he's |
1. contraction. he is | |
2. contraction. he has | |
he |
1. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied. | |
2. pron. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant. | |
The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna? | |
3. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown. | |
4. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he". | |
5. n. (informal) A male. | |
Alex totally is a he. | |
6. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). | |
is |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of be | |
He is a doctor. He retired some time ago. | |
Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him. | |
2. n. plural of i | |
remember to dot your is | |
got |
1. v. simple past tense of get | |
We got the last bus home. | |
2. v. (British, Australian, NZ) past participle of get | |
By that time we'd got very cold. | |
I've got two children. | |
How many children have you got? | |
3. v. Expressing obligation. | |
I can't go out tonight, I've got to study for my exams. | |
4. v. (Southern US, with to) must; have (to). | |
I got to go study. | |
5. v. (Southern US, slang) have | |
They got a new car. | |
He got a lot of nerve. | |
6. v. (Southern US, AAVE, euphemistic, slang) to be murdered | |
He got got. | |
get |
1. v. (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | |
I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store. | |
Lance is going to get Mary a ring. | |
2. v. To receive. | |
I got a computer from my parents for my birthday. | |
You need to get permission to leave early. | |
He got a severe reprimand for that. | |
3. v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. (See usage notes.) | |
I've got a concert ticket for you. | |
4. v. (copulative) To become. | |
I'm getting hungry; how about you? | |
Don't get drunk tonight. | |
5. v. To cause to become; to bring about. | |
That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it. | |
I'll get this finished by lunchtime. | |
I can't get these boots off upright - (or on'upright,). | |
6. v. To fetch, bring, take. | |
Can you get my bag from the living-room, please? | |
I need to get this to the office. | |
7. v. To cause to do. | |
Somehow she got him to agree to it. | |
I can't get it to work. | |
8. v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards | |
The actors are getting into position. | |
When are we going to get to London? | |
I'm getting into a muddle. | |
We got behind the wall. | |
9. v. To cover (a certain distance) while travelling. | |
to get a mile | |
10. v. To cause to come or go or move. | |
11. v. To cause to be in a certain status or position. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something). | |
We ought to get moving or we'll be late. | |
After lunch we got chatting. | |
13. v. To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service). | |
I normally get the 7:45 train. | |
I'll get the 9 a.m. flight to Boston. | |
14. v. To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc). | |
Can you get that call, please? I'm busy. | |
15. v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something). | |
I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live! | |
The finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure. | |
16. v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it) | |
Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny. | |
I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks! | |
I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. She gets me. | |
17. v. (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.). | |
"You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot.". | |
18. v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs. | |
He got bitten by a dog. | |
19. v. To become ill with or catch (a disease). | |
I went on holiday and got malaria. | |
20. v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully. | |
He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time. | |
21. v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump. | |
That question's really got me. | |
22. v. To find as an answer. | |
What did you get for question four? | |
23. v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution. | |
The cops finally got me. | |
I'm gonna get him for that. | |
24. v. To hear completely; catch. | |
Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it? | |
25. v. To getter. | |
I put the getter into the container to get the gases. | |
26. v. (now rare) To beget (of a father). | |
27. v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out. | |
to get a lesson; to get out one's Greek lesson | |
28. v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose. | |
Get her with her new hairdo. | |
29. v. (informal, mostly, imperative) Go away; get lost. | |
30. v. (euphemism) To kill. | |
They’re coming to get you, Barbara. | |
31. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit. | |
32. n. (dated) Offspring. | |
33. n. Lineage. | |
34. n. (sports) A difficult return or block of a shot. | |
35. n. Something gained. | |
36. n. (UK, regional) A git. | |
37. n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce. | |
lots |
1. n. plural of lot | |
The men cast lots. | |
They purchased all of the adjacent lots. | |
2. n. (colloquial) A lot; a great deal; tons; loads. | |
Lots of the ways you can help are really easy. | |
Don't worry, my family has lots of money. | |
She made lots of new friends. | |
3. adv. (colloquial) A great deal; very much. | |
I feel lots better about it now that we've talked. | |
I care lots about the humane treatment of animals. | |
lot |
1. n. A large quantity or number; a great deal. | |
to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so | |
2. n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively. | |
a lot of stationery | |
3. n. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items. | |
4. n. (informal) A number of people taken collectively. | |
a sorry lot; a bad lot | |
5. n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field. | |
a building lot in a city | |
6. n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate. | |
7. n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will. | |
to cast lots; to draw lots | |
8. n. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning. | |
9. n. A prize in a lottery. | |
10. n. Allotment; lottery. | |
11. n. (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything. | |
The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot. | |
If I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them. | |
12. n. An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound. | |
