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peter |
1. n. (slang) The penis. | |
2. n. (slang) A safe. | |
3. v. (most often used in the phrase peter out) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing. | |
4. v. (card games, intransitive) (synonym of blue peter) | |
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book |
1. n. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc. | |
She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud. | |
He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book. | |
2. n. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets. | |
I have three copies of his first book. | |
3. n. (heraldry) A heraldic representation of such an object, used as a charge; as in the arms of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. | |
4. n. A major division of a long work. | |
Genesis is the first book of the Bible. | |
Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing. | |
5. n. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet). | |
I'm running a book on who is going to win the race. | |
6. n. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use. | |
a book of stamps | |
a book of raffle tickets | |
7. n. (theatre) The script of a musical. | |
8. n. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business. | |
9. n. A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book. | |
10. n. (legal) A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging t | |
11. n. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side. | |
12. n. (poker slang) four of a kindWeisenberg, Michael (2000) . MGI/Mike Caro University. (ISBN, 978-1880069523) | |
13. n. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game. | |
14. n. (sports) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game. | |
15. n. (cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card. | |
16. v. To reserve (something) for future use. | |
I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night | |
I can book tickets for the concert next week. | |
17. v. To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. | |
They booked that message from the hill | |
18. v. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. | |
The police booked him for driving too fast. | |
19. v. (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued. | |
20. v. (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast. | |
He was really booking, until he passed the speed trap. | |
21. v. To record bets as bookmaker. | |
22. v. (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class. | |
The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class. | |
23. v. (intransitive, slang) To leave. | |
He was here earlier, but he booked. | |
24. v. (UK dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake | |
of |
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. | |
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". | |
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). | |
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). | |
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. | |
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to. | |
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three. | |
6. prep. Expressing separation. | |
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.) | |
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband. | |
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.) | |
He seemed devoid of human feelings. | |
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.) | |
10. prep. Expressing origin. | |
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.) | |
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin. | |
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of. | |
The invention was born of necessity. | |
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.) | |
It is said that she died of a broken heart. | |
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.) | |
I am tired of all this nonsense. | |
15. prep. Expressing agency. | |
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).) | |
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. | |
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below). | |
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties. | |
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.) | |
It was very brave of you to speak out like that. | |
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance. | |
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.) | |
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic. | |
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.) | |
She wore a dress of silk. | |
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.) | |
What a lot of nonsense! | |
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.) | |
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich. | |
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also". | |
I'm not driving this wreck of a car. | |
25. prep. Introducing subject matter. | |
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma | |
I'm always thinking of you. | |
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning. | |
He told us the story of his journey to India. | |
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.) | |
This behaviour is typical of teenagers. | |
29. prep. Having partitive effect. | |
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among". | |
Most of these apples are rotten. | |
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.) | |
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. | |
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort. | |
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).) | |
He is a friend of mine. | |
34. prep. Expressing possession. | |
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. | |
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. | |
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. | |
The owner of the nightclub was arrested. | |
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter | |
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames. | |
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive". | |
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.) | |
She had a profound distrust of the police. | |
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics. | |
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards. | |
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner. | |
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by". | |
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain. | |
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.) | |
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%. | |
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod | |
It's not that big of a deal. | |
45. prep. Expressing a point in time. | |
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. | |
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river. | |
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time). | |
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while. | |
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.) | |
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off. | |
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2nd |
1. adj. abbreviation of second | |
edition |
1. n. (publishing) A written work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner. | |
2. n. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time. | |
The first edition was soon sold. | |
3. n. (sport) A particular instance of an event. | |
The 2014 edition of the Tour de France started in Leeds, Yorkshire. | |
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. | |
developer |
1. n. A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products. | |
2. n. A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land. | |
