| women |
| 1. n. plural form of woman | |
| Three women went for a walk. | |
| woman |
| 1. n. An adult female human. | |
| 2. n. (collective) All females collectively; womankind. | |
| 3. n. A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend). | |
| 4. n. A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.) | |
| 5. n. A female attendant or servant. | |
| 6. v. To staff with female labor. | |
| 7. v. To make effeminate or womanish. | |
| 8. v. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. | |
| 9. v. To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion. | |
| are |
| 1. v. second-person singular present of be | |
| Mary, where are you going? | |
| 2. v. first-person plural present of be | |
| We are not coming. | |
| 3. v. second-person plural present of be | |
| Mary and John, are you listening? | |
| 4. v. third-person plural present of be | |
| They are here somewhere. | |
| 5. v. (East Yorkshire, Midlands) present of be | |
| 6. n. (dialectal, or obsolete) grace, mercy | |
| To bid God's are. | |
| God's are is what children of God seech and seek. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) honour, dignity | |
| 8. n. (rare) an accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a | |
| 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? | |
| more |
| 1. det. comparative degree of many, : in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.) | |
| More people are arriving. | |
| There are more ways to do this than I can count. | |
| 2. det. comparative degree of much, : in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.) | |
| I want more soup; I need more time | |
| There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places. | |
| 3. adv. To a greater degree or extent. | |
| He walks more in the morning these days. | |
| 4. adv. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. | |
| 5. adv. Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. | |
| You're more beautiful than I ever imagined. | |
| 6. adv. (now dialectal, or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18thc.) | |
| I was more better at English than you. | |
| 7. adv. rather | |
| He is more clever than wise. | |
| 8. n. An extra amount or extent. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip. | |
| 10. n. (dialectal) a root; stock. | |
| 11. n. A plant. | |
| 12. v. To root up. | |
| 13. pron. a greater amount of people or things | |
| particular |
| 1. adj. (also non-comparable) | |
| 2. adj. (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial. | |
| 3. adj. Specific; discrete; concrete. | |
| I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do. | |
| We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith. | |
| 4. adj. Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing. | |
| I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism. | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential. | |
| 6. adj. Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions). | |
| My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London. | |
| I didn't have any particular interest in the book. | |
| He brought no particular news. | |
| She was the particular belle of the party. | |
| 7. adj. (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious. | |
| He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back. | |
| Women are more particular about their appearance. | |
| 8. adj. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise. | |
| a full and particular account of an accident | |
| 9. adj. (legal) Containing a part only; limited. | |
| a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder | |
| 10. adj. (legal) Holding a particular estate. | |
| a particular tenant | |
| 11. adj. (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject. | |
| a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise". | |
| 12. n. A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point. | |
| 13. n. (obsolete) A person's own individual case. | |
| 14. n. (now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.) | |
| about |
| 1. prep. In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of. | |
| 2. prep. Near; not far from; approximately; regarding time, size, quantity. | |
| 3. prep. On the point or verge of. | |
| the show is about to start; I am not about to admit to your crime | |
| 4. prep. On one's person; nearby the person. | |
| 5. prep. Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. | |
| 6. prep. Concerned with; engaged in; intent on. | |
| 7. prep. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect. | |
| He knew more about what was occurring than anyone. | |
| 8. prep. (figurative) In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in possession of; in control of; at one's command; in one's makeup. | |
| He has his wits about him. | |
| 9. prep. In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place. | |
| 10. adv. Not distant; approximate. | |
| 11. adv. On all sides; around. | |
| 12. adv. Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down. | |
| 13. adv. Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost. | |
| about as cold; about as high | |
| 14. adv. Near; in the vicinity. | |
| 15. adv. In succession; one after another; in the course of events. | |
| 16. adv. On the move; active; astir. | |
| 17. adv. To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view. | |
| to face about; to turn oneself about | |
| 18. adv. (nautical) To the opposite tack. | |
| 19. adv. (obsolete) Preparing; planning. | |
| 20. adv. (archaic) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference. | |
| a mile about, and a third of a mile across | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly North America, colloquial) Going to; on the verge of; intending to. | |
| 22. adj. Moving around; astir. | |
| out and about; up and about | |
| After my bout with Guillan-Barre Syndrome, it took me 6 months to be up and about again. | |
| 23. adj. In existence; being in evidence; apparent | |
| their |
| 1. det. Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural). | |
| they will meet tomorrow at their convenience; this is probably their cat | |
| 2. det. Belonging to someone (one person, singular). | |
| 3. adv. misspelling of there | |
| 4. contraction. misspelling of they’re | |
| appearance |
| 1. n. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye. | |
| His sudden appearance surprised me. | |
| 2. n. A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition. | |
| There was a strange appearance in the sky. | |
| 3. n. The way something looks; personal presence | |
| 4. n. Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others. | |
| Some people say I'm shallow because I care so much about my appearance. | |
| 5. n. (philosophy, theology) That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality | |
| Catholicism teaches that the Eucharist, while remaining under the physical appearance of bread and wine, becomes really and truly the body and the blood of Christ. | |
| 6. n. The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character. | |
| A person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. | |
| David Beckham's first appearance with the LA Galaxy at Giants Stadium against the New York Red Bulls last night drew a crowd of 66237. | |
| 7. n. (legal) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance | |
| 8. n. (medical) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient. | |
| The patient had a small bowel obstruction and there was no appearance until after the obstruction resolved. | |
