apathetic |
1. adj. Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion | |
2. adj. Of, or pertaining to apatheism. | |
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 | |
regard |
1. n. A steady look, a gaze. | |
2. n. One's concern for another; esteem. | |
3. n. (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. | |
4. n. The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held. | |
He is held in great regard in Whitehall. | |
5. v. To look at; to observe. | |
She regarded us warily. | |
6. v. To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. | |
I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil. | |
He regards honesty as a duty. | |
7. v. (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to. | |
8. v. To face toward. | |
9. v. To have to do with, to concern. | |
That argument does not regard the question. | |
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect. | |
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 | |
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. | |
apparent |
1. adj. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye, eyely; within sight or view. | |
2. adj. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable. | |
3. adj. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming. | |
need |
1. n. A requirement for something; something needed. | |
There's no need to speculate; we can easily find out for sure. | |
She grew irritated with his constant need for attention. | |
Our needs are not being met. | |
I've always tried to have few needs beyond food, clothing and shelter. | |
2. n. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. | |
3. v. To have an absolute requirement for. | |
Living things need water to survive. | |
4. v. To want strongly; to feel that one must have something. | |
After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave. | |
5. v. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something). | |
You need not go if you don't want to. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary. | |
7. v. (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone). | |
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. | |
problem |
1. n. A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with. | |
She's leaving because she faced numerous problems to do with racism. | |
2. n. A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise. | |
3. n. A puzzling circumstance. | |
4. adj. (of a person or an animal) Difficult to train or guide; unruly. | |
5. adj. Causing a problem; problematic; troublesome. | |