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. | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
properties |
1. n. plural of property | |
property |
1. n. Something that is owned. | |
Leave those books alone! They are my property. | |
Important types of property include real property (land), personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.). | |
2. n. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land. | |
There is a large house on the property. | |
3. n. Real estate; the business of selling houses. | |
He works in property as a housing consultant. | |
4. n. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing. | |
5. n. An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept. | |
Charm is his most endearing property. | |
6. n. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects. | |
Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density. | |
7. n. (computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter. | |
You need to set the debugging property to "verbose". | |
8. n. (usually in the theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production. | |
Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking. | |
9. n. (obsolete) Propriety; correctness. | |
10. v. (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities. | |
11. v. (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate. | |
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of |
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. | |
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". | |
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). | |
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). | |
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. | |
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to. | |
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three. | |
6. prep. Expressing separation. | |
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.) | |
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband. | |
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.) | |
He seemed devoid of human feelings. | |
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.) | |
10. prep. Expressing origin. | |
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.) | |
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin. | |
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of. | |
The invention was born of necessity. | |
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.) | |
It is said that she died of a broken heart. | |
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.) | |
I am tired of all this nonsense. | |
15. prep. Expressing agency. | |
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).) | |
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. | |
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below). | |
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties. | |
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.) | |
It was very brave of you to speak out like that. | |
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance. | |
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.) | |
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic. | |
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.) | |
She wore a dress of silk. | |
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.) | |
What a lot of nonsense! | |
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.) | |
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich. | |
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also". | |
I'm not driving this wreck of a car. | |
25. prep. Introducing subject matter. | |
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma | |
I'm always thinking of you. | |
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning. | |
He told us the story of his journey to India. | |
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.) | |
This behaviour is typical of teenagers. | |
29. prep. Having partitive effect. | |
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among". | |
Most of these apples are rotten. | |
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.) | |
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. | |
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort. | |
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).) | |
He is a friend of mine. | |
34. prep. Expressing possession. | |
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. | |
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. | |
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. | |
The owner of the nightclub was arrested. | |
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter | |
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames. | |
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive". | |
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.) | |
She had a profound distrust of the police. | |
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics. | |
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards. | |
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner. | |
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by". | |
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain. | |
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.) | |
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%. | |
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod | |
It's not that big of a deal. | |
45. prep. Expressing a point in time. | |
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. | |
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river. | |
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time). | |
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while. | |
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.) | |
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off. | |
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. | |
magnet |
1. n. A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism. | |
2. n. (informal figuratively, preceded by a noun) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun. | |
He always had a girl on his arm – he's a bit of a babe magnet. | |
especially |
1. adv. (manner) In a special manner; specially. | |
2. adv. (focus) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal. | |
3. adv. (focus) Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something. | |
Invite them all, especially Molly. | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
ability |
1. n. (obsolete) Suitableness. | |
2. n. The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power. | |
This phone has the ability to have its software upgraded wirelessly. | |
This wood has the ability to fight off insects, fungus, and mold for a considerable time. | |
3. n. The legal wherewithal to act. | |
4. n. (now limited to Scottish dialects) Physical power. | |
5. n. (archaic) Financial ability. | |
6. n. A unique power of the mind; a faculty. | |
7. n. A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude. | |
They are persons of ability, who will go far in life. | |
She has an uncanny ability to defuse conflict. | |
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 | |
draw |
1. v. To move or develop something.: | |
2. v. To sketch; depict with lines; to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc. | |
3. v. To deduce or infer. | |
He tried to draw a conclusion from the facts. | |
4. v. (intransitive) (of drinks, especially tea) To leave temporarily so as to allow the flavour to increase. | |
Tea is much nicer if you let it draw for three minutes before pouring. | |
5. v. To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, etc. | |
