| I |
| 1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence. | |
| (audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio) | |
| 2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence. | |
| 3. n. (metaphysics) The ego. | |
| 4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate. | |
| 5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case) | |
| 6. pron. nonstandard spelling of I | |
| suppose |
| 1. v. To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe. | |
| Suppose that A implies B and B implies C. Then A implies C. | |
| 2. v. To theorize or hypothesize. | |
| I suppose we all agree that this is the best solution. | |
| 3. v. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true. | |
| 4. v. To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature. | |
| Purpose supposes foresight. | |
| 5. v. To put by fraud in the place of another. | |
| we |
| 1. pron. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.) | |
| 2. pron. (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.) | |
| 3. pron. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sen | |
| 4. pron. (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed. | |
| How are we all tonight? | |
| 5. pron. (personal, generally considered patronising) A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care. | |
| How are we feeling this morning? | |
| 6. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person. | |
| We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different. | |
| 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. | |
| rule |
| 1. n. A regulation, law, guideline. | |
| All participants must adhere to the rules. | |
| 2. n. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure. | |
| 3. n. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing. | |
| 4. n. A regulating principle. | |
| 5. n. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control. | |
| 6. n. A normal condition or state of affairs. | |
| My rule is to rise at six o'clock. | |
| As a rule, our senior editors are serious-minded. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour. | |
| 8. n. (legal) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit. | |
| 9. n. (math) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result. | |
| a rule for extracting the cube root | |
| 10. n. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work. | |
| 11. v. To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over. | |
| 12. v. (slang) To excel. | |
| This game rules! | |
| 13. v. To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines). | |
| 14. v. (intransitive) To decide judicially. | |
| 15. v. To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice. | |
| 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. | |
| avocadoes |
| 1. n. plural of avocado | |
