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. | |
human |
1. adj. (notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives. | |
2. adj. (comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being. | |
To err is human; to forgive, divine. | |
3. n. A human being, whether man, woman or child. | |
Humans share common ancestors with other apes. | |
4. v. (rare) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human. | |
faculty |
1. n. The academic staff at schools, colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff. | |
2. n. A division of a university. | |
She transferred from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Medicine. | |
3. n. An ability, skill, or power, often plural. | |
He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact. | |
4. n. A power, authority or privilege conferred by a higher authority. | |
5. n. (Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church. | |
6. n. The members of a profession. | |
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. | |
Power |
1. n. A button of a computer, a video game console, or similar device, that when pressed, causes the device to be either shut down or powered up. | |
2. n. (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control. | |
3. n. Ability to affect or influence. | |
4. n. Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction). | |
5. n. (metonymy) (chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government. | |
6. n. (metonymy) An influential nation, company, or other such body. | |
7. n. (physical) Effectiveness. | |
8. n. Physical force or strength. | |
He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium. | |
9. n. Electricity or a supply of electricity. | |
After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days. | |
10. n. A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy. | |
11. n. A rate to magnify an optical image by a lens or mirror. | |
We need a microscope with higher power. | |
12. n. Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw). | |
the mechanical powers | |
13. n. mathematics | |
14. n. A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion):x^n, read as "x to the power ofn" or the like, is called a power and denotes the produc | |
15. n. (set theory) Cardinality. | |
16. n. (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true. | |
17. n. (biblical, in plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme. | |
18. v. To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device). | |
This CD player is powered by batteries. | |
19. v. To hit or kick something forcefully. | |
20. v. To enable or provide the impetus for. | |
21. adj. (Singapore, colloquial) Impressive. | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
mentally |
1. adv. In a mental manner; an idea thought out in one's mind, as opposed to an idea spoken orally. | |
grasp |
1. v. To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand. | |
2. v. To understand. | |
I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity. | |
3. v. To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance. | |
4. n. (sometimes figurative) Grip. | |
5. n. Understanding. | |
6. n. That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability. | |
The goal is within my grasp. | |
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. | |
understand |
1. v. To be aware of the meaning of. | |
I understand German. | |
I received your note, but I did not understand it. | |
2. v. To believe, based on information. | |
I understand that you have information for me. | |
3. v. To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated. | |
But we cannot disappoint Grandma and Grandpa Smith, and that is what family is all about! Do you understand?! | |
In this sense, the word is usually used in the past participle: | |
In the imperative mood, the word “you” is usually understood. | |
4. v. (obsolete, rare, humorous) To stand under; to support. | |
5. v. (circus, acrobatics) One who supports others in such performances as the human pyramid. | |
clearly |
1. adv. (manner) In a clear manner. | |
He enunciated every syllable clearly. | |
2. adv. (modal) Without a doubt; obviously. | |
Clearly, the judge erred in his opinion. | |
3. adv. (degree) To a degree clearly discernible. | |
He was clearly wrong on all points but one. | |