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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.
minor
1. adj. Of little significance or importance.
The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
2. adj. (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
a minor scale
3. adj. (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number
4. n. A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
5. n. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor.
I became an English minor.
6. n. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix
7. n. (British slang) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
8. n. (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
9. n. (logic) The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.
10. v. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
judge
1. n. A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
2. n. A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
3. n. A person officiating at a sports event or similar.
At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.
4. n. A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
She is a good judge of wine.
They say he is a poor judge of character considering all the unreliable friends he has made.
5. v. To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
A higher power will judge you after you are dead.
6. v. (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
Justices in this country judge without appeal.
7. v. To form an opinion on.
I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
8. v. (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.
9. v. To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
10. v. (intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
11. v. (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
brief
1. adj. Of short duration; happening quickly.
Her reign was brief but spectacular.
2. adj. Concise; taking few words.
His speech of acceptance was brief but moving.
3. adj. Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short.
Her skirt was extremely brief but doubtless cool.
4. adj. (obsolete) Rife; common; prevalent.
5. n. (legal) A writ summoning one to answer to any action.
6. n. (legal) An answer to any action.
7. n. (legal) A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.
8. n. (by extension, figurative) A position of interest or advocacy.
9. n. (legal) An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court.
10. n. (English law) The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who tries the case.
11. n. A short news story or report.
12. n. (usually plural) undershorts briefs.
I wear boxers under trousers but for sports I usually wear a brief.
13. n. (obsolete) A summary, précis or epitome; an abridgement or abstract.
14. n. (historical) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
15. n. (slang) A ticket of any type.The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
16. v. To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power.
The U.S. president was briefed on the military coup and its implications on African stability.
17. v. (transitive, legal) To write a legal argument and submit it to a court.
18. adv. (obsolete, poetic) Briefly.
19. adv. (obsolete, poetic) Soon; quickly.
spell
1. n. Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
He cast a spell to cure warts.
2. n. A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
under a spell
3. n. (obsolete) Speech, discourse.
4. v. To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
5. v. (obsolete) To speak, to declaim.
6. v. (obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.
7. v. (transitive, obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
8. v. (transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
9. v. (intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
I find it difficult to spell because I'm dyslexic.
10. v. Of letters: to compose (a word).
The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”.
11. v. (transitive, figuratively) To indicate that (some event) will occur.
This spells trouble.
12. v. (transitive figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
Please spell it out for me.
13. v. To constitute; to measure.
14. v. To work in place of (someone).
to spell the helmsman
15. v. To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.
16. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
17. n. A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
18. n. (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
19. n. (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); (by extension,) a relatively short distance.
20. n. A period of rest; time off.
21. n. (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
22. n. (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
23. n. (dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
24. n. The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
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.
laying
1. v. present participle of lay
lay
1. v. To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave
A shower of rain lays the dust.
A corresponding intransitive version of this word is lie.
2. v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
3. v. To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
4. v. To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
lay brick; lay flooring
5. v. To produce and deposit an egg.
6. v. To bet (that something is or is not the case).
I'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday.
7. v. To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
8. v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
9. v. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
to lay forward; to lay aloft
10. v. (legal) To state; to allege.
to lay the venue
11. v. (military) To point; to aim.
to lay a gun
12. v. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
to lay a cable or rope
13. v. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
14. v. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
15. v. To apply; to put.
16. v. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
to lay a tax on land
17. v. To impute; to charge; to allege.
18. v. To present or offer.
to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one
19. n. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
the lay of the land
20. n. A share of the profits in a business.
21. n. A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
22. n. The direction a rope is twisted.
Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
23. n. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
24. n. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
25. n. (slang) A plan; a scheme.
26. n. (qualifier) the laying of eggs.
The hens are off the lay at present.
27. n. (obsolete) A layer.
28. n. A lake.
29. adj. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
30. adj. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
They seemed more lay than clerical.
a lay preacher; a lay brother
31. adj. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
32. v. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
The baby lay in its crib and slept silently.
33. v. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
34. n. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
35. n. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
36. n. (obsolete) A law.
37. n. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
38. v. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
39. v. cln, en, causative verbs, irregular verbs, terms with multiple etymologies, three-letter words
down
1. n. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
We went for a walk over the downs.
The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England.
2. n. (usually plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
3. n. (mostly) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
4. n. (American football) Any of the four chances for a team to successfully move the ball for the yards needed to keep possession of the ball.
first down, second down, etc.
5. adv. (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
The cat jumped down from the table.
6. adv. (comparable) At a lower and/or further along or away place or position along a set path.
His place is farther down the road.
The company was well down the path to bankruptcy.
7. adv. South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
I went down to Miami for a conference.
8. adv. (Ireland) Away from the city (even if the location is to the North).
