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. | |
American |
1. n. Originally, a native or inhabitant of the British North American colonies of European descent; now, a person born in, or a citizen or inhabitant of, the United States of America. | |
2. n. An indigenous inhabitant of the Americas; a Native American or an American Indian (now chiefly with qualifying word). | |
3. n. An inhabitant of the Americas. More often this is specified as either North American, Central American or South American. | |
Every American's origin is, historically speaking, by immigration, if scientific speculation that points to a human origin in Africa and a migration to the New World from Eurasia turns out to b | |
4. n. (US printing rare dated) A size of type smaller than German, 1-point type. | |
5. adj. Of or pertaining to the Americas. More often this is specified with a qualifier, such as "North American", "Central American", "South American", etc. | |
6. adj. Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people or its culture. | |
Thanksgiving is an American tradition. | |
He married an American woman in order to get an American passport. | |
7. adj. (finance) (of an option, not comparable) Can be exercised on any date between the issue date and the expiry date. | |
fish |
1. n. A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills. | |
Salmon is a fish. | |
The Sun Mother created all the fishes of the world. | |
The Sun Mother created all the fish of the world. | |
We have many fish in our aquarium. | |
2. n. (archaic, or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water. | |
3. n. The flesh of the fish used as food. | |
The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta. | |
4. n. A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank. | |
5. n. (derogatory, slang) A woman. | |
6. n. (slang) An easy victim for swindling. | |
7. n. (poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player). | |
8. n. (nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship. | |
9. n. (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor. | |
10. n. (nautical) A torpedo. | |
11. n. (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups: | |
12. n. Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra) | |
13. n. Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw) | |
14. n. Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda) | |
15. n. # Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays | |
16. n. # Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish. | |
17. n. (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card. | |
18. n. A period of time spent fishing. | |
The fish at the lake didn't prove successful. | |
19. n. An instance of seeking something. | |
Merely two fishes for information told the whole story. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals. | |
She went to the river to fish for trout. | |
21. v. To search (a body of water) for something other than fish. | |
They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body. | |
22. v. (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects. | |
Why are you fishing through my things? | |
He was fishing for the keys in his pocket. | |
23. v. (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something. | |
The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information. | |
The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments. | |
24. v. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it. | |
25. v. (nautical) To repair a spar or mast by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above). | |
26. n. (obsolete) A counter, used in various games. | |
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. | |
lafayette |
1. n. The dollarfish. | |
2. n. A market fish, the goody or spot , of the southern coast of the United States. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
spot |
1. n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape. | |
The leopard is noted for the spots of color in its fur. | |
2. n. A stain or disfiguring mark. | |
I have tried everything, and I can’t get this spot out. | |
3. n. A pimple, papule or pustule. | |
That morning, I saw that a spot had come up on my chin. | |
I think she's got chicken pox; she's covered in spots. | |
4. n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity. | |
Would you like to come round on Sunday for a spot of lunch? | |
5. n. (slang) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars. | |
Here's the twenty bucks I owe you, a ten spot and two five spots. | |
6. n. A location or area. | |
I like to eat lunch in a pleasant spot outside. | |
For our anniversary we went back to the same spot where we first met. | |
7. n. A parking space. | |
8. n. (sports) An official determination of placement. | |
The fans were very unhappy with the referee's spot of the ball. | |
9. n. A bright lamp; a spotlight. | |
10. n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television. | |
Did you see the spot on the news about the shoelace factory? | |
11. n. Difficult situation; predicament. | |
She was in a real spot when she ran into her separated husband while on a date. | |
12. n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter. | |
13. n. (soccer) Penalty spot. | |
14. n. The act of spotting or noticing something. | |
- You've misspelled "terrapin" here. | |
- Whoops. Good spot. | |
15. n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak. | |
16. n. A food fish of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. | |
17. n. The southern redfish, or (vern, red horse) , which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. | |
18. n. (in the brokers' slang) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery. | |
19. n. An autosoliton. | |
20. n. (finance) A decimal point; point. | |
Twelve spot two five pounds sterling. (ie. £12.25) | |
21. v. To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify. | |
Try to spot the differences between these two pictures. | |
22. v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone. | |
I’ll spot you ten dollars for lunch. | |
23. v. To stain; to leave a spot (on). | |
Hard water will spot if it is left on a surface. | |
a garment spotted with mould | |
24. v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain. | |
I spotted the carpet where the child dropped spaghetti. | |
25. v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates. | |
I can’t do a back handspring unless somebody spots me. | |
26. v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning. | |
Most figure skaters do not spot their turns like dancers do. | |
27. v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation. | |
28. v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing. | |
29. v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker. | |
The referee had to spot the pink on the blue spot. | |
30. adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery. | |
spot wheat; spot cash | |