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. | |
had |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of have. | |
2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (with a past participle). | |
3. v. (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have. | |
4. adj. (obsolete) Available. | |
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. | |
started |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of start | |
start |
1. n. The beginning of an activity. | |
The movie was entertaining from start to finish. | |
2. n. A sudden involuntary movement. | |
He woke with a start. | |
3. n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc. | |
4. n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match. | |
Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday. | |
5. n. (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later. | |
6. n. An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start. | |
to get, or have, the start | |
7. v. To begin, commence, initiate. | |
8. v. To set in motion. | |
to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business | |
9. v. To begin. | |
10. v. To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine. | |
to start the engine | |
11. v. To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion). | |
12. v. To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To begin an activity. | |
The rain started at 9:00. | |
14. v. (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin. | |
The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town. | |
The blue line starts one foot away from the wall. | |
15. v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly. | |
16. v. (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise. | |
17. v. (intransitive) To awaken suddenly. | |
18. v. To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly. | |
The hounds started a fox. | |
19. v. To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate. | |
to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel | |
20. v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose. | |
21. v. (transitive, sports) To put into play. | |
22. v. (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from. | |
to start a water cask | |
23. v. (intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation). | |
Have you started yet? | |
24. n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail. | |
25. n. A handle, especially that of a plough. | |
26. n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket. | |
27. n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse. | |
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. | |
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 | |
hind |
1. adj. Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts). | |
2. n. A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old. | |
3. n. A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus. | |
4. n. (archaic) A servant, especially an agricultural labourer. | |
5. n. seemorecites | |
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. | |
then |
1. adv. (temporal location) At that time. | |
He was happy then. | |
2. adv. (temporal location) Soon afterward. | |
He fixed it, then left. | |
Turn left, then right, then right again, then keep going until you reach the service station. | |
3. adv. (sequence) Next in order; in addition. | |
There are three green ones, then a blue one. | |
4. adv. (conjunctive) In that case. | |
If it’s locked, then we’ll need the key. | |
Is it 12 o'clock already? Then it's time for me to leave. | |
You don't like potatoes? What do you want me to cook, then? | |
5. adv. (sequence) At the same time; on the other hand. | |
That’s a nice shirt, but then, so is the other one. | |
6. adv. (dialect) Used to contradict an assertion. | |
7. adj. Being so at that time. | |
8. n. That time | |
It will be finished before then. | |