| 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. | |
| organ |
| 1. n. A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions. | |
| 2. n. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions. | |
| 3. n. (musical instruments) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such. | |
| 4. n. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization. | |
| 5. n. A species of cactus. | |
| 6. n. (slang) The penis. | |
| 7. v. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs. | |
| stop |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To cease moving. | |
| I stopped at the traffic lights. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To not continue. | |
| The riots stopped when police moved in. | |
| Soon the rain will stop. | |
| 3. v. To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing. | |
| The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks. | |
| This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him. | |
| 4. v. To cause (something) to come to an end. | |
| The referees stopped the fight. | |
| 5. v. To close or block an opening. | |
| He stopped the wound with gauze. | |
| 6. v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens. | |
| To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily. | |
| to stop with a friend | |
| He stopped for two weeks at the inn. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To tarry. | |
| He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive. | |
| 9. v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part. | |
| 10. v. (obsolete) To punctuate. | |
| 11. v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper. | |
| 12. n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station. | |
| They agreed to see each other at the bus stop. | |
| 13. n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel. | |
| That stop was not planned. | |
| 14. n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object | |
| door stop - | |
| 15. n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis; a plosive. | |
| 16. n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon. | |
| 17. n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment. | |
| Pull out all the stops. | |
| 18. n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ. | |
| The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled. | |
| 19. n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible. | |
| 20. n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones. | |
| The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked. | |
| 21. n. (photography) An f-stop. | |
| 22. n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought. | |
| 23. n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. | |
| 24. n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. | |
| 25. adv. Prone to halting or hesitation. | |
| He’s stop still. | |
| 26. adv. ====Punctuation==== | |
| 27. adv. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram. | |
| 28. n. (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail. | |
| 29. adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark. | |
| of |
| 1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. | |
| 2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". | |
| 3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). | |
| 4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). | |
| There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. | |
| 5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to. | |
| What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three. | |
| 6. prep. Expressing separation. | |
| 7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.) | |
| Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband. | |
| 8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.) | |
| He seemed devoid of human feelings. | |
| 9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.) | |
| 10. prep. Expressing origin. | |
| 11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.) | |
| The word is believed to be of Japanese origin. | |
| 12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of. | |
| The invention was born of necessity. | |
| 13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.) | |
| It is said that she died of a broken heart. | |
| 14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.) | |
| I am tired of all this nonsense. | |
| 15. prep. Expressing agency. | |
| 16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).) | |
| I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. | |
| 17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below). | |
| The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties. | |
| 18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.) | |
| It was very brave of you to speak out like that. | |
| 19. prep. Expressing composition, substance. | |
| 20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.) | |
| Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic. | |
| 21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.) | |
| She wore a dress of silk. | |
| 22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.) | |
| What a lot of nonsense! | |
| 23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.) | |
| Welcome to the historic town of Harwich. | |
| 24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also". | |
| I'm not driving this wreck of a car. | |
| 25. prep. Introducing subject matter. | |
| 26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma | |
| I'm always thinking of you. | |
| 27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning. | |
| He told us the story of his journey to India. | |
| 28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.) | |
| This behaviour is typical of teenagers. | |
| 29. prep. Having partitive effect. | |
| 30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among". | |
| Most of these apples are rotten. | |
| 31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.) | |
| 32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. | |
| On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort. | |
| 33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).) | |
| He is a friend of mine. | |
| 34. prep. Expressing possession. | |
| 35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. | |
| He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. | |
| 36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. | |
| The owner of the nightclub was arrested. | |
| 37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter | |
| Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames. | |
| 38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive". | |
| 39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.) | |
| She had a profound distrust of the police. | |
| 40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics. | |
| 41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards. | |
| My companion seemed affable and easy of manner. | |
| 42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by". | |
| Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain. | |
| 43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.) | |
| We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%. | |
| 44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod | |
| It's not that big of a deal. | |
