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. | |
were |
1. v. Second-person singular simple past tense indicative of be. | |
John, you were the only person to see him. | |
2. v. First-person plural simple past tense indicative of be. | |
We were about to leave. | |
3. v. Second-person plural simple past tense indicative of be. | |
Mary and John, you were right. | |
4. v. Third-person plural simple past tense indicative of be. | |
They were a fine group. | |
They were to be the best of friends from that day on. | |
5. v. Simple imperfect subjunctive in all persons of be. | |
I wish that it were Sunday. | |
I wish that I were with you. | |
* with "if" omitted, put first in an "if" clause: | |
*: Were it simply that she wore a hat, I would not be upset at all. (= If it were simply...) | |
*: Were father a king, we would have war. (= If father were a king,...) | |
6. v. (Northern England) was. | |
7. n. (obsolete) A fine for slaying a man; weregild. | |
8. n. (fandom) (The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf.) | |
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? | |
apparently |
1. adv. (archaic) Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. | |
2. adv. Seemingly; in appearance only. | |
A man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart. | |
3. adv. According to what the speaker has read or heard. | |
Apparently you are quite a good dancer. | |
inspecting |
1. v. present participle of inspect | |
2. n. An act of inspection. | |
inspect |
1. v. To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize. | |
Inspect the system for leaks. | |
2. v. To view and examine officially. | |
The general inspected the troops and their barracks. | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
clothing |
1. v. present participle of clothe | |
2. n. Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion. | |
3. n. An act or instance of putting clothes on. | |
The clothing and unclothing of the idols was of special significance. | |
4. n. (obsolete) The art or process of making cloth. | |
5. n. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. | |
clothe |
1. v. To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing. | |
to feed and clothe a family; to clothe oneself extravagantly | |
2. v. (figurative) To cover or invest, as if with a garment. | |
to clothe somebody with authority or power | |
factory |
1. n. (obsolete) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country. | |
2. n. (now rare) The position or state of being a factor. | |
3. n. A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. | |
4. n. A device which produces or manufactures something. | |
5. n. (programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object. | |
6. adj. (colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock. | |
See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory. | |
She |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, she | |
2. n. An ethnic group in southern China. | |
3. n. A language of the Hmong-Mien language family spoken by the She people. | |
4. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied. | |
I asked Mary, but she said that she didn’t know. | |
5. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat. | |
She could do forty knots in good weather. | |
She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she? | |
6. pron. (personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car. | |
She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable. | |
7. pron. (personal, dated) A country. | |
She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people. | |
8. pron. (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun). | |
9. n. A female. | |
Pat is definitely a she. | |
was |
1. v. first-person singular past of be. | |
2. v. third-person singular past of be. | |
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? | |
working |
1. n. (usually plural) Operation; action. | |
2. n. Method of operation. | |
3. n. (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem. | |
Be sure to check your working. | |
4. n. Fermentation. | |
5. n. (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance. | |
6. v. present participle of work | |
Leave him alone; he's working. | |
7. adj. That is or are functioning. | |
a working ventilator | |
8. adj. That suffices but requires additional work. | |
a working copy of the script | |
9. adj. In paid employment. | |
working mothers | |
10. adj. Of or relating to employment. | |
the working week | |
11. adj. Enough to allow one to use something. | |
a working knowledge of computers | |
work |
1. n. (heading) Employment. | |
2. n. Labour, occupation, job. | |
My work involves a lot of travel. | |
3. n. The place where one is employed. | |
He hasn’t come home yet, he’s still at work. | |
4. n. One's employer | |
“I want to go to the R.E.M. reunion concert but I'm not sure if my work will let me off.” | |
5. n. (heading) Effort. | |
6. n. Effort expended on a particular task. | |
Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary. | |
7. n. Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result. | |
We know what we must do. Let's go to work. | |
8. n. Something on which effort is expended. | |
There's lots of work waiting for me at the office. | |
9. n. (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move. | |
Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground. | |
10. n. (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process. | |
11. n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles. | |
We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags. | |
12. n. Product; the result of effort.: | |
13. n. (often, in combination) The result of a particular manner of production. | |
There's a lot of guesswork involved. | |
14. n. (often, in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool. | |
We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work. | |
15. n. A literary, artistic, or intellectual production. | |
It is a work of art. | |
the poetic works of Alexander Pope | |
16. n. A fortification. | |
William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works. | |
17. n. (slang) The staging of events to appear as real. | |
18. n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed. | |
19. n. The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.) | |
Tell me you're using clean works at least. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. | |
He’s working in a bar. | |
21. v. Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business). | |
I work in a national park | |
she works in the human resources department | |
he mostly works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry | |
22. v. Followed by as. Said of one's job title | |
I work as a cleaner. | |
23. v. Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs. | |
she works for Microsoft | |
he works for the president | |
24. v. Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients. | |
