republicans |
1. n. plural of republican | |
republican |
1. adj. Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government, advocating or supporting republicanism. | |
2. adj. Of or belonging to a republic. | |
3. n. Someone who favors a republic as a form of government. | |
4. n. A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird. | |
are |
1. v. second-person singular present of be | |
Mary, where are you going? | |
2. v. first-person plural present of be | |
We are not coming. | |
3. v. second-person plural present of be | |
Mary and John, are you listening? | |
4. v. third-person plural present of be | |
They are here somewhere. | |
5. v. (East Yorkshire, Midlands) present of be | |
6. n. (dialectal, or obsolete) grace, mercy | |
To bid God's are. | |
God's are is what children of God seech and seek. | |
7. n. (obsolete) honour, dignity | |
8. n. (rare) an accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a | |
be |
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence. | |
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. | |
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place. | |
The cup is on the table. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place. | |
When will the meeting be? | |
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar. | |
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come. | |
I have been to Spain many times. | |
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating. | |
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same. | |
Knowledge is bliss. | |
Hi, I’m Jim. | |
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same. | |
3 times 5 is fifteen. | |
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal. | |
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995. | |
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it. | |
The sky is blue. | |
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase. | |
The sky is a deep blue today. | |
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice. | |
The dog was drowned by the boy. | |
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses. | |
The woman is walking. | |
I shall be writing to you soon. | |
We liked to chat while we were eating. | |
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go". | |
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic. | |
I am to leave tomorrow. | |
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car. | |
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement. | |
This building is three hundred years old. | |
I am 75 kilograms. | |
He’s about 6 feet tall. | |
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years. | |
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.) | |
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day. | |
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.) | |
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo. | |
What time is it there? It’s night. | |
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event. | |
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period) | |
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him. | |
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like. | |
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid. | |
Why is it so dark in here? | |
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way. | |
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.". | |
Why is he being nice to me? | |
hoping |
1. v. present participle of hope | |
I'm hoping the weather will be sunny tomorrow. | |
2. adj. (rare) Filled with or inspiring hope. | |
A hoping situation is not yet desolate. | |
hope |
1. n. (lb or un) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen. | |
I still have some hope that I can get to work on time. | |
After losing my job, there's no hope of being able to afford my world cruise. | |
There is still hope that we can find our missing cat. | |
2. n. The actual thing wished for. | |
3. n. A person or thing that is a source of hope. | |
We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table. | |
4. n. (Christianity) The virtuous desire for future good. | |
5. v. (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might. | |
I hope everyone enjoyed the meal. | |
I am still hoping that all will turn out well. | |
6. v. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in. | |
8. v. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish. | |
I hope you all the best. | |
9. n. (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb. | |
10. n. A sloping plain between mountain ridges. | |
11. n. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven. | |
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. | |
proposed |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of propose | |
propose |
1. v. To suggest a plan, course of action, etc. | |
I propose going to see a film. | |
to propose an alliance; to propose a question for discussion | |
2. v. (intransitive, sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage. | |
He proposed to her last night and she accepted him. | |
3. v. To intend. | |
He proposes to set up his own business. | |
4. v. (obsolete) To talk; to converse. | |
5. v. (obsolete) To set forth. | |
6. n. (obsolete) An objective or aim. | |
gas |
1. n. (chemistry) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull) | |
A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder. | |
2. n. (chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state. | |
The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases. | |
3. n. A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines i | |
Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones. | |
4. n. A hob on a gas cooker. | |
She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven. | |
5. n. (US) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process. | |
My tummy hurts so bad, I have gas. | |
6. n. (slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person. | |
He is such a gas! | |
7. n. (baseball) A fastball. | |
The closer threw him nothing but gas. | |
8. n. (medicine, colloquial) Arterial or venous blood gas. | |
9. v. To kill with poisonous gas. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To talk, chat. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To emit gas. | |
The battery cell was gassing. | |
12. v. To impregnate with gas. | |
to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder | |
13. v. To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers. | |
to gas thread | |
14. n. (US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel. | |
15. n. (US) Gas pedal. | |
16. v. (US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it. | |
The cops are coming. Gas it! | |
17. v. (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel. | |
18. adj. (Ireland, colloquial) comical, zany; fun, amusing | |
Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man. | |
It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom. | |
19. adj. topics, en, Automotive, Matter | |
tax |
1. n. Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services. | |
2. n. A burdensome demand. | |
a heavy tax on time or health | |
3. n. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. | |
4. n. (obsolete) charge; censure | |
5. n. (obsolete) A lesson to be learned. | |
6. v. To impose and collect a tax from (a person). | |
Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest. | |
7. v. To impose and collect a tax on (something). | |
Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector. | |
8. v. To make excessive demands on. | |
repeal |
1. v. To cancel, invalidate, annul. | |
to repeal a law | |
2. v. To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment. | |
3. v. To suppress; to repel. | |
