treating |
1. v. present participle of treat | |
2. n. treatment | |
treat |
1. v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with). | |
2. v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion. | |
Cicero's writing treats mainly of old age and personal duty. | |
3. v. To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking. | |
The article treated feminism as a quintessentially modern movement. | |
4. v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone). | |
Only let my family live, I treat thee. | |
5. v. To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way. | |
You treated me like a fool. | |
She was tempted to treat the whole affair as a joke. | |
6. v. To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward. | |
I treated my son to some popcorn in the interval. | |
I've done so well this month, I'll treat you all to dinner (or 'Dinner is my treat.) | |
My husband treated me to a Paris holiday for our anniversary. | |
(politics) To commit the offence of providing food, drink, entertainment or provision to corruptly influence a voter. | |
7. v. To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to. | |
They treated me for malaria. | |
8. v. To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in mind. | |
He treated the substance with sulphuric acid. | |
I treated the photo somewhat to make the colours more pronounced. | |
9. v. To provide something special and pleasant. | |
10. n. An entertainment, outing, food, drink, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others. | |
I took the kids to the zoo for a treat. | |
Here are some healthy Halloween treats for ghouls and witches of all ages. | |
11. n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure. | |
It was such a treat to see her back in action on the London stage. | |
12. n. A snack food item designed to be given to pets. | |
I lured the cat into her carrier by throwing a couple of treats in there. | |
13. n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation. | |
14. n. (obsolete) An entreaty. | |
sacred |
1. adj. Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated; made holy. | |
a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service | |
2. adj. Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular | |
3. adj. Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics. | |
4. adj. Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable. | |
5. adj. Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable. | |
6. adj. (followed by the preposition "to") Consecrated; dedicated; devoted | |
7. adj. (archaic) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful. | |
8. v. simple past tense and past participle of sacre | |
sacre |
1. v. (obsolete) To consecrate | |
2. n. alt form, saker, , type of cannon | |
Things |
1. n. plural of Thing | |
2. n. plural of thing | |
3. n. One's clothes, furniture, luggage, or possessions collectively; stuff | |
Have you brought all your things with you? | |
Get your hands off my things! | |
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of thing | |
thing |
1. n. That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept. | |
2. n. A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity. | |
3. n. An individual object or distinct entity. | |
4. n. (informal) Something that is existent or generally recognised. | |
Bacon pie? Is that a thing? | |
5. n. legal | |
6. n. Whatever can be owned. | |
7. n. Corporeal object. | |
8. n. (somewhat dated) The latest fad or fashion. | |
What do you mean you don't twerk, Stacy? It's the latest thing! | |
9. n. (in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment. | |
Hold on, let me just grab my things. | |
10. n. (informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods. | |
get me a thing of apple juice at the store; I just ate a whole thing of jelly beans | |
11. n. (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor. | |
The car looks cheap, but the thing is, I have doubts about its safety. | |
12. n. (slang) A penis. | |
13. n. A living being or creature. | |
you poor thing; she's a funny old thing, but her heart's in the right place; I met a pretty blond thing at the bar | |
14. n. That which matters; the crux. | |
that's the thing: we don't know where he went; the thing is, I don't have any money | |
15. n. Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent. | |
Oh yeah, I'm supposed to promote that vision thing. | |
16. n. (informal) That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.) | |
17. n. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country. | |
18. v. (rare) To express as a thing; to reify. | |
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 | |
contempt |
1. n. The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain. | |
2. n. The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace. | |
3. n. (legal) Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body. | |
disrespect |
1. n. A lack of respect, esteem or courteous behaviour. | |
2. v. To show a lack of respect to someone or something. | |
irreverence |
1. n. The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior. | |
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. | |
scorn |
1. v. To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise. | |
2. v. To reject, turn down. | |
He scorned her romantic advances. | |
3. v. To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself. | |
She scorned to show weakness. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt. | |
5. n. Contempt or disdain. | |
6. n. A display of disdain; a slight. | |
7. n. An object of disdain, contempt, or derision. | |
blasphemous |
1. adj. Lacking piety or respect for the sacred. Resembling blasphemy. | |
His taking the name of God in vain was considered blasphemous. | |
impious |
1. adj. Not pious. | |
2. adj. Lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god. | |