natural |
1. adj. That exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem. | |
The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed. | |
2. adj. Of or relating to nature. | |
In the natural world the fit tend to live on while the weak perish. | |
3. adj. Without artificial additives. | |
Natural food is healthier than processed food. | |
4. adj. As expected; reasonable. | |
It's natural for business to be slow on Tuesdays. | |
His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime. | |
5. adj. (music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮. | |
There's a wrong note here: it should be C natural instead of C sharp. | |
6. adj. (music) Produced by natural organs, such as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music. | |
7. adj. (music) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key. | |
8. adj. (math) Having 1 as the base of the system, of a function or number. | |
9. adj. Without, or prior to, modification or adjustment. | |
the natural motion of a gravitating body | |
The chairs were all natural oak but the table had a lurid finish. | |
So-called second-generation silicone breast implants looked and felt more like the natural breast. | |
10. adj. (dice) The result of a dice roll before bonuses or penalties are added to or subtracted from the result. | |
11. adj. Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings. | |
12. adj. (obsolete) Connected by the ties of consanguinity. | |
13. adj. (obsolete) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard. | |
a natural child | |
14. adj. (of sexual intercourse) Without a condom. | |
We made natural love. | |
15. n. (now rare) A native inhabitant of a place, country etc. | |
16. n. (music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental, or the symbol ♮ used to indicate such a note. | |
17. n. One with an innate talent at or for something. | |
He's a natural on the saxophone. | |
18. n. An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric. | |
(color panel, FAD6A5) | |
19. n. (archaic) One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot. | |
20. n. (colloquial, chiefly UK) One's natural life. | |
21. n. (US, colloquial) A hairstyle for people with afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated. | |
22. n. (algebra) Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls. | |
scabs |
1. n. plural of scab | |
scab |
1. n. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. | |
2. n. (colloquial, or obsolete) The scabies. | |
3. n. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep. | |
4. n. Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus). | |
5. n. Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by. | |
6. n. (plant disease) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots. | |
7. n. (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold. | |
8. n. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. | |
9. n. (offensive, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin. | |
12. v. To remove part of a surface (from). | |
13. v. (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker. | |
14. v. (transitive, UK, Australia, NZ, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum. | |
I scabbed some money off a friend. | |
everywhere |
1. adv. In or to all locations under discussion. | |
He delivers the mail everywhere on this street. | |
We went everywhere at the school - we talked to all the teachers in their classrooms. | |
2. adv. (colloquial, hyperbole) In or to a few or more locations. | |
We went to Europe last year and went everywhere: Berlin, Paris, London, and Madrid. | |
When I shop for shoes, I like to look everywhere. | |
I've looked everywhere in the house and still can't find my glasses. | |
are |
1. v. second-person singular present of be | |
Mary, where are you going? | |
2. v. first-person plural present of be | |
We are not coming. | |
3. v. second-person plural present of be | |
Mary and John, are you listening? | |
4. v. third-person plural present of be | |
They are here somewhere. | |
5. v. (East Yorkshire, Midlands) present of be | |
6. n. (dialectal, or obsolete) grace, mercy | |
To bid God's are. | |
God's are is what children of God seech and seek. | |
7. n. (obsolete) honour, dignity | |
8. n. (rare) an accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a | |
be |
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence. | |
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. | |
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place. | |
The cup is on the table. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place. | |
When will the meeting be? | |
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar. | |
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come. | |
I have been to Spain many times. | |
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating. | |
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same. | |
Knowledge is bliss. | |
Hi, I’m Jim. | |
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same. | |
3 times 5 is fifteen. | |
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal. | |
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995. | |
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it. | |
The sky is blue. | |
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase. | |
The sky is a deep blue today. | |
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice. | |
The dog was drowned by the boy. | |
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses. | |
The woman is walking. | |
I shall be writing to you soon. | |
We liked to chat while we were eating. | |
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go". | |
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic. | |
I am to leave tomorrow. | |
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car. | |
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement. | |
This building is three hundred years old. | |
I am 75 kilograms. | |
He’s about 6 feet tall. | |
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years. | |
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.) | |
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day. | |
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.) | |
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo. | |
What time is it there? It’s night. | |
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event. | |
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period) | |
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him. | |
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like. | |
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid. | |
Why is it so dark in here? | |
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way. | |
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.". | |
Why is he being nice to me? | |
dreading |
1. v. present participle of dread | |
dread |
1. v. To fear greatly. | |
2. v. To anticipate with fear. | |
I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life. | |
3. v. (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear. | |
4. v. To style (the hair) into dreadlocks. | |
5. n. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. | |
6. n. Reverential or respectful fear; awe. | |
7. n. Somebody or something dreaded. | |
8. n. (obsolete) A person highly revered. | |
9. n. (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness. | |
10. n. A Rastafarian. | |
11. n. (chiefly in the plural) dreadlock | |
12. adj. Terrible; greatly feared. | |
13. adj. (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe. | |
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. | |
product |
1. n. A commodity offered for sale. | |
That store offers a variety of products. We've got to sell a lot of product by the end of the month. | |
2. n. (cosmetics) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc. | |
Wash excess product out of your hair. | |
3. n. Anything that is produced; a result. | |
The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed. | |
4. n. The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process. | |
They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production. | |
5. n. A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances. | |
Skill is the product of hours of practice. His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue. | |
6. n. (chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction. | |
This is a product of lime and nitric acid. | |
7. n. (arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers. | |
The product of 2 and 3 is 6. The product of 2, 3, and 4 is 24. | |
8. n. (mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of ty | |