4. n. An act or instance of repealing. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
anger |
1. n. A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm. | |
You need to control your anger. | |
2. n. (obsolete) Pain or stinging. | |
3. v. To cause such a feeling of antagonism in. | |
He who angers you conquers you. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To become angry. | |
You anger too easily. | |
over |
1. adj. Discontinued; ended or concluded. | |
The show is over. | |
2. adv. Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end. | |
Let's talk over the project at tomorrow's meeting. | |
Let me think that over. | |
I'm going to look over our department's expenses. | |
3. adv. To an excessive degree; overly. | |
4. adv. From an upright position to being horizontal. | |
He tipped the bottle over, and the water came gushing out. | |
That building just fell over! | |
He bent over to touch his toes. | |
5. adv. Horizontally; left to right or right to left. | |
Slide the toilet-paper dispenser's door over when one roll is empty in order to reveal the other. | |
I moved over to make room for him to sit down. | |
6. adv. From one position or state to another. | |
Please pass that over to me. | |
He came over to our way of thinking on the new project. | |
Come over and play! | |
I'll bring over a pizza. | |
7. adv. Overnight (throughout the night). | |
We stayed over at Grandma's. | |
Can I sleep over? | |
8. adv. (US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again. | |
I lost my paper and I had to do the entire assignment over. | |
9. adv. (procedure word, military) a procedure word meaning that a station is finished transmitting and is expecting a response. | |
Bravo Six, this is Bravo Six Four. Stand by for ten mike report one dash three, over. | |
Bravo Six Four, this is Bravo Six Actual. Send your traffic, over. | |
10. n. (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled. | |
11. n. Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc. | |
12. prep. Physical positioning. | |
13. prep. On top of; above; higher than; further up. | |
Hold the sign up over your head. climb up the ladder and look over the roof | |
14. prep. Across or spanning. | |
There is a bridge over the river. | |
15. prep. In such a way as to cover. | |
drape the fabric over the table; there is a roof over the house | |
16. prep. From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards. | |
The dog jumped over the fence. | |
I'll go over the fence first and then help you. | |
Let's walk over the hill to get there. | |
17. prep. By comparison. | |
18. prep. More than; to a greater degree. | |
I prefer the purple over the pink. | |
19. prep. Beyond; past; exceeding; too much or too far. | |
I think I’m over my limit for calories for today. | |
20. prep. (in certain collocations) As compared to. | |
Sales are down this quarter over last. | |
21. prep. Indicating relative status, authority, or power | |
The owner's son lorded over the experienced managers. | |
The prince ruled over a portion of the kingdom. | |
22. prep. (mathematics) Divided by. | |
four over two equals two over one | |
23. prep. (poker) (Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.) | |
9♦9♠9♣6♥6♠ = nines over sixes | |
24. prep. Finished with; done with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two. | |
We got over the engineering problems and the prototype works great. | |
I am over my cold and feel great again. | |
I know the referee made a bad call, but you have to get over it your annoyance with the referee's decision. | |
She is finally over the distress of losing her job. | |
He is finally over his distress over the loss of the relationship with his ex-girlfriend. | |
25. prep. While using, especially while consuming. | |
26. prep. Concerning or regarding. | |
The two boys had a fight over whose girlfriend was the best. | |
27. prep. Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding. | |
We triumphed over difficulties. | |
The bill was passed over the veto. | |
It was a fine victory over their opponents. | |
28. interj. In radio communications: end of sentence, ready to receive reply. | |
How do you receive? Over! | |
29. n. (rare, dialectal, or obsolete) A shore, riverbank. | |
The sea's over. | |
illegal |
1. adj. Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law. | |
This is illegal, you know! | |
Nearly 40 million people live in UK areas with illegal air pollution | |
their illegal mining operations in Asia, Africa and elsewhere, are protected by officials and police paid to look the other way – and powerful customers in the construction industry who prefer | |
2. adj. Forbidden by established rules. | |
Moving a pawn backward is an illegal move in chess. | |
3. adj. (philately, of an issue printed for collectors) Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country. | |
4. adj. (of a person, sometimes offensive) Being or doing something illegally. | |
illegal immigrant; illegal logger; illegal pilot | |
5. adj. (chiefly US, sometimes offensive) Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally. | |
6. n. (obsolete) An illegal act or technique. | |
7. n. (colloquial, as illegals) Contraband, esp. illegal substances such as drugs. | |
8. n. (colloquial, offensive) An illegal immigrant. | |
9. n. (espionage) A spy working abroad illegally and undercover, without visible ties to his or her country’s authorities. | |
immigration |
1. n. The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence. | |
Will |
1. n. (American football) A weak-side linebacker. | |
2. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
Do what you will. | |
3. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
4. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
5. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
6. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
7. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
8. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. | |
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason. | |
9. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
10. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
Most creatures have a will to live. | |
11. n. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes. | |
12. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
13. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
14. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
15. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
16. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
17. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
galvanize |
1. v. (transitive, chiefly North America, chemistry) To coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means; to electroplate. | |
2. v. (transitive, chiefly North America) To coat with rust-resistant zinc. | |
3. v. (transitive, chiefly North America) To shock or stimulate into sudden activity (as if with an electric shock) | |
The girl’s picture, along with an audio file of crying children that was given to reporters, helped galvanize public opinion against the administration’s policy. | |
Republicans are hoping a proposed gas-tax repeal and anger over illegal immigration will galvanize their voters. | |
4. v. (transitive, archaic) To electrify. | |
5. v. (transitive, dated, American Civil War) To switch sides between Union and Confederate. | |
their |
1. det. Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural). | |
they will meet tomorrow at their convenience; this is probably their cat | |
2. det. Belonging to someone (one person, singular). | |
3. adv. misspelling of there | |
4. contraction. misspelling of they’re | |
voters |
1. n. plural of voter | |
voter |
1. n. Someone who votes. | |
In your opinion, should we allow 16 and 17 year olds to become voters? | |