having |
1. v. present participle of have | |
2. n. Something owned; possession; goods; estate. | |
have |
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst. | |
1. v. To possess, own, hold. | |
I have a house and a car. | |
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street! | |
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship). | |
I have two sisters. | |
I have a lot of work to do. | |
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action. | |
I have breakfast at six o'clock. | |
Can I have a look at that? | |
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now. | |
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in. | |
What class do you have right now? I have English. | |
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day. | |
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.) | |
I have already eaten today. | |
I had already eaten. | |
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to. | |
I have to go. | |
7. v. To give birth to. | |
The couple always wanted to have children. | |
My wife is having the baby right now! | |
My mother had me when she was 25. | |
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with. | |
He's always bragging about how many women he's had. | |
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner. | |
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me. | |
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation. | |
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town. | |
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be. | |
He had him arrested for trespassing. | |
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears. | |
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.) | |
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week. | |
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice. | |
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being. | |
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening. | |
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.)) | |
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we? | |
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she? | |
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he? | |
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take. | |
I could have him! | |
I'm gonna have you! | |
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language. | |
I have no German. | |
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of. | |
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before. | |
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from. | |
He had a cold last week. | |
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo. | |
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that. | |
He had surgery on his hip yesterday. | |
I'm having the time of my life! | |
20. v. To trick, to deceive. | |
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke. | |
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate. | |
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it. | |
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night. | |
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by. | |
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it. | |
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest. | |
Thank you for having me! | |
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation. | |
What do you have for problem two? | |
I have two contacts on my scope. | |
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case. | |
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon. | |
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person. | |
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | |
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading. | |
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have. | |
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. | |
rosy |
1. adj. Rose-coloured. | |
2. adj. Resembling rose, as in scent of perfume. | |
3. adj. Optimistic. | |
4. n. (slang) tea | |
I wish a cup of Rosy. | |
I fancy a cup of rosy lee. | |
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. | |
pale |
1. adj. Light in color. | |
I have pale yellow wallpaper. | |
She had pale skin because she didn't get much sunlight. | |
2. adj. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.). | |
His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death. | |
3. adj. Feeble, faint. | |
He is but a pale shadow of his former self. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To become insignificant. | |
6. v. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. | |
7. n. (obsolete) Paleness; pallor. | |
8. n. A wooden stake; a picket. | |
9. n. (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade. | |
10. n. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of). | |
11. n. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale. | |
12. n. (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield. | |
13. n. (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction. | |
14. n. (historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction. | |
15. n. (historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries). | |
16. n. (historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live. | |
17. n. (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority. | |
18. n. A cheese scoop.P. L. Simmonds, A Dictionary of Trade Products, Commercial, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms, London: Routledge, 1858, p. 272 | |
19. n. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened. | |
20. v. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off. | |
Red |
1. n. A Communist. | |
2. n. A supporter of a sports team who wears red as part of their kit. | |
3. adj. Communist | |
the Red Army | |
4. adj. Having red as its color. | |
The girl wore a red skirt. | |
5. adj. (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger. | |
Her hair had red highlights. | |
6. adj. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black | |
I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens. | |
7. adj. (often, capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red: | |
8. adj. (US, modern) the U.S. Republican party | |
a red state | |
a red Congress | |
9. adj. (also British) Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germ | |
the red-black grand coalition in Germany | |
10. adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations | |
11. adj. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation. | |
12. adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red. | |
13. n. Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from | |
(color panel, F00000) | |
14. n. A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. | |
15. n. (snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours. | |
16. n. Red wine. | |
17. n. (informal, birdwatching) A redshank. | |
18. n. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind. | |
19. n. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug. | |
20. n. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal) | |
21. n. (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) red lemonade | |
22. n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks. | |
23. n. (US, colloquial) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red") | |
24. v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede | |
25. v. alternative spelling of redd | |
colour |
1. n. (AU, Canada, Ireland, NZ, South Africa, UK) standard spelling of color | |
2. adj. (AU, Canada, Ireland, NZ, South Africa, UK) standard spelling of color | |
3. v. (AU, Canada, Ireland, NZ, South Africa, UK) standard spelling of color | |
ruddy |
1. adj. Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky. | |
2. adj. (UK, slang) (A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.) | |
3. adv. (UK, slang) (A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.) | |
4. n. (informal) ruddy duck | |
5. v. To make reddish in colour. | |
The sunset ruddied our faces. | |