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. | |
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 | |
respond |
1. v. (transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply. | |
to respond to a question or an argument | |
2. v. (intransitive) To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response | |
3. v. To correspond with; to suit. | |
4. v. To satisfy; to answer. | |
The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court. | |
5. n. A response. | |
6. n. A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection. | |
7. n. (architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch. | |
feels |
1. n. plural of feel | |
2. n. (colloquial) Feelings, emotions | |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of feel | |
4. adj. (colloquial) (synonym of emotional) | |
feel |
1. v. To use the sense of touch.: | |
2. v. (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on. | |
You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast. | |
I felt cold and miserable all night. | |
3. v. To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements. | |
I felt my way through the darkened room. | |
I felt my way cautiously through the dangerous business maneuver. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To search by sense of touch. | |
He felt for the light switch in the dark. | |
6. v. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.: | |
7. v. To experience an emotion or other mental state about. | |
I can feel the sadness in his poems. | |
8. v. To think, believe, or have an impression concerning. | |
I feel that we need to try harder. | |
9. v. (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state. | |
He obviously feels strongly about it. | |
She felt even more upset when she heard the details. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected. | |
I feel for you and your plight. | |
11. v. To be or become aware of. | |
12. v. To experience the consequences of. | |
Feel my wrath! | |
13. v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise). | |
It looks like wood, but it feels more like plastic. | |
This is supposed to be a party, but it feels more like a funeral! | |
14. v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand. | |
I don't want you back here, ya feel me? | |
15. n. A quality of an object experienced by touch. | |
Bark has a rough feel. | |
16. n. A vague mental impression. | |
You should get a feel of the area before moving in. | |
17. n. An act of fondling. | |
She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me. | |
18. n. A vague understanding. | |
I'm getting a feel for what you mean. | |
19. n. An intuitive ability. | |
She has a feel for music. | |
20. n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling. | |
I know that feel. | |
21. pron. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele | |
22. adj. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele | |
23. adv. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele | |
a |
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
4. art. The same; one. | |
We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
Stand a tiptoe. | |
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
Torn a pieces. | |
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
A God’s name. | |
13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
To set the people a worke. | |
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
The times, they are a-changin'. | |
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
Jacob, when he was a dying | |
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
The name of John a Gaunt. | |
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
bit |
1. n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal. | |
A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth. | |
2. n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes. | |
3. n. (dated, British) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean, and a fourpenny piece, or groat, in the British West Indies.) | |
a threepenny bit | |
4. n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime. | |
5. n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first came into use, the Spanish 8 reales coin was widely used as a dollar equivalent, and thus the 1 re | |
A quarter is two bits. | |
6. n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents. | |
7. n. A small amount of something. | |
There were bits of paper all over the floor. Does your leg still hurt? / Just a bit now. I've done my bit; I expect you to do yours. | |
8. n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time. | |
I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first. He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out. | |
9. n. A portion of something. | |
I'd like a big bit of cake, please. | |
10. n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. | |
Am I bored? Not a bit of it! | |
11. n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one. | |
12. n. (anchor, An excerpt of material) An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc. | |
His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show. | |
13. n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers. | |
14. n. The cutting iron of a plane. | |
15. adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a"). | |
That's a bit too sweet. | |
16. v. To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse). | |
17. v. simple past tense of bite | |
Your dog bit me! | |
18. v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past of bite, bitten | |
I have been bit by your dog! | |
19. adj. (colloquial) bitten. | |
Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him. | |
20. adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten. | |
21. n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0. | |
22. n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit. | |
23. n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values. | |
status bits on IRC; permission bits in a file system | |
24. n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy. | |
25. n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC). | |
bite |
1. v. To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth. | |
As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is. | |
2. v. To hold something by clamping one's teeth. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth. | |
That dog is about to bite! | |
4. v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances. | |
If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with. | |
I needed snow chains to make the tires bite. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative. | |
For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite. | |
7. v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught. | |
Are the fish biting today? | |
8. v. (intransitive, metaphor) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor. | |
I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite? | |
9. v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting. | |
These mosquitoes are really biting today! | |
10. v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent. | |
It bites like pepper or mustard. | |
11. v. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense. | |
Pepper bites the mouth. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold. | |
The anchor bites. | |
14. v. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to. | |
The anchor bites the ground. | |
15. v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck. | |
This music really bites. | |
16. v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective. | |
You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me. | |
17. v. (intransitive, AAVE, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate. | |
He always be biting my moves. | |
18. n. The act of biting. | |
19. n. The wound left behind after having been bitten. | |
That snake bite really hurts! | |
20. n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. | |
After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites. | |
21. n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful. | |
There were only a few bites left on the plate. | |
22. n. (slang) Something unpleasant. | |
That's really a bite! | |
23. n. (slang) An act of plagiarism. | |
That song is a bite of my song! | |
24. n. A small meal or snack. | |
I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner. | |
25. n. (figuratively) aggression | |
26. n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another. | |
27. n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud. | |
28. n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats. | |
29. n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper. | |
churlish |
1. adj. Of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic. | |
2. adj. Rude, surly, ungracious. | |
3. adj. Stingy or grudging. | |
4. adj. (of soil) Difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable | |