continually |
1. adv. In a continual manner; non-stop. | |
2. adv. In regular or repeated succession; very often. | |
fresh |
1. adj. Newly produced or obtained. | |
He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer. | |
I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing. | |
2. adj. Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled. | |
After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat. | |
I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm. | |
a glass of fresh milk | |
3. adj. (of plant material) Still green and not dried. | |
4. adj. Refreshing or cool. | |
What a nice fresh breeze. | |
5. adj. (of water) Without salt; not saline. | |
After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream. | |
6. adj. Rested; not tired or fatigued. | |
7. adj. In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed. | |
a fresh hand on a ship | |
8. adj. Youthful; florid. | |
9. adj. (slang) Good, fashionable. | |
a fresh pair of sneakers | |
10. adj. (figurative) Recent or new, sometimes to the point of causing extreme joy or extreme discomfort. | |
With his recent lottery prize fresh in his mind, Joe was too happy to contain himself. | |
With his recent breakup fresh in his mind, he was unable to concentrate on his task at work. | |
11. adv. recently; just recently; most recently | |
We are fresh out of milk. | |
12. n. A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood. | |
13. n. A stream or spring of fresh water. | |
14. n. The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea. | |
15. adj. Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward. | |
No one liked his fresh comments. | |
16. adj. Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious. | |
Hey, don't get fresh with me! | |
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. | |
self |
1. pron. (obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned). | |
This argument was put forward by the defendant self. | |
2. pron. (commercial or humorous) Myself. | |
I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat. | |
3. n. The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts. | |
4. n. An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves). | |
5. n. (botany) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs). | |
6. n. (molecular biology, immunology) Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogen | |
7. v. (botany) To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate. | |
8. v. (botany) To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed. | |
9. adj. Having its own or a single nature or character, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed. | |
a self bow: one made from a single piece of wood | |
a self flower or plant: one which is wholly of one colour | |
10. adj. (obsolete) Same. | |
11. adj. (molecular biology, immunology) Of or relating to any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example | |
renewing |
1. v. present participle of renew | |
2. n. A renewal. | |
renew |
1. v. To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition. | |
2. v. To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of. | |
3. v. (theology) To make new spiritually; to regenerate. | |
4. v. (now rare, intransitive) To become new, or as new; to revive. | |
5. v. To begin again; to recommence. | |
6. v. (rare) To repeat. | |
7. v. (transitive, intransitive) To extend a period of loan, especially a library book that is due to be returned. | |
I'd like to renew these three books. Did you know that you can renew online? | |
8. n. synonym of renewal | |
often |
1. adv. Frequently, many times. | |
I often walk to work when the weather is nice. | |
I've been going to the movies more often since a new theatre opened near me. | |
2. adj. (archaic) Frequent. | |
used |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of use | |
You used me! | |
2. v. (intransitive, as an auxiliary verb, now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed to doing something | |
He used to live here, but moved away last year. | |
3. adj. That is or has or have been used. | |
The ground was littered with used syringes left behind by drug abusers. | |
4. adj. That has or have previously been owned by someone else. | |
He bought a used car. | |
5. adj. Familiar through use; usual; accustomed. | |
I got used to this weather. | |
use |
1. n. The act of using. | |
the use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations; there is no use for your invention | |
2. n. (followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit. | |
What's the use of a law that nobody follows? | |
3. n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed. | |
This tool has many uses. | |
4. n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity. | |
I have no further use for these textbooks. | |
5. n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury. | |
6. n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit. | |
7. n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience. | |
8. n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese. | |
the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc. | |
9. n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging. | |
10. v. To utilize or employ. | |
11. v. To employ; to apply; to utilize. | |
Use this knife to slice the bread. | |
We can use this mathematical formula to solve the problem. | |
12. v. (transitive, often with up) To expend; to consume by employing. | |
I used the money they allotted me. | |
We should use up most of the fuel. | |
She used all the time allotted to complete the test. | |
13. v. To exploit. | |
You never cared about me; you just used me! | |
14. v. To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly. | |
He uses cocaine. I have never used drugs. | |
15. v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted. | |
Richard began experimenting with cocaine last year; now he uses almost every day. | |
16. v. (transitive, with auxiliary "could") To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand. | |
I could use a drink. My car could use a new coat of paint. | |
17. v. To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Note: This usage uses the nounal pronunciation of the word rather than the typically verbal one.) | |
soldiers who are used to hardships and danger (still common) | |
to use the soldiers to hardships and danger (now rare) | |
18. v. (reflexive, obsolete, with "to") To become accustomed, to accustom oneself. | |
19. v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do. | |
20. v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually employ; to be wont to employ. | |
21. v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to. | |
I used to get things done. | |
22. v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat. | |
to use an animal cruelly | |
23. v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself. | |
metaphorically |
1. adv. (manner) In a metaphoric manner; not literally; by means of metaphor. | |
He conveyed his teachings metaphorically. | |
2. adv. (speech act) Used to draw attention that what follows is a metaphor, not to be taken literally | |
Metaphorically, he was crushed. | |