without |
1. adv. (archaic, or literary) Outside, externally. | |
2. adv. Lacking something. | |
Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without. | |
3. adv. (euphemism) In prostitution: without a condom being worn. | |
4. prep. (archaic, or literary) Outside of, beyond. | |
The snow was swirling without the cottage, but it was warm within. | |
5. prep. Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc. | |
It was a mistake to leave my house without a coat. | |
6. prep. Not doing or not having done something. | |
He likes to eat everything without sharing. | |
He shot without warning anyone. | |
7. conj. (archaic, otherwise nonstandard) Unless, except (introducing a clause). | |
regular |
1. adj. (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular). | |
regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy | |
2. adj. Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance. | |
3. adj. (geometry, of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size | |
4. adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other. | |
5. adj. Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence. | |
6. adj. (now rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.). | |
7. adj. Happening at constant (especially short) intervals. | |
He made regular visits to go see his mother. | |
8. adj. (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language. | |
The verb "to walk" is regular. | |
9. adj. (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard. | |
10. adj. (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops. | |
11. adj. Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way. | |
Maintaining a high-fibre diet keeps you regular. | |
12. adj. (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright. | |
a regular genius; a regular John Bull | |
13. adj. (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape. | |
a regular flower; a regular sea urchin | |
14. adj. (crystallography) isometric | |
15. adj. (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward. | |
16. adj. (analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular. | |
17. adv. (archaic, UK, dialect) Regularly, on a regular basis. | |
18. n. A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve). | |
19. n. A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment. | |
Bartenders usually know their regulars by name. | |
20. n. A frequent customer, client or business partner. | |
This gentleman was one of the architect's regulars. | |
21. n. (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar. | |
22. n. Anything that is normal or standard. | |
23. n. A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows. | |
24. n. A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls. | |
25. n. A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month. | |
form |
1. n. To do with shape.: | |
2. n. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. | |
3. n. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. | |
4. n. (dated) A long bench with no back. | |
5. n. (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. | |
6. n. (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. | |
7. n. (social) To do with structure or procedure. | |
8. n. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual. | |
9. n. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula. | |
10. n. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system. | |
a republican form of government | |
11. n. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality. | |
a matter of mere form | |
12. n. (archaic) A class or rank in society. | |
13. n. (UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area). | |
14. n. (education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form). | |
15. n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. | |
To apply for the position, complete the application form. | |
16. n. Level of performance. | |
The team's form has been poor this year. | |
The orchestra was on top form this evening. | |
17. n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech. | |
participial forms; verb forms | |
18. n. The den or home of a hare. | |
19. n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box. | |
20. n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank. | |
21. n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. | |
22. n. (geometry) A quantic. | |
23. n. (sports) A specific way of performing a movement. | |
24. v. To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). | |
When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies. | |
25. v. To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. | |
Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet. | |
26. v. (intransitive) To take shape. | |
When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy. | |
27. v. To put together or bring into being; assemble. | |
The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government. | |
Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960. | |
28. v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation. | |
By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective. | |
29. v. To constitute, to compose, to make up. | |
Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders. | |
30. v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline. | |
Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality. | |
31. v. To provide (a hare) with a form. | |
32. v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead pero | |
shapeless |
1. adj. without a clearly defined or identifiable shape | |
ugly |
1. adj. Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing. | |
2. adj. Displeasing to the ear or some other sense. | |
3. adj. Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality. | |
He played an ugly trick on us. | |
4. adj. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome. | |
an ugly temper; to feel ugly | |
5. adj. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss. | |
an ugly rumour; an ugly customer; an ugly wound | |
With all this competition, expect things to get ugly. | |
6. n. (slang) Ugliness. | |
7. n. (slang) An ugly person or thing. | |
8. n. (informal) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet. | |
9. v. (transitive, nonstandard) To make ugly (sometimes with up). | |
deformed |
1. adj. Unusual of shape; misshapen. | |
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of deform | |
deform |
1. v. To change the form of, negatively. | |
2. v. To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure. | |
a face deformed by bitterness | |
3. v. To mar the character of. | |
a marriage deformed by jealousy | |
4. v. To alter the shape of by stress. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To become misshapen or changed in shape. | |
6. adj. (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen. | |