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. | |
long |
1. adj. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below). | |
It's a long way from the Earth to the Moon. | |
2. adj. Having great duration. | |
The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time. | |
3. adj. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring. | |
4. adj. (UK, dialect) Not short; tall. | |
5. adj. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value. | |
I'm long in DuPont; I have a long position in DuPont. | |
6. adj. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position). | |
7. adj. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out). | |
No! That forehand is longnb.... | |
8. adj. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. | |
9. adv. Over a great distance in space. | |
He threw the ball long. | |
10. adv. For a particular duration. | |
How long is it until the next bus arrives? | |
11. adv. For a long duration. | |
Will this interview take long? | |
Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world. | |
12. n. (linguistics) A long vowel. | |
13. n. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long. | |
A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment. | |
14. n. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset. | |
Every uptick made the longs cheer. | |
15. n. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. | |
16. v. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in. | |
17. v. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true) | |
She longed for him to come back. | |
18. adj. (archaic) On account of, because of. | |
19. v. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to. | |
20. n. longitude | |
term |
1. n. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. | |
Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing. | |
2. n. That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary. | |
3. n. (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits. | |
A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid. | |
4. n. A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge. | |
"Algorithm" is a term used in computer science. | |
5. n. Relations among people. | |
We are on friendly terms with each other. | |
6. n. Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year. | |
7. n. Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length. | |
He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison. | |
near-term, mid-term and long-term goals | |
the term allowed to a debtor to discharge his debt | |
8. n. (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force. | |
9. n. (archaic) A menstrual period. | |
10. n. (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table. | |
All the terms of this sum cancel out. | |
One only term is odd nobr - in ( 12; 3; 4 ). | |
11. n. (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. | |
12. n. (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart. | |
13. n. (architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr. | |
14. n. (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. | |
15. v. To phrase a certain way; to name or call. | |
16. adj. (medicine, colloquial) Born or delivered at term. | |
term neonate | |
17. n. (computing, informal) terminal (computer program that emulates a physical terminal) | |
18. v. To terminate one's employment | |
19. n. One whose employment has been terminated | |
growth |
1. n. An increase in size, number, value, or strength. | |
Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China. | |
2. n. (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher. | |
3. n. (biology) Something that grows or has grown. | |
4. n. (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor. | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
population |
1. n. The people living within a political or geographical boundary. | |
The population of New Jersey will not stand for this! | |
2. n. By extension, the people with a given characteristic. | |
India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world. | |
3. n. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world. | |
The town’s population is only 243. | |
population explosion; population growth | |
4. n. (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area. | |
A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses. | |
5. n. (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn. | |
6. n. (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection. | |
John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
income |
1. n. Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others. | |
2. n. (business, commerce) Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy. | |
3. n. (obsolete) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction. | |
4. n. (archaic, or dialectal, Scotland) A newcomer or arrival; an incomer. | |
5. n. (obsolete) An entrance-fee. | |
6. n. (archaic) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle. | |
7. n. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome. | |
8. n. That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. | |
accounts |
1. n. plural of account | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of account | |
account |
1. n. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. | |
2. n. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal. | |
to keep one's account at the bank. | |
3. n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done. | |
No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. | |
4. n. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive. | |
on no account | |
on every account | |
on all accounts | |
5. n. (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit. | |
6. n. A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description. | |
An account of a battle. | |
7. n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. | |
8. n. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement. | |
9. n. An authorization to use a service. | |
I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project. | |
10. n. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning. | |
11. n. Profit; advantage. | |
12. v. To provide explanation. | |
13. v. (obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. | |
14. v. (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. | |
15. v. To estimate, consider (something to be as described). | |
16. v. (intransitive) To consider that. | |
17. v. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. | |
An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received. | |
18. v. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. | |
We must account for the use of our opportunities. | |
19. v. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. | |
Idleness accounts for poverty. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To establish the location for someone. | |
After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for. | |
21. v. (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). | |
22. v. To count. | |
23. v. (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). | |
24. v. (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate. | |
25. v. (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.). | |
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). | |
most |
1. det. superlative degree of much. | |
The teams competed to see who could collect the most money. | |
2. det. superlative degree of many: the comparatively largest number of (ngd, construed with the definite article) | |
The team with the most points wins. | |
3. det. superlative degree of many: the majority of; more than half of (ngd, construed without the definite article) | |
Most bakers and dairy farmers have to get up early. | |
Winning was not important for most participants. | |
4. adv. Forms the superlative of many adjectives. | |
This is the most important example. | |
Correctness is most important. | |
5. adv. To a great extent or degree; highly; very. | |
This is a most unusual specimen. | |
6. adv. (informal, chiefly US) Almost. | |
7. adv. superlative form of many: most many | |
8. adv. superlative form of much: most much | |
9. pron. The greater part of a group, especially a group of people. | |
Most want the best for their children. | |
The peach was juicier and more flavourful than most. | |
10. n. The greatest amount. | |
The most I can offer for the house is $150,000. | |
11. n. The greater part. | |
Most of the penguins were friendly and curious. | |
Most of the rice was spoiled. | |
12. n. A record-setting amount. | |
secular |
1. adj. Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical. | |
2. adj. Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless. | |
3. adj. (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order. | |
secular clergy in Catholicism | |
4. adj. Happening once in an age or century. | |
The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next. | |
5. adj. Continuing over a long period of time, long-term. | |
The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena. | |
on a secular basis | |
6. adj. (literary) Centuries-old, ancient. | |
7. adj. (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field. | |
8. adj. (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time. | |
9. n. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules. | |
10. n. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir. | |
11. n. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman. | |
trends |
1. n. plural of trend | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of trend | |
trend |
1. n. An inclination in a particular direction. | |
the trend of a coastline | |
the upward trend of stock-market prices | |
2. n. A tendency. | |
There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke. | |
3. n. A fad or fashion style. | |
Miniskirts were one of the biggest trends of the 1960s. | |
4. n. (mathematics) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points. | |
5. n. (nautical) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill. | |
6. n. (nautical) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend | |
The shore of the sea trends to the southwest. | |
8. v. To cause to turn; to bend. | |
9. v. (Internet, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting. | |
What topics have been trending on social networks this week? | |
10. n. (dialect) Clean wool. | |
11. v. To cleanse or clean (something, usually wool). | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
economic |
1. adj. Pertaining to an economy. | |
2. adj. Frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value); economical. | |
3. adj. Pertaining to the study of money and its movement. | |
phenomena |
1. n. plural form of phenomenon. | |