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). | |
reaches |
1. n. plural of reach | |
2. n. (pluralonly) The extreme limits | |
If we look to the nether reaches of the list, we find some anomalies. | |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of reach | |
reach |
1. v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand). | |
He reached for a weapon that was on the table. | |
He reached for his shoe with his legs. | |
2. v. To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over. | |
to reach one a book | |
3. v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand. | |
4. v. To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc. | |
to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear | |
“I can't quite reach the pepper, could you pass it to me?” | |
The gun was stored in a small box on a high closet shelf, but the boy managed to reach it by climbing on other boxes. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile. | |
His bullet reached its intended target. | |
6. v. Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut. | |
7. v. To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent. | |
his hand reaches the river | |
When the forest reaches the river, you will be able to rest. | |
8. v. To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind. | |
After three years, he reached the position of manager. | |
The climbers reached the top of the mountain after a gruelling ten-day hike. | |
9. v. (transitive, figurative) To make contact with. | |
I tried to reach you all day. - | |
10. v. (transitive, figurative) To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone). | |
What will it take for me to reach him? | |
11. v. (intransitive, India, Singapore) To arrive at a particular destination. | |
12. v. To continue living until, or up to, a certain age. | |
You can only access the inheritance money when you reach the age of 25. - | |
13. v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend. | |
14. v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive. | |
15. v. To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts. | |
Reach for your dreams. | |
Reach for the stars! - | |
16. v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something). | |
17. v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam. | |
18. v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch. | |
19. n. The act of stretching or extending; extension. | |
20. n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown. | |
The fruit is beyond my reach. | |
to be within reach of cannon shot | |
21. n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. | |
22. n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope. | |
23. n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch. | |
To call George eloquent is certainly a reach. | |
24. n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow. | |
25. n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into | |
26. n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled. | |
27. n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage. | |
28. n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon. | |
29. n. An effort to vomit; a retching. | |
down |
1. n. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland | |
We went for a walk over the downs. | |
The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England. | |
2. n. (usually plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing. | |
3. n. (mostly) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep. | |
4. n. (American football) Any of the four chances for a team to successfully move the ball for the yards needed to keep possession of the ball. | |
first down, second down, etc. | |
5. adv. (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards. | |
The cat jumped down from the table. | |
6. adv. (comparable) At a lower and/or further along or away place or position along a set path. | |
His place is farther down the road. | |
The company was well down the path to bankruptcy. | |
7. adv. South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps). | |
I went down to Miami for a conference. | |
8. adv. (Ireland) Away from the city (even if the location is to the North). | |
He went down to Cavan. | |
down on the farm | |
down country | |
9. adv. (sport) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports). | |
10. adv. Into a state of non-operation. | |
The computer has been shut down. | |
They closed the shop down. | |
11. adv. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank. | |
Smith was sent down to the minors to work on his batting. | |
After the incident, Kelly went down to Second Lieutenant. | |
12. adv. (anchor, Adv_rail)(rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero. | |
13. adv. (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down. | |
Down, boy! (such as to direct a dog to stand on four legs from two, or to sit from standing on four legs.) | |
14. adv. (academia) Away from Oxford or Cambridge. | |
He's gone back down to Newcastle for Christmas. | |
15. adv. From a remoter or higher antiquity. | |
16. adv. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence. | |
17. adv. From less to greater detail. | |
18. adv. (intensifier) Used with verbs to add emphasis to the action of the verb. | |
They tamped (down) the asphalt to get a better bond. | |
19. adv. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, rather than being of indefinite duration. | |
He boiled the mixture./He boiled down the mixture. | |
He sat waiting./He sat down and waited. | |
20. prep. From the higher end to the lower of. | |
The ball rolled down the hill. | |
21. prep. From one end to another of. | |
The bus went down the street. | |
They walked down the beach holding hands. | |
22. adj. (informal) sad, unhappy, Depressed, feeling low. | |
23. adj. Sick or ill. | |
He is down with the flu. | |
24. adj. At a lower level than before. | |
The stock market is down. | |
Prices are down. | |
25. adj. Having a lower score than an opponent. | |
They are down by 3-0 with just 5 minutes to play. | |
He was down by a bishop and a pawn after 15 moves. | |
At 5-1 down, she produced a great comeback to win the set on a tiebreak. | |
26. adj. (baseball, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out. | |
Two down and one to go in the bottom of the ninth. | |
27. adj. (colloquial) With "on", negative about, hostile to | |
Ever since Nixon, I've been down on Republicans. | |
28. adj. (not comparable, North America, slang) Comfortable with, accepting of. | |
He's chill enough; he'd probably be totally down with it. | |
Are you down to hang out at the mall, Jamal? | |
As long as you're down with helping me pick a phone, Tyrone. | |
