lived happily ever after. | |
I left the room, and the dog bounded after. | |
2. prep. Subsequently to; following in time; later than. | |
We had a few beers after the game. | |
The time is quarter after eight. | |
The Cold War began shortly after the Second World War. | |
3. prep. Behind. | |
He will leave a trail of destruction after him. | |
4. prep. In pursuit of, seeking. | |
He's after a job; run after him; inquire after her health. | |
5. prep. In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing. | |
We named him after his grandfather; a painting after Leonardo da Vinci. | |
6. prep. Next in importance or rank. | |
The princess is next in line to the throne after the prince. | |
7. prep. As a result of. | |
After your bad behaviour, you will be punished. | |
8. prep. In spite of. | |
After all that has happened, he is still my friend. | |
I can't believe that, after all our advice against gambling, you walked into that casino! | |
9. prep. (Irish usually preceded by a form of be followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity | |
I was after finishing my dinner when there was a knock on the door. | |
10. prep. (dated) According to an author or text. | |
11. prep. Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to. | |
to look after workmen; to enquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness | |
12. prep. (obsolete) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting. | |
13. conj. Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause. | |
I went home after we had decided to call it a day. | |
14. adj. (dated) Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent | |
15. adj. (nautical, where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship. | |
The after gun is mounted aft. | |
The after gun is abaft the forward gun. | |
we |
1. pron. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.) | |
2. pron. (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.) | |
3. pron. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sen | |
4. pron. (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed. | |
How are we all tonight? | |
5. pron. (personal, generally considered patronising) A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care. | |
How are we feeling this morning? | |
6. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person. | |
We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different. | |
corralled |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of corral | |
corral |
1. n. An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one. | |
We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama. | |
2. n. An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group. | |
Please return the shopping carts to the corral. | |
3. n. A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense. | |
The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks. | |
4. v. To capture or round up. | |
The lawyer frantically tried to corral his notes as his briefcase fell open. | |
Between us, we managed to corral the puppy in the kitchen. | |
5. v. To place inside of a corral. | |
After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner. | |
6. v. To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral. | |
The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night. | |
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. | |
last |
1. adj. Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind. | |
“Eyes Wide Shut” was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick. | |
2. adj. Most recent, latest, last so far. | |
The last time I saw him, he was married. | |
I have received your note dated the 17th last, and am responding to say that.... (archaic usage) | |
3. adj. Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable. | |
He is the last person to be accused of theft. | |
The last person I want to meet is Helen. | |
More rain is the last thing we need right now. | |
4. adj. Being the only one remaining of its class. | |
Japan is the last empire. | |
5. adj. Supreme; highest in degree; utmost. | |
6. adj. Lowest in rank or degree. | |
the last prize | |
7. det. The (one) immediately before the present. | |
We went there last year. | |
8. det. (of a day of the week) Closest to seven days (one week) ago. | |
It's Wednesday, and the party was last Tuesday; that is, not yesterday, but eight days ago. | |
9. adv. Most recently. | |
When we last met, he was based in Toronto. | |
10. adv. (sequence) after everything else; finally | |
I'll go last. | |
last but not least | |
11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To perform, carry out. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To endure, continue over time. | |
Summer seems to last longer each year. | |
They seem happy now, but that won't last long. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire. | |
I don't know how much longer we can last without reinforcements. | |
14. n. A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes. | |
15. v. To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last. | |
to last a boot | |
16. n. (obsolete) A burden; load; a cargo; freight. | |
17. n. (obsolete) A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned. | |
18. n. (obsolete) An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons. | |
19. n. A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value. | |
steer |
1. n. The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production. | |
2. v. To castrate (a male calf). | |
3. n. (informal) A suggestion about a course of action. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel). | |
The boat steered towards the iceberg. | |
I steered homeward. | |
5. v. To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel). | |
I find it very difficult to steer a skateboard. | |
When planning the boat trip, we had completely forgotten that we needed somebody to steer. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm. | |
The boat steers easily. | |
7. v. To direct a group of animals. | |
8. v. To maneuver or manipulate a person or group into a place or course of action. | |
Hume believes that principles of association steer the imagination of artists. | |
9. v. To direct a conversation. | |
10. v. To conduct oneself; to take or pursue a course of action. | |
11. n. (obsolete) A helmsman; a pilot. | |
we |
1. pron. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.) | |
2. pron. (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.) | |
3. pron. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sen | |
4. pron. (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed. | |
How are we all tonight? | |
