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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.
Is
1. n. plural of I
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of be
He is a doctor. He retired some time ago.
Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him.
3. n. plural of i
remember to dot your is
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?
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.
very
1. adj. True, real, actual.
The fierce hatred of a very woman. The very blood and bone of our grammar. He tried his very best.
2. adj. The same; identical.
He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met. That's the very tool that I need.
3. adj. With limiting effect: mere.
4. adv. To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
You’re drinking very slowly.
That dress is very you.
5. adv. True, truly.
6. adv. (with superlatives) (ngd, Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.)
He was the very best runner there.
dangerous
1. adj. Full of danger.
Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.
2. adj. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
3. adj. (colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
4. adj. (obsolete) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
5. adj. (obsolete) Reserved; not affable.
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.
highly
1. adv. In a high or esteemed manner.
He spoke highly of you.
2. adv. Extremely; greatly; very much.
He is in a highly visible job.
skilled
1. adj. Having or showing skill; skillful.
2. adj. Requiring special abilities or training.
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of skill
skill
1. n. Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.
2. n. (obsolete) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
3. n. (obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.
4. n. (obsolete) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
5. adj. (slang) great, excellent.
6. v. To set apart; separate.
7. v. (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
8. v. (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, North England, rare) To know; to understand.
9. v. (intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
10. v. (intransitive) To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
11. v. (intransitive, archaic) To make a difference; signify; matter.
12. v. (video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
operation
1. n. The method by which a device performs its function.
It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation.
2. n. The method or practice by which actions are done.
3. n. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
4. n. A planned undertaking.
The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.
5. n. A business or organization.
We run our operation from a storefront.
They run a multinational produce-supply operation.
6. n. (medicine) A surgical procedure.
She had an operation to remove her appendix.
7. n. (computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
8. n. (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
9. n. (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.
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.
which
1. det. (interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied.
Which song made the charts?
2. det. (relative) The one or ones that.
Show me which one is bigger.
They couldn't decide which song to play.
3. det. (relative) The one or ones mentioned.
He once owned a painting of the house, which painting would later be stolen.
For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived.
I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one.
4. pron. (interrogative) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied).
Which is bigger?; Which is which?
5. pron. (relative) Who; whom; what (of those mentioned or implied).
He walked by a door with a sign, which read: PRIVATE OFFICE.
We've met some problems which are very difficult to handle.
He had to leave, which was very difficult.
No art can be properly understood apart from the culture of which it is a part.
6. pron. (relative, archaic) Used of people (now generally who, whom or that).
7. n. An occurrence of the word which.
Marines
1. n. alternate form of marines
2. n. alternate form of marine corps
3. n. plural of marine
4. n. alternate form of marine corps
marine
1. adj. Of or pertaining to the sea.
2. n. (military, nautical) A soldier, normally a member of a marine corps, trained to serve on board or from a ship
He was a marine in World War II.
3. n. (capitalised in the plural) A marine corps.
He fought with the Marines in World War II.
4. n. A painting representing some marine subject.
stand
1. v. To position or be positioned physically.:
2. v. (intransitive) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
Here I stand, wondering what to do next.
3. v. (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.
4. v. (intransitive) To remain motionless.
Do not leave your car standing in the road.
5. v. (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
6. v. To place in an upright or standing position.
He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.
7. v. (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
Paris stands on the Seine.
8. v. (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet.
9. v. (intransitive) (of tears) To be present, to have welled up (in the eyes).
10. v. To position or be positioned mentally.:
11. v. (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.
He stands to get a good price for the house.
12. v. (transitive, negative) To tolerate.
I can’t stand when people don’t read the instructions.
I can’t stand him.
13. v. (intransitive) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
14. v. (intransitive) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
15. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
16. v. To position or be positioned socially.:
17. v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire.
18. v. To undergo; withstand; hold up.
The works of Shakespeare have stood the test of time.
19. v. (intransitive, British) To seek election.
He is standing for election to the local council.
20. v. (intransitive) To be valid.
What I said yesterday still stands.
21. v. To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
22. v. To cover the expense of; to pay for.
to stand a treat
23. v. (intransitive) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
24. v. (intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
25. v. (intransitive) To appear in court.
26. v. (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
27. v. (intransitive) To remain without ruin or injury.
28. v. (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
29. n. The act of standing.
