| who |
| 1. pron. (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; (asks for the identity of someone). (used in a direct or indirect question) | |
| Who is that? (direct question) | |
| I don't know who it is. (indirect question) | |
| 2. pron. (interrogative) What is one's position; (asks whether someone deserves to say or do something). | |
| I don't like what you did, but who am I to criticize you? I've done worse. | |
| 3. pron. (relative) The person or people that. | |
| It was a nice man who helped us. | |
| 4. pron. (relative, archaic) Whoever, he who, they who. | |
| 5. n. A person under discussion; a question of which person. | |
| obeys |
| 1. v. third-person singular present indicative of obey | |
| obey |
| 1. v. To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To do as one is told. | |
| 3. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.). | |
| shall |
| 1. v. (modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural. | |
| I shall sing in the choir tomorrow. | |
| I hope that we shall win the game. | |
| 2. v. Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural. | |
| (determination): You shall go to the ball! | |
| (obligation): Citizens shall provide proof of identity. | |
| 3. v. Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action. | |
| Shall I help you with that? | |
| Shall we go out later? | |
| Let us examine that, shall we? | |
| 4. v. (obsolete) To owe. | |
| bask |
| 1. v. To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat. | |
| to bask in the sun | |
| 2. v. (figurative) To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in"). | |
| I basked in her love. | |
| to bask in someone's favour | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| glory |
| 1. n. Great or overwhelming beauty or splendour. | |
| 2. n. Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown. | |
| 3. n. That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour. | |
| 4. n. Worship or praise. | |
| 5. n. An optical phenomenon caused by water droplets, consisting of concentric rings and somewhat similar to a rainbow. | |
| 6. n. Victory; success. | |
| 7. n. An emanation of light supposed to shine from beings that are specially holy. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line. | |
| 8. n. (theology) The manifestation of the presence of God as perceived by humans in Abrahamic religions. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance. | |
| 10. v. To exult with joy; to rejoice. | |
| 11. v. To boast; to be proud. | |
| 12. v. (archaic, poetic) To shine radiantly. | |
