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. | |
wind |
1. n. Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure. | |
The wind blew through her hair as she stood on the deck of the ship. | |
As they accelerated onto the motorway, the wind tore the plywood off the car's roof-rack. | |
The winds in Chicago are fierce. | |
There was a sudden gust of wind. | |
2. n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action. | |
the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows | |
3. n. The ability to breathe easily. | |
After the second lap he was already out of wind. | |
The fall knocked the wind out of him. | |
4. n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.) | |
Steve caught wind of Martha's dalliance with his best friend. | |
5. n. (India, and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements). | |
6. n. (colloquial) Flatus. | |
Eww. Someone just passed wind. | |
7. n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument. | |
8. n. (music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section. | |
9. n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds". | |
10. n. Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds. | |
11. n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing. | |
12. n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words. | |
13. n. A bird, the dotterel. | |
14. n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury. | |
15. v. To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound. | |
16. v. To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen. | |
The boxer was winded during round two. | |
17. v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath. | |
I can’t run another step — I’m winded. | |
18. v. (British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side. | |
19. v. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate. | |
20. v. To perceive or follow by scent. | |
The hounds winded the game. | |
21. v. To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe. | |
22. v. To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something. | |
to wind thread on a spool or into a ball | |
23. v. To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock. | |
Please wind that old-fashioned alarm clock. | |
24. v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle. | |
25. v. To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight. | |
Vines wind round a pole. The river winds through the plain. | |
26. v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern. | |
27. v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate. | |
28. v. To cover or surround with something coiled about. | |
to wind a rope with twine | |
29. v. To make a winding motion. | |
30. n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist. | |
31. n. topics, en, Atmospheric phenomena | |
driven |
1. v. past participle of drive | |
2. adj. Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals. | |
3. adj. (of snow) Formed into snowdrifts by wind. | |
drive |
1. n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition. | |
Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again. | |
2. n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business. | |
3. n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc. | |
4. n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective. | |
Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous. | |
5. n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use. | |
Some old model trains have clockwork drives. | |
6. n. A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle). | |
It was a long drive. | |
7. n. A driveway. | |
The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive. | |
8. n. A type of public roadway. | |
Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive. | |
9. n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving. | |
10. n. (psychology) Desire or interest. | |
11. n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive. | |
12. n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive. | |
13. n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver. | |
14. n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory. | |
15. n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket. | |
16. n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass. | |
17. n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity. | |
18. n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive. | |
a whist drive; a beetle drive | |
19. n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift. | |
20. n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. | |
21. v. To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on. | |
to drive sheep out of a field | |
22. v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal. | |
23. v. To cause animals to flee out of. | |
24. v. To move (something) by hitting it with great force. | |
You drive nails into wood with a hammer. | |
25. v. To cause (a mechanism) to operate. | |
The pistons drive the crankshaft. | |
26. v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle). | |
drive a car | |
27. v. To motivate; to provide an incentive for. | |
What drives a person to run a marathon? | |
28. v. To compel (to do something). | |
Their debts finally drove them to sell the business. | |
29. v. To cause to become. | |
This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity. You are driving me crazy! | |
30. v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive. | |
31. v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle. | |
I drive to work every day. | |
32. v. To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle. | |
My wife drove me to the airport. | |
33. v. (intransitive) To move forcefully. | |
34. v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship). | |
35. v. To urge, press, or bring to a point or state. | |
36. v. To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. | |
37. v. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. | |
38. v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. | |
39. v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field. | |
40. v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent. | |
41. v. To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air. | |
spray |
1. n. A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. | |
The sailor could feel the spray from the waves. | |
2. n. A pressurized container; an atomizer. | |
3. n. Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner. | |
4. n. (medicine) A jet of fine medicated vapour, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer. | |
5. n. (metalworking) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold. | |
6. n. (metalworking) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches. | |
7. v. To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something. | |
The firemen sprayed the house. | |
