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. | |
thought |
1. n. Form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking. | |
2. n. The process by which such forms arise or are manipulated; thinking. | |
3. n. A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region). | |
"Eastern thought". | |
4. v. simple past tense and past participle of think | |
think |
1. v. To ponder, to go over in one's head. | |
Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem. | |
I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on). | |
I tend to think of her as rather ugly. | |
4. v. To be of the opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as. | |
At the time I thought his adamant refusal to give in right. | |
I hope you won’t think me stupid if I ask you what that means. | |
I think she is pretty, contrary to most people. | |
5. v. To guess; to reckon. | |
I think she’ll pass the examination. | |
6. v. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something). | |
7. v. To presume; to venture. | |
8. n. (chiefly UK) An act of thinking; consideration (of something). | |
I'll have a think about that and let you know. | |
9. v. (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear. | |
a |
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
4. art. The same; one. | |
We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
Stand a tiptoe. | |
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
Torn a pieces. | |
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
A God’s name. | |
13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
To set the people a worke. | |
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
The times, they are a-changin'. | |
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
Jacob, when he was a dying | |
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
The name of John a Gaunt. | |
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
Cardinal |
1. n. (baseball) A player on the St. Louis Cardinals team. | |
Smith became a Cardinal as the result of a pre-season trade. | |
2. n. (American football) A player on the Arizona Cardinals team. | |
3. n. A player on a sports team at Stanford University. | |
4. n. A student or player on a sports team at the University of Louisville. | |
5. adj. Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal. | |
a cardinal rule | |
6. adj. (nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west). | |
a cardinal mark | |
7. adj. Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position. | |
8. adj. Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal's cassock). | |
9. n. A number indicating quantity, or the size of a set, e.g., one, two, three. (See Wikipedia article on Cardinal number.) | |
10. n. (grammar) A word used to represent a cardinal number; a cardinal numeral. | |
11. n. An official in the Catholic Church, ranking only below the Pope and the patriarchs. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.) | |
12. n. Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis. | |
13. n. Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related. | |
14. n. A shade of scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. | |
(color panel, C41E3A) | |
15. n. (historical) A woman's short cloak with a hood. | |
16. n. (obsolete) Mulled red wine. | |
17. n. A freshwater fish, the cardinal tetra. | |
too |
1. adv. (focus) Likewise. | |
2. adv. (conjunctive) Also; in addition. | |
3. adv. (degree) To an excessive degree; over; more than enough. | |
4. adv. (degree, colloquial) To a high degree, very. | |
She doesn't talk too much. I'm not too sure about this. | |
5. adv. (affirmation, colloquial) Used to contradict a negative assertion. | |
"You're not old enough yet." "I am, too!". | |
profane |
1. adj. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing. | |
2. adj. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular. | |
profane authors | |
3. adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious. | |
4. adj. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain | |
a profane person, word, oath, or tongue | |
5. n. A person or thing that is profane. | |
6. n. (freemasonry) A person not a Mason. | |
7. v. To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate | |
One should not profane the name of God. | |
to profane the Scriptures | |
8. v. To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile. | |