| 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. | |
| short |
| 1. adj. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically. | |
| 2. adj. (of a person) Of comparatively little height. | |
| 3. adj. Having little duration; opposite of long. | |
| Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it's been at least twenty minutes long. | |
| 4. adj. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another). | |
| “Phone” is short for “telephone” and "asap" short for "as soon as possible". | |
| 5. adj. (cricket, of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman. | |
| 6. adj. (cricket, of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman. | |
| 7. adj. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole. | |
| 8. adj. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust.) | |
| 9. adj. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant. | |
| He gave a short answer to the question. | |
| 10. adj. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty. | |
| a short supply of provisions | |
| 11. adj. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking. | |
| to be short of money | |
| The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift. | |
| 12. adj. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard. | |
| an account which is short of the truth | |
| 13. adj. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand. | |
| 14. adj. Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future. | |
| I'm short General Motors because I think their sales are plunging. | |
| 15. adv. Abruptly, curtly, briefly. | |
| They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street. | |
| He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting. | |
| The boss got a message and cut the meeting short. | |
| 16. adv. Unawares. | |
| The recent developments at work caught them short. | |
| 17. adv. Without achieving a goal or requirement. | |
| His speech fell short of what was expected. | |
| 18. adv. (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full. | |
| 19. adv. (finance) With a negative ownership position. | |
| We went short most finance companies in July. | |
| 20. n. A short circuit. | |
| 21. n. A short film. | |
| 22. n. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size | |
| 38 short suits fit me right off the rack. | |
| Do you have that size in a short. | |
| 23. n. (baseball) A shortstop. | |
| Jones smashes a grounder between third and short. | |
| 24. n. (finance) A short seller. | |
| The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne. | |
| 25. n. (finance) A short sale. | |
| He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months. | |
| 26. n. A summary account. | |
| 27. n. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel. | |
| 28. n. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long. | |
| 29. v. To cause a short circuit in (something). | |
| 30. v. (intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit. | |
| 31. v. To shortchange. | |
| 32. v. To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount. | |
| This is the third time I've caught them shorting us. | |
| 33. v. (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short. | |
| 34. v. (obsolete) To shorten. | |
| 35. prep. Deficient in. | |
| We are short a few men on the second shift. | |
| He's short common sense. | |
| 36. prep. (finance) Having a negative position in. | |
| I don't want to be short the market going into the weekend. | |
| 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. | |
| can't |
| 1. v. Cannot (negative auxiliaryArnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, , Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513); is unable to; does not have the ability to. | |
| I can’t quite get it to work. | |
| 2. v. Is forbidden to; is not permitted to. | |
| You can’t enter the hall without a ticket. | |
| 3. v. Often with be: is logically impossible. | |
| The butler can’t be the murderer because he was in London that evening. | |
| 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. | |
| not |
| 1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb. | |
| Did you take out the trash? No, I did not. | |
| Not knowing any better, I went ahead. | |
| 2. adv. To no degree. | |
| That is not red; it's orange. | |
| 3. conj. And not. | |
| I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken. | |
| He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple. | |
| 4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. | |
| I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not! | |
| Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not! | |
| 5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function. | |
| You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip. | |
| 6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not. | |
| fight |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | |
| A wounded animal will fight like a maniac, relentless, savage and murderous. | |
| 2. v. (reciprocal) To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | |
| The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success. | |
| He fought for the Democrats in the last election. | |
| 4. v. To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.). | |
| The battle was fought just over that hill. | |
