for |
1. conj. (dated) Because. | |
2. prep. Towards. | |
The astronauts headed for the moon. | |
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to. | |
I have something for you. | |
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of. | |
We're having a birthday party for Janet. | |
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary. | |
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala. | |
5. prep. Supporting. | |
All those for the motion raise your hands. | |
6. prep. Because of. | |
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him. | |
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight. | |
She was the worse for drink. | |
7. prep. Over a period of time. | |
I've lived here for three years. | |
They fought for days over a silly pencil. | |
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space. | |
9. prep. On behalf of. | |
I will stand in for him. | |
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of. | |
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire. | |
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday. | |
He's going for his doctorate. | |
Do you want to go for coffee? | |
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers. | |
Can you go to the store for some eggs? | |
I'm saving up for a car. | |
Don't wait for an answer. | |
What did he ask you for? | |
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward. | |
Run for the hills! | |
He was headed for the door when he remembered. | |
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect. | |
Fair for its day. | |
She's spry for an old lady. | |
14. prep. Despite, in spite of. | |
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive. | |
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.) | |
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.) | |
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio | |
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day | |
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen. | |
At close of play, England were 305 for 3. | |
18. prep. To be, or as being. | |
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.) | |
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs). | |
instance |
1. n. (obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence. | |
2. n. (obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication. | |
It sends some precious instance of itself/ After the thing it loves. Hamlet IV. v. ca. 1602 | |
3. n. (obsolete) That which is urgent; motive. | |
4. n. Occasion; order of occurrence. | |
5. n. A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example. | |
6. n. One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same. | |
7. n. (obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something). | |
8. n. (computing) In object-oriented programming: a created object, one that has had memory allocated for local data storage; an instantiation of a class. | |
9. n. (massively multiplayer online games) A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area | |
10. n. (massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area. | |
11. v. To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite | |
to instance a fact | |
12. v. (intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify. | |
you |
1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object. | |
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself. | |
3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) | |
4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.) | |
Both of you should get ready now. | |
You are all supposed to do as I tell you. | |
5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.) | |
6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object). | |
7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to. | |
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus? | |
8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis. | |
You idiot! | |
9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal. | |
never |
1. adv. At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance. | |
I finally finished, and I never want to do that again. | |
I repeated the test a hundred times, and never saw a positive result. | |
I will never tell. | |
2. adv. Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously. | |
3. adv. (colloquial) Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely). | |
The police say I stole the car, but I never did it. | |
You said you were going to mow the lawn today. – I never! | |
tell |
1. v. To count, reckon, or enumerate. | |
All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth. | |
2. v. To narrate. | |
I want to tell a story; I want to tell you a story. | |
3. v. To convey by speech; to say. | |
Finally, someone told him the truth. He seems to like to tell lies. | |
4. v. To instruct or inform. | |
Please tell me how to do it. | |
5. v. To order; to direct, to say to someone. | |
Tell him to go away. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish. | |
Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance? No, there's no way to tell. | |
7. v. To reveal. | |
Time will tell what became of him. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To be revealed. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated. | |
Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell. | |
10. v. To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer. | |
11. v. (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing. | |
I saw you steal those sweets! I'm going to tell! | |
12. v. (authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show | |
Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing. | |
13. n. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogatio | |
14. n. (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account. | |
15. n. (internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper. | |
16. n. (archaeology) A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements. | |
people |
1. n. Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. | |
Why do so many people commit suicide? | |
2. n. Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; a community. | |
3. n. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler. | |
4. n. One's colleagues or employees. | |
5. n. A person's ancestors, relatives or family. | |
My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War. | |
6. n. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens. | |
7. n. plural of person. | |
8. v. To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To become populous or populated. | |
10. v. To inhabit; to occupy; to populate. | |
that |
1. conj. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement. | |
He told me that the book is a good read. | |
I believe that it is true. — She is convinced that he is British. | |
2. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that. | |
Be glad that you have enough to eat. | |
3. conj. (now uncommon) Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that. | |
4. conj. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect. | |
The noise was so loud that she woke up. | |
The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed. | |
5. conj. (archaic, or poetic) Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that. | |
6. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb. | |
Was John there? — Not that I saw. | |
How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw. | |
7. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish. | |
8. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise. | |
9. det. The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction. | |
That book is a good read. This one isn't. | |
That battle was in 1450. | |
That cat of yours is evil. | |
10. pron. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "t | |
He went home, and after that I never saw him again. | |
11. pron. The known (thing); (used to refer to something just said). | |
They're getting divorced. What do you think about that? | |
12. pron. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality; used together with a verb and pronoun to emphatically repeat a previous statement. | |
The water is so cold! — That it is. | |
13. pron. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; (representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition). | |
The CPR course that she took really came in handy. | |
The house that he lived in was old and dilapidated. | |
14. pron. (colloquial) (Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.) | |
the place that = where or to which I went last year | |
the last time that = when I went to Europe | |
15. adv. (degree) To a given extent or degree. | |
"The ribbon was that thin." "I disagree, I say it was not that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner...". | |
16. adv. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions). | |
I'm just not that sick. | |
I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult. | |
17. adv. (obsolete, outside, dialects) To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions). | |
Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her. | |
18. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those. | |
you |
1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object. | |
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself. | |
3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) | |
4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.) | |
Both of you should get ready now. | |
You are all supposed to do as I tell you. | |
5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.) | |
6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object). | |
7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to. | |
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus? | |
8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis. | |
You idiot! | |
9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal. | |
love |
1. n. Strong affection. | |
2. n. A profound and caring affection towards someone. | |
A mother’s love is not easily shaken. | |
My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life. | |
3. n. Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being. | |
4. n. A feeling of intense attraction towards someone. | |
I have never been in love as much as I have with you. | |
5. n. A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something. | |
My love of cricket knows no bounds. | |
6. n. A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved. | |
7. n. (colloquial, British) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings. | |
Hello love, how can I help you? | |
8. n. A thing, activity etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm. | |
9. n. (euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction. | |
10. n. (euphemistic) Sexual activity. | |
11. n. An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair. | |
12. n. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young. | |
13. n. (altcaps, Love, , personification of love). | |
14. n. (obsolete) A thin silk material. | |
15. n. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba. | |
16. v. (usually transitive sometimes intransitive) To have a strong affection for (someone or something). | |
I love my spouse. I love you! | |
17. v. To need, thrive on. | |
Mold loves moist, dark places. | |
18. v. (transitive, colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like. | |
I love walking barefoot on wet grass; I'd love to join the team; I love what you've done with your hair | |
19. v. (usually transitive sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something). | |
20. v. To derive delight from a fact or situation. | |
I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte. | |
21. v. To lust for. | |
22. v. (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.) | |
I wish I could love her all night long. | |
23. v. (transitive, obsolete, or UK dialectal) To praise; commend. | |
24. v. (transitive, obsolete, or UK dialectal) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on. | |
25. n. (racquet sports) Zero, no score. | |
So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova. | |
them |
1. pron. Objective case of they: third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb. | |
Give it to them. (after preposition) | |
She wrote them a letter. (indirect object) | |
She treated them for a cold. (direct object) | |
2. pron. Objective case of they: third-person singular pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb. | |
If someone comes and asks for the ticket, just give it to them. (after preposition) | |
If one of my patients calls, please bring them their dinner. (indirect object) | |
If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them. (direct object) | |
3. det. (dialectal) Those. | |
Them kids need to grow up. | |