anything |
1. pron. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; a thing of any kind; something or other. | |
I would not do it for anything or any ring. | |
2. pron. (with “as” or “like”) Expressing an indefinite comparison. | |
3. n. Someone or something of importance. | |
4. adv. In any way, any extent or any degree. | |
That isn't anything like a car. | |
She's not anything like as strong as me. | |
deliberately |
1. adv. Intentionally, or after deliberation; not accidentally. | |
He deliberately broke that, didn't he? | |
2. adv. Taking one's time, slowly and carefully. | |
After being called upon, he strode deliberately up to the blackboard. | |
intended |
1. adj. Planned. | |
2. adj. (obsolete) Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent. | |
3. n. Fiancé or fiancée. | |
4. v. simple past tense and past participle of intend | |
intend |
1. v. (intransitive, usually followed by the particle "to") To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); be intent upon | |
he intends to go to university | |
we intend that she shall remain | |
2. v. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard. | |
3. v. (obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend. | |
4. v. To strain; make tense. | |
5. v. (obsolete) To intensify; strengthen. | |
6. v. To apply with energy. | |
7. v. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey. | |
8. v. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold. | |
9. v. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate. | |
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 | |
deceive |
1. v. To trick or mislead. | |
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. | |
trick |
1. adj. (slang) Stylish or cool. | |
Wow, your new sportscar is so trick. | |
2. n. Something designed to fool or swindle. | |
It was just a trick to say that the house was underpriced. | |
3. n. A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick. | |
And for my next trick, I will pull a wombat out of a duffel bag. | |
4. n. An entertaining difficult physical action. | |
That's a nice skateboard, but can you do any tricks on it? | |
5. n. An effective, clever or quick way of doing something. | |
tricks of the trade; what's the trick of getting this chair to fold up? | |
6. n. Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank. | |
the tricks of boys | |
7. n. (dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait. | |
a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning | |
8. n. A knot, braid, or plait of hair. | |
9. n. (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined. | |
I was able to take the second trick with the queen of hearts. | |
10. n. (slang) An act of prostitution. (Generally used with turn.) | |
At the worst point, she was turning ten tricks a day. | |
11. n. (slang) A customer to a prostitute. | |
As the businessman rounded the corner, she thought, "Here comes another trick.". | |
12. n. A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs. | |
13. n. (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long. | |
14. n. A toy; a trifle; a plaything. | |
15. v. To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive. | |
You tried to trick me when you said that house was underpriced. | |
16. v. (heraldry) To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words). | |
17. v. To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out. | |