| 5. v. To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with. | |
| My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II. | |
| 6. v. To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract. | |
| The government pledged to fight corruption. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight. | |
| to fight cocks; to fight one's ship | |
| 8. n. An occasion of fighting. | |
| One of them got stuck in a chokehold and got stabbed to death during the fight. | |
| 9. n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies. | |
| 10. n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups. | |
| Watch your language, are you looking for a fight? | |
| 11. n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match. | |
| I'm going to Nick’s to watch the big fight tomorrow night. | |
| 12. n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife. | |
| I'll put up a fight to save this company. | |
| 13. n. The will or ability to fight. | |
| That little guy has a bit of fight in him after all. As soon as he saw the size of his opponent, all the fight went out of him. | |
| 14. n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships. | |
| 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. | |
| man |
| 1. n. An adult male human. | |
| The show is especially popular with middle-aged men. | |
| 2. n. (collective) All human males collectively: mankind. | |
| 3. n. A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.) | |
| every man for himself | |
| 4. n. (collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.) | |
| 5. n. (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) A sentient being, whether human or supernatural. | |
| 7. n. An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch. | |
| 8. n. (obsolete, uncommon) Manliness; the quality or state of being manly. | |
| 9. n. A husband. | |
| 10. n. A lover; a boyfriend. | |
| 11. n. A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.) | |
| Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I’m a cherry pie man. | |
| 12. n. A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.) | |
| I wanted to be a guitar man on a road tour, but instead I’m a flag man on a road crew. | |
| 13. n. A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter. | |
| 14. n. A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc. | |
| 15. n. An adult male servant. | |
| 16. n. (historical) A vassal. A subject. | |
| Like master, like man. (old proverb) | |
| all the king's men | |
| 17. n. A piece or token used in board games such as chess. | |
| 18. n. (Multicultural London English, slang) Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; (non-gloss definition, construed in the third person). | |
| 19. n. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste. | |
| Come on, man, we've got no time to lose! | |
| 20. n. A friendly term of address usually reserved for other adult males. | |
| Hey, man, how's it goin'? | |
| 21. n. (sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact. | |
| 22. adj. only used in, man enough | |
| 23. interj. Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing a man. | |
| Man, that was a great catch! | |
| 24. v. To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex). | |
| The ship was manned with a small crew. | |
| 25. v. To take up position in order to operate (something). | |
| Man the machine guns! | |
| 26. v. (reflexive, possibly dated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.) | |
| 27. v. (transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort. | |
| 28. v. (transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people. | |
| on |
| 1. adj. In the state of being active, functioning or operating. | |
| 2. adj. Performing according to schedule. | |
| Are we still on for tonight? | |
| Is the show still on? | |
| 3. adj. (chiefly UK, informal, usually negative) Acceptable, appropriate. | |
| You can't do that; it's just not on. | |
| 4. adj. (informal) Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed. | |
| "Five bucks says the Cavs win tonight." ―"You're on!". | |
| Mike just threw coffee onto Paul's lap. It's on now. | |
| 5. adj. (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter. | |
| 6. adj. (euphemistic) Menstruating. | |
| 7. adv. To an operating state. | |
| turn the television on | |
| 8. adv. Along, forwards (continuing an action). | |
| drive on, rock on | |
| 9. adv. In continuation, at length. | |
| and so on. | |
| He rambled on and on. | |
| 10. adv. (not US) Later. | |
| Ten years on, nothing had changed in the village. | |
| 11. prep. Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above. | |
| on the table; on the couch | |
| The parrot was sitting on Jim's shoulder. | |
| 12. prep. At or near; adjacent to. | |
| Soon we'll pass a statue on the left. | |
| The fleet is on the American coast. | |
| Croton-on-Hudson, Rostov-on-Don, Southend-on-Sea | |
| 13. prep. Covering. | |
| He wore old shoes on his feet. | |
| 14. prep. At the date of. | |
| Born on the 4th of July. | |
| 15. prep. Some time during the day of. | |
| I'll see you on Monday. The bus leaves on Friday. Can I see you on a different day? On Sunday I'm busy. | |
| 16. prep. Dealing with the subject of, about, or concerning something. | |
| A book on history. The World Summit on the Information Society. | |
| 17. prep. Touching; hanging from. | |
