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). | |
has |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of have | |
have |
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst. | |
1. v. To possess, own, hold. | |
I have a house and a car. | |
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street! | |
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship). | |
I have two sisters. | |
I have a lot of work to do. | |
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action. | |
I have breakfast at six o'clock. | |
Can I have a look at that? | |
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now. | |
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in. | |
What class do you have right now? I have English. | |
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day. | |
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.) | |
I have already eaten today. | |
I had already eaten. | |
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to. | |
I have to go. | |
7. v. To give birth to. | |
The couple always wanted to have children. | |
My wife is having the baby right now! | |
My mother had me when she was 25. | |
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with. | |
He's always bragging about how many women he's had. | |
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner. | |
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me. | |
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation. | |
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town. | |
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be. | |
He had him arrested for trespassing. | |
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears. | |
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.) | |
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week. | |
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice. | |
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being. | |
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening. | |
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.)) | |
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we? | |
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she? | |
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he? | |
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take. | |
I could have him! | |
I'm gonna have you! | |
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language. | |
I have no German. | |
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of. | |
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before. | |
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from. | |
He had a cold last week. | |
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo. | |
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that. | |
He had surgery on his hip yesterday. | |
I'm having the time of my life! | |
20. v. To trick, to deceive. | |
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke. | |
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate. | |
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it. | |
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night. | |
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by. | |
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it. | |
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest. | |
Thank you for having me! | |
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation. | |
What do you have for problem two? | |
I have two contacts on my scope. | |
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case. | |
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon. | |
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person. | |
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | |
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading. | |
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have. | |
great |
1. adj. Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i. e. having many parts or members) or duration (i. e. relatively long); very big. | |
A great storm is approaching our shores. | |
a great assembly | |
a great wait | |
2. adj. Of larger size or more importance than others of its kind. | |
the great auk | |
3. adj. (qualifying nouns of family relationship) Involving more generations than the word qualified implies (from 1510s). see Derived terms | |
great-grandfather | |
4. adj. (obsolete, postpositive, followed by 'with') Pregnant; large with young; full of. | |
great with child | |
great with hope | |
5. adj. (obsolete, except with 'friend' and similar words such as 'mate','buddy') Intimate; familiar. | |
6. adj. Extreme or more than usual. | |
great worry | |
7. adj. Of significant importance or consequence; important. | |
a great decision | |
8. adj. (applied to actions, thoughts and feelings) Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; superior; commanding; heroic; illustrious; eminent. | |
a great deed | |
a great nature | |
a great history | |
9. adj. Impressive or striking. | |
a great show of wealth | |
10. adj. Much in use; favoured. | |
Poetry was a great convention of the Romantic era. | |
11. adj. (applied to persons) Endowed with extraordinary powers; of exceptional talents or achievements; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; remarkable; strong; powerful; mighty; noble. | |
a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, writer etc. | |
12. adj. Title referring to an important leader. | |
Alexander the Great | |
13. adj. Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic. | |
What a great buffoon! | |
He's not a great one for reading. | |
a great walker | |
14. adj. (often followed by 'at') Skilful or adroit. | |
a great carpenter | |
You are great at singing. | |
15. adj. (informal) Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic (from 1848). | |
Dinner was great. | |
16. adj. (informal, British) Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths. | |
a dirty great smack in the face | |
Great Scott! | |
17. interj. Expression of gladness and content about something. | |
Great! Thanks for the wonderful work. | |
18. interj. sarcastic inversion thereof. | |
Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order. | |
19. n. A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim. | |
Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science. | |
20. n. (music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division. | |
21. adv. very well (in a very satisfactory manner) | |
Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don't have to be sharpened. | |
endurance |
1. n. The measure of a person's stamina or persistence. | |
