on |
1. adj. In the state of being active, functioning or operating. | |
2. adj. Performing according to schedule. | |
Are we still on for tonight? | |
Is the show still on? | |
3. adj. (chiefly UK, informal, usually negative) Acceptable, appropriate. | |
You can't do that; it's just not on. | |
4. adj. (informal) Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed. | |
"Five bucks says the Cavs win tonight." ―"You're on!". | |
Mike just threw coffee onto Paul's lap. It's on now. | |
5. adj. (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter. | |
6. adj. (euphemistic) Menstruating. | |
7. adv. To an operating state. | |
turn the television on | |
8. adv. Along, forwards (continuing an action). | |
drive on, rock on | |
9. adv. In continuation, at length. | |
and so on. | |
He rambled on and on. | |
10. adv. (not US) Later. | |
Ten years on, nothing had changed in the village. | |
11. prep. Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above. | |
on the table; on the couch | |
The parrot was sitting on Jim's shoulder. | |
12. prep. At or near; adjacent to. | |
Soon we'll pass a statue on the left. | |
The fleet is on the American coast. | |
Croton-on-Hudson, Rostov-on-Don, Southend-on-Sea | |
13. prep. Covering. | |
He wore old shoes on his feet. | |
14. prep. At the date of. | |
Born on the 4th of July. | |
15. prep. Some time during the day of. | |
I'll see you on Monday. The bus leaves on Friday. Can I see you on a different day? On Sunday I'm busy. | |
16. prep. Dealing with the subject of, about, or concerning something. | |
A book on history. The World Summit on the Information Society. | |
17. prep. Touching; hanging from. | |
The fruit ripened on the trees. The painting hangs on the wall. | |
18. prep. (informal) In the possession of. | |
I haven't got any money on me. | |
19. prep. Because of, or due to. | |
To arrest someone on suspicion of bribery. To contact someone on a hunch. | |
20. prep. Upon; at the time of (and often because of). | |
On Jack's entry, William got up to leave. | |
On the addition of ammonia, a chemical reaction begins. | |
21. prep. Paid for by. | |
The drinks are on me tonight, boys. The meal is on the house. I paid for the airfare and meals for my family, but the hotel room was on the company. | |
22. prep. Used to indicate a means or medium. | |
I saw it on television. Can't you see I'm on the phone? | |
23. prep. Indicating a means of subsistence. | |
They lived on ten dollars a week. The dog survived three weeks on rainwater. | |
24. prep. Away or occupied with (e.g. a scheduled activity). | |
He's on his lunch break. on vacation; on holiday | |
25. prep. Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with. | |
to play on a violin or piano | |
Her words made a lasting impression on my mind. | |
26. prep. Regularly taking (a drug). | |
You've been on these antidepressants far too long. He's acting so strangely, I think he must be on something. | |
27. prep. Under the influence of (a drug). | |
He's acting crazy because he's on crack right now. | |
28. prep. (mathematics) Having identical domain and codomain. | |
a function on | |
29. prep. (mathematics) HavingV^n as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n. | |
an operator on | |
30. prep. (mathematics) Generated by. | |
the free group on four letters | |
31. prep. Supported by (the specified part of itself). | |
A table can't stand on two legs. After resting on his elbows, he stood on his toes, then walked on his heels. | |
32. prep. At a given time after the start of something; at. | |
33. prep. In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series. | |
heaps on heaps of food | |
mischief on mischief; loss on loss | |
34. prep. (obsolete, regional) of | |
35. prep. Indicating dependence or reliance; with confidence in. | |
I depended on them for assistance. | |
He will promise on certain conditions. | |
Do you ever bet on horses? | |
36. prep. Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion. | |
Have pity or compassion on him. | |
37. prep. (obsolete) At the peril of, or for the safety of. | |
38. prep. In the service of; connected with; of the number of. | |
He is on a newspaper; I am on the committee. | |
39. prep. By virtue of; with the pledge of. | |
He affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honour. | |
40. prep. To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon. | |
On us be all the blame. | |
A curse on him! | |
Please don't tell on her and get her in trouble. | |
He turned on her and has been her enemy ever since. | |
He went all honest on me, making me listen to his confession. | |
41. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) to switch on | |
Can you on the light? | |
42. prep. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Without. | |
43. n. In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun. | |
Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun". | |
our |
1. det. Belonging to us. | |
2. det. Of, from, or belonging to the nation, region, or language of the speaker. | |
3. det. (Northern England, Scotland) Used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend. | |
I'm going to see our Terry for tea. | |
4. v. misspelling of are | |
way |
1. n. To do with a place or places.: | |
2. n. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another. | |
Do you know the way to the airport? Come this way and I'll show you a shortcut. It's a long way from here. | |
3. n. A means to enter or leave a place. | |
We got into the cinema through the back way. | |
4. n. A roughly-defined geographical area. | |
If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me. | |
5. n. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism. | |
You're going about it the wrong way. He's known for his quirky ways. I don't like the way she looks at me. | |
6. n. A state or condition | |
When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way. | |
7. n. Personal interaction.: | |
8. n. Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way'). | |
There's no way I'm going to clean up after you. | |
9. n. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct. | |
My little sister always whines until she gets her way. | |
10. n. (paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc. | |
11. n. (nautical) Speed, progress, momentum. | |
12. n. A degree, an amount, a sense. | |
In a large way, crocodiles and alligators are similar. | |
13. n. (US, As the head of an interjectory clause) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation. | |