| The fruit ripened on the trees. The painting hangs on the wall. | |
| 18. prep. (informal) In the possession of. | |
| I haven't got any money on me. | |
| 19. prep. Because of, or due to. | |
| To arrest someone on suspicion of bribery. To contact someone on a hunch. | |
| 20. prep. Upon; at the time of (and often because of). | |
| On Jack's entry, William got up to leave. | |
| On the addition of ammonia, a chemical reaction begins. | |
| 21. prep. Paid for by. | |
| The drinks are on me tonight, boys. The meal is on the house. I paid for the airfare and meals for my family, but the hotel room was on the company. | |
| 22. prep. Used to indicate a means or medium. | |
| I saw it on television. Can't you see I'm on the phone? | |
| 23. prep. Indicating a means of subsistence. | |
| They lived on ten dollars a week. The dog survived three weeks on rainwater. | |
| 24. prep. Away or occupied with (e.g. a scheduled activity). | |
| He's on his lunch break. on vacation; on holiday | |
| 25. prep. Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with. | |
| to play on a violin or piano | |
| Her words made a lasting impression on my mind. | |
| 26. prep. Regularly taking (a drug). | |
| You've been on these antidepressants far too long. He's acting so strangely, I think he must be on something. | |
| 27. prep. Under the influence of (a drug). | |
| He's acting crazy because he's on crack right now. | |
| 28. prep. (mathematics) Having identical domain and codomain. | |
| a function on | |
| 29. prep. (mathematics) HavingV^n as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n. | |
| an operator on | |
| 30. prep. (mathematics) Generated by. | |
| the free group on four letters | |
| 31. prep. Supported by (the specified part of itself). | |
| A table can't stand on two legs. After resting on his elbows, he stood on his toes, then walked on his heels. | |
| 32. prep. At a given time after the start of something; at. | |
| 33. prep. In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series. | |
| heaps on heaps of food | |
| mischief on mischief; loss on loss | |
| 34. prep. (obsolete, regional) of | |
| 35. prep. Indicating dependence or reliance; with confidence in. | |
| I depended on them for assistance. | |
| He will promise on certain conditions. | |
| Do you ever bet on horses? | |
| 36. prep. Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion. | |
| Have pity or compassion on him. | |
| 37. prep. (obsolete) At the peril of, or for the safety of. | |
| 38. prep. In the service of; connected with; of the number of. | |
| He is on a newspaper; I am on the committee. | |
| 39. prep. By virtue of; with the pledge of. | |
| He affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honour. | |
| 40. prep. To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon. | |
| On us be all the blame. | |
| A curse on him! | |
| Please don't tell on her and get her in trouble. | |
| He turned on her and has been her enemy ever since. | |
| He went all honest on me, making me listen to his confession. | |
| 41. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) to switch on | |
| Can you on the light? | |
| 42. prep. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Without. | |
| 43. n. In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun. | |
| Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun". | |
| 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. | |
| horse |
| 1. n. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. | |
| 2. n. A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. | |
| A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse. | |
| 3. n. (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass. | |
| These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses. | |
| 4. n. (military, sometimes un) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category). | |
| We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field. | |
| All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again. | |
| 5. n. (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse. | |
| Now just remind me how the horse moves again? | |
| 6. n. (slang) A large person. | |
| Every linebacker they have is a real horse. | |
| 7. n. (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. | |
| 8. n. Equipment with legs. | |
| 9. n. In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top. | |
| She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse. | |
| 10. n. A frame with legs, used to support something. | |
| a clothes horse; a sawhorse | |
| 11. n. (nautical) Type of equipment. | |
| 12. n. A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope. | |
| 13. n. A breastband for a leadsman. | |
| 14. n. An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon. | |
| 15. n. A jackstay. | |
| 16. n. (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches | |
| 17. n. (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly. | |
| 18. n. (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a pl | |
| 19. n. (dated, slang) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination. | |
| 20. n. (dated, slang) horseplay; tomfoolery | |
| 21. v. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".) | |
| 22. v. To provide with a horse. | |
| 23. v. (obsolete) To get on horseback. | |
| 24. v. To sit astride of; to bestride. | |
