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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.
burning
1. v. present participle of burn
2. adj. So hot as to seem to burn (something).
the burning sun
3. adj. Feeling very hot.
burning skin
4. adj. Feeling great passion.
her burning heart
5. adj. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
burning zeal
6. adj. Being keenly discussed.
a burning question; a burning issue
7. n. The act by which something burns or is burned.
8. n. A fire.
The burnings continued all day.
burn
1. n. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
2. n. A sensation resembling such an injury.
chili burn from eating hot peppers
3. n. The act of burning something.
They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.
4. n. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
5. n. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
6. n. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!
7. n. (chiefly prison slang) tobacco
8. n. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
They have a good burn.
9. n. A disease in vegetables; brand.
10. v. To cause to be consumed by fire.
He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.
11. v. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
He watched the house burn.
12. v. To overheat so as to make unusable.
He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.
13. v. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
The grill was too hot and the steak burned.
14. v. To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
to burn a hole; to burn letters into a block
15. v. To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.
16. v. (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
17. v. To sunburn.
She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.
18. v. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
to burn the mouth with pepper
19. v. (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
The child's forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame.
20. v. (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration. to burn iron in oxygen
21. v. (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
Copper burns in chlorine.
22. v. (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.
23. v. (transitive, slang) To betray.
The informant burned him.
24. v. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
I just burned you again.
25. v. To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
We have an hour to burn.
The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.
26. v. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!
27. v. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
28. v. (transitive, cards) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
29. v. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
30. v. (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
31. v. (intransitive, slang) To discard.
32. n. (Scotland, northern England) A stream.
part
1. n. A portion; a component.
2. n. A fraction of a whole.
Gaul is divided into three parts.
3. n. A distinct element of something larger.
The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.
4. n. A group inside a larger group.
5. n. Share, especially of a profit.
I want my part of the bounty.
6. n. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
7. n. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
8. n. A section of a document.
Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
9. n. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
10. n. (math, dated) A factor.
3 is a part of 12.
11. n. (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
12. n. Duty; responsibility.
to do one’s part
13. n. Position or role (especially in a play).
We all have a part to play.
14. n. (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging.
15. n. Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
16. n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
17. n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
18. n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
19. v. (intransitive) To leave someone's company; (rare, poetic, literary) to go way; to die; to get rid of something, stop using it.
20. v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
21. v. To divide in two.
to part the curtains
22. v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
A rope parts. His hair parts in the middle.
23. v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
24. v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
25. v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
26. v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
27. v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
to part gold from silver
28. v. (transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit.
29. v. (transitive, internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
30. adj. Fractional; partial.
Fred was part owner of the car.
31. adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.
Part finished
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
candle
1. n. A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
2. n. The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
3. n. (obsolete) A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
4. n. (forestry) A fast-growing, light-colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer conspicuous.
5. v. (embryology, transitive) To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source.
6. v. (pottery) To dry greenware prior to beginning of the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.
7. v. To check an item (such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.
wick
1. n. A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre/fiber, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax
Trim the wick fairly short, so that the flame does not smoke.
2. n. Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action, such as a strip of gauze placed in a wound to serve as a drain.
3. n. (curling) A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.
4. n. (curling) A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.
5. n. (slang) The penis.
6. v. To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.
7. v. (intransitive, of a liquid) To traverse (i.e. be conveyed by capillary action) through a wick or other porous material, as water through a sponge. Usually followed by through.
The moisture slowly wicked through the wood.
8. v. (curling) To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.
9. n. (archaic) A village; hamlet; castle; dwelling; street; creek; bay; harbour; a place of work, jurisdiction, or exercise of authority.
10. n. (UK, dialect, chiefly East Anglia, and Essex) A farm, especially a dairy farm.
11. adj. (UK, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.
as wick as an eel
T' wickest young chap at ivver Ah seen.
He's a strange wick bairn alus runnin' aboot.
