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. | |
there |
1. adv. (location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here). | |
2. adv. (figuratively) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place. | |
He did not stop there, but continued his speech. | |
They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there. | |
3. adv. (location) To or into that place; thither. | |
4. adv. (obsolete) Where, there where, in which place. | |
5. adv. In existence or in this world; see pronoun section below. | |
6. interj. Used to offer encouragement or sympathy. | |
There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right. | |
7. interj. Used to express victory or completion. | |
There! That knot should hold. | |
8. n. That place. | |
9. n. That status; that position. | |
You get it ready; I'll take it from there. | |
10. pron. Used as an expletive subject of be in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied. | |
There are two apples on the table. =Two apples are on the table. | |
There is no way to do it. =No way to do it exists. | |
Is there an answer? =Does an answer exist? | |
No, there isn't. =No, one doesn't exist. | |
11. pron. Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence. | |
If x is a positive number, then there exists =there is a positive number y less than x. | |
There remain several problems with this approach. =Several problems remain with this approach. | |
Once upon a time, in a now-forgotten kingdom, there lived a woodsman with his wife. =There was a woodsman, who lived with his wife. | |
There arose a great wind out of the east. =There was now a great wind, arising in the east. | |
12. pron. Used with other verbs, when raised. | |
There seems to be some difficulty with the papers. =It seems that there is some difficulty with the papers. | |
I expected there to be a simpler solution. =I expected that there would be a simpler solution. | |
There are beginning to be complications. =It's beginning to be the case that there are complications. | |
13. pron. (in combination with certain prepositions, no longer productive) That. | |
therefor, thereat, thereunder | |
14. pron. (colloquial) Used to replace an unknown name, principally in greetings and farewells | |
Hi there, young fellow. | |
15. contraction. misspelling of they’re | |
16. det. misspelling of their | |
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. | |
make |
1. v. To create. | |
2. v. To build, construct, or produce. | |
We made a bird feeder for our yard. | |
I'll make a man out of him yet. | |
3. v. To write or compose. | |
I made a poem for her wedding. | |
He made a will. | |
4. v. To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action. | |
make war | |
They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men. | |
5. v. (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing. | |
God made earth and heaven. | |
6. v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act. | |
To make like a deer caught in the headlights. | |
They made nice together, as if their fight never happened. | |
He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against. | |
8. v. To constitute. | |
They make a cute couple. | |
This makes the third infraction. | |
One swallow does not a summer make. | |
9. v. 1995, Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work, p.46: | |
10. v. To add up to, have a sum of. | |
Two and four make six. | |
11. v. (intransitive, construed with of typically interrogative) To interpret. | |
I don’t know what to make of it. | |
12. v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success. | |
This company is what made you. | |
She married into wealth and so has it made. | |
13. v. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be. | |
The citizens made their objections clear. | |
This might make you a bit woozy. | |
Did I make myself heard? | |
Scotch will make you a man. | |
14. v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as. | |
15. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something). | |
You're making her cry. | |
I was made to feel like a criminal. | |
16. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do. | |
The teacher made the student study. | |
Don’t let them make you suffer. | |
17. v. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be. | |
His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person. | |
18. v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes. | |
19. v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify. | |
20. v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time. | |
We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight. | |
21. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction). | |
They made westward over the snowy mountains. | |
Make for the hills! It's a wildfire! | |
They made away from the fire toward the river. | |
22. v. To cover (a given distance) by travelling. | |
23. v. To move at (a speed). | |
The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas. | |
This baby can make 220 miles an hour. | |
24. v. To appoint; to name. | |
25. v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man). | |
26. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate. | |
27. v. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status). | |
They hope to make a bigger profit. | |
He didn't make the choir after his voice changed. | |
She made ten points in that game. | |
28. v. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability. | |
29. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. | |
30. v. To enact; to establish. | |
31. v. To develop into; to prove to be. | |
She'll make a fine president. | |
32. v. To form or formulate in the mind. | |
make plans | |
made a questionable decision | |
33. v. To perform a feat. | |
make a leap | |
make a pass | |
make a u-turn | |
34. v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make. | |
35. v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue. | |
36. v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in. | |
37. v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what. | |
38. v. (transitive, euphemism) To take the virginity of. | |
39. v. To have sexual intercourse with. | |
40. n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model. | |
What make of car do you drive? | |
41. n. How a thing is made; construction. | |
42. n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture. | |
The camera was of German make. | |
