| 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. | |
| nominal |
| 1. adj. Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names. | |
| 2. adj. Assigned to or bearing a person's name. | |
| 3. adj. Existing in name only. | |
| a nominal difference | |
| 4. adj. (philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism. | |
| 5. adj. Insignificantly small; trifling. | |
| He gave me only a nominal sum for my services. | |
| 6. adj. Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value. | |
| The nominal voltage is 1.5 V, but the actual figure is usually higher. | |
| 7. adj. (finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value. | |
| 8. adj. (finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation. | |
| 9. adj. (grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun. | |
| This sentence contains a nominal phrase. | |
| 10. adj. (engineering) According to plan or design; normal. | |
| We'll just do a nominal flight check. | |
| Apart from the slightly high temperature, all the readings from the spacecraft are nominal. | |
| 11. adj. (economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation; contrasted with real. | |
| My employer does not understand how low my nominal wage is. | |
| The nominal GNP of this country is pretty low. | |
| 12. adj. (statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant. | |
| 13. n. (grammar) A noun or word group that functions as a noun phrase. | |
| This sentence contains two nominals. | |
| 14. n. (grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. | |
| 15. n. A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier (see also wikipedia). | |
| Numeric codes of characters used in programming are nominals. | |
| difference |
| 1. n. The quality of being different. | |
| You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference. | |
| 2. n. A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else. | |
| There are three differences between these two pictures. | |
| 3. n. A disagreement or argument. | |
| We have our little differences, but we are firm friends. | |
| 4. n. Significant change in or effect on a situation or state. | |
| It just won't make much difference to me. | |
| It just won't make much of a difference to anyone. | |
| 5. n. The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result. | |
| The difference between 3 and 21 is 18. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) Choice; preference. | |
| 7. n. (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency. | |
| 8. n. (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia. | |
| 9. n. (logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation (\scriptstyle A \overline B + \overline A B). | |
| 10. n. (relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B). | |
| 11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To distinguish or differentiate. | |