I'll skin ye wick! (skin you alive)
I thowt they was dead last back end but they're wick enif noo.
"Are you afraid of going across the churchyard in the dark?" "Lor' bless yer noä miss! It isn't dead uns I'm scar'd on, it's wick uns.".
I'll swop wi' him my poor dead horse for his wick. — Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, page 210
12. n. (UK, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Liveliness; life.
I niver knew such an a thing afore in all my wick. — Ashby, 12 July 1875
13. n. (UK, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
Fed close? Why, it's eaten into t' hard wick. (spoken of a pasture which has been fed very close)
14. n. (UK, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) A maggot.
15. n. (now dialectal) A corner of the mouth or eye.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
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.
Black
1. adj. alternative case form of black (of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin)
2. adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
3. adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
4. adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
5. adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
black drinking fountain; black hospital
6. adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red
I got two red queens, he got one of the black queens.
7. adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
8. adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
He shot her a black look.
9. adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
10. adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
11. adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk or creamer.
Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.
12. adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' ac
The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass.
13. adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white.
Compare two Unicode symbols: , ☞ = "WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX"; , ☛ = BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX
14. adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.
15. adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.
16. adj. (Ireland, now pejorative) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic
Originally "the Black North" meant west Ulster
17. adj. 1812, Edward Wakefield, "There is a district, comprehending Donegal, the interior of the county of Derry, and the western side of Tyrone, which is emphatically called by the people "the Black North,"
18. adj. then Protestant east Ulster.1841 March 20 Catholic Herald (Bengal) Vol. 2 No. 1 p. 27 'Even in the "black North"—in " Protestant Ulster"—Catholicity is progessing at a rate that must strike terror in
19. adj. Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it has one or more features that is black or dark, especially in comparison to another species with the same base name.
black birch, black locust, black rhino
20. n. The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
(colour panel, 000)
21. n. A black dye or pigment.
22. n. A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
23. n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
24. n. (sometimes capitalised) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
25. n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the) The black ball.
26. n. (baseball) The edge of home plate
27. n. (British) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
28. n. (informal) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
29. n. (in chess and similar games) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
At this point black makes a disastrous move.
30. n. Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
31. n. (obsolete) A stain; a spot.
32. v. To make black, to blacken.
33. v. To apply blacking to something.
34. v. (British) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
burnt
1. v. (Commonwealth, UK) simple past tense and past participle of burn
2. adj. Damaged or injured by fire or heat.
3. adj. (of food) Carbonised.
The toast was too burnt to eat.
4. adj. (of a person) Having a sunburn.
5. adj. (of a colour) Being darker than standard, especially browner.
burn
1. n. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
2. n. A sensation resembling such an injury.
chili burn from eating hot peppers
3. n. The act of burning something.
They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.
4. n. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
5. n. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
6. n. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!
7. n. (chiefly prison slang) tobacco
8. n. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
They have a good burn.
9. n. A disease in vegetables; brand.
10. v. To cause to be consumed by fire.
He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.
11. v. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
He watched the house burn.
12. v. To overheat so as to make unusable.
He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.
13. v. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
The grill was too hot and the steak burned.
14. v. To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
to burn a hole; to burn letters into a block
15. v. To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.
16. v. (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
17. v. To sunburn.
She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.
18. v. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
to burn the mouth with pepper
19. v. (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
The child's forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame.
20. v. (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration. to burn iron in oxygen
21. v. (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
Copper burns in chlorine.
22. v. (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.
23. v. (transitive, slang) To betray.
The informant burned him.
24. v. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
I just burned you again.
25. v. To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
We have an hour to burn.
The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.
26. v. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!
27. v. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
28. v. (transitive, cards) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
29. v. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
30. v. (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
31. v. (intransitive, slang) To discard.
32. n. (Scotland, northern England) A stream.
remains
1. n. What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.
The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
2. n. Historical or archaeological relics.
3. n. The extant writings of a deceased person.
