| modesty |
| 1. n. The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities. | |
| 2. n. Moderate behaviour; reserve. | |
| 3. n. (specifically) Pudency, prudish avoidance of sexual explicitness. | |
| 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. | |
| color |
| 1. n. The spectral composition of visible light | |
| Humans and birds can perceive color. | |
| 2. n. A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class. | |
| Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green. | |
| 3. n. Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays). | |
| He referred to the white flag as one "drained of all color". | |
| 4. n. Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity. | |
| Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies. | |
| 5. n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area. | |
| a bit of local color | |
| 6. n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal. | |
| 7. n. (in the plural) A standard or banner. | |
| The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale. | |
| 8. n. The system of color television. | |
| This film is broadcast in color. | |
| 9. n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team. | |
| The colors were raised over the new territory. | |
| 10. n. (in the plural) Gang insignia. | |
| Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors. | |
| 11. n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university. | |
| He was awarded colors for his football. | |
| 12. n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag. | |
| 13. n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing quarterly results when an officer of a company is speaking to investment analysts. | |
| Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter? | |
| 14. n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons. | |
| 15. n. (finance) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in t | |
| 16. n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. | |
| 17. n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds. | |
| 18. n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false. | |
| 19. n. An appearance of right or authority. | |
| Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars. | |
| 20. n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment. | |
| 21. adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray. | |
| Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white. | |
| 22. v. To give something color. | |
| We could color the walls red. | |
| 23. v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons. | |
| My kindergartener loves to color. | |
| 24. v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow. | |
| Her face colored as she realized her mistake. | |
| 25. v. To affect without completely changing. | |
| That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book. | |
| 26. v. (informal) To attribute a quality to. | |
| Color me confused. | |
| 27. v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same color. | |
| Can this graph be two-colored? | |
| You can color any map with four colors. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| style |
| 1. n. A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one. | |
| 2. n. Flair; grace; fashionable skill. | |
| As a dancer, he has a lot of style. | |
| 3. n. (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower. | |
| 4. n. A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post. | |
| 5. n. A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post. | |
| the style of Majesty | |
| 6. n. (nonstandard) A stylus. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) A pen; an author's pen. | |
| 8. n. A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver. | |
| 9. n. A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument. | |
| 10. n. A long, slender, bristle-like process. | |
| the anal styles of insects | |
| 11. n. The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. | |
| 12. n. (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic. | |
| applying styles to text in a wordprocessor | |
| Cascading Style Sheets | |
| 13. v. To create or give a style, fashion or image to. | |
| 14. v. To call or give a name or title to. | |
