| 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 | |
| off |
| 1. adv. In a direction away from the speaker or object. | |
| He drove off in a cloud of smoke. | |
| 2. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence. | |
| Please switch off the light when you leave. | |
| die off | |
| 3. adv. So as to be removed or separated. | |
| He bit off more than he could chew. | |
| Some branches were sawn off. | |
| 4. adj. Inoperative, disabled. | |
| All the lights are off. | |
| 5. adj. Rancid, rotten. | |
| This milk is off! | |
| 6. adj. (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman. | |
| 7. adj. Less than normal, in temperament or in result. | |
| sales are off this quarter | |
| 8. adj. Circumstanced (as in well off, better off, poorly off). | |
| 9. adj. Started on the way. | |
| off to see the wizard | |
| And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose. | |
| 10. adj. Far; off to the side. | |
| the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse | |
| 11. adj. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent. | |
| He took an off day for fishing. an off year in politics; the off season | |
| 12. adj. (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable. | |
| — I'll have the chicken please. | |
| — Sorry, chicken's off today. | |
| 13. adj. Right-hand (in relation to the side of a horse or a vehicle). | |
| 14. prep. Used to indicate movement away from a position on | |
| I took it off the table. | |
| Come off the roof! | |
| 15. prep. (colloquial) Out of the possession of. | |
| He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him. | |
| 16. prep. Away from or not on. | |
| He's off the computer, but he's still on the phone. | |
| Keep off the grass. | |
| 17. prep. Disconnected or subtracted from. | |
| We've been off the grid for three days now. | |
| He took 20% off the list price. | |
| 18. prep. Distant from. | |
| We're just off the main road. | |
| The island is 23 miles off the cape. | |
| 19. prep. No longer wanting or taking. | |
| He's been off his feed since Tuesday. | |
| He's off his meds again. | |
| 20. prep. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering(topics, en, Engineering). | |
| Tantalum bar 6 off 3/8" Dia × 12" — Atom, Great Britain Atomic Energy Authority, 1972 | |
| samples submitted … 12 off Thermistors type 1K3A531 … — BSI test report for shock and vibration testing, 2000 | |
| I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off. | |
| 21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill. | |
| He got in the way so I had him offed. | |
| 22. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) To switch off. | |
| Can you off the light? | |
| 23. n. (rare) Beginning; starting point. | |
| He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off. | |
| 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 | |
| meds |
| 1. n. plural of med | |
| again |
| 1. adv. Another time; once more. | |
| 2. adv. Over and above a factor of one. | |
| 3. adv. Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion. | |
| Great, thanks again! | |
| 4. adv. Tell me again, say again; used in asking a question to which one may have already received an answer that one cannot remember. | |
| What's that called again? | |
| 5. adv. I ask again, I say again; used in repeating a question or statement. | |
| Again, I'm not criticizing, I just want to understand. | |
| 6. adv. Here too, here also, in this case as well; used in applying a previously made point to a new instance; sometimes preceded by "here". | |
| Approach B is better than approach A in many respects, but again, there are difficulties in implementing it. | |
| 7. adv. (obsolete) Back in the reverse direction, or to an original starting point. | |
| Bring us word again. | |
| 8. adv. Back (to a former place or state). | |
| We need to bring the old customs to life again. | |
| The South will rise again. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) In return, as a reciprocal action; back. | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) In any other place. | |
| 11. adv. (obsolete) On the other hand. | |
| 12. adv. Moreover; besides; further. | |
| 13. prep. (obsolete or dialectal) Against. | |