9. n. Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user. | |
10. n. (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity. | |
I got some product here – you buying? | |
coming |
1. v. present participle of come | |
2. n. The act of arriving; an arrival | |
3. adj. Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next. | |
We expect great things from you this coming year. | |
She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition. | |
4. adj. Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement. | |
Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing. | |
5. adj. (obsolete) Ready to come; complaisant; fond. | |
come |
1. v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to. | |
She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes... | |
2. v. To move towards the speaker. | |
I called the dog, but she wouldn't come. | |
Stop dawdling and come here! | |
3. v. To move towards the listener. | |
Hold on, I'll come in a second. | |
You should ask the doctor to come to your house. | |
4. v. To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence. | |
No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit. | |
Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year. | |
5. v. (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause. | |
King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming. | |
He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him. | |
6. v. To move towards an unstated agent. | |
The butler should come when called. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To arrive. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself. | |
The pain in his leg comes and goes. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence. | |
Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn. | |
10. v. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate. | |
He came after a few minutes. | |
11. v. (copulative figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment. | |
They came very close to leaving on time. His test scores came close to perfect. | |
One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart. | |
12. v. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something. | |
He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits. | |
13. v. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be. | |
He was a dream come true. | |
14. v. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist. | |
He's as tough as they come. Our milkshakes come in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavours. | |
15. v. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in. | |
You can't come any tricks here. | |
16. v. (intransitive) Happen. | |
This kind of accident comes when you are careless. | |
17. v. (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate. | |
18. v. To have a certain social background. | |
19. v. To be or have been a resident or native. | |
Where did you come from? | |
20. v. To have been brought up by or employed by. | |
She comes from a good family. | |
He comes from a disreputable legal firm. | |
21. v. To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from). | |
The river comes from Bear Lake. | |
Where does this road come from? | |
22. v. (intransitive, of grain) To germinate. | |
23. n. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach. | |
24. n. (vulgar, slang) Semen | |
25. n. (vulgar, slang) Female ejaculatory discharge. | |
26. prep. Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time. | |
Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests. | |
Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on. | |
27. interj. An exclamation to express annoyance. | |
Come come! Stop crying. Come now! You must eat it. | |
28. interj. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request. | |
Come come! You can do it. Come now! It won't bite you. | |
29. n. (typography) alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon. | |
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. | |
market |
1. n. City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise. | |
2. n. An organised, often periodic, trading event at such site. | |
The privilege to hold a weekly market was invaluable for any feudal era burgh. | |
3. n. Flea market | |
4. n. A group of potential customers for one's product. | |
We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner. | |
5. n. A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists. | |
Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta. | |
6. n. A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects. | |
The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets. | |
7. n. The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities. | |
8. n. (obsolete) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth. | |
9. v. To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them. | |
We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter. | |
10. v. To sell | |
We marketed more this quarter already then all last year! | |
11. v. (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods. | |
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. | |
rendering |
1. n. The act or process by which something is rendered. | |
2. n. Version; translation. | |
3. n. Sketch, illustration, or painting. | |
4. n. (computer graphics) The process of producing an image from an internal model, or the image thus produced. | |
5. v. present participle of render | |
render |
1. v. (ditransitive) To cause to become. | |
The shot rendered her immobile. | |
2. v. To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of. | |
The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully. | |
3. v. To translate into another language. | |
to render Latin into English | |
4. v. To pass down. | |
render a verdict (i.e., deliver a judgment) | |
5. v. To make over as a return. | |
They had to render the estate. | |
6. v. To give; to give back; to deliver. | |
render aid; render money | |
to render an account of what really happened | |
7. v. to give up; to yield; to surrender. | |
8. v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media. | |
rendering images | |
9. v. To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially. | |
10. v. To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct. | |
rendering of fat into soap | |
11. v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking. | |
Bacon is very fatty when raw; however, most of the fat will render during cooking. | |
12. v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. | |
to render with stucco | |
13. v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc. | |
A rope renders well, that is, passes freely. | |
14. v. (nautical) To yield or give way. | |
15. v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore. | |
16. v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite. | |
17. n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls). | |
18. n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model. | |
A low-resolution render might look blocky. | |
19. n. (obsolete) A surrender. | |
20. n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent. | |
21. n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement. | |
22. n. One who rends. | |
them |
1. pron. Objective case of they: third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb. | |
Give it to them. (after preposition) | |
She wrote them a letter. (indirect object) | |
She treated them for a cold. (direct object) | |
2. pron. Objective case of they: third-person singular pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb. | |
If someone comes and asks for the ticket, just give it to them. (after preposition) | |
If one of my patients calls, please bring them their dinner. (indirect object) | |
If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them. (direct object) | |
3. det. (dialectal) Those. | |
Them kids need to grow up. | |
useless |
1. adj. Without use or possibility to be used. | |
This fork has prongs that are bent. It's useless now. | |
2. adj. Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action). | |
I think it's useless to keep this discussion going. It's like talking to a wall. | |
I tried my best to make him quit smoking, but my efforts were useless. He now smokes six packs a day. | |
3. adj. (pejorative, of a person) good-for-nothing; not dependable. | |
Bill never mows the lawn, takes out the trash or anything. He's useless, but I love him anyways. | |
4. adj. (colloquial, of a person) unable to do well at a particular task or thing. Useless is mildly insulting. | |
My brother is useless at most computer games, but he is an awesome PS2 player. | |
Why do you keep trying? You're obviously useless at it. | |