30. n. A defensive position or effort.
The Commander says we will make our stand here.
31. n. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.
32. n. A period of performance in a given location or venue.
They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees. They spent the summer touring giving 4 one-night stands a week.
33. n. A device to hold something upright or aloft.
He set the music upon the stand and began to play. an umbrella stand; a hat-stand
34. n. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
She took the stand and quietly answered questions.
35. n. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.
36. n. (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
37. n. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
38. n. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
39. n. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
a taxi stand
40. n. (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
a good, bad, or convenient stand for business
41. n. (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural)
42. n. (cricket) A partnership.
43. n. (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
44. n. (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.
45. n. (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
to be at a stand what to do
46. n. A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another
47. n. (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
48. n. A location or position where one may stand.
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".
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
bow
1. n. A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
2. n. A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
3. n. A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
4. n. A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
5. n. A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
6. n. Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
7. n. The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
8. n. Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
9. n. (nautical) A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
10. n. (saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
11. n. The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
12. v. To play music on (a stringed instrument) using a bow.
The musician bowed his violin expertly.
13. v. (intransitive) To become bent or curved.
The shelf bowed under the weight of the books.
14. v. To make something bend or curve.
15. v. (transitive, figurative) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
16. v. (intransitive) To premiere.
Cronenberg’s "Cosmopolis" bows in Cannes this week.
17. v. (intransitive) To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
That singer always bows towards her audience for some reason.
18. v. (transitive, and intransitive) To debut.
19. v. (intransitive) To defer (to something).
I bow to your better judgement in the matter.
20. v. To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
21. n. A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
He made a polite bow as he entered the room.
22. n. (nautical) The front of a boat or ship.
23. n. (rowing) The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
landing
1. n. Corridor.
2. n. Coming to a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.
3. n. A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.
4. n. A level area at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
5. v. present participle of land
land
1. n. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
Most insects live on land.
2. n. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
3. n. A country or region.
They come from a faraway land.
4. n. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. n. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes
6. n. A general country, state, or territory.
He moved from his home to settle in a faraway land.
7. n. (often, in combination) realm, domain.
I'm going to Disneyland.
Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
8. n. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
9. n. (Irish English, colloquial) A fright.
He got an awful land when the police arrived.
10. n. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
11. n. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
12. n. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
13. n. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
14. n. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
15. n. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
16. n. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
17. v. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
The plane is about to land.
18. v. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
19. v. (intransitive) To come into rest.
20. v. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
21. v. To bring to land.
It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
Use the net to land the fish.
22. v. To acquire; to secure.
23. v. To deliver.
24. adj. Of or relating to land.
25. adj. Residing or growing on land.
26. n. lant; urine
craft
1. n. (obsolete) Strength; power; might; force.
2. n. Intellectual power; skill; art.
3. n. Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning;
4. n. Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.
5. n. (obsolete) Occult art, magic.
6. n. (obsolete in the general sense) A work or product of art.
7. n. (collective or plural) Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts.
8. n. (obsolete) A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment.
9. n. (obsolete) Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities.
10. n. Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession.
The craft of writing plays.
11. n. (plural crafts) A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practi
The carpenter's craft.
He learned his craft as an apprentice.
12. n. A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’.
She represented the craft of brewers.
13. n. (plural craft) A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space.
14. n. (nautical) Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as
15. n. (nautical, British Royal Navy) Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
16. n. (figurative) A woman.
17. n. (fishing) Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc..
18. v. To make by hand and with much skill.
19. v. To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman): "state crafting", "crafting global policing".
20. v. (video games) to combine multiple items to form a new item
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.
throw
1. v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
A thrown nail.
2. v. To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider
3. v. To eject or cause to fall off.
4. v. To move to another position or condition; to displace.
throw the switch
5. v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
6. v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
7. v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid operation exception.
8. v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match.
9. v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
The deliberate red herring threw me at first.
10. v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle.
11. v. To imprison.
The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail.
12. v. To organize an event, especially a party.
13. v. To roll (a die or dice).
14. v. To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
15. v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
16. v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
17. v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
18. v. To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
19. v. To project or send forth.
20. v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
21. v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole c
22. v. (baseball, slang) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
23. v. To install a bridge.
24. n. The flight of a thrown object
What a great throw by the quarterback!
