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 | |
Will |
1. n. (American football) A weak-side linebacker. | |
2. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
Do what you will. | |
3. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
4. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
5. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
6. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
7. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
8. 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. | |
9. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
10. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
Most creatures have a will to live. | |
11. 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. | |
12. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
13. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
14. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
15. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
16. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
17. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
father |
1. n. A (generally human) male who begets a child. | |
My father was a strong influence on me. | |
My friend Tony just became a father. | |
2. n. , trans-album=The Borrowers | |
3. n. , , Father, dear fatherWill you be proud of me?I wish I could beJust like you. | |
4. n. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor. | |
5. n. A term of respectful address for an elderly man. | |
Come, father; you can sit here. | |
6. n. A term of respectful address for a priest. | |
7. n. A person who plays the role of a father in some way. | |
My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced. | |
The child is father to the man. | |
8. n. The founder of a discipline or science. | |
Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics. | |
9. n. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. | |
10. n. A senator of Ancient Rome. | |
11. v. To be a father to; to sire. | |
12. v. (figuratively) To give rise to. | |
13. v. To act as a father; to support and nurture. | |
14. v. To provide with a father. | |
15. v. To adopt as one's own. | |
Even |
1. n. An ethnic Even: a member of an indigenous people living in the Siberia and the Russian Far East. | |
2. adj. Flat and level. | |
Clear out those rocks. The surface must be even. | |
3. adj. Without great variation. | |
Despite her fear, she spoke in an even voice. | |
4. adj. Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc. | |
The distribution of food must be even. | |
5. adj. (not comparable, of an integer) Divisible by two. | |
Four, fourteen and forty are even numbers. | |
6. adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero. | |
7. adj. On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed. | |
8. adj. (colloquial) On equal terms of a moral sort; quits. | |
You biffed me back at the barn, and I biffed you here—so now we're even. | |
9. adj. parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit. | |
10. adj. (obsolete) Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure. | |
11. adj. (obsolete) Associate; fellow; of the same condition. | |
12. v. To make flat and level. | |
We need to even this playing field; the west goal is too low. | |
13. v. (transitive, obsolete) To equal. | |
14. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be equal. | |
Thrice nine evens twenty seven. | |
15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits. | |
16. v. (transitive, obsolete) To set right; to complete. | |
17. v. (transitive, obsolete) To act up to; to keep pace with. | |
18. adv. (archaic) Exactly, just, fully. | |
I fulfilled my instructions even as I had promised. | |
You are leaving tonight? — Even so. | |
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. | |
19. adv. In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality. | |
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes. | |
Did you even make it through the front door? | |
That was before I was even born. | |
20. adv. Emphasizing a comparative. | |
I was strong before, but now I am even stronger. | |
21. adv. Signalling a correction of one's previous utterance; rather, that is. | |
My favorite actor is Jack Nicklaus. Jack Nicholson, even. | |
22. adv. also | |
23. n. (mathematics) An even number. | |
So let's see. There are two evens here and three odds. | |
24. n. (archaic, or poetic) Evening. | |
if |
1. conj. Supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that; used to introduce a condition or choice. | |
If it rains, I shall get wet. | |
2. conj. (computing) In the event that a statement is true (a programming statement that acts in a similar manner). | |
If A, then B, else C. | |
3. conj. Supposing that; used with past or past perfect subjunctive indicating that the condition is closed. | |
I would prefer it if you took your shoes off. | |
I would be unhappy if you had not talked with me yesterday. | |
If I were you, I wouldn't go there alone. | |
4. conj. Supposing that; given that; supposing it is the case that. | |
If that's true, we had better get moving! | |
5. conj. Although; used to introduce a concession. | |
He was a great friend, if a little stingy at the bar. | |
6. conj. (sometimes proscribed) Whether; used to introduce a noun clause, an indirect question, that functions as the direct object of certain verbs. | |
I don't know if I want to go or not. | |
7. conj. (usually hyperbolic) Even if; even in the circumstances that. | |
8. conj. Introducing a relevance conditional. | |
I have leftover cake if you want some. | |
9. n. (informal) An uncertainty, possibility, condition, doubt etc. | |
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. | |
kills |
1. n. plural of kill | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of kill | |
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. | |
Me |
1. n. en-abbr | |
2. n. (chemistry) (abbreviation of methyl) | |
3. pron. alternative case form of me often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context. | |
4. pron. As the direct object of a verb. | |
Can you hear me? | |
5. pron. (obsolete) Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb. | |
6. pron. As the object of a preposition. | |
Come with me. | |
7. pron. As the indirect object of a verb. | |
He gave me this. | |
8. pron. (US, colloquial) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative. | |
9. pron. (colloquial) As the complement of the copula (“be” or “is”). | |
It wasn't me. | |
10. pron. (Australia, British, New Zealand, colloquial) My; preceding a noun, marking ownership. | |
11. pron. (colloquial, with "and") As the subject of a verb. | |
Me and my friends played a game. | |
12. pron. (nonstandard, not with "and") As the subject of a verb. | |
13. det. (UK regional, Ireland) alternative form of my | |