29. adj. (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service. | |
The system is down. | |
30. adj. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining). | |
Two down and three to go. (Two tasks completed and three more still to be done.) | |
Ten minutes down and nothing's happened yet. | |
31. adj. (not comparable military, police slang) Wounded and unable to move normally; killed. | |
We have an officer down outside the suspect's house. | |
There are three soldiers down and one walking wounded. | |
32. adj. (not comparable military, aviation slang) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly. | |
We have a chopper down near the river. | |
33. adj. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.) | |
It's two weeks until opening night and our lines are still not down yet. | |
34. adj. (obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive. | |
35. v. To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty. | |
He downed an ale and ordered another. | |
36. v. To cause to come down; to knock down or subdue. | |
The storm downed several old trees along the highway. | |
37. v. (transitive, pocket billiards) To put a ball in a pocket; to pot a ball. | |
He downed two balls on the break. | |
38. v. (transitive, American football) To bring a play to an end by touching the ball to the ground or while it is on the ground. | |
He downed it at the seven-yard line. | |
39. v. To write off; to make fun of. | |
40. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go down; to descend. | |
41. n. A negative aspect; a downer. | |
I love almost everything about my job. The only down is that I can't take Saturdays off. | |
42. n. (dated) A grudge (on someone). | |
43. n. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once. | |
44. n. (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed. | |
I bet after the third down, the kicker will replace the quarterback on the field. | |
45. n. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid. | |
I haven't solved 12 or 13 across, but I've got most of the downs. | |
46. n. A downstairs room of a two-story house. | |
She lives in a two-up two-down. | |
47. n. Down payment. | |
48. n. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets. | |
49. n. (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle. | |
50. n. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear. | |
51. n. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down. | |
52. v. To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down. | |
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. | |
takes |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of take | |
2. n. plural of take | |
take |
1. v. To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force. | |
They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands. | |
I'll take that plate off the table. | |
2. v. To seize or capture. | |
take the guards prisoner | |
take prisoners | |
After a bloody battle, they were able to take the city. | |
3. v. To catch or get possession of (fish or game). | |
took ten catfish in one afternoon | |
4. v. (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it. | |
5. v. To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off. | |
Billy took her pencil. | |
6. v. To exact. | |
take a toll | |
take revenge | |
7. v. To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game. | |
took the next two tricks | |
took Smith's rook | |
8. v. To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc). | |
took third place | |
took bribes | |
The camera takes 35mm film. | |
9. v. To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation. | |
The store doesn't take checks. | |
She wouldn't take any money for her help. | |
Do you take credit? | |
The vending machine only takes bills, it doesn't take coins. | |
10. v. To accept and follow (advice, etc). | |
take my advice | |
11. v. To receive into some relationship. | |
take a wife | |
The school only takes new students in the fall. | |
The therapist wouldn't take him as a client. | |
12. v. (transitive, intransitive, legal) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir). | |
13. v. To remove. | |
take two eggs from the carton | |
14. v. To remove or end by death; to kill. | |
The earthquake took many lives. | |
The plague took rich and poor alike. | |
Cancer took her life. | |
He took his life last night. | |
15. v. To subtract. | |
take one from three and you are left with two | |
16. v. To have sex with. | |
17. v. To defeat (someone or something) in a fight. | |
Don't try to take that guy. He's bigger than you. | |
The woman guarding us looks like a professional, but I can take her! | |
18. v. To grasp or grip. | |
He took her hand in his. | |
19. v. To select or choose; to pick. | |
Take whichever bag you like. | |
She took the best men with her and left the rest to garrison the city. | |
I'll take the blue plates. | |
I'll take two sugars in my coffee, please. | |
20. v. To adopt (select) as one's own. | |
She took his side in every argument. | |
take a stand on the important issues | |
21. v. To carry or lead (something or someone). | |
She took her sword with her everywhere she went. | |
I'll take the plate with me. | |
22. v. (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place. | |
The next bus will take you to Metz. | |
I took him for a ride | |
I took him down to London. | |
23. v. (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching. | |
These stairs take you down to the basement. | |
Stone Street took us right past the store. | |
24. v. To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around. | |
She took the steps two or three at a time/ | |
He took the curve / corner too fast. | |
The pony took every hedge and fence in its path. | |
25. v. To escort or conduct (a person). | |
He took her to lunch at the new restaurant, took her to the movies, and then took her home. | |
26. v. (reflexive) To go. | |
27. v. To use as a means of transportation. | |
take the ferry | |
I took a plane. | |
He took the bus to London, and then took a train to Manchester. | |
He's 96 but he still takes the stairs. | |
28. v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel. | |
29. v. To obtain for use by payment or lease. | |
She took a condo at the beach for the summer. | |
He took a full-page ad in the Times. | |
30. v. To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription. | |
They took two magazines. | |
I used to take The Sunday Times. | |
31. v. To consume. | |
32. v. To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest. | |
take two of these and call me in the morning | |
take the blue pill | |
I take aspirin every day to thin my blood. | |
33. v. To partake of (food or drink); to consume. | |
