why |
1. adv. For what cause, reason, or purpose (interrogative adverb). | |
2. adv. Introducing a complete question. | |
Why is the sky blue? | |
Why did you do that? | |
I don’t know why he did that | |
Tell me why the moon changes phase. | |
3. adv. Introducing a verb phrase (bare infinitive clause). | |
Why spend money on something you already get for free? | |
Why not tell him how you feel? | |
4. adv. Introducing a noun or other phrase. | |
Why him? Why not someone taller? | |
5. adv. For which cause, reason, or purpose (relative adverb). | |
That's the reason why I did that. | |
6. n. reason | |
A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how. | |
7. interj. An exclamation used to express indignation, mild surprise, or impatience. | |
8. n. (dialect) A young heifer. | |
Is |
1. n. plural of I | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of be | |
He is a doctor. He retired some time ago. | |
Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him. | |
3. n. plural of i | |
remember to dot your is | |
be |
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence. | |
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. | |
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place. | |
The cup is on the table. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place. | |
When will the meeting be? | |
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar. | |
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come. | |
I have been to Spain many times. | |
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating. | |
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same. | |
Knowledge is bliss. | |
Hi, I’m Jim. | |
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same. | |
3 times 5 is fifteen. | |
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal. | |
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995. | |
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it. | |
The sky is blue. | |
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase. | |
The sky is a deep blue today. | |
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice. | |
The dog was drowned by the boy. | |
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses. | |
The woman is walking. | |
I shall be writing to you soon. | |
We liked to chat while we were eating. | |
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go". | |
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic. | |
I am to leave tomorrow. | |
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car. | |
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement. | |
This building is three hundred years old. | |
I am 75 kilograms. | |
He’s about 6 feet tall. | |
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years. | |
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.) | |
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day. | |
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.) | |
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo. | |
What time is it there? It’s night. | |
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event. | |
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period) | |
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him. | |
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like. | |
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid. | |
Why is it so dark in here? | |
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way. | |
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.". | |
Why is he being nice to me? | |
it |
1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals. | |
Put it over there. | |
Take each day as it comes. | |
I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today. | |
2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender. | |
She took the baby and held it in her arms. | |
3. pron. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation. | |
It's me. John. | |
Is it her? | |
4. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it) | |
It is nearly 10 o’clock. | |
It’s 10:45 read ten-forty-five. | |
It’s very cold today. | |
It’s lonely without you. | |
5. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms. | |
stick it out | |
live it up | |
rough it | |
6. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject i | |
It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see) | |
I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that) | |
It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing) | |
He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that) | |
It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if) | |
7. pron. All or the end; something after which there is no more. | |
Are there more students in this class, or is this it? | |
That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you. | |
8. pron. (chiefly pejorative, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male. | |
9. pron. (obsolete) (Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun): That which; what. | |
10. det. (obsolete) its | |
11. n. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being. | |
12. n. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag. | |
In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it… | |
13. n. (British) The game of tag. | |
Let's play it at breaktime. | |
14. n. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty. | |
15. n. (euphemism) Sexual activity. | |
caught them doing it | |
16. adj. (colloquial) Most fashionable. | |
that |
1. conj. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement. | |
He told me that the book is a good read. | |
I believe that it is true. — She is convinced that he is British. | |
2. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that. | |
Be glad that you have enough to eat. | |
3. conj. (now uncommon) Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that. | |
4. conj. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect. | |
The noise was so loud that she woke up. | |
The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed. | |
5. conj. (archaic, or poetic) Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that. | |
6. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb. | |
Was John there? — Not that I saw. | |
How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw. | |
7. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish. | |
8. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise. | |
9. det. The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction. | |
That book is a good read. This one isn't. | |
That battle was in 1450. | |
That cat of yours is evil. | |
10. pron. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "t | |
He went home, and after that I never saw him again. | |
11. pron. The known (thing); (used to refer to something just said). | |
They're getting divorced. What do you think about that? | |
12. pron. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality; used together with a verb and pronoun to emphatically repeat a previous statement. | |
The water is so cold! — That it is. | |
13. pron. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; (representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition). | |
The CPR course that she took really came in handy. | |
The house that he lived in was old and dilapidated. | |
14. pron. (colloquial) (Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.) | |
the place that = where or to which I went last year | |
the last time that = when I went to Europe | |
15. adv. (degree) To a given extent or degree. | |
"The ribbon was that thin." "I disagree, I say it was not that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner...". | |
