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). | |
bit |
1. n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal. | |
A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth. | |
2. n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes. | |
3. n. (dated, British) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean, and a fourpenny piece, or groat, in the British West Indies.) | |
a threepenny bit | |
4. n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime. | |
5. n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first came into use, the Spanish 8 reales coin was widely used as a dollar equivalent, and thus the 1 re | |
A quarter is two bits. | |
6. n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents. | |
7. n. A small amount of something. | |
There were bits of paper all over the floor. Does your leg still hurt? / Just a bit now. I've done my bit; I expect you to do yours. | |
8. n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time. | |
I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first. He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out. | |
9. n. A portion of something. | |
I'd like a big bit of cake, please. | |
10. n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. | |
Am I bored? Not a bit of it! | |
11. n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one. | |
12. n. (anchor, An excerpt of material) An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc. | |
His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show. | |
13. n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers. | |
14. n. The cutting iron of a plane. | |
15. adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a"). | |
That's a bit too sweet. | |
16. v. To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse). | |
17. v. simple past tense of bite | |
Your dog bit me! | |
18. v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past of bite, bitten | |
I have been bit by your dog! | |
19. adj. (colloquial) bitten. | |
Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him. | |
20. adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten. | |
21. n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0. | |
22. n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit. | |
23. n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values. | |
status bits on IRC; permission bits in a file system | |
24. n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy. | |
25. n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC). | |
bite |
1. v. To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth. | |
As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is. | |
2. v. To hold something by clamping one's teeth. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth. | |
That dog is about to bite! | |
4. v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances. | |
If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with. | |
I needed snow chains to make the tires bite. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative. | |
For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite. | |
7. v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught. | |
Are the fish biting today? | |
8. v. (intransitive, metaphor) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor. | |
I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite? | |
9. v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting. | |
These mosquitoes are really biting today! | |
10. v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent. | |
It bites like pepper or mustard. | |
11. v. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense. | |
Pepper bites the mouth. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold. | |
The anchor bites. | |
14. v. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to. | |
The anchor bites the ground. | |
15. v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck. | |
This music really bites. | |
16. v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective. | |
You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me. | |
17. v. (intransitive, AAVE, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate. | |
He always be biting my moves. | |
18. n. The act of biting. | |
19. n. The wound left behind after having been bitten. | |
That snake bite really hurts! | |
20. n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. | |
After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites. | |
21. n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful. | |
There were only a few bites left on the plate. | |
22. n. (slang) Something unpleasant. | |
That's really a bite! | |
23. n. (slang) An act of plagiarism. | |
That song is a bite of my song! | |
24. n. A small meal or snack. | |
I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner. | |
25. n. (figuratively) aggression | |
26. n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another. | |
27. n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud. | |
28. n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats. | |
29. n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper. | |
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. | |
more |
1. det. comparative degree of many, : in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.) | |
More people are arriving. | |
There are more ways to do this than I can count. | |
2. det. comparative degree of much, : in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.) | |
I want more soup; I need more time | |
There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places. | |
3. adv. To a greater degree or extent. | |
He walks more in the morning these days. | |
4. adv. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. | |
5. adv. Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. | |
You're more beautiful than I ever imagined. | |
6. adv. (now dialectal, or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18thc.) | |
I was more better at English than you. | |
7. adv. rather | |
He is more clever than wise. | |
8. n. An extra amount or extent. | |
9. n. (obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip. | |
10. n. (dialectal) a root; stock. | |
11. n. A plant. | |
12. v. To root up. | |
13. pron. a greater amount of people or things | |
than |
1. conj. (obsolete, outside, dialects, usually used with for) Because; for. | |
2. conj. Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison. | |
she's taller than I am; she found his advice more witty than helpful; we have less work today than we had yesterday; it's bigger than I thought it was | |
3. prep. introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two | |
Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years. | |
4. adv. (now chiefly dialectal) At that time; then. | |
He |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, he | |
I love the Lord for He is Great and Holy. | |
2. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied. | |
3. 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? | |
4. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown. | |
5. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he". | |
6. n. (informal) A male. | |
Alex totally is a he. | |
7. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). | |
could |
1. v. simple past tense of can | |
Before I was blind, I could see very well. | |
2. v. conditional of can | |
3. v. Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact). | |
I think he could do it if he really wanted to. | |
I wish I could fly! | |
4. v. Used to politely ask for permission to do something. | |
Could I borrow your coat? | |
5. v. Used to politely ask for someone else to do something. | |
Could you proofread this email? | |
6. v. Used to show the possibility that something might happen. | |
We could rearrange the time if you like. | |
7. v. Used to suggest something. | |
You could try adding more salt to the soup. | |
8. n. Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality. | |
can |
1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to. | |
She can speak English, French, and German. I can play football. Can you remember your fifth birthday? | |
2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to. | |
You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework. Can I use your pen? | |
3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible. | |
Can it be Friday already? | |
Teenagers can really try their parents' patience. | |
Animals can experience emotions. | |
4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception. | |
Can you hear that?. | |
I can feel the baby moving inside me. | |
5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know. | |
6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top. | |
7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can). | |
8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish. | |
9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory. | |
Shit or get off the can. | |
Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me. | |
10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks. | |
11. n. (slang) Jail or prison. | |
Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years. | |
12. n. (slang) Headphones. | |
13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup. | |
14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark | |
15. n. A chimney pot. | |
16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar. | |
They spent August canning fruit and vegetables. | |
17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.). | |
He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail. | |
18. v. To shut up. | |
Can your gob. | |
19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee. | |
The boss canned him for speaking out. | |
chew |
1. v. To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed. | |
Make sure to chew thoroughly, and don't talk with your mouth full! | |
The steak was tough to chew as it had been cooked too long. | |
2. v. To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth. | |
He keeps his feed in steel drums to prevent the mice from chewing holes in the feed-sacks. | |
The harsh desert wind and sand had chewed the stump into ragged strips of wood. | |
3. v. (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over. | |
The professor stood at the blackboard, chalk in hand, and chewed the question the student had asked. | |
4. n. The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth. | |
I popped the gum into my mouth and gave it a chew. | |
5. n. A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing. | |
Phillip purchased a bag of licorice chews at the drugstore. | |
6. n. (informal) Chewing tobacco. | |
The school had banned chew and smokes from the school grounds, even for adults. | |
7. n. (or un) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw. | |
The ballplayers sat on the bench watching the rain, glumly working their chews. | |
The first time he chewed tobacco, he swallowed his chew and got extremely sick. | |