| 45. prep. Expressing a point in time. | |
| 46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. | |
| Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river. | |
| 47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time). | |
| I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while. | |
| 48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.) | |
| After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off. | |
| 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. | |
| reed |
| 1. n. Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water. | |
| 2. n. The hollow stem of these plants. | |
| 3. n. (music) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it. | |
| 4. n. (music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed. | |
| 5. n. (weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving. | |
| 6. n. (architecture) reeding | |
| 7. n. (mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting. | |
| 8. n. Straw prepared for thatching a roof. | |
| 9. v. To mill or mint with reeding. | |
| 10. v. simple past tense and past participle of ree | |
| 11. n. (Scotland) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. | |
| ree |
| 1. n. alternative form of rei | |
| 2. adj. (Now chiefly dialectal) Wild; fierce; outrageous; overexcited; frenzied; delirious; crazy. | |
| 3. adj. (Now chiefly dialectal) Befuddled with liquor; half-drunk; tipsy. | |
| 4. n. (Now chiefly dialectal) A state of befuddlement; intoxication. | |
| 5. n. (Now chiefly dialectal) A state of great excitement or frenzy. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To become extremely excited; fly into a rage. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To drive into a state of excitement; fire with enthusiasm. | |
| 8. v. (obsolete, UK, dialect) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off. | |
| family |
| 1. n. A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family. | |
| Our family lives in town. | |
| 2. n. An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage. | |
| 3. n. A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together. | |
| crime family, Mafia family | |
| This is my fraternity family at the university. | |
| Our company is one big happy family. | |
| 4. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank. | |
| Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae. | |
| 5. n. Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order. | |
| Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family. | |
| 6. n. (music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production. | |
| the brass family; the violin family | |
| 7. n. (linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language. | |
| the Indo-European language family; the Afro-Asiatic language family | |
| 8. n. Used attributively. | |
| The dog was kept as a family pet. | |
| For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic. | |
| 9. adj. Suitable for children and adults. | |
| It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant. | |
| Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies. | |
| 10. adj. Conservative, traditional. | |
| The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality. | |
| 11. adj. (slang) Homosexual. | |
| I knew he was family when I first met him. | |
| furnished |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of furnish | |
| 2. adj. equipped with whatever is needed | |
| 3. adj. supplied with furniture | |
| furnish |
| 1. n. Material used to create an engineered product. | |
| 2. v. To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment. | |
| 3. v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give (something). | |
| 4. v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply (somebody) with something. | |
| 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; – 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 | |
| a |
| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
| I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
| We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
| 4. art. The same; one. | |
| We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
| 5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
| A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
| He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
| 6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
| 7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
| The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
| 8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
| Stand a tiptoe. | |
| 9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
| Torn a pieces. | |
| 10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
| I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
| 11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
| A God’s name. | |
| 13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
| King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
| To set the people a worke. | |
| 14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
| 1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
| The times, they are a-changin'. | |
| 15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
| 1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
| Jacob, when he was a dying | |
| 16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
| 17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
| I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
| 18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
| 19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
| 20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
| The name of John a Gaunt. | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| 22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| normal |
| 1. adj. according to norms or rules | |
| Organize the data into third normal form. | |
| 2. adj. healthy; not sick or ill | |
| John is feeling normal again. | |
| 3. adj. (education, of a school) teaching teachers how to teach (to certain norms) | |
| My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School. | |
| 4. adj. (chemistry) of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution | |
| 5. adj. (organic chemistry) describing a straight chain isomer of an aliphatic hydrocarbon, or an aliphatic compound in which a substituent is in the 1- position of such a hydrocarbon | |
| 6. adj. (physics, of a mode in an oscillating system) in which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (see normal mode) | |
| 7. adj. (rail transport, of points) in the default position, set for the most frequently used route | |
| 8. adj. (geometry) perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface | |
| 9. adj. (mathematics) adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context: | |
| 10. adj. (of a real number) whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution | |
| 11. adj. (algebra, of a subgroup) with cosets which form a group | |
| 12. adj. (algebra, of a field extension of a field K) which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K | |
| 13. adj. (probability theory, statistics, of a distribution) which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution | |
| 14. adj. (probability theory, statistics, of a random variable, etc.) which has a normal distribution; which is associated with random variable that has a norma | |
