| promoting |
| 1. v. present participle of promote | |
| promote |
| 1. v. To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank. | |
| He promoted his clerk to office manager. | |
| 2. v. To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity. | |
| They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time. | |
| They promoted the new film with giant billboards. | |
| 3. v. To encourage, urge or incite. | |
| 4. v. (sports) To elevate to the above league. | |
| At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League. | |
| 5. v. (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure. | |
| 6. v. (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank. | |
| Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education. | |
| At the end of Primary 6 students can promote directly to the secondary section of SIS. | |
| sexual |
| 1. adj. Of or relating to having sex, sexual acts and sexual reproduction. | |
| Giving oral sex is my favorite sexual act. | |
| 2. adj. Of or relating to gender. | |
| Women face sexual discrimination in the workplace. | |
| 3. adj. Of or relating to sexuality; not asexual. | |
| She's a very sexual woman | |
| a sexual innuendo. | |
| 4. adj. Of or relating to sexual orientations, identity or preferences with respect to sexual intercourse | |
| sexual preferences | |
| 5. n. (biology) A species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species. | |
| 6. n. (LGBT) A person who experiences sexual attraction, a person who has interest in or desire for sex (especially as contrasted with an asexual). | |
| desire |
| 1. v. To want; to wish for earnestly. | |
| I desire to speak with you. | |
| 2. v. To put a request to (someone); to entreat. | |
| 3. v. To want emotionally or sexually. | |
| She has desired him since they first met. | |
| 4. v. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request. | |
| 5. v. To require; to demand; to claim. | |
| 6. v. To miss; to regret. | |
| 7. n. Someone or something wished for. | |
| It is my desire to speak with you. | |
| You’re my heart’s desire. | |
| 8. n. Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual. | |
| His desire for her kept him awake at night. | |
| 9. n. Motivation. | |
| 10. n. The feeling of desire. | |
| Too much desire can seriously affect one’s judgment. | |
| 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. | |
| lust |
| 1. n. A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal. | |
| Seeing Kim fills me with a passionate lust. | |
| 2. n. (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual. | |
| The boarders hide their lust to go home. | |
| 3. n. (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure. | |
| An ideal son is his father's lasting lust. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power | |
| 5. v. (intransitive, usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature. | |
| He was lusting after the woman in the tight leather miniskirt. | |
