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. | |
nagging |
1. v. present participle of nag | |
2. n. The action of the verb nag. | |
3. adj. Causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance. | |
nag |
1. n. A small horse; a pony. | |
2. n. An old useless horse. | |
3. n. (obsolete, derogatory) A paramour. | |
4. v. To continuously remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters. | |
5. v. To bother with persistent thoughts or memories. | |
The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day. | |
6. v. To bother or disturb persistently in any way. | |
a nagging pain in his left knee | |
a nagging north wind | |
7. n. Someone or something that nags. | |
8. n. A repeated complaint or reminder. | |
9. n. A persistent, bothersome thought or worry | |
pain |
1. n. An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. | |
The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain. | |
I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet. | |
2. n. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress | |
In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life. | |
The pain of departure was difficult to bear. | |
3. n. (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing. | |
Your mother is a right pain. | |
4. n. (obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty. | |
You may not leave this room on pain of death. | |
5. n. Labour; effort; pains. | |
6. v. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. | |
The wound pained him. | |
7. v. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. | |
It pains me to say that I must let you go. | |
8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. | |
9. n. (obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling. | |
gammon pain; Spanish pain | |
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. | |
His |
1. pron. honoraltcaps, his | |
2. det. Belonging to him. | |
3. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender. | |
4. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.) | |
5. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case. | |
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark. | |
Sejanus his Fall | |
6. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun. | |
The decision was his to live with. | |
7. pron. alternative spelling of His | |
8. n. plural of hi | |
left |
1. adj. The opposite of right; toward the west when one is facing north. | |
The left side. | |
2. adj. (politics) Pertaining to the political left. | |
3. adv. On the left side. | |
4. adv. Towards the left side. | |
Turn left at the corner. | |
5. n. The left side or direction. | |
6. n. (politics) The ensemble of left-wing political parties. Those holding left-wing views as a group. | |
The political left is holding too much power. | |
7. n. (boxing) A punch delivered with the left fist. | |
8. v. simple past tense and past participle of leave. | |
9. v. (Ireland, colloquial) permitted, allowed to proceed. | |
We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend. | |
leave |
1. v. To have a consequence or remnant. | |
2. v. To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (somet | |
I left my car at home and took a bus to work. The ants did not leave so much as a crumb of bread. There's not much food left. We'd be | |
3. v. To cause, to result in. | |
The lightning left her dazzled for several minutes. Infantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life. | |
4. v. To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself. | |
Leave your hat in the hall. We should leave the legal matters to lawyers. I left my sewing and went to the window to watch the fallin | |
5. v. To depart; to separate from. | |
6. v. To let be or do without interference. | |
I left him to his reflections. I leave my hearers to judge. | |
7. v. To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with. | |
I left the country and I left my wife. | |
8. v. To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project). | |
I left the band. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state. | |
I think you'd better leave. | |
10. v. To transfer something. | |
11. v. To transfer possession of after death. | |
When my father died, he left me the house. | |
12. v. To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit. | |
I'll leave the car in the station so you can pick it up there. | |
13. v. To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with. | |
Can't we just leave this to the experts? | |
14. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay. | |
15. v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund). | |
16. n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball. | |
17. n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or onl | |
18. n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work. | |
I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss. | |
19. n. (dated, or legal) Permission. | |
Might I beg leave to accompany you? | |
The applicant now seeks leave to appeal and, if leave be granted, to appeal against these sentences. | |
20. n. (dated) Farewell, departure. | |
I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance. | |
21. v. To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant. | |
22. v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. | |
23. v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy. | |
knee |
1. n. In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank. | |
Penny was wearing a miniskirt, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell. | |
2. n. In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans. | |
3. n. The part of a garment that covers the knee. | |
4. n. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent. | |
5. n. (archaic) An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy. | |
To make a knee. | |
6. n. Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line, "the knee of a graph", an inflection point. | |
7. n. A blow made with the knee; a kneeing. | |
8. v. (transitive, archaic) To kneel to. | |
9. v. To poke or strike with the knee. | |