The general took dinner at seven o'clock. | |
34. v. To experience, undergo, or endure. | |
35. v. To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to. | |
take sun-baths | |
take a shower | |
She made the decision to take chemotherapy. | |
36. v. To experience or feel. | |
She takes pride in her work. | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
wires |
1. n. plural of wire | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of wire | |
wire |
1. n. Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die. | |
2. n. A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable. | |
3. n. A metal conductor that carries electricity. | |
4. n. A fence made of usually barbed wire. | |
5. n. (sports) A finish line of a racetrack. | |
6. n. (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable | |
7. n. (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram. | |
8. n. (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence. | |
9. n. (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint. | |
This election is going to go right to the wire | |
10. n. (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score. | |
11. n. (usually plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings. | |
to pull the wires for office | |
12. n. (archaic, thieves' slang) A pickpocket who targets women. | |
13. n. (Scotland) A knitting needle. | |
14. v. To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing. | |
We need to wire that hole in the fence. | |
15. v. To string on a wire. | |
wire beads | |
16. v. To equip with wires for use with electricity. | |
17. v. To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something. | |
I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen. | |
18. v. (informal) To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph. | |
Urgent: please wire me another 100 pounds sterling. | |
19. v. To make someone tense or psyched up. | |
I'm never going to sleep: I'm completely wired from all that coffee. | |
20. v. (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment. | |
We wired the suspect's house. | |
21. v. To snare by means of a wire or wires. | |
22. v. (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot. | |
pulls |
1. n. plural of pull | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of pull | |
pull |
1. n. An act of pulling (applying force) | |
He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out. | |
2. n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source | |
The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant. | |
iron fillings drawn by the pull of a magnet | |
She took a pull on her cigarette. | |
3. n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope | |
a zipper pull | |
4. n. (slang) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing. | |
In weights the favourite had the pull. | |
5. n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star) | |
6. n. (Internet) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology | |
7. n. A journey made by rowing | |
8. n. (dated) A contest; a struggle. | |
a wrestling pull | |
9. n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered. | |
10. n. (slang) The act of drinking. | |
to take a pull at a mug of beer | |
11. n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side. | |
12. n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path. | |
13. v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force. | |
When I give the signal, pull the rope. | |
You're going to have to pull harder to get that cork out of the bottle. | |
14. v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck. | |
to pull fruit from a tree; to pull flax; to pull a finch | |
15. v. To attract or net; to pull in. | |
16. v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend. | |
17. v. (ambitransitive, UK, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one. | |
I pulled at the club last night. | |
He's pulled that bird over there. | |
18. v. To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability. | |
Each day, they pulled the old bread and set out fresh loaves. | |
19. v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform. | |
He regularly pulls 12-hour days, sometimes 14. | |
You'll be sent home if you pull another stunt like that. | |
20. v. To retrieve or generate for use. | |
I'll have to pull a part number for that. | |
21. v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field. | |
22. v. (intransitive) To row. | |
23. v. To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.). | |
24. v. (video games, ambitransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target. | |
25. v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport. | |
26. v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning. | |
The favourite was pulled. | |
27. v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever. | |
28. v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.) | |
29. v. (UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source. | |
Let's stop at Finnigan's. The barman pulls a good pint. | |
30. v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave. | |
31. interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched. | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
pack |
1. n. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale | |
The horses carried the packs across the plain. | |
2. n. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack | |
3. n. a multitude. | |
a pack of lies | |
a pack of complaints | |
4. n. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective. | |
5. n. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game | |
We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack. | |
6. n. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together. | |
7. n. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together. | |
8. n. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang. | |
a pack of thieves or knaves | |
9. n. A group of Cub Scouts. | |
10. n. A shook of cask staves. | |
11. n. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously. | |
12. n. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely. | |
The ship had to sail round the pack of ice. | |
13. n. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment. | |
14. n. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person. | |
15. n. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker. | |
16. n. (rugby) The team on the field. | |
17. v. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. | |
18. v. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close orde | |
to pack goods in a box; to pack fish | |
19. v. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow a | |
to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater | |
