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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.
No
1. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
2. n. Alternative form of No.
3. n. Alternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama.
4. det. Not any.
no one
There is no water left.
No hot dogs were sold yesterday.
No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.
There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.)
5. det. Hardly any.
We'll be finished in no time at all.
6. det. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
No smoking
There's no stopping her once she gets going.
7. det. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
My mother's no fool.
Working nine to five every day is no life.
8. adv. (now only used with comparatives, except in Scotland) Not, not at all.
It is a different kind of torture, but no less gruesome.
I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.
9. part. Used to show disagreement or negation.
No, you are mistaken.
No, you may not watch television now.
10. part. Used to show agreement with a negative question.
"Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")
11. part. (colloquial) As if to say, "No, don’t doubt this!", or to deny an imagined contradictory statement, used to show intense agreement
No, totally.
No, yeah, that's exactly right.
"Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!".
No, yeah
12. n. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval.
13. n. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.
The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".
14. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
15. n. Alternative form of No.
strong
1. adj. Capable of producing great physical force.
a big strong man; Jake was tall and strong
2. adj. Capable of withstanding great physical force.
a strong foundation; good strong shoes
3. adj. (of water, wind, etc.) Having a lot of power.
The man was nearly drowned after a strong undercurrent swept him out to sea.
4. adj. Determined; unyielding.
He is strong in the face of adversity.
5. adj. Highly stimulating to the senses.
a strong light; a strong taste
6. adj. Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.
a strong smell
7. adj. Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.
a strong cup of coffee; a strong medicine
8. adj. (specifically) Having a high alcoholic content.
a strong drink
She gets up, and pours herself a strong one. - Eagles, Lying Eyes
9. adj. (grammar) Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.
a strong verb
10. adj. (chemistry) That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution.
a strong acid; a strong base
11. adj. (military) Not easily subdued or taken.
a strong position
12. adj. (slang) Impressive, good.
You're working with troubled youth in your off time? That’s strong!
13. adj. Having a specified number of people or units.
The enemy's army force was five thousand strong.
14. adj. (of a disease or symptom) severe (very bad or intense)
15. adj. (mathematics, logic) Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted with a weak statement which it implies.)
16. adj. (of an argument) Convincing.
17. adv. In a strong manner.
foundation
1. n. The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
The foundation of his institute has been wrought with difficulty.
2. n. That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.
3. n. (figurative) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.
4. n. (card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.
5. n. (architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
The foundations of this construction have been laid out.
6. n. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
7. n. That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
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8. n. (cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
9. n. A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.
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.
based
1. adj. Founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms.
That was a soundly based argument.
2. adj. (slang) Not caring what others think about his or her personality, style, or behavior; focused on maintaining individuality.
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of base
4. v. Being derived from (usually followed by on or upon).
It's a new film based on a best-selling novel.
5. v. Having a base
The ladder is based on the even sidewalk for stability.
6. v. Having a base of operations.
The company is based in New York.
base
1. n. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
2. n. A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
3. n. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
4. n. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
5. n. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
6. n. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
7. n. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
8. n. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
9. n. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
10. n. Important areas in games and sports.
11. n. A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
12. n. (baseball) One of the three places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out.
13. n. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
14. n. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
15. n. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
16. n. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
17. n. (geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
18. n. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
19. n. (heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
20. n. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.
21. n. (mathematics) (synonym of radix).
22. n. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
23. n. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
24. n. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
25. n. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
26. n. (music) (dated form of bass)
27. n. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
28. n. (archaic) The housing of a horse.
29. n. (historical, in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
30. n. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
31. n. (obsolete) An apron.
32. n. A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a sys
33. v. To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
34. v. To be located (at a particular place).
35. v. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
36. adj. (obsolete) Low in height; short.
37. adj. Low in place or position.
38. adj. (obsolete) Of low value or degree.
39. adj. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
40. adj. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
41. adj. (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
42. adj. Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble.
43. adj. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
base coin
base bullion
44. adj. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
45. adj. Not classical or correct.
base Latin
46. adj. obsolete form of bass
the base tone of a violin
47. adj. (legal) Not held by honourable service.
A base estate is one held by services not honourable, or held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant is a base tenant.
48. n. (now chiefly US historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
on
1. adj. In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
2. adj. Performing according to schedule.
Are we still on for tonight?
Is the show still on?
3. adj. (chiefly UK, informal, usually negative) Acceptable, appropriate.
You can't do that; it's just not on.
4. adj. (informal) Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
"Five bucks says the Cavs win tonight." ―"You're on!".
Mike just threw coffee onto Paul's lap. It's on now.
5. adj. (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
6. adj. (euphemistic) Menstruating.
7. adv. To an operating state.
turn the television on
8. adv. Along, forwards (continuing an action).
drive on, rock on
9. adv. In continuation, at length.
and so on.
He rambled on and on.
10. adv. (not US) Later.
Ten years on, nothing had changed in the village.
11. prep. Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
on the table; on the couch
The parrot was sitting on Jim's shoulder.
12. prep. At or near; adjacent to.
Soon we'll pass a statue on the left.
The fleet is on the American coast.
Croton-on-Hudson, Rostov-on-Don, Southend-on-Sea
13. prep. Covering.
He wore old shoes on his feet.
14. prep. At the date of.
Born on the 4th of July.
15. prep. Some time during the day of.
