domestic |
1. adj. Of or relating to the home. | |
2. adj. Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur. | |
domestic violence; domestic hot water | |
3. adj. (of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet. | |
4. adj. Internal to a specific country. | |
5. adj. Tending to stay at home; not outgoing. | |
6. n. A house servant; a maid; a household worker. | |
7. n. A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent | |
fowl |
1. n. (archaic) A bird. | |
2. n. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail. | |
3. n. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans. | |
4. v. To hunt fowl. | |
We took our guns and went fowling. | |
5. adj. (obsolete) foul | |
chickens |
1. n. plural of chicken | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of chicken | |
ducks |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of duck | |
2. n. plural of duck | |
3. n. (poker slang) A pair of twos. | |
4. n. (UK, chiefly Northern England, used vocatively) Dear (used as a pet name). | |
Hello ducks, how are you today? | |
5. n. (nautical) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates. | |
duck |
1. v. (intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | |
2. v. To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | |
3. v. To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To bow. | |
6. v. To evade doing something. | |
7. v. To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly. | |
8. v. (intransitive, Australia) To enter a place for a short moment. | |
I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute, can you hold my bag? | |
9. n. An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet. | |
10. n. Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling. | |
11. n. The flesh of a duck used as food. | |
12. n. (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.) | |
13. n. (slang) A playing card with the rank of two. | |
14. n. A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space. | |
15. n. A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related. | |
A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly. | |
16. n. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games. | |
17. n. (US) A cairn used to mark a trail. | |
18. n. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve. | |
19. n. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth. | |
20. n. (in plural) Trousers made of such material. | |
21. n. (A term of endearment); pet; darling. | |
And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck (William Shakespeare - The Life of King Henry the Fifth, Act 2, Scene 3). | |
22. n. (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger). | |
Ay up duck, ow'a'tha? | |
turkeys |
1. n. plural of turkey | |
turkey |
1. n. Either of two species of bird in the genus Meleagris with fan-shaped tails and wattled necks. | |
2. n. The meat or flesh of this bird eaten as food | |
All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch. | |
3. n. (colloquial) A failure. | |
That film was a turkey. | |
4. n. (slang) A foolish or inept person. | |
The turkey cut in front of me and then berated me for running into him. | |
5. n. (bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row. | |
6. n. (obsolete) The guinea fowl (Numida meleagris). | |
7. n. (medical slang) A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer. | |
8. n. (dated, slang) A large travel bag; a suitcase; a pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle. | |
and |
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other. | |
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs. | |
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences. | |
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first. | |
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but. | |
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often | |
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements. | |
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition. | |
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause. | |
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’. | |
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, | |
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other". | |
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb). | |
14. conj. Expressing a condition.: | |
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that. | |
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though. | |
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat. | |
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath. | |
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog. | |
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine. | |
geese |
1. n. plural form of goose | |
raised |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of raise | |
raise |
1. v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate. | |
to raise your hand if you want to say something; to raise your walking stick to defend yourself | |
2. v. To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect. | |
to raise a wall, or a heap of stones | |
3. v. To cause something to come to the surface of the sea. | |
The ship was raised ten years after it had sunk. | |
4. v. (nautical) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it. | |
to raise Sandy Hook light | |
5. v. (figurative) To cause (a dead person) to live again, to cause to be undead. | |
The magic spell raised the dead from their graves! | |
6. v. (military) To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersin | |
7. v. To create, increase or develop. | |
We need to raise the motivation level in the company. | |
to raise the quality of the products; to raise the price of goods | |
8. v. To collect. | |
to raise a lot of money for charity; to raise troops | |
9. v. To bring up; to grow; to promote. | |
We visited a farm where they raise chickens. | |
Chew with your mouth shut — were you raised in a barn? | |
to raise somebody to office | |
10. v. To mention (a question, issue) for discussion. | |
A few important questions were raised after the attack. | |
11. v. (legal) To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property). | |
There should be some consideration (i.e., payment or exchange) to raise a use. | |
12. v. To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear. | |
13. v. To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio). | |
Despite all the call congestion, she was eventually able to raise the police. | |
14. v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand. | |
John bet, and Julie raised, requiring John to put in more money. | |
15. v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute. | |
Two raised to the fifth power equals 32. | |
16. v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause. | |
17. v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth. | |
18. v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified. | |
19. v. (computing) To throw (an exception). | |
A division by zero will raise an exception. | |
20. n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK). | |
The boss gave me a raise. | |
21. n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance. | |
22. n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward. | |
23. n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet. | |
24. n. A cairn or pile of stones. | |
for |
1. conj. (dated) Because. | |
2. prep. Towards. | |
The astronauts headed for the moon. | |
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to. | |
I have something for you. | |
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of. | |
We're having a birthday party for Janet. | |
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary. | |
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala. | |
5. prep. Supporting. | |
All those for the motion raise your hands. | |
6. prep. Because of. | |
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him. | |
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight. | |
She was the worse for drink. | |
7. prep. Over a period of time. | |
I've lived here for three years. | |
They fought for days over a silly pencil. | |
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space. | |
9. prep. On behalf of. | |
I will stand in for him. | |
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of. | |
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire. | |
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday. | |
He's going for his doctorate. | |
Do you want to go for coffee? | |
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers. | |
Can you go to the store for some eggs? | |
I'm saving up for a car. | |
Don't wait for an answer. | |
What did he ask you for? | |
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward. | |
Run for the hills! | |
He was headed for the door when he remembered. | |
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect. | |
Fair for its day. | |
She's spry for an old lady. | |
14. prep. Despite, in spite of. | |
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive. | |
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.) | |
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.) | |
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio | |
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day | |
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen. | |
At close of play, England were 305 for 3. | |
18. prep. To be, or as being. | |
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.) | |
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs). | |
food |
1. n. Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. | |
The innkeeper brought them food and drink. | |
2. n. A foodstuff. | |
3. n. (figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains. | |
The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought. | |
Mozart and Bach are food for my soul. | |
either |
1. det. One of two. | |
You can have it in either colour. | |
2. det. Each of two; both. | |
There is a locomotive at either end of the train, one pulling and the other pushing. | |
3. pron. One or other of two people or things. | |
He made me two offers, but I did not accept either. | |
4. pron. (obsolete) Both, each of two or more. | |
5. adv. (conjunctive, after a negative) As well. | |
I don't like him, and I don't like her either. | |
6. conj. (Introduces the first of two (or occasionally more) options or possibilities, the second (or last) of which is introduced by "or"). | |
Either you eat your dinner or you go to your room. | |
You can have either potatoes or rice with that, but not both. | |
You'll be either early, late, or on time. | |
meat |
1. n. The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. | |
A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms. | |
The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter. | |
2. n. A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. | |
The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly. | |
3. n. (now archaic, dialectal) Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. | |
4. n. (now rare) A type of food, a dish. | |
5. n. (now archaic) A meal. | |
6. n. Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc. | |
The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm. | |
7. n. (slang) A penis. | |
8. n. (colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something. | |
We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor. | |
9. n. (sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.). | |
He hit it right on the meat of the bat. | |
10. n. A meathead. | |
Throw it in here, meat. | |
11. n. (Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
eggs |
1. n. plural of egg | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of egg | |