eager |
1. adj. (obsolete) Sharp; sour; acid. | |
2. adj. (obsolete) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. | |
3. adj. Desirous; keen to do or obtain something. | |
The hounds were eager in the chase. | |
I was eager to show my teacher how much I'd learned over the holidays. | |
You stayed up all night to get to the front of the queue. You must be very eager to get tickets. | |
4. adj. Brittle; inflexible; not ductile. | |
5. adj. (comptheory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required. | |
an eager algorithm | |
6. n. alternative form of eagre (tidal bore). | |
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. | |
quick |
1. adj. Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast. | |
I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough. | |
He's a quick runner. | |
2. adj. Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly. | |
That was a quick meal. | |
3. adj. Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent. | |
You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics. | |
4. adj. Mentally agile, alert, perceptive. | |
My father is old but he still has a quick wit. | |
5. adj. Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered. | |
6. adj. (archaic) Alive, living. | |
7. adj. (archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling. | |
8. adj. Of water: flowing. | |
9. adj. Burning, flammable, fiery. | |
10. adj. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. | |
11. adj. (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren | |
12. adv. quickly | |
13. adv. (colloquial) with speed | |
Get rich quick. | |
Come here, quick! | |
14. n. raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails. | |
15. n. plants used in making a quickset hedge | |
16. n. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling. | |
17. n. quitchgrass | |
18. n. (cricket) A fast bowler. | |
19. v. To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid. | |
20. v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken. | |
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 | |
argue |
1. v. (obsolete) To prove. | |
2. v. To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints. | |
He also argued for stronger methods to be used against China. | |
He argued as follows: America should stop Lend-Lease convoying, because it needs to fortify its own Army with the supplies. | |
The two boys argued because of disagreement about the science project. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To have an argument, a quarrel. | |
5. v. To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor). | |
He argued his point. | |
He argued that America should stop Lend-Lease convoying because it needed to fortify its own Army with the supplies. | |
fight |
1. v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | |
A wounded animal will fight like a maniac, relentless, savage and murderous. | |
2. v. (reciprocal) To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | |
The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success. | |
He fought for the Democrats in the last election. | |
4. v. To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.). | |
The battle was fought just over that hill. | |
5. v. To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with. | |
My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II. | |
6. v. To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract. | |
The government pledged to fight corruption. | |
7. v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight. | |
to fight cocks; to fight one's ship | |
8. n. An occasion of fighting. | |
One of them got stuck in a chokehold and got stabbed to death during the fight. | |
9. n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies. | |
10. n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups. | |
Watch your language, are you looking for a fight? | |
11. n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match. | |
I'm going to Nick’s to watch the big fight tomorrow night. | |
12. n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife. | |
I'll put up a fight to save this company. | |
13. n. The will or ability to fight. | |
That little guy has a bit of fight in him after all. As soon as he saw the size of his opponent, all the fight went out of him. | |
14. n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships. | |
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. | |
Start |
1. n. A typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option. | |
2. n. The beginning of an activity. | |
The movie was entertaining from start to finish. | |
3. n. A sudden involuntary movement. | |
He woke with a start. | |
4. n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc. | |
5. n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match. | |
Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday. | |
6. n. (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later. | |
7. n. An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start. | |
to get, or have, the start | |
8. v. To begin, commence, initiate. | |
9. v. To set in motion. | |
to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business | |
10. v. To begin. | |
11. v. To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine. | |
to start the engine | |
12. v. To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion). | |
13. v. To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent. | |
14. v. (intransitive) To begin an activity. | |
The rain started at 9:00. | |
15. v. (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin. | |
The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town. | |
The blue line starts one foot away from the wall. | |
16. v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly. | |
17. v. (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise. | |
18. v. (intransitive) To awaken suddenly. | |
19. v. To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly. | |
The hounds started a fox. | |
20. v. To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate. | |
to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel | |
21. v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose. | |
22. v. (transitive, sports) To put into play. | |
23. v. (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from. | |
to start a water cask | |
24. v. (intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation). | |
Have you started yet? | |
25. n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail. | |
26. n. A handle, especially that of a plough. | |
27. n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket. | |
28. n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse. | |
a |
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
4. art. The same; one. | |
We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
Stand a tiptoe. | |
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
Torn a pieces. | |
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
A God’s name. | |
13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
To set the people a worke. | |
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
The times, they are a-changin'. | |
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
Jacob, when he was a dying | |
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
The name of John a Gaunt. | |
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
conflict |
1. n. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals. | |
The conflict between the government and the rebels began three years ago. | |
2. n. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled. | |
I wanted to attend the meeting but there's a conflict in my schedule that day. | |
3. v. (intransitive)To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible | |
4. v. (intransitive)To overlap (with), as in a schedule. | |
Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule. | |
It appears that our schedules conflict. | |