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. | |
sacred |
1. adj. Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated; made holy. | |
a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service | |
2. adj. Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular | |
3. adj. Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics. | |
4. adj. Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable. | |
5. adj. Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable. | |
6. adj. (followed by the preposition "to") Consecrated; dedicated; devoted | |
7. adj. (archaic) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful. | |
8. v. simple past tense and past participle of sacre | |
sacre |
1. v. (obsolete) To consecrate | |
2. n. alt form, saker, , type of cannon | |
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. | |
Holy |
1. adj. alternative case form of holy used when referring to an important figure, such as God, or to an important item or event. | |
2. adj. Dedicated to a religious purpose or a god. | |
I'm planning to visit the holy city of Jerusalem this Christmas. | |
3. adj. Revered in a religion. | |
4. adj. Perfect or flawless. | |
5. adj. Separated or set apart from (something unto something or someone else). | |
6. adj. Set apart or dedicated for a specific purpose, or for use by a single entity or person. | |
7. adj. (slang) Used as an intensifier in various interjections. | |
Holy cow, I can’t believe he actually lost the race! | |
Those children next door are holy terrors! | |
8. n. (archaic) A thing that is extremely holy; used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies. | |
unconsecrated |
1. adj. Not consecrated | |
relating |
1. v. present participle of relate | |
2. n. The act of relating, or forming or identifying relationships; relation. | |
relate |
1. v. To tell in a descriptive way. | |
2. v. To give an association. | |
3. v. To make a connection or correlation between one thing and another. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To have a connection. | |
I find it difficult to relate to others because I'm extremely introverted. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To interact. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To respond through reaction. | |
7. v. (intransitive, with to) To identify with; to understand. | |
8. v. (obsolete) To bring back; to restore. | |
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 | |
non |
1. adv. obsolete form of none | |
religious |
1. adj. Concerning religion. | |
It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues. | |
2. adj. Committed to the practice of religion. | |
I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now. | |
3. adj. Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion. | |
I'm a religious fan of college basketball. | |
4. n. A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun. | |
matters |
1. n. plural of matter | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of matter | |
Nothing really matters. | |
But it matters to me. | |
matter |
1. n. Substance, material. | |
2. n. (physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume. | |
3. n. (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. (Non-antimatter matter). | |
4. n. A kind of substance. | |
vegetable matter | |
5. n. Written material (especially in books or magazines). | |
printed matter; He always took some reading matter with him on the plane. | |
6. n. (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substa | |
7. n. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern. | |
What's the matter?; state matters | |
8. n. An approximate amount or extent. | |
I stayed for a matter of months. | |
9. n. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment. | |
10. n. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing. | |
11. n. (dated) Pus. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To be important. | |
The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich. | |
Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, don't worry, it does not matter. | |
13. v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important. | |
14. v. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. | |
secular |
1. adj. Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical. | |
2. adj. Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless. | |
3. adj. (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order. | |
secular clergy in Catholicism | |
4. adj. Happening once in an age or century. | |
The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next. | |
5. adj. Continuing over a long period of time, long-term. | |
The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena. | |
on a secular basis | |
6. adj. (literary) Centuries-old, ancient. | |
7. adj. (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field. | |
8. adj. (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time. | |
9. n. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules. | |
10. n. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir. | |
11. n. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman. | |