Way to ruin the moment, guys. | |
14. n. (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched. | |
15. n. (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves. | |
16. interj. (only in reply to no way) It is true. | |
17. v. (obsolete) To travel. | |
18. adv. (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much. | |
I'm way too tired to do that. | |
I'm a way better singer than Emma. | |
19. adv. (slang) Very. | |
I'm way tired | |
String theory is way cool, except for the math. | |
20. adv. (informal) Far. | |
I used to live way over there. | |
The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill. | |
21. n. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand. | |
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 | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
top |
1. n. The highest or uppermost part of something. | |
His kite got caught at the top of the tree. | |
2. n. (irrespective of present orientation) the part of something that is usually the top. | |
We flipped the machine onto its top. | |
3. n. The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc. | |
Further weather information can be found at the top of your television screen. Headings appear at the tops of pages. | |
4. n. A lid, cap or cover of a container. | |
Put a top on the toothpaste tube or it will go bad. | |
5. n. A garment worn to cover the torso. | |
I bought this top as it matches my jeans. | |
6. n. (nautical) A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached. | |
7. n. (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats. | |
8. n. (archaic) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head. | |
9. n. A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top. | |
The boy was amazed at how long the top would spin. | |
10. n. Someone who is eminent.: | |
11. n. (archaic) The chief person; the most prominent one. | |
12. n. The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place. | |
to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school | |
13. n. (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay. | |
14. n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse. | |
I prefer being a top, and my boyfriend prefers being a bottom. | |
15. n. (physics) A top quark. | |
16. n. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit. | |
17. n. (ropemaking) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting. | |
18. n. (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume. | |
She sang at the top of her voice. | |
19. n. (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out. | |
20. n. (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point. | |
21. n. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface. | |
22. n. (in the slang) Topboots. | |
23. n. (golf) A stroke on the top of the ball. | |
24. n. (golf) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top. | |
25. n. (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant. | |
26. v. To cover on the top or with a top. | |
I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce. | |
27. v. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree) | |
I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair. | |
Top and tail the carrots. | |
28. v. To excel, to surpass, to beat. | |
Titanic was the most successful film ever until it was topped by another Cameron film, Avatar. | |
29. v. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of). | |
Celine Dion topped the UK music charts twice in the 1990s. | |
30. v. (UK, slang) To commit suicide, (rare) to murder. | |
Depression causes many people to top themselves. | |
31. v. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay. | |
I used to be a slave, but I ended up topping. | |
Giving advice to the dominant partner on how to run the BDSM session is called "topping from the bottom". | |
32. v. (slang) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex. | |
33. v. (slang) To anally penetrate. | |
34. v. (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower. | |
lofty ridges and topping mountains | |
35. v. (archaic) To predominate. | |
topping passions | |
36. v. (archaic) To excel; to rise above others. | |
37. v. (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other. | |
38. v. (dyeing) To cover with another dye. | |
to top aniline black with methyl violet to prevent greening | |
39. v. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade). | |
40. v. (slang) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top. | |
41. v. (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus. | |
42. v. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds. | |
43. v. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal. | |
44. v. (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way. | |
45. adj. Situated on the top of something. | |
46. adj. (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank. | |
She's in the top dance school. | |
47. adj. (informal) Very good, of high quality. | |
He's a top lawyer. | |
That is a top car. | |
48. adv. Rated first. | |
She came top in her French exam. | |
floor |
1. n. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room. | |
The room has a wooden floor. | |
2. n. Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground). | |
3. n. The lower inside surface of a hollow space. | |
Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor. | |
The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home. | |
The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been. | |
4. n. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories. | |
5. n. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge. | |
Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten. | |
6. n. A storey/story of a building. | |
For years we lived on the third floor. | |
7. n. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery. | |
8. n. Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event. | |
Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor? | |
The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor. | |
9. n. (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. | |
10. n. (mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. | |
11. n. (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body. | |
12. n. (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number. | |
The floor of 4.5 is 4. | |
13. n. (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface. | |
14. n. (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements. | |
15. n. (finance) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap. | |
