| 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). | |
| brought |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of bring | |
| bring |
| 1. v. To transport toward somebody/somewhere. | |
| Waiter, please bring me a single malt whiskey. | |
| 2. v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute. | |
| The new company director brought a fresh perspective on sales and marketing. | |
| 3. v. To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody. | |
| 4. v. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide. | |
| 5. v. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch. | |
| What does coal bring per ton? | |
| 6. v. (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball. | |
| The closer Jones can really bring it. | |
| 7. interj. The sound of a telephone ringing. | |
| 8. interj. cln, en, basic words, irregular verbs, onomatopoeias | |
| No |
| 1. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No. | |
| 2. n. Alternative form of No. | |
| 3. n. Alternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama. | |
| 4. det. Not any. | |
| no one | |
| There is no water left. | |
| No hot dogs were sold yesterday. | |
| No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous. | |
| There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.) | |
| 5. det. Hardly any. | |
| We'll be finished in no time at all. | |
| 6. det. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something). | |
| No smoking | |
| There's no stopping her once she gets going. | |
| 7. det. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully. | |
| My mother's no fool. | |
| Working nine to five every day is no life. | |
| 8. adv. (now only used with comparatives, except in Scotland) Not, not at all. | |
| It is a different kind of torture, but no less gruesome. | |
| I just want to find out whether she's coming or no. | |
| 9. part. Used to show disagreement or negation. | |
| No, you are mistaken. | |
| No, you may not watch television now. | |
| 10. part. Used to show agreement with a negative question. | |
| "Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.") | |
| 11. part. (colloquial) As if to say, "No, don’t doubt this!", or to deny an imagined contradictory statement, used to show intense agreement | |
| No, totally. | |
| No, yeah, that's exactly right. | |
| "Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!". | |
| No, yeah | |
| 12. n. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval. | |
| 13. n. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition. | |
| The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no". | |
| 14. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No. | |
| 15. n. Alternative form of No. | |
| particular |
| 1. adj. (also non-comparable) | |
| 2. adj. (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial. | |
| 3. adj. Specific; discrete; concrete. | |
| I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do. | |
| We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith. | |
| 4. adj. Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing. | |
| I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism. | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential. | |
| 6. adj. Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions). | |
| My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London. | |
| I didn't have any particular interest in the book. | |
| He brought no particular news. | |
| She was the particular belle of the party. | |
| 7. adj. (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious. | |
| He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back. | |
| Women are more particular about their appearance. | |
| 8. adj. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise. | |
| a full and particular account of an accident | |
| 9. adj. (legal) Containing a part only; limited. | |
| a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder | |
| 10. adj. (legal) Holding a particular estate. | |
| a particular tenant | |
| 11. adj. (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject. | |
| a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise". | |
| 12. n. A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point. | |
| 13. n. (obsolete) A person's own individual case. | |
| 14. n. (now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.) | |
| news |
| 1. n. New information of interest. | |
| Is there any news about the storm? | |
| That was not much news in the press release. | |
| 2. n. Information about current events disseminated via media. | |
| Did you hear/read/see the latest news? | |
| The news is that a new leader will be elected in one month. | |
| 3. n. (computing, internet) posts published on newsgroups | |
| 4. v. (transitive, archaic) To report; to make known. | |
