| worn |
| 1. adj. damaged and shabby as a result of much use | |
| 2. v. past participle of wear | |
| wear |
| 1. v. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc. | |
| He's wearing some nice pants today. She wore her medals with pride. Please wear your seatbelt. Can you wear makeup and sunscreen at the same time? He was wearing his lun | |
| 2. v. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner. | |
| He wears eyeglasses. She wears her hair in braids. | |
| 3. v. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance. | |
| She wore a smile all day. He walked out of the courtroom wearing an air of satisfaction. | |
| 4. v. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation. | |
| I know you don't like working with him, but you'll just have to wear it. | |
| 5. v. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use. | |
| You're going to wear a hole in the bottom of those shoes. The water has slowly worn a channel into these rocks. Long illness had worn the bloom from her cheeks. Exile had worn | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use. | |
| The tiles were wearing thin due to years of children's feet. | |
| 7. v. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary. | |
| His neverending criticism has finally worn my patience. Toil and care soon wear the spirit. Our physical advantage allowed us to wear the other team out and win. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person | |
| Don't worry, this fabric will wear. These pants will last you for years. This color wears so well. I must have washed this sweater a thousand times. I have to say, our friendship ha | |
| 9. v. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience. | |
| Her high pitched voice is really wearing on me lately. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously. | |
| wear on, wear away. As the years wore on, we seemed to have less and less in common. | |
| 11. v. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turni | |
| 12. n. (in combination) clothing | |
| footwear; outdoor wear; maternity wear | |
| 13. n. damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time | |
| 14. n. fashion | |
| 15. v. (now chiefly UK dialectal transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion. | |
| 16. v. (now chiefly UK dialectal transitive) To defend; protect. | |
| 17. v. (now chiefly UK dialectal transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel. | |
| to wear the wolf from the sheep | |
| 18. v. (now chiefly UK dialectal transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety. | |
| 19. n. dated form of weir | |
| by |
| 1. prep. Near or next to. | |
| The mailbox is by the bus stop. | |
| 2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval. | |
| Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July. | |
| 3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of. | |
| The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour. | |
| 4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of. | |
| There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare | |
| 5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of. | |
| 6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of. | |
| I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking. | |
| 7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination. | |
| The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight. | |
| 8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed. | |
| I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife. | |
| 9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of. | |
| Our stock is up by ten percent. | |
| 10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another. | |
| We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches. | |
| 11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to. | |
| He cheated by his own admission. | |
| 12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of. | |
| By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this. | |
| 13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something. | |
| It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm. | |
| 14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of. | |
| She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress. | |
| 15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker. | |
| I watched as it passed by. | |
| 16. adv. In the vicinity, near. | |
| There was a shepherd close by. | |
| The shop is hard by the High Street. | |
| 17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business. | |
| I'll stop by on my way home from work. | |
| We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave. | |
| 18. adv. Aside, away. | |
| The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring. | |
| 19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary. | |
| 20. n. (card games) A pass | |
| 21. interj. alternative spelling of bye | |
| weather |
| 1. n. The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc. | |
| 2. n. Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects. | |
| Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather. | |
| 3. n. (nautical) The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side. | |
| 4. n. (figuratively) A situation. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) A storm; a tempest. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) A light shower of rain. | |
| 7. adj. (sailing, geology) Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air. | |
| weather side, weather helm | |
| 8. v. To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects. | |
| 9. v. (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist. | |
| 10. v. To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air. | |
| 11. v. (nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round. | |
| to weather a cape; to weather another ship | |
| 12. v. (nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage. | |
| Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa. | |
| 13. v. (falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air. | |
| As |
| 1. n. plural of A | |
| She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As. | |
| 2. adv. To such an extent or degree. | |
