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. | |
angry |
1. adj. Displaying or feeling anger. | |
His face became angry. | |
An angry mob started looting the warehouse. | |
2. adj. (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful. | |
The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm. | |
3. adj. (figuratively, said about the elements, like the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing. | |
Angry clouds raced across the sky. | |
motorist |
1. n. One who drives a motor vehicle. | |
leapt |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of leap | |
leap |
1. v. (intransitive) To jump. | |
2. v. To pass over by a leap or jump. | |
to leap a wall or a ditch | |
3. v. To copulate with (a female beast); to cover. | |
4. v. To cause to leap. | |
to leap a horse across a ditch | |
5. n. The act of leaping or jumping. | |
6. n. The distance traversed by a leap or jump. | |
7. n. A group of leopards. | |
8. n. (figuratively) A significant move forward. | |
9. n. (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts. | |
It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs. | |
10. n. (mining) A fault. | |
11. n. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast. | |
12. n. (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals. | |
13. n. (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile. | |
14. n. (obsolete) A basket. | |
15. n. A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely. | |
16. n. Half a bushel. | |
from |
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at. | |
This wine comes from France. | |
I got a letter from my brother. | |
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. | |
He had books piled from floor to ceiling. | |
He left yesterday from Chicago. | |
Face away from the wall! | |
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation. | |
20 from 31 leaves 11. | |
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of. | |
An umbrella protects from the sun. | |
He knows right from wrong. | |
His |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, his | |
2. det. Belonging to him. | |
3. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender. | |
4. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.) | |
5. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case. | |
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark. | |
Sejanus his Fall | |
6. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun. | |
The decision was his to live with. | |
7. pron. alternative spelling of His | |
8. n. plural of hi | |
car |
1. n. A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation; a motorcar or automobile. | |
She drove her car to the mall. | |
2. n. (dated) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot. | |
3. n. (Birmingham) A four-wheeled cab, as opposed to a (two-wheeled) Hansom cab. | |
4. n. (rail transport, chiefly North America) An unpowered unit in a railroad train. | |
The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive. | |
5. n. (rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit. | |
The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit. | |
6. n. (rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not. | |
From the frontmost car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel. | |
7. n. A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car. | |
We ordered five hundred cars of gypsum. | |
8. n. The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism. | |
Fix the car of the express elevator - the door is sticking. | |
9. n. The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels. | |
The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top. | |
10. n. The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus. | |
11. n. (sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track. | |
12. n. (US, slang) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car. | |
Buy now! You can get more car for your money. | |
13. n. (US) A floating perforated box for living fish. | |
14. n. (obsolete) A turn. | |
15. n. (computing) The first part of a cons in LISP. The first element of a list | |
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 | |
harangue |
1. n. An impassioned, disputatious public speech. | |
2. n. A tirade, harsh scolding or rant, whether spoken or written. | |
She gave her son a harangue about the dangers of playing in the street. | |
The priest took thirty minutes to deliver his harangue on timeliness, making the entire service run late. | |
3. v. To give a forceful and lengthy lecture or criticism to someone. | |
The angry motorist leapt from his car to harangue the other driver. | |
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. | |
other |
1. adj. See other (determiner) below | |
2. adj. second. | |
I get paid every other week. | |
3. adj. Alien. | |
4. adj. Different. | |
5. adj. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right. | |
6. n. An other one, more often rendered as another. | |
I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others. | |
7. n. The other one; the second of two. | |
One boat is not better than the other. | |
8. det. Not the one or ones previously referred to. | |
Other people would do it differently. | |
9. adv. Apart from; in the phrase "other than". | |
Other than that, I'm fine. | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Otherwise. | |
It shall none other be. — Chaucer. | |
If you think other. — Shakespeare. | |
11. v. To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien. | |
12. v. To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise. | |
driver |
1. n. One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive. | |
2. n. Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive. | |
3. n. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus. | |
4. n. A person who drives some other vehicle. | |
5. n. (computing) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls. | |
6. n. (golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance. | |
7. n. (nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars. | |
8. n. A mallet. | |
9. n. A tamping iron. | |
10. n. A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops. | |
11. n. A screwdriver. | |