| 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. | |
| linear |
| 1. adj. enum, constant, quadratic | |
| 2. adj. Having the form of a line; straight. | |
| 3. adj. Of or relating to lines. | |
| 4. adj. Made in a step-by-step, logical manner. | |
| 5. adj. (botany, of leaves) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides. | |
| 6. adj. (mathematics) Of or relating to a class of polynomial of the form y = ax + b. | |
| 7. adj. (physics) A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume). | |
| a linear meter | |
| meter |
| 1. n. (always meter) A device that measures things. | |
| 2. n. (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment. | |
| gas meter (also falls under sense 1) | |
| 3. n. (always meter) (dated) One who metes or measures. | |
| a labouring coal-meter | |
| 4. n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the d | |
| 5. n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure. | |
| 6. n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem. | |
| 7. n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it. | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) A poem. | |
| 9. v. to measure with a metering device. | |
| 10. v. to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter | |
| 11. v. to regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath) | |
