verbally |
1. adv. In a verbal manner; with words; by speaking. | |
Dumbstruck with joy, she was unable to express herself verbally, but the gratitude in her face was evident to all. | |
He |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, he | |
I love the Lord for He is Great and Holy. | |
2. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied. | |
3. pron. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant. | |
The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna? | |
4. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown. | |
5. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he". | |
6. n. (informal) A male. | |
Alex totally is a he. | |
7. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). | |
never |
1. adv. At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance. | |
I finally finished, and I never want to do that again. | |
I repeated the test a hundred times, and never saw a positive result. | |
I will never tell. | |
2. adv. Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously. | |
3. adv. (colloquial) Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely). | |
The police say I stole the car, but I never did it. | |
You said you were going to mow the lawn today. – I never! | |
expressed |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of express | |
express |
1. adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops. | |
2. adj. (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied. | |
I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me. | |
This book cannot be copied without the express permission of the publisher. | |
3. adj. Truly depicted; exactly resembling. | |
In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance. | |
4. adj. (retail) Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type. | |
The Pizza Hut inside Target isn't a full one: it's a Pizza Hut Express. | |
Some Wal-Mart stores will include a McDonald's Express. | |
The mall's selection of cell phone carriers includes a full AT&T store and a T-Mobile express. | |
5. n. A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly. | |
I took the express into town. | |
6. n. A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another. | |
7. n. An express rifle. | |
8. n. (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration. | |
9. n. A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier. | |
10. n. An express office. | |
11. n. That which is sent by an express messenger or message. | |
12. v. To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit. | |
Words cannot express the love I feel for him. | |
13. v. To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk). | |
14. v. (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein. | |
15. v. (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA. | |
16. n. (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression. | |
17. n. (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction. | |
His |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, his | |
2. det. Belonging to him. | |
3. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender. | |
4. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.) | |
5. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case. | |
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark. | |
Sejanus his Fall | |
6. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun. | |
The decision was his to live with. | |
7. pron. alternative spelling of His | |
8. n. plural of hi | |
love |
1. n. Strong affection. | |
2. n. A profound and caring affection towards someone. | |
A mother’s love is not easily shaken. | |
My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life. | |
3. n. Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being. | |
4. n. A feeling of intense attraction towards someone. | |
I have never been in love as much as I have with you. | |
5. n. A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something. | |
My love of cricket knows no bounds. | |
6. n. A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved. | |
7. n. (colloquial, British) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings. | |
Hello love, how can I help you? | |
8. n. A thing, activity etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm. | |
9. n. (euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction. | |
10. n. (euphemistic) Sexual activity. | |
11. n. An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair. | |
12. n. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young. | |
13. n. (altcaps, Love, , personification of love). | |
14. n. (obsolete) A thin silk material. | |
15. n. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba. | |
16. v. (usually transitive sometimes intransitive) To have a strong affection for (someone or something). | |
I love my spouse. I love you! | |
17. v. To need, thrive on. | |
Mold loves moist, dark places. | |
18. v. (transitive, colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like. | |
I love walking barefoot on wet grass; I'd love to join the team; I love what you've done with your hair | |
19. v. (usually transitive sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something). | |
20. v. To derive delight from a fact or situation. | |
I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte. | |
21. v. To lust for. | |
22. v. (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.) | |
I wish I could love her all night long. | |
23. v. (transitive, obsolete, or UK dialectal) To praise; commend. | |
24. v. (transitive, obsolete, or UK dialectal) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on. | |
25. n. (racquet sports) Zero, no score. | |
So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova. | |
for |
1. conj. (dated) Because. | |
2. prep. Towards. | |
The astronauts headed for the moon. | |
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to. | |
I have something for you. | |
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of. | |
We're having a birthday party for Janet. | |
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary. | |
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala. | |
5. prep. Supporting. | |
All those for the motion raise your hands. | |
6. prep. Because of. | |
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him. | |
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight. | |
She was the worse for drink. | |
7. prep. Over a period of time. | |
I've lived here for three years. | |
They fought for days over a silly pencil. | |
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space. | |
9. prep. On behalf of. | |
I will stand in for him. | |
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of. | |
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire. | |
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday. | |
He's going for his doctorate. | |
Do you want to go for coffee? | |
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers. | |
Can you go to the store for some eggs? | |
I'm saving up for a car. | |
Don't wait for an answer. | |
What did he ask you for? | |
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward. | |
Run for the hills! | |
He was headed for the door when he remembered. | |
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect. | |
Fair for its day. | |
She's spry for an old lady. | |
14. prep. Despite, in spite of. | |
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive. | |
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.) | |
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.) | |
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio | |
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day | |
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen. | |
At close of play, England were 305 for 3. | |
18. prep. To be, or as being. | |
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.) | |
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs). | |
you |
1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object. | |
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself. | |
3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) | |
4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.) | |
Both of you should get ready now. | |
You are all supposed to do as I tell you. | |
5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.) | |
6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object). | |
7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to. | |
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus? | |
8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis. | |
You idiot! | |
9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal. | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
words |
1. n. plural of word | |
Words have a longer life than deeds. — Pindar (translated) | |
2. n. Angry debate or conversation; argument. | |
After she found out the truth, she had words with him, to tell him how she felt. | |
3. n. Lines in a script for a performance. | |
You better get your words memorised before rehearsal next Saturday. | |
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of word | |
word |
1. n. The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.) | |
2. n. The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes | |
3. n. The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes | |
4. n. A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word). | |
5. n. Something like such a unit of language: | |
6. n. A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning | |
7. n. (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space. | |
8. n. (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine (on many 16-bit machines, 16 bits or two bytes). | |
9. n. (computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator. | |
10. n. (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements. | |
11. n. The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. | |
12. n. (now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech. | |
13. n. (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words). | |
mum's the word | |
14. n. (obsolete) A proverb or motto. | |
15. n. News; tidings (used without an article). | |
Have you had any word from John yet? | |
16. n. An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will. | |
He sent word that we should strike camp before winter. | |
Don't fire till I give the word | |
Their mother's word was law. | |
17. n. A promise; an oath or guarantee. | |
I give you my word that I will be there on time. | |
18. n. A brief discussion or conversation. | |
Can I have a word with you? | |
19. n. (in the plural) See words. | |
There had been words between him and the secretary about the outcome of the meeting. | |
20. n. (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture. | |
Her parents had lived in Botswana, spreading the word among the tribespeople. | |
21. n. (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ. | |
22. v. To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something). | |
I’m not sure how to word this letter to the council. | |
23. v. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter with words, to cajole. | |
24. v. To ply or overpower with words. | |
25. v. (transitive, rare) To conjure with a word. | |
26. v. (intransitive, archaic) To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse. | |
27. interj. (slang) Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond.". | |
"Yo, that movie was epic!" / "Word?" ("You speak the truth?") / "Word." ("I speak the truth.") | |
28. interj. (slang) An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval. | |
29. v. alternative form of worth (to become). | |