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. | |
looks |
1. n. plural of look | |
2. n. (pluralonly) One's appearance or attractiveness. | |
His charm and good looks accounted for much of his popularity in the polls. | |
Looks can be deceiving. | |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of look | |
look |
1. v. (intransitive, often, with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes. | |
Look at my new car! Don’t look in the closet. | |
2. v. To appear, to seem. | |
It looks as if it’s going to rain soon. | |
3. v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being. | |
That painting looks nice. | |
4. v. (intransitive, often, with "for") To search for, to try to find. | |
5. v. To face or present a view. | |
The hotel looks over the valleys of the HinduKush. | |
6. v. To expect or anticipate. | |
I look to each hour for my lover’s arrival. | |
7. v. To express or manifest by a look. | |
8. v. (transitive, often, with "to") To make sure of, to see to. | |
9. v. (dated, sometimes figurative) To show oneself in looking. | |
Look out of the window i.e. lean out while I speak to you. | |
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward. | |
11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for. | |
12. v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence. | |
to look down opposition | |
13. v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it. | |
The fastball caught him looking. | |
Clem Labine struck Mays out looking at his last at bat. | |
It's unusual for Mays to strike out looking. He usually takes a cut at it. | |
14. interj. Pay attention. | |
Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely. | |
15. n. The action of looking; an attempt to see. | |
Let’s have a look under the hood of the car. | |
16. n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression. | |
She got her mother’s looks. | |
I don’t like the look of the new design. | |
17. n. A facial expression. | |
He gave me a dirty look. | |
If looks could kill ... | |
As |
1. n. plural of A | |
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As. | |
2. adv. To such an extent or degree. | |
You’re not as tall as I am. | |
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive. | |
3. adv. In the manner or role specified. | |
The kidnappers released him as agreed. | |
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues. | |
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend. | |
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as). | |
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what. | |
Do as I say! | |
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know. | |
As you wish, my lord! | |
6. conj. At the same instant that; when. | |
As I came in, she flew. | |
7. conj. At the same time that; while. | |
He sleeps as the rain falls. | |
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that. | |
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy. | |
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since. | |
As it’s too late, I quit. | |
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality. | |
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago. | |
It's not so complicated as I expected. | |
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’. | |
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though. | |
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that. | |
14. conj. Expressing concession; though. | |
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than. | |
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case. | |
You are not as tall as me. | |
They're big as houses. | |
17. prep. In the role of. | |
What is your opinion as a parent? | |
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra. | |
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value. | |
20. n. plural of a | |
though |
1. adv. (conjunctive) Despite that; however. | |
I will do it, though. | |
2. adv. (degree) Used to intensify statements or questions; indeed. | |
"Man, it's hot in here." — "Isn't it, though?". | |
3. conj. Despite the fact that; although. | |
Though it’s risky, it’s worth taking the chance. | |
4. conj. (archaic) If, that, even if. | |
We shall be not sorry though the man die tonight. | |
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. | |
Will |
1. n. (American football) A weak-side linebacker. | |
2. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
Do what you will. | |
3. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
4. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
5. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
6. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
7. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
8. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. | |
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason. | |
9. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
10. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
Most creatures have a will to live. | |
11. n. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes. | |
12. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
13. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
14. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
15. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
16. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
17. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
pass |
1. v. Physical movement. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another. | |
They passed from room to room. | |
3. v. To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past. | |
You will pass a house on your right. | |
4. v. (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make | |
The waiter passed biscuits and cheese. | |
John passed Suzie a note. | |
The torch was passed from hand to hand. | |
5. v. (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes. | |
He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool. | |
The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy. | |
6. v. (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure. | |
7. v. (sport) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force. | |
8. v. # (transitive, football) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force. | |
9. v. # To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate. | |
10. v. # (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To go from one person to another. | |
12. v. To put in circulation; to give currency to. | |
pass counterfeit money | |
13. v. (lbl, en, transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance. | |
pass a person into a theater or over a railroad | |
14. v. To change in state or status | |
15. v. (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance. | |
He passed from youth into old age. | |
16. v. (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end. | |
At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed. | |
17. v. (intransitive) To die. | |
His grandmother passed yesterday. | |
18. v. (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from. | |
He passed his examination. | |
He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass. | |
19. v. (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legis | |
Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed. | |
The bill passed both houses of Congress. | |
The bill passed the Senate, but did not pass in the House. | |
20. v. (intransitive, legal) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance. | |
The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son. | |
When the old king passed away with only a daughter as an heir, the throne passed to a woman for the first time in centuries. | |
21. v. To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal | |
He passed the bill through the committee. | |
22. v. (intransitive, legal) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case. | |
23. v. To utter; to pronounce; to pledge. | |
24. v. (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression). | |
25. v. To move through time. | |
26. v. (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent. | |
Their vacation passed pleasantly. | |
27. v. (transitive, of time) To spend. | |
What will we do to pass the time? | |
28. v. To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard. | |
29. v. (intransitive) To continue. | |
30. v. (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition. | |
You're late, but I'll let it pass. | |
31. v. To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer. | |
She loved me for the dangers I had passed. | |
32. v. (intransitive) To happen. | |
It will soon come to pass. | |
33. v. To be accepted. | |
34. v. (intransitive) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do". | |
It isn't ideal, but it will pass. | |
35. v. (sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex or other group to which they would not otherwise regard one as belonging (or belonging | |
36. v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn. | |
37. v. (intransitive) In euchre, to decline to make the trump. | |
38. v. To do or be better. | |
39. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. | |
40. v. To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed. | |
41. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed. | |
42. n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford. | |
a mountain pass | |
43. n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river. | |
the passes of the Mississippi | |
44. n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over or along anything. | |
45. n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool. | |
46. n. An attempt. | |
My pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful. | |
47. n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. | |
48. n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit. | |
49. n. A sexual advance. | |
The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife. | |
50. n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another. | |
51. n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it. | |
52. n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come. | |
53. n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission | |
a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass | |
54. n. (baseball) An intentional walk. | |
Smith was given a pass after Jones' double. | |
55. n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse. | |
56. n. (obsolete) Estimation; character. | |
57. n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus. | |
58. n. (cookery) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff. | |
59. n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass". | |
A pass would have seen her win the game, but instead she gave a wrong answer and lost a point, putting her in second place. | |
60. n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process. | |
Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass. | |
61. n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website). | |
Anyone want to trade passes? | |
muster |
1. n. Gathering. | |
2. n. An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things. | |
3. n. (chiefly military) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service. | |
4. n. The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army. | |
5. n. (Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc. | |
6. n. Showing. | |
7. n. (obsolete) Something shown for imitation; a pattern. | |
8. n. (obsolete) An act of showing something; a display. | |
9. n. A collection of peafowl (an invented term rather than one used by zoologists). | |
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To show, exhibit. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body. | |
12. v. To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc. | |
13. v. (transitive, US) To enroll (into service). | |
14. v. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To gather or round up livestock. | |
pass muster |
1. v. To meet or exceed a particular standard. | |
To get a raise, an employee must pass muster with the boss. | |
2. v. To adequately pass a formal or informal inspection. | |