| this |
| 1. det. The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby). | |
| This classroom is where I learned to read and write. | |
| 2. det. The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone just mentioned). | |
| They give the appearance of knowing what they're doing. It's this appearance that lets them get away with so much. | |
| 3. det. The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone about to be mentioned). | |
| When asked what he wanted for his birthday, he gave this reply: “…” | |
| 4. det. A known (thing) (used in first mentioning a person or thing that the speaker does not think is known to the audience). Compare with "a certain ...". | |
| I met this woman the other day who's allergic to wheat. I didn't even know that was possible! | |
| There's just this nervous mannerism that Bob has with his hands, and it drives me crazy. | |
| 5. det. (Of a unit of time) which is current. | |
| It snowed this week. | |
| 6. adv. To the degree or extent indicated. | |
| I need this much water. | |
| We've already come this far, we can't turn back now. | |
| 7. pron. The thing, item, etc. being indicated. | |
| This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars(...) — Sh | |
| 8. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is here; one of these. | |
| 9. interj. (Internet slang) Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material. | |
| computer |
| 1. n. (now rare, chiefly historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes. | |
| 2. n. (by restriction, chiefly historical) A male computer, where the female computer is called a computress. | |
| 3. n. A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially | |
| has |
| 1. v. third-person singular present indicative of have | |
| 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. | |
| a |
| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
| I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
| We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
| 4. art. The same; one. | |
| We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
| 5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
| A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
| He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
| 6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
| 7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
| The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
| 8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
| Stand a tiptoe. | |
| 9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
| Torn a pieces. | |
| 10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
| I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
| 11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
| A God’s name. | |
| 13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
| King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
| To set the people a worke. | |
| 14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
| 1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
| The times, they are a-changin'. | |
| 15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
| 1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
| Jacob, when he was a dying | |
| 16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
| 17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
| I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
| 18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
| 19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
| 20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
| The name of John a Gaunt. | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| 22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| smaller |
| 1. adj. comparative form of small: more small | |
| 2. adv. comparative form of small: more small | |
| footprint |
| 1. n. The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow. | |
| 2. n. Space required by a piece of equipment. | |
| This computer has a smaller footprint. | |
| 3. n. (computing) The amount of hard drive space required for a program. | |
| 4. n. (computing) The audit trail left by a crashed program. | |
| 5. n. Profession or lifestyle. | |
| He is following in his father's footprints. | |
| 6. n. The surface space occupied by a structure. | |
| the footprint of a building | |
| 7. n. A company's geographic market presence. | |
| The store, which is slated to open next month, increases the company's footprint in the market to 14 locations. | |
| 8. n. The ecological impact of a human activity, machine, etc. | |
| My carbon footprint is very high. | |
| 9. n. Availability of a satellite from the ground. | |