| 15. adj. (complex analysis, of a family of continuous functions) which is pre-compact | |
| 16. adj. (set theory, of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals) which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topol | |
| 17. adj. (linear algebra, of a matrix) which commutes with its conjugate transpose | |
| 18. adj. (functional analysis, of a Hilbert space operator) which commutes with its adjoint | |
| 19. adj. (category theory) being (as a morphism) or containing (as a category) only normal epimorphism(s) or monomorphism(s), that is, those which are the kerne | |
| 20. adj. (topology, of a topology) in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods | |
| 21. n. (geometry) a line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane. | |
| 22. n. (slang) a person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles. | |
| 23. n. the usual state. | |
| His workload is now back to normal. | |
| Heavy workload is the new normal. | |
| beating |
| 1. n. The action by which someone or something is beaten. | |
| the beating of a drum | |
| secret beatings of prisoners | |
| 2. n. A heavy defeat or setback. | |
| 3. n. The pulsation of the heart. | |
| 4. v. present participle of beat | |
| beat |
| 1. n. A stroke; a blow. | |
| 2. n. A pulsation or throb. | |
| a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse | |
| 3. n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. | |
| 4. n. A rhythm. | |
| 5. n. (music) specifically The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians. | |
| 6. n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency | |
| 7. n. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development. | |
| 8. n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard. | |
| to walk the beat | |
| 9. n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially | |
| 10. n. In journalism, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.). | |
| 11. n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop. | |
| 12. n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others. | |
| the beat of him | |
| 13. n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort. | |
| 14. n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler. | |
| a dead beat | |
| 15. n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music. | |
| 16. n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively. | |
| 17. n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade. | |
| 18. v. To hit; strike | |
| As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled. | |
| 19. v. To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm. | |
| He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque. | |
| 20. v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. | |
| 21. v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing. | |
| 22. v. To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event. | |
| Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row. | |
| No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him. | |
| I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game. | |
| 23. v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind. | |
| 24. v. To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting. | |
| 25. v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip. | |
| Beat the eggs and whip the cream. | |
| 26. v. (transitive, UK, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price | |
| He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35. | |
| 27. v. To indicate by beating or drumming. | |
| to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters | |
| 28. v. To tread, as a path. | |
| 29. v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. | |
| 30. v. To be in agitation or doubt. | |
| 31. v. To make a sound when struck. | |
| The drums beat. | |
| 32. v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum. | |
| The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters. | |
| 33. v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. | |
| 34. v. To arrive at a place before someone. | |
| He beat me there. | |
| The place is empty, we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch. | |
| 35. v. (transitive, US, slang) to masturbate. | |
| This was the second time he beat off today. | |
| 36. v. (intransitive, UK, slang) to have sexual intercourse. | |
| Bruv, She came in just as we started to beat. | |
| 37. adj. (US slang) exhausted | |
| After the long day, she was feeling completely beat. | |
| 38. adj. dilapidated, beat up | |
| Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys. | |
| 39. adj. (gay slang) fabulous | |
| Her makeup was beat! | |
| 40. adj. (slang) boring | |
| 41. adj. (slang) ugly | |
| 42. n. A beatnik. | |
| reed |
| 1. n. Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water. | |
| 2. n. The hollow stem of these plants. | |
| 3. n. (music) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it. | |
| 4. n. (music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed. | |
| 5. n. (weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving. | |
| 6. n. (architecture) reeding | |
| 7. n. (mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting. | |
| 8. n. Straw prepared for thatching a roof. | |
| 9. v. To mill or mint with reeding. | |
| 10. v. simple past tense and past participle of ree | |
| 11. n. (Scotland) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. | |
| ree |
| 1. n. alternative form of rei | |
| 2. adj. (Now chiefly dialectal) Wild; fierce; outrageous; overexcited; frenzied; delirious; crazy. | |
| 3. adj. (Now chiefly dialectal) Befuddled with liquor; half-drunk; tipsy. | |
| 4. n. (Now chiefly dialectal) A state of befuddlement; intoxication. | |
| 5. n. (Now chiefly dialectal) A state of great excitement or frenzy. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To become extremely excited; fly into a rage. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To drive into a state of excitement; fire with enthusiasm. | |
| 8. v. (obsolete, UK, dialect) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off. | |
| but |
| 1. prep. (obsolete, outside, Scotland) Outside of. | |
| Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there. | |
| 2. prep. Apart from, except (for), excluding. | |
| Everyone but Father left early. | |
| I like everything but that. | |
| Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave. | |
| 3. adv. Merely, only, just. | |
| 4. adv. (Australian, conjunctive) Though, however. | |
| I'll have to go home early but. | |
| 5. adv. Used as an intensifier. | |
| Nobody, but nobody, crosses me and gets away with it. | |
| 6. conj. (following a negative clause or sentence) On the contrary, but rather (introducing a word or clause that contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence without the negation). | |
| I am not rich but (I am) poor; not John but Peter went there. | |
| 7. conj. However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (implies that the following clause is contrary to prior belief or contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence). | |
| She is very old but still attractive. | |
| You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not. | |