Using a water cannon, the national guard sprayed the protesters. | |
8. v. To project in a dispersive manner. | |
Spray some ointment on that scratch. | |
The water sprayed out of the hose. | |
9. v. (transitive, figurative) To project many small items dispersively. | |
10. v. (intransitive, zoology) To urinate in order to mark territory. | |
11. v. (transitive, computing, computer security) To allocate blocks of memory from (a heap, etc.), and fill them with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined loc | |
to spray the heap of a target process | |
12. n. A small branch of flowers or berries. | |
The bridesmaid carried a spray of lily-of-the-valley. | |
13. n. A collective body of small branches. | |
The tree has a beautiful spray. | |
14. n. Branches and twigs collectively; foliage. | |
15. n. (obsolete) An orchard. | |
16. n. An ornament or design that resembles a branch. | |
had |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of have. | |
2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (with a past participle). | |
3. v. (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have. | |
4. adj. (obsolete) Available. | |
have |
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst. | |
1. v. To possess, own, hold. | |
I have a house and a car. | |
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street! | |
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship). | |
I have two sisters. | |
I have a lot of work to do. | |
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action. | |
I have breakfast at six o'clock. | |
Can I have a look at that? | |
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now. | |
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in. | |
What class do you have right now? I have English. | |
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day. | |
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.) | |
I have already eaten today. | |
I had already eaten. | |
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to. | |
I have to go. | |
7. v. To give birth to. | |
The couple always wanted to have children. | |
My wife is having the baby right now! | |
My mother had me when she was 25. | |
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with. | |
He's always bragging about how many women he's had. | |
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner. | |
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me. | |
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation. | |
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town. | |
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be. | |
He had him arrested for trespassing. | |
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears. | |
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.) | |
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week. | |
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice. | |
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being. | |
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening. | |
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.)) | |
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we? | |
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she? | |
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he? | |
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take. | |
I could have him! | |
I'm gonna have you! | |
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language. | |
I have no German. | |
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of. | |
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before. | |
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from. | |
He had a cold last week. | |
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo. | |
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that. | |
He had surgery on his hip yesterday. | |
I'm having the time of my life! | |
20. v. To trick, to deceive. | |
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke. | |
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate. | |
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it. | |
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night. | |
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by. | |
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it. | |
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest. | |
Thank you for having me! | |
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation. | |
What do you have for problem two? | |
I have two contacts on my scope. | |
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case. | |
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon. | |
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person. | |
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | |
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading. | |
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have. | |
thoroughly |
1. adv. In a thorough or complete manner. | |
He went out in the rain and came back thoroughly drenched. | |
rusted |
1. adj. Corroded; having been oxidized or covered in rust. | |
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of rust | |
rust |
1. n. The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation. | |
The rust on my bicycle chain made cycling to work very dangerous. | |
2. n. A similar substance based on another metal (usually with qualification, such as "copper rust"). | |
aerugo. Green or blue-green copper rust; verdigris. (American Heritage Dictionary, 1973) | |
3. n. A reddish-brown color. | |
(color panel, B7410E) | |
4. n. A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To oxidize, especially of iron or steel. | |
The patio furniture had rusted in the wind-driven spray. | |
6. v. To cause to oxidize. | |
The wind-driven spray had thoroughly rusted the patio furniture. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust. | |
8. v. (ambitransitive, figuratively) To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction. | |
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. | |
patio |
1. n. A paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation. | |
2. n. An inner courtyard typical of traditional houses in some regions of Spain. | |
furniture |
1. n. (now usually un) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively. | |
The woman does not even have one stick of furniture moved in yet. | |
How much furniture did they leave behind? | |
A chair is furniture. Sofas are also furniture. | |
They bought a couple of pieces of furniture. | |
2. n. The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal. | |
3. n. Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item. | |
4. n. (firearms) The stock and forearm of a weapon. | |
5. n. (printing, historical) The pieces of wood or metal put round pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase. | |