they |
1. pron. (the third-person plural) A group of people, animals, plants or objects previously mentioned. | |
Fred and Jane? They just arrived. Dogs may bark if they want to be fed. Plants wilt if they are not watered. | |
I have a car and a truck, but they are both broken. | |
2. pron. (the third-person singular, sometimes proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender, but not if previously named and identified as male or female. | |
3. pron. (indefinite pronoun, vague meaning) People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker. | |
They say it’s a good place to live. | |
They didn’t have computers in the old days. | |
They should do something about this. | |
They have a lot of snow in winter. | |
4. det. (now Southern England dialect, or nonstandard) The, those. | |
5. det. (US dialects including AAVE) Their. | |
6. pron. (US dialectal) There (especially as an expletive subject of be). | |
can |
1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to. | |
She can speak English, French, and German. I can play football. Can you remember your fifth birthday? | |
2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to. | |
You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework. Can I use your pen? | |
3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible. | |
Can it be Friday already? | |
Teenagers can really try their parents' patience. | |
Animals can experience emotions. | |
4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception. | |
Can you hear that?. | |
I can feel the baby moving inside me. | |
5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know. | |
6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top. | |
7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can). | |
8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish. | |
9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory. | |
Shit or get off the can. | |
Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me. | |
10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks. | |
11. n. (slang) Jail or prison. | |
Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years. | |
12. n. (slang) Headphones. | |
13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup. | |
14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark | |
15. n. A chimney pot. | |
16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar. | |
They spent August canning fruit and vegetables. | |
17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.). | |
He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail. | |
18. v. To shut up. | |
Can your gob. | |
19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee. | |
The boss canned him for speaking out. | |
fill |
1. v. To occupy fully, to take up all of. | |
2. v. To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full. | |
3. v. To enter (something), making it full. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To become full. | |
the bucket filled with rain; the sails fill with wind | |
5. v. (intransitive) To become pervaded with something. | |
My heart filled with joy. | |
6. v. To satisfy or obey (an order, request or requirement). | |
The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin. | |
We can't let the library close! It fills a great need in the community. | |
7. v. To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy. | |
Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled. | |
8. v. To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it. | |
9. v. To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy. | |
10. v. (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails. | |
11. v. (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with (a female). | |
Did you fill that girl last night? | |
12. n. (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount. | |
Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill. | |
13. n. An amount that fills a container. | |
The mixer returned to the plant for another fill. | |
14. n. The filling of a container or area. | |
That machine can do 20 fills a minute. | |
This paint program supports lines, circles, and textured fills. | |
15. n. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction. | |
The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction. | |
16. n. (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil. | |
17. n. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled. | |
18. n. (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody. | |
bass fill | |
19. n. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. | |
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. | |
intervening |
1. n. intervention; mediation | |
2. adj. that intervenes or mediates | |
3. v. present participle of intervene | |
intervene |
1. v. To come between, or to be between, persons or things. | |
The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events | |
an instant intervened between the flash and the report - | |
nothing intervened to prevent the undertaking - | |
3. v. (intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action | |
The police had to be called to intervene in the fight. - | |
4. v. (legal) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter. | |
seconds |
1. n. plural of second | |
There are sixty seconds in a minute. | |
2. n. A second helping, second serving of food for one person; refill of coffee or other drink. | |
There is plenty of pie left, if you have room for seconds. | |
3. n. An item of clothing that has failed quality control and is sold at a discount | |
It was marked as seconds, but I can't find anything wrong with it. | |
4. n. Any article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; especially, a coarse or inferior kind of flour. | |
5. v. third-person singular present indicative of second | |
second |
1. adj. Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two. | |
He lives on Second Street. | |
The second volume in "The Lord of the Rings" series is called "The Two Towers". | |
You take the first one, and I'll have the second. | |
2. adj. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. | |
3. adj. Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another. | |
4. adv. (with superlative) After the first; at the second rank. | |
Saturn is the second largest planet. | |
5. adv. After the first occurrence but before the third. | |
He is batting second today. | |
6. n. One that is number two in a series. | |
