| instead |
| 1. adv. In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative. | |
| I was going to go shopping, but I went dancing instead. | |
| we |
| 1. pron. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.) | |
| 2. pron. (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.) | |
| 3. pron. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sen | |
| 4. pron. (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed. | |
| How are we all tonight? | |
| 5. pron. (personal, generally considered patronising) A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care. | |
| How are we feeling this morning? | |
| 6. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person. | |
| We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different. | |
| have |
| Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst. | |
| 1. v. To possess, own, hold. | |
| I have a house and a car. | |
| Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street! | |
| 2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship). | |
| I have two sisters. | |
| I have a lot of work to do. | |
| 3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action. | |
| I have breakfast at six o'clock. | |
| Can I have a look at that? | |
| I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now. | |
| 4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in. | |
| What class do you have right now? I have English. | |
| Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day. | |
| 5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.) | |
| I have already eaten today. | |
| I had already eaten. | |
| 6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to. | |
| I have to go. | |
| 7. v. To give birth to. | |
| The couple always wanted to have children. | |
| My wife is having the baby right now! | |
| My mother had me when she was 25. | |
| 8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with. | |
| He's always bragging about how many women he's had. | |
| 9. v. To accept as a romantic partner. | |
| Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me. | |
| 10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation. | |
| They had me feed their dog while they were out of town. | |
| 11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be. | |
| He had him arrested for trespassing. | |
| The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears. | |
| 12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.) | |
| The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week. | |
| I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice. | |
| 13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being. | |
| Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening. | |
| 14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.)) | |
| We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we? | |
| Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she? | |
| (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he? | |
| 15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take. | |
| I could have him! | |
| I'm gonna have you! | |
| 16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language. | |
| I have no German. | |
| 17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of. | |
| Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before. | |
| 18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from. | |
| He had a cold last week. | |
| 19. v. To experience, go through, undergo. | |
| We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that. | |
| He had surgery on his hip yesterday. | |
| I'm having the time of my life! | |
| 20. v. To trick, to deceive. | |
| You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke. | |
| 21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate. | |
| The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it. | |
| I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night. | |
| 22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by. | |
| I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it. | |
| 23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest. | |
| Thank you for having me! | |
| 24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation. | |
| What do you have for problem two? | |
| I have two contacts on my scope. | |
| 25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case. | |
| We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon. | |
| 26. n. A wealthy or privileged person. | |
| 27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | |
| 28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading. | |
| They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have. | |
| unequal |
| 1. adj. Not the same. | |
| 2. adj. Out of balance. | |
| 3. n. One who is not an equal. | |
| Justice |
| 1. n. The title of a justice of court. | |
| 2. n. The state or characteristic of being just or fair. | |
| the justice of a description | |
| 3. n. The ideal of fairness, impartiality, etc., especially with regard to the punishment of wrongdoing. | |
| Justice was served. | |
| 4. n. Judgment and punishment of a party who has allegedly wronged another. | |
| to demand justice | |
| 5. n. The civil power dealing with law. | |
| Ministry of Justice | |
| the justice system | |
| 6. n. A title given to judges of certain courts; capitalized as a title. | |
| Mr. Justice Krever presides over the appellate court | |
| 7. n. Correctness, conforming to reality or rules. | |
| based |
| 1. adj. Founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms. | |
| That was a soundly based argument. | |
| 2. adj. (slang) Not caring what others think about his or her personality, style, or behavior; focused on maintaining individuality. | |
| 3. v. simple past tense and past participle of base | |
| 4. v. Being derived from (usually followed by on or upon). | |
| It's a new film based on a best-selling novel. | |
| 5. v. Having a base | |
| The ladder is based on the even sidewalk for stability. | |
| 6. v. Having a base of operations. | |
| The company is based in New York. | |
| base |
| 1. n. Something from which other things extend; a foundation. | |
| 2. n. A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object. | |
| 3. n. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis. | |
| 4. n. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material. | |
| 5. n. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters. | |
| 6. n. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient. | |
| 7. n. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing. | |
| 8. n. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform. | |
| 9. n. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts. | |
| 10. n. Important areas in games and sports. | |
| 11. n. A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek. | |
| 12. n. (baseball) One of the three places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out. | |
| 13. n. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement. | |
| 14. n. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer. | |
| 15. n. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support. | |
| 16. n. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT). | |
| 17. n. (geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat. | |
| 18. n. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon. | |
| 19. n. (heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon. | |
| 20. n. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent. | |
| The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3. | |
| 21. n. (mathematics) (synonym of radix). | |
| 22. n. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated. | |
| 23. n. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles. | |