He has great endurance: he ran a marathon and then cycled home. | |
2. n. Ability to endure hardship. | |
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). | |
ran |
1. v. simple past tense of rin | |
2. v. simple past tense of run | |
3. v. (nonstandard, dialectal) past participle of run | |
4. n. (nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch. | |
5. n. (obsolete) Open robbery. | |
run |
1. v. To move swiftly. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.) | |
Run, Sarah, run! | |
3. v. (intransitive) To go at a fast pace, to move quickly. | |
The horse ran the length of the track. I have been running all over the building looking for him. Sorry, I've got to run; my house is | |
4. v. To cause to move quickly; to make move lightly. | |
Every day I run my dog across the field and back. I'll just run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet. Run your fingers through my hair. | |
5. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To compete in a race. | |
The horse will run the Preakness next year. I'm not ready to run a marathon. | |
6. v. (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning. | |
7. v. (intransitive, soccer) To carry a football down the field. | |
8. v. To achieve or perform by running or as if by running. | |
The horse ran a great race. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help. | |
Whenever things get tough, she cuts and runs. When he's broke, he runs to me for money. | |
10. v. (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly. | |
11. v. (fluids) To flow. | |
12. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly. | |
There's a strange story running around the neighborhood. The flu is running through my daughter's kindergarten. | |
13. v. (intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow. | |
The river runs through the forest. There's blood running down your leg. | |
14. v. (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it. | |
Your nose is running. Why is the hose still running? My cup runneth over. | |
15. v. To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object. | |
You'll have to run the water a while before it gets hot. Run the tap until the water gets hot. | |
16. v. (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt. | |
17. v. (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint). | |
He discovered during washing that the red rug ran on his white sheet, staining it pink. | |
18. v. To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast. | |
to run bullets | |
19. v. (figurative, transitive) To go through without stopping, usually illegally. | |
run a red light or stop sign; run a blockade | |
20. v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled. | |
21. v. (social) To carry out an activity. | |
22. v. To control or manage, be in charge of. | |
My uncle ran a corner store for forty years. She runs the fundraising. My parents think they run my life. He is running an expe | |
23. v. (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election. | |
I have decided to run for governor of California. We're trying to find somebody to run against him next year. | |
24. v. To make run in a race or an election. | |
He ran his best horse in the Derby. The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election. | |
25. v. To exert continuous activity; to proceed. | |
to run through life; to run in a circle | |
26. v. (intransitive) To be presented in one of the media. | |
The story will run on the 6-o'clock news. The latest Robin Williams movie is running at the Silver City theatre. Her picture ran on t | |
27. v. To print or broadcast in the media. | |
run a story; run an ad | |
28. v. To transport someone or something. | |
Could you run me over to the store? Please run this report upstairs to director's office. | |
29. v. To smuggle illegal goods. | |
to run guns; to run rum | |
30. v. (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control. | |
Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again. | |
31. v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time. | |
32. v. (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase). | |
The border runs for 3000 miles. The leash runs along a wire. The grain of the wood runs to the right on this table. It ran in q | |
33. v. (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase). | |
The sale will run for ten days. The contract runs through 2008. The meeting ran late. The book runs 655 pages. The speech | |
34. v. To make something extend in space. | |
I need to run this wire along the wall. | |
35. v. (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally. | |
My car stopped running. That computer runs twenty-four hours a day. Buses don't run here on Sunday. | |
36. v. To make a machine operate. | |
It's full. You can run the dishwasher now. Don't run the engine so fast. | |
37. v. To execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program. | |
They ran twenty blood tests on me and they still don't know what's wrong. Our coach had us running plays for the whole practice. I will run the sample. Don't run that software | |
38. v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation. | |
to run from one subject to another | |
39. v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse). | |
Our supplies are running low. They frequently overspent and soon ran into debt. | |
40. v. To cost a large amount of money. | |
Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars. Laptops run about a thousand dollars apiece. | |
41. v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel. | |
My stocking is running. | |
42. v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation. | |
43. v. To cause to enter; to thrust. | |
to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot | |
44. v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven. | |
45. v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine. | |
to run a line | |
46. v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk). | |
to run the risk of losing one's life | |
47. v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk. | |
48. v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule. | |
49. v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time. | |
50. v. To control or have precedence in a card game. | |
Every three or four hands he would run the table. | |
51. v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words. | |
52. v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received. | |
53. v. To have growth or development. | |
Boys and girls run up rapidly. | |
54. v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline. | |
