fine |
1. adj. Senses referring to subjective quality. | |
2. adj. Of superior quality. | |
The tree frog that they encountered was truly a fine specimen. | |
Only a really fine wine could fully complement Lucía's hand-made pasta. | |
3. adj. (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory. | |
How are you today? – Fine. | |
Will this one do? It's got a dent in it. – Yeah, it'll be fine, I guess. | |
It's fine with me if you stay out late, so long as you're back by three. | |
4. adj. (informal) Good-looking, attractive. | |
That man is so fine that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation. | |
5. adj. Subtle, delicately balanced. | |
6. adj. (obsolete) Showy; overdecorated. | |
7. adj. Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous. | |
8. adj. (An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when | |
When a girl says she's "fine," she ain't fine. | |
9. adj. Senses referring to objective quality. | |
10. adj. Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint. | |
The small scratch meant that his copy of “X-Men 2” was merely fine when it otherwise would have been “near mint”. | |
11. adj. (of weather) Sunny and not raining. | |
12. adj. Consisting of especially minute particulate; made up of particularly small pieces. | |
Grind it into a fine powder. | |
When she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of fine dust. | |
13. adj. Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth. | |
The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them. | |
14. adj. Made of slender or thin filaments. | |
They protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh. | |
15. adj. Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition. | |
coins nine tenths fine | |
16. adj. (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets. | |
...to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a fournb... | |
17. adj. (obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous. | |
18. adv. Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement. | |
19. adv. Well, nicely, in a positive way. | |
Everything worked out fine. | |
20. adv. (dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately. | |
21. adv. (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side. | |
22. n. Fine champagne; French brandy. | |
23. n. (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles. | |
24. v. To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify. | |
to fine gold | |
25. v. (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner. | |
26. v. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc. | |
to fine the soil | |
27. v. To change by fine gradations. | |
to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually | |
28. v. To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration. | |
29. v. (intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off). | |
30. n. A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law. | |
The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years. | |
31. v. To issue a fine as punishment to (someone). | |
She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed. | |
32. v. (intransitive) To pay a fine. | |
33. n. (music) The end of a musical composition. | |
34. n. (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated. | |
35. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To finish; to cease. | |
36. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to cease; to stop. | |
37. n. (obsolete) End; conclusion; termination; extinction. | |
38. n. A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal. | |
39. n. (legal) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease. | |
fine |
1. adj. Senses referring to subjective quality. | |
2. adj. Of superior quality. | |
The tree frog that they encountered was truly a fine specimen. | |
Only a really fine wine could fully complement Lucía's hand-made pasta. | |
3. adj. (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory. | |
How are you today? – Fine. | |
Will this one do? It's got a dent in it. – Yeah, it'll be fine, I guess. | |
It's fine with me if you stay out late, so long as you're back by three. | |
4. adj. (informal) Good-looking, attractive. | |
That man is so fine that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation. | |
5. adj. Subtle, delicately balanced. | |
6. adj. (obsolete) Showy; overdecorated. | |
7. adj. Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous. | |
8. adj. (An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when | |
When a girl says she's "fine," she ain't fine. | |
9. adj. Senses referring to objective quality. | |
10. adj. Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint. | |
The small scratch meant that his copy of “X-Men 2” was merely fine when it otherwise would have been “near mint”. | |
11. adj. (of weather) Sunny and not raining. | |
12. adj. Consisting of especially minute particulate; made up of particularly small pieces. | |
Grind it into a fine powder. | |
When she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of fine dust. | |
13. adj. Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth. | |
The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them. | |
14. adj. Made of slender or thin filaments. | |
They protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh. | |
15. adj. Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition. | |
coins nine tenths fine | |
16. adj. (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets. | |
...to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a fournb... | |
17. adj. (obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous. | |
18. adv. Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement. | |
19. adv. Well, nicely, in a positive way. | |
Everything worked out fine. | |
20. adv. (dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately. | |
21. adv. (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side. | |
22. n. Fine champagne; French brandy. | |
23. n. (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles. | |
24. v. To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify. | |
to fine gold | |
25. v. (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner. | |
26. v. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc. | |
to fine the soil | |
27. v. To change by fine gradations. | |
to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually | |
28. v. To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration. | |
29. v. (intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off). | |
30. n. A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law. | |
The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years. | |
31. v. To issue a fine as punishment to (someone). | |
She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed. | |
32. v. (intransitive) To pay a fine. | |
33. n. (music) The end of a musical composition. | |
34. n. (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated. | |
35. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To finish; to cease. | |
36. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to cease; to stop. | |
37. n. (obsolete) End; conclusion; termination; extinction. | |
38. n. A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal. | |
39. n. (legal) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease. | |
I'll |
1. contraction. I will | |
2. contraction. I shall | |
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) | |
will |
1. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
Do what you will. | |
2. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
3. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
4. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
5. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
6. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
7. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. | |
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason. | |
8. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
9. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
Most creatures have a will to live. | |
10. n. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes. | |
11. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
12. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
13. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
14. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
15. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
16. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
look |
1. v. (intransitive, often, with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes. | |
Look at my new car! Don’t look in the closet. | |
2. v. To appear, to seem. | |
It looks as if it’s going to rain soon. | |
3. v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being. | |
That painting looks nice. | |
4. v. (intransitive, often, with "for") To search for, to try to find. | |
5. v. To face or present a view. | |
The hotel looks over the valleys of the HinduKush. | |
6. v. To expect or anticipate. | |
I look to each hour for my lover’s arrival. | |
7. v. To express or manifest by a look. | |
8. v. (transitive, often, with "to") To make sure of, to see to. | |
9. v. (dated, sometimes figurative) To show oneself in looking. | |
Look out of the window i.e. lean out while I speak to you. | |
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward. | |
11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for. | |
12. v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence. | |
to look down opposition | |
13. v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it. | |
The fastball caught him looking. | |
Clem Labine struck Mays out looking at his last at bat. | |
It's unusual for Mays to strike out looking. He usually takes a cut at it. | |
14. interj. Pay attention. | |
Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely. | |
15. n. The action of looking; an attempt to see. | |
Let’s have a look under the hood of the car. | |
16. n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression. | |
She got her mother’s looks. | |
I don’t like the look of the new design. | |
17. n. A facial expression. | |
He gave me a dirty look. | |
If looks could kill ... | |
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. | |
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. | |
trunk |
1. n. (heading, biological) Part of a body. | |
2. n. The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk. | |
3. n. The torso. | |
4. n. The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of ani | |
5. n. A container.: | |
6. n. A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at eac | |
7. n. A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or othe | |
8. n. (US, Canada automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot | |
9. n. A channel for flow of some kind.: | |
10. n. (US, telecommunications) A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment. | |
11. n. A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks. | |
12. n. A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill | |
13. n. (archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter | |
14. n. (mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained. | |
15. n. (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled. | |
16. n. The main line or body of anything. | |
the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches | |
17. n. (transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system. | |
18. n. (architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column. | |
19. n. A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to | |
20. n. Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks). | |
21. v. (obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate. | |
22. v. (mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. | |