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I've
1. contraction. I have.
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)
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
been
1. v. past participle of be
2. v. (obsolete) plural present of be
3. v. (Southern US) of be
4. n. (UK dialectal) plural of bee
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?
told
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of tell
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.
by
1. prep. Near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July.
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour.
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of.
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination.
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches.
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
He cheated by his own admission.
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
I watched as it passed by.
16. adv. In the vicinity, near.
There was a shepherd close by.
The shop is hard by the High Street.
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
I'll stop by on my way home from work.
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
18. adv. Aside, away.
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
20. n. (card games) A pass
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye
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.
few
1. det. (preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
I was expecting lots of people at the party, but very few (=almost none) turned up. Quite a few of them (=many of them) were pleasantly surprised. I don't know how
2. det. (used alone) Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
There are few people who understand quantum theory. Many are called, but few are chosen.
3. det. (meteorology of clouds) (US?) Obscuring one eighth to two eighths of the sky.
Tonight: A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness overnight.
NOAA definition of the term "few clouds": An official sky cover classification for aviation weather observations, descriptive of a sky cover of 1/8 to 2/8. This is applied only when obscuring p
4. det. (meteorology of rainfall with regard to a location) (US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.
5. pron. Few people, few things.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
Doctors
1. n. plural of Doctor
2. n. plural of doctor
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of doctor
doctor
1. n. A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-n
If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.
2. n. A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
3. n. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
4. n. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
5. n. (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
6. n. (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter
the doctor, or auxiliary engine, also called "donkey engine".
7. n. A fish, the friar skate.
8. v. To act as a medical doctor to.
Her children doctored her back to health.
9. v. (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
10. v. To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
11. v. To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.
We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.
12. v. To genetically alter an extant species.
Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
13. v. To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.
14. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take medicine.
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.
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.
heart
1. n. (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
2. n. Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart.
3. n. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.
a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart
4. n. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
5. n. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
6. n. (archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
Listen, dear heart, we must go now.
7. n. Personality, disposition.
a cold heart
8. n. (figurative) A wight or being.
9. n. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes (unsupported, <3).
10. n. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
11. n. (cartomancy) The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
12. n. The centre, essence, or core.
The wood at the heart of a tree is the oldest.
Buddhists believe that suffering is right at the heart of all life.
13. v. (transitive, humorous, informal, mostly, internet slang) To be fond of. (Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.)
14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to be devoted.
15. v. (transitive, masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
16. v. (intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.
attack
1. n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
2. n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
They claimed the censorship of the article was an attack on free speech.
3. n. A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
The army timed their attack to coincide with the local celebrations.
4. n. (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.
5. n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
6. n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
7. n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
8. n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
I've had an attack of the flu.
9. n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
10. n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
11. n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas t
12. v. To apply violent force to someone or something.
This species of snake will only attack humans if it feels threatened.
13. v. To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
She published an article attacking the recent pay cuts.
14. v. To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
15. v. To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
We’ll have dinner before we attack the biology homework.
I attacked the meal with a hearty appetite.
16. v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
17. v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
18. v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
19. v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
20. v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
can
1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
She can speak English, French, and German. I can play football. Can you remember your fifth birthday?
2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework. Can I use your pen?
3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
Can it be Friday already?
Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.
Animals can experience emotions.
4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
Can you hear that?.
I can feel the baby moving inside me.
5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.
Shit or get off the can.
Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
11. n. (slang) Jail or prison.
Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years.
12. n. (slang) Headphones.
13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup.
14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
15. n. A chimney pot.
16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
18. v. To shut up.
Can your gob.
19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
The boss canned him for speaking out.
kill
1. v. To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.
2. v. To render inoperative.
He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
3. v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease or render void; to terminate.
The editor decided to kill the story.
The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.
My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.
4. v. (transitive figuratively, hyperbole) To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate.
That night, she was dressed to kill.
That joke always kills me.
5. v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.
It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries.
6. v. To use up or to waste.
I'm just doing this to kill time.
He told the bartender, pointing at the bottle of scotch he planned to consume, "Leave it, I'm going to kill the bottle.".
7. v. (transitive figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
Between the two of us, we killed the rest of the case of beer.
Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate anymore.
8. v. (transitive figuratively, hyperbole) To overpower, overwhelm or defeat.
The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.
9. v. To force a company out of business.
10. v. (intransitive, informal, hyperbolic) To produce intense pain.
