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. | |
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. | |
showing |
1. v. present participle of show | |
2. n. An occasion when something is shown. | |
We went to the midnight showing of the new horror movie. | |
3. n. A result, a judgement. | |
He made a poor showing at his first time at bat. | |
show |
1. v. To display, to have somebody see (something). | |
The car's dull finish showed years of neglect. | |
All he had to show for four years of attendance at college was a framed piece of paper. | |
2. v. To bestow; to confer. | |
to show mercy; to show favour; (dialectal) show me the salt please | |
3. v. To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. | |
4. v. To guide or escort. | |
Could you please show him on his way. He has overstayed his welcome. | |
They showed us in. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear. | |
Your bald patch is starting to show. | |
At length, his gloom showed. | |
6. v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up. | |
We waited for an hour, but they never showed. | |
7. v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant. | |
8. v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs. | |
In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars. | |
9. v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear. | |
10. n. A play, dance, or other entertainment. | |
11. n. An exhibition of items. | |
art show; dog show | |
12. n. A demonstration. | |
show of force | |
13. n. A broadcast program/programme. | |
radio show; television show | |
14. n. A movie. | |
Let's catch a show. | |
15. n. A project or presentation. | |
Let's get on with the show. Let's get this show on the road. They went on an international road show to sell the shares to investors. It was Apple's usual do | |
16. n. Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".) | |
The dog sounds ferocious but it's all show. | |
17. n. Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance. | |
18. n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues. | |
He played AA ball for years, but never made it to the show. | |
19. n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp. | |
20. n. (archaic) Pretence. | |
21. n. (archaic) Sign, token, or indication. | |
22. n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance. | |
23. n. (obsolete) Plausibility. | |
24. n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor. | |
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. | |
sharp |
1. adj. Able to cut easily. | |
I keep my knives sharp so that they don't slip unexpectedly while carving. | |
2. adj. (colloquial) Intelligent. | |
My nephew is a sharp lad; he can count to 100 in six languages, and he's only five years old. | |
3. adj. Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded. | |
Ernest made the pencil too sharp and accidentally stabbed himself with it. | |
a sharp hill; a face with sharp features | |
4. adj. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note). | |
5. adj. (music) Higher in pitch than required. | |
The orchestra's third violin several times was sharp about an eighth of a tone. | |
6. adj. Having an intense, acrid flavour. | |
Milly couldn't stand sharp cheeses when she was pregnant, because they made her nauseated. | |
7. adj. Sudden and intense. | |
A pregnant woman during labor normally experiences a number of sharp contractions. | |
8. adj. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest. | |
Michael had a number of sharp ventures that he kept off the books. | |
9. adj. (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd. | |
a sharp dealer; a sharp customer | |
10. adj. Exact, precise, accurate; keen. | |
You'll need sharp aim to make that shot. | |
11. adj. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious. | |
sharp criticism; When the two rivals met, first there were sharp words, and then a fight broke out. | |
12. adj. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive. | |
You look so sharp in that tuxedo! | |
13. adj. Observant; alert; acute. | |
Keep a sharp watch on the prisoners. I don't want them to escape! | |
14. adj. Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees. | |
Drive down Main for three quarters of a mile, then make a sharp right turn onto Pine. | |
15. adj. Steep; precipitous; abrupt. | |
a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve | |
16. adj. (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible. | |
Sure, any planar graph can be five-colored. But that result is not sharp: in fact, any planar graph can be four-colored. That is sharp: the same can't be said for any lower number. | |
17. adj. (chess) Tactical; risky. | |
18. adj. Piercing; keen; severe; painful. | |
a sharp pain; the sharp and frosty winter air | |
19. adj. Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification. | |
a sharp appetite | |
20. adj. (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous. | |
21. adj. Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty. | |
22. adj. (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced. | |
23. adv. To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply. | |
24. adv. (notcomp) Exactly. | |
I'll see you at twelve o'clock sharp. | |
25. adv. (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable. | |
I didn't enjoy the concert much because the tenor kept going sharp on the high notes. | |
26. n. (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher. | |
The pitch pipe sounded out a perfect F♯ (F sharp). | |
Transposition frequently is harder to read because of all the sharps and flats on the staff. | |
27. n. (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯. | |
28. n. (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key. | |
The piece was difficult to read after it had been transposed, since in the new key many notes were sharps. | |
29. n. (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic. | |
Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is written in C♯ minor (C sharp minor.) | |
30. n. (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp. | |
Place sharps in the specially marked red container for safe disposal. | |
31. n. A sharp tool or weapon. | |
32. n. (medicine) A hypodermic syringe. | |
33. n. (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery. | |
34. n. A dishonest person; a cheater. | |
The casino kept in the break room a set of pictures of known sharps for the bouncers to see. | |
This usage is often classified as variant spelling of shark, and unrelated to the 'pointed' or 'cutting' meanings of sharp. | |
35. n. Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly. | |
36. n. A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between. | |
37. n. (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings. | |
38. n. (slang) An expert. | |
39. n. A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s). | |
40. v. (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp. | |
That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song! | |
41. v. To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper. | |
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. | |
critical |
1. adj. Inclined to find fault or criticize | |
A good teacher is fair but critical. | |
2. adj. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point. | |
This is a critical moment. | |
3. adj. Extremely important. | |
It's critical that you deliver this on time. | |
4. adj. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism. | |
The movie was a critical success, but bombed at the box-office. | |
5. adj. (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care o | |
The patient's condition is critical. | |
6. adj. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable. | |
The political situation was so critical that the government declared the state of siege. | |
7. adj. (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining. | |
The reaction was about to become critical. | |
8. adj. (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied. | |
9. n. A critical value, factor, etc. | |
10. n. In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other. | |
quality |
1. n. Level of excellence. | |
This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality. | |
Quality of life is usually determined by health, education, and income. | |
2. n. A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person. | |
One of the qualities of pure iron is that it does not rust easily. | |
While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers. | |
Security, stability, and efficiency are good qualities of an operating system. | |
3. n. (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.) | |
A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality. | |
Membership of this golf club is limited to those of quality and wealth. | |
4. n. The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items. | |
5. n. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture. | |
6. n. (emergency medicine) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like. | |
To identify quality try asking, "what does it feel like?". | |
7. adj. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose. | |
We only sell quality products. | |
That was a quality game by Jim Smith. | |
A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements. | |