| tell |
| 1. v. To count, reckon, or enumerate. | |
| All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth. | |
| 2. v. To narrate. | |
| I want to tell a story; I want to tell you a story. | |
| 3. v. To convey by speech; to say. | |
| Finally, someone told him the truth. He seems to like to tell lies. | |
| 4. v. To instruct or inform. | |
| Please tell me how to do it. | |
| 5. v. To order; to direct, to say to someone. | |
| Tell him to go away. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish. | |
| Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance? No, there's no way to tell. | |
| 7. v. To reveal. | |
| Time will tell what became of him. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To be revealed. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated. | |
| Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell. | |
| 10. v. To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing. | |
| I saw you steal those sweets! I'm going to tell! | |
| 12. v. (authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show | |
| Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing. | |
| 13. n. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogatio | |
| 14. n. (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account. | |
| 15. n. (internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper. | |
| 16. n. (archaeology) A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements. | |
| Her |
| 1. pron. honoraltcaps, her | |
| 2. det. Belonging to her. | |
| This is her book | |
| 3. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc. | |
| Give it to her (after preposition) | |
| He wrote her a letter (indirect object) | |
| He treated her for a cold (direct object) | |
| 4. n. (informal) A female person or animal. | |
| I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her. | |
| I'll |
| 1. contraction. I will | |
| 2. contraction. I shall | |
| 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) | |
| will |
| 1. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
| Do what you will. | |
| 2. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
| 3. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
| 4. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
| 5. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
| 6. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
| Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
| 7. 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. | |
| 8. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
| Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
| 9. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
| Most creatures have a will to live. | |
| 10. 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. | |
| 11. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
| 12. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
| He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
| 13. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
| 14. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
| 15. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
| All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
| 16. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
| He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
| meet |
| 1. v. To make contact (with) while in proximity. | |
| 2. v. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter. | |
| Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today? | |
| 3. v. To come face to face with someone by arrangement. | |
| Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock. Shall we meet at 8 p.m in our favorite chatroom? | |
| 4. v. To get acquainted with someone. | |
| I'm pleased to meet you! I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine. | |
| I met my husband through a mutual friend at a party. It wasn't love at first sight; in fact, we couldn't stand each other at first! | |
| 5. v. (Ireland) To French kiss someone. | |
| 6. v. Of groups: to gather or oppose. | |
| 7. v. To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting. | |
| I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations. | |
| 8. v. To come together in conflict. | |
| 9. v. (sports) To play a match. | |
| England and Holland will meet in the final. | |
| 10. v. To make physical or perceptual contact. | |
| 11. v. To converge and finally touch or intersect. | |
| The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away. | |
| 12. v. To touch or hit something while moving. | |
| The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent. | |
| 13. v. To adjoin, be physically touching. | |
| The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast. | |
| 14. v. To satisfy; to comply with. | |
| This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs. | |
| 15. v. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer. | |
| The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate. | |
| 16. n. A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet). | |
| 17. n. A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting. | |
| 18. n. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. | |
| 19. n. A meeting. | |
| OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him. | |
| 20. n. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧. | |
| 21. n. (Irish) An act of French kissing someone. | |
| 22. adj. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper. | |
| with |
| 1. prep. Against. | |
| He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
| 2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
| He went with his friends. | |
| 3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
| She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
| 4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
| 5. prep. In support of. | |
| We are with you all the way. | |
| 6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by. | |
| slain with robbers | |
| 7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
| cut with a knife | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
| 9. prep. Having, owning. | |
| 10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
| Do you want to come with? | |
| 11. adv. --> | |
| 12. n. alternative form of withe | |
| Her |
| 1. pron. honoraltcaps, her | |
| 2. det. Belonging to her. | |
| This is her book | |
| 3. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc. | |
| Give it to her (after preposition) | |
| He wrote her a letter (indirect object) | |
| He treated her for a cold (direct object) | |
| 4. n. (informal) A female person or animal. | |
| I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her. | |
| in |
| 1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. | |
| 2. prep. Contained by. | |
| The dog is in the kennel. | |
| 3. prep. Within. | |
| 4. prep. Surrounded by. | |
| We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air. | |
| 5. prep. Part of; a member of. | |
| One in a million. She's in band and orchestra. | |
| 6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to. | |
| What grade did he get in English? | |
| Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted. | |
| 7. prep. At the end of a period of time. | |
| They said they would call us in a week. | |
| 8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time | |
| Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours. | |
| 9. prep. During (said of periods of time). | |
| in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi | |
| 10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word. | |
| English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s. | |
| 11. prep. Into. | |
| Less water gets in your boots this way. | |
| 12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance. | |
| In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment. | |
| 13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement. | |
| My fat rolls around in folds. | |
| 14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject. | |
| He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma. | |
| 15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics. | |
| You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her. | |
| 16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing). | |
| I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress. | |
| 17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality. | |
| 18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of. | |
| Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties. | |
| The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold. | |
| Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. | |
| 19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc. | |
| Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular. | |
| His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages. | |
| When you write in cursive, it's illegible. | |
| 20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose. | |
| 21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest. | |
| 22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something. | |
| Is Mr. Smith in? | |
| 23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. | |
| Suddenly a strange man walked in. | |
| 24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball. | |
| He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in. | |
| 25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of. | |
| What's that in? | |
| 26. adv. After the beginning of something. | |
| 27. n. A position of power or a way to get it. | |
| His parents got him an in with the company | |
| 28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings | |
| 29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner. | |
| 30. adj. In fashion; popular. | |
| Skirts are in this year. | |
| 31. adj. Incoming. | |
| the in train | |
| 32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed. | |
| 33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin. | |
| in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband | |
| 34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting. | |
| 35. n. Inch. | |
| five |
| 1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six. This many dots: (•••••). | |
| 2. num. Describing a group or set with five elements. | |
| 3. n. The digit/figure 5. | |
| He wrote a five followed by four zeroes. | |
| 4. n. (US) A five-dollar bill. | |
| Can anyone here change a five? | |
| 5. n. Anything measuring five units, as length. | |
| All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours. | |
| 6. n. A person who is five years old. | |
| The fives and sixes will have snack first, then the older kids. | |
| 7. n. Five o'clock. | |
| See you at five. | |
| 8. n. A short rest, especially one of five minutes. | |
| Take five, soldier. | |
| 9. n. (basketball) A basketball team, club or lineup. | |
| minutes |
| 1. n. plural of minute | |
| 2. n. The official notes kept during a meeting. | |
| 3. v. third-person singular present indicative of minute | |
| minute |
| 1. n. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour). | |
| You have twenty minutes to complete the test. | |
| 2. n. (informal) A short but unspecified time period. | |
| Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet! | |
| 3. n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree. | |
| We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc. | |
| 4. n. (chiefly in the minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting. | |
| Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting. | |
| 5. n. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network. | |
| If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes. | |
| 6. n. A point in time; a moment. | |
| 7. n. A nautical or a geographic mile. | |
| 8. n. An old coin, a half farthing. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit. | |
| 10. n. (architecture) A fixed part of a module. | |
| 11. n. (slang) A while or a long unspecified period of time | |
| Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute! | |
| 12. v. Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting. | |
| I’ll minute this evening’s meeting. | |
| 13. v. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of. | |
| 14. adj. Very small. | |
| They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing. | |
| 15. adj. Very careful and exact, giving small details. | |
| The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination. | |
| after |
| 1. adv. Behind; later in time; following. | |
| They lived happily ever after. | |
| I left the room, and the dog bounded after. | |
| 2. prep. Subsequently to; following in time; later than. | |
| We had a few beers after the game. | |
| The time is quarter after eight. | |
| The Cold War began shortly after the Second World War. | |
| 3. prep. Behind. | |
| He will leave a trail of destruction after him. | |
| 4. prep. In pursuit of, seeking. | |
| He's after a job; run after him; inquire after her health. | |
| 5. prep. In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing. | |
| We named him after his grandfather; a painting after Leonardo da Vinci. | |
| 6. prep. Next in importance or rank. | |
| The princess is next in line to the throne after the prince. | |
| 7. prep. As a result of. | |
| After your bad behaviour, you will be punished. | |
| 8. prep. In spite of. | |
| After all that has happened, he is still my friend. | |
| I can't believe that, after all our advice against gambling, you walked into that casino! | |
| 9. prep. (Irish usually preceded by a form of be followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity | |
| I was after finishing my dinner when there was a knock on the door. | |
| 10. prep. (dated) According to an author or text. | |
| 11. prep. Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to. | |
| to look after workmen; to enquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting. | |
| 13. conj. Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause. | |
| I went home after we had decided to call it a day. | |
| 14. adj. (dated) Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent | |
| 15. adj. (nautical, where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship. | |
| The after gun is mounted aft. | |
| The after gun is abaft the forward gun. | |
| 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 | |
| finish |
| 1. n. An end; the end of anything. | |
| 2. n. A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces. | |
| The car's finish was so shiny and new. | |
| 3. n. The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth. