she |
1. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied. | |
I asked Mary, but she said that she didn’t know. | |
2. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat. | |
She could do forty knots in good weather. | |
She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she? | |
3. pron. (personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car. | |
She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable. | |
4. pron. (personal, dated) A country. | |
She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people. | |
5. pron. (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun). | |
6. n. A female. | |
Pat is definitely a she. | |
Starts |
1. n. plural of Start | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of start | |
3. n. plural of start | |
start |
1. n. The beginning of an activity. | |
The movie was entertaining from start to finish. | |
2. n. A sudden involuntary movement. | |
He woke with a start. | |
3. n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc. | |
4. n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match. | |
Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday. | |
5. n. (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later. | |
6. n. An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start. | |
to get, or have, the start | |
7. v. To begin, commence, initiate. | |
8. v. To set in motion. | |
to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business | |
9. v. To begin. | |
10. v. To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine. | |
to start the engine | |
11. v. To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion). | |
12. v. To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To begin an activity. | |
The rain started at 9:00. | |
14. v. (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin. | |
The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town. | |
The blue line starts one foot away from the wall. | |
15. v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly. | |
16. v. (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise. | |
17. v. (intransitive) To awaken suddenly. | |
18. v. To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly. | |
The hounds started a fox. | |
19. v. To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate. | |
to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel | |
20. v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose. | |
21. v. (transitive, sports) To put into play. | |
22. v. (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from. | |
to start a water cask | |
23. v. (intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation). | |
Have you started yet? | |
24. n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail. | |
25. n. A handle, especially that of a plough. | |
26. n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket. | |
27. n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse. | |
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 | |
clean |
1. adj. Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.: | |
2. adj. Not dirty. | |
Are these dishes clean? Your room is finally clean! | |
3. adj. In an unmarked condition. | |
Put a clean sheet of paper into the printer. | |
4. adj. (aerodynamics) Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear. | |
5. adj. Empty. | |
The cargo hold is clean. Mister, I want to see a clean dinner plate or there'll be no dessert for you. | |
6. adj. (of metal) Having relatively few impurities. | |
clean steel | |
7. adj. Free of immorality or criminality.: | |
8. adj. Pure, especially morally or religiously. | |
Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean. | |
9. adj. Not having used drugs or alcohol. | |
I've been clean this time for eight months. | |
10. adj. (of criminal, driving, etc. records) Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record. | |
Unlike you, I’ve never caused any accidents — my record is still clean! | |
11. adj. (informal) Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs. | |
I’m clean, officer. You can go ahead and search me if you want. | |
12. adj. (informal) Devoid of profanity. | |
13. adj. Smooth, exact, and performed well. | |
I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts. a clean leap over a fence | |
14. adj. (obsolete) Total; utter. | |
15. adj. (informal) Cool or neat. | |
Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there! | |
16. adj. (health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). | |
I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married. | |
17. adj. That does not damage the environment. | |
clean energy; clean coal | |
18. adj. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects. | |
clean land; clean timber | |
19. adj. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire. | |
20. adj. Well-proportioned; shapely. | |
clean limbs | |
21. adj. (climbing, of a route) Ascended without falling. | |
22. n. Removal of dirt. | |
This place needs a clean. | |
23. n. (weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders. | |
24. v. To remove dirt from a place or object. | |
Can you clean the windows today? | |
25. v. To tidy up, make a place neat. | |
Clean your room right now! | |
26. v. (transitive, climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed. | |
27. v. (intransitive) To make things clean in general. | |
She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her. | |
28. v. (transitive, computing) To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.). | |
29. v. (intransitive, curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep. | |
30. v. (manga fandom) To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast. | |
31. v. To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal. | |
32. adv. Fully and completely. | |
He was stabbed clean through. | |
You must be clean mad. | |
up |
1. adv. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity. | |
I looked up and saw the airplane overhead. | |
2. adv. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state Thoroughly, completely. | |
I will mix up the puzzle pieces. | |
Tear up the contract. | |
He really messed up. | |