I'll see you on Monday. The bus leaves on Friday. Can I see you on a different day? On Sunday I'm busy.
16. prep. Dealing with the subject of, about, or concerning something.
A book on history. The World Summit on the Information Society.
17. prep. Touching; hanging from.
The fruit ripened on the trees. The painting hangs on the wall.
18. prep. (informal) In the possession of.
I haven't got any money on me.
19. prep. Because of, or due to.
To arrest someone on suspicion of bribery. To contact someone on a hunch.
20. prep. Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
On Jack's entry, William got up to leave.
On the addition of ammonia, a chemical reaction begins.
21. prep. Paid for by.
The drinks are on me tonight, boys. The meal is on the house. I paid for the airfare and meals for my family, but the hotel room was on the company.
22. prep. Used to indicate a means or medium.
I saw it on television. Can't you see I'm on the phone?
23. prep. Indicating a means of subsistence.
They lived on ten dollars a week. The dog survived three weeks on rainwater.
24. prep. Away or occupied with (e.g. a scheduled activity).
He's on his lunch break. on vacation; on holiday
25. prep. Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
to play on a violin or piano
Her words made a lasting impression on my mind.
26. prep. Regularly taking (a drug).
You've been on these antidepressants far too long. He's acting so strangely, I think he must be on something.
27. prep. Under the influence of (a drug).
He's acting crazy because he's on crack right now.
28. prep. (mathematics) Having identical domain and codomain.
a function on
29. prep. (mathematics) HavingV^n as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
an operator on
30. prep. (mathematics) Generated by.
the free group on four letters
31. prep. Supported by (the specified part of itself).
A table can't stand on two legs. After resting on his elbows, he stood on his toes, then walked on his heels.
32. prep. At a given time after the start of something; at.
33. prep. In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
heaps on heaps of food
mischief on mischief; loss on loss
34. prep. (obsolete, regional) of
35. prep. Indicating dependence or reliance; with confidence in.
I depended on them for assistance.
He will promise on certain conditions.
Do you ever bet on horses?
36. prep. Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
Have pity or compassion on him.
37. prep. (obsolete) At the peril of, or for the safety of.
38. prep. In the service of; connected with; of the number of.
He is on a newspaper; I am on the committee.
39. prep. By virtue of; with the pledge of.
He affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honour.
40. prep. To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
On us be all the blame.
A curse on him!
Please don't tell on her and get her in trouble.
He turned on her and has been her enemy ever since.
He went all honest on me, making me listen to his confession.
41. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) to switch on
Can you on the light?
42. prep. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Without.
43. n. In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun.
Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun".
solid
1. adj. (of an object or substance) That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid or a gas.
Almost all metals are solid at room temperature.
2. adj. Large in size, quantity, or value.
3. adj. Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
solid gold, solid chocolate
4. adj. Strong or unyielding.
a solid foundation
5. adj. (slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
That's a solid plan.
Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid.
I don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude.
6. adj. Hearty; filling.
a solid meal
7. adj. Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
8. adj. Sound; not weak.
a solid constitution of body
9. adj. (typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
American English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates.
10. adj. (printing, dated) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
11. adj. (US, politics slang) United; without division; unanimous.
The delegation is solid for a candidate.
12. adj. Of a single color throughout.
John painted the walls solid white.
He wore a solid shirt with floral pants.
13. adj. (of drawn lines) Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.
The solid lines show roads, and the dotted lines footpaths.
14. adj. (dated) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.
A solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
15. n. (chemistry) A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas).
16. n. (geometry) A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
17. n. (informal) A favor.
Please do me a solid: lend me your car for one week.
I owe him; he did me a solid last year.
18. n. An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
I prefer solids over paisleys.
19. n. (in the plural) Food which is not liquid-based.
The doctor said I can't eat any solids four hours before the operation.
20. adv. Solidly.
21. adv. (not comparable, typography) Without spaces or hyphens.
Many long-established compounds are set solid.
reasons
1. n. plural of reason
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of reason
reason
1. n. A cause:
2. n. That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
The reason this tree fell is that it had rotted.
3. n. A motive for an action or a determination.
The reason I robbed the bank was that I needed the money.
If you don't give me a reason to go with you, I won't.
4. n. An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
5. n. Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
Mankind should develop reason above all other virtues.
6. n. (obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
7. n. (mathematics, obsolete) Ratio; proportion.
8. v. (intransitive) To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational
9. v. (intransitive) To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
10. v. (intransitive) To converse; to compare opinions.
11. v. To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
I reasoned the matter with my friend.
12. v. (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
13. v. To persuade by reasoning or argument.
to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan
14. v. (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
to reason down a passion
15. v. (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon
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.
facts
1. n. plural of fact
fact
1. n. (archaic) Action; the realm of action.
2. n. (legal, obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.
He had become an accessory after the fact.
3. n. (obsolete) A feat or meritorious deed.
4. n. An honest observation.
5. n. Something actual as opposed to invented.
In this story, the Gettysburg Address is a fact, but the rest is fiction.
6. n. Something which is real.
Gravity is a fact, not a theory.
7. n. Something which has become real.
The promise of television became a fact in the 1920s.
8. n. Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
Let's look at the facts of the case before deciding.
9. n. An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
There is no doubting the fact that the Earth orbits the Sun.
10. n. Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
The facts about space travel.
11. interj. Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.

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