| someone |
| 1. pron. Some person. | |
| Can someone help me, please? | |
| 2. n. A partially specified but unnamed person. | |
| Do you need a gift for that special someone? | |
| 3. n. an important person | |
| He thinks he has become someone. | |
| Who |
| 1. pron. honoraltcaps, who | |
| 2. pron. (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; (asks for the identity of someone). (used in a direct or indirect question) | |
| Who is that? (direct question) | |
| I don't know who it is. (indirect question) | |
| 3. pron. (interrogative) What is one's position; (asks whether someone deserves to say or do something). | |
| I don't like what you did, but who am I to criticize you? I've done worse. | |
| 4. pron. (relative) The person or people that. | |
| It was a nice man who helped us. | |
| 5. pron. (relative, archaic) Whoever, he who, they who. | |
| 6. n. A person under discussion; a question of which person. | |
| Is |
| 1. n. plural of I | |
| 2. 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. | |
| 3. n. plural of i | |
| remember to dot your is | |
| 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? | |
| crazy |
| 1. adj. Insane; lunatic; demented. | |
| His ideas were both frightening and crazy. | |
| 2. adj. Out of control. | |
| When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy. | |
| 3. adj. Overly excited or enthusiastic. | |
| He went crazy when he won. | |
| 4. adj. In love; experiencing romantic feelings. | |
| Why is she so crazy about him? | |
| 5. adj. (informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising. | |
| The game had a crazy ending. | |
| 6. adj. Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. | |
| 7. adv. (slang) Very, extremely. | |
| That trick was crazy good. | |
| 8. n. An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot. | |
| 9. n. (slang) Eccentric behaviour; lunacy. | |
