despite |
1. n. (obsolete) Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred. | |
2. n. (archaic) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult. | |
3. n. Evil feeling; malice, spite. | |
4. prep. In spite of, notwithstanding, regardless of. | |
5. v. (obsolete) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously. | |
His |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, his | |
2. det. Belonging to him. | |
3. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender. | |
4. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.) | |
5. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case. | |
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark. | |
Sejanus his Fall | |
6. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun. | |
The decision was his to live with. | |
7. pron. alternative spelling of His | |
8. n. plural of hi | |
riches |
1. n. Money, goods, wealth, treasure. | |
2. n. (figurative) An abundance of anything desirable. | |
he's |
1. contraction. he is | |
2. contraction. he has | |
he |
1. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied. | |
2. pron. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant. | |
The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna? | |
3. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown. | |
4. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he". | |
5. n. (informal) A male. | |
Alex totally is a he. | |
6. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). | |
is |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of be | |
He is a doctor. He retired some time ago. | |
Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him. | |
2. n. plural of i | |
remember to dot your is | |
not |
1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb. | |
Did you take out the trash? No, I did not. | |
Not knowing any better, I went ahead. | |
2. adv. To no degree. | |
That is not red; it's orange. | |
3. conj. And not. | |
I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken. | |
He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple. | |
4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. | |
I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not! | |
Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not! | |
5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function. | |
You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip. | |
6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not. | |
contented |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of content | |
2. adj. Satisfied. | |
content |
1. n. That which is contained. | |
2. n. Subject matter; that which is contained in writing or speech. | |
3. n. The amount of material contained; contents. | |
4. n. Capacity for holding. | |
5. n. (mathematics) The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon). | |
6. n. (algebra, ring theory) (of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain) The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor | |
7. n. Satisfaction; contentment. | |
They were in a state of sleepy content after supper. | |
8. n. (obsolete) Acquiescence without examination. | |
9. n. That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy. | |
10. n. (House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmate vote. | |
11. n. (House of Lords) A member who votes in assent. | |
12. adj. Satisfied. | |
13. interj. (archaic) Alright, agreed. | |
14. v. To give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to make happy. | |
You can't have any more - you'll have to content yourself with what you already have. | |
15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite. | |