I work closely with my Canadian counterparts | |
you work with computers | |
she works with the homeless people from the suburbs | |
25. v. To effect by gradual degrees. | |
he worked his way through the crowd | |
the dye worked its way through | |
using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand | |
26. v. To embroider with thread. | |
27. v. To set into action. | |
He worked the levers. | |
28. v. To cause to ferment. | |
29. v. (intransitive) To ferment. | |
30. v. To exhaust, by working. | |
The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted. | |
31. v. To shape, form, or improve a material. | |
He used pliers to work the wire into shape. | |
32. v. To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality. | |
she works the night clubs | |
the salesman works the Midwest | |
this artist works mostly in acrylics | |
33. v. To operate in or through; as, to work the phones. | |
34. v. To provoke or excite; to influence. | |
The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy. | |
35. v. To use or manipulate to one’s advantage. | |
She knows how to work the system. | |
36. v. To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence. | |
I cannot work a miracle. | |
37. v. To cause to work. | |
He is working his servants hard. | |
38. v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for. | |
he pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?; he looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work; my plan didn’t work | |
39. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence. | |
They worked on her to join the group. | |
40. v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth. | |
41. v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner. | |
His fingers worked with tension. | |
A ship works in a heavy sea. | |
42. v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled | |
this dough does not work easily; the soft metal works well | |
43. v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad). | |
44. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache. | |
in |
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
2. prep. Contained by. | |
The dog is in the kennel. | |
3. prep. Within. | |
4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
What grade did he get in English? | |
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
They said they would call us in a week. | |
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
11. prep. Into. | |
Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
My fat rolls around in folds. | |
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
Is Mr. Smith in? | |
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
What's that in? | |
26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
His parents got him an in with the company | |
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
Skirts are in this year. | |
31. adj. Incoming. | |
the in train | |
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
35. n. Inch. | |
when |
1. adv. (interrogative) Used to introduce questions about time. | |
When will they arrive? | |
2. adv. Used to introduce indirect questions about time. | |
Do you know when they arrived? | |
Do you know when they will arrive? | |
Do you know when they arrive? | |
3. adv. At an earlier and less prosperous time. | |
He's mister high and mighty now, but I remember him when. | |
4. adv. (indirect question) Used to refer to doubts about time. | |
5. adv. (relative) At which, on which, during which. Often omitted or replaced with that. | |
That was the day when the Twin Towers fell. | |
6. conj. At what time. | |
They were told when to sleep. | |
He doesn't know when to stop talking. | |
7. conj. At such time as. | |
I’m happiest when I’m working. | |
8. conj. At the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase. | |
It was raining when I came yesterday. | |
The show will begin when I get there. | |
The game is over when the referee says it is. | |
Be careful when crossing the street. | |
Pay attention when spoken to. | |
When (you are) angry, count to ten before speaking or acting. | |
That time when the dog stole the turkey from the table. | |
9. conj. Since; given the fact that. | |
I don't see the point of putting up Christmas decorations when I am the only person who is going to see them. | |
10. pron. (interrogative) What time; which time. | |
Since when do I need your permission? | |
11. n. The time at which something happens. | |
A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how. | |
12. interj. That's enough, a command to stop adding something, especially an ingredient of food or drink. | |
She |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, she | |
2. n. An ethnic group in southern China. | |
3. n. A language of the Hmong-Mien language family spoken by the She people. | |
4. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied. | |
I asked Mary, but she said that she didn’t know. | |
5. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat. | |
She could do forty knots in good weather. | |
She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she? | |
6. pron. (personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car. | |
She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable. | |
7. pron. (personal, dated) A country. | |
She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people. | |
8. pron. (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun). | |
9. n. A female. | |
Pat is definitely a she. | |
well |
1. adv. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily. | |
He does his job well. | |
2. adv. (manner) Completely, fully. | |
a well done steak | |
We’re well beat now. | |
3. adv. (degree) To a significant degree. | |
That author is well known. | |
4. adv. (degree, British, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier). | |
5. adv. In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously. | |
6. adj. In good health. | |
I had been sick, but now I'm well. | |
7. adj. (hypercorrect) Good, content. | |
“How are you?” — “I'm well, thank you!” | |
8. adj. (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised. | |
9. interj. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation. | |
“The car is broken.” “Well, we could walk to the movies instead.” | |
“I didn't like the music.” “Well, I thought it was good.” | |
“I forgot to pack the tent! Well, I guess we're sleeping under the stars tonight.” | |
10. interj. An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled. | |
Well, well, well, what do we have here? | |
11. interj. An exclamation of indignance. | |
Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother! | |
12. interj. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something. | |
It was a bit... well... too loud. | |
13. interj. Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause. | |
“So what have you been doing?” “Well, we went for a picnic, and then it started raining so we came home early.” | |
