you |
1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object. | |
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself. | |
3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) | |
4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.) | |
Both of you should get ready now. | |
You are all supposed to do as I tell you. | |
5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.) | |
6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object). | |
7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to. | |
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus? | |
8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis. | |
You idiot! | |
9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal. | |
can't |
1. v. Cannot (negative auxiliaryArnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, , Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513); is unable to; does not have the ability to. | |
I can’t quite get it to work. | |
2. v. Is forbidden to; is not permitted to. | |
You can’t enter the hall without a ticket. | |
3. v. Often with be: is logically impossible. | |
The butler can’t be the murderer because he was in London that evening. | |
can |
1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to. | |
She can speak English, French, and German. I can play football. Can you remember your fifth birthday? | |
2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to. | |
You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework. Can I use your pen? | |
3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible. | |
Can it be Friday already? | |
Teenagers can really try their parents' patience. | |
Animals can experience emotions. | |
4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception. | |
Can you hear that?. | |
I can feel the baby moving inside me. | |
5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know. | |
6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top. | |
7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can). | |
8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish. | |
9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory. | |
Shit or get off the can. | |
Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me. | |
10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks. | |
11. n. (slang) Jail or prison. | |
Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years. | |
12. n. (slang) Headphones. | |
13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup. | |
14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark | |
15. n. A chimney pot. | |
16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar. | |
They spent August canning fruit and vegetables. | |
17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.). | |
He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail. | |
18. v. To shut up. | |
Can your gob. | |
19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee. | |
The boss canned him for speaking out. | |
not |
1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb. | |
Did you take out the trash? No, I did not. | |
Not knowing any better, I went ahead. | |
2. adv. To no degree. | |
That is not red; it's orange. | |
3. conj. And not. | |
I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken. | |
He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple. | |
4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. | |
I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not! | |
Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not! | |
5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function. | |
You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip. | |
6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not. | |
prostrate |
1. adj. Lying flat, face-down. | |
2. adj. Emotionally devastated. | |
3. adj. Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease. | |
He was prostrate from the extreme heat. | |
4. adj. (botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent. | |
5. v. (often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown. | |
6. v. To throw oneself down in submission (also figurative). | |
7. v. To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower. | |
Yourself |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, yourself | |
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun) Your own self (singular). | |
Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself. | |
3. pron. You (singular); used emphatically, especially to indicate exclusiveness of the referent's participation in the predicate, i.e., that no one else is involved. | |
You yourself know that what you wrote was wrong. | |
After a good night's sleep you'll feel like yourself again. | |
before |
1. prep. Earlier than (in time). | |
I want this done before Monday. | |
2. prep. In front of in space. | |
He stood before me. | |
We sat before the fire to warm ourselves. | |
3. prep. In the presence of. | |
He performed before the troops in North Africa. | |
He spoke before a joint session of Congress. | |
4. prep. Under consideration, judgment, authority of (someone). | |
The case laid before the panel aroused nothing but ridicule. | |
5. prep. In store for, in the future of (someone). | |
6. prep. In front of, according to a formal system of ordering items. | |
In alphabetical order, "cat" comes before "dog", "canine" before feline". | |
7. prep. At a higher or greater position than, in a ranking. | |
An entrepreneur puts market share and profit before quality, an amateur intrinsic qualities before economical considerations. | |
8. adv. At an earlier time. | |
I've never done this before. | |
9. adv. In advance. | |
10. adv. At the front end. | |
11. conj. in advance of the time when | |
12. conj. (informal) rather or sooner than | |
Your |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, your | |
2. det. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner). | |
Let's meet tomorrow at your convenience. | |
Is this your cat? | |
3. det. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners). | |
4. det. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun. | |
Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry. | |
Your Show of Shows | |
Your World with Neil Cavuto | |
Not Your Average Travel Guide | |
5. det. (Ireland) That; the specified (usually used with a human referent) | |
Your man just bought a new car. | |
Have you seen what your one over there is doing? | |
6. contraction. misspelling of you're | |
king |
1. n. A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation. | |
Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547. | |
2. n. A powerful or majorly influential person. | |
Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media". | |
3. n. Something that has a preeminent position. | |
In times of financial panic, cash is king. | |
4. n. A component of certain games. | |
5. n. (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest | |
6. n. (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit. | |
7. n. A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking | |
8. n. (slang) A king skin. | |
Oi mate, have you got kings? | |
9. n. A male dragonfly; a drake. | |
10. n. A king-sized bed. | |
11. v. To crown king, to make (a person) king. | |
12. v. To rule over as king. | |
13. v. To perform the duties of a king. | |
14. v. To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over. | |
15. v. To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards. | |
16. v. To dress and perform as a drag king. | |
17. n. alternative form of qinges (Chinese musical instrument) | |
to |
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
I want to leave. | |
He asked me what to do. | |
I don’t know how to say it. | |
I have places to go and people to see. | |
2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
I have to do laundry today. | |
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
We are walking to the shop. | |
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
He devoted himself to education. | |
They drank to his health. | |
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
one to one = 1:1 | |
ten to one = 10:1. | |
I have ten dollars to your four. | |
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
Three to the power of two is nine. | |
Three to the second is nine. | |
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
I gave the book to him. | |
12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
Please push the door to. | |
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
17. adv. misspelling of too | |
demonstrate |
1. v. To show how to use (something). | |
Can you demonstrate the new tools for us? | |
2. v. To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To participate in or organize a demonstration. | |
Those people outside are demonstrating against the election results. | |
4. v. To show, display, or present. | |
Your |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, your | |
2. det. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner). | |
Let's meet tomorrow at your convenience. | |
Is this your cat? | |
3. det. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners). | |
4. det. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun. | |
Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry. | |
Your Show of Shows | |
Your World with Neil Cavuto | |
Not Your Average Travel Guide | |
5. det. (Ireland) That; the specified (usually used with a human referent) | |
Your man just bought a new car. | |
Have you seen what your one over there is doing? | |
6. contraction. misspelling of you're | |
loyalty |
1. n. The state of being loyal; fidelity. | |
2. n. Faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation. | |
respect |
1. n. an attitude of consideration or high regard | |
He is an intellectual giant, and I have great respect for him. | |
we do respect people for their dignity and worth. | |
2. n. good opinion, honor, or admiration | |
3. n. (always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death. | |
The mourners paid their last respects to the deceased poet. | |
4. n. a particular aspect, feature or detail of something | |
This year's model is superior to last year's in several respects. | |
5. n. Good will; favor | |
6. v. To have respect for. | |
She is an intellectual giant, and I respect her greatly. | |
7. v. To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right. | |
I respect your right to hold that belief, although I think it is nonsense. | |
8. v. To abide by an agreement. | |
They failed to respect the treaty they had signed, and invaded. | |
9. v. To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed. | |
10. v. (transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with. | |
11. v. (obsolete) To regard; to consider; to deem. | |
12. v. (obsolete) To look toward; to face. | |
13. interj. (Jamaica) hello, hi | |
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. | |
admiration |
1. n. A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful | |
admiration of a war hero | |
They looked at the landscape in admiration. | |
2. n. (obsolete) Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject). | |
3. n. (obsolete) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise. | |