| 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, แ (Mkhedruli), แ (Asomtavruli) or โด (Nuskhuri). | |
| 8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
| I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
| individual |
| 1. n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people. | |
| He is an unusual individual. | |
| 2. n. (legal) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation. | |
| 3. n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class. | |
| 4. n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population. | |
| 5. adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one. | |
| As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one. | |
| 6. adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person. | |
| individual personal pension; individual cream cakes | |
| 7. adj. Not divisible without losing its identity. | |
| with |
| 1. prep. Against. | |
| He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
| 2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
| He went with his friends. | |
| 3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
| She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
| 4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
| 5. prep. In support of. | |
| We are with you all the way. | |
| 6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; โ sometimes equivalent to by. | |
| slain with robbers | |
| 7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
| cut with a knife | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
| 9. prep. Having, owning. | |
| 10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
| Do you want to come with? | |
| 11. adv. --> | |
| 12. n. alternative form of withe | |
| low |
| 1. adj. Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty. | |
| standing on low ground in a low valley, ringed by low hills a low wall a low shelf | |
| 2. adj. Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than | |
| the low countries Low German | |
| 3. adj. (baseball, of a ball) Below the batter's knees. | |
| the pitch (or: the ball) was low | |
| 4. adj. Of less than normal height; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured. | |
| a low bow a low tide the Mississippi is unusually low right now | |
| 5. adj. Not high in status, esteem or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar). | |
| low birth low rank the low officials of the bureaucracy low-quality fabric playing low tricks on them a person of low mind | |
| Now that was low even for you! | |
| 6. adj. Humble, meek, not haughty. | |
| 7. adj. Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence. | |
| She had a low opinion of cats. He took a low view of dogs. | |
| 8. adj. Being a nadir, a bottom. | |
| the low point in her career | |
| 9. adj. Depressed in mood, dejected, sad. | |
| low spirits | |
| 10. adj. Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak. | |
| a low pulse | |
| made (or: laid) low by sickness | |
| 11. adj. Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc). | |
| My credit union charges a low interest rate. Jogging during a whiteout, with such low temperatures and low visibility, is dangerous. The store sold bread at low prices, and milk a | |
| 12. adj. Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative). | |
| diets low in vitamin A made from low-carbon steel | |
| 13. adj. Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply. | |
| running low on cash | |
| 14. adj. (especially in the field of biology) Simple in complexity or development; (in several set phrases) favoring simplicity; see e.g. low church, Low Tory. | |
| low protozoan animals, low cryptogamic plants, and other low organisms | |
| 15. adj. (in several set phrases) Being near the equator. | |
| the low northern latitudes | |
| 16. adj. (acoustics) Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat. | |
| The note was too low for her to sing. | |
| Generally, European men have lower voices than their Indian counterparts. | |
| 17. adj. Quiet; soft; not loud. | |
| They spoke in low voices so I would not hear what they were saying. | |
| Why would you want to play heavy metal at such a low volume? | |
| 18. adj. (phonetics) Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate. | |
| 19. adj. (card games) Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc. | |
| a low card | |
| 20. adj. (archaic) Not rich, seasoned, or nourishing; plain, simple. | |
| a low diet | |
| 21. adj. (of an, automobile, gear, etc) Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed. | |
| low gear | |
| 22. n. Something that is low; a low point. | |
| You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank. | |
| Economic growth has hit a new low. | |
| 23. n. The minimum value attained by some quantity within a specified period. | |
| Unemployment has reached a ten-year low. | |
| 24. n. A depressed mood or situation. | |
| He is in a low right now | |
| 25. n. (meteorology) An area of low pressure; a depression. | |
| A deep low is centred over the British Isles. | |
| 26. n. The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle. | |
| Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour. | |
| 27. n. (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn. | |
| 28. n. (slang) (usually accompanied by "the") a cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous payment or expense. | |
| He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low. | |
| 29. adv. Close to the ground. | |
| 30. adv. Of a pitch, at a lower frequency. | |
| 31. adv. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently. | |
| to speak low | |
| 32. adv. Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply. | |
| He sold his wheat low. | |
| 33. adv. In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly. | |
| 34. adv. In a time approaching our own. | |
| 35. adv. (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution. | |
| The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian. | |
| 36. v. (obsolete, transitive) To depress; to lower. | |
| 37. v. (obsolete) simple past tense of laugh. | |
| 38. v. (intransitive) To moo. | |
| The cattle were lowing. | |
| 39. n. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze. | |
| 40. v. (Scotland) To burn; to blaze. | |
| 41. n. (archaic, or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus. | |
| 42. n. (Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill. | |
| 43. n. cln, en, basic words, three-letter words | |
| morals |
| 1. n. plural of moral | |
| moral |
| 1. adj. Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour. | |
| moral judgments; a moral poem | |
| 2. adj. Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment. | |
| a moral obligation | |
| 3. adj. Capable of right and wrong action. | |
| a moral agent | |
| 4. adj. Probable but not proved. | |
| a moral certainty | |
| 5. adj. Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will. | |
| a moral victory; moral support | |
| 6. n. (of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson. | |
| The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth. | |
| 7. n. Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct. | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) A morality play. | |
| 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. | |
| principles |
| 1. n. plural of principle | |
| principle |
| 1. n. A fundamental assumption or guiding belief. | |
| We need some sort of principles to reason from. | |
| 2. n. A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem. | |
| The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs. | |
| 3. n. (sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect. | |
| I don't doubt your principles. | |
| You are clearly a person of principle. | |
| It's the principle of the thing; I won't do business with someone I can't trust. | |
| 4. n. (physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied. | |
| Bernoulli's Principle | |
| The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents two fermions from occupying the same state. | |
| The principle of the internal combustion engine | |
| 5. n. A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality. | |
| Many believe that life is the result of some vital principle. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) A beginning. | |
| 7. n. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause. | |
| 8. n. An original faculty or endowment. | |
| 9. v. To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct. | |
