brief |
1. adj. Of short duration; happening quickly. | |
Her reign was brief but spectacular. | |
2. adj. Concise; taking few words. | |
His speech of acceptance was brief but moving. | |
3. adj. Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short. | |
Her skirt was extremely brief but doubtless cool. | |
4. adj. (obsolete) Rife; common; prevalent. | |
5. n. (legal) A writ summoning one to answer to any action. | |
6. n. (legal) An answer to any action. | |
7. n. (legal) A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case. | |
8. n. (by extension, figurative) A position of interest or advocacy. | |
9. n. (legal) An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court. | |
10. n. (English law) The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who tries the case. | |
11. n. A short news story or report. | |
12. n. (usually plural) undershorts briefs. | |
I wear boxers under trousers but for sports I usually wear a brief. | |
13. n. (obsolete) A summary, précis or epitome; an abridgement or abstract. | |
14. n. (historical) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose. | |
15. n. (slang) A ticket of any type.The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang | |
16. v. To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power. | |
The U.S. president was briefed on the military coup and its implications on African stability. | |
17. v. (transitive, legal) To write a legal argument and submit it to a court. | |
18. adv. (obsolete, poetic) Briefly. | |
19. adv. (obsolete, poetic) Soon; quickly. | |
Him |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, him | |
2. pron. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object. | |
3. pron. With dative effect or as an indirect object. | |
4. pron. Following a preposition. | |
5. pron. With accusative effect or as a direct object. | |
6. pron. (now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself. | |
7. pron. With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition. | |
8. pron. alternative case form of Him | |
9. n. (informal) A male person. | |
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her. | |
on |
1. adj. In the state of being active, functioning or operating. | |
2. adj. Performing according to schedule. | |
Are we still on for tonight? | |
Is the show still on? | |
3. adj. (chiefly UK, informal, usually negative) Acceptable, appropriate. | |
You can't do that; it's just not on. | |
4. adj. (informal) Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed. | |
"Five bucks says the Cavs win tonight." ―"You're on!". | |
Mike just threw coffee onto Paul's lap. It's on now. | |
5. adj. (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter. | |
6. adj. (euphemistic) Menstruating. | |
7. adv. To an operating state. | |
turn the television on | |
8. adv. Along, forwards (continuing an action). | |
drive on, rock on | |
9. adv. In continuation, at length. | |
and so on. | |
He rambled on and on. | |
10. adv. (not US) Later. | |
Ten years on, nothing had changed in the village. | |
11. prep. Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above. | |
on the table; on the couch | |
The parrot was sitting on Jim's shoulder. | |
12. prep. At or near; adjacent to. | |
Soon we'll pass a statue on the left. | |
The fleet is on the American coast. | |
Croton-on-Hudson, Rostov-on-Don, Southend-on-Sea | |
13. prep. Covering. | |
He wore old shoes on his feet. | |
14. prep. At the date of. | |
Born on the 4th of July. | |
15. prep. Some time during the day of. | |
I'll see you on Monday. The bus leaves on Friday. Can I see you on a different day? On Sunday I'm busy. | |
16. prep. Dealing with the subject of, about, or concerning something. | |
A book on history. The World Summit on the Information Society. | |
17. prep. Touching; hanging from. | |
The fruit ripened on the trees. The painting hangs on the wall. | |
18. prep. (informal) In the possession of. | |
I haven't got any money on me. | |
19. prep. Because of, or due to. | |
To arrest someone on suspicion of bribery. To contact someone on a hunch. | |
20. prep. Upon; at the time of (and often because of). | |
On Jack's entry, William got up to leave. | |
On the addition of ammonia, a chemical reaction begins. | |
21. prep. Paid for by. | |
The drinks are on me tonight, boys. The meal is on the house. I paid for the airfare and meals for my family, but the hotel room was on the company. | |
22. prep. Used to indicate a means or medium. | |
I saw it on television. Can't you see I'm on the phone? | |
23. prep. Indicating a means of subsistence. | |
They lived on ten dollars a week. The dog survived three weeks on rainwater. | |
24. prep. Away or occupied with (e.g. a scheduled activity). | |
He's on his lunch break. on vacation; on holiday | |
25. prep. Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with. | |
to play on a violin or piano | |
Her words made a lasting impression on my mind. | |
26. prep. Regularly taking (a drug). | |
You've been on these antidepressants far too long. He's acting so strangely, I think he must be on something. | |
27. prep. Under the influence of (a drug). | |
He's acting crazy because he's on crack right now. | |
28. prep. (mathematics) Having identical domain and codomain. | |
a function on | |
29. prep. (mathematics) HavingV^n as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n. | |
an operator on | |
30. prep. (mathematics) Generated by. | |
the free group on four letters | |
31. prep. Supported by (the specified part of itself). | |
A table can't stand on two legs. After resting on his elbows, he stood on his toes, then walked on his heels. | |
32. prep. At a given time after the start of something; at. | |
33. prep. In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series. | |
heaps on heaps of food | |
mischief on mischief; loss on loss | |
34. prep. (obsolete, regional) of | |
35. prep. Indicating dependence or reliance; with confidence in. | |
I depended on them for assistance. | |
He will promise on certain conditions. | |
Do you ever bet on horses? | |
36. prep. Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion. | |
