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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.
bold
1. n. (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
2. adj. Courageous, daring.
Bold deeds win admiration and, sometimes, medals.
3. adj. (typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
The last word of this sentence is bold.
4. adj. Presumptuous.
5. adj. (Ireland) naughty, insolent, badly-behaved
All of her children are terribly bold and never do as they are told.
6. adj. Full-bodied.
7. adj. (Philippines) naked, pornographic
8. v. To make (a font or some text) bold.
9. v. (transitive, obsolete) To make bold or daring.
10. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become bold.
tag
1. n. A small label.
2. n. A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the others, who then becomes "it".
3. n. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
4. n. A type of cardboard.
5. n. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
6. n. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
7. n. (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
8. n. (music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
9. n. (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
10. n. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
The tag was applied at second for the final out.
11. n. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
The tag provides a title for the Web page.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The<sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 12.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 13.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 14.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 15.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 16.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> Something mean and paltry; the rabble.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 17.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> A sheep in its first year.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 18.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 19.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (slang) A person's name.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> What's your tag?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 20.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To label (something).</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 21.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 22.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To remove dung tags from a sheep.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 23.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He really tagged that ball.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 24.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He tagged the runner for the out.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 25.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 26.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To follow closely, accompany, tag along.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 27.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 28.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 29.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To fasten; to attach.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 30.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' style='color:#dd5555;font-weight:bold;' colspan='2'>has</td> </tr> <tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 1.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> third-person singular present indicative of have</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' style='color:#dd5555;' colspan='2'> have</td> </tr> <tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 1.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To possess, own, hold.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I have a house and a car.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 2.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I have two sisters.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I have a lot of work to do.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 3.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I have breakfast at six o'clock.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Can I have a look at that?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 4.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To be scheduled to attend or participate in.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> What class do you have right now? I have English.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 5.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I have already eaten today.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I had already eaten.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 6.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I have to go.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 7.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To give birth to.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The couple always wanted to have children.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> My wife is having the baby right now!</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> My mother had me when she was 25.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 8.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To engage in sexual intercourse with.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He's always bragging about how many women he's had.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 9.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To accept as a romantic partner.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 10.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 11.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He had him arrested for trespassing.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 12.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 13.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 14.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 15.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I could have him!</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I'm gonna have you!</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 16.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (dated) To be able to speak a language.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I have no German.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 17.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 18.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To be afflicted with, suffer from.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He had a cold last week.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 19.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To experience, go through, undergo.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He had surgery on his hip yesterday.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I'm having the time of my life!</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 20.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To trick, to deceive.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 21.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 22.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 23.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To host someone; to take in as a guest.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Thank you for having me!</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 24.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> What do you have for problem two?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I have two contacts on my scope.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 25.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 26.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> A wealthy or privileged person.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 27.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 28.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' style='color:#dd5555;font-weight:bold;' colspan='2'>been</td> </tr> <tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 1.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> past participle of be</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 2.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (obsolete) plural present of be</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 3.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (Southern US) of be</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 4.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (UK dialectal) plural of bee</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' style='color:#dd5555;' colspan='2'> be</td> </tr> <tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 1.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 2.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (with <i>there</i>, or dialectally <i>it</i>, as dummy subject) To exist.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 3.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (intransitive) To occupy a place.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The cup is on the table.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 4.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (intransitive) To occur, to take place.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> When will the meeting be?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 5.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I have been to Spain many times.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 6.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Knowledge is bliss.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Hi, I’m Jim.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 7.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> 3 times 5 is fifteen.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 8.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 9.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The sky is blue.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 10.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The sky is a deep blue today.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 11.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The dog was drowned by the boy.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 12.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The woman is walking.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I shall be writing to you soon.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> We liked to chat while we were eating.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 13.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 14.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I am to leave tomorrow.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 15.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> This building is three hundred years old.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I am 75 kilograms.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He’s about 6 feet tall.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 16.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 17.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (with a dummy subject) <i>it</i> Used to indicate the time of day.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> What time is it there? It’s night.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 18.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (With <i>since</i>) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 19.