16. n. A dance floor. | |
17. n. The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition | |
18. v. To cover or furnish with a floor. | |
floor a house with pine boards | |
19. v. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down. | |
20. v. (driving, slang) To accelerate rapidly. | |
21. v. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort. | |
floor an opponent | |
22. v. To amaze or greatly surprise. | |
We were floored by his confession. | |
23. v. (colloquial) To finish or make an end of. | |
floor a college examination | |
24. v. (mathematics) To set a lower bound. | |
we |
1. pron. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.) | |
2. pron. (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.) | |
3. pron. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sen | |
4. pron. (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed. | |
How are we all tonight? | |
5. pron. (personal, generally considered patronising) A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care. | |
How are we feeling this morning? | |
6. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person. | |
We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different. | |
stopped |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of stop | |
2. adj. (of a vehicle) Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed; said also of the occupants of such a vehicle. | |
We were stopped for more than three hours! | |
They passed a stopped car on the side of the road, but realized there was nothing they could do to help. | |
3. adj. (more generally) In the state resulting from having stopped. | |
A stopped clock is right twice a day. | |
4. adj. (of a pipe) Having a stop; being closed at one end. | |
5. adj. (of a plant) In a well-pruned state. | |
6. adj. (phonetics) Made by complete closure of the organs in the mouth; said of certain consonants such as b, d, p, and t. | |
stop |
1. v. (intransitive) To cease moving. | |
I stopped at the traffic lights. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To not continue. | |
The riots stopped when police moved in. | |
Soon the rain will stop. | |
3. v. To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing. | |
The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks. | |
This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him. | |
4. v. To cause (something) to come to an end. | |
The referees stopped the fight. | |
5. v. To close or block an opening. | |
He stopped the wound with gauze. | |
6. v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens. | |
To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily. | |
to stop with a friend | |
He stopped for two weeks at the inn. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To tarry. | |
He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive. | |
9. v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part. | |
10. v. (obsolete) To punctuate. | |
11. v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper. | |
12. n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station. | |
They agreed to see each other at the bus stop. | |
13. n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel. | |
That stop was not planned. | |
14. n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object | |
door stop - | |
15. n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis; a plosive. | |
16. n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon. | |
17. n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment. | |
Pull out all the stops. | |
18. n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ. | |
The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled. | |
19. n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible. | |
20. n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones. | |
The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked. | |
21. n. (photography) An f-stop. | |
22. n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought. | |
23. n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. | |
24. n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. | |
25. adv. Prone to halting or hesitation. | |
He’s stop still. | |
26. adv. ====Punctuation==== | |
27. adv. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram. | |
28. n. (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail. | |
29. adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark. | |
at |
1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place. | |
Caesar was at Rome; at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine; at Jim’s house | |
2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.) | |
at six o’clock; at closing time; at night. | |
3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner). | |
He threw the ball at me. He shouted at her. | |
4. prep. Denotes a price. | |
3 apples at 2¢ (each) The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations. | |
5. prep. Occupied in (activity). | |
men at work | |
6. prep. In a state of. | |
She is at sixes and sevens with him. They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff. The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces. | |
7. prep. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series. | |
Sell at 90. Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders. I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost. | |
8. prep. Because of. | |
to laugh at a joke mad at their comments | |
9. prep. Indicates a means, method, or manner. | |
10. prep. Holding a given speed or rate. | |
It is growing at the rate of 3% a year. Cruising along at fifty miles per hour. | |
11. prep. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding. | |
The twins were both bad at chemistry. | |
He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation. | |
12. prep. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to | |
13. n. The at sign (@). | |
14. n. (alt form, att) (Laos currency unit) | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
mezzanine |
1. n. A balcony in an auditorium. | |
2. n. A secondary floor, in between the main floors of a building; entresol. | |
On our way to the top floor, we stopped at the mezzanine. | |
3. n. A small window used to light such a secondary floor. | |
4. n. Additional flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level. | |
5. n. (theatre) A floor under the stage, from which contrivances such as traps are worked. | |
6. adj. (engineering) Fulfilling an intermediate or secondary function. | |
To make interconnections easier, we added a mezzanine PCB. | |