| You’re not as tall as I am. | |
| It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive. | |
| 3. adv. In the manner or role specified. | |
| The kidnappers released him as agreed. | |
| The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues. | |
| He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend. | |
| 4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as). | |
| 5. conj. In the same way that; according to what. | |
| Do as I say! | |
| I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know. | |
| As you wish, my lord! | |
| 6. conj. At the same instant that; when. | |
| As I came in, she flew. | |
| 7. conj. At the same time that; while. | |
| He sleeps as the rain falls. | |
| 8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that. | |
| As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy. | |
| 9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since. | |
| As it’s too late, I quit. | |
| 10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality. | |
| She's twice as strong as I was two years ago. | |
| It's not so complicated as I expected. | |
| 11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’. | |
| 12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though. | |
| 13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that. | |
| 14. conj. Expressing concession; though. | |
| 15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than. | |
| 16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case. | |
| You are not as tall as me. | |
| They're big as houses. | |
| 17. prep. In the role of. | |
| What is your opinion as a parent? | |
| 18. n. (unit of weight) A libra. | |
| 19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value. | |
| 20. n. plural of a | |
| of |
| 1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. | |
| 2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". | |
| 3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). | |
| 4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). | |
| There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. | |
| 5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to. | |
| What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three. | |
| 6. prep. Expressing separation. | |
| 7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.) | |
| Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband. | |
| 8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.) | |
| He seemed devoid of human feelings. | |
| 9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.) | |
| 10. prep. Expressing origin. | |
| 11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.) | |
| The word is believed to be of Japanese origin. | |
| 12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of. | |
| The invention was born of necessity. | |
| 13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.) | |
| It is said that she died of a broken heart. | |
| 14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.) | |
| I am tired of all this nonsense. | |
| 15. prep. Expressing agency. | |
| 16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).) | |
| I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. | |
| 17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below). | |
| The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties. | |
| 18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.) | |
| It was very brave of you to speak out like that. | |
| 19. prep. Expressing composition, substance. | |
| 20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.) | |
| Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic. | |
| 21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.) | |
| She wore a dress of silk. | |
| 22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.) | |
| What a lot of nonsense! | |
| 23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.) | |
| Welcome to the historic town of Harwich. | |
| 24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also". | |
| I'm not driving this wreck of a car. | |
| 25. prep. Introducing subject matter. | |
| 26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma | |
| I'm always thinking of you. | |
| 27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning. | |
| He told us the story of his journey to India. | |
| 28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.) | |
| This behaviour is typical of teenagers. | |
| 29. prep. Having partitive effect. | |
| 30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among". | |
| Most of these apples are rotten. | |
| 31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.) | |
| 32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. | |
| On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort. | |
| 33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).) | |
| He is a friend of mine. | |
| 34. prep. Expressing possession. | |
| 35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. | |
| He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. | |
| 36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. | |
| The owner of the nightclub was arrested. | |
| 37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter | |
| Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames. | |
| 38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive". | |
| 39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.) | |
| She had a profound distrust of the police. | |
| 40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics. | |
| 41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards. | |
| My companion seemed affable and easy of manner. | |
| 42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by". | |
| Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain. | |
| 43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.) | |
| We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%. | |
| 44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod | |
| It's not that big of a deal. | |
| 45. prep. Expressing a point in time. | |
| 46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. | |
| Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river. | |
| 47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time). | |
| I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while. | |