20. v. To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. | |
The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags. | |
21. v. To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air | |
to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine; pack someone's arm with ice. | |
22. v. (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation. | |
23. v. (intransitive) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact | |
the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well | |
24. v. (intransitive) To gather in flocks or schools. | |
the grouse or the perch begin to pack | |
25. v. (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission. | |
26. v. (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly. | |
27. v. (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly. | |
28. v. To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result. | |
to pack a jury | |
29. v. To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. | |
30. v. (intransitive) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion. | |
31. v. To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber. | |
to pack a horse | |
32. v. To move, send or carry. | |
33. v. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack | |
to pack a boy off to school | |
34. v. (transitive, US, Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals). | |
35. v. (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away. | |
36. v. (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person. | |
37. v. (transitive, sports) To block a shot, especially in basketball. | |
38. v. (intransitive, LGBT slang) To wear a prosthetic penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude. | |
out |
See also individual phrasal verbs such as come out, go out, put out, take out, pull out, and so on. | |
1. adv. Away from the inside or the centre. | |
The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat. | |
2. adv. Away from home or one's usual place. | |
Let's eat out tonight | |
3. adv. Outside; not indoors. | |
Last night we slept out under the stars. | |
4. adv. Away from; at a distance. | |
Keep out! | |
5. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence. | |
Switch the lights out. | |
Put the fire out. | |
6. adv. To the end; completely. | |
I hadn't finished. Hear me out. | |
7. adv. Used to intensify or emphasize. | |
The place was all decked out for the holidays. | |
8. adv. (of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc. | |
The sun came out after the rain, and we saw a rainbow. | |
9. adv. (cricket, baseball) Of a player, so as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket). | |
Wilson was bowled out for five runs. | |
10. prep. (nonstandard, contraction of out of) Away from the inside. | |
He threw it out the door. | |
11. prep. (colloquial) Outside. | |
It's raining out. | |
It's cold out. | |
12. n. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc. | |
They wrote the law to give those organizations an out. | |
13. n. (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fieldi | |
14. n. (cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicke | |
15. n. (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner. | |
16. n. (dated) A trip out; an outing. | |
17. n. (mostly, in plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office. | |
18. n. A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space. | |
19. n. (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission. | |
20. v. To eject; to expel. | |
21. v. To reveal (a person) to be gay, bisexual, or transgender. | |
22. v. To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective. | |
23. v. To reveal (a secret). | |
A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design. | |
24. v. (intransitive, archaic) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public. | |
25. v. To become apparent. | |
26. adj. Not at home; not at one's office or place of employment. | |
I'm sorry, Mr Smith is out at the moment. | |
27. adj. Released, available for purchase, download or other use. | |
Did you hear? Their newest CD is out! | |
28. adj. (in various games; used especially of a batsman or batter in cricket or baseball) Dismissed from play under the rules of the game. | |
He bowls, Johnson pokes at it ... and ... Johnson is out! Caught behind by Ponsonby! | |
29. adj. Openly acknowledging that one is gay or transgender. | |
It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business. | |
30. adj. (of flowers) In bloom. | |
The garden looks beautiful now that the roses are out. | |
31. adj. (of the sun, moon or stars) Visible in the sky; not obscured by clouds. | |
The sun is out, and it's a lovely day. | |
32. adj. (of lamps, fires etc.) Not shining or burning. | |
I called round to the house but all the lights were out and no one was home. | |
33. adj. (of ideas, plans, etc.) Discarded; no longer a possibility. | |
Right, so that idea's out. Let's move on to the next one. | |
34. adj. No longer popular or in fashion. | |
Black is out this season. The new black is white. | |
35. adj. Without; no longer in possession of; not having more | |
Do you have any bread? Sorry, we're out. | |
36. adj. (of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies; in error by a stated amount. | |
Nothing adds up in this report. All these figures are out. | |
The measurement was out by three millimetres. | |
37. adj. (obsolete) Of a young lady: having entered society and available to be courted. | |
38. interj. (procedure word, especially, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response. | |
Destruction. Two T-72s destroyed. Three foot mobiles down. Out. | |
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. | |
between |
1. prep. In the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree. (See Usage notes below.) | |
John stood between Amy and Mary. Let's meet between two and three. | |
I want to buy one that costs somewhere between forty and fifty dollars. | |
2. prep. Done together or reciprocally. | |
conversation between friends | |
3. prep. Shared in confidence. | |
Between you and me, I think the boss is crazy. Let's keep this between ourselves. | |
4. prep. In transit from (one to the other, or connecting places). | |
He's between jobs right now. The shuttle runs between the town and the airport. | |
5. prep. Combined (by effort or ownership). | |
Between us all, we shall succeed. We've only got £5 between us. | |
Between the leaky taps and the peeling wallpaper, there isn't much about this house to appeal to a buyer. | |
6. prep. One of (representing a choice). | |
You must choose between him and me. | |
Some colour-blind people can't distinguish between red and green. | |
