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. | |
rummaged |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of rummage | |
rummage |
1. v. (transitive, nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods. | |
2. v. (transitive, nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods. | |
After the long voyage, the customs officers rummaged the ship. | |
3. v. To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged. | |
She rummaged her purse in search of the keys. | |
The burglars rummaged the entire house for cash and jewellery. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside. | |
She rummaged in the drawers trying to find the missing sock. | |
5. n. (obsolete) Commotion; disturbance. | |
6. n. A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder. | |
7. n. An unorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble. | |
8. n. (nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; formerly written romage. | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
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. | |
drawers |
1. n. plural of drawer | |
2. n. (pluralonly) Long underpants. | |
3. n. (slang) Any clothing covering the legs, such as shorts, trousers, underpants or breeches. | |
drawer |
1. n. An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles. | |
2. n. Agent noun of draw; one who draws. | |
3. n. An artist who primarily makes drawings. | |
4. n. (banking) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note. | |
5. n. A barman; a person who draws the beer from the taps. | |
6. n. Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy. | |
7. n. (mining, historical) A wagoner or person who pushes underground tubs. | |
trying |
1. adj. Difficult to endure; arduous. | |
2. adj. Irritating, stressful or bothersome. | |
3. v. present participle of try | |
4. n. (philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt. | |
try |
1. v. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive. | |
I tried to rollerblade, but I couldn’t. | |
I'll come to dinner soon. I'm trying to beat this level first. | |
2. v. (obsolete) To divide; to separate. | |
3. v. To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine. | |
4. v. (one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out. | |
to try out the wild corn from the good | |
5. v. (nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil | |
6. v. To extract wax from a honeycomb | |
7. v. To test, to work out. | |
8. v. To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle. | |
I tried mixing more white paint to get a lighter shade. | |
9. v. To put to test. | |
I shall try my skills on this. | |
10. v. (specifically) To test someone's patience. | |
You are trying my patience. | |
Don't fucking try me. | |
11. v. To taste, sample, etc. | |
Try this—you’ll love it. | |
12. v. To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test. | |
to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a person's opinions | |
13. v. (legal) To put on trial. | |
He was tried and executed. | |
14. v. To experiment, to strive. | |
15. v. To have or gain knowledge of by experience. | |
16. v. To work on something. | |
You are trying too hard. | |
17. v. (obsolete) To do; to fare. | |
How do you try! (i.e., how do you do?) | |
18. v. To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms. | |
to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions | |
19. v. (euphemism, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child. | |
20. v. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind. | |
21. v. To strain; to subject to excessive tests. | |
The light tries his eyes. | |
Repeated failures try one's patience. | |
22. v. (slang) To want | |
I am really not trying to hear you talk about my mama like that. | |
23. n. An attempt. | |
I gave unicycling a try but I couldn’t do it. | |
24. n. An act of tasting or sampling. | |
I gave sushi a try but I didn’t like it. | |
25. n. (rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football. | |
Today I scored my first try. | |
26. n. (dialect) A screen, or sieve, for grain. | |
27. n. (American football) a field goal or extra point | |
28. adj. (obsolete) Fine, excellent. | |
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 | |
find |
1. v. To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. | |
2. v. To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate. | |
I found my car keys. They were under the couch. | |
3. v. To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end. | |
Water is found to be a compound substance. | |
4. v. To gain, as the object of desire or effort. | |
to find leisure; to find means | |
5. v. To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. | |
Looks like he found a new vehicle for himself! | |
6. v. To point out. | |
He kept finding faults with my work. | |
7. v. To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that. | |
I find your argument unsatisfactory. | |
8. v. To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish. | |
to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person | |
9. v. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish. | |
to find food for workmen | |
10. v. (transitive, archaic) To provide for | |
He finds his nephew in money. | |
11. v. (intransitive, legal) To determine or judge. | |
The jury finds for the defendant. | |
12. v. (intransitive, hunting) To discover game. | |
13. n. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent. | |
14. n. The act of finding. | |
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. | |
missing |
1. v. present participle of miss | |
2. adj. Not able to be located; gone; misplaced | |
my missing socks | |
3. adj. Not present when it (they) should be. | |
missing data point | |
Joe went missing last year. | |
4. adj. (of an internal combustion engine) Running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault. | |
5. n. (statistics) A value that is missing. | |
miss |
1. v. To fail to hit. | |
I missed the target. | |
I tried to kick the ball, but missed. | |
2. v. To fail to achieve or attain. | |
to miss an opportunity | |
3. v. To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret. | |
I miss you! Come home soon! | |
4. v. To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception. | |
miss the joke | |
5. v. To fail to attend. | |
Joe missed the meeting this morning. | |
6. v. To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.). | |
I missed the plane! | |
7. v. (only in present tense) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present. | |
The car is missing essential features. | |
8. v. (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player. | |
Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players! | |
9. v. (sports) To fail to score (a goal). | |
10. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err. | |
11. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting. | |
12. n. A failure to hit. | |
13. n. A failure to obtain or accomplish. | |
14. n. An act of avoidance (used with the verb give). | |
I think I’ll give the meeting a miss. | |
15. n. (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded. | |
16. n. A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. | |
You may sit here, miss. | |
You may sit here, Miss Jones. | |
17. n. An unmarried woman; a girl. | |
18. n. A kept woman; a mistress. | |
19. n. (card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player. | |
sock |
1. n. A knitted or woven covering for the foot. | |
2. n. A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors. | |
3. n. A color pattern (usually white) on a cat's lower leg that is different from the color pattern on the rest of the cat, thus giving it the impression of a wearing a sock. | |
4. n. (WMF jargon) A sock puppet. | |
5. n. (firearms, informal) A gun sock. | |
6. adj. (slang) Extremely successful. | |
7. n. (slang) A violent blow; a punch. | |
8. v. (slang) To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to. | |
9. v. (slang) To throw. | |
10. n. A ploughshare. | |
11. n. (computing, networking) (abbreviation of socket) | |