unclean |
1. adj. Dirty, soiled or foul. | |
2. adj. Not moral or chaste. | |
3. adj. Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit. | |
ritually |
1. adv. In a ritual manner. | |
2. adv. By habit. | |
impure |
1. adj. Not pure | |
2. adj. Containing undesired intermixtures | |
The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out. | |
3. adj. Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin | |
4. adj. Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality) | |
He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school. | |
5. v. (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute | |
unholy |
1. adj. Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted. | |
The priest's unholy behaviour brought the church into disrepute. | |
2. adj. Dreadful, terrible, or otherwise atrocious. | |
What an unholy mess your room is in! | |
desecrating |
1. v. present participle of desecrate | |
desecrate |
1. v. To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something. | |
2. v. To remove the consecration from someone or something; to deconsecrate. | |
3. v. To change in an inappropriate and destructive way. | |
4. adj. (rare) Desecrated. | |
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. | |
Holy |
1. adj. alternative case form of holy used when referring to an important figure, such as God, or to an important item or event. | |
2. adj. Dedicated to a religious purpose or a god. | |
I'm planning to visit the holy city of Jerusalem this Christmas. | |
3. adj. Revered in a religion. | |
4. adj. Perfect or flawless. | |
5. adj. Separated or set apart from (something unto something or someone else). | |
6. adj. Set apart or dedicated for a specific purpose, or for use by a single entity or person. | |
7. adj. (slang) Used as an intensifier in various interjections. | |
Holy cow, I can’t believe he actually lost the race! | |
Those children next door are holy terrors! | |
8. n. (archaic) A thing that is extremely holy; used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies. | |
place |
1. n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area. | |
2. n. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard. | |
3. n. A group of houses. | |
They live at Westminster Place. | |
4. n. An inhabited area: a village, town, or city. | |
5. n. Any area of the earth: a region. | |
He is going back to his native place on vacation. | |
6. n. The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit. | |
We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places. | |
7. n. The area where one lives: one's home, formerly(chiefly) country estates and farms. | |
Do you want to come over to my place later? | |
8. n. An area of the skin. | |
9. n. (euphemism) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory. | |
10. n. (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle. | |
11. n. A location or position in space. | |
12. n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader. | |
13. n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document. | |
14. n. (obsolete) A topic. | |
15. n. A frame of mind. | |
I'm in a strange place at the moment. | |
16. n. (chess) A chess position; a square of the chessboard. | |
17. n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization. | |
18. n. A role or purpose; a station. | |
It is really not my place to say what is right and wrong in this case. | |
19. n. The position of a contestant in a competition. | |
We thought we would win but only ended up in fourth place. | |
20. n. (horse-racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position. | |
to win a bet on a horse for place | |
21. n. The position as a member of a sports team. | |
He lost his place in the national team. | |
22. n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town. | |
23. n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity. | |
three decimal places; the hundreds place | |
24. n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding. | |
That's what I said in the first place! | |
25. n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for. | |
26. v. To put (an object or person) in a specific location. | |
He placed the glass on the table. | |
27. v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition. | |
The Cowboys placed third in the league. | |
28. v. (intransitive, racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs. | |
In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars. | |
29. v. To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered. | |
I've seen him before, but I can't quite place where. | |
30. v. (transitive, in the passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race. | |
Run Ragged was placed fourth in the race. | |
31. v. To sing (a note) with the correct pitch. | |
32. v. To arrange for or to make (a bet). | |
I placed ten dollars on the Lakers beating the Bulls. | |
33. v. To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job. | |
They phoned hoping to place her in the management team. | |
34. v. (sports) To place-kick (a goal). | |
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. | |
Thing |
1. n. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country. | |
2. n. That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept. | |
3. n. A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity. | |
4. n. An individual object or distinct entity. | |
5. n. (informal) Something that is existent or generally recognised. | |
Bacon pie? Is that a thing? | |
6. n. legal | |
7. n. Whatever can be owned. | |
8. n. Corporeal object. | |
9. n. (somewhat dated) The latest fad or fashion. | |
What do you mean you don't twerk, Stacy? It's the latest thing! | |
10. n. (in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment. | |
Hold on, let me just grab my things. | |
11. 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 | |
12. n. (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor. | |
The car looks cheap, but the thing is, I have doubts about its safety. | |
13. n. (slang) A penis. | |
14. 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 | |
15. 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 | |
16. 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. | |
17. n. (informal) That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.) | |
18. n. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country. | |
19. v. (rare) To express as a thing; to reify. | |