| 8. conj. Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "ex | |
| I cannot but feel offended. | |
| 9. conj. (archaic) Without its also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant). | |
| It never rains but it pours. | |
| 10. conj. (obsolete) Except with; unless with; without. | |
| 11. conj. (obsolete) Only; solely; merely. | |
| 12. conj. (obsolete) Until. | |
| 13. n. An instance or example of using the word "but". | |
| It has to be done – no ifs or buts. | |
| 14. n. (Scotland) The outer room of a small two-room cottage. | |
| 15. n. A limit; a boundary. | |
| 16. n. The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt. | |
| 17. v. (archaic) Use the word "but". | |
| But me no buts. | |
| whose |
| 1. det. (interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom. | |
| Whose wallet is this? | |
| 2. det. (relative) Of whom, belonging to whom. | |
| This is the man whose dog caused the accident. (=This man's dog caused the accident.) | |
| 3. det. (relative) Of which, belonging to which. | |
| We saw several houses whose roofs are falling off. (=The roofs are falling off several houses that we saw.) | |
| 4. pron. (interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom. | |
| Whose is this book? | |
| He does not know whose this is. | |
| 5. pron. (relative, rare) Of whom, belonging to whom. | |
| resonator |
| 1. n. Any object or system that resonates | |
| 2. n. A hollow cavity whose dimensions are selected so as to resonate at a specific frequency | |
| 3. n. A resonant electronic circuit | |
| 4. n. A type of musical instrument, especially a guitar, that uses spun metal resonator cones to enhance the sound. | |
| Is |
| 1. n. plural of I | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of be | |
| He is a doctor. He retired some time ago. | |
| Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him. | |
| 3. n. plural of i | |
| remember to dot your is | |
| be |
| 1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence. | |
| 2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. | |
| There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place. | |
| The cup is on the table. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place. | |
| When will the meeting be? | |
| 5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar. | |
| The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come. | |
| I have been to Spain many times. | |
| Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating. | |
| 6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same. | |
| Knowledge is bliss. | |
| Hi, I’m Jim. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same. | |
| 3 times 5 is fifteen. | |
| 8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal. | |
| François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995. | |
| 9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it. | |
| The sky is blue. | |
| 10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase. | |
| The sky is a deep blue today. | |
| 11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice. | |
| The dog was drowned by the boy. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses. | |
| The woman is walking. | |
| I shall be writing to you soon. | |
| We liked to chat while we were eating. | |
| 13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go". | |
| 14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic. | |
| I am to leave tomorrow. | |
| I would drive you, were I to obtain a car. | |
| 15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement. | |
| This building is three hundred years old. | |
| I am 75 kilograms. | |
| He’s about 6 feet tall. | |
| 16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years. | |
| I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.) | |
| 17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day. | |
| It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.) | |
| It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo. | |
| What time is it there? It’s night. | |
| 18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event. | |
| It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period) | |
| It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him. | |
| 19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like. | |
| It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid. | |
| Why is it so dark in here? | |
| 20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way. | |
| "What do we do?" "We be ourselves.". | |
| Why is he being nice to me? | |
| a |
| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
| I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
| We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
| 4. art. The same; one. | |
| We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
| 5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
| A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
| He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
| 6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
| 7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
| The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
| 8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
| Stand a tiptoe. | |
| 9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
| Torn a pieces. | |
| 10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
| I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
| 11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
| A God’s name. | |
| 13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
| King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
| To set the people a worke. | |
| 14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
| 1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
| The times, they are a-changin'. | |
| 15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
| 1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
| Jacob, when he was a dying | |
| 16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
| 17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
| I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
| 18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
| 19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
| 20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
| The name of John a Gaunt. | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| 22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| fraction |
| 1. n. A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part. | |
| 2. n. A ratio of two numbers, the numerator and the denominator, usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar. | |
| 3. n. (chemistry) A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation. | |
| 4. n. In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the host. | |
| 5. n. A small amount. | |
| 6. n. The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence. | |
| 7. v. To divide or break into fractions. | |
| of |
| 1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. | |
| 2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". | |
| 3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). | |
| 4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). | |
| There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. | |
| 5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to. | |