You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill.
11. v. (figuratively, informal hyperbole transitive) To punish severely.
My parents are going to kill me!
12. v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
13. v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
14. v. (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
15. v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
16. v. (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
17. n. The act of killing.
The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
18. n. Specifically, the death blow.
The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
19. n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
20. n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
21. n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
The channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.
Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
22. n. A kiln.
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.
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.
Your
1. pron. honoraltcaps, your
2. det. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
Let's meet tomorrow at your convenience.
Is this your cat?
3. det. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
4. det. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.
Your Show of Shows
Your World with Neil Cavuto
Not Your Average Travel Guide
5. det. (Ireland) That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)
Your man just bought a new car.
Have you seen what your one over there is doing?
6. contraction. misspelling of you're
sleep
1. v. (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
You should sleep 8 hours a day.
2. v. (intransitive, of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
When a top is sleeping, it is spinning but not precessing.
3. v. To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
4. v. To accommodate in beds.
This caravan can sleep up to four people.
5. v. To be slumbering in (a state).
to sleep a dreamless sleep
6. v. (intransitive) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
7. v. (intransitive) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
8. v. (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps
9. v. (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
After a failed connection attempt, the program sleeps for 5 seconds before trying again.
10. v. =====Troponyms=====
11. v. (rest in a state of reduced consciousness) nap, doze, snooze
12. n. The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
I really need some sleep.
We need to conduct an overnight sleep test to diagnose your sleep problem.
13. n. (informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
I’m just going to have a quick sleep.
14. n. (informal, by extension) A night.
There are only three sleeps till Christmas! -
15. n. Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
Wipe the sleep from your eyes.
16. n. A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
Synonyms: nyctinasty, nyctitropism
17. n. The hibernation of animals.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
leave
1. v. To have a consequence or remnant.
2. v. To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (somet
I left my car at home and took a bus to work. The ants did not leave so much as a crumb of bread. There's not much food left. We'd be
3. v. To cause, to result in.
The lightning left her dazzled for several minutes. Infantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life.
4. v. To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
Leave your hat in the hall. We should leave the legal matters to lawyers. I left my sewing and went to the window to watch the fallin
5. v. To depart; to separate from.
6. v. To let be or do without interference.
I left him to his reflections. I leave my hearers to judge.
7. v. To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
I left the country and I left my wife.
8. v. To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
I left the band.
9. v. (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
I think you'd better leave.
10. v. To transfer something.
11. v. To transfer possession of after death.
When my father died, he left me the house.
12. v. To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
I'll leave the car in the station so you can pick it up there.
13. v. To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
Can't we just leave this to the experts?
14. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
15. v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
16. n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
17. n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or onl
18. n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss.
19. n. (dated, or legal) Permission.
Might I beg leave to accompany you?
The applicant now seeks leave to appeal and, if leave be granted, to appeal against these sentences.
20. n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance.
21. v. To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
22. v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed.
23. v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.
No
1. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
2. n. Alternative form of No.
3. n. Alternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama.
4. det. Not any.
no one
There is no water left.
No hot dogs were sold yesterday.
No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.
There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.)
5. det. Hardly any.
We'll be finished in no time at all.
6. det. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
No smoking
There's no stopping her once she gets going.
7. det. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
My mother's no fool.
Working nine to five every day is no life.
8. adv. (now only used with comparatives, except in Scotland) Not, not at all.
It is a different kind of torture, but no less gruesome.
I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.
9. part. Used to show disagreement or negation.
No, you are mistaken.
No, you may not watch television now.
10. part. Used to show agreement with a negative question.
"Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")
11. part. (colloquial) As if to say, "No, don’t doubt this!", or to deny an imagined contradictory statement, used to show intense agreement
No, totally.
No, yeah, that's exactly right.
"Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!".
No, yeah
12. n. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval.
13. n. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.
The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".
14. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
15. n. Alternative form of No.
traces
1. n. plural of trace
2. n. minute remnants
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of trace
trace
1. n. An act of tracing.
Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.
2. n. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
3. n. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
4. n. A very small amount.
All of our chocolates may contain traces of nuts.
5. n. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
6. n. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
7. n. One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
8. n. (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop actio
9. n. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
10. n. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
11. n. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
12. n. (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
13. v. To follow the trail of.
14. v. To follow the history of.
15. v. To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.
16. v. To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
17. v. (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
19. v. (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
20. v. (lbl, en, computer, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.

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