16. adv. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions). | |
I'm just not that sick. | |
I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult. | |
17. adv. (obsolete, outside, dialects) To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions). | |
Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her. | |
18. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those. | |
reading |
1. v. present participle of read | |
2. n. The process of interpreting written language. | |
3. n. The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device. | |
4. n. A value indicated by a measuring device. | |
a speedometer reading. | |
5. n. A meeting where written material is read aloud. | |
a poetry reading. | |
6. n. An interpretation. | |
a reading of the current situation. | |
7. n. Something to read; reading material. | |
8. n. The extent of what one has read. | |
He's a man of good reading. | |
9. n. (legislature) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law. | |
10. n. a piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience: readings from the Bible | |
read |
1. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. | |
have you read this book?; he doesn’t like to read | |
2. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object. | |
He read us a passage from his new book. | |
All right, class, who wants to read next? | |
3. v. To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc. | |
She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water. | |
I can read his feelings in his face. | |
4. v. To consist of certain text. | |
On the door hung a sign that reads "No admittance". | |
The passage reads differently in the earlier manuscripts. | |
5. v. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way. | |
Arabic reads right to left. | |
That sentence reads strangely. | |
6. v. To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text. | |
7. v. (informal usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term. | |
8. v. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection. | |
Do you read me? | |
9. v. (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks. | |
I am reading theology at university. | |
10. v. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.). | |
to read a hard disk; to read a port; to read the keyboard | |
11. v. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that). | |
12. v. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede. | |
13. v. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite. | |
14. v. (transitive, transgender) To recognise (someone) as being transgender. | |
Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me. | |
15. v. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way. | |
16. v. past tense of read | |
17. v. past participle of read | |
18. n. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play. | |
19. n. (in combination) Something to be read; a written work. | |
His thrillers are always a gripping read. | |
20. n. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of read, reading, calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult. | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
book |
1. n. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc. | |
She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud. | |
He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book. | |
2. n. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets. | |
I have three copies of his first book. | |
3. n. (heraldry) A heraldic representation of such an object, used as a charge; as in the arms of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. | |
4. n. A major division of a long work. | |
Genesis is the first book of the Bible. | |
Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing. | |
5. n. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet). | |
I'm running a book on who is going to win the race. | |
6. n. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use. | |
a book of stamps | |
a book of raffle tickets | |
7. n. (theatre) The script of a musical. | |
8. n. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business. | |
9. n. A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book. | |
10. n. (legal) A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging t | |
11. n. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side. | |
12. n. (poker slang) four of a kindWeisenberg, Michael (2000) . MGI/Mike Caro University. (ISBN, 978-1880069523) | |
13. n. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game. | |
14. n. (sports) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game. | |
15. n. (cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card. | |
16. v. To reserve (something) for future use. | |
I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night | |
I can book tickets for the concert next week. | |
17. v. To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. | |
They booked that message from the hill | |
18. v. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. | |
The police booked him for driving too fast. | |
19. v. (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued. | |
20. v. (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast. | |
He was really booking, until he passed the speed trap. | |
21. v. To record bets as bookmaker. | |
22. v. (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class. | |
The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class. | |
23. v. (intransitive, slang) To leave. | |
He was here earlier, but he booked. | |
24. v. (UK dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake | |
leaves |
1. n. plural of leaf | |
2. n. plural of leave | |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of leave | |
leave |
1. v. To have a consequence or remnant. | |
2. v. To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (somet | |
I left my car at home and took a bus to work. The ants did not leave so much as a crumb of bread. There's not much food left. We'd be | |
3. v. To cause, to result in. | |
The lightning left her dazzled for several minutes. Infantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life. | |
4. v. To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself. | |
Leave your hat in the hall. We should leave the legal matters to lawyers. I left my sewing and went to the window to watch the fallin | |
5. v. To depart; to separate from. | |
6. v. To let be or do without interference. | |
I left him to his reflections. I leave my hearers to judge. | |
7. v. To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with. | |
I left the country and I left my wife. | |
8. v. To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project). | |
I left the band. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state. | |
I think you'd better leave. | |
10. v. To transfer something. | |
11. v. To transfer possession of after death. | |
When my father died, he left me the house. | |
12. v. To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit. | |
I'll leave the car in the station so you can pick it up there. | |
13. v. To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with. | |
Can't we just leave this to the experts? | |
14. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay. | |
15. v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund). | |
16. n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball. | |
17. n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or onl | |
18. n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work. | |
I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss. | |