7. n. A kind of needle, shorter than a sharp, with a small rounded eye, used for making fine stitches on heavy fabrics. | |
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 | |
legs |
1. n. plural of leg | |
2. n. (bingo) eleven | |
3. n. viscous streaks left on the inside of the glass when certain wines are swirled around before tasting | |
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of leg | |
leg |
1. n. The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle. | |
Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches. | |
2. n. (anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. | |
3. n. A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg. | |
The left leg of these jeans has a tear. | |
4. n. A stage of a journey, race etc. | |
After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip. | |
5. n. (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other. | |
6. n. (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race. | |
7. n. (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest. | |
8. n. (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse. | |
9. n. (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely. | |
10. n. A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath. | |
the legs of a chair or table | |
11. n. (usually used in plural) evidence, the ability for a thing or idea to succeed or persist | |
12. n. (slang) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg. | |
13. n. An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also wat | |
14. n. In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets. | |
15. n. (cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter. | |
16. n. (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line. | |
17. n. (electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system. | |
18. n. (US, slang) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper. | |
19. v. To remove the legs from an animal carcass. | |
20. v. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support. | |
21. v. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market. | |
22. v. To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse'). | |
23. n. abbreviation of legislature | |
One argument made a lot in the leg was that the bill would simplify voting. | |
24. adj. abbreviation of legislative | |
The party wants to tackle social issues in the next leg term. | |
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. | |
begins |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of begin | |
begin |
1. v. To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. | |
I began playing the piano at the age of five. Now that everyone is here, we should begin the presentation. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation | |
The program begins at 9 o'clock on the dot. I rushed to get to class on time, but the lesson had already begun. - | |
3. v. (intransitive) To come into existence. | |
4. n. (nonstandard) Beginning; start. | |
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 | |
swing |
1. v. (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point. | |
The plant swung in the breeze. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To dance. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To ride on a swing. | |
The children laughed as they swung. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To hang from the gallows. | |
6. v. (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To fluctuate or change. | |
It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability. | |
8. v. To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave. | |
He swung his sword as hard as he could. | |
9. v. To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election. | |
10. v. To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially. | |
If it’s not too expensive, I think we can swing it. | |
11. v. (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm. | |
12. v. (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory. | |
13. v. (transitive, and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion. | |
14. v. In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms. | |
"to swing one's partner", or simply "to swing". | |
15. v. (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe. | |
The lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter. | |
16. v. (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn. | |
17. v. (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor. | |
A ship swings with the tide. | |
18. v. =====Troponyms===== | |
19. v. (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point) pivot, swivel | |
20. n. The manner in which something is swung. | |
He worked tirelessly to improve his golf swing. | |
Door swing indicates direction the door opens. | |
the swing of a pendulum | |
21. n. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing. | |
22. n. A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing. | |
23. n. A dance style. | |
24. n. (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style. | |
25. n. The amount of change towards or away from something. | |
26. n. (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party. | |
The polls showed a wide swing to Labour. | |
27. n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air. | |
28. n. The diameter that a lathe can cut. | |
29. n. In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles. | |
30. n. A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle. | |
31. n. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it. | |
32. n. (obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty. | |
33. n. (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
burlesque |
1. adj. Parodical; parodic | |
2. n. A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody. | |
3. n. A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from the 1880s to the 1930s. | |
4. n. A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion. | |
5. v. To make a burlesque parody of | |
6. v. To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language. | |
fashion |
1. n. A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons. | |
2. n. Popular trends. | |
Check out the latest in fashion. | |
3. n. A style or manner in which something is done. | |
4. n. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution. | |
the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc. | |
5. n. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding. | |
men of fashion | |
6. v. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way. | |
7. v. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work. | |
8. v. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to. | |
9. v. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit. | |