| she's |
| 1. contraction. she is | |
| 2. contraction. she has | |
| she |
| 1. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied. | |
| I asked Mary, but she said that she didn’t know. | |
| 2. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat. | |
| She could do forty knots in good weather. | |
| She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she? | |
| 3. pron. (personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car. | |
| She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable. | |
| 4. pron. (personal, dated) A country. | |
| She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people. | |
| 5. pron. (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun). | |
| 6. n. A female. | |
| Pat is definitely a she. | |
| is |
| 1. v. third-person singular present indicative of be | |
| He is a doctor. He retired some time ago. | |
| Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him. | |
| 2. n. plural of i | |
| remember to dot your is | |
| 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. | |
| canny |
| 1. adj. Careful, prudent, cautious. | |
| The politician gave a canny response to the reporter's questions. | |
| 2. adj. Knowing, shrewd, astute. | |
| The canny lawyer knew just how to get what he wanted. | |
| 3. adj. Frugal, thrifty. | |
| canny investments | |
| 4. adj. (Scotland, Northumbria) Pleasant, fair, favorable or agreeable to deal with. | |
| She's a canny lass hor like! | |
| 5. adj. (Scotland, Northumbria) Gentle, quiet, steady. | |
| a canny horse; be canny with this letter | |
| 6. adv. (Northumbria) Very, considerably; quite, rather. | |
| That's a canny big horse, man! | |
| a canny long journey; canny near home | |
| 7. adv. (Scotland, Northumbria) Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully. | |
| he sits very canny; drive canny | |
| lass |
| 1. n. (archaic in some dialects, informal) A young woman or girl. | |
| "Come and dance, ye lads and lasses!". | |
| 2. n. (Geordie, Mackem) A sweetheart. | |
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| like |
| 1. v. (transitive, archaic) To please. | |
| 2. v. To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of. | |
| I like hamburgers | |
| I like skiing in winter | |
| I like the Seattle Mariners this season | |
| 3. v. (obsolete) To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something. | |
| 4. v. To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity. | |
| I like to go to the dentist every six months | |
| She likes to keep herself physically fit | |
| we like to keep one around the office just in case | |
| 5. v. (obsolete) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition). | |
| 6. v. (archaic) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly. | |
| He liked to have been too late. | |
| 7. v. To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for. | |
| I really like Sandra but don't know how to tell her. | |
| 8. v. (obsolete) To liken; to compare. | |
| 9. v. (Internet, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote. | |
| I liked my friend's last status on Facebook. | |
| I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition. | |
| 10. n. (usually plural) Something that a person likes (prefers). | |
| Tell me your likes and dislikes. | |
| 11. n. (internet) An individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet. | |
| 12. adj. Similar. | |
| My partner and I have like minds. | |
| 13. adj. (obsolete) Likely; probable. | |
| 14. adv. (informal) For example, such as: to introduce an example or list of examples. | |
| There are lots of birds, like ducks and gulls, in this park. | |
| 15. adv. (archaic, colloquial) Likely. | |
| 16. adv. (obsolete) In a like or similar manner. | |
| 17. n. (sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort. | |
| There were bowls full of sweets, chocolates and the like. | |
| It was something the likes of which I had never seen before. | |
| 18. n. (golf) The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side. | |
| to play the like | |
| 19. conj. (colloquial) As, the way. | |
| 20. conj. As if; as though. | |
| It looks like you've finished the project. | |
| It seemed like you didn't care. | |
| 21. prep. Similar to, reminiscent of. | |
| These hamburgers taste like leather. | |
| 22. part. (colloquial, Scotland, Geordie, Teesside, Scouse) A delayed filler. | |
| He was so angry, like. | |
| 23. part. (colloquial) A mild intensifier. | |
| She was, like, sooooo happy. | |
| 24. part. (colloquial) indicating approximation or uncertainty | |
| There were, like, twenty of them. | |
| And then he, like, got all angry and left the room. | |
| 25. part. (colloquial, slang) When preceded by any form of the verb to be, used to mean “to say” or “to think”; used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase. | |
| I was like, “Why did you do that?” and he's like, “I don't know.” | |
| 26. interj. (Liverpool, Geordie) Used to place emphasis upon a statement. | |
| divint ye knaa, like? | |