He went down to Cavan.
down on the farm
down country
9. adv. (sport) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
10. adv. Into a state of non-operation.
The computer has been shut down.
They closed the shop down.
11. adv. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
Smith was sent down to the minors to work on his batting.
After the incident, Kelly went down to Second Lieutenant.
12. adv. (anchor, Adv_rail)(rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
13. adv. (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
Down, boy! (such as to direct a dog to stand on four legs from two, or to sit from standing on four legs.)
14. adv. (academia) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
He's gone back down to Newcastle for Christmas.
15. adv. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
16. adv. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence.
17. adv. From less to greater detail.
18. adv. (intensifier) Used with verbs to add emphasis to the action of the verb.
They tamped (down) the asphalt to get a better bond.
19. adv. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, rather than being of indefinite duration.
He boiled the mixture./He boiled down the mixture.
He sat waiting./He sat down and waited.
20. prep. From the higher end to the lower of.
The ball rolled down the hill.
21. prep. From one end to another of.
The bus went down the street.
They walked down the beach holding hands.
22. adj. (informal) sad, unhappy, Depressed, feeling low.
23. adj. Sick or ill.
He is down with the flu.
24. adj. At a lower level than before.
The stock market is down.
Prices are down.
25. adj. Having a lower score than an opponent.
They are down by 3-0 with just 5 minutes to play.
He was down by a bishop and a pawn after 15 moves.
At 5-1 down, she produced a great comeback to win the set on a tiebreak.
26. adj. (baseball, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
Two down and one to go in the bottom of the ninth.
27. adj. (colloquial) With "on", negative about, hostile to
Ever since Nixon, I've been down on Republicans.
28. adj. (not comparable, North America, slang) Comfortable with, accepting of.
He's chill enough; he'd probably be totally down with it.
Are you down to hang out at the mall, Jamal?
As long as you're down with helping me pick a phone, Tyrone.
29. adj. (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
The system is down.
30. adj. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
Two down and three to go. (Two tasks completed and three more still to be done.)
Ten minutes down and nothing's happened yet.
31. adj. (not comparable military, police slang) Wounded and unable to move normally; killed.
We have an officer down outside the suspect's house.
There are three soldiers down and one walking wounded.
32. adj. (not comparable military, aviation slang) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
We have a chopper down near the river.
33. adj. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
It's two weeks until opening night and our lines are still not down yet.
34. adj. (obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
35. v. To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
He downed an ale and ordered another.
36. v. To cause to come down; to knock down or subdue.
The storm downed several old trees along the highway.
37. v. (transitive, pocket billiards) To put a ball in a pocket; to pot a ball.
He downed two balls on the break.
38. v. (transitive, American football) To bring a play to an end by touching the ball to the ground or while it is on the ground.
He downed it at the seven-yard line.
39. v. To write off; to make fun of.
40. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go down; to descend.
41. n. A negative aspect; a downer.
I love almost everything about my job. The only down is that I can't take Saturdays off.
42. n. (dated) A grudge (on someone).
43. n. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
44. n. (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
I bet after the third down, the kicker will replace the quarterback on the field.
45. n. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
I haven't solved 12 or 13 across, but I've got most of the downs.
46. n. A downstairs room of a two-story house.
She lives in a two-up two-down.
47. n. Down payment.
48. n. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
49. n. (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
50. n. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
51. n. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
52. v. To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
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.
law
1. n. The body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
the courts interpret the law; entrapment is against the law
2. n. The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
property law; commercial hunting and fishing law
3. n. Common law, as contrasted with equity.
4. n. A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
There is a law against importing wallabies. A new law forbids driving on that road. The court ruled that the executive order was not law and nullified it.
5. n. (more generally) (A rule, such as:)
6. n. Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores).
"Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow. the law of self-preservation
7. n. A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
the laws of playwriting and poetry
8. n. A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions
the laws of thermodynamics
Newton's third law of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction. This is one of several laws derived from
9. n. (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.
10. n. Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
the law of scarcity; the law of supply and demand
11. n. (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
12. n. The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
They worked to maintain law and order. It was a territory without law, marked by violence.
13. n. (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
Here comes the law — run!
14. n. The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
He is studying for a career in law. She has practiced law in New York for twenty years.
15. n. Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
She went to university to study law.
16. n. Litigation, legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
They were quick to go to law.
17. n. (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
18. n. (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
19. n. (legal, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law)", "(m", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
20. v. (obsolete) To work as a lawyer; to practice law.
21. v. (ambitransitive, chiefly dialectal) To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
22. v. (nonstandard) To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; govern.
23. v. (informal) To enforce the law.
24. v. To subject to legal restrictions.
25. n. (obsolete) A tumulus of stones.
26. n. (Scottish, and Northern England, archaic) A hill.
