| 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. | |
| particular |
| 1. adj. (also non-comparable) | |
| 2. adj. (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial. | |
| 3. adj. Specific; discrete; concrete. | |
| I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do. | |
| We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith. | |
| 4. adj. Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing. | |
| I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism. | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential. | |
| 6. adj. Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions). | |
| My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London. | |
| I didn't have any particular interest in the book. | |
| He brought no particular news. | |
| She was the particular belle of the party. | |
| 7. adj. (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious. | |
| He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back. | |
| Women are more particular about their appearance. | |
| 8. adj. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise. | |
| a full and particular account of an accident | |
| 9. adj. (legal) Containing a part only; limited. | |
| a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder | |
| 10. adj. (legal) Holding a particular estate. | |
| a particular tenant | |
| 11. adj. (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject. | |
| a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise". | |
| 12. n. A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point. | |
| 13. n. (obsolete) A person's own individual case. | |
| 14. n. (now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.) | |
| proposition |
| 1. n. The act of offering (an idea) for consideration. | |
| 2. n. An idea or a plan offered. | |
| 3. n. (business settings) The terms of a transaction offered. | |
| 4. n. (US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate. | |
| 5. n. (grammar) A complete sentence. | |
| 6. n. (logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian log | |
| “'Wiktionary is a good dictionary' is a proposition” is a proposition. | |
| 7. n. (mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false. | |
| 8. n. (mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem. | |
| 9. n. A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed. | |
| the propositions of Wyclif and Huss | |
| 10. n. (poetry) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it. | |
| 11. v. (transitive, informal) To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved). | |
| 12. v. (transitive, informal) To make an offer or suggestion to (someone). | |
| opposed |
| 1. adj. Acting in opposition; opposing. | |
| 2. adj. Being, of having an opponent; not unopposed. | |
| 3. v. simple past tense and past participle of oppose | |
| oppose |
| 1. v. To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand. | |
| to oppose the king in battle; to oppose a bill in Congress | |
| There is still time to oppose this plan. | |
| 2. v. To object to. | |
| Many religious leaders oppose cloning humans. | |
| 3. v. To present or set up in opposition; to pose. | |
| They are opposed to any form of hierarchy. | |
| 4. v. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. | |
| to |
| 1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
| I want to leave. | |
| He asked me what to do. | |
| I don’t know how to say it. | |
| I have places to go and people to see. | |
| 2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
| "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
| If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
| 3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
| I have to do laundry today. | |
| 4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
| We are walking to the shop. | |
| 5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
| He devoted himself to education. | |
| They drank to his health. | |
| 6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
| His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
| 7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
| similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
| With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
| 9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
| one to one = 1:1 | |
| ten to one = 10:1. | |
| I have ten dollars to your four. | |
| 10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
| Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
| Three to the power of two is nine. | |
| Three to the second is nine. | |
| 11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
| I gave the book to him. | |
| 12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
| ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
| 13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
| Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
| There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
| 14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
| Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
| 15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
| Please push the door to. | |
| 16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
| 17. adv. misspelling of too | |
| universal |
| 1. adj. Of or pertaining to the universe. | |
| 2. adj. Common to all members of a group or class. | |
| 3. adj. Common to all society; world-wide | |
| She achieved universal fame. | |
| 4. adj. unlimited; vast; infinite | |
| 5. adj. Useful for many purposes general-purpose, all-purpose | |
| universal wrench | |
| 6. n. (philosophy) A characteristic or property that particular things have in common. | |
| E |
| 1. n. (street slang) The illicit drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form. | |
| 2. n. (especially, in LGBT contexts) The hormone estrogen/estradiol. (Contrast T, testosterone.) | |
| 3. n. The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade. | |
| 4. n. (abbreviation of episode) (installment of a series) | |
| The pilot episode is S01E01. | |
| 5. Number. en-number, upper=E, lower=e | |
| 6. n. (mathematics) the base of the natural logarithm, 2.718281828459045… | |
