English Sentence Analyser

Use this page to analyse and learn English text. You can copy text into the box below or get a random sentence from our database. Press the Analyse button to get translations of the text and words.

kick
1. v. To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
Did you kick your brother?
2. v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
He enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching the kickline kick.
3. v. To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
Kick the ball into the goal.
4. v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
5. v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
He was kicked by ChanServ for flooding.
6. v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
I still smoke, but they keep telling me to kick the habit.
7. v. To move or push suddenly and violently.
He was kicked sideways by the force of the blast.
8. v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
9. v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
10. v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
Contador kicks again to try to rid himself of Rasmussen.
11. n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
A kick to the knee.
12. n. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
The ballerina did a high kick and a leap.
13. n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
I finally saw the show. What a kick!
I think I sprained something on my latest exercise kick.
14. n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
15. n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed causes a video game character to kick.
16. n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
The car had a nasty kick the whole way.
The pool ball took a wild kick, up off the table.
17. n. Piquancy.
18. n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
19. n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
20. n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
a long kick up the field.
21. n. A recoil of a gun.
22. n. (informal) Pocket.
23. n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
24. v. To die.
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.
bucket
1. n. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.
2. n. The amount held in this container.
The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
3. n. (archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
4. n. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
5. n. (slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
6. n. (basketball, informal) The basket.
The forward drove to the bucket.
7. n. (basketball, informal) A field goal.
We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
8. n. (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
9. n. (computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
10. n. (informal, chiefly plural) A large amount of liquid.
It rained buckets yesterday.
I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.
11. n. A bucket bag.
12. n. The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
13. n. The pitcher in certain orchids.
14. v. To place inside a bucket.
15. v. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
to bucket water
16. v. (intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
17. v. (intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
18. v. (computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
19. v. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
20. v. (transitive, UK, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

Dictionary entries from Wiktionary