difficult |
1. adj. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort. | |
However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater. | |
2. adj. (often of a, person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome. | |
Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you. | |
3. adj. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling. | |
4. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex. | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
deal |
1. n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share. | |
We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king. | |
2. n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good). | |
3. v. To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share. | |
The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory. | |
4. v. To administer or give out, as in small portions. | |
5. v. To distribute cards to the players in a game. | |
I was dealt four aces. | |
The cards were shuffled, and the croupier dealt. | |
6. v. (baseball) To pitch. | |
The whole crowd waited for him to deal a real humdinger. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave. | |
9. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in). | |
She deals in gold. | |
11. v. To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs. | |
This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To be concerned with. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope. | |
I can't deal with this. | |
I don't think he wants to go. — Yeah, well, we're going anyway, and he can deal. | |
14. n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing out. | |
15. n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this. | |
I didn’t have a good deal all evening. | |
I believe it's your deal. | |
16. n. A particular instance of buying or selling; a transaction | |
We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight. | |
17. n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain. | |
18. n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement | |
He made a deal with the devil. | |
19. n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event. | |
What's the deal? | |
20. n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object. | |
The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork. | |
21. n. Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | |
22. n. A plank of softwood (fir or pine board) | |
23. n. (archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding. | |
24. adj. Made of deal. | |
A plain deal table | |
with |
1. prep. Against. | |
He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
He went with his friends. | |
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
5. prep. In support of. | |
We are with you all the way. | |
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by. | |
slain with robbers | |
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
cut with a knife | |
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
9. prep. Having, owning. | |
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
Do you want to come with? | |
11. adv. --> | |
12. n. alternative form of withe | |
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. | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
operate |
1. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act. | |
2. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system. | |
3. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence. | |
4. v. (medicine, transitive, or intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation | |
5. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits. | |
6. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause. | |
7. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work. | |
to operate a machine | |