27. interj. (dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.
came
1. v. simple past tense of come
2. v. simple past tense of cum
3. prep. Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
4. n. A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together.
come
1. v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes...
2. v. To move towards the speaker.
I called the dog, but she wouldn't come.
Stop dawdling and come here!
3. v. To move towards the listener.
Hold on, I'll come in a second.
You should ask the doctor to come to your house.
4. v. To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.
No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit.
Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year.
5. v. (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.
King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.
He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him.
6. v. To move towards an unstated agent.
The butler should come when called.
7. v. (intransitive) To arrive.
8. v. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
The pain in his leg comes and goes.
9. v. (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn.
10. v. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
He came after a few minutes.
11. v. (copulative figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
They came very close to leaving on time. His test scores came close to perfect.
One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.
12. v. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.
13. v. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be.
He was a dream come true.
14. v. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
He's as tough as they come. Our milkshakes come in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavours.
15. v. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
You can't come any tricks here.
16. v. (intransitive) Happen.
This kind of accident comes when you are careless.
17. v. (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
18. v. To have a certain social background.
19. v. To be or have been a resident or native.
Where did you come from?
20. v. To have been brought up by or employed by.
She comes from a good family.
He comes from a disreputable legal firm.
21. v. To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
The river comes from Bear Lake.
Where does this road come from?
22. v. (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
23. n. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
24. n. (vulgar, slang) Semen
25. n. (vulgar, slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
26. prep. Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time.
Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests.
Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.
27. interj. An exclamation to express annoyance.
Come come! Stop crying. Come now! You must eat it.
28. interj. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
Come come! You can do it. Come now! It won't bite you.
29. n. (typography) alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.
cum
1. prep. Used in indicating a thing with two roles, functions, or natures, or a thing that has changed from one to another.
He built a bus-cum-greenhouse that made a bold statement, but the plants in it didn't live very long.
2. conj. 1=Used in indicating a thing with two or more roles, functions, or natures, or a thing that has changed from one to another.
But instead of being a salesperson cum barista cum waitress merely serving the wordsmiths, I'm one of them, reading her latest baby out loud.
3. n. (slang) Semen.
4. n. (slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
5. n. (slang) An ejaculation.
6. v. (slang) To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.
7. v. (slang) To ejaculate.
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
an
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
4. conj. (archaic) If
5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
An it harm none, do what ye will.
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
abrupt
1. adj. (obsolete, rare) Broken away (from restraint).
2. adj. Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
The party came to an abrupt end when the parents of our host arrived.
3. adj. Curt in manner.
4. adj. Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
5. adj. (obsolete) Broken off.
6. adj. Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
7. adj. (botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
8. v. (transitive, archaic) To tear off or asunder.
9. v. To interrupt suddenly.
10. n. (poetic) Something which is abrupt; an abyss.
halt
1. v. (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
2. v. (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
3. v. (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
4. v. To waver.
5. v. To falter.
6. v. (intransitive) To stop marching.
7. v. (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
8. v. To bring to a stop.
9. v. To cause to discontinue.
The contract negotiations halted operations for at least a week.
10. n. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
The contract negotiations put a halt to operations.
11. n. (rail) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
The halt itself never achieved much importance, even with workers coming to and from the adjacent works.
12. adj. (archaic) Lame, limping.
13. n. (dated) Lameness; a limp.
yesterday
1. n. The day immediately before today; one day ago.
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow.
Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.
2. n. The (recent) past, often disparaging.
yesterday's technology
3. adv. On the day before today
I started to watch the video yesterday, but could only finish it this evening.
4. adv. As soon as possible
I want this done yesterday!
when
1. adv. (interrogative) Used to introduce questions about time.
When will they arrive?
2. adv. Used to introduce indirect questions about time.
Do you know when they arrived?
Do you know when they will arrive?
Do you know when they arrive?
3. adv. At an earlier and less prosperous time.
He's mister high and mighty now, but I remember him when.
4. adv. (indirect question) Used to refer to doubts about time.
5. adv. (relative) At which, on which, during which. Often omitted or replaced with that.
That was the day when the Twin Towers fell.
6. conj. At what time.
They were told when to sleep.
He doesn't know when to stop talking.
7. conj. At such time as.
I’m happiest when I’m working.
8. conj. At the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase.
It was raining when I came yesterday.
The show will begin when I get there.
The game is over when the referee says it is.
Be careful when crossing the street.
Pay attention when spoken to.
When (you are) angry, count to ten before speaking or acting.
That time when the dog stole the turkey from the table.
9. conj. Since; given the fact that.
I don't see the point of putting up Christmas decorations when I am the only person who is going to see them.
10. pron. (interrogative) What time; which time.
Since when do I need your permission?
11. n. The time at which something happens.