14. interj. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting | |
Well lads. How's things? | |
15. n. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids. | |
16. n. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring. | |
17. n. A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects. | |
Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk. | |
18. n. (figurative) A source of supply. | |
19. n. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate. | |
20. n. (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat. | |
21. n. (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported | |
22. n. (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water. | |
23. n. (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries. | |
24. n. (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole. | |
25. n. The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom. | |
26. n. (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls. | |
27. n. A well drink. | |
They're having a special tonight: $1 wells. | |
28. n. (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall. | |
29. n. (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes. | |
30. v. (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. | |
31. v. (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface. | |
Her eyes welled with tears. | |
well |
1. adv. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily. | |
He does his job well. | |
2. adv. (manner) Completely, fully. | |
a well done steak | |
We’re well beat now. | |
3. adv. (degree) To a significant degree. | |
That author is well known. | |
4. adv. (degree, British, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier). | |
5. adv. In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously. | |
6. adj. In good health. | |
I had been sick, but now I'm well. | |
7. adj. (hypercorrect) Good, content. | |
“How are you?” — “I'm well, thank you!” | |
8. adj. (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised. | |
9. interj. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation. | |
“The car is broken.” “Well, we could walk to the movies instead.” | |
“I didn't like the music.” “Well, I thought it was good.” | |
“I forgot to pack the tent! Well, I guess we're sleeping under the stars tonight.” | |
10. interj. An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled. | |
Well, well, well, what do we have here? | |
11. interj. An exclamation of indignance. | |
Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother! | |
12. interj. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something. | |
It was a bit... well... too loud. | |
13. interj. Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause. | |
“So what have you been doing?” “Well, we went for a picnic, and then it started raining so we came home early.” | |
14. interj. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting | |
Well lads. How's things? | |
15. n. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids. | |
16. n. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring. | |
17. n. A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects. | |
Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk. | |
18. n. (figurative) A source of supply. | |
19. n. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate. | |
20. n. (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat. | |
21. n. (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported | |
22. n. (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water. | |
23. n. (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries. | |
24. n. (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole. | |
25. n. The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom. | |
26. n. (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls. | |
27. n. A well drink. | |
They're having a special tonight: $1 wells. | |
28. n. (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall. | |
29. n. (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes. | |
30. v. (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. | |
31. v. (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface. | |
Her eyes welled with tears. | |
I'll |
1. contraction. I will | |
2. contraction. I shall | |
I |
1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence. | |
(audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio) | |
2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence. | |
3. n. (metaphysics) The ego. | |
4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate. | |
5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case) | |
will |
1. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
Do what you will. | |
2. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
3. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
4. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
5. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
6. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
7. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. | |
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason. | |
8. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
9. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
Most creatures have a will to live. | |
10. n. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes. | |
11. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
12. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
13. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
14. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
15. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
16. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
just |
1. adj. Factually right, correct; factual. | |
It is a just assessment of the facts. | |
2. adj. Rationally right, correct. | |
3. adj. Morally right; upright, righteous, equitable; fair. | |
It looks like a just solution at first glance. | |
4. adj. Proper, adequate. | |
5. adv. Only, simply, merely. | |
Plant just a few tomatoes, unless you can freeze or dry them. | |
He calls it vermilion, but it's just red to me. | |
6. adv. (sentence adverb) Used to reduce the force of an imperative; simply. | |
Just follow the directions on the box. | |
7. adv. (speech act) Used to convey a less serious or formal tone | |
I just called to say "hi". | |
8. adv. (speech act) Used to show humility. | |
Lord, we just want to thank You and praise Your Name. | |
9. adv. (degree) absolutely, positively | |
It is just splendid! | |
10. adv. Moments ago, recently. | |
They just left, but you may leave a message at the desk. | |
11. adv. By a narrow margin; closely; nearly. | |
The fastball just missed my head! | |
The piece just might fit. | |
12. adv. Exactly, precisely, perfectly. | |
He wants everything just right for the big day. | |
13. interj. (slang) Expressing dismay or discontent. | |
14. n. A joust, tournament. | |
15. v. To joust, fight a tournament. | |
use |
1. n. The act of using. | |
the use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations; there is no use for your invention | |
