| great |
| 1. adj. Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i. e. having many parts or members) or duration (i. e. relatively long); very big. | |
| A great storm is approaching our shores. | |
| a great assembly | |
| a great wait | |
| 2. adj. Of larger size or more importance than others of its kind. | |
| the great auk | |
| 3. adj. (qualifying nouns of family relationship) Involving more generations than the word qualified implies (from 1510s). see Derived terms | |
| great-grandfather | |
| 4. adj. (obsolete, postpositive, followed by 'with') Pregnant; large with young; full of. | |
| great with child | |
| great with hope | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete, except with 'friend' and similar words such as 'mate','buddy') Intimate; familiar. | |
| 6. adj. Extreme or more than usual. | |
| great worry | |
| 7. adj. Of significant importance or consequence; important. | |
| a great decision | |
| 8. adj. (applied to actions, thoughts and feelings) Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; superior; commanding; heroic; illustrious; eminent. | |
| a great deed | |
| a great nature | |
| a great history | |
| 9. adj. Impressive or striking. | |
| a great show of wealth | |
| 10. adj. Much in use; favoured. | |
| Poetry was a great convention of the Romantic era. | |
| 11. adj. (applied to persons) Endowed with extraordinary powers; of exceptional talents or achievements; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; remarkable; strong; powerful; mighty; noble. | |
| a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, writer etc. | |
| 12. adj. Title referring to an important leader. | |
| Alexander the Great | |
| 13. adj. Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic. | |
| What a great buffoon! | |
| He's not a great one for reading. | |
| a great walker | |
| 14. adj. (often followed by 'at') Skilful or adroit. | |
| a great carpenter | |
| You are great at singing. | |
| 15. adj. (informal) Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic (from 1848). | |
| Dinner was great. | |
| 16. adj. (informal, British) Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths. | |
| a dirty great smack in the face | |
| Great Scott! | |
| 17. interj. Expression of gladness and content about something. | |
| Great! Thanks for the wonderful work. | |
| 18. interj. sarcastic inversion thereof. | |
| Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order. | |
| 19. n. A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim. | |
| Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science. | |
| 20. n. (music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division. | |
| 21. adv. very well (in a very satisfactory manner) | |
| Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don't have to be sharpened. | |
| reluctance |
| 1. n. Unwillingness to do something. | |
| 2. n. Hesitancy in taking some action. | |
| 3. n. (physics) That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit. | |
| 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 | |
| spend |
| 1. v. To pay out (money). | |
| He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper. | |
| 2. v. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. | |
| 3. v. (dated) To squander. | |
| to spend an estate in gambling | |
| 4. v. To exhaust, to wear out. | |
| The violence of the waves was spent. | |
| 5. v. To consume, to use up (time). | |
| My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs. | |
| We spent the winter in the south of France. | |
| 6. v. (dated, intransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed. | |
| Energy spends in the using of it. | |
| 8. v. To be diffused; to spread. | |
| 9. v. (mining) To break ground; to continue working. | |
| 10. n. Amount spent (during a period), expenditure | |
| I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month. | |
| 11. n. (pluralized) expenditures; money or pocket money. | |
| 12. n. Discharged semen | |
| 13. n. Vaginal discharge | |
| money |
| 1. n. A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply. | |
| 2. n. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value. | |
| Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa. | |
| 3. n. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union). | |
| money supply; money market | |
| 4. n. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally. | |
| 5. n. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits. | |
| 6. n. Wealth. | |
| He was born with money. | |
| 7. n. An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services. | |
| 8. n. A person who funds an operation. | |
| unnecessarily |
| 1. adv. Needlessly, not necessarily | |
| 2. adv. Not by necessity. | |
| He unnecessarily repeated too much of what others had covered. | |
| 3. adv. To an extent beyond what is needed. | |
| The food provided was unnecessarily generous, especially for an event meant to raise money for the hungry. | |