25. n. The act of throwing something.
With an accurate throw, he lassoed the cow.
26. n. One's ability to throw
He's got a girl's throw.
He's always had a pretty decent throw.
27. n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
28. n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
29. n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw.
30. n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
31. n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
32. v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
33. n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
34. n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
35. n. misspelling of throe
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
hooks
1. n. plural of hook
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of hook
hook
1. n. a rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment
2. n. a fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing
3. n. any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook
4. n. (informal) a ship's anchor
5. n. the curved needle used in the art of crochet
6. n. the part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns
7. n. a loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j
8. n. (music) a catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song
The song's hook snared me.
9. n. (authorship) a brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play
10. n. (authorship) a gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention
11. n. a tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely
12. n. (informal) removal or expulsion from a group or activity
He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.
13. n. (cricket) a type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height
14. n. (baseball) a curveball
He threw a hook in the dirt.
15. n. (software) a feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more easily
We've added "user-defined" codepoints in several places and careful definitions of what to do with unknown message types as hooks in the standard to enable implementations to be both backward a
16. n. (golf) a golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice, fade
17. n. (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-throug
18. n. (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.
19. n. (slang) A jack (the playing card)
20. n. (typography, rare) a háček.
21. n. (Scrabble) an instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word
22. n. (bowling) a ball that is rolled in a curved line
23. n. (bridge, slang) a finesse
24. n. a snare; a trap
25. n. a field sown two years in succession
26. n. (in the plural) the projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones
27. n. (geography) a spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey
28. v. To attach a hook to.
Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.
29. v. To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.
30. v. To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
31. v. To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
He hooked his fingers through his belt loops.
32. v. To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
She's only here to try to hook a husband.
A free trial is a good way to hook customers.
33. v. (US) To steal.
34. v. To connect (hook into, hook together).
If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.
35. v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.
I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked.
36. v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
37. v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
38. v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.
39. v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
40. v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.
41. v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
42. v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
43. v. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
44. v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
forward
1. adj. Toward the front or at the front.
The fire was confined to the forward portion of the store.
the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet
2. adj. Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
1999: "Would you think it forward of me to kiss you?" asked Tristran. — Neil Gaiman, Stardust, pg. 44 (2001 Perennial paperback edition).
3. adj. (finance) Expected in the future.
The stock price is currently 12 times forward earnings.
4. adj. Ready; prompt; ardently inclined; in a bad sense, eager or hasty.
5. adj. Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
The grass is forward, or forward for the season. We have a forward spring.
6. adv. Towards the front or from the front.
The bus driver told everyone standing up to move forward.
7. adv. In the usual direction of travel.
After spending an hour stuck in the mud, we could once again move forward.
8. adv. Into the future.
From this day forward, there will be no more brussels sprouts at the cafeteria.
9. v. To advance, promote.
10. v. To send (a letter, email etc.) to a third party.
I'll be glad to forward your mail to you while you're gone.
11. v. (transitive, bookbinding) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.
12. n. (rugby) One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession
13. n. (soccer) A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
14. n. (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
15. n. (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
16. n. (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
17. n. (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
18. n. (dialectal, or obsolete) Agreement; covenant.
19. n. misconstruction of foreword, , preface or introduction
into
1. prep. Going inside (of).
Mary danced into the house.
2. prep. Going to a geographic region.
We left the house and walked into the street.
The plane flew into the open air.
3. prep. Against, especially with force or violence.
The car crashed into the tree; I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall
4. prep. Producing, becoming; (indicates transition into another form or substance).
I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale. Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
5. prep. After the start of.
About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
6. prep. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
She's really into Shakespeare right now; I'm so into you!
7. prep. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself.
8. prep. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.(R:OED Online)
Five into three is fifteen.
9. prep. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
Three into two won't go.
24 goes into 48 how many times?
10. prep. Investigating the subject (of).
Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees.
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
dark
1. adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
The room was too dark for reading.
2. adj. (of a source of light) Extinguished.
Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.
3. adj. Deprived of sight; blind.
4. adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
my sister's hair is darker than mine; her skin grew dark with a suntan
5. adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
6. adj. Not clear to the understanding; not easily through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
7. adj. (betting, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
8. adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
a dark villain; a dark deed
9. adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
the Great Depression was a dark time; the film was a dark psychological thriller
10. adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
11. adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form or a portion of either.