Please type up our monthly report. | |
3. adv. To or from one's possession or consideration. | |
I picked up some milk on the way home. | |
The committee will take up your request. | |
She had to give up her driver's license after the accident. | |
4. adv. North. | |
I will go up to New York to visit my family this weekend. | |
5. adv. To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc. | |
Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets. | |
Turn it up, I can barely hear it. | |
Listen to your voice go up at the end of a question. | |
Cheer up, the weekend's almost here. | |
6. adv. (rail transport) Traditional term for the direction leading to the principal terminus, towards milepost zero. | |
7. adv. (sailing) Against the wind or current. | |
8. adv. (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction. | |
9. adv. (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman. | |
The bowler pitched the ball up. | |
10. adv. (hospitality, US) Without additional ice. | |
Would you like that drink up or on ice? | |
11. adv. (academia) Towards Cambridge or Oxford. | |
She's going up to read Classics this September. | |
12. adv. To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with. | |
I was up to my chin in water. | |
A stranger came up and asked me for directions. | |
13. adv. To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite. | |
Drink up. The pub is closing. | |
Can you sum up your research? | |
The comet burned up in the atmosphere. | |
I need to sew up the hole in this shirt. | |
14. adv. Aside, so as not to be in use. | |
to lay up riches; put up your weapons | |
15. prep. Toward the top of. | |
The cat went up the tree. They walk up the steps. | |
16. prep. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached. | |
The information made its way up the chain of command to the general. I felt something crawling up my arm. | |
17. prep. Further along (in any direction). | |
Go up the street until you see the sign. | |
18. prep. From south to north of | |
19. prep. From the mouth towards the source (of a river or waterway). | |
20. prep. (vulgar slang) Of a man: having sex with. | |
Phwoar, look at that bird. I'd love to be up her. | |
21. prep. (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more remote from a central location). | |
22. adj. Awake. | |
I can’t believe it’s 3 a.m. and you’re still up. | |
23. adj. Finished, to an end | |
Time is up! | |
24. adj. In a good mood. | |
I’m feeling up today. | |
25. adj. Willing; ready. | |
If you are up for a trip, let’s go. | |
26. adj. Next in a sequence. | |
Smith is up to bat. | |
27. adj. Happening; new. | |
What is up with that project at headquarters? | |
28. adj. Facing upwards; facing toward the top. | |
Put the notebook face up on the table. | |
Take a break and put your feet up. | |
29. adj. Larger; greater in quantity. | |
Sales are up from last quarter. | |
30. adj. Ahead; leading; winning. | |
The home team were up by two goals at half-time. | |
31. adj. Standing. | |
Get up and give her your seat. | |
32. adj. On a higher level. | |
The new ground is up. | |
33. adj. Available; made public. | |
The new notices are up as of last Tuesday. | |
34. adj. (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair. | |
AAKK = aces up | |
QQ33 = queens up | |
35. adj. Well-informed; current. | |
I’m not up on the latest news. What’s going on? | |
36. adj. (computing) Functional; working. | |
Is the server back up? | |
37. adj. (anchor, Adj_railway)(of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus. | |
The London train is on the up line. | |
38. adj. Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc. | |
39. adj. (bar tending) Chilled and strained into a stemmed glass. | |
A Cosmopolitan is typically served up. | |
40. adj. (slang) Erect. | |
41. adj. (of the Sun or Moon) Above the horizon, in the sky (i.e. during daytime or night-time) | |
42. adj. (slang) well-known; renowned | |
43. n. The direction opposed to the pull of gravity. | |
Up is a good way to go. | |
44. n. A positive thing. | |
I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home. | |
45. n. An upstairs room of a two story house. | |
She lives in a two-up two-down. | |
46. v. (transitive, colloquial) To increase or raise. | |
If we up the volume, we'll be able to make out the details. | |
We upped anchor and sailed away. | |
47. v. (transitive, colloquial) To promote. | |
It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President. | |
48. v. (intransitive) To act suddenly, usually with another verb. | |
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. | |
room |
1. n. (now rare) Opportunity or scope (to do something). | |
2. n. Space for something, or to carry out an activity. | |
3. n. (archaic) A particular portion of space. | |
4. n. (figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something. | |
5. n. (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame. | |
6. n. (obsolete) Place; stead. | |
7. n. A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling. | |
8. n. With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom. | |
Go to your room! | |
9. n. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings. | |
10. n. (always in the singular) The people in a room. | |
The room was on its feet. | |
11. n. (mining) An area for working in a coal mine. | |
12. n. (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. | |
13. n. (Internet) A forum or chat room. | |
Some users may not be able to access the AOL room. | |
14. n. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant. | |
15. n. Furniture sufficient to furnish a room. | |
16. v. (intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant. | |
Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street. | |
17. v. To assign to a room; to allocate a room to. | |
18. adj. (dialectal, or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy. | |
19. adv. (dialectal, or obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent. | |
20. adv. (nautical) Off from the wind. | |
21. n. alt form, roum, , deep blue dye | |
obsessively |
1. adv. In an obsessive manner. | |
2. adv. To an obsessive degree. | |