2. n. (followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit. | |
What's the use of a law that nobody follows? | |
3. n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed. | |
This tool has many uses. | |
4. n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity. | |
I have no further use for these textbooks. | |
5. n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury. | |
6. n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit. | |
7. n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience. | |
8. n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese. | |
the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc. | |
9. n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging. | |
10. v. To utilize or employ. | |
11. v. To employ; to apply; to utilize. | |
Use this knife to slice the bread. | |
We can use this mathematical formula to solve the problem. | |
12. v. (transitive, often with up) To expend; to consume by employing. | |
I used the money they allotted me. | |
We should use up most of the fuel. | |
She used all the time allotted to complete the test. | |
13. v. To exploit. | |
You never cared about me; you just used me! | |
14. v. To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly. | |
He uses cocaine. I have never used drugs. | |
15. v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted. | |
Richard began experimenting with cocaine last year; now he uses almost every day. | |
16. v. (transitive, with auxiliary "could") To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand. | |
I could use a drink. My car could use a new coat of paint. | |
17. v. To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Note: This usage uses the nounal pronunciation of the word rather than the typically verbal one.) | |
soldiers who are used to hardships and danger (still common) | |
to use the soldiers to hardships and danger (now rare) | |
18. v. (reflexive, obsolete, with "to") To become accustomed, to accustom oneself. | |
19. v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do. | |
20. v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually employ; to be wont to employ. | |
21. v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to. | |
I used to get things done. | |
22. v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat. | |
to use an animal cruelly | |
23. v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself. | |
Her |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, her | |
2. det. Belonging to her. | |
This is her book | |
3. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc. | |
Give it to her (after preposition) | |
He wrote her a letter (indirect object) | |
He treated her for a cold (direct object) | |
4. n. (informal) A female person or animal. | |
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her. | |
own |
1. v. To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to. | |
I own this car. | |
2. v. To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership. | |
The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon. | |
3. v. To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. | |
I will own my enemies. | |
If he wins, he will own you. | |
4. v. To virtually or figuratively enslave. | |
5. v. (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn. | |
6. v. (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn. | |
7. adj. Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence. | |
They went that way, but we need to find our own. | |
8. adj. (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic. | |
9. adj. (obsolete) Not foreign. | |
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To grant; give. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny. | |
12. v. To admit; concede; acknowledge. | |
13. v. To answer to. | |
14. v. To recognise; acknowledge. | |
to own one as a son | |
15. v. To claim as one's own. | |
16. v. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess. | |
words |
1. n. plural of word | |
Words have a longer life than deeds. — Pindar (translated) | |
2. n. Angry debate or conversation; argument. | |
After she found out the truth, she had words with him, to tell him how she felt. | |
3. n. Lines in a script for a performance. | |
You better get your words memorised before rehearsal next Saturday. | |
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of word | |
word |
1. n. The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.) | |
2. n. The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes | |
3. n. The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes | |
4. n. A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word). | |
5. n. Something like such a unit of language: | |
6. n. A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning | |
7. n. (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space. | |
8. n. (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine (on many 16-bit machines, 16 bits or two bytes). | |
9. n. (computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator. | |
10. n. (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements. | |
11. n. The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. | |
12. n. (now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech. | |
13. n. (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words). | |
mum's the word | |
14. n. (obsolete) A proverb or motto. | |
15. n. News; tidings (used without an article). | |
Have you had any word from John yet? | |
16. n. An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will. | |
He sent word that we should strike camp before winter. | |
Don't fire till I give the word | |
Their mother's word was law. | |
17. n. A promise; an oath or guarantee. | |
I give you my word that I will be there on time. | |
18. n. A brief discussion or conversation. | |
Can I have a word with you? | |
19. n. (in the plural) See words. | |
There had been words between him and the secretary about the outcome of the meeting. | |
20. n. (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture. | |
Her parents had lived in Botswana, spreading the word among the tribespeople. | |
21. n. (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ. | |
22. v. To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something). | |
I’m not sure how to word this letter to the council. | |
23. v. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter with words, to cajole. | |
24. v. To ply or overpower with words. | |
25. v. (transitive, rare) To conjure with a word. | |
26. v. (intransitive, archaic) To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse. | |
27. interj. (slang) Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond.". | |
"Yo, that movie was epic!" / "Word?" ("You speak the truth?") / "Word." ("I speak the truth.") | |
28. interj. (slang) An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval. | |
29. v. alternative form of worth (to become). | |