| What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three. | |
| 6. prep. Expressing separation. | |
| 7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.) | |
| Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband. | |
| 8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.) | |
| He seemed devoid of human feelings. | |
| 9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.) | |
| 10. prep. Expressing origin. | |
| 11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.) | |
| The word is believed to be of Japanese origin. | |
| 12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of. | |
| The invention was born of necessity. | |
| 13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.) | |
| It is said that she died of a broken heart. | |
| 14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.) | |
| I am tired of all this nonsense. | |
| 15. prep. Expressing agency. | |
| 16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).) | |
| I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. | |
| 17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below). | |
| The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties. | |
| 18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.) | |
| It was very brave of you to speak out like that. | |
| 19. prep. Expressing composition, substance. | |
| 20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.) | |
| Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic. | |
| 21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.) | |
| She wore a dress of silk. | |
| 22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.) | |
| What a lot of nonsense! | |
| 23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.) | |
| Welcome to the historic town of Harwich. | |
| 24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also". | |
| I'm not driving this wreck of a car. | |
| 25. prep. Introducing subject matter. | |
| 26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma | |
| I'm always thinking of you. | |
| 27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning. | |
| He told us the story of his journey to India. | |
| 28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.) | |
| This behaviour is typical of teenagers. | |
| 29. prep. Having partitive effect. | |
| 30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among". | |
| Most of these apples are rotten. | |
| 31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.) | |
| 32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. | |
| On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort. | |
| 33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).) | |
| He is a friend of mine. | |
| 34. prep. Expressing possession. | |
| 35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. | |
| He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. | |
| 36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. | |
| The owner of the nightclub was arrested. | |
| 37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter | |
| Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames. | |
| 38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive". | |
| 39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.) | |
| She had a profound distrust of the police. | |
| 40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics. | |
| 41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards. | |
| My companion seemed affable and easy of manner. | |
| 42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by". | |
| Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain. | |
| 43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.) | |
| We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%. | |
| 44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod | |
| It's not that big of a deal. | |
| 45. prep. Expressing a point in time. | |
| 46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. | |
| Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river. | |
| 47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time). | |
| I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while. | |
| 48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.) | |
| After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off. | |
| its |
| 1. det. Belonging to it. | |
| 2. pron. The one (or ones) belonging to it. | |
| 3. n. plural of it | |
| natural |
| 1. adj. That exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem. | |
| The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed. | |
| 2. adj. Of or relating to nature. | |
| In the natural world the fit tend to live on while the weak perish. | |
| 3. adj. Without artificial additives. | |
| Natural food is healthier than processed food. | |
| 4. adj. As expected; reasonable. | |
| It's natural for business to be slow on Tuesdays. | |
| His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime. | |
| 5. adj. (music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮. | |
| There's a wrong note here: it should be C natural instead of C sharp. | |
| 6. adj. (music) Produced by natural organs, such as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music. | |
| 7. adj. (music) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key. | |
| 8. adj. (math) Having 1 as the base of the system, of a function or number. | |
| 9. adj. Without, or prior to, modification or adjustment. | |
| the natural motion of a gravitating body | |
| The chairs were all natural oak but the table had a lurid finish. | |
| So-called second-generation silicone breast implants looked and felt more like the natural breast. | |
| 10. adj. (dice) The result of a dice roll before bonuses or penalties are added to or subtracted from the result. | |
| 11. adj. Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings. | |
| 12. adj. (obsolete) Connected by the ties of consanguinity. | |
| 13. adj. (obsolete) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard. | |
| a natural child | |
| 14. adj. (of sexual intercourse) Without a condom. | |
| We made natural love. | |
| 15. n. (now rare) A native inhabitant of a place, country etc. | |
| 16. n. (music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental, or the symbol ♮ used to indicate such a note. | |
| 17. n. One with an innate talent at or for something. | |
| He's a natural on the saxophone. | |
| 18. n. An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric. | |
| (color panel, FAD6A5) | |
| 19. n. (archaic) One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot. | |
| 20. n. (colloquial, chiefly UK) One's natural life. | |
| 21. n. (US, colloquial) A hairstyle for people with afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated. | |
| 22. n. (algebra) Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls. | |
| length |
| 1. n. The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object. | |
| 2. n. Duration. | |
| 3. n. (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race. | |
| 4. n. (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment. | |
| 5. n. (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman. | |
| 6. n. (figuratively) Total extent. | |
| the length of a book | |
| 7. n. Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something. | |
| a length of rope | |
| 8. v. (obsolete) To lengthen. | |
