| 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. | |
| interest |
| 1. n. (finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. | |
| Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%. | |
| 2. n. A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. | |
| He has a lot of interest in vintage cars. | |
| 3. n. Attention that is given to or received from someone or something. | |
| 4. n. An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor. | |
| When scientists and doctors write articles and when politicians run for office, they are required in many countries to declare any existing conflicts of interest. | |
| I have business interests in South Africa. | |
| 5. n. Something or someone one is interested in. | |
| Lexicography is one of my interests. | |
| Victorian furniture is an interest of mine. | |
| The main character's romantic interest will be played by a non-professional actor. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages. | |
| 7. n. (usually plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively. | |
| the iron interest; the cotton interest | |
| 8. v. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing. | |
| It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach. | |
| Action films don't really interest me. | |
| 9. v. (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite. | |
| 10. v. (obsolete) To cause or permit to share. | |
| group |
| 1. n. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. | |
| there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group | |
| A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals. | |
| 2. n. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse. | |
| 3. n. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve. | |
| 4. n. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together. | |
| Did you see the new jazz group? | |
| 5. n. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other. | |
| 6. n. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements. | |
| 7. n. (chemistry) A functional group. | |
| Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group. | |
| 8. n. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society. | |
| 9. n. (military) An air force formation. | |
| 10. n. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata. | |
| 11. n. (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals. | |
| 12. n. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter. | |
| 13. n. (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes. | |
| 14. n. (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division. | |
| 15. n. (business) A commercial organization. | |
| 16. v. To put together to form a group. | |
| group the dogs by hair colour | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To come together to form a group. | |
| 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. | |
| fan |
| 1. n. A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in or | |
| 2. n. An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc. | |
| 3. n. Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail. | |
| 4. n. An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away. | |
| 5. n. A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind. | |
| 6. n. (maths) A section of a tree having a finite number of branches | |
| 7. v. To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise. | |
| We enjoyed standing at the edge of the cliff, being fanned by the wind. | |
| 8. v. To slap (a behind, especially). | |
| 9. v. (intransitive, usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan. | |
| 10. v. A maneuver done by flicking the top rear of an old style gun. | |
| 11. v. (metaphoric) To invigorate. | |
| 12. v. To winnow grain. | |
| 13. n. An admirer or aficionado, especially of a sport or performer; someone who is fond of something or someone. | |
| I am a big fan of libraries. | |
| base |
| 1. n. Something from which other things extend; a foundation. | |
| 2. n. A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object. | |
| 3. n. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis. | |
| 4. n. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material. | |
| 5. n. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters. | |
| 6. n. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient. | |
| 7. n. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing. | |
| 8. n. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform. | |
| 9. n. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts. | |
| 10. n. Important areas in games and sports. | |
| 11. n. A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek. | |
| 12. n. (baseball) One of the three places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out. | |
| 13. n. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement. | |
| 14. n. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer. | |
| 15. n. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support. | |
| 16. n. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT). | |
| 17. n. (geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat. | |
| 18. n. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon. | |
| 19. n. (heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon. | |
| 20. n. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent. | |
| The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3. | |
| 21. n. (mathematics) (synonym of radix). | |
| 22. n. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated. | |
| 23. n. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles. | |
| 24. n. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground. | |
| 25. n. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached. | |
| 26. n. (music) (dated form of bass) | |
| 27. n. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon. | |
| 28. n. (archaic) The housing of a horse. | |
| 29. n. (historical, in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower. | |
| 30. n. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat. | |
| 31. n. (obsolete) An apron. | |
| 32. n. A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a sys | |
| 33. v. To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of. | |
| 34. v. To be located (at a particular place). | |
| 35. v. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer. | |
| 36. adj. (obsolete) Low in height; short. | |
| 37. adj. Low in place or position. | |
| 38. adj. (obsolete) Of low value or degree. | |
| 39. adj. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common. | |
| 40. adj. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly. | |
| 41. adj. (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality. | |
| 42. adj. Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble. | |
| 43. adj. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased. | |
| base coin | |
| base bullion | |
| 44. adj. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard. | |
| 45. adj. Not classical or correct. | |
| base Latin | |
| 46. adj. obsolete form of bass | |
| the base tone of a violin | |
| 47. adj. (legal) Not held by honourable service. | |
| A base estate is one held by services not honourable, or held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant is a base tenant. | |
| 48. n. (now chiefly US historical) The game of prisoners' bars. | |