to draw money from a bank | |
6. v. To take into the lungs; to inhale. | |
7. v. (used with prepositions and adverbs) To move; to come or go. | |
We drew back from the cliff edge. | |
The runners drew level with each other as they approached the finish line. | |
Draw near to the fire and I will tell you a tale. | |
8. v. To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive. | |
9. v. (transitive, obsolete) To withdraw. | |
10. v. (archaic) To draw up (a document). | |
to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange | |
11. v. To exert or experience force.: | |
12. v. To drag, pull. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling. | |
This horse draws well. | |
A ship's sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind. | |
14. v. To pull out (as a gun from a holster, or a tooth). | |
They drew their swords and fought each other. | |
15. v. To undergo the action of pulling or dragging. | |
The carriage draws easily. | |
16. v. (archery) To pull back the bowstring and its arrow in preparation for shooting. | |
17. v. (of curtains, etc.) To close. | |
You should draw the curtains at night. | |
18. v. (of curtains, etc.) To open. | |
She drew the curtains to let in the sunlight. | |
19. v. (cards) To take the top card of a deck into hand. | |
At the start of their turn, each player must draw a card. | |
20. v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace. | |
21. v. To extract a liquid, or cause a liquid to come out, primarily water or blood. | |
draw water from a well; draw water for a bath; the wound drew blood | |
22. v. To drain by emptying; to suck dry. | |
23. v. (figurative) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive. | |
24. v. To sink in water; to require a depth for floating. | |
A ship draws ten feet of water. | |
25. v. (intransitive, medicine, dated) To work as an epispastic; said of a blister, poultice, etc. | |
26. v. (intransitive, dated) To have a draught; to transmit smoke, gases, etc. | |
A chimney or flue draws. | |
27. v. (analogous) To consume, for example, power. | |
The circuit draws three hundred watts. | |
28. v. To change in size or shape.: | |
29. v. To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch. | |
to draw a mass of metal into wire | |
30. v. (intransitive) To become contracted; to shrink. | |
31. v. To attract or be attracted.: | |
32. v. To attract. | |
The citizens were afraid the casino would draw an undesirable element to their town. I was drawn to her. | |
33. v. To induce a reticent person to speak. | |
He refused to be drawn on the subject | |
34. v. (hunting) To search for game. | |
35. v. To cause. | |
36. v. (intransitive) To exert an attractive force; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement. | |
37. v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source. | |
She had to draw upon her experience to solve the problem. | |
38. v. To disembowel. | |
He will be hanged, drawn and quartered. | |
39. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning). | |
We drew last time we played. I drew him last time I played him. I drew my last game against him. | |
40. v. A random selection process. | |
41. v. To select by the drawing of lots. | |
The winning lottery numbers were drawn every Tuesday. | |
42. v. To win in a lottery or similar game of chance. | |
He drew a prize. | |
43. v. (poker) To trade in cards for replacements in draw poker games; to attempt to improve one's hand with future cards. See also draw out. | |
Jill has four diamonds; she'll try to draw for a flush. | |
44. v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone. | |
45. v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket. | |
46. v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left. | |
47. v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball. | |
48. n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie. | |
The game ended in a draw. | |
49. n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined. | |
The draw is on Saturday. | |
50. n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd. | |
51. n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out. Different from a tie. | |
52. n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade. | |
53. n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone. | |
54. n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding. | |
55. n. (colloquial) Cannabis. | |
56. n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer. | |
57. n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight. | |
58. n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing. | |
59. n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke. | |
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. | |
pull |
1. n. An act of pulling (applying force) | |
He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out. | |
2. n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source | |
The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant. | |
iron fillings drawn by the pull of a magnet | |
She took a pull on her cigarette. | |
3. n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope | |
a zipper pull | |
4. n. (slang) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing. | |
In weights the favourite had the pull. | |
5. n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star) | |
6. n. (Internet) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology | |
7. n. A journey made by rowing | |
8. n. (dated) A contest; a struggle. | |
a wrestling pull | |
9. n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered. | |
10. n. (slang) The act of drinking. | |
to take a pull at a mug of beer | |
11. n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side. | |
12. n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path. | |
13. v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force. | |
When I give the signal, pull the rope. | |
You're going to have to pull harder to get that cork out of the bottle. | |
14. v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck. | |
to pull fruit from a tree; to pull flax; to pull a finch | |
15. v. To attract or net; to pull in. | |
16. v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend. | |
17. v. (ambitransitive, UK, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one. | |
I pulled at the club last night. | |
He's pulled that bird over there. | |
18. v. To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability. | |
Each day, they pulled the old bread and set out fresh loaves. | |
19. v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform. | |
He regularly pulls 12-hour days, sometimes 14. | |
You'll be sent home if you pull another stunt like that. | |
20. v. To retrieve or generate for use. | |
I'll have to pull a part number for that. | |
21. v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field. | |
22. v. (intransitive) To row. | |
23. v. To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.). | |
24. v. (video games, ambitransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target. | |
25. v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport. | |
26. v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning. | |
The favourite was pulled. | |
27. v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever. | |
28. v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.) | |
29. v. (UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source. | |
Let's stop at Finnigan's. The barman pulls a good pint. | |
30. v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave. | |
31. interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched. | |