| 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. | |
| canny |
| 1. adj. Careful, prudent, cautious. | |
| The politician gave a canny response to the reporter's questions. | |
| 2. adj. Knowing, shrewd, astute. | |
| The canny lawyer knew just how to get what he wanted. | |
| 3. adj. Frugal, thrifty. | |
| canny investments | |
| 4. adj. (Scotland, Northumbria) Pleasant, fair, favorable or agreeable to deal with. | |
| She's a canny lass hor like! | |
| 5. adj. (Scotland, Northumbria) Gentle, quiet, steady. | |
| a canny horse; be canny with this letter | |
| 6. adv. (Northumbria) Very, considerably; quite, rather. | |
| That's a canny big horse, man! | |
| a canny long journey; canny near home | |
| 7. adv. (Scotland, Northumbria) Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully. | |
| he sits very canny; drive canny | |
| long |
| 1. adj. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below). | |
| It's a long way from the Earth to the Moon. | |
| 2. adj. Having great duration. | |
| The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time. | |
| 3. adj. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring. | |
| 4. adj. (UK, dialect) Not short; tall. | |
| 5. adj. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value. | |
| I'm long in DuPont; I have a long position in DuPont. | |
| 6. adj. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position). | |
| 7. adj. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out). | |
| No! That forehand is longnb.... | |
| 8. adj. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. | |
| 9. adv. Over a great distance in space. | |
| He threw the ball long. | |
| 10. adv. For a particular duration. | |
| How long is it until the next bus arrives? | |
| 11. adv. For a long duration. | |
| Will this interview take long? | |
| Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world. | |
| 12. n. (linguistics) A long vowel. | |
| 13. n. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long. | |
| A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment. | |
| 14. n. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset. | |
| Every uptick made the longs cheer. | |
| 15. n. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. | |
| 16. v. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true) | |
| She longed for him to come back. | |
| 18. adj. (archaic) On account of, because of. | |
| 19. v. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to. | |
| 20. n. longitude | |
| journey |
| 1. n. A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage. | |
| 2. n. (obsolete) A day. | |
| 3. n. (obsolete) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) A day's work. | |
| 5. n. The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint. | |
| 6. n. (collective, colloquial) A group of giraffes. | |
| 7. v. To travel, to make a trip or voyage. | |
| canny |
| 1. adj. Careful, prudent, cautious. | |
| The politician gave a canny response to the reporter's questions. | |
| 2. adj. Knowing, shrewd, astute. | |
| The canny lawyer knew just how to get what he wanted. | |
| 3. adj. Frugal, thrifty. | |
| canny investments | |
| 4. adj. (Scotland, Northumbria) Pleasant, fair, favorable or agreeable to deal with. | |
| She's a canny lass hor like! | |
| 5. adj. (Scotland, Northumbria) Gentle, quiet, steady. | |
| a canny horse; be canny with this letter | |
| 6. adv. (Northumbria) Very, considerably; quite, rather. | |
| That's a canny big horse, man! | |
| a canny long journey; canny near home | |
| 7. adv. (Scotland, Northumbria) Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully. | |
| he sits very canny; drive canny | |
| near |
| 1. adj. Physically close. | |
| 2. adj. Closely connected or related. | |
| 3. adj. Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear. | |
| a near friend | |
| 4. adj. Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling. | |
| a version near to the original | |
| 5. adj. So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow. | |
| a near escape | |
| 6. adj. (of an event) Approaching. | |
| The end is near. | |
| 7. adj. Approximate, almost. | |
| The two words are near synonyms. | |
| 8. adj. (dated) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team. | |
| the near ox; the near leg | |
| 9. adj. (obsolete) Immediate; direct; close; short. | |
| 10. adj. (obsolete, slang) Stingy; parsimonious. | |
| 11. adv. Having a small intervening distance with regard to something. | |
| I'm near-sighted. | |
| 12. adv. (colloquial) nearly | |
| 13. prep. Close to, in close proximity to. | |
| There are habitable planets orbiting many of the stars near our Sun. | |
| 14. prep. Close to in time. | |
| The voyage was near completion. | |
| 15. v. To come closer to; to approach. | |
| The ship nears the land. | |
| 16. n. The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc. | |
| Home |
| 1. n. (computing) A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or on the Internet to the top of the web page. | |
| 2. n. A dwelling.: | |
| 3. n. One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one | |
| 4. n. The place where a person was raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian. | |
| 5. n. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. | |
| 6. n. A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there. | |
| It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home | |
| 7. n. A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum. | |
| a home for outcasts | |
| a home for the blind | |
| a veterans' home | |
| 8. n. (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul. | |
| 9. n. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt. | |
| 10. n. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat. | |
| the home of the pine | |
| 11. n. A focus point.: | |
| 12. n. (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal. | |
| The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home. | |
| 13. n. (baseball) Home plate. | |
| 14. n. (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player. | |
| 15. n. (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage. | |
| 16. n. (lbl, en, computers) clipping of home directory | |
| 17. v. (always with "in on", transitive) To seek or aim for something. | |
| The missile was able to home in on the target. | |
| 18. adj. Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts. | |
| 19. adj. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust. | |
| 20. adv. to home | |
| 21. adv. to one's place of residence or one's customary or official location | |
| go home, come home, carry home | |
| 22. adv. to one's place of birth | |
| 23. adv. to the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length | |
| to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home | |
| 24. adv. (internet) to the home page | |
| Click here to go home. | |
| 25. adv. in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home | |
| Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home. | |
| 26. adv. close; closely; to the center; deep | |
| 27. adv. (soccer) into the goal | |
| 28. adv. (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position | |
| Sails sheeted home. | |
