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). | |
assembled |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of assemble | |
assemble |
1. v. To put together. | |
He assembled the model ship. | |
2. v. To gather as a group. | |
The parents assembled in the school hall. | |
3. v. (computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code | |
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. | |
model |
1. n. A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing. | |
The beautiful model had her face on the cover of almost every fashion magazine imaginable. | |
2. n. A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show. | |
3. n. A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature. | |
The boy played with a model of a World War II fighter plane. | |
4. n. A simplified representation used to explain the workings of a real world system or event. | |
The computer weather model did not correctly predict the path of the hurricane. | |
5. n. A style, type, or design. | |
He decided to buy the turbo engine model of the sports car. | |
This year's model features four doors instead of two. | |
6. n. The structural design of a complex system. | |
The team developed a sound business model. | |
7. n. A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications. | |
He was a model of eloquence and virtue. | |
British parliamentary democracy was seen as a model for other countries to follow. | |
8. n. (logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition. | |
9. n. (logic) An interpretation which makes a certain sentence true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that sentence. | |
10. n. (manufacturing) An identifier of a product given by its manufacturer (also called model number). | |
11. n. (medicine) An animal that is used to study a human disease or pathology. | |
12. n. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact. | |
13. n. (software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data. | |
14. adj. Worthy of being a model; exemplary. | |
15. v. To display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model. | |
She modelled the shoes for her friends to see. | |
16. v. To use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model. | |
They modelled the data with a computer to analyze the experiment’s results. | |
17. v. To make a miniature model of. | |
He takes great pride in his skill at modeling airplanes. | |
18. v. To create from a substance such as clay. | |
The sculptor modelled the clay into the form of a dolphin. | |
19. v. (intransitive) To make a model or models. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To be a model of any kind. | |
The actress used to model before being discovered by Hollywood. | |
ship |
1. n. A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat. | |
2. n. (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship. | |
3. n. (archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts. | |
4. n. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. | |
5. n. (cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck. | |
6. v. To send by water-borne transport. | |
7. v. To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport). | |
to ship freight by railroad | |
8. v. To release a product to vendors; to launch. | |
Our next issue ships early next year. | |
The developers had to ship the game two weeks late. | |
9. v. To engage to serve on board a vessel. | |
to ship seamen | |
I shipped on a man-of-war. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To embark on a ship. | |
11. v. (transitive, nautical) To put in its place. | |
to ship the tiller or rudder | |
12. v. To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel. | |
We were shipping so much water I was sure we would capsize. | |
13. v. To pass (from one person to another). | |
Can you ship me the ketchup? | |
14. v. (poker slang) To go all in. | |
15. v. (sports) To trade or send a player to another team. | |
Twins ship Delmon Young to Tigers. | |
16. v. (rugby) To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession. | |
17. n. (fandom) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional. | |
18. v. (fandom) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, typically in fan fiction. | |
I ship Kirk and Spock in “Star Trek”. | |
I ship Peggy and Angie in “Marvel's Agent Carter”. | |