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. | |
drug |
1. n. (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose. | |
Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature. | |
The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased. | |
2. n. A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine. | |
3. n. Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted. | |
4. n. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand. | |
5. v. To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent. | |
She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged. | |
6. v. To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone. | |
She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. | |
8. v. (dialect) simple past tense and past participle of drag | |
You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile. | |
9. n. (obsolete) A drudge. | |
drag |
1. n. Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it. | |
When designing cars, manufacturers have to take drag into consideration. | |
2. n. (foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold. | |
3. n. A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing. | |
4. n. (informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint. | |
5. n. (slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment. | |
Travelling to work in the rush hour is a real drag. | |
6. n. (slang) A type of horse-drawn carriage. | |
7. n. (slang) Street, as in 'main drag'. | |
8. n. The scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents. | |
to run a drag | |
9. n. (snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down. | |
10. n. A heavy harrow for breaking up ground. | |
11. n. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart. | |
a stone drag | |
12. n. (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope. | |
13. n. (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. | |
14. n. (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle w | |
15. n. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used. | |
16. n. A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. | |
17. n. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. | |
18. n. witch house music | |
19. n. The last position in a line of hikers. | |
20. n. (aviation, aerodynamics) The act of suppressing wind flow to slow an aircraft in flight, as by use of flaps when landing. | |
21. v. multiple images | |
22. v. , direction=vertical | |
23. v. , width=230 | |
24. v. , image1=Tamil fishermen dragging boat.jpg | |
25. v. , caption1=Tamil fishermen dragging their boat. | |
26. v. , image2=Seining for wild fish.jpg | |
27. v. , caption2=Fishing by dragging a river. | |
28. v. To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty. | |
29. v. (intransitive) To move slowly. | |
Time seems to drag when you’re waiting for a bus. | |
30. v. To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant. | |
31. v. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. | |
32. v. To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty. | |
33. v. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back. | |
34. v. (computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device. | |
Drag the file into the window to open it. | |
35. v. (chiefly of a vehicle) To inadvertently rub or scrape on a surface. | |
The car was so low to the ground that its muffler was dragging on a speed bump. | |
36. v. (soccer) To hit or kick off target. | |
37. v. To fish with a dragnet. | |
38. v. To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water. | |
39. v. To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow. | |
40. v. (figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet. | |
41. v. (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone). | |
You just drag him 'cause he's got more money than you. | |
42. n. (slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment. | |
He performed in drag. | |
43. n. (slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture. | |
corporate drag | |
44. v. To perform as a drag queen or drag king. | |
she'd |
1. contraction. She had. | |
2. contraction. She would. | |
she |
1. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied. | |
I asked Mary, but she said that she didn’t know. | |
2. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat. | |
She could do forty knots in good weather. | |
She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she? | |
3. pron. (personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car. | |
She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable. | |
4. pron. (personal, dated) A country. | |
She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people. | |
5. pron. (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun). | |
6. n. A female. | |
Pat is definitely a she. | |
would |
1. v. As a past-tense form of will.: | |
2. v. (obsolete) Wished, desired (something). | |
3. v. (archaic) Wanted to ( + bare infinitive). | |
4. v. Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to ( + bare infinitive); indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly. | |
5. v. Used with bare infinitive to form the "anterior future", indicating a futurity relative to a past time. | |
6. v. (archaic) Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses. | |
7. v. Was determined to; loosely, could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.). | |
8. v. As a modal verb, the subjunctive of will.: | |
9. v. Used to give a conditional or potential "softening" to the present; might, might wish. | |
10. v. Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality (with a bare infinitive); indicating an action or state that is conditional on another. | |
11. v. (chiefly archaic) Might wish ( + verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only". | |
12. v. Used to impart a sense of hesitancy or uncertainty to the present; might be inclined to. Now sometimes colloquially with ironic effect. | |
13. v. Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …? | |
Would you pass the salt, please? | |
14. v. (chiefly archaic, transitive, or control verb) Might desire; wish (something). | |
15. n. Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality. | |
will |
1. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
Do what you will. | |
2. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
3. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
4. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
5. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
6. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
7. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. | |
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason. | |
8. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
9. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
Most creatures have a will to live. | |
10. n. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes. | |
11. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
12. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
13. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
14. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
15. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
16. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
give |
1. v. (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | |
2. v. To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone). | |
I gave him my coat. | |
I gave my coat to the beggar. | |
When they asked, I gave my coat. | |
3. v. To make a present or gift of. | |
I'm going to give my wife a necklace for her birthday. | |
