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. | |
preconceived |
1. adj. (of an opinion or notion) Conceived beforehand: formed ahead of time. | |
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of preconceive | |
preconceive |
1. v. To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of. | |
opinion |
1. n. A subjective belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed about a topic, issue, person or thing. | |
I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system. | |
In my opinion, white chocolate is better than milk chocolate. | |
Every man is a fool in some man's opinion. | |
2. n. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation. | |
3. n. (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem. | |
4. n. (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness. | |
5. n. The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted. | |
6. n. (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible | |
7. v. (transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
feeling |
1. adj. Emotionally sensitive. | |
Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling. | |
2. adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility. | |
He made a feeling representation of his wrongs. | |
3. n. Sensation, particularly through the skin. | |
The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling. | |
4. n. Emotion; impression. | |
The house gave me a feeling of dread. | |
5. n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being. | |
You really hurt my feelings when you said that. | |
6. n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire. | |
Many people still have feelings for their first love. | |
7. n. Intuition. | |
He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition. | |
I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work. | |
8. n. An opinion, an attitude. | |
9. v. present participle of feel | |
feel |
1. v. To use the sense of touch.: | |
2. v. (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on. | |
You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast. | |
I felt cold and miserable all night. | |
3. v. To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements. | |
I felt my way through the darkened room. | |
I felt my way cautiously through the dangerous business maneuver. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To search by sense of touch. | |
He felt for the light switch in the dark. | |
6. v. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.: | |
7. v. To experience an emotion or other mental state about. | |
I can feel the sadness in his poems. | |
8. v. To think, believe, or have an impression concerning. | |
I feel that we need to try harder. | |
9. v. (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state. | |
He obviously feels strongly about it. | |
She felt even more upset when she heard the details. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected. | |
I feel for you and your plight. | |
11. v. To be or become aware of. | |
12. v. To experience the consequences of. | |
Feel my wrath! | |
13. v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise). | |
It looks like wood, but it feels more like plastic. | |
This is supposed to be a party, but it feels more like a funeral! | |
14. v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand. | |
I don't want you back here, ya feel me? | |
15. n. A quality of an object experienced by touch. | |
Bark has a rough feel. | |
16. n. A vague mental impression. | |
You should get a feel of the area before moving in. | |
17. n. An act of fondling. | |
She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me. | |
18. n. A vague understanding. | |
I'm getting a feel for what you mean. | |
19. n. An intuitive ability. | |
She has a feel for music. | |
20. n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling. | |
I know that feel. | |
21. pron. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele | |
22. adj. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele | |
23. adv. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele | |
whether |
1. det. (obsolete) Which of two. | |
2. pron. (obsolete) Which of two. | |
3. conj. (obsolete) Introducing a direct interrogative question (often with correlative or) which indicates doubt between alternatives. | |
4. conj. Used to introduce an indirect interrogative question that consists of multiple alternative possibilities (usually with correlative or). | |
He chose the correct answer, but I don't know whether it was by luck or by skill. | |
5. conj. Without a correlative, used to introduce a simple indirect question. | |
Do you know whether he's coming? | |
6. conj. Used to introduce a disjunctive adverbial clause which qualifies the main clause of the sentence (with correlative or). | |
He's coming, whether you like it or not. | |
positive |
1. adj. Not negative or neutral. | |
2. adj. (legal) Formally laid down. | |
3. adj. Stated definitively and without qualification. | |
4. adj. Fully assured in opinion. | |
5. adj. (mathematics) Of number, greater than zero. | |
6. adj. Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better. | |
7. adj. Overconfident, dogmatic. | |
8. adj. (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative. | |
9. adj. (physics) Having more protons than electrons. | |
10. adj. (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive. | |
11. adj. Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute. | |
12. adj. Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence. | |
13. adj. Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis. | |
14. adj. (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values. | |
15. adj. Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged. | |
16. adj. Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright. | |
17. adj. Optimistic. | |
18. adj. (chemistry) electropositive | |
19. adj. (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals. | |
20. adj. (slang) HIV positive. | |
21. adj. (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion'). | |
22. n. A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual. | |
23. n. A favourable point or characteristic. | |
24. n. Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge. | |
25. n. (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs. | |
26. n. (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree. | |
27. n. (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative. | |
28. n. The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. | |
29. n. A positive result of a test. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
negative |
1. adj. Not positive or neutral. | |
2. adj. (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles | |
3. adj. (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero | |
4. adj. (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition. | |
5. adj. Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable. | |
6. adj. Often used pejoratively: pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. | |
7. adj. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed. | |
8. adj. (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic. | |
The nitro group is negative. | |
9. adj. (New Age jargon, pejorative) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted. | |
10. adj. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis. | |
11. n. Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto | |
12. n. (law) A right of veto. | |
13. n. (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse. | |
14. n. (grammar) A word that indicates negation. | |
15. n. (mathematics) A negative quantity. | |
16. n. (weightlifting): A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement. | |
17. n. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. | |
18. v. To refuse; to veto. | |
19. v. To contradict. | |
20. v. To disprove. | |
21. v. To make ineffective; to neutralize. | |
22. interj. (law, signalling) An elaborate synonym for no. | |