| any |
| 1. adv. To even the slightest extent, at all. | |
| I will not remain here any longer. | |
| If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways! | |
| 2. det. At least one; of at least one kind. One at all. | |
| do you have any biscuits?; do you have any food?; I haven't got any money; it won't do you any good | |
| 3. det. No matter what kind. | |
| choose any items you want; any person may apply | |
| 4. pron. Any thing(s) or person(s). | |
| Any may apply. | |
| member |
| 1. n. One who officially belongs to a group. | |
| 2. n. A part of a whole. | |
| The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge. | |
| 3. n. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. | |
| 4. n. (euphemism) The penis. | |
| 5. n. (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism. | |
| 6. n. (set theory) An element of a set. | |
| 7. n. (object-oriented programming) A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class. | |
| 8. n. (AU, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court. | |
| 9. n. A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause. | |
| 10. n. (math) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign. | |
| 11. n. (computing) A file stored within an archive file. | |
| The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members. | |
| 12. v. (obsolete, outside, dialects) To remember. | |
| 13. v. (obsolete) To cause to remember; to mention. | |
| State |
| 1. n. A current governing polity. | |
| 2. n. (often with definite article) The current governing polity under which the speaker lives. | |
| 3. n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. | |
| a state of being; a state of emergency | |
| 4. n. (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system. | |
| 5. n. (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle. | |
| In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus. | |
| 6. n. (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation. | |
| The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far. | |
| 7. n. (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation. | |
| A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint. | |
| 8. n. (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating | |
| 10. n. High social standing or circumstance. | |
| 11. n. Pomp, ceremony, or dignity. | |
| The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol. | |
| 12. n. Rank; condition; quality. | |
| 13. n. Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance. | |
| 14. n. A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. | |
| 15. n. (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince. | |
| 16. n. (obsolete) Estate, possession. | |
| 17. n. A polity. | |
| 18. n. Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government. | |
| 19. n. A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States or Germany; (by extension, informal, US) any provi | |
| 20. n. (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy. | |
| 21. n. (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government. | |
| 22. n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process. | |
| 23. v. To declare to be a fact. | |
| He stated that he was willing to help. | |
| 24. v. To make known. | |
| State your intentions. | |
| 25. adj. (obsolete) stately | |
| may |
| 1. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be strong; to have power (over). | |
| 2. v. (obsolete, auxiliary) To be able; can. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive, poetic) To be able to go. | |
| 4. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests. | |
| you may smoke outside; may I sit there? | |
| 5. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) Expressing a present possibility; possibly. | |
| he may be lying; Schrödinger's cat may or may not be in the box | |
| 6. v. (subjunctive present, defective) Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect). | |
| may you win; may the weather be sunny | |
| 7. v. Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark. | |
| 8. n. The hawthorn bush or its blossoms. | |
| 9. v. (poetic, intransitive) To gather may, or flowers in general. | |
| 10. v. (poetic, intransitive) To celebrate May Day. | |
| 11. n. (archaic) A maiden. | |
| decide |
| 1. v. To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle. | |
| The election will be decided on foreign policies. | |
| We must decide our next move. | |
| Her last-minute goal decided the game. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To make a judgment, especially after deliberation. | |
| You must decide between good and evil. | |
| I have decided that it is healthier to walk to work. | |
| 3. v. To cause someone to come to a decision. | |
| 4. v. (obsolete) To cut off; to separate. | |
| to |
| 1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
| I want to leave. | |
| He asked me what to do. | |
| I don’t know how to say it. | |
| I have places to go and people to see. | |
| 2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
| "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
| If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
| 3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
| I have to do laundry today. | |
| 4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
| We are walking to the shop. | |
| 5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
| He devoted himself to education. | |
| They drank to his health. | |
| 6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
| His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
| 7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
| similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
| With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
| 9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
| one to one = 1:1 | |
| ten to one = 10:1. | |
| I have ten dollars to your four. | |
| 10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
| Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
| Three to the power of two is nine. | |
| Three to the second is nine. | |
| 11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
| I gave the book to him. | |
| 12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
| ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
| 13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
| Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
| There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
| 14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
| Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
| 15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
| Please push the door to. | |
| 16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
| 17. adv. misspelling of too | |
| withdraw |
| 1. v. To pull (something) back, aside, or away. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around. | |
| 3. v. To take back (a comment, etc). | |
| to withdraw false charges | |
| 4. v. To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc). | |
| 5. v. To extract (money from an account). | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To retreat. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc. | |
| from |
| 1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at. | |
| This wine comes from France. | |
| I got a letter from my brother. | |
| 2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. | |
| He had books piled from floor to ceiling. | |
| He left yesterday from Chicago. | |
| Face away from the wall! | |
| 3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation. | |