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (often, impersonal, with <i>it</i> as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Why is it so dark in here?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 20.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (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.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> "What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Why is he being nice to me?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' style='color:#dd5555;font-weight:bold;' colspan='2'>deprecated</td> </tr> <tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 1.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> simple past tense and past participle of deprecate</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 2.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> Strongly disapproved of.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 3.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> Belittled; insulted</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 4.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> (computing) Obsolescent; said of a construct in a computing language considered old, and planned to be phased out, but still available for use.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> "Foo has been deprecated; it outputs a debug message and then calls Foo2".</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Note that deprecated functions are not removed.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' style='color:#dd5555;' colspan='2'> deprecate</td> </tr> <tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 1.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To belittle or express disapproval of.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He deprecates any praise of his own merits.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> They deprecated the attempt to deny aid to homeless people.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> She deprecated any action which might disturb the peace.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 2.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (chiefly computing) To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The bold tag has been deprecated in favour of the strong tag.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> It is still supported but strongly deprecated.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 3.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (archaic) To pray against.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' style='color:#dd5555;font-weight:bold;' colspan='2'>in</td> </tr> <tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 1.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 2.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Contained by.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The dog is in the kennel.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 3.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Within.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 4.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Surrounded by.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 5.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Part of; a member of.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 6.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Pertaining to; with regard to.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> What grade did he get in English?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 7.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> At the end of a period of time.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> They said they would call us in a week.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 8.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Within a certain elapsed time</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 9.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> During (said of periods of time).</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 10.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 11.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Into.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Less water gets in your boots this way.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 12.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 13.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Indicating an order or arrangement.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> My fat rolls around in folds.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 14.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Denoting a state of the subject.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 15.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 16.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Wearing (an item of clothing).</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 17.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 18.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 19.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> When you write in cursive, it's illegible.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 20.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 21.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 22.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adv.</i></font> (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Is Mr. Smith in?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 23.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adv.</i></font> Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Suddenly a strange man walked in.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 24.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adv.</i></font> (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 25.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adv.</i></font> (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> What's that in?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 26.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adv.</i></font> After the beginning of something.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 27.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> A position of power or a way to get it.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> His parents got him an in with the company</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 28.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 29.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 30.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> In fashion; popular.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Skirts are in this year.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 31.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> Incoming.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> the in train</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 32.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 33.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 34.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> (cricket) Currently batting.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 35.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> Inch.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' style='color:#dd5555;font-weight:bold;' colspan='2'>favour</td> </tr> <tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I need a favour. Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Can you do me a favour and drop these letters in the post box?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' style='color:#dd5555;font-weight:bold;' colspan='2'>of</td> </tr> <tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 1.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Expressing distance or motion.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 2.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 3.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 4.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 5.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 6.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Expressing separation.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 7.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 8.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He seemed devoid of human feelings.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 9.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 10.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Expressing origin.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 11.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 12.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The invention was born of necessity.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 13.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> It is said that she died of a broken heart.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 14.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I am tired of all this nonsense.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 15.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Expressing agency.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 16.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with <i>by</i>).)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 17.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 18.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> It was very brave of you to speak out like that.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 19.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Expressing composition, substance.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 20.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 21.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> She wore a dress of silk.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 22.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> What a lot of nonsense!</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 23.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 24.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I'm not driving this wreck of a car.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 25.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Introducing subject matter.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 26.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I'm always thinking of you.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 27.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He told us the story of his journey to India.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 28.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> This behaviour is typical of teenagers.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 29.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Having partitive effect.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 30.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Most of these apples are rotten.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 31.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 32.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 33.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He is a friend of mine.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 34.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Expressing possession.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 35.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 36.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The owner of the nightclub was arrested.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 37.