Have pity or compassion on him. | |
37. prep. (obsolete) At the peril of, or for the safety of. | |
38. prep. In the service of; connected with; of the number of. | |
He is on a newspaper; I am on the committee. | |
39. prep. By virtue of; with the pledge of. | |
He affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honour. | |
40. prep. To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon. | |
On us be all the blame. | |
A curse on him! | |
Please don't tell on her and get her in trouble. | |
He turned on her and has been her enemy ever since. | |
He went all honest on me, making me listen to his confession. | |
41. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) to switch on | |
Can you on the light? | |
42. prep. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Without. | |
43. n. In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun. | |
Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun". | |
My |
1. n. megayear | |
2. pron. alternative case form of my often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context. | |
3. det. First-person singular possessive determiner. See. | |
4. det. Belonging to me. | |
I can't find my book. | |
5. det. Associated with me. | |
My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable. | |
Don't you know my name? | |
I recognised him because he had attended my school. | |
6. det. Related to me. | |
My parents won't let me go out tonight. | |
7. det. In the possession of me. | |
I have to take my books back to the library soon. | |
8. interj. Used to express surprise, shock or amazement. | |
My, what big teeth you have! | |
dining |
1. n. Eating dinner as a social function. | |
2. n. Entertaining someone to dinner. | |
3. v. present participle of dine | |
dine |
1. v. (intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper. | |
2. v. (transitive, obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed. | |
3. v. (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat. | |
4. n. (obsolete) dinnertime | |
Hall |
1. n. (rail transport) Hall class, a class of steam locomotive used on the GWR. | |
2. n. surname | |
3. n. A corridor; a hallway. | |
The drinking fountain was out in the hall. | |
4. n. A meeting room. | |
The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention. | |
5. n. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion). | |
The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea. | |
6. n. A building providing student accommodation at a university. | |
The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle. | |
7. n. The principal room of a secular medieval building. | |
8. n. (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing. | |
9. n. (India) A living room. | |
seating |
1. n. The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit | |
There is plenty of comfortable seating. | |
2. n. A period of time in which a restaurant will seat guests | |
3. n. Material for making seats. | |
cane seating | |
4. n. A housing in which a component is seated. | |
5. v. present participle of seat | |
seat |
1. n. Something to be sat upon. | |
2. n. A place in which to sit. | |
There are two hundred seats in this classroom. | |
3. n. The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting. | |
He sat on the arm of the chair rather than the seat, which always annoyed his mother. | |
the seat of a saddle | |
4. n. A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting. | |
She pulled the seat from under the table to allow him to sit down. | |
5. n. The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting. | |
Instead of saying "sit down", she said "place your seat on this chair". | |
6. n. The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks. | |
The seat of these trousers is almost worn through. | |
7. n. (engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests. | |
The seat of the valve had become corroded. | |
8. n. A location or site. | |
9. n. (figurative) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body. | |
Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress. | |
10. n. The location of a governing body. | |
Washington D.C. is the seat of the U.S. government. | |
11. n. (certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature. | |
12. n. A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge. | |
13. n. The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated or resides; a site. | |
14. n. The starting point of a fire. | |
15. n. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback. | |
16. v. To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm. | |
Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover. | |
17. v. To provide with places to sit. | |
This classroom seats two hundred students. | |
The waiter seated us and asked what we would like to drink. | |
18. v. To request or direct one or more persons to sit. | |
Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker. | |
19. v. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session. | |
Only half the delegates from the state were seated at the convention because the state held its primary too early. | |
You have to be a member to be seated at the meeting. Guests are welcome to sit in the visitors section. | |
20. v. To assign the seats of. | |
to seat a church | |
21. v. To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. | |
22. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down. | |
23. v. To settle; to plant with inhabitants. | |
to seat a country | |
24. v. To put a seat or bottom in. | |
to seat a chair | |
system |
1. n. A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members. | |
There are eight planets in the solar system. | |
2. n. (derogatory) Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as opp | |
3. n. (computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer. | |
4. n. (mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously. | |
5. n. (music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously. | |
6. n. (physiology) A set of body organs having a particular function. | |
the digestive system the nervous system | |
