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). | |
may |
1. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be strong; to have power (over). | |
2. v. (obsolete, auxiliary) To be able; can. | |
3. v. (intransitive, poetic) To be able to go. | |
4. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests. | |
you may smoke outside; may I sit there? | |
5. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) Expressing a present possibility; possibly. | |
he may be lying; Schrödinger's cat may or may not be in the box | |
6. v. (subjunctive present, defective) Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect). | |
may you win; may the weather be sunny | |
7. v. Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark. | |
8. n. The hawthorn bush or its blossoms. | |
9. v. (poetic, intransitive) To gather may, or flowers in general. | |
10. v. (poetic, intransitive) To celebrate May Day. | |
11. n. (archaic) A maiden. | |
believe |
1. v. To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing) | |
If you believe the numbers, you'll agree we need change. | |
I believe there are faeries. | |
2. v. To accept that someone is telling the truth. | |
Why did I ever believe you? | |
3. v. (intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth. | |
After that night in the church, I believed. | |
4. v. To consider likely | |
I believe it might rain tomorrow. (Here, the speaker merely accepts the accuracy of the conditional.) | |
that |
1. conj. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement. | |
He told me that the book is a good read. | |
I believe that it is true. — She is convinced that he is British. | |
2. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that. | |
Be glad that you have enough to eat. | |
3. conj. (now uncommon) Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that. | |
4. conj. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect. | |
The noise was so loud that she woke up. | |
The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed. | |
5. conj. (archaic, or poetic) Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that. | |
6. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb. | |
Was John there? — Not that I saw. | |
How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw. | |
7. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish. | |
8. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise. | |
9. det. The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction. | |
That book is a good read. This one isn't. | |
That battle was in 1450. | |
That cat of yours is evil. | |
10. pron. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "t | |
He went home, and after that I never saw him again. | |
11. pron. The known (thing); (used to refer to something just said). | |
They're getting divorced. What do you think about that? | |
12. pron. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality; used together with a verb and pronoun to emphatically repeat a previous statement. | |
The water is so cold! — That it is. | |
13. pron. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; (representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition). | |
The CPR course that she took really came in handy. | |
The house that he lived in was old and dilapidated. | |
14. pron. (colloquial) (Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.) | |
the place that = where or to which I went last year | |
the last time that = when I went to Europe | |
15. adv. (degree) To a given extent or degree. | |
"The ribbon was that thin." "I disagree, I say it was not that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner...". | |
16. adv. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions). | |
I'm just not that sick. | |
I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult. | |
17. adv. (obsolete, outside, dialects) To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions). | |
Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her. | |
18. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those. | |
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Will |
1. n. (American football) A weak-side linebacker. | |
2. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
Do what you will. | |
3. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
4. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
5. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
6. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
7. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
8. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. | |
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason. | |
9. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
10. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
Most creatures have a will to live. | |
11. n. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes. | |
12. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
13. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
14. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
15. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
16. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
17. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
find |
1. v. To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. | |
2. v. To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate. | |
I found my car keys. They were under the couch. | |
3. v. To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end. | |
Water is found to be a compound substance. | |
4. v. To gain, as the object of desire or effort. | |
to find leisure; to find means | |
5. v. To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. | |
Looks like he found a new vehicle for himself! | |
6. v. To point out. | |
He kept finding faults with my work. | |
7. v. To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that. | |
I find your argument unsatisfactory. | |
8. v. To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish. | |
to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person | |
9. v. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish. | |
to find food for workmen | |
10. v. (transitive, archaic) To provide for | |
He finds his nephew in money. | |
11. v. (intransitive, legal) To determine or judge. | |
The jury finds for the defendant. | |
12. v. (intransitive, hunting) To discover game. | |
13. n. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent. | |
14. n. The act of finding. | |
it |
1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals. | |
Put it over there. | |
Take each day as it comes. | |
I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today. | |
2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender. | |
She took the baby and held it in her arms. | |
3. pron. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation. | |
It's me. John. | |
Is it her? | |
4. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it) | |
It is nearly 10 o’clock. | |
It’s 10:45 read ten-forty-five. | |
It’s very cold today. | |
It’s lonely without you. | |
5. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms. | |
stick it out | |
live it up | |
rough it | |
6. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject i | |
It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see) | |
I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that) | |
It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing) | |
He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that) | |
It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if) | |
7. pron. All or the end; something after which there is no more. | |
Are there more students in this class, or is this it? | |
That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you. | |
8. pron. (chiefly pejorative, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male. | |
9. pron. (obsolete) (Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun): That which; what. | |
10. det. (obsolete) its | |
11. n. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being. | |
12. n. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag. | |
In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it… | |
13. n. (British) The game of tag. | |
Let's play it at breaktime. | |
14. n. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty. | |
15. n. (euphemism) Sexual activity. | |
caught them doing it | |
16. adj. (colloquial) Most fashionable. | |
difficult |
1. adj. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort. | |
However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater. | |
2. adj. (often of a, person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome. | |
Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you. | |
3. adj. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling. | |
4. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex. | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
sustain |
1. n. (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano. | |
2. v. To maintain, or keep in existence. | |
The professor had trouble sustaining students’ interest until the end of her lectures. | |
The city came under sustained attack by enemy forces. | |
3. v. To provide for or nourish. | |
provisions to sustain an army | |
4. v. To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.). | |
The building sustained major damage in the earthquake. | |
5. v. To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold. | |
to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition | |
6. v. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support. | |
A foundation sustains the superstructure; an animal sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight. | |
7. v. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate. | |
its |
1. det. Belonging to it. | |
2. pron. The one (or ones) belonging to it. | |
3. n. plural of it | |
Will |
1. n. (American football) A weak-side linebacker. | |
2. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
Do what you will. | |
3. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
4. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
5. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
6. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
7. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
8. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. | |
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason. | |
9. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
10. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
Most creatures have a will to live. | |
11. n. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes. | |
12. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
13. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
14. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
15. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
16. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
17. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
if |
1. conj. Supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that; used to introduce a condition or choice. | |
If it rains, I shall get wet. | |
2. conj. (computing) In the event that a statement is true (a programming statement that acts in a similar manner). | |
If A, then B, else C. | |
3. conj. Supposing that; used with past or past perfect subjunctive indicating that the condition is closed. | |
I would prefer it if you took your shoes off. | |
I would be unhappy if you had not talked with me yesterday. | |
If I were you, I wouldn't go there alone. | |
4. conj. Supposing that; given that; supposing it is the case that. | |
If that's true, we had better get moving! | |
5. conj. Although; used to introduce a concession. | |
He was a great friend, if a little stingy at the bar. | |
6. conj. (sometimes proscribed) Whether; used to introduce a noun clause, an indirect question, that functions as the direct object of certain verbs. | |
I don't know if I want to go or not. | |
7. conj. (usually hyperbolic) Even if; even in the circumstances that. | |
8. conj. Introducing a relevance conditional. | |
I have leftover cake if you want some. | |
9. n. (informal) An uncertainty, possibility, condition, doubt etc. | |
casualties |
1. n. plural of casualty | |
casualty |
1. n. Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster. | |
2. n. A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence. | |
3. n. (proscribed) Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality. | |
4. n. (military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion). | |
5. n. (British) The accident and emergency department of a hospital. | |
6. n. An incidental charge or payment. | |
7. n. (obsolete) Chance nature; randomness. | |
mount |
1. n. A mountain. | |
2. n. (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies. | |
the mount of Jupiter | |
3. n. (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound. | |
4. n. (obsolete) A bank; a fund. | |
5. n. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse | |
The rider climbed onto his mount. | |
6. n. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted. | |
The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed. | |
7. n. (obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division. | |
The General said he has 2,000 mounts. | |
8. v. To get upon; to ascend; to climb. | |
to mount stairs | |
9. v. To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride. | |
The rider mounted his horse. | |
10. v. To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding. | |
11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up. | |
12. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up. | |
13. v. To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc. | |
to mount a mailbox on a post | |
to mount a specimen on a small plate of glass for viewing by a microscope | |
to mount a photograph on cardboard | |
to mount an engine in a car | |
14. v. (transitive, computing) To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system. | |
15. v. (intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity. | |
The bills mounted up and the business failed. There is mounting tension in Crimea. | |
16. v. (obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to). | |
17. v. To get on top of (an animal) to mate. | |
18. v. (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with someone. | |
19. v. To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch. | |
The General gave the order to mount the attack. | |
20. v. (transitive, archaic) To deploy (cannon) for use. | |
to mount a cannon | |
21. v. To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production). | |
22. v. (cooking) To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it). | |
Mount the sauce with one tablespoon of butter. | |
rapidly |
1. adv. With speed; in a rapid manner. | |
She packed her case rapidly and hurried out. | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
an |
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
4. conj. (archaic) If | |
5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
apparently |
1. adv. (archaic) Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. | |
2. adv. Seemingly; in appearance only. | |
A man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart. | |
3. adv. According to what the speaker has read or heard. | |
Apparently you are quite a good dancer. | |
endless |
1. adj. Having no end. | |
endless time; endless praise | |
2. adj. Extending indefinitely. | |
an endless line | |
3. adj. (obsolete) Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying. | |
attrition |
1. n. Wearing or grinding down by friction. | |
2. n. The gradual reduction in a tangible or intangible resource due to causes that are passive and do not involve productive use of the resource. | |
3. n. (human resources) A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through retirement, resignation, or death. | |
4. n. (sciences) The loss of participants during an experiment. | |
5. n. (theology) Imperfect contrition or remorse. | |
6. n. (dentistry) The wearing of teeth due to their grinding. | |
7. n. (linguistics) The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language. | |
war |
1. n. Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces. | |
The war was largely between Sunni and Shia militants. | |
2. n. A particular conflict of this kind. | |
3. n. By extension, any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict. | |
You look like you've been through the wars. | |
4. n. (figuratively) A campaign against something. | |
The "war on drugs" is a campaign against the use of narcotic drugs. | |
The "war on terror" is a campaign against terrorist crime. | |
In the US, conservatives rail against the "war on Christmas". | |
5. n. (business) A bout of fierce competition in trade. | |
I reaped the benefit of the car dealerships' price war, getting my car for far less than it's worth. | |
The cellular phone companies were engaged in a freebie war, each offering various services thrown in when one purchased a plan. | |
6. n. (obsolete) Instruments of war. | |
7. n. (obsolete) Armed forces. | |
8. n. A particular card game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe). | |
10. v. To carry on, as a contest; to wage. | |