5. pron. (personal, generally considered patronising) A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care. | |
How are we feeling this morning? | |
6. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person. | |
We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different. | |
headed |
1. adj. Of a sheet of paper: having the sender's name, address, etc. pre-printed at the top. | |
2. adj. (in combination) Having a head with specified characteristics. | |
a large-headed caricature of a politician | |
3. adj. (in combination) Heading in a certain direction. | |
southward-headed caravans | |
4. v. simple past tense and past participle of head | |
Smith headed the team last summer. | |
We headed toward the ocean. | |
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 | |
off |
1. adv. In a direction away from the speaker or object. | |
He drove off in a cloud of smoke. | |
2. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence. | |
Please switch off the light when you leave. | |
die off | |
3. adv. So as to be removed or separated. | |
He bit off more than he could chew. | |
Some branches were sawn off. | |
4. adj. Inoperative, disabled. | |
All the lights are off. | |
5. adj. Rancid, rotten. | |
This milk is off! | |
6. adj. (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman. | |
7. adj. Less than normal, in temperament or in result. | |
sales are off this quarter | |
8. adj. Circumstanced (as in well off, better off, poorly off). | |
9. adj. Started on the way. | |
off to see the wizard | |
And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose. | |
10. adj. Far; off to the side. | |
the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse | |
11. adj. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent. | |
He took an off day for fishing. an off year in politics; the off season | |
12. adj. (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable. | |
— I'll have the chicken please. | |
— Sorry, chicken's off today. | |
13. adj. Right-hand (in relation to the side of a horse or a vehicle). | |
14. prep. Used to indicate movement away from a position on | |
I took it off the table. | |
Come off the roof! | |
15. prep. (colloquial) Out of the possession of. | |
He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him. | |
16. prep. Away from or not on. | |
He's off the computer, but he's still on the phone. | |
Keep off the grass. | |
17. prep. Disconnected or subtracted from. | |
We've been off the grid for three days now. | |
He took 20% off the list price. | |
18. prep. Distant from. | |
We're just off the main road. | |
The island is 23 miles off the cape. | |
19. prep. No longer wanting or taking. | |
He's been off his feed since Tuesday. | |
He's off his meds again. | |
20. prep. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering(topics, en, Engineering). | |
Tantalum bar 6 off 3/8" Dia × 12" — Atom, Great Britain Atomic Energy Authority, 1972 | |
samples submitted … 12 off Thermistors type 1K3A531 … — BSI test report for shock and vibration testing, 2000 | |
I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off. | |
21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill. | |
He got in the way so I had him offed. | |
22. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) To switch off. | |
Can you off the light? | |
23. n. (rare) Beginning; starting point. | |
He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off. | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
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. | |
Chuck |
1. n. (informal, usually plural) a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe. | |
2. n. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal. | |
3. n. (US, slang) Food. | |
4. n. (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder. | |
5. n. (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen. | |
6. n. A clucking sound. | |
7. n. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment. | |
Are you all right, chuck? | |
8. n. A gentle touch or tap. | |
She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin. | |
9. n. (informal) A casual throw. | |
10. n. (slang) An act of vomiting. | |
11. n. (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action. | |
12. v. To make a clucking sound. | |
13. v. To call, as a hen her chickens. | |
14. v. To touch or tap gently. | |
15. v. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner. | |
Chuck that magazine to me, would you? | |
16. v. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away. | |
This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it. | |
17. v. (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump. | |
She's chucked me for another man! | |
18. v. (intransitive, slang) To vomit. | |
19. v. (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action. | |
20. v. (South Africa, slang) To leave; to depart; to bounce. | |
Let's chuck. | |
21. v. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh. | |
22. v. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck. | |
23. n. abbreviation of woodchuck | |
24. n. (Scotland) A small pebble. | |
25. n. (Scotland, obsolete, slang) Money. | |
wagon |
1. n. A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. | |
2. n. A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front. | |
3. n. An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck. | |
4. n. An enclosed vehicle used as a movable dwelling; a caravan. | |
5. n. short for, dinner wagon, , set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving | |
6. n. (slang) (short for, paddy wagon, , police van for transporting prisoners) | |
7. n. (rail transport) A freight car on a railway. | |
Synonyms: goods wagon, q1=Britain | |
8. n. (chiefly Australia, US, slang) (short for, station wagon, , type of car in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk)); | |
9. n. (Ireland, slang) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow. | |
10. v. (transitive, chiefly US) To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon. | |
11. v. (intransitive, chiefly US) To travel in a wagon. | |
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). | |
dinner |
1. n. A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea). | |
2. n. The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening. | |
3. n. An evening meal. | |
4. n. A meal given to an animal. | |
Give the dog its dinner. | |
5. n. A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion. | |
6. n. The food provided or consumed at any such meal. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To eat a dinner. | |
8. v. To provide (someone) with a dinner. | |