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 38.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Forming the "objective genitive".</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 39.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> She had a profound distrust of the police.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 40.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Expressing qualities or characteristics.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 41.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 42.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 43.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 44.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> It's not that big of a deal.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 45.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> Expressing a point in time.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 46.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 47.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 48.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>prep.</i></font> (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' style='color:#dd5555;font-weight:bold;' colspan='2'>the</td> </tr> <tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 1.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>art.</i></font> 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</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 2.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>art.</i></font> Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The street that runs through my hometown.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 3.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>art.</i></font> Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> God save the Queen!</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 4.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>art.</i></font> Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> That was the best apple pie ever.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 5.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>art.</i></font> Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> That apple pie was the best.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 6.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>art.</i></font> Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 7.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>art.</i></font> Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 8.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>art.</i></font> Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> No one in the whole country had seen it before.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 9.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>art.</i></font> Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 10.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>art.</i></font> When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 11.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adv.</i></font> 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The hotter the better.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 12.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adv.</i></font> 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' style='color:#dd5555;font-weight:bold;' colspan='2'>strong</td> </tr> <tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 1.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> Capable of producing great physical force.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> a big strong man; Jake was tall and strong</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 2.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> Capable of withstanding great physical force.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> a strong foundation; good strong shoes</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 3.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> (of water, wind, etc.) Having a lot of power.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The man was nearly drowned after a strong undercurrent swept him out to sea.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 4.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> Determined; unyielding.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He is strong in the face of adversity.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 5.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> Highly stimulating to the senses.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> a strong light; a strong taste</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 6.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> a strong smell</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 7.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> a strong cup of coffee; a strong medicine</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 8.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> (specifically) Having a high alcoholic content.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> a strong drink</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> She gets up, and pours herself a strong one. - Eagles, Lying Eyes</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 9.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> (grammar) Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> a strong verb</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 10.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> (chemistry) That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> a strong acid; a strong base</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 11.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> (military) Not easily subdued or taken.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> a strong position</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 12.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> (slang) Impressive, good.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> You're working with troubled youth in your off time? That’s strong!</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 13.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> Having a specified number of people or units.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The enemy's army force was five thousand strong.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 14.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> (of a disease or symptom) severe (very bad or intense)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 15.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> (mathematics, logic) Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted with a weak statement which it implies.)</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 16.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adj.</i></font> (of an argument) Convincing.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 17.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>adv.</i></font> In a strong manner.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' style='color:#dd5555;font-weight:bold;' colspan='2'>tag</td> </tr> <tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 1.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> A small label.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 2.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the others, who then becomes "it".</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 3.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 4.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> A type of cardboard.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 5.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 6.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 7.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 8.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 9.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 10.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The tag was applied at second for the final out.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 11.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The<title> tag provides a title for the Web page.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> The<sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 12.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 13.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 14.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 15.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 16.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> Something mean and paltry; the rabble.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 17.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> A sheep in its first year.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 18.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 19.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> (slang) A person's name.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> What's your tag?</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 20.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To label (something).</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 21.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 22.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To remove dung tags from a sheep.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 23.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He really tagged that ball.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 24.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> He tagged the runner for the out.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 25.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> </font> <i> I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 26.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To follow closely, accompany, tag along.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 27.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 28.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 29.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>v.</i></font> To fasten; to attach.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' class='trans' colspan='2'><font color='#555555'> 30.</font> <font color='#777777' size='1'><i>n.</i></font> A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.</td><td valign='center' align='center'></td></tr></table> </div> Dictionary entries from <a target='_blank' href='https://www.wiktionary.org/'>Wiktionary</a> <scan id='debug'></scan> <br> </article> </div> <br><center><div class="mobile_sticky_ad"> <!-- 71161633/LXRX_lexisrex/mob_sticky --> <div data-fuse="21821405171"></div> </div> <style> .mobile_sticky_ad { visibility: hidden; } @media screen and (max-width: 1022px) { .mobile_sticky_ad { height: fit-content; width: 100%; background-color: transparent; position: fixed; bottom: 0; margin: 0 auto; visibility: visible; } } </style> </div> <div id='layout_right' class="desktop_right" style="padding:0px;padding-right:0px;display:inline-block;float:left;height:3000px;" valign="top"><!-- 71161633/LXRX_lexisrex/search_vrec_1 --><div data-fuse="21678768157"></div> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><!-- 71161633/LXRX_lexisrex/search_vrec_1 --><div data-fuse="21678768157"></div> </div> <div id='bottom_sticky' class="fuse_sticky"><!-- 71161633/desktop_sticky/desktop_sticky --><div data-fuse="22278654830"></div></div> <script> if (window.screen.width<=1440 && document.getElementById('bottom_sticky')!=null) { document.getElementById('bottom_sticky').style.display='none'; 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