not |
1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb. | |
Did you take out the trash? No, I did not. | |
Not knowing any better, I went ahead. | |
2. adv. To no degree. | |
That is not red; it's orange. | |
3. conj. And not. | |
I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken. | |
He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple. | |
4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. | |
I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not! | |
Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not! | |
5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function. | |
You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip. | |
6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not. | |
fully |
1. adv. In a full manner; without lack or defect. | |
He fully met his responsibilities. | |
2. adv. In a full degree; to a full extent. | |
He is fully capable of meeting his responsibilities. | |
3. adv. As a minimum; at least. | |
developed |
1. adj. (said of a country) Not primitive; not third world. | |
2. adj. Mature. | |
3. adj. Containing man-made structures such as roads, sewers, electric lines, buildings, and so on. | |
4. adj. Having useful or necessary infrastructure. | |
5. adj. Advanced, fully formed. | |
6. v. simple past tense and past participle of develop | |
develop |
1. v. (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress. | |
Let's see how things develop and then make our decision. | |
2. v. To progress through a sequence of stages. | |
Isabel developed from a tropical depression to a tropical storm to a hurricane. An embryo develops into a fetus and then into an infant. | |
3. v. To advance; to further; to promote the growth of. | |
4. v. To create. | |
I need to develop a plan for the next three weeks. | |
5. v. To bring out images latent in photographic film. | |
Please develop this roll of film. | |
6. v. To acquire something usually over a period of time. | |
I have been in England enough to develop a British accent. | |
You will develop calluses if you play the cello. | |
She developed bad eating habits. | |
7. v. (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively. | |
I need to develop my white-square bishop. | |
8. v. (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack. | |
9. v. (math) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value. | |
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. | |
mature |
1. adj. Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe. | |
She is quite mature for her age. | |
2. adj. Brought to a state of complete readiness. | |
a mature plan | |
3. adj. Profound; careful. | |
The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration. | |
4. adj. (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration. | |
5. v. (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To become mature; to ripen. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To gain experience or wisdom with age. | |
7. v. To make something mature. | |
8. v. (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due | |
Animals |
1. n. plural of Animal | |
2. n. plural of animal | |
animal |
1. n. In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plant, plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely | |
A cat is an animal, not a plant. Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not plants. | |
2. n. In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human. | |
3. n. In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fish, fishes, insect, insects, etc.). | |
4. n. (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person. | |
My students are animals. | |
5. n. (informal) A person of a particular type. | |
He's a political animal. | |
6. n. matter, Matter, thing. | |
a whole different animal | |
7. adj. Of or relating to animals. | |
animal instincts | |
8. adj. Raw, base, unhindered by social codes. | |
animal passions | |
9. adj. Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation. | |
10. adj. (slang) Excellent | |