he |
1. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied. | |
2. pron. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant. | |
The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna? | |
3. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown. | |
4. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he". | |
5. n. (informal) A male. | |
Alex totally is a he. | |
6. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). | |
sits |
1. n. plural of sit | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of sit | |
sit |
1. v. (intransitive, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. | |
After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax. | |
2. v. (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position. | |
I asked him to sit. | |
3. v. (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position permanently. | |
The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries. | |
4. v. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition. | |
5. v. (government) To be a member of a deliberative body. | |
I currently sit on a standards committee. | |
6. v. (legal, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session. | |
In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session. | |
7. v. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh. | |
8. v. To be adjusted; to fit. | |
Your new coat sits well. | |
9. v. (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work. | |
How will this new contract sit with the workers? | |
I don’t think it will sit well. | |
The violence in these video games sits awkwardly with their stated aim of educating children. | |
10. v. (transitive, causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to. | |
Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours. | |
11. v. To accommodate in seats; to seat. | |
The dining room table sits eight comfortably. | |
12. v. (intransitive) shortened form of babysit. | |
I'm going to sit for them on Thursday. | |
13. v. (transitive, US) To babysit | |
I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours. | |
14. v. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test). | |
15. v. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate. | |
16. v. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust. | |
I'm sitting for a painter this evening. | |
17. v. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction. | |
18. n. (rare, Buddhism) An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation. | |
very |
1. adj. True, real, actual. | |
The fierce hatred of a very woman. The very blood and bone of our grammar. He tried his very best. | |
2. adj. The same; identical. | |
He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met. That's the very tool that I need. | |
3. adj. With limiting effect: mere. | |
4. adv. To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly. | |
You’re drinking very slowly. | |
That dress is very you. | |
5. adv. True, truly. | |
6. adv. (with superlatives) (ngd, Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.) | |
He was the very best runner there. | |
canny |
1. adj. Careful, prudent, cautious. | |
The politician gave a canny response to the reporter's questions. | |
2. adj. Knowing, shrewd, astute. | |
The canny lawyer knew just how to get what he wanted. | |
3. adj. Frugal, thrifty. | |
canny investments | |
4. adj. (Scotland, Northumbria) Pleasant, fair, favorable or agreeable to deal with. | |
She's a canny lass hor like! | |
5. adj. (Scotland, Northumbria) Gentle, quiet, steady. | |
a canny horse; be canny with this letter | |
6. adv. (Northumbria) Very, considerably; quite, rather. | |
That's a canny big horse, man! | |
a canny long journey; canny near home | |
7. adv. (Scotland, Northumbria) Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully. | |
he sits very canny; drive canny | |
drive |
1. n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition. | |
Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again. | |
2. n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business. | |
3. n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc. | |
4. n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective. | |
Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous. | |
5. n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use. | |
Some old model trains have clockwork drives. | |
6. n. A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle). | |
It was a long drive. | |
7. n. A driveway. | |
The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive. | |
8. n. A type of public roadway. | |
Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive. | |
9. n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving. | |
10. n. (psychology) Desire or interest. | |
11. n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive. | |
12. n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive. | |
13. n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver. | |
14. n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory. | |
15. n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket. | |
16. n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass. | |
17. n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity. | |
18. n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive. | |
a whist drive; a beetle drive | |
19. n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift. | |
20. n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. | |
21. v. To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on. | |
to drive sheep out of a field | |
22. v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal. | |
23. v. To cause animals to flee out of. | |
24. v. To move (something) by hitting it with great force. | |
You drive nails into wood with a hammer. | |
25. v. To cause (a mechanism) to operate. | |
The pistons drive the crankshaft. | |
26. v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle). | |
drive a car | |
27. v. To motivate; to provide an incentive for. | |
What drives a person to run a marathon? | |
28. v. To compel (to do something). | |
Their debts finally drove them to sell the business. | |
29. v. To cause to become. | |
This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity. You are driving me crazy! | |
30. v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive. | |
31. v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle. | |
I drive to work every day. | |
32. v. To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle. | |
My wife drove me to the airport. | |
33. v. (intransitive) To move forcefully. | |
34. v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship). | |
35. v. To urge, press, or bring to a point or state. | |
36. v. To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. | |
37. v. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. | |
38. v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. | |
39. v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field. | |
40. v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent. | |
41. v. To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air. | |
canny |
1. adj. Careful, prudent, cautious. | |
The politician gave a canny response to the reporter's questions. | |
2. adj. Knowing, shrewd, astute. | |
The canny lawyer knew just how to get what he wanted. | |
3. adj. Frugal, thrifty. | |
canny investments | |
4. adj. (Scotland, Northumbria) Pleasant, fair, favorable or agreeable to deal with. | |
She's a canny lass hor like! | |
5. adj. (Scotland, Northumbria) Gentle, quiet, steady. | |
a canny horse; be canny with this letter | |
6. adv. (Northumbria) Very, considerably; quite, rather. | |
That's a canny big horse, man! | |
a canny long journey; canny near home | |
7. adv. (Scotland, Northumbria) Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully. | |
he sits very canny; drive canny | |