7. n. One that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority. | |
8. n. The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest. | |
9. n. (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards. | |
They were discounted because they contained blemishes, nicks or were otherwise factory seconds. | |
10. n. (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food. | |
That was good barbecue. I hope I can get seconds. | |
11. n. A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.) | |
12. n. (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental). | |
13. n. The second gear of an engine. | |
14. n. (baseball) Second base. | |
15. n. The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/oct/31/appeal-court-upholds | |
16. n. A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer. | |
17. v. To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under #Etymology 3 for translations.) | |
I second the motion. | |
18. v. To follow in the next place; to succeed. | |
19. v. (climbing) To climb after a lead climber. | |
20. n. One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground sta | |
21. n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree. | |
22. n. (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time. | |
I'll be there in a second. | |
23. v. (transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment. | |
24. v. To assist or support; to back. | |
25. v. To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.) | |
I second the motion. | |
26. n. One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant. | |
27. n. One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc. | |
If we want the motion to pass, we will need a second. | |
28. n. (obsolete) Aid; assistance; help. | |
with |
1. prep. Against. | |
He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
He went with his friends. | |
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
5. prep. In support of. | |
We are with you all the way. | |
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by. | |
slain with robbers | |
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
cut with a knife | |
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
9. prep. Having, owning. | |
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
Do you want to come with? | |
11. adv. --> | |
12. n. alternative form of withe | |
whatever |
1. det. No matter what; for any | |
Whatever choice you make, there will be consequences. | |
2. det. (relative) Anything that. | |
Whatever reasons you have for doing this are unimportant to me. | |
3. pron. No matter what; for any | |
Whatever he does, he will still lose the game. | |
4. pron. (relative) Anything; sometimes used to indicate that the speaker does not care about options. | |
I'll do whatever I can. | |
5. interj. (colloquial, dismissive) A holophrastic expression used discourteously to indicate that the speaker does not consider the matter worthy of further discussion. | |
For the last time, brush your teeth! – Whatever! | |
6. adj. (colloquial) Unexceptional or unimportant; blah. | |
7. adj. (dated, postpositive) At all, absolutely, whatsoever. | |
There is no point whatever in going on with this discussion. | |
feels |
1. n. plural of feel | |
2. n. (colloquial) Feelings, emotions | |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of feel | |
4. adj. (colloquial) (synonym of emotional) | |
feel |
1. v. To use the sense of touch.: | |
2. v. (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on. | |
You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast. | |
I felt cold and miserable all night. | |
3. v. To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements. | |
I felt my way through the darkened room. | |
I felt my way cautiously through the dangerous business maneuver. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To search by sense of touch. | |
He felt for the light switch in the dark. | |
6. v. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.: | |
7. v. To experience an emotion or other mental state about. | |
I can feel the sadness in his poems. | |
8. v. To think, believe, or have an impression concerning. | |
I feel that we need to try harder. | |
9. v. (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state. | |
He obviously feels strongly about it. | |
She felt even more upset when she heard the details. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected. | |
I feel for you and your plight. | |
11. v. To be or become aware of. | |
12. v. To experience the consequences of. | |
Feel my wrath! | |
13. v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise). | |
It looks like wood, but it feels more like plastic. | |
This is supposed to be a party, but it feels more like a funeral! | |
14. v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand. | |
I don't want you back here, ya feel me? | |
15. n. A quality of an object experienced by touch. | |
Bark has a rough feel. | |
16. n. A vague mental impression. | |
You should get a feel of the area before moving in. | |
17. n. An act of fondling. | |
She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me. | |
18. n. A vague understanding. | |
I'm getting a feel for what you mean. | |
19. n. An intuitive ability. | |
She has a feel for music. | |
20. n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling. | |
I know that feel. | |
21. pron. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele | |
22. adj. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele | |
23. adv. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele | |
appropriate |
1. adj. Suitable or fit; proper. | |
The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better. | |
2. adj. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper. | |
I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place. | |
While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended. | |
3. adj. (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved. | |
4. v. (transitive, archaic) To make suitable; to suit. | |
5. v. To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right. | |
Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit. | |
6. v. To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for. | |
A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden. | |
to appropriate money for the increase of the navy | |
7. v. (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, legal) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property). | |