She gave a pair of shoes to her husband for their anniversary. | |
He gives of his energies to the organization. | |
4. v. To pledge. | |
I gave him my word that I'd protect his children. | |
5. v. To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford. | |
I gave them permission to miss tomorrow's class. | |
Please give me some more time. | |
6. v. To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in. | |
It gives me a lot of pleasure to be here tonight. | |
The fence gave me an electric shock. | |
My mother-in-law gives me nothing but grief. | |
7. v. To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something). | |
I want to give you a kiss. | |
She gave him a hug. | |
I'd like to give the tire a kick. | |
I gave the boy a push on the swing. | |
She gave me a wink afterwards, so I knew she was joking. | |
8. v. To pass (something) into (someone's) hand or the like. | |
Give me your hand. | |
On entering the house, he gave his coat to the doorman. | |
9. v. To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to. | |
My boyfriend gave me chlamydia. | |
He was convinced that it was his alcoholism that gave him cancer. | |
10. v. (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | |
I give it ten minutes before he gives up. | |
I give it a 95% chance of success. | |
I'll give their marriage six months. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force. | |
One pillar gave, then more, and suddenly the whole floor pancaked onto the floor below. | |
13. v. To provide, as, a service or a broadcast. | |
They're giving my favorite show! | |
14. v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into). | |
The master bedroom gives onto a spacious balcony. | |
15. v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of. | |
His window gave the park. | |
16. v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield. | |
The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship. | |
17. v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive. | |
18. v. To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate. | |
19. v. To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede. | |
He can be bad-tempered, I'll give you that, but he's a hard worker. | |
20. v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. | |
21. v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.). | |
22. v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow. | |
23. v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself). | |
The soldiers give themselves to plunder. | |
That boy is given to fits of bad temper. | |
24. v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist. | |
25. v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep. | |
26. v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving. | |
27. v. To be going on, to be occurring | |
What gives? | |
28. n. The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilence. | |
This chair doesn't have much give. | |
There is no give in his dogmatic religious beliefs. | |
you |
1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object. | |
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself. | |
3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) | |
4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.) | |
Both of you should get ready now. | |
You are all supposed to do as I tell you. | |
5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.) | |
6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object). | |
7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to. | |
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus? | |
8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis. | |
You idiot! | |
9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal. | |
would |
1. v. As a past-tense form of will.: | |
2. v. (obsolete) Wished, desired (something). | |
3. v. (archaic) Wanted to ( + bare infinitive). | |
4. v. Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to ( + bare infinitive); indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly. | |
5. v. Used with bare infinitive to form the "anterior future", indicating a futurity relative to a past time. | |
6. v. (archaic) Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses. | |
7. v. Was determined to; loosely, could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.). | |
8. v. As a modal verb, the subjunctive of will.: | |
9. v. Used to give a conditional or potential "softening" to the present; might, might wish. | |
10. v. Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality (with a bare infinitive); indicating an action or state that is conditional on another. | |
11. v. (chiefly archaic) Might wish ( + verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only". | |
12. v. Used to impart a sense of hesitancy or uncertainty to the present; might be inclined to. Now sometimes colloquially with ironic effect. | |
13. v. Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …? | |
Would you pass the salt, please? | |
14. v. (chiefly archaic, transitive, or control verb) Might desire; wish (something). | |
15. n. Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality. | |
will |
1. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
Do what you will. | |
2. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
3. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
4. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
5. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
6. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
7. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. | |
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason. | |
8. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
9. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
Most creatures have a will to live. | |
10. n. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes. | |
11. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
12. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
13. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
14. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
15. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
16. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
effect |
1. n. The result or outcome of a cause. See usage notes below. | |
The effect of the hurricane was a devastated landscape. | |
2. n. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced. | |
3. n. Execution; performance; realization; operation. | |
4. n. The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law. | |
The new law will come into effect on the first day of next year. | |
5. n. (filmology) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect") | |
The effect of flying was most convincing. | |
6. n. (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument. | |
I use an echo effect here to make the sound more mysterious. | |
I just bought a couple of great effects. | |
7. n. (physics, psychology, etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer. | |
Doppler effect | |
8. n. (usually plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects. | |
9. n. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to. | |
10. n. (obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance. | |
11. n. (obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign. | |
12. v. To make or bring about; to implement. | |
The best way to effect change is to work with existing stakeholders. | |
13. v. misspelling of affect | |
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. | |
foetus |
1. n. (chiefly British) alternative spelling of fetus | |