| very |
| 1. adj. True, real, actual. | |
| The fierce hatred of a very woman. The very blood and bone of our grammar. He tried his very best. | |
| 2. adj. The same; identical. | |
| He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met. That's the very tool that I need. | |
| 3. adj. With limiting effect: mere. | |
| 4. adv. To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly. | |
| You’re drinking very slowly. | |
| That dress is very you. | |
| 5. adv. True, truly. | |
| 6. adv. (with superlatives) (ngd, Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.) | |
| He was the very best runner there. | |
| severe |
| 1. adj. Very bad or intense. | |
| 2. adj. Strict or harsh. | |
| a severe taskmaster | |
| 3. adj. Sober, plain in appearance, austere. | |
| a severe old maiden aunt | |
| 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. | |
| strict |
| 1. adj. Strained; drawn close; tight. | |
| strict embrace | |
| strict ligature | |
| 2. adj. Tense; not relaxed. | |
| strict fiber | |
| 3. adj. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice. | |
| to keep strict watch | |
| to pay strict attention | |
| 4. adj. Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous. | |
| very strict in observing the Sabbath | |
| 5. adj. Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted. | |
| to understand words in a strict sense | |
| 6. adj. (botany) Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. | |
| 7. adj. Severe in discipline. | |
| Our teacher was always very strict. If we didn't behave, we would get punished. | |
| It was a very strict lesson. | |
| 8. adj. (set theory, order theory) Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive. | |