To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
4. n. All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.
5. n. (rare) plural of remain
6. v. third-person singular present indicative of remain
We'll go ahead, while she remains here.
remain
1. n. State of remaining; stay.
2. n. That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
3. n. (plural only) remains: That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
4. n. The posthumous works or productions, especially literary works of one who is dead.
5. v. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or compri
6. v. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
There was no food in the house, so I had to remain hungry.
7. v. To await; to be left to.
8. v. (copulative) To continue in a state of being.
The light remained red for two full minutes.
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
wick
1. n. A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre/fiber, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax
Trim the wick fairly short, so that the flame does not smoke.
2. n. Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action, such as a strip of gauze placed in a wound to serve as a drain.
3. n. (curling) A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.
4. n. (curling) A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.
5. n. (slang) The penis.
6. v. To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.
7. v. (intransitive, of a liquid) To traverse (i.e. be conveyed by capillary action) through a wick or other porous material, as water through a sponge. Usually followed by through.
The moisture slowly wicked through the wood.
8. v. (curling) To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.
9. n. (archaic) A village; hamlet; castle; dwelling; street; creek; bay; harbour; a place of work, jurisdiction, or exercise of authority.
10. n. (UK, dialect, chiefly East Anglia, and Essex) A farm, especially a dairy farm.
11. adj. (UK, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.
as wick as an eel
T' wickest young chap at ivver Ah seen.
He's a strange wick bairn alus runnin' aboot.
I'll skin ye wick! (skin you alive)
I thowt they was dead last back end but they're wick enif noo.
"Are you afraid of going across the churchyard in the dark?" "Lor' bless yer noä miss! It isn't dead uns I'm scar'd on, it's wick uns.".
I'll swop wi' him my poor dead horse for his wick. — Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, page 210
12. n. (UK, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Liveliness; life.
I niver knew such an a thing afore in all my wick. — Ashby, 12 July 1875
13. n. (UK, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
Fed close? Why, it's eaten into t' hard wick. (spoken of a pasture which has been fed very close)
14. n. (UK, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) A maggot.
15. n. (now dialectal) A corner of the mouth or eye.
which
1. det. (interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied.
Which song made the charts?
2. det. (relative) The one or ones that.
Show me which one is bigger.
They couldn't decide which song to play.
3. det. (relative) The one or ones mentioned.
He once owned a painting of the house, which painting would later be stolen.
For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived.
I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one.
4. pron. (interrogative) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied).
Which is bigger?; Which is which?
5. pron. (relative) Who; whom; what (of those mentioned or implied).
He walked by a door with a sign, which read: PRIVATE OFFICE.
We've met some problems which are very difficult to handle.
He had to leave, which was very difficult.
No art can be properly understood apart from the culture of which it is a part.
6. pron. (relative, archaic) Used of people (now generally who, whom or that).
7. n. An occurrence of the word which.
must
1. v. (modal auxiliary, defective) To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
If it has rained all day, it must be very wet outside.
You picked one of two, and it wasn't the first: it must have been the second.
2. v. (modal auxiliary, defective) To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in
You must arrive in class on time. — the requirement is an imperative
This door handle must be rotated fully. — the requirement is a directive
Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. (Bible, Acts 9:6)
3. v. (modal auxiliary, defective) said about something that is very likely, probable, or certain to be true
The children must be asleep by now.
4. n. Something that is mandatory or required.
If you'll be out all day, a map is a must.
5. n. The property of being stale or musty.
6. n. Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
7. n. Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually grapes.
8. v. To make musty.
9. v. (intransitive) To become musty.
10. n. A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness (also spelled musth).
11. n. An elephant in this sexual and aggressive state.
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
periodically
1. adv. In a regular periodic manner
2. adv. intermittently or recurrently
removed
1. adj. Separated in time, space, or degree.
Now that we are here one week removed...
2. adj. Of a different generation, older or younger
Steve is my second cousin once removed.
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of remove

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