3. n. A film developer; a person who uses chemicals to create photographs from photograph negatives. | |
4. n. A liquid used in the chemical processing of traditional photos. | |
5. n. (dyeing) A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber. | |
6. n. A software developer; a person or company who creates or modifies computer software. | |
guide |
1. n. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation. | |
The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits. | |
2. n. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook. | |
3. n. A sign that guides people; guidepost. | |
4. n. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference. | |
5. n. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action. | |
6. n. A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel. | |
7. n. A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery. | |
8. n. (printing, dated) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set. | |
9. n. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium. | |
10. n. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest. | |
11. v. to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path. | |
12. v. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot. | |
13. v. to exert control or influence over someone or something. | |
14. v. to supervise the education or training of someone. | |
15. v. (intransitive) to act as a guide. | |
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 | |
the |
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
The street that runs through my hometown. | |
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
God save the Queen! | |
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
That was the best apple pie ever. | |
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
That apple pie was the best. | |
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
The hotter the better. | |
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
future |
1. n. The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced. | |
2. n. Something that will happen in moments yet to come. | |
3. n. Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to. | |
There is no future in dwelling on the past. | |
4. n. (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense. | |
5. n. (finance) alternative form of futures | |
6. n. (computing, programming) An object that retrieves the value of a promise. | |
7. n. (sports) A minor-league prospect. | |
8. adj. Having to do with or occurring in the future. | |
Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity. | |
of |
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. | |
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". | |
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). | |
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). | |
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. | |
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to. | |
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three. | |
6. prep. Expressing separation. | |
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.) | |
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband. | |
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.) | |
He seemed devoid of human feelings. | |
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.) | |
10. prep. Expressing origin. | |
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.) | |
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin. | |
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of. | |
The invention was born of necessity. | |
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.) | |
It is said that she died of a broken heart. | |
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.) | |
I am tired of all this nonsense. | |
15. prep. Expressing agency. | |
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).) | |
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. | |
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below). | |
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties. | |
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.) | |
It was very brave of you to speak out like that. | |
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance. | |
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.) | |
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic. | |
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.) | |
She wore a dress of silk. | |
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.) | |
What a lot of nonsense! | |
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.) | |
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich. | |
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also". | |
I'm not driving this wreck of a car. | |
25. prep. Introducing subject matter. | |
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma | |
I'm always thinking of you. | |
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning. | |
He told us the story of his journey to India. | |
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.) | |
This behaviour is typical of teenagers. | |
29. prep. Having partitive effect. | |
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among". | |
Most of these apples are rotten. | |
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.) | |
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. | |
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort. | |
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).) | |
He is a friend of mine. | |
34. prep. Expressing possession. | |
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. | |
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. | |
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. | |
The owner of the nightclub was arrested. | |
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter | |
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames. | |
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive". | |
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.) | |
She had a profound distrust of the police. | |
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics. | |
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards. | |
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner. | |
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by". | |
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain. | |
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.) | |
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%. | |
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod | |
It's not that big of a deal. | |
45. prep. Expressing a point in time. | |
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. | |
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river. | |
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time). | |
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while. | |
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.) | |
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off. | |
web |
The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web. | |
1. n. Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web. | |
2. n. Specifically, the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web). | |
Let me search the web for that. | |
3. n. (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing. | |
He caught the ball in the web. | |
4. n. A latticed or woven structure. | |
The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood. | |
5. n. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member. | |
6. n. (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail. Profile of flat-bottomed and bullhead railway rail showing the web | |
7. n. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals. | |
8. n. The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. | |
