semantically |
1. adv. In the manner of or referring to semantics. | |
bleached |
1. adj. whitened; made white using bleach | |
Bleached cotton | |
2. adj. faded or washed out by weather and strong sunlight. | |
3. adj. Having the hair lightened by bleaching. | |
4. v. simple past tense and past participle of bleach | |
bleach |
1. adj. (archaic) Pale; bleak. | |
2. v. To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair). | |
3. v. (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example). | |
4. v. (intransitive, biology, of corals) to lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae. | |
Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed. | |
5. v. (transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty. | |
semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles | |
6. n. A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening. | |
7. n. A variety of bleach. | |
8. n. An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun. | |
9. n. A disease of the skin. | |
words |
1. n. plural of word | |
Words have a longer life than deeds. — Pindar (translated) | |
2. n. Angry debate or conversation; argument. | |
After she found out the truth, she had words with him, to tell him how she felt. | |
3. n. Lines in a script for a performance. | |
You better get your words memorised before rehearsal next Saturday. | |
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of word | |
word |
1. n. The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.) | |
2. n. The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes | |
3. n. The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes | |
4. n. A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word). | |
5. n. Something like such a unit of language: | |
6. n. A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning | |
7. n. (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space. | |
8. n. (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine (on many 16-bit machines, 16 bits or two bytes). | |
9. n. (computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator. | |
10. n. (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements. | |
11. n. The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. | |
12. n. (now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech. | |
13. n. (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words). | |
mum's the word | |
14. n. (obsolete) A proverb or motto. | |
15. n. News; tidings (used without an article). | |
Have you had any word from John yet? | |
16. n. An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will. | |
He sent word that we should strike camp before winter. | |
Don't fire till I give the word | |
Their mother's word was law. | |
17. n. A promise; an oath or guarantee. | |
I give you my word that I will be there on time. | |
18. n. A brief discussion or conversation. | |
Can I have a word with you? | |
19. n. (in the plural) See words. | |
There had been words between him and the secretary about the outcome of the meeting. | |
20. n. (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture. | |
Her parents had lived in Botswana, spreading the word among the tribespeople. | |
21. n. (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ. | |
22. v. To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something). | |
I’m not sure how to word this letter to the council. | |
23. v. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter with words, to cajole. | |
24. v. To ply or overpower with words. | |
25. v. (transitive, rare) To conjure with a word. | |
26. v. (intransitive, archaic) To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse. | |
27. interj. (slang) Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond.". | |
"Yo, that movie was epic!" / "Word?" ("You speak the truth?") / "Word." ("I speak the truth.") | |
28. interj. (slang) An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval. | |
29. v. alternative form of worth (to become). | |
that |
1. conj. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement. | |
He told me that the book is a good read. | |
I believe that it is true. — She is convinced that he is British. | |
2. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that. | |
Be glad that you have enough to eat. | |
3. conj. (now uncommon) Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that. | |
4. conj. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect. | |
The noise was so loud that she woke up. | |
The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed. | |
5. conj. (archaic, or poetic) Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that. | |
6. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb. | |
Was John there? — Not that I saw. | |
How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw. | |
7. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish. | |
8. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise. | |
9. det. The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction. | |
That book is a good read. This one isn't. | |
That battle was in 1450. | |
That cat of yours is evil. | |
10. pron. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "t | |
He went home, and after that I never saw him again. | |
11. pron. The known (thing); (used to refer to something just said). | |
They're getting divorced. What do you think about that? | |
12. pron. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality; used together with a verb and pronoun to emphatically repeat a previous statement. | |
The water is so cold! — That it is. | |
13. pron. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; (representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition). | |
The CPR course that she took really came in handy. | |
The house that he lived in was old and dilapidated. | |
14. pron. (colloquial) (Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.) | |
the place that = where or to which I went last year | |
the last time that = when I went to Europe | |
15. adv. (degree) To a given extent or degree. | |
"The ribbon was that thin." "I disagree, I say it was not that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner...". | |
16. adv. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions). | |
I'm just not that sick. | |
I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult. | |
17. adv. (obsolete, outside, dialects) To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions). | |
Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her. | |
18. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those. | |
have |
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst. | |
1. v. To possess, own, hold. | |
I have a house and a car. | |
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street! | |
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship). | |
I have two sisters. | |
I have a lot of work to do. | |
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action. | |
I have breakfast at six o'clock. | |
Can I have a look at that? | |
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now. | |
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in. | |
What class do you have right now? I have English. | |
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day. | |
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.) | |
I have already eaten today. | |
I had already eaten. | |
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to. | |
I have to go. | |
7. v. To give birth to. | |
The couple always wanted to have children. | |
My wife is having the baby right now! | |
My mother had me when she was 25. | |
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with. | |
He's always bragging about how many women he's had. | |
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner. | |
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me. | |
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation. | |
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town. | |
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be. | |
He had him arrested for trespassing. | |
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears. | |
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.) | |
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week. | |
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice. | |
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being. | |
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening. | |
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.)) | |
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we? | |
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she? | |
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he? | |
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take. | |
I could have him! | |
I'm gonna have you! | |
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language. | |
I have no German. | |
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of. | |
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before. | |
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from. | |
He had a cold last week. | |
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo. | |
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that. | |
He had surgery on his hip yesterday. | |
I'm having the time of my life! | |
20. v. To trick, to deceive. | |
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke. | |
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate. | |
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it. | |
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night. | |
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by. | |
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it. | |
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest. | |
Thank you for having me! | |
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation. | |
What do you have for problem two? | |
I have two contacts on my scope. | |
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case. | |
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon. | |
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person. | |
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | |
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading. | |
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have. | |
become |
1. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place). | |
2. v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise. | |
What became of him after he was let go? | |
It hath becomen so that many a man had to sterve. | |
3. v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into. | |
She became a doctor when she was 25. | |
The weather will become cold after the sun goes down. | |
4. v. To be proper for; to beseem. | |
5. v. Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone). | |
That dress really becomes you. | |
illocutionary |
1. adj. (linguistics) Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking. | |
"I pronounce you man and wife" is a descriptive statement, but also has illocutionary force. | |
particles |
1. n. plural of particle | |
particle |
1. n. A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something. | |
2. n. (physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle. | |
3. n. (linguistics) A word that has a particular grammatical function but does not obviously belong to any particular part of speech, such as the word to in English infinitives or O as a vocative particle. | |
4. n. (linguistics) A part of speech which cannot be inflected: an adverb, preposition, conjunction or interjection. | |
5. n. (Christianity) In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity. | |