55. v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company. | |
Certain covenants run with the land. | |
56. v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole. | |
57. v. (video games) To speedrun. | |
58. v. past participle of rin | |
59. n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet. | |
I just got back from my morning run. | |
60. n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip. | |
I need to make a run to the store. | |
a |
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
4. art. The same; one. | |
We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
Stand a tiptoe. | |
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
Torn a pieces. | |
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
A God’s name. | |
13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
To set the people a worke. | |
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
The times, they are a-changin'. | |
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
Jacob, when he was a dying | |
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
The name of John a Gaunt. | |
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
marathon |
1. n. A 42.195 kilometre (26 mile 385 yard) road race. | |
2. n. (figuratively, by extension) Any extended or sustained activity. | |
He had a cleaning marathon the night before his girlfriend came over. | |
3. v. To run a marathon. | |
4. v. (informal, transitive) To watch or read a large number of instalments of (a film, book, TV series, etc.) in one sitting. | |
We're going to marathon Star Trek next weekend. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
then |
1. adv. (temporal location) At that time. | |
He was happy then. | |
2. adv. (temporal location) Soon afterward. | |
He fixed it, then left. | |
Turn left, then right, then right again, then keep going until you reach the service station. | |
3. adv. (sequence) Next in order; in addition. | |
There are three green ones, then a blue one. | |
4. adv. (conjunctive) In that case. | |
If it’s locked, then we’ll need the key. | |
Is it 12 o'clock already? Then it's time for me to leave. | |
You don't like potatoes? What do you want me to cook, then? | |
5. adv. (sequence) At the same time; on the other hand. | |
That’s a nice shirt, but then, so is the other one. | |
6. adv. (dialect) Used to contradict an assertion. | |
7. adj. Being so at that time. | |
8. n. That time | |
It will be finished before then. | |
cycled |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of cycle | |
cycle |
1. n. An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed. | |
the cycle of the seasons, or of the year | |
2. n. A complete rotation of anything. | |
3. n. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence. | |
4. n. The members of the sequence formed by such a process. | |
5. n. (music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class. | |
The interval cycle C4 consists of the pitch classes 0, 4 and 8; when starting on E, it is realised as the pitches E, Gand C. | |
6. n. A series of poems, songs or other works of art. | |
The "Ring of the Nibelung" is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner, the famous nineteenth-century German composer. | |
7. n. A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device. | |
Put the washing in on a warm cycle. | |
the spin cycle | |
8. n. A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels, such as a motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, or motortrike. | |
9. n. (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game. | |
Jones hit for the cycle in the game. | |
10. n. (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed. | |
11. n. (topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero. | |
12. n. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres. | |
13. n. An age; a long period of time. | |
14. n. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar. | |
15. n. (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire. | |
a cycle or set of leaves | |
16. v. To ride a bicycle or other cycle. | |
17. v. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle. | |
18. v. (electronics) To turn power off and back on | |
Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily. | |
19. v. (ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the bo | |
They have their cycling game going tonight. | |
Home |
1. n. (computing) A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or on the Internet to the top of the web page. | |
2. n. A dwelling.: | |
3. n. One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one | |
4. n. The place where a person was raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian. | |
5. n. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. | |
6. n. A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there. | |
It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home | |
7. n. A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum. | |
a home for outcasts | |
a home for the blind | |
a veterans' home | |
8. n. (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul. | |
9. n. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt. | |
10. n. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat. | |
the home of the pine | |
11. n. A focus point.: | |
12. n. (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal. | |
The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home. | |
13. n. (baseball) Home plate. | |
14. n. (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player. | |
15. n. (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage. | |
16. n. (lbl, en, computers) clipping of home directory | |
17. v. (always with "in on", transitive) To seek or aim for something. | |
The missile was able to home in on the target. | |
18. adj. Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts. | |
19. adj. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust. | |
20. adv. to home | |
21. adv. to one's place of residence or one's customary or official location | |
go home, come home, carry home | |
22. adv. to one's place of birth | |
23. adv. to the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length | |
to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home | |
24. adv. (internet) to the home page | |
Click here to go home. | |
25. adv. in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home | |
Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home. | |
26. adv. close; closely; to the center; deep | |
27. adv. (soccer) into the goal | |
28. adv. (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position | |
Sails sheeted home. | |