| 48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.) | |
| After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off. | |
| rocks |
| 1. n. plural of rock | |
| 2. n. (slang) Money. | |
| 3. n. (vulgar, slang) Testicles. | |
| 4. n. (slang) Crack cocaine. | |
| 5. v. third-person singular present indicative of rock | |
| She rocks the cradle. | |
| The cradle gently rocks. | |
| Baseball rocks! | |
| rock |
| 1. n. A formation of minerals, specifically: | |
| 2. n. The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust. | |
| The face of the cliff is solid rock. | |
| 3. n. A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water. | |
| The ship crashed on the rocks. | |
| 4. n. (UK) A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble. | |
| Some fool has thrown a rock through my window. | |
| 5. n. (geology) Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals. | |
| 6. n. (slang) A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond. | |
| Look at the size of that rock on her finger! | |
| 7. n. A large hill or island having no vegetation. | |
| Pearl Rock near Cape Cod is so named because the morning sun makes it gleam like a pearl. | |
| 8. n. (figuratively) Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another. | |
| 9. n. A lump or cube of ice. | |
| I'll have a whisky on the rocks, please. | |
| 10. n. (British) A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length. | |
| While we're in Brighton, let's get a stick of rock! | |
| 11. n. (US, slang) A crystallized lump of crack cocaine. | |
| 12. n. (US, slang) An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes. | |
| 13. n. (South Africa, slang) An Afrikaner. | |
| 14. n. (US poker slang) An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands. | |
| 15. n. Any of several fish: | |
| 16. n. The striped bass. | |
| 17. n. The huss or rock salmon. | |
| We ordered rock and chips to take away. | |
| 18. n. (US, basketball slang) A basketball. | |
| Yo homie, pass the rock! | |
| 19. n. (rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock. | |
| 20. v. (transitive, and intransitive) To move gently back and forth. | |
| Rock the baby to sleep. | |
| The empty swing rocked back and forth in the wind. | |
| 21. v. To cause to shake or sway violently. | |
| Don't rock the boat. | |
| 22. v. (intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth. | |
| The boat rocked at anchor. | |
| 23. v. (transitive, and intransitive, of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker. | |
| The ores had been rocked and laid out for inspection. | |
| 24. v. To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively). | |
| Downing Street has been rocked by yet another sex scandal. | |
| She rocked my world. | |
| 25. v. (intransitive) To do well or to be operating at high efficiency. | |
| 26. v. (euphemistic) to make love to or have sex with someone. | |
| Yarbrough & Peoples, "Don't Stop the Music": I just wanna rock you, all night long. | |
| Andy Kim, "Rock Me Gently": Rock me gently, rock me slowly, take it easy, don't you know, that I have never been loved like this before. | |
| George_McCrae, "Rock Your Baby": Open up your heart / And let the loving start / Oh, woman, take me in your arms / Rock your baby. | |
| 27. n. An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway. | |
| 28. n. A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums and vocals. | |
| 29. v. (intransitive) To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy. | |
| Let’s rock! | |
| 30. v. (intransitive, slang) To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic. | |
| Chocolate rocks. | |
| My holidays in Ibiza rocked! I can't wait to go back. | |
| 31. v. to thrill or excite, especially with rock music | |
| Let's rock this joint! | |
| 32. v. to do something with excitement yet skillfully | |
| I need to rock a piss. | |
| 33. v. To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style). | |
| 34. n. Distaff. | |
| 35. n. The flax or wool on a distaff. | |
| stone |
| 1. n. A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks. | |
| 2. n. A small piece of stone, a pebble. | |
| 3. n. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond. | |
| 4. n. (UK, plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ≈ 6.3503 kilograms | |
| 5. n. (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer. | |
| a peach stone | |
| 6. n. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit. | |
| kidney stone | |
| 7. n. (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go. | |
| 8. n. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones. | |
| (color panel, 8A807C) | |
| 9. n. (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice. | |
| 10. n. A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone. | |
| 11. n. (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass. | |
| 12. n. (obsolete) A testicle. | |
| 13. n. (dated, printing) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing; also called imposing stone. | |
| 14. v. To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones. | |
| She got stoned to death after they found her. | |
| 15. v. To remove a stone from (fruit etc.). | |
| 16. v. (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc. | |
| 17. v. (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive) | |
| 18. v. (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored. | |
| 19. v. To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities. | |
| 20. adj. Constructed of stone. | |
| stone walls | |
| 21. adj. Having the appearance of stone. | |
| stone pot | |
| 22. adj. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones. | |
| She is one stone fox. | |
| 23. adj. (LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it. | |
| stone butch; stone femme | |
| 24. adv. As a stone (used with following adjective). | |
| My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold. | |
| 25. adv. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives). | |
| I went stone crazy after she left. | |
| I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind. | |
| The Styistics performed a love song titled "I'm Stone in Love with You". | |
| etc |
| 1. adv. alternative form of etc. | |
