several |
1. det. (obsolete) Separate, distinct; particular. | |
2. det. A number of different; various. (Now merged into later senses, below) | |
3. det. Consisting of a number more than two but not very many; diverse. | |
4. adv. By itself; severally. | |
5. n. (obsolete) An area of land in private ownership (as opposed to common land). | |
6. n. (archaic) A woman's loose outer garment, capable of being worn as a shawl, or in other forms. | |
buildings |
1. n. plural of building | |
building |
1. n. The act or process by which something is built; construction. | |
The building of the bridge will be completed in a couple of weeks. | |
2. n. A closed structure with walls and a roof. | |
My sister lives in that apartment building. | |
3. v. present participle of build | |
including |
1. prep. Such as, among which; introducing one or more parts of the group or topic just mentioned. | |
All you have to do is to fill in the details, including your name and address and the amount you wish to give. | |
2. prep. (rare, nonstandard) Introducing a finite clause. | |
3. v. present participle of include | |
include |
1. v. To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member. | |
I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental. | |
2. v. To contain, as parts of a whole; to comprehend. | |
The vacation package includes car rental. | |
Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets? | |
I was included in the invitation to the family gathering. | |
up to and including page twenty-five | |
3. v. (obsolete) To enclose, confine. | |
4. v. (obsolete) To conclude; to terminate. | |
5. v. (programming) To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file. | |
You have to include the strings library to use this function. | |
6. n. (programming) A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item. | |
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. | |
Power |
1. n. A button of a computer, a video game console, or similar device, that when pressed, causes the device to be either shut down or powered up. | |
2. n. (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control. | |
3. n. Ability to affect or influence. | |
4. n. Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction). | |
5. n. (metonymy) (chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government. | |
6. n. (metonymy) An influential nation, company, or other such body. | |
7. n. (physical) Effectiveness. | |
8. n. Physical force or strength. | |
He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium. | |
9. n. Electricity or a supply of electricity. | |
After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days. | |
10. n. A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy. | |
11. n. A rate to magnify an optical image by a lens or mirror. | |
We need a microscope with higher power. | |
12. n. Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw). | |
the mechanical powers | |
13. n. mathematics | |
14. n. A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion):x^n, read as "x to the power ofn" or the like, is called a power and denotes the produc | |
15. n. (set theory) Cardinality. | |
16. n. (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true. | |
17. n. (biblical, in plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme. | |
18. v. To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device). | |
This CD player is powered by batteries. | |
19. v. To hit or kick something forcefully. | |
20. v. To enable or provide the impetus for. | |
21. adj. (Singapore, colloquial) Impressive. | |
plant |
1. n. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree. | |
The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border. | |
2. n. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloro | |
3. n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall. | |
4. n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi. | |
5. n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility. | |
6. n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person. | |
That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before! | |
7. n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation). | |
8. n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc. | |
9. n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set. | |
10. n. Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction. | |
11. n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. | |
12. n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot. | |
13. n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick. | |
14. n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. | |
15. n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting. | |
16. v. To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow. | |
17. v. To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit. | |
That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer! | |
18. v. To place or set something firmly or with conviction. | |
Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug. | |
to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one's feet on solid ground | |
19. v. To place in the ground. | |
20. v. To furnish or supply with plants. | |
to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest | |
21. v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of. | |
22. v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish. | |
to plant a colony | |
23. v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of. | |
to plant Christianity among the heathen | |
24. v. To set up; to install; to instate. | |
were |
1. v. Second-person singular simple past tense indicative of be. | |
John, you were the only person to see him. | |
2. v. First-person plural simple past tense indicative of be. | |
We were about to leave. | |
3. v. Second-person plural simple past tense indicative of be. | |
Mary and John, you were right. | |
4. v. Third-person plural simple past tense indicative of be. | |
They were a fine group. | |
They were to be the best of friends from that day on. | |
5. v. Simple imperfect subjunctive in all persons of be. | |
I wish that it were Sunday. | |
I wish that I were with you. | |
* with "if" omitted, put first in an "if" clause: | |
*: Were it simply that she wore a hat, I would not be upset at all. (= If it were simply...) | |
*: Were father a king, we would have war. (= If father were a king,...) | |
6. v. (Northern England) was. | |
7. n. (obsolete) A fine for slaying a man; weregild. | |
8. n. (fandom) (The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf.) | |
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? | |
ablaze |
1. adj. Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire. | |
2. adj. Radiant with bright light and color. | |
3. adj. In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. | |
4. adv. On fire; in a blaze, gleaming. | |
5. adv. Lit up brightly and with color. | |
6. adv. In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. | |