The ending of this book is rather dark.
12. n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
Dark surrounds us completely.
13. n. Ignorance.
We kept him in the dark.
The lawyer was left in the dark as to why the jury was dismissed.
14. n. Nightfall.
It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.
15. n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
waters
1. n. plural of water
2. n. amniotic fluid, see bag of waters
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of water
water
1. n. A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gas
By the action of electricity, the water was resolved into its two parts, oxygen and hydrogen.
2. n. (in particular) The liquid form of this substance: liquid H₂O.
May I have a glass of water?
Your plants need more water.
3. n. A serving of liquid water.
4. n. (alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
He showed me the river of living water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God.
5. n. (or in the plural) Water in a body; an area of open water.
The boat was found within the territorial waters.
These seals are a common sight in the coastal waters of Chile.
6. n. (poetic, archaic, or dialectal) A body of water, almost always a river.
7. n. A combination of water and other substance(s).
8. n. (sometimes ) Mineral water.
Perrier is the most popular water in this restaurant.
9. n. (often, in the plural) Spa water.
Many people visit Bath to take the waters.
10. n. (pharmacy) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance.
ammonia water
11. n. Urine.
12. n. Amniotic fluid; used only in the plural in the UK but often also in the singular in North America, especially to avoid cacophony, as in this example: (
Before the child is born, the pregnant woman’s water breaks. (North America)
Before your child is born, your water(s) will break. (North America)
Before the child is born, the pregnant woman’s waters break. (UK)
13. n. (colloquial, medicine) Fluids in the body, especially when causing swelling.
He suffers from water on the knee.
14. n. (figuratively, in the or in the singular) A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.
The rough waters of change will bring about the calm after the storm.
15. n. (colloquial, figuratively) A person's intuition.
I know he'll succeed. I feel it in my waters.
16. n. (dated, finance) Excess valuation of securities.
17. n. The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.
a diamond of the first water is perfectly pure and transparent
18. n. A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.
19. v. To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
20. v. To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
21. v. To provide (animals) with water for drinking.
I need to go water the cattle.
22. v. (intransitive) To get or take in water.
The ship put into port to water.
23. v. (transitive, colloquial) To urinate onto.
Nature called, so I stepped into the woods and watered a tree.
24. v. To dilute.
Can you water the whisky, please?
25. v. (transitive, dated, finance) To overvalue (securities), especially through deceptive accounting.
26. v. (intransitive) To fill with or secrete water.
Chopping onions makes my eyes water.
The smell of fried onions makes my mouth water.
27. v. To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines.
to water silk
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
drag
1. n. Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.
When designing cars, manufacturers have to take drag into consideration.
2. n. (foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
3. n. A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
4. n. (informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
5. n. (slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
Travelling to work in the rush hour is a real drag.
6. n. (slang) A type of horse-drawn carriage.
7. n. (slang) Street, as in 'main drag'.
8. n. The scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents.
to run a drag
9. n. (snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
10. n. A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
11. n. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
a stone drag
12. n. (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
13. n. (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
14. n. (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle w
15. n. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
16. n. A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
17. n. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
18. n. witch house music
19. n. The last position in a line of hikers.
20. n. (aviation, aerodynamics) The act of suppressing wind flow to slow an aircraft in flight, as by use of flaps when landing.
21. v. multiple images
22. v. , direction=vertical
23. v. , width=230
24. v. , image1=Tamil fishermen dragging boat.jpg
25. v. , caption1=Tamil fishermen dragging their boat.
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27. v. , caption2=Fishing by dragging a river.
28. v. To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
29. v. (intransitive) To move slowly.
Time seems to drag when you’re waiting for a bus.
30. v. To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
31. v. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
32. v. To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
33. v. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
34. v. (computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.
Drag the file into the window to open it.
35. v. (chiefly of a vehicle) To inadvertently rub or scrape on a surface.
The car was so low to the ground that its muffler was dragging on a speed bump.
36. v. (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
37. v. To fish with a dragnet.
38. v. To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
39. v. To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
40. v. (figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
41. v. (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
You just drag him 'cause he's got more money than you.
42. n. (slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
He performed in drag.
