| 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). | |
| tangled |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of tangle | |
| tangle |
| 1. v. (intransitive) to become mixed together or intertwined | |
| Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight | |
| Don't tangle with someone three times your size. | |
| He tangled with the law. | |
| 3. v. to mix together or intertwine | |
| 4. v. to catch and hold; to ensnare. | |
| 5. n. A tangled twisted mass. | |
| 6. n. A complicated or confused state or condition. | |
| I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere. | |
| 7. n. An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight. | |
| 8. n. (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times. | |
| 9. n. A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns. | |
| 10. n. Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria. | |
| 11. n. (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and ot | |
| with |
| 1. prep. Against. | |
| He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
| 2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
| He went with his friends. | |
| 3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
| She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
| 4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
| 5. prep. In support of. | |
| We are with you all the way. | |
| 6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by. | |
| slain with robbers | |
| 7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
| cut with a knife | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
| 9. prep. Having, owning. | |
| 10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
| Do you want to come with? | |
| 11. adv. --> | |
| 12. n. alternative form of withe | |
| 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. | |
| law |
| 1. n. The body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities. | |
| the courts interpret the law; entrapment is against the law | |
| 2. n. The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic. | |
| property law; commercial hunting and fishing law | |
| 3. n. Common law, as contrasted with equity. | |
| 4. n. A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way. | |
| There is a law against importing wallabies. A new law forbids driving on that road. The court ruled that the executive order was not law and nullified it. | |
| 5. n. (more generally) (A rule, such as:) | |
| 6. n. Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores). | |
| "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow. the law of self-preservation | |
| 7. n. A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art. | |
| the laws of playwriting and poetry | |
| 8. n. A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions | |
| the laws of thermodynamics | |
| Newton's third law of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction. This is one of several laws derived from | |
| 9. n. (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule. | |
| Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation. | |
| 10. n. Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences. | |
| the law of scarcity; the law of supply and demand | |
| 11. n. (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC. | |
| 12. n. The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules. | |
| They worked to maintain law and order. It was a territory without law, marked by violence. | |
| 13. n. (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers). | |
| Here comes the law — run! | |
| 14. n. The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc). | |
| He is studying for a career in law. She has practiced law in New York for twenty years. | |
| 15. n. Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules. | |
| She went to university to study law. | |
| 16. n. Litigation, legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc). | |
| They were quick to go to law. | |
| 17. n. (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair. | |
| 18. n. (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos. | |
| 19. n. (legal, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law)", "(m", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".) | |
| 20. v. (obsolete) To work as a lawyer; to practice law. | |
| 21. v. (ambitransitive, chiefly dialectal) To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate. | |
| 22. v. (nonstandard) To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; govern. | |
| 23. v. (informal) To enforce the law. | |
| 24. v. To subject to legal restrictions. | |
| 25. n. (obsolete) A tumulus of stones. | |
| 26. n. (Scottish, and Northern England, archaic) A hill. | |
| 27. interj. (dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks. | |
