because |
1. adv. (archaic) For the reason (that). | |
2. adv. On account (of), for sake (of). | |
My life is ruined because of you! | |
3. adv. Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer a question begun with "why", usually taken as an anapodoton of the elided full phrase "Because I said so". | |
4. conj. By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. | |
I hid myself because I was afraid. | |
5. conj. As is known, inferred, or determined from the fact that. | |
It must be broken, because I pressed the button and nothing happened. | |
I don't think he is a nice person, because he yells at people for no reason. | |
6. conj. (obsolete) So that, in order that. | |
7. prep. (uncommon, slang) On account of, because of. | |
I went to the store because hungry. | |
I |
1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence. | |
(audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio) | |
2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence. | |
3. n. (metaphysics) The ego. | |
4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate. | |
5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case) | |
6. pron. nonstandard spelling of I | |
really |
1. adv. (literal) In a way or manner that is real, not unreal. | |
2. adv. (modal) Actually; in fact; in reality. | |
"He really is a true friend." / "Really? What makes you so sure?". | |
3. adv. (informal, as an intensifier) Very (modifying an adjective); very much (modifying a verb). | |
But ma, I really, really want to go to the show! | |
4. interj. Indicating surprise at, or requesting confirmation of, some new information; to express skepticism. | |
A: He won the Nobel Prize yesterday. | |
B: Really? | |
5. interj. (colloquial, sarcastic, typically exaggerated question.) Indicating that what was just said was obvious and unnecessary; contrived incredulity | |
A: I've just been reading Shakespeare - he's one of the best authors like, ever! | |
B: Really. | |
6. interj. (colloquial, chiefly US) Indicating affirmation, agreement. | |
A: That girl talks about herself way too much. | |
B: Really. She's a nightmare. | |
7. interj. Indicating displeasure at another person's behaviour or statement. | |
Well, really! How rude. | |
8. v. Alternative form of re-ally | |
need |
1. n. A requirement for something; something needed. | |
There's no need to speculate; we can easily find out for sure. | |
She grew irritated with his constant need for attention. | |
Our needs are not being met. | |
I've always tried to have few needs beyond food, clothing and shelter. | |
2. n. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. | |
3. v. To have an absolute requirement for. | |
Living things need water to survive. | |
4. v. To want strongly; to feel that one must have something. | |
After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave. | |
5. v. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something). | |
You need not go if you don't want to. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary. | |
7. v. (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone). | |
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 | |
get |
1. v. (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | |
I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store. | |
Lance is going to get Mary a ring. | |
2. v. To receive. | |
I got a computer from my parents for my birthday. | |
You need to get permission to leave early. | |
He got a severe reprimand for that. | |
3. v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. (See usage notes.) | |
I've got a concert ticket for you. | |
4. v. (copulative) To become. | |
I'm getting hungry; how about you? | |
Don't get drunk tonight. | |
5. v. To cause to become; to bring about. | |
That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it. | |
I'll get this finished by lunchtime. | |
I can't get these boots off upright - (or on'upright,). | |
6. v. To fetch, bring, take. | |
Can you get my bag from the living-room, please? | |
I need to get this to the office. | |
7. v. To cause to do. | |
Somehow she got him to agree to it. | |
I can't get it to work. | |
8. v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards | |
The actors are getting into position. | |
When are we going to get to London? | |
I'm getting into a muddle. | |
We got behind the wall. | |
9. v. To cover (a certain distance) while travelling. | |
to get a mile | |
10. v. To cause to come or go or move. | |
11. v. To cause to be in a certain status or position. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something). | |
We ought to get moving or we'll be late. | |
After lunch we got chatting. | |
13. v. To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service). | |
I normally get the 7:45 train. | |
I'll get the 9 a.m. flight to Boston. | |
14. v. To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc). | |
Can you get that call, please? I'm busy. | |
15. v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something). | |
I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live! | |
The finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure. | |
16. v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it) | |
Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny. | |
I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks! | |
I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. She gets me. | |
17. v. (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.). | |
"You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot.". | |
18. v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs. | |
He got bitten by a dog. | |
19. v. To become ill with or catch (a disease). | |
I went on holiday and got malaria. | |
20. v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully. | |
He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time. | |
21. v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump. | |
That question's really got me. | |
22. v. To find as an answer. | |
What did you get for question four? | |
23. v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution. | |
The cops finally got me. | |
I'm gonna get him for that. | |
24. v. To hear completely; catch. | |
Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it? | |
25. v. To getter. | |
I put the getter into the container to get the gases. | |
26. v. (now rare) To beget (of a father). | |
27. v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out. | |
to get a lesson; to get out one's Greek lesson | |
28. v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose. | |
Get her with her new hairdo. | |
29. v. (informal, mostly, imperative) Go away; get lost. | |
30. v. (euphemism) To kill. | |
They’re coming to get you, Barbara. | |
31. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit. | |
32. n. (dated) Offspring. | |
33. n. Lineage. | |
34. n. (sports) A difficult return or block of a shot. | |
35. n. Something gained. | |
36. n. (UK, regional) A git. | |
37. n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce. | |
laid |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of lay | |
2. adj. (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould. | |
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 | |