| 25. v. (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare). | |
| 26. v. To take or carry on the back. | |
| 27. v. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment. | |
| 28. n. (slang) Heroin (drug). | |
| Alright, mate, got any horse? | |
| when |
| 1. adv. (interrogative) Used to introduce questions about time. | |
| When will they arrive? | |
| 2. adv. Used to introduce indirect questions about time. | |
| Do you know when they arrived? | |
| Do you know when they will arrive? | |
| Do you know when they arrive? | |
| 3. adv. At an earlier and less prosperous time. | |
| He's mister high and mighty now, but I remember him when. | |
| 4. adv. (indirect question) Used to refer to doubts about time. | |
| 5. adv. (relative) At which, on which, during which. Often omitted or replaced with that. | |
| That was the day when the Twin Towers fell. | |
| 6. conj. At what time. | |
| They were told when to sleep. | |
| He doesn't know when to stop talking. | |
| 7. conj. At such time as. | |
| I’m happiest when I’m working. | |
| 8. conj. At the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase. | |
| It was raining when I came yesterday. | |
| The show will begin when I get there. | |
| The game is over when the referee says it is. | |
| Be careful when crossing the street. | |
| Pay attention when spoken to. | |
| When (you are) angry, count to ten before speaking or acting. | |
| That time when the dog stole the turkey from the table. | |
| 9. conj. Since; given the fact that. | |
| I don't see the point of putting up Christmas decorations when I am the only person who is going to see them. | |
| 10. pron. (interrogative) What time; which time. | |
| Since when do I need your permission? | |
| 11. n. The time at which something happens. | |
| A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how. | |
| 12. interj. That's enough, a command to stop adding something, especially an ingredient of food or drink. | |
| you're |
| 1. contraction. You are. | |
| You’re smarter than I am! | |
| 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. | |
| are |
| 1. v. second-person singular present of be | |
| Mary, where are you going? | |
| 2. v. first-person plural present of be | |
| We are not coming. | |
| 3. v. second-person plural present of be | |
| Mary and John, are you listening? | |
| 4. v. third-person plural present of be | |
| They are here somewhere. | |
| 5. v. (East Yorkshire, Midlands) present of be | |
| 6. n. (dialectal, or obsolete) grace, mercy | |
| To bid God's are. | |
| God's are is what children of God seech and seek. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) honour, dignity | |
| 8. n. (rare) an accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a | |
| 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? | |
| on |
| 1. adj. In the state of being active, functioning or operating. | |
| 2. adj. Performing according to schedule. | |
| Are we still on for tonight? | |
| Is the show still on? | |
| 3. adj. (chiefly UK, informal, usually negative) Acceptable, appropriate. | |
| You can't do that; it's just not on. | |
| 4. adj. (informal) Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed. | |
| "Five bucks says the Cavs win tonight." ―"You're on!". | |
| Mike just threw coffee onto Paul's lap. It's on now. | |
| 5. adj. (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter. | |
| 6. adj. (euphemistic) Menstruating. | |
| 7. adv. To an operating state. | |
| turn the television on | |
| 8. adv. Along, forwards (continuing an action). | |
| drive on, rock on | |
| 9. adv. In continuation, at length. | |
| and so on. | |
| He rambled on and on. | |
| 10. adv. (not US) Later. | |
| Ten years on, nothing had changed in the village. | |
| 11. prep. Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above. | |
| on the table; on the couch | |
| The parrot was sitting on Jim's shoulder. | |
| 12. prep. At or near; adjacent to. | |
| Soon we'll pass a statue on the left. | |
| The fleet is on the American coast. | |
| Croton-on-Hudson, Rostov-on-Don, Southend-on-Sea | |
| 13. prep. Covering. | |
| He wore old shoes on his feet. | |
| 14. prep. At the date of. | |
| Born on the 4th of July. | |
| 15. prep. Some time during the day of. | |
| I'll see you on Monday. The bus leaves on Friday. Can I see you on a different day? On Sunday I'm busy. | |
| 16. prep. Dealing with the subject of, about, or concerning something. | |
| A book on history. The World Summit on the Information Society. | |
| 17. prep. Touching; hanging from. | |
| The fruit ripened on the trees. The painting hangs on the wall. | |
| 18. prep. (informal) In the possession of. | |
| I haven't got any money on me. | |
| 19. prep. Because of, or due to. | |
| To arrest someone on suspicion of bribery. To contact someone on a hunch. | |
| 20. prep. Upon; at the time of (and often because of). | |
| On Jack's entry, William got up to leave. | |
| On the addition of ammonia, a chemical reaction begins. | |
| 21. prep. Paid for by. | |
| The drinks are on me tonight, boys. The meal is on the house. I paid for the airfare and meals for my family, but the hotel room was on the company. | |
| 22. prep. Used to indicate a means or medium. | |
| I saw it on television. Can't you see I'm on the phone? | |
| 23. prep. Indicating a means of subsistence. | |
