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. | |
cattle |
1. n. Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc). | |
Do you want to raise cattle? | |
2. n. Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses. | |
3. n. (pejorative, figuratively) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny. | |
4. n. (obsolete, English law, sometimes ) chattel | |
goods and cattle | |
5. n. (rare) Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle. | |
drivers |
1. n. plural of driver | |
driver |
1. n. One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive. | |
2. n. Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive. | |
3. n. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus. | |
4. n. A person who drives some other vehicle. | |
5. n. (computing) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls. | |
6. n. (golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance. | |
7. n. (nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars. | |
8. n. A mallet. | |
9. n. A tamping iron. | |
10. n. A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops. | |
11. n. A screwdriver. | |
corralled |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of corral | |
corral |
1. n. An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one. | |
We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama. | |
2. n. An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group. | |
Please return the shopping carts to the corral. | |
3. n. A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense. | |
The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks. | |
4. v. To capture or round up. | |
The lawyer frantically tried to corral his notes as his briefcase fell open. | |
Between us, we managed to corral the puppy in the kitchen. | |
5. v. To place inside of a corral. | |
After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner. | |
6. v. To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral. | |
The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night. | |
their |
1. det. Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural). | |
they will meet tomorrow at their convenience; this is probably their cat | |
2. det. Belonging to someone (one person, singular). | |
3. adv. misspelling of there | |
4. contraction. misspelling of they’re | |
wagons |
1. n. plural of wagon | |
wagon |
1. n. A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. | |
2. n. A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front. | |
3. n. An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck. | |
4. n. An enclosed vehicle used as a movable dwelling; a caravan. | |
5. n. short for, dinner wagon, , set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving | |
6. n. (slang) (short for, paddy wagon, , police van for transporting prisoners) | |
7. n. (rail transport) A freight car on a railway. | |
Synonyms: goods wagon, q1=Britain | |
8. n. (chiefly Australia, US, slang) (short for, station wagon, , type of car in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk)); | |
9. n. (Ireland, slang) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow. | |
10. v. (transitive, chiefly US) To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon. | |
11. v. (intransitive, chiefly US) To travel in a wagon. | |
for |
1. conj. (dated) Because. | |
2. prep. Towards. | |
The astronauts headed for the moon. | |
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to. | |
I have something for you. | |
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of. | |
We're having a birthday party for Janet. | |
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary. | |
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala. | |
5. prep. Supporting. | |
All those for the motion raise your hands. | |
6. prep. Because of. | |
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him. | |
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight. | |
She was the worse for drink. | |
7. prep. Over a period of time. | |
I've lived here for three years. | |
They fought for days over a silly pencil. | |
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space. | |
9. prep. On behalf of. | |
I will stand in for him. | |
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of. | |
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire. | |
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday. | |
He's going for his doctorate. | |
Do you want to go for coffee? | |
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers. | |
Can you go to the store for some eggs? | |
I'm saving up for a car. | |
Don't wait for an answer. | |
What did he ask you for? | |
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward. | |
Run for the hills! | |
He was headed for the door when he remembered. | |
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect. | |
Fair for its day. | |
She's spry for an old lady. | |
14. prep. Despite, in spite of. | |
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive. | |
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.) | |
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.) | |
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio | |
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day | |
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen. | |
At close of play, England were 305 for 3. | |
18. prep. To be, or as being. | |
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.) | |
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs). | |
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. | |
night |
1. n. The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark. | |
How do you sleep at night when you attack your kids like that!? | |
2. n. An evening or night spent at a particular activity. | |
a night on the town | |
3. n. A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a hotel or other accommodation. | |
We stayed at the Hilton for five nights. | |
4. n. Nightfall. | |
from noon till night | |
5. n. Darkness. | |
The cat disappeared into the night. | |
6. n. A dark blue colour, midnight blue. | |
(color panel, 002266) | |
7. n. (sports) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game. | |
8. interj. short for, good night | |
Night all! Thanks for a great evening! | |
9. v. To spend a night (in a place), to overnight. | |