43. n. Quantity produced, especially of materials. | |
44. n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing. | |
45. n. A person's character or disposition. | |
46. n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand. | |
47. n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit. | |
48. n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility. | |
49. n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence. | |
50. n. (slang) Past or future target of seduction (usually female). | |
51. n. (slang) A promotion. | |
52. n. A home-made project | |
53. n. (basketball) A made basket. | |
54. n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion. | |
55. n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny. | |
low |
1. adj. Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty. | |
standing on low ground in a low valley, ringed by low hills a low wall a low shelf | |
2. adj. Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than | |
the low countries Low German | |
3. adj. (baseball, of a ball) Below the batter's knees. | |
the pitch (or: the ball) was low | |
4. adj. Of less than normal height; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured. | |
a low bow a low tide the Mississippi is unusually low right now | |
5. adj. Not high in status, esteem or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar). | |
low birth low rank the low officials of the bureaucracy low-quality fabric playing low tricks on them a person of low mind | |
Now that was low even for you! | |
6. adj. Humble, meek, not haughty. | |
7. adj. Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence. | |
She had a low opinion of cats. He took a low view of dogs. | |
8. adj. Being a nadir, a bottom. | |
the low point in her career | |
9. adj. Depressed in mood, dejected, sad. | |
low spirits | |
10. adj. Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak. | |
a low pulse | |
made (or: laid) low by sickness | |
11. adj. Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc). | |
My credit union charges a low interest rate. Jogging during a whiteout, with such low temperatures and low visibility, is dangerous. The store sold bread at low prices, and milk a | |
12. adj. Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative). | |
diets low in vitamin A made from low-carbon steel | |
13. adj. Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply. | |
running low on cash | |
14. adj. (especially in the field of biology) Simple in complexity or development; (in several set phrases) favoring simplicity; see e.g. low church, Low Tory. | |
low protozoan animals, low cryptogamic plants, and other low organisms | |
15. adj. (in several set phrases) Being near the equator. | |
the low northern latitudes | |
16. adj. (acoustics) Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat. | |
The note was too low for her to sing. | |
Generally, European men have lower voices than their Indian counterparts. | |
17. adj. Quiet; soft; not loud. | |
They spoke in low voices so I would not hear what they were saying. | |
Why would you want to play heavy metal at such a low volume? | |
18. adj. (phonetics) Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate. | |
19. adj. (card games) Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc. | |
a low card | |
20. adj. (archaic) Not rich, seasoned, or nourishing; plain, simple. | |
a low diet | |
21. adj. (of an, automobile, gear, etc) Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed. | |
low gear | |
22. n. Something that is low; a low point. | |
You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank. | |
Economic growth has hit a new low. | |
23. n. The minimum value attained by some quantity within a specified period. | |
Unemployment has reached a ten-year low. | |
24. n. A depressed mood or situation. | |
He is in a low right now | |
25. n. (meteorology) An area of low pressure; a depression. | |
A deep low is centred over the British Isles. | |
26. n. The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle. | |
Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour. | |
27. n. (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn. | |
28. n. (slang) (usually accompanied by "the") a cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous payment or expense. | |
He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low. | |
29. adv. Close to the ground. | |
30. adv. Of a pitch, at a lower frequency. | |
31. adv. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently. | |
to speak low | |
32. adv. Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply. | |
He sold his wheat low. | |
33. adv. In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly. | |
34. adv. In a time approaching our own. | |
35. adv. (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution. | |
The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian. | |
36. v. (obsolete, transitive) To depress; to lower. | |
37. v. (obsolete) simple past tense of laugh. | |
38. v. (intransitive) To moo. | |
The cattle were lowing. | |
39. n. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze. | |
40. v. (Scotland) To burn; to blaze. | |
41. n. (archaic, or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus. | |
42. n. (Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill. | |
43. n. cln, en, basic words, three-letter words | |
growling |
1. adj. Producing a growl. | |
The growling dog frightened him. | |
2. n. A sustained instance of growls or guttural noises. | |
The growling from her stomach told us she was hungry. | |
3. n. (jazz) The technique of producing a low-pitched growling or rumbling sound on a wind instrument. | |
4. v. present participle of growl | |
growl |
1. n. A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal. | |
2. n. (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a person's stomach when hungry. | |
3. n. (by extension) An aggressive grumbling. | |
4. n. (jazz, by extension) A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument. | |
5. v. (intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. | |
Synonyms: gnar, gnarl, gurl, snarl | |
The dog growled at me as I walked past. | |
6. v. (intransitive, jazz) Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound. | |
7. v. (intransitive, software) To send a user a message via the Growl software library. | |
8. v. To express (something) by growling. | |
The old man growled his displeasure at the postman. | |
