| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| it |
| 1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals. | |
| Put it over there. | |
| Take each day as it comes. | |
| I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today. | |
| 2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender. | |
| She took the baby and held it in her arms. | |
| 3. pron. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation. | |
| It's me. John. | |
| Is it her? | |
| 4. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it) | |
| It is nearly 10 o’clock. | |
| It’s 10:45 read ten-forty-five. | |
| It’s very cold today. | |
| It’s lonely without you. | |
| 5. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms. | |
| stick it out | |
| live it up | |
| rough it | |
| 6. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject i | |
| It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see) | |
| I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that) | |
| It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing) | |
| He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that) | |
| It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if) | |
| 7. pron. All or the end; something after which there is no more. | |
| Are there more students in this class, or is this it? | |
| That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you. | |
| 8. pron. (chiefly pejorative, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male. | |
| 9. pron. (obsolete) (Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun): That which; what. | |
| 10. det. (obsolete) its | |
| 11. n. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being. | |
| 12. n. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag. | |
| In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it… | |
| 13. n. (British) The game of tag. | |
| Let's play it at breaktime. | |
| 14. n. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty. | |
| 15. n. (euphemism) Sexual activity. | |
| caught them doing it | |
| 16. adj. (colloquial) Most fashionable. | |
| out |
| See also individual phrasal verbs such as come out, go out, put out, take out, pull out, and so on. | |
| 1. adv. Away from the inside or the centre. | |
| The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat. | |
| 2. adv. Away from home or one's usual place. | |
| Let's eat out tonight | |
| 3. adv. Outside; not indoors. | |
| Last night we slept out under the stars. | |
| 4. adv. Away from; at a distance. | |
| Keep out! | |
| 5. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence. | |
| Switch the lights out. | |
| Put the fire out. | |
| 6. adv. To the end; completely. | |
| I hadn't finished. Hear me out. | |
| 7. adv. Used to intensify or emphasize. | |
| The place was all decked out for the holidays. | |
| 8. adv. (of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc. | |
| The sun came out after the rain, and we saw a rainbow. | |
| 9. adv. (cricket, baseball) Of a player, so as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket). | |
| Wilson was bowled out for five runs. | |
| 10. prep. (nonstandard, contraction of out of) Away from the inside. | |
| He threw it out the door. | |
| 11. prep. (colloquial) Outside. | |
| It's raining out. | |
| It's cold out. | |
| 12. n. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc. | |
| They wrote the law to give those organizations an out. | |
| 13. n. (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fieldi | |
| 14. n. (cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicke | |
| 15. n. (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner. | |
| 16. n. (dated) A trip out; an outing. | |
| 17. n. (mostly, in plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office. | |
| 18. n. A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space. | |
| 19. n. (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission. | |
| 20. v. To eject; to expel. | |
| 21. v. To reveal (a person) to be gay, bisexual, or transgender. | |
| 22. v. To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective. | |
| 23. v. To reveal (a secret). | |
| A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design. | |
| 24. v. (intransitive, archaic) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public. | |
| 25. v. To become apparent. | |
| 26. adj. Not at home; not at one's office or place of employment. | |
| I'm sorry, Mr Smith is out at the moment. | |
| 27. adj. Released, available for purchase, download or other use. | |
| Did you hear? Their newest CD is out! | |
| 28. adj. (in various games; used especially of a batsman or batter in cricket or baseball) Dismissed from play under the rules of the game. | |
| He bowls, Johnson pokes at it ... and ... Johnson is out! Caught behind by Ponsonby! | |
| 29. adj. Openly acknowledging that one is gay or transgender. | |
| It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business. | |
| 30. adj. (of flowers) In bloom. | |
| The garden looks beautiful now that the roses are out. | |
| 31. adj. (of the sun, moon or stars) Visible in the sky; not obscured by clouds. | |
| The sun is out, and it's a lovely day. | |
| 32. adj. (of lamps, fires etc.) Not shining or burning. | |
| I called round to the house but all the lights were out and no one was home. | |
| 33. adj. (of ideas, plans, etc.) Discarded; no longer a possibility. | |
| Right, so that idea's out. Let's move on to the next one. | |
| 34. adj. No longer popular or in fashion. | |
| Black is out this season. The new black is white. | |
| 35. adj. Without; no longer in possession of; not having more | |
| Do you have any bread? Sorry, we're out. | |
| 36. adj. (of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies; in error by a stated amount. | |
| Nothing adds up in this report. All these figures are out. | |
| The measurement was out by three millimetres. | |
| 37. adj. (obsolete) Of a young lady: having entered society and available to be courted. | |
| 38. interj. (procedure word, especially, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response. | |
| Destruction. Two T-72s destroyed. Three foot mobiles down. Out. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Sooner |
| 1. n. (informal) A native or resident of the American state of Oklahoma; a sports competitor representing the University of Oklahoma. | |
| 2. n. (historical) One who crossed into Indian territory before the official opening of settlement, in order to obtain land sooner. | |
| 3. adj. comparative form of soon: more soon | |
| 4. adv. comparative form of soon: more soon | |
| 5. adv. rather. | |
| I would sooner die than marry you! | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| later |
| 1. adv. comparative form of late: more late | |
| You came in late yesterday and today you came in even later. | |
| 2. adv. Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time). | |
| My roommate arrived first. I arrived later. | |
| I arrived later than my roommate. | |
| 3. adv. At some unspecified time in the future. | |
| I wanted to do it now, but I'll have to do it later. | |
| 4. adj. comparative form of late: more late | |
| Jim was later than John. | |
| 5. adj. Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time). | |
| The Victorian era is a later period of English history than the Elizabethan era. | |
| 6. adj. At some time in the future. | |
| The meeting was adjourned to a later date. | |
| 7. interj. (slang) See you later; goodbye. | |
| Later, dude. | |