7. n. A set of alters, or the multiple (individual with multiple personalities due to e.g. a disassociative personality disorder) who contains them. | |
8. n. A method or way of organizing or planning. | |
Many people believed communism was a good system until the breakup of the Soviet Union. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
coffee |
1. n. A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water. | |
2. n. A serving of this beverage. | |
3. n. The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, misnamed ‘beans’ due to their shape. | |
4. n. The powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds. | |
5. n. A tropical plant of the genus Coffea. | |
6. n. A pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee. | |
(color panel, 6F4E37) | |
7. n. The end of a meal, when coffee is served. | |
He did not stay for coffee. | |
8. adj. Of a pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee. | |
9. adj. Of a table: a small, low table suitable for people in lounge seating to put coffee cups on | |
10. v. (intransitive) To drink coffee. | |
stand |
1. v. To position or be positioned physically.: | |
2. v. (intransitive) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position. | |
Here I stand, wondering what to do next. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up. | |
Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To remain motionless. | |
Do not leave your car standing in the road. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation. | |
6. v. To place in an upright or standing position. | |
He stood the broom in a corner and took a break. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated. | |
Paris stands on the Seine. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet. | |
9. v. (intransitive) (of tears) To be present, to have welled up (in the eyes). | |
10. v. To position or be positioned mentally.: | |
11. v. (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose. | |
He stands to get a good price for the house. | |
12. v. (transitive, negative) To tolerate. | |
I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions. | |
I can’t stand him. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe. | |
14. v. (intransitive) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition. | |
15. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist. | |
16. v. To position or be positioned socially.: | |
17. v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire. | |
18. v. To undergo; withstand; hold up. | |
The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time. | |
19. v. (intransitive, British) To seek election. | |
He is standing for election to the local council. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To be valid. | |
What I said yesterday still stands. | |
21. v. To oppose, usually as a team, in competition. | |
22. v. To cover the expense of; to pay for. | |
to stand a treat | |
23. v. (intransitive) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation. | |
Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts. | |
24. v. (intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord. | |
25. v. (intransitive) To appear in court. | |
26. v. (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.). | |
27. v. (intransitive) To remain without ruin or injury. | |
28. v. (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far. | |
29. n. The act of standing. | |
30. n. A defensive position or effort. | |
The Commander says we will make our stand here. | |
31. n. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition. | |
They took a firm stand against copyright infringement. | |
32. n. A period of performance in a given location or venue. | |
They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees. They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week. | |
33. n. A device to hold something upright or aloft. | |
He set the music upon the stand and began to play. an umbrella stand; a hat-stand | |
34. n. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box. | |
She took the stand and quietly answered questions. | |
35. n. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs. | |
This stand of pines is older than the one next to it. | |
36. n. (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit. | |
37. n. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game. | |
38. n. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand. | |
39. n. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait. | |
a taxi stand | |
40. n. (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc. | |
a good, bad, or convenient stand for business | |
41. n. (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural) | |
42. n. (cricket) A partnership. | |
43. n. (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms. | |
44. n. (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing. | |
45. n. (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment. | |
to be at a stand what to do | |
46. n. A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another | |
47. n. (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch. | |
48. n. A location or position where one may stand. | |
drainage |
1. n. A natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area. | |
2. n. A system of drains. | |
method |
1. n. A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process): | |
One method of exercising a cat consists of making it follow the spot generated by a laser pointer. | |
If one method doesn't work, you should ask a friend to help you. | |
2. n. (acting, often "the method") A technique for acting based on the ideas articulated by Constantin Stanislavski and focusing on authentically experiencing the inner life of the character being portrayed | |
3. n. (object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object. | |
4. n. (slang) Marijuana. | |
5. v. (lbl, en, transitive) to apply a method | |
6. v. (lbl, en, casting, by extension, transitive) to apply particular treatment methods to a mold | |
The company employs extensive use of 3D modelling combined with solidification simulation to ensure that critical castings are properly methoded. | |
7. n. (skateboarding, snowboarding) (ellipsis of method air). | |