| 24. n. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground. | |
| 25. n. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached. | |
| 26. n. (music) (dated form of bass) | |
| 27. n. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon. | |
| 28. n. (archaic) The housing of a horse. | |
| 29. n. (historical, in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower. | |
| 30. n. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat. | |
| 31. n. (obsolete) An apron. | |
| 32. n. A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a sys | |
| 33. v. To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of. | |
| 34. v. To be located (at a particular place). | |
| 35. v. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer. | |
| 36. adj. (obsolete) Low in height; short. | |
| 37. adj. Low in place or position. | |
| 38. adj. (obsolete) Of low value or degree. | |
| 39. adj. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common. | |
| 40. adj. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly. | |
| 41. adj. (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality. | |
| 42. adj. Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble. | |
| 43. adj. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased. | |
| base coin | |
| base bullion | |
| 44. adj. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard. | |
| 45. adj. Not classical or correct. | |
| base Latin | |
| 46. adj. obsolete form of bass | |
| the base tone of a violin | |
| 47. adj. (legal) Not held by honourable service. | |
| A base estate is one held by services not honourable, or held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant is a base tenant. | |
| 48. n. (now chiefly US historical) The game of prisoners' bars. | |
| on |
| 1. adj. In the state of being active, functioning or operating. | |
| 2. adj. Performing according to schedule. | |
| Are we still on for tonight? | |
| Is the show still on? | |
| 3. adj. (chiefly UK, informal, usually negative) Acceptable, appropriate. | |
| You can't do that; it's just not on. | |
| 4. adj. (informal) Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed. | |
| "Five bucks says the Cavs win tonight." ―"You're on!". | |
| Mike just threw coffee onto Paul's lap. It's on now. | |
| 5. adj. (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter. | |
| 6. adj. (euphemistic) Menstruating. | |
| 7. adv. To an operating state. | |
| turn the television on | |
| 8. adv. Along, forwards (continuing an action). | |
| drive on, rock on | |
| 9. adv. In continuation, at length. | |
| and so on. | |
| He rambled on and on. | |
| 10. adv. (not US) Later. | |
| Ten years on, nothing had changed in the village. | |
| 11. prep. Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above. | |
| on the table; on the couch | |
| The parrot was sitting on Jim's shoulder. | |
| 12. prep. At or near; adjacent to. | |
| Soon we'll pass a statue on the left. | |
| The fleet is on the American coast. | |
| Croton-on-Hudson, Rostov-on-Don, Southend-on-Sea | |
| 13. prep. Covering. | |
| He wore old shoes on his feet. | |
| 14. prep. At the date of. | |
| Born on the 4th of July. | |
| 15. prep. Some time during the day of. | |
| I'll see you on Monday. The bus leaves on Friday. Can I see you on a different day? On Sunday I'm busy. | |
| 16. prep. Dealing with the subject of, about, or concerning something. | |
| A book on history. The World Summit on the Information Society. | |
| 17. prep. Touching; hanging from. | |
| The fruit ripened on the trees. The painting hangs on the wall. | |
| 18. prep. (informal) In the possession of. | |
| I haven't got any money on me. | |
| 19. prep. Because of, or due to. | |
| To arrest someone on suspicion of bribery. To contact someone on a hunch. | |
| 20. prep. Upon; at the time of (and often because of). | |
| On Jack's entry, William got up to leave. | |
| On the addition of ammonia, a chemical reaction begins. | |
| 21. prep. Paid for by. | |
| The drinks are on me tonight, boys. The meal is on the house. I paid for the airfare and meals for my family, but the hotel room was on the company. | |
| 22. prep. Used to indicate a means or medium. | |
| I saw it on television. Can't you see I'm on the phone? | |
| 23. prep. Indicating a means of subsistence. | |
| They lived on ten dollars a week. The dog survived three weeks on rainwater. | |
| 24. prep. Away or occupied with (e.g. a scheduled activity). | |
| He's on his lunch break. on vacation; on holiday | |
| 25. prep. Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with. | |
| to play on a violin or piano | |
| Her words made a lasting impression on my mind. | |
| 26. prep. Regularly taking (a drug). | |
| You've been on these antidepressants far too long. He's acting so strangely, I think he must be on something. | |
| 27. prep. Under the influence of (a drug). | |
| He's acting crazy because he's on crack right now. | |
| 28. prep. (mathematics) Having identical domain and codomain. | |
| a function on | |
| 29. prep. (mathematics) HavingV^n as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n. | |
| an operator on | |
| 30. prep. (mathematics) Generated by. | |
| the free group on four letters | |
| 31. prep. Supported by (the specified part of itself). | |
| A table can't stand on two legs. After resting on his elbows, he stood on his toes, then walked on his heels. | |
| 32. prep. At a given time after the start of something; at. | |
| 33. prep. In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series. | |
| heaps on heaps of food | |
| mischief on mischief; loss on loss | |
| 34. prep. (obsolete, regional) of | |
| 35. prep. Indicating dependence or reliance; with confidence in. | |
| I depended on them for assistance. | |
| He will promise on certain conditions. | |
| Do you ever bet on horses? | |
| 36. prep. Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion. | |
| Have pity or compassion on him. | |
| 37. prep. (obsolete) At the peril of, or for the safety of. | |
| 38. prep. In the service of; connected with; of the number of. | |
| He is on a newspaper; I am on the committee. | |
| 39. prep. By virtue of; with the pledge of. | |
| He affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honour. | |
| 40. prep. To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon. | |
| On us be all the blame. | |
| A curse on him! | |
| Please don't tell on her and get her in trouble. | |
| He turned on her and has been her enemy ever since. | |
| He went all honest on me, making me listen to his confession. | |
| 41. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) to switch on | |
| Can you on the light? | |
| 42. prep. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Without. | |
| 43. n. In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun. | |
| Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun". | |
| Geography |
| 1. n. (alt-form, geography), especially when defined as a school subject. | |
| 2. n. A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography;(archaic) an atlas or gazetteer. | |
| 3. n. The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them. | |
| 4. n. Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth. | |
| 5. n. Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution. | |
| 6. n. (astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets. | |
| 7. n. The physical arrangement of any place, particularly(UK) a house. | |
| 8. n. (chiefly) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation. | |
| 9. n. (figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything. | |
| 10. n. (chiefly) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector. | |