13. v. (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion. | |
14. v. (US, informal dated) To count or reckon (on or upon). | |
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. | |
sales |
1. n. plural of sale | |
2. n. The activities involved in selling goods or services. | |
He's likable and motivated: perfect for a career in sales. | |
We have a sales training program beginning this Monday. | |
3. n. The amount or value of goods and services sold. | |
Sales were up 12% over last year. | |
sale |
1. n. (obsolete) A hall. | |
2. n. An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit. | |
He celebrated after the sale of company. | |
3. n. The sale of goods at reduced prices. | |
They are having a clearance sale: 50% off. | |
4. n. The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder. | |
5. n. =====Troponyms===== | |
6. n. (selling of goods at reduced prices) cut-rate sale, sales event | |
7. n. (act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder) auction, public sale | |
pitches |
1. n. plural of pitch | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of pitch | |
pitch |
1. n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap. | |
It is hard to get this pitch off my hand. | |
2. n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar. | |
They put pitch on the mast to protect it. | |
The barrel was sealed with pitch. | |
It was pitch black because there was no moon. | |
3. n. (geology) Pitchstone. | |
4. v. To cover or smear with pitch. | |
5. v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure. | |
6. n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand. | |
a good pitch in quoits | |
7. n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball. | |
The pitch was low and inside. | |
8. n. (sports) (Australia) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) Not used in America, where "field" i | |
The teams met on the pitch. | |
9. n. An effort to sell or promote something. | |
He gave me a sales pitch. | |
10. n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font. | |
The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch. | |
The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood. | |
A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning. | |
11. n. The angle at which an object sits. | |
the pitch of the roof or haystack | |
12. n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree. | |
13. n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis. | |
14. n. (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare | |
the pitch of an aircraft | |
15. n. (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller. | |
The propeller blades' pitch went to zero as the engine was feathered. | |
16. n. The place where a busker performs. | |
17. n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader. | |
18. n. An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar. | |
19. n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression. | |
20. n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances. | |
21. n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders. | |
The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope. | |
22. n. (now British, regional) A person or animal's height. | |
23. n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled. | |
24. n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down. | |
25. n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant. | |
a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof | |
26. n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out. | |
27. v. To throw. | |
He pitched the horseshoe. | |
28. v. (transitive, or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate. | |
(transitive) The hurler pitched a curveball. | |
(intransitive) He pitched high and inside. | |
29. v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher. | |
Bob pitches today. | |
30. v. To throw away; discard. | |
He pitched the candy wrapper. | |
31. v. To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell. | |
He pitched the idea for months with no takers. | |
32. v. To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind. | |
At which level should I pitch my presentation? | |
33. v. To assemble or erect (a tent). | |
Pitch the tent over there. | |
34. v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp. | |
35. v. (ambitransitive, aviation, or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down. | |
(transitive) The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship. | |
(intransitive) The airplane pitched. | |
36. v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin. | |
The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker. | |
37. v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface. | |
The ball pitched well short of the batsman. | |
38. v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting. | |
39. v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight. | |
40. v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice. | |
41. v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope. | |
to pitch from a precipice | |
The field pitches toward the east. | |
42. v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones. | |
43. v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix. | |
44. v. (transitive, card games, slang) To discard for some gain. | |
45. n. (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note. | |
The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians. | |
46. n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by. | |
Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start. | |
47. v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch. | |
48. v. To fix or set the tone of. | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
His |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, his | |
2. det. Belonging to him. | |
3. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender. | |
4. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.) | |
5. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case. | |
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark. | |
Sejanus his Fall | |
6. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun. | |
The decision was his to live with. | |
7. pron. alternative spelling of His | |
8. n. plural of hi | |
quiver |
1. n. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun. | |
2. n. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons. | |
He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver. | |
3. n. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras. | |
4. n. (mathematics) A multidigraph. | |
5. adj. (archaic) Nimble, active. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. | |