| beyond |
| 1. prep. On the far side of. | |
| No swimming beyond this point. | |
| 2. prep. Later than; after. | |
| 3. prep. Greater than; so as to exceed or surpass. | |
| Your staff went beyond my expectations in refunding my parking ticket. | |
| 4. prep. In addition to. | |
| 5. prep. Past, or out of reach of. | |
| You won't last beyond my first punch. | |
| The patient was beyond medical help. | |
| 6. adv. Farther along or away. | |
| 7. adv. In addition; more. | |
| 8. adv. (informal) extremely, more than | |
| 9. n. The unknown. | |
| 10. n. The hereafter. | |
| 11. n. Something that is far beyond. | |
| expression |
| 1. n. The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc. | |
| 2. n. A particular way of phrasing an idea. | |
| 3. n. A colloquialism or idiom. | |
| The expression "break a leg!" should not be taken literally. | |
| 4. n. A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion. | |
| They stared at the newcomer with a puzzled expression. | |
| The best poker players can tell if the opponents have a good hand by looking at their expression. | |
| Her expression changed from joy to misery after realising her winning lottery ticket had expired. | |
| 5. n. (mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols. | |
| 6. n. (biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein. | |
| 7. n. (programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value. | |
| 8. n. A specific blend of whisky. | |
| 9. n. (biology) The act of pressing or squeezing out. | |
| expression from a gland | |
| the expression of milk from the mammaries | |
| 10. n. (music) The tone of voice or sound in music. | |
| 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. | |
| words |
| 1. n. plural of word | |
| Words have a longer life than deeds. — Pindar (translated) | |
| 2. n. Angry debate or conversation; argument. | |
| After she found out the truth, she had words with him, to tell him how she felt. | |
| 3. n. Lines in a script for a performance. | |
| You better get your words memorised before rehearsal next Saturday. | |
| 4. v. third-person singular present indicative of word | |
| word |
| 1. n. The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.) | |
| 2. n. The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes | |
| 3. n. The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes | |
| 4. n. A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word). | |
| 5. n. Something like such a unit of language: | |
| 6. n. A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning | |
| 7. n. (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space. | |
| 8. n. (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine (on many 16-bit machines, 16 bits or two bytes). | |
| 9. n. (computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator. | |
| 10. n. (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements. | |
| 11. n. The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. | |
| 12. n. (now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech. | |
| 13. n. (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words). | |
| mum's the word | |
| 14. n. (obsolete) A proverb or motto. | |
| 15. n. News; tidings (used without an article). | |
| Have you had any word from John yet? | |
| 16. n. An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will. | |
| He sent word that we should strike camp before winter. | |
| Don't fire till I give the word | |
| Their mother's word was law. | |
| 17. n. A promise; an oath or guarantee. | |
| I give you my word that I will be there on time. | |
| 18. n. A brief discussion or conversation. | |
| Can I have a word with you? | |
| 19. n. (in the plural) See words. | |
| There had been words between him and the secretary about the outcome of the meeting. | |
| 20. n. (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture. | |
| Her parents had lived in Botswana, spreading the word among the tribespeople. | |
| 21. n. (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ. | |
| 22. v. To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something). | |
| I’m not sure how to word this letter to the council. | |
| 23. v. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter with words, to cajole. | |
| 24. v. To ply or overpower with words. | |
| 25. v. (transitive, rare) To conjure with a word. | |
| 26. v. (intransitive, archaic) To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse. | |
| 27. interj. (slang) Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond.". | |
| "Yo, that movie was epic!" / "Word?" ("You speak the truth?") / "Word." ("I speak the truth.") | |
| 28. interj. (slang) An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval. | |
| 29. v. alternative form of worth (to become). | |
| unspeakable |
| 1. adj. Incapable of being spoken or uttered | |
| 2. adj. Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described. | |
| 3. adj. Extremely bad or objectionable. | |
| an unspeakable fool | |
| an unspeakable play | |