43. n. (slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
corporate drag
44. v. To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
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.
submerged
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of submerge
2. adj. underwater
Jimmy was completely submerged when he was snorkeling.
3. adj. below the surface of a liquid
4. adj. hidden
5. adj. poor, impoverished
submerge
1. v. (intransitive) To sink out of sight.
The submarine submerged in the water.
2. v. To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
In films many people are murdered by being submerged in swimming pools.
3. v. (transitive, figurative) To be engulfed in or overwhelmed by something.
Because of the death of his father, he is submerged in sorrow.
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.
floating
1. adj. That floats or float.
floating buoys
2. adj. Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
The outcome of the forthcoming election is still unclear due to the large number of floating voters.
In China, the large floating population has tended to gravitate to cities.
You can drag the floating toolbars to any position on the screen.
3. adj. (linguistics, of a tone) that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.
4. v. present participle of float
5. n. (in the plural) Material that floats in a liquid.
float
1. v. (intransitive) Of an object or substance, to be supported by a liquid of greater density than the object so as that part of the object or substance remains above the surface.
The boat floated on the water.
The oil floated on the vinegar.
2. v. To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density.
to float a boat
3. v. (intransitive) To be capable of floating.
That boat doesn’t float.
Oil floats on vinegar.
4. v. (intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating
I’d love to just float downstream.
5. v. (intransitive) To drift or wander aimlessly.
I’m not sure where they went... they’re floating around here somewhere.
Images from my childhood floated through my mind.
6. v. (intransitive) To drift gently through the air.
The balloon floated off into the distance.
7. v. (intransitive) To move in a fluid manner.
The dancer floated gracefully around the stage.
8. v. (intransitive, colloquial) (of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
That’s a daft idea... it’ll never float.
9. v. To propose (an idea) for consideration.
I floated the idea of free ice-cream on Fridays, but no one was interested.
10. v. (intransitive) To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
11. v. (intransitive, finance) (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets as opposed to by rule.
The yen floats against the dollar.
12. v. (transitive, finance) To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
The government floated the pound in January.
Increased pressure on Thailand’s currency, the baht, in 1997 led to a crisis that forced the government to float the currency.
13. v. (transitive, colloquial) To extend a short-term loan to.
Could you float me $50 until payday?
14. v. (transitive, finance) To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
15. v. To use a float (tool).
It is time to float this horse's teeth.
16. v. (poker) To perform a float.
17. v. (computing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
18. n. A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.
19. n. A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
20. n. A float board.
21. n. A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
22. n. A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float.
23. n. An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
That float covered in roses is very pretty.
24. n. (British) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
25. n. (finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the float so we stay within our reserves limit.
26. n. (finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
2006, You don't actually need a broker to buy shares in a float when a company is about to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. — Australian Securities and Investments Commission f
27. n. (banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
No sir, your current float is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished.
28. n. (insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
We make a lot of interest from our nightly float.
29. n. (programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float.
30. n. A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
It's true - I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice-cream to be a "real" float.
31. n. A small sum of money put in a cashier's till at the start of business to enable change to be made.
32. n. (poker) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
33. n. (knitting) One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
34. n. (automotive) a car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination
35. n. (transport) a lowboy trailer
36. n. (tempering) A device sending a copious stream of water to the heated surface of a bulky object, such as an anvil or die.
37. n. (obsolete) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
38. n. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
39. n. A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
40. n. (dated) A coal cart.
41. n. A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
42. n. (computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
mines
1. n. plural of mine
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of mine
mine
1. pron. My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.
2. pron. Used predicatively.
The house itself is mine, but the land is not.
3. pron. Used substantively, with an implied noun.
Mine has been a long journey.
4. pron. Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.
5. pron. (archaic) Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
6. pron. (archaic) Used attributively before a vowel.
7. n. An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.
He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.
Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.
8. n. (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
She's a mine of information.
9. n. (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
10. n. (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.
The warship was destroyed by floating mines.
11. n. (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
12. n. (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
13. n. (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
14. v. To remove (ore) from the ground.
Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
15. v. To dig into, for ore or metal.
16. v. To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
17. v. To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
18. v. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
the mining cony
19. v. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
20. v. (slang) To pick one's nose.
21. v. (computing) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
22. n. alternative form of mien
23. n. topics, en, Mining, Weapons, Cryptocurrency

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