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. | |
insult |
1. v. To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone). | |
2. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over or against someone). | |
3. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. | |
4. n. An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude. | |
5. n. Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality. | |
The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears. | |
6. n. (medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes. | |
7. n. (obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack. | |
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. | |
slight |
1. adj. Small in amount, gentle, or weak; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe. | |
a slight (i.e. feeble) effort; a slight (i.e. not deep) impression; a slight (i.e. not convincing) argument; a slight (i.e. not thorough) examination; a slight (i.e. not | |
2. adj. Not stout or heavy; slender. | |
a slight but graceful woman | |
3. adj. (regional) Even, smooth or level; still (of the sea). | |
A slight stone | |
The sea was slight and calm | |
4. adj. (obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect. | |
5. adj. (regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality (as goods). | |
A gullible chapman was fooled into buying really slight goods. | |
6. adj. (dated) Slighting; treating with disdain. | |
7. v. To treat as slight or not worthy of attention; to make light of. | |
8. v. To give lesser weight or importance to. | |
9. v. To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully. | |
10. v. (transitive military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition. | |
11. v. To make even or level. | |
12. v. To throw heedlessly. | |
13. n. The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy. | |
14. n. (obsolete) Sleight. | |