I |
1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence. | |
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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) | |
6. pron. nonstandard spelling of I | |
could |
1. v. simple past tense of can | |
Before I was blind, I could see very well. | |
2. v. conditional of can | |
3. v. Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact). | |
I think he could do it if he really wanted to. | |
I wish I could fly! | |
4. v. Used to politely ask for permission to do something. | |
Could I borrow your coat? | |
5. v. Used to politely ask for someone else to do something. | |
Could you proofread this email? | |
6. v. Used to show the possibility that something might happen. | |
We could rearrange the time if you like. | |
7. v. Used to suggest something. | |
You could try adding more salt to the soup. | |
8. n. Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality. | |
can |
1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to. | |
She can speak English, French, and German. I can play football. Can you remember your fifth birthday? | |
2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to. | |
You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework. Can I use your pen? | |
3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible. | |
Can it be Friday already? | |
Teenagers can really try their parents' patience. | |
Animals can experience emotions. | |
4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception. | |
Can you hear that?. | |
I can feel the baby moving inside me. | |
5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know. | |
6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top. | |
7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can). | |
8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish. | |
9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory. | |
Shit or get off the can. | |
Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me. | |
10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks. | |
11. n. (slang) Jail or prison. | |
Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years. | |
12. n. (slang) Headphones. | |
13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup. | |
14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark | |
15. n. A chimney pot. | |
16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar. | |
They spent August canning fruit and vegetables. | |
17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.). | |
He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail. | |
18. v. To shut up. | |
Can your gob. | |
19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee. | |
The boss canned him for speaking out. | |
never |
1. adv. At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance. | |
I finally finished, and I never want to do that again. | |
I repeated the test a hundred times, and never saw a positive result. | |
I will never tell. | |
2. adv. Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously. | |
3. adv. (colloquial) Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely). | |
The police say I stole the car, but I never did it. | |
You said you were going to mow the lawn today. – I never! | |
lower |
1. adj. comparative form of low: more low | |
2. adj. bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object | |
3. adj. (geology, of strata or geological time periods) older | |
4. adv. comparative form of low: more low | |
5. v. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down | |
lower a bucket into a well | |
to lower a sail of a boat | |
6. v. to pull down | |
to lower a flag | |
7. v. To reduce the height of | |
lower a fence or wall | |
lower a chimney or turret | |
8. v. To depress as to direction | |
lower the aim of a gun | |
9. v. To make less elevated | |
to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes | |
10. v. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of | |
lower the temperature | |
lower one's vitality | |
lower distilled liquors | |
11. v. To bring down; to humble | |
lower one's pride | |
12. v. (reflexive) (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity. | |
I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes. | |
13. v. To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc. | |
lower the price of goods | |
lower the interest rate | |
14. v. (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease | |
The river lowered as rapidly as it rose. | |
15. v. (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc. | |
16. v. alternative spelling of lour. | |
Myself |
1. pron. alternative case form of myself used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context. | |
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun) Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject. | |
I taught myself. | |
3. pron. Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described. | |
4. pron. In my normal state of body or mind. | |
5. pron. Me (as the object of a verb or preposition). | |
I feel like myself. | |
6. pron. (archaic) I (as the subject of a verb). | |
7. pron. (India, Pakistan, nonstandard) my name is... | |
Myself John. | |
enough |
1. det. Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate. | |
I've already had enough coffee today. | |
2. adv. Sufficiently. | |
I cannot run fast enough to catch up to them. | |
Are you man enough to fight me? | |
3. adv. Fully; quite; used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very. | |
He is ready enough to accept the offer. | |
4. pron. A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc. | |
I have enough to keep me going. | |
5. interj. stop! Don't do that anymore, etc. | |
Enough! | |
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 | |
buy |
1. v. To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods | |
I'm going to buy my father something nice for his birthday. | |
2. v. To obtain by some sacrifice. | |
I've bought material comfort by foregoing my dreams. | |
3. v. To bribe. | |
He tried to buy me with gifts, but I wouldn't give up my beliefs. | |
4. v. To be equivalent to in value. | |
The dollar doesn't buy as much as it used to. | |
5. v. (transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe | |
I'm not going to buy your stupid excuses anymore! | |
6. v. (intransitive) To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a meal) | |
She buys for Federated. | |
Let's go out for dinner. I'm buying. | |
7. v. (poker slang) To make a bluff, usually a large one. | |
Smith tried to buy the pot on the river with a huge bluff | |
8. n. Something which is bought; a purchase. | |
At only $30, the second-hand kitchen table was a great buy. | |
second |
1. adj. Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two. | |
He lives on Second Street. | |
The second volume in "The Lord of the Rings" series is called "The Two Towers". | |
You take the first one, and I'll have the second. | |
2. adj. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. | |
3. adj. Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another. | |
4. adv. (with superlative) After the first; at the second rank. | |
Saturn is the second largest planet. | |
5. adv. After the first occurrence but before the third. | |
He is batting second today. | |
6. n. One that is number two in a series. | |
7. n. One that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority. | |
8. n. The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest. | |
9. n. (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards. | |
They were discounted because they contained blemishes, nicks or were otherwise factory seconds. | |
10. n. (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food. | |
That was good barbecue. I hope I can get seconds. | |
11. n. A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.) | |
12. n. (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental). | |
13. n. The second gear of an engine. | |
14. n. (baseball) Second base. | |
15. n. The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/oct/31/appeal-court-upholds | |
16. n. A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer. | |
17. v. To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under #Etymology 3 for translations.) | |
I second the motion. | |
18. v. To follow in the next place; to succeed. | |
19. v. (climbing) To climb after a lead climber. | |
20. n. One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground sta | |
21. n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree. | |
22. n. (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time. | |
I'll be there in a second. | |
23. v. (transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment. | |
24. v. To assist or support; to back. | |
25. v. To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.) | |
I second the motion. | |
26. n. One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant. | |
27. n. One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc. | |
If we want the motion to pass, we will need a second. | |
28. n. (obsolete) Aid; assistance; help. | |
hand |
1. n. The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals. | |
Her hands are really strong. | |
2. n. That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.: | |
3. n. A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey. | |
4. n. An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day. | |
5. n. In linear measurement:: | |
6. n. (chiefly in measuring the height of horses) Four inches, a hand's breadth. | |
7. n. (obsolete) Three inches. | |
8. n. A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left. | |
9. n. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity. | |
10. n. An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful. | |
an old hand at speaking; large farms need many farm hands | |
11. n. An instance of helping. | |
Bob gave Alice a hand to move the furniture. | |
12. n. Handwriting; style of penmanship. | |
a good hand | |
13. n. A person's autograph or signature. | |
Given under my Hand and Seal of the State this 1st Day of January, 2010. | |
14. n. Personal possession; ownership. | |
15. n. (usually in the hands) Management, domain, control. | |
in safe hands; in good hands; He lost his job when the factory changed hands. With the business back in the founder's hands, there is new hope for the company. With John | |
16. n. That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.: | |
17. n. (card games) The set of cards held by a player. | |
18. n. # A round of a card game. | |
19. n. (tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together. | |
20. n. (collective) The collective noun for a bunch of bananas. | |
21. n. Applause. | |
Give him a hand. | |
22. n. (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand. | |
23. n. (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim. | |
24. n. A whole rhizome of ginger. | |
25. n. The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch. | |
This fabric has a smooth, soft hand. | |
26. n. (archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance. | |
27. n. (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another. | |
to buy at first hand (from the producer, or when new); to buy at second hand (when no longer in the producer’s hand, or when not new); It's not a rumor. I heard it at first hand. | |
28. n. (obsolete) Rate; price. | |
29. v. To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively. | |
He handed them the letter. She handed responsibility over to her deputy. | |
30. v. To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct. | |
to hand a lady into a carriage | |
31. v. (transitive, obsolete) To manage. | |
32. v. (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on. | |
33. v. (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast. | |
34. v. (transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl. | |
35. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate. | |
clothes |
1. n. (plural only) Items of clothing; apparel. | |
2. n. (obsolete) plural of cloth. | |
3. n. The covering of a bed; bedclothes. | |
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of clothe | |
clothe |
1. v. To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing. | |
to feed and clothe a family; to clothe oneself extravagantly | |
2. v. (figurative) To cover or invest, as if with a garment. | |
to clothe somebody with authority or power | |