| 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). | |
| distances |
| 1. n. plural of distance | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of distance | |
| distance |
| 1. n. The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line. | |
| The distance to Petersborough is thirty miles. | |
| From Moscow, the distance is relatively short to Saint Petersburg, relatively long to Novosibirsk, but even greater to Vladivostok. | |
| 2. n. Length or interval of time. | |
| 3. n. (informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities. | |
| We're narrowing the distance between the two versions of the bill. The distance between the lowest and next gear on my bicycle is annoying. | |
| 4. n. Remoteness of place; a remote place. | |
| 5. n. Remoteness in succession or relation. | |
| the distance between a descendant and his ancestor | |
| 6. n. A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse. | |
| 7. n. (figuratively) The entire amount of progress to an objective. | |
| He had promised to perform this task, but did not go the distance. | |
| 8. n. (figuratively) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance. | |
| The friendship did not survive the row: they kept each other at a distance. | |
| 9. n. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness. | |
| 10. n. The space measured back from the winning-post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in the final heat. | |
| 11. v. To move away (from) someone or something. | |
| He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues. | |
| 12. v. To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind. | |
| Himself |
| 1. pron. honoraltcaps, himself | |
| 2. pron. (reflexive pronoun) Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject | |
| He injured himself. | |
| 3. pron. (emphatic) He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate | |
| He was injured himself. | |
| 4. pron. (Ireland, otherwise archaic) (The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate;) he himself. | |
| 5. pron. (Ireland) (The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate;) he (used of upper-class gentlemen, or sarcastically, of men who imagine themselves to be more important than others) | |
| Has himself come down to breakfast yet? | |
| Have you seen himself yet this morning? | |
| from |
| 1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at. | |
| This wine comes from France. | |
| I got a letter from my brother. | |
| 2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. | |
| He had books piled from floor to ceiling. | |
| He left yesterday from Chicago. | |
| Face away from the wall! | |
| 3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation. | |
| 20 from 31 leaves 11. | |
| 4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of. | |
| An umbrella protects from the sun. | |
| He knows right from wrong. | |
| people |
| 1. n. Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. | |
| Why do so many people commit suicide? | |
| 2. n. Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; a community. | |
| 3. n. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler. | |
| 4. n. One's colleagues or employees. | |
| 5. n. A person's ancestors, relatives or family. | |
| My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War. | |
| 6. n. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens. | |
| 7. n. plural of person. | |
| 8. v. To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To become populous or populated. | |
| 10. v. To inhabit; to occupy; to populate. | |
| with |
| 1. prep. Against. | |
| He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
| 2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
| He went with his friends. | |
| 3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
| She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
| 4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
| 5. prep. In support of. | |
| We are with you all the way. | |
| 6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by. | |
| slain with robbers | |
| 7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
| cut with a knife | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
| 9. prep. Having, owning. | |
| 10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
| Do you want to come with? | |
| 11. adv. --> | |
| 12. n. alternative form of withe | |
| 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 | |
| nasty |
| 1. adj. (now chiefly US) Dirty, filthy. | |
| 2. adj. Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person). | |
| 3. adj. Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive. | |
| 4. adj. Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd. | |
| 5. adj. Spiteful, unkind. | |
| 6. adj. (chiefly UK) Awkward, difficult to navigate; dangerous. | |
| 7. adj. (chiefly UK) Grave or dangerous (of an accident, illness etc.). | |
| 8. adj. (slang) Formidable, terrific; wicked. | |
| 9. n. (informal) Something nasty. | |
| Processed foods are full of aspartame and other nasties. | |
| This video game involves flying through a maze zapping various nasties. | |
| 10. n. (euphemistic, preceded by "the") Sexual intercourse. | |
| sardonic |
| 1. adj. Scornfully mocking or cynical. | |
| He distances himself from people with his nasty, sardonic laughter. | |
| 2. adj. Disdainfully or ironically humorous. | |
| laughter |
| 1. n. The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound. | |
| Their loud laughter betrayed their presence. | |
| 2. n. A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or der | |
| 3. n. (archaic) A reason for merriment. | |
