I'll |
1. contraction. I will | |
2. contraction. I shall | |
I |
1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence. | |
(audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio) | |
2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence. | |
3. n. (metaphysics) The ego. | |
4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate. | |
5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case) | |
will |
1. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
Do what you will. | |
2. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
3. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
4. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
5. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
6. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
7. 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. | |
8. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
9. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
Most creatures have a will to live. | |
10. 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. | |
11. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
12. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
13. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
14. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
15. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
16. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
put |
1. v. To place something somewhere. | |
She put her books on the table. | |
2. v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition. | |
Put your house in order! | |
He is putting all his energy into this one task. | |
She tends to put herself in dangerous situations. | |
3. v. (finance) To exercise a put option. | |
He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80. | |
4. v. To express something in a certain manner. | |
When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point. | |
5. v. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.) | |
6. v. To steer; to direct one's course; to go. | |
7. v. To play a card or a hand in the game called put. | |
8. v. To attach or attribute; to assign. | |
to put a wrong construction on an act or expression | |
9. v. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender. | |
10. v. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention. | |
to put a question; to put a case | |
11. v. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige. | |
12. v. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway. | |
13. n. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price. | |
14. n. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date. | |
He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet. | |
15. n. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push. | |
the put of a ball | |
16. n. An old card game. | |
17. n. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person; a duffer. | |
18. n. (obsolete) A prostitute. | |
you |
1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object. | |
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself. | |
3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) | |
4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.) | |
Both of you should get ready now. | |
You are all supposed to do as I tell you. | |
5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.) | |
6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object). | |
7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to. | |
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus? | |
8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis. | |
You idiot! | |
9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal. | |
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. | |
clean |
1. adj. Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.: | |
2. adj. Not dirty. | |
Are these dishes clean? Your room is finally clean! | |
3. adj. In an unmarked condition. | |
Put a clean sheet of paper into the printer. | |
4. adj. (aerodynamics) Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear. | |
5. adj. Empty. | |
The cargo hold is clean. Mister, I want to see a clean dinner plate or there'll be no dessert for you. | |
6. adj. (of metal) Having relatively few impurities. | |
clean steel | |
7. adj. Free of immorality or criminality.: | |
8. adj. Pure, especially morally or religiously. | |
Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean. | |
9. adj. Not having used drugs or alcohol. | |
I've been clean this time for eight months. | |
10. adj. (of criminal, driving, etc. records) Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record. | |
Unlike you, I’ve never caused any accidents — my record is still clean! | |
11. adj. (informal) Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs. | |
I’m clean, officer. You can go ahead and search me if you want. | |
12. adj. (informal) Devoid of profanity. | |
13. adj. Smooth, exact, and performed well. | |
I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts. a clean leap over a fence | |
14. adj. (obsolete) Total; utter. | |
15. adj. (informal) Cool or neat. | |
Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there! | |
16. adj. (health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). | |
I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married. | |
17. adj. That does not damage the environment. | |
clean energy; clean coal | |
18. adj. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects. | |
clean land; clean timber | |
19. adj. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire. | |
20. adj. Well-proportioned; shapely. | |
clean limbs | |
21. adj. (climbing, of a route) Ascended without falling. | |
22. n. Removal of dirt. | |
This place needs a clean. | |
23. n. (weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders. | |
24. v. To remove dirt from a place or object. | |
Can you clean the windows today? | |
25. v. To tidy up, make a place neat. | |
Clean your room right now! | |
26. v. (transitive, climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed. | |
27. v. (intransitive) To make things clean in general. | |
She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her. | |
28. v. (transitive, computing) To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.). | |
29. v. (intransitive, curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep. | |
30. v. (manga fandom) To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast. | |
31. v. To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal. | |
32. adv. Fully and completely. | |
He was stabbed clean through. | |
You must be clean mad. | |
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. | |
cushy |
1. adj. (informal) Easy, making few demands, comfortable. | |
This is a really cushy job. Mostly I just sit around drinking tea. | |
2. adj. (chiefly US) Comfortable; often in a way that will suit a person's body. | |
cell |
1. n. A single-room dwelling for a hermit. | |
2. n. (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment. | |
3. n. A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person. | |
Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell. | |
4. n. A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates. | |
The combatants spent the night in separate cells. | |
5. n. Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb. | |
6. n. (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions. | |
7. n. (obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories. | |
8. n. A section or compartment of a larger structure. | |
9. n. (obsolete, chiefly literary) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den. | |
10. n. A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery. | |
This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells. | |
11. n. (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself. | |
12. n. (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front. | |
There is a powerful storm cell headed our way. | |
13. n. (computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior. | |
The upper right cell always starts with the color green. | |
14. n. (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed. | |
15. n. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one. | |
Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization. | |
16. n. (communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode. | |
Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells. | |
17. n. (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network. | |
I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower. | |
18. n. (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope. | |
19. n. (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect. | |
20. n. (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. | |
21. n. (architecture) A cella. | |
22. n. (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins | |
23. v. To place or enclose in a cell. | |
24. n. (US, informal) A cellular phone. | |