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. | |
imitation |
1. n. The act of imitating. | |
2. n. (attributive) A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing. | |
imitation leather | |
surpassing |
1. v. present participle of surpass | |
2. adj. Superior to others; excellent. | |
3. n. The act or process by which something is surpassed; a bettering. | |
surpass |
1. v. To go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed. | |
The former problem student surpassed his instructor's expectations and scored top marks on his examination. | |
The heavy rains threatened to surpass the capabilities of the levee, endangering the town on the other side. | |
all |
1. adv. (degree) intensifier. | |
It suddenly went all quiet. | |
She was all, “Whatever.” | |
2. adv. (poetic) Entirely. | |
3. adv. Apiece; each. | |
The score was 30 all when the rain delay started. | |
4. adv. (degree) So much. | |
Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets. | |
5. adv. (obsolete, poetic) even; just | |
6. det. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or un). | |
All contestants must register at the scorer’s table. All flesh is originally grass. All my friends like classical music. | |
7. det. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer). | |
The store is open all day and all night. (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.) | |
I’ve been working on this all year. (= from the beginning of the year until now.) | |
8. det. (obsolete) Any. | |
9. det. Only; alone; nothing but. | |
He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice. | |
10. pron. Everything. | |
some gave all they had; she knows all and sees all; Those who think they know it all are annoying to those of us who do. | |
11. pron. Everyone. | |
A good time was had by all. | |
12. n. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of. | |
She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line. | |
13. n. The totality of one's possessions. | |
14. conj. (obsolete) although | |
15. adj. (dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead. | |
The butter is all. | |
others |
1. n. plural of other | |
2. n. Other people. | |
I treat others like I treat myself. | |
3. n. Those remaining after one or more people or items have left, or done something else, or been excluded. | |
Two decided to hide, the others surrendered. I kept two special jars and threw away all the others. | |
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of other | |
other |
1. adj. See other (determiner) below | |
2. adj. second. | |
I get paid every other week. | |
3. adj. Alien. | |
4. adj. Different. | |
5. adj. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right. | |
6. n. An other one, more often rendered as another. | |
I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others. | |
7. n. The other one; the second of two. | |
One boat is not better than the other. | |
8. det. Not the one or ones previously referred to. | |
Other people would do it differently. | |
9. adv. Apart from; in the phrase "other than". | |
Other than that, I'm fine. | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Otherwise. | |
It shall none other be. — Chaucer. | |
If you think other. — Shakespeare. | |
11. v. To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien. | |
12. v. To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise. | |
matchless |
1. adj. Having no match; without equal. | |
2. adj. Having no mate. | |
3. adj. Without the use of matches for ignition. | |
a matchless stove | |