9. n. (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing. | |
10. n. (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper. | |
11. n. (dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage. | |
12. n. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead. | |
13. n. The blade of a sword. | |
14. n. The blade of a saw. | |
15. n. The thin, sharp part of a colter. | |
16. n. The bit of a key. | |
17. v. (intransitive) To construct or form a web. | |
18. v. To cover with a web or network. | |
19. v. To ensnare or entangle. | |
20. v. To provide with a web. | |
21. v. (transitive, obsolete) To weave. | |
design |
1. n. A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system. | |
2. n. A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture. | |
3. n. The composition of a work of art. | |
4. n. Intention or plot. | |
To be hateful of the truth by design. | |
5. n. The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive. | |
6. n. The art of designing | |
Danish furniture design is world-famous. | |
7. v. To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.). | |
8. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To plan (to do something). | |
The king designed to mount an expedition to the New World. | |
9. v. (obsolete, transitive) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate. | |
10. v. (obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint. | |
No |
1. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No. | |
2. n. Alternative form of No. | |
3. n. Alternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama. | |
4. det. Not any. | |
no one | |
There is no water left. | |
No hot dogs were sold yesterday. | |
No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous. | |
There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.) | |
5. det. Hardly any. | |
We'll be finished in no time at all. | |
6. det. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something). | |
No smoking | |
There's no stopping her once she gets going. | |
7. det. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully. | |
My mother's no fool. | |
Working nine to five every day is no life. | |
8. adv. (now only used with comparatives, except in Scotland) Not, not at all. | |
It is a different kind of torture, but no less gruesome. | |
I just want to find out whether she's coming or no. | |
9. part. Used to show disagreement or negation. | |
No, you are mistaken. | |
No, you may not watch television now. | |
10. part. Used to show agreement with a negative question. | |
"Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.") | |
11. part. (colloquial) As if to say, "No, don’t doubt this!", or to deny an imagined contradictory statement, used to show intense agreement | |
No, totally. | |
No, yeah, that's exactly right. | |
"Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!". | |
No, yeah | |
12. n. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval. | |
13. n. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition. | |
The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no". | |
14. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No. | |
15. n. Alternative form of No. | |
starch |
1. n. A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without ta | |
2. n. (nutrition) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods. | |
3. n. (figuratively) A stiff, formal manner; formality. | |
4. n. Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener | |
5. v. To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface. | |
She starched her blouses. | |
6. adj. Stiff; precise; rigid. | |
press |
1. n. A device used to apply pressure to an item. | |
a flower press | |
2. n. A printing machine. | |
Stop the presses! | |
3. n. A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers). | |
according to a member of the press; This article appeared in the press. | |
4. n. A publisher. | |
5. n. (especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard). | |
Put the cups in the press. Put the ironing in the linen press. | |
6. n. (weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs. | |
7. n. (wagering) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet. | |
He can even the match with a press. | |
8. n. Pure, unfermented grape juice. | |
I would like some Concord press with my meal tonight. | |
9. n. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy. | |
10. n. (obsolete) A crowd. | |
11. v. to exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight | |
12. v. to compress, squeeze | |
to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice | |
13. v. to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug | |
She took her son, and press'd | |
The illustrious infant to her fragrant breast (Dryden, Illiad, VI. 178.) | |
14. v. to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth | |
to press cloth with an iron | |
to press a hat | |
15. v. (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas. | |
16. v. to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction | |
to press a crowd back | |
17. v. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble | |
He turns from us; | |
Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him | |
He would reveal, but dare not.-Sir, be comforted. (Fletcher, Pilgrim, I. 2.) | |
18. v. to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel | |
19. v. To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate. | |
to press the Bible on an audience | |
20. v. to hasten, urge onward | |
to press a horse in a race | |
21. v. to urge, beseech, entreat | |
God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name. (Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 35) | |
22. v. to lay stress upon, emphasize | |
If we read but a very little, we naturally want to press it all; if we read a great deal, we are willing not to press the whole of what we read, and we learn what ought to be pressed and what n | |
23. v. to throng, crowd | |
24. v. (transitive, obsolete) to print | |
25. v. To force into service, particularly into naval service. | |
ISBN |
1. n. initialism of International Standard Book Number | |
9781593275808) |
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page |
1. n. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document. | |
2. n. One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed. | |
3. n. A figurative record or writing; a collective memory. | |
the page of history | |
4. n. (typesetting) The type set up for printing a page. | |
5. n. (Internet) A web page. | |
6. n. (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length. | |
7. v. To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript. | |
8. v. (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication. | |
The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor. | |
9. v. To furnish with folios. | |
10. n. (obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education. | |
11. n. (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households. | |
12. n. (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. | |
13. n. (in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves. | |
14. n. A boy child. | |
15. n. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground. | |
16. n. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack. | |
17. n. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania. | |
18. v. To attend (someone) as a page. | |
19. v. (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone). | |
20. v. To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device. | |
I’ll be out all day, so page me if you need me. | |
21. v. To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them. | |
An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner? | |
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