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. | |
news |
1. n. New information of interest. | |
Is there any news about the storm? | |
That was not much news in the press release. | |
2. n. Information about current events disseminated via media. | |
Did you hear/read/see the latest news? | |
The news is that a new leader will be elected in one month. | |
3. n. (computing, internet) posts published on newsgroups | |
4. v. (transitive, archaic) To report; to make known. | |
bureau |
1. n. An administrative unit of government; office. | |
2. n. An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news. | |
a news bureau; a travel bureau; a service bureau; an employment bureau; the Citizens Advice Bureau | |
3. n. An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed). | |
4. n. (chiefly British) A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers. | |
5. n. (US) A chest of drawers for clothes. | |
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. | |
travel |
1. v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another. | |
I like to travel. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another. | |
Soundwaves can travel through water. | |
3. v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball. | |
4. v. To travel throughout (a place). | |
I’ve travelled the world. | |
5. v. To force to journey. | |
6. v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail. | |
7. n. The act of traveling. | |
space travel | |
travel to Spain | |
8. n. A series of journeys. | |
9. n. An account of one's travels. | |
I’m off on my travels around France again. | |
10. n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point. | |
11. n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke. | |
There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment. | |
My drill press has a travel of only 1.5 inches. | |
12. n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail. | |
bureau |
1. n. An administrative unit of government; office. | |
2. n. An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news. | |
a news bureau; a travel bureau; a service bureau; an employment bureau; the Citizens Advice Bureau | |
3. n. An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed). | |
4. n. (chiefly British) A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers. | |
5. n. (US) A chest of drawers for clothes. | |
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. | |
service |
1. n. An act of being of assistance to someone. | |
I say I did him a service by ending our relationship - now he can freely pursue his career. | |
2. n. (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity. | |
Hair care is a service industry. | |
3. n. A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc. | |
4. n. (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another. | |
This machine provides the name service for the LAN. | |
5. n. The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group | |
Lancelot was at the service of King Arthur. | |
6. n. The military. | |
I did three years in the service before coming here. | |
7. n. (anchor, silverware)A set of dishes or utensils. | |
She brought out the silver tea service. | |
8. n. (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games. | |
The player had four service faults in the set. | |
9. n. A religious rite or ritual. | |
The funeral service was touching. | |
10. n. (legal) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ. | |
The service happened yesterday. | |
11. n. (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities. | |
12. n. A musical composition for use in churches. | |
13. n. (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed. | |
14. n. (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines. | |
15. v. To serve. | |
They service the customer base. | |
16. v. To perform maintenance. | |
He is going to service the car. | |
17. v. (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse | |
18. v. (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act. | |
He was going to service her. | |
19. n. service tree | |
bureau |
1. n. An administrative unit of government; office. | |
2. n. An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news. | |
a news bureau; a travel bureau; a service bureau; an employment bureau; the Citizens Advice Bureau | |
3. n. An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed). | |
4. n. (chiefly British) A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers. | |
5. n. (US) A chest of drawers for clothes. | |
an |
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
4. conj. (archaic) If | |
5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
employment |
1. n. A use, purpose | |
2. n. The act of employing | |
The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure | |
3. n. The state of being employed | |
4. n. The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid | |
5. n. An activity to which one devotes time | |
6. n. (economics) The number or percentage of people at work | |
bureau |
1. n. An administrative unit of government; office. | |
2. n. An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news. | |
a news bureau; a travel bureau; a service bureau; an employment bureau; the Citizens Advice Bureau | |
3. n. An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed). | |
4. n. (chiefly British) A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers. | |
5. n. (US) A chest of drawers for clothes. | |
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. | |
Citizens |
1. n. plural of Citizen | |
2. n. plural of citizen | |
citizen |
1. n. (obsolete) A resident of a city or town, particularly: | |
2. n. (historical) A freeman or burgher: a legally-recognized member of an incorporated city. | |
3. n. (obsolete) A member of the early modern urban middle class, distinguished from nobles and landed gentry on one side and from peasants, craftsmen, and l | |
4. n. (Christianity) A resident or future resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian. | |
5. n. A legally-recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role, particularly: | |
I am a Roman citizen. | |
6. n. (dated) A member of a state that is not a monarchy. | |
Formerly, the citizens of republics were distinguished from the subjects living in kingdoms. | |
7. n. (historical, usually capitalized) A term of address among French citizens during the French Revolution or towards its supporters elsewhere; (later, dat | |
8. n. An inhabitant: a member of any place. | |
Diogenes reckoned himself a citizen of the world. | |
9. n. A private citizen: a civilian, as opposed to a police officer, professional soldier, or other (usually state) group. | |
10. n. (computing) An object. | |
advice |
1. n. An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel. | |
She was offered various piece of advice on what to do with her new-found wealth. | |
2. n. (obsolete) Deliberate consideration; knowledge. | |
How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her? | |
3. n. (archaic, commonly in plural) Information or news given; intelligence | |
late advices from France | |
4. n. In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange | |
a letter of advice | |
5. n. (legal) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. | |
6. n. (programming) In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached. | |
7. v. misspelling of advise | |
bureau |
1. n. An administrative unit of government; office. | |
2. n. An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news. | |
a news bureau; a travel bureau; a service bureau; an employment bureau; the Citizens Advice Bureau | |
3. n. An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed). | |
4. n. (chiefly British) A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers. | |
5. n. (US) A chest of drawers for clothes. | |