| They lived on ten dollars a week. The dog survived three weeks on rainwater. | |
| 24. prep. Away or occupied with (e.g. a scheduled activity). | |
| He's on his lunch break. on vacation; on holiday | |
| 25. prep. Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with. | |
| to play on a violin or piano | |
| Her words made a lasting impression on my mind. | |
| 26. prep. Regularly taking (a drug). | |
| You've been on these antidepressants far too long. He's acting so strangely, I think he must be on something. | |
| 27. prep. Under the influence of (a drug). | |
| He's acting crazy because he's on crack right now. | |
| 28. prep. (mathematics) Having identical domain and codomain. | |
| a function on | |
| 29. prep. (mathematics) HavingV^n as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n. | |
| an operator on | |
| 30. prep. (mathematics) Generated by. | |
| the free group on four letters | |
| 31. prep. Supported by (the specified part of itself). | |
| A table can't stand on two legs. After resting on his elbows, he stood on his toes, then walked on his heels. | |
| 32. prep. At a given time after the start of something; at. | |
| 33. prep. In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series. | |
| heaps on heaps of food | |
| mischief on mischief; loss on loss | |
| 34. prep. (obsolete, regional) of | |
| 35. prep. Indicating dependence or reliance; with confidence in. | |
| I depended on them for assistance. | |
| He will promise on certain conditions. | |
| Do you ever bet on horses? | |
| 36. prep. Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion. | |
| Have pity or compassion on him. | |
| 37. prep. (obsolete) At the peril of, or for the safety of. | |
| 38. prep. In the service of; connected with; of the number of. | |
| He is on a newspaper; I am on the committee. | |
| 39. prep. By virtue of; with the pledge of. | |
| He affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honour. | |
| 40. prep. To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon. | |
| On us be all the blame. | |
| A curse on him! | |
| Please don't tell on her and get her in trouble. | |
| He turned on her and has been her enemy ever since. | |
| He went all honest on me, making me listen to his confession. | |
| 41. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) to switch on | |
| Can you on the light? | |
| 42. prep. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Without. | |
| 43. n. In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun. | |
| Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun". | |
| foot |
| 1. n. A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. | |
| A spider has eight feet. | |
| 2. n. (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. | |
| Southern Italy is shaped like a foot. | |
| 3. n. (often used attributively) Travel by walking. | |
| We went there by foot because we could not afford a taxi. | |
| There is a lot of foot traffic on this street. | |
| 4. n. The base or bottom of anything. | |
| I'll meet you at the foot of the stairs. | |
| 5. n. The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest. | |
| We came and stood at the foot of the bed. | |
| 6. n. The end of a rectangular table opposite the head. | |
| The host should sit at the foot of the table. | |
| 7. n. A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it. | |
| The feet of the stove hold it a safe distance above the floor. | |
| 8. n. A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres. | |
| The flag pole at the local high school is about 20 feet high. | |
| 9. n. (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm. | |
| 10. n. (military, collective) Foot soldiers; infantry. | |
| King John went to battle with ten thousand foot and one thousand horse. | |
| 11. n. (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting. | |
| 12. n. (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward. | |
| 13. n. (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page. | |
| 14. n. (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove. | |
| 15. n. (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem. | |
| 16. n. (phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads. | |
| 17. n. (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail. | |
| To make the mainsail fuller in shape, the outhaul is eased to reduce the tension on the foot of the sail. | |
| 18. n. (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked. | |
| 19. n. (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant. | |
| 20. n. (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface. | |
| 21. n. (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein. | |
| 22. n. (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it. | |
| 23. n. (qualifier) Fundamental principle; basis; plan. | |
| 24. n. (qualifier) Recognized condition; rank; footing. | |
| 25. v. To use the foot to kick (usually a ball). | |
| 26. v. To pay (a bill). | |
| 27. v. To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip. | |
| 28. v. To walk. | |
| 29. v. To tread. | |
| to foot the green | |
| 30. v. (obsolete) To set on foot; to establish; to land. | |
| 31. v. To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.). | |
| 32. v. To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up. | |
| to foot (or foot up) an account | |
