| 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. | |
| old |
| 1. adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time. | |
| an old abandoned building; an old friend | |
| 2. adj. Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years. | |
| a wrinkled old man | |
| 3. adj. Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life. | |
| an old loaf of bread | |
| 4. adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused). | |
| I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with. | |
| 5. adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time. | |
| How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child. | |
| My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old. | |
| 6. adj. Of an earlier time.: | |
| 7. adj. Former, previous. | |
| My new car is not as good as my old one. a school reunion for Old Etonians | |
| 8. adj. That is no longer in existence. | |
| The footpath follows the route of an old railway line. | |
| 9. adj. Obsolete; out-of-date. | |
| That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way. | |
| 10. adj. Familiar. | |
| When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho. | |
| 11. adj. Tiresome. | |
| Your constant pestering is getting old. | |
| 12. adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time. | |
| 13. adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.) | |
| We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV. My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas. | |
| 14. adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant. | |
| 15. n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group. | |
| A civilised society should always look after the old in the community. | |
| French |
| 1. n. A Romance language spoken primarily in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec, Valle d'Aosta and many former French colonies. | |
| 2. n. (collective in the plural) People of France, collectively. | |
| The French and the English have often been at war. | |
| 3. n. (informal) Vulgar language. | |
| Pardon my French. | |
| 4. adj. Of or relating to France. | |
| the French border with Italy | |
| 5. adj. Of or relating to the people or culture of France. | |
| French customs | |
| 6. adj. Of or relating to the French language. | |
| French verbs | |
| 7. adj. (prostitute's slang) Oral sex, usually meaning fellatio, sometimes cunnilingus. Oxford English Dictionary (subscription required). Retrieved: 2015-10-06. | |
| 8. v. alternative case form of french | |
| 9. v. To prepare food by cutting it into strips. | |
| 10. v. To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To kiss in this manner. | |
| 12. v. (cuisine) To French trim; to stylishly expose bone by removing the fat and meat covering it (as done to a rack of lamb or bone-in rib-eye steak). | |
| silver |
| 1. n. elements, Ag, palladium, Pd, cadmium, Cd | |
| 2. n. A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag. | |
| 3. n. (collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal. | |
| 4. n. (collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal. | |
| 5. n. (collectively) Any items made from silver or any other white metal. | |
| 6. n. A shiny gray color. | |
| (color panel, C0C0C0) | |
| 7. n. Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white. | |
| 8. adj. Made from silver. | |
| 9. adj. Made from another white metal. | |
| 10. adj. Having a color like silver: a shiny gray. | |
| 11. adj. Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding. | |
| 12. adj. (of commercial services) Premium, but inferior to gold. | |
| 13. adj. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound. | |
| a silver-voiced young girl | |
| 14. v. To acquire a silvery colour. | |
| 15. v. To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal. | |
| to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury | |
| 16. v. To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver. | |
| 17. v. To make hoary, or white, like silver. | |
| coin |
| 1. n. (money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle. | |
| 2. n. A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip). | |
| 3. n. (figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense. | |
| 4. n. (slang) money in general, not limited to coins | |
| She spent some serious coin on that car! | |
| 5. n. One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit. | |
| 6. n. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. | |
| 7. n. A small circular slice of food. | |
| 8. v. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture. | |
| to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal | |
| 9. v. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate. | |
| Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined. | |
| 10. v. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. | |