9. v. (transitive, jazz) To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound. | |
noises |
1. n. plural of noise | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of noise | |
noise |
1. n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant. | |
He knew that it was trash day, when the garbage collectors made all the noise. | |
2. n. Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations. | |
3. n. (technology) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio) | |
4. n. (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population. | |
5. n. Rumour or complaint. | |
The problems with the new computer system are causing a lot of noise at Head Office. | |
6. n. (obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band. | |
7. n. (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound. | |
9. v. To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip. | |
till |
1. prep. Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time). | |
She stayed till the very end. | |
It's twenty till two. (1:40) | |
I have to work till eight o'clock tonight. | |
2. prep. (obsolete) To, up to (physically). | |
They led him till his tent | |
3. prep. (dialectal) In order that, to enable. | |
Come here till I speak to you | |
4. conj. Until, until the time that. | |
Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try. | |
5. n. A cash register. | |
6. n. A removable box within a cash register containing the money. | |
Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe. | |
7. n. The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift. | |
My count of my till was 30 dollars short. | |
8. n. (obsolete) A tray or drawer in a chest. | |
9. v. To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.). | |
10. v. To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To cultivate soil. | |
12. v. (obsolete) To prepare; to get. | |
13. n. glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders | |
14. n. (dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land | |
15. n. A vetch; a tare. | |
I |
1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence. | |
(audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio) | |
2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence. | |
3. n. (metaphysics) The ego. | |
4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate. | |
5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case) | |
6. pron. nonstandard spelling of I | |
fall |
1. n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity. | |
2. n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc. | |
3. n. (chiefly North America, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. | |
4. n. A loss of greatness or status. | |
the fall of Rome | |
5. n. That which falls or cascades. | |
6. n. (sport) A crucial event or circumstance. | |
7. n. (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out. | |
8. n. (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction. | |
9. n. (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat. | |
10. n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss. | |
11. n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed. | |
He set up his rival to take the fall. | |
12. n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural). | |
Have the goodness to secure the falls of the mizzen halyards. | |
13. n. See falls | |
14. n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells. | |
15. n. A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker. | |
16. v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards. | |
17. v. To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity. | |
Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground. | |
18. v. To come down, to drop or descend. | |
The rain fell at dawn. | |
19. v. To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself. | |
He fell to the floor and begged for mercy. | |
20. v. To be brought to the ground. | |
21. v. To be moved downwards. | |
22. v. (obsolete) To let fall; to drop. | |
23. v. (obsolete) To sink; to depress. | |
to fall the voice | |
24. v. (US) To fell; to cut down. | |
to fall a tree | |
25. v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively. | |
26. v. (copulative) To become. | |
She has fallen ill. The children fell asleep in the back of the car. When did you first fall in love? | |
27. v. To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); said of an instance of a recurring event such as a holiday or date. | |
Thanksgiving always falls on a Thursday. Last year, Commencement fell on June 3. | |
28. v. (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated. | |
Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD. | |
29. v. (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease. | |
This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War. | |
30. v. (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.). | |
The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal. | |
31. v. (followed by a determining word or phrase) To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by words follow | |
Our senator fell into disrepute because of the banking scandal. | |
32. v. (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance. | |
And so it falls to me to make this important decision. The estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals. | |
33. v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower. | |
34. v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth. | |
to fall lambs | |
35. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals. | |
36. v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin. | |
37. v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before. | |
to fall into error; to fall into difficulties | |
38. v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face. | |
39. v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon). | |
40. v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry. | |
After arguing, they fell to blows. | |
41. v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly. | |
An unguarded expression fell from his lips. | |
asleep |
1. adj. In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting. | |
I was asleep when you called. | |
Never disturb a man asleep. | |
2. adj. (slang) Inattentive. | |
How could you miss that? Were you asleep? | |
3. adj. (of a body part) Having a numb or prickling sensation accompanied by a degree of unresponsiveness. | |
My arm fell asleep. You know, like pins and needles. | |
4. adj. (euphemistic) dead | |