| 20 from 31 leaves 11. | |
| 4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of. | |
| An umbrella protects from the sun. | |
| He knows right from wrong. | |
| 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. | |
| Union |
| 1. n. The 0-10-2 locomotive wheel arrangement. Derived from the name of the only U.S. company to use that configuration. | |
| 2. n. The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one. | |
| 3. n. The state of being united or joined. | |
| 4. n. That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league. | |
| 5. n. A trade union; a workers' union. | |
| 6. n. An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body. | |
| 7. n. A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes. | |
| 8. n. (set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets. | |
| 9. n. The act or state of marriage. | |
| 10. n. (archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse. | |
| 11. n. (programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time. | |
| 12. n. (now rare, archaic) A large, high-quality pearl. | |
| 13. n. (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse. | |
| 14. v. To combine sets using the union operation. | |
| in |
| 1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
| 2. prep. Contained by. | |
| The dog is in the kennel. | |
| 3. prep. Within. | |
| 4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
| We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
| 5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
| One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
| 6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
| What grade did he get in English? | |
| Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
| 7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
| They said they would call us in a week. | |
| 8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
| Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
| 9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
| in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
| 10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
| English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
| 11. prep. Into. | |
| Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
| 12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
| In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
| 13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
| My fat rolls around in folds. | |
| 14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
| He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
| 15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
| You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
| 16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
| I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
| 17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
| 18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
| Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
| The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
| Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
| 19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
| Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
| His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
| When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
| 20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
| 21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
| 22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
| Is Mr. Smith in? | |
| 23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
| Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
| 24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
| He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
| 25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
| What's that in? | |
| 26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
| 27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
| His parents got him an in with the company | |
| 28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
| 29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
| 30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
| Skirts are in this year. | |
| 31. adj. Incoming. | |
| the in train | |
| 32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
| 33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
| in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
| 34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
| 35. n. Inch. | |
| accordance |
| 1. n. Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance. | |
| 2. n. The act of granting 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 | |
| its |
| 1. det. Belonging to it. | |
| 2. pron. The one (or ones) belonging to it. | |
| 3. n. plural of it | |
| own |
| 1. v. To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to. | |
| I own this car. | |
| 2. v. To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership. | |
| The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon. | |
| 3. v. To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. | |
| I will own my enemies. | |
| If he wins, he will own you. | |
| 4. v. To virtually or figuratively enslave. | |
| 5. v. (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn. | |
| 6. v. (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn. | |
| 7. adj. Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence. | |
| They went that way, but we need to find our own. | |
| 8. adj. (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic. | |
| 9. adj. (obsolete) Not foreign. | |
| 10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To grant; give. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny. | |
| 12. v. To admit; concede; acknowledge. | |
| 13. v. To answer to. | |
| 14. v. To recognise; acknowledge. | |
| to own one as a son | |
| 15. v. To claim as one's own. | |
| 16. v. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess. | |
| constitutional |
| 1. adj. Relating to a legal or political constitution. | |
| a constitutional right | |
| constitutional reforms | |
| Brexit has rocked the foundations and plunged everyone into a state of heightened constitutional anxiety. | |
| Some in Westminster are already speculating that it would cause a constitutional crisis | |
| 2. adj. Conforming to a legal or political constitution. | |
| The UK Government’s White Paper, ‘The United Kingdom’s exit from and new partnership with the European Union’ pledges ‘continued adherence to the constitutional framework, rights and institutio | |
| Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements. Treaty on European Union. | |
| 3. adj. Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind. | |
| a constitutional infirmity | |
| constitutional ardour or dullness | |
| 4. adj. For the benefit of one's constitution or health. | |
| a constitutional walk | |
| 5. n. (nominalized adjective) | |
| 6. n. A walk that is taken regularly for good health and wellbeing. | |
| requirements |
| 1. n. plural of requirement | |
| requirement |
| 1. n. A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory. Its adpositions are generally of in relation to who or what has given it, on in relation to whom or what it is given to, and for in relat | |
| There was a requirement of the government on citizens for paying taxes. | |
| 2. n. Something asked. | |
| 3. n. (engineering) A statement (in domain specific terms) which specifies a verifiable constraint on an implementation that it shall undeniably meet or (a) be deemed unacceptable, or (b) result in implemen | |