A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
12. interj. That's enough, a command to stop adding something, especially an ingredient of food or drink.
He
1. pron. honoraltcaps, he
I love the Lord for He is Great and Holy.
2. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.
3. 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?
4. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown.
5. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
6. n. (informal) A male.
Alex totally is a he.
7. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
was
1. v. first-person singular past of be.
2. v. third-person singular past of be.
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
convicted
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of convict
convict
1. v. to find guilty
2. v. as a result of legal proceedings, of a crime, of charges, on charges of something
3. v. informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act
4. v. (esp. religious) to convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something)
5. n. (legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
6. n. A person deported to a penal colony.
7. n. The convict cichlid , also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
8. n. A common name for the sheepshead , owing to its black and gray stripes.
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.
drunkenly
1. adv. In a drunken manner
swearing
1. v. present participle of swear
2. n. The act of swearing, or making an oath.
swear
1. v. To take an oath.
2. v. To use offensive language.
3. n. A swear word.
4. adj. (UK dialectal) Heavy.
5. adj. (UK dialectal) Top-heavy; too high.
6. adj. (UK dialectal) Dull; heavy; lazy; slow; reluctant; unwilling.
7. adj. (UK dialectal) Niggardly.
8. adj. (UK dialectal) A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
9. v. (UK dialectal) To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
at
1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.
Caesar was at Rome; at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine; at Jim’s house
2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.)
at six o’clock; at closing time; at night.
3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).
He threw the ball at me. He shouted at her.
4. prep. Denotes a price.
3 apples at 2¢ (each) The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.
5. prep. Occupied in (activity).
men at work
6. prep. In a state of.
She is at sixes and sevens with him. They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff. The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.
7. prep. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
Sell at 90. Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders. I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost.
8. prep. Because of.
to laugh at a joke mad at their comments
9. prep. Indicates a means, method, or manner.
10. prep. Holding a given speed or rate.
It is growing at the rate of 3% a year. Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.
11. prep. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.
The twins were both bad at chemistry.
He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.
12. prep. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
13. n. The at sign (@).
14. n. (alt form, att) (Laos currency unit)
police
1. n. A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order.
Call the police!
The police operating in New York City operate under the New York City Police Department, several other City agencies and boards, and several public authorities.
2. n. (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Scotland) A police officer.
3. n. (obsolete) Policy.
4. n. (obsolete) Communal living; civilization.
5. n. (now rare, historical) The regulation of a given community or society; administration, law and order etc.
6. v. To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
Extra security was hired to police the crowd at the big game.
7. v. To patrol or clean up an area.
8. v. (transitive, figurative) To enforce norms or standards upon.
to police a person's identity
officers
1. n. plural of officer
officer
1. n. One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.
2. n. One who holds a public office.
3. n. An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
4. n. (colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.
5. v. To supply with officers.
6. v. To command like an officer.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
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.
row
1. n. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
2. n. A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
3. n. (weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
4. v. (transitive, or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
5. v. To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
to row the captain ashore in his barge
6. v. (intransitive) To be moved by oars.
The boat rows easily.
7. n. A noisy argument.
8. n. A continual loud noise.
Who's making that row?
9. v. (intransitive) to argue noisily
at
1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.
Caesar was at Rome; at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine; at Jim’s house
2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.)
at six o’clock; at closing time; at night.
3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).
He threw the ball at me. He shouted at her.
4. prep. Denotes a price.
3 apples at 2¢ (each) The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.
5. prep. Occupied in (activity).
men at work
6. prep. In a state of.
She is at sixes and sevens with him. They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff. The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.
7. prep. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
Sell at 90. Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders. I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost.
8. prep. Because of.
to laugh at a joke mad at their comments
9. prep. Indicates a means, method, or manner.
10. prep. Holding a given speed or rate.
It is growing at the rate of 3% a year. Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.
11. prep. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.
The twins were both bad at chemistry.
He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.
12. prep. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
13. n. The at sign (@).
14. n. (alt form, att) (Laos currency unit)
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.
kebab
1. n. (British) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
2. n. (US) A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
3. n. (slang) A Muslim, usually of Arab descent.
4. n. (slang) Vulva.
5. v. To roast in the style of a kebab
6. v. (transitive, slang) To stab or skewer
shop
1. n. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
2. n. A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
3. n. A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
4. n. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
5. n. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
6. n. An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
a barber shop
7. n. An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
This is where I do my weekly shop.
8. n. (figurative) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
9. v. (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
I went shopping early before the Christmas rush.
He’s shopping for clothes.
10. v. To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).
Shop our new arrivals.
11. v. (transitive, slang) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
He shopped his mates in to the police.
12. v. (transitive, slang) To imprison.
13. v. (transitive, internet slang) To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
14. interj. (dated) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

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