19. n. (dated, or legal) Permission. | |
Might I beg leave to accompany you? | |
The applicant now seeks leave to appeal and, if leave be granted, to appeal against these sentences. | |
20. n. (dated) Farewell, departure. | |
I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance. | |
21. v. To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant. | |
22. v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. | |
23. v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy. | |
leaf |
1. n. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. | |
2. n. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant. | |
3. n. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin. | |
gold leaf | |
4. n. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf). | |
5. n. (in the plural) Tea leaves. | |
6. n. A flat section used to extend the size of a table. | |
7. n. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement. | |
The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side. | |
8. n. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into. | |
9. n. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants. | |
10. n. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat. | |
11. n. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage. | |
13. v. To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves. | |
The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed. | |
one |
1. num. (cardinal) The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. | |
In some religions, there is only one god. | |
In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth. | |
One person, one vote. | |
2. num. (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers. | |
3. num. (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. | |
4. num. (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one. | |
5. pron. (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. | |
The big one looks good. I want the green one. A good driver is one who drives carefully. | |
6. pron. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. | |
She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the other. | |
7. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general). | |
One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed. One shouldn’t be too quick to judge. | |
8. pron. (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing. | |
"driver", noun: one who drives. | |
9. n. The digit or figure 1. | |
10. n. (mathematics) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. | |
11. n. (US) A one-dollar bill. | |
12. n. (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single. | |
13. n. A joke or amusing anecdote. | |
14. n. (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing. | |
15. n. (Internet slang) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1". | |
A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?! | |
Someone help me; I'm always losing! | |
B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1! | |
Why don't you just go away loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
16. adj. Of a period of time, being particular. | |
One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries. | |
17. adj. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any. | |
My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other.". | |
18. adj. Sole, only. | |
He is the one man who can help you. | |
19. adj. Whole, entire. | |
Body and soul are not separate; they are one. | |
20. adj. In agreement. | |
We are one on the importance of learning. | |
21. adj. The same. | |
The two types look very different, but are one species. | |
22. adj. Being a preeminent example. | |
He is one hell of a guy. | |
23. adj. Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain". | |
The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”. | |
24. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite. | |
feeling |
1. adj. Emotionally sensitive. | |
Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling. | |
2. adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility. | |
He made a feeling representation of his wrongs. | |
3. n. Sensation, particularly through the skin. | |
The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling. | |
4. n. Emotion; impression. | |
The house gave me a feeling of dread. | |
5. n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being. | |
You really hurt my feelings when you said that. | |
6. n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire. | |
Many people still have feelings for their first love. | |
7. n. Intuition. | |
He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition. | |
I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work. | |
8. n. An opinion, an attitude. | |
9. v. present participle of feel | |
feel |
1. v. To use the sense of touch.: | |
2. v. (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on. | |
You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast. | |
I felt cold and miserable all night. | |
3. v. To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements. | |
I felt my way through the darkened room. | |
I felt my way cautiously through the dangerous business maneuver. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To search by sense of touch. | |
He felt for the light switch in the dark. | |
6. v. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.: | |
7. v. To experience an emotion or other mental state about. | |
I can feel the sadness in his poems. | |
8. v. To think, believe, or have an impression concerning. | |
I feel that we need to try harder. | |
9. v. (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state. | |
He obviously feels strongly about it. | |
She felt even more upset when she heard the details. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected. | |
I feel for you and your plight. | |
11. v. To be or become aware of. | |
12. v. To experience the consequences of. | |
Feel my wrath! | |
13. v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise). | |
It looks like wood, but it feels more like plastic. | |
This is supposed to be a party, but it feels more like a funeral! | |
14. v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand. | |
I don't want you back here, ya feel me? | |
15. n. A quality of an object experienced by touch. | |
Bark has a rough feel. | |
16. n. A vague mental impression. | |
You should get a feel of the area before moving in. | |
17. n. An act of fondling. | |
She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me. | |
18. n. A vague understanding. | |
I'm getting a feel for what you mean. | |
19. n. An intuitive ability. | |
She has a feel for music. | |
20. n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling. | |
I know that feel. | |
21. pron. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele | |
22. adj. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele | |
23. adv. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele | |
slightly |
1. adv. Slenderly; delicately. | |
He was slightly built, but tall. | |
2. adv. (degree) To a small extent or degree. | |
He weighed slightly less than his wife who was a foot shorter. | |
uncomfortable |
1. adj. Not comfortable. | |
The class squirmed and fidgeted in the uncomfortable new chairs. | |
2. adj. Experiencing discomfort. | |
3. adj. Uneasy or anxious. | |
Sharing a house with them made me uncomfortable. | |
4. adj. Put off or disgusted. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
queasy |
1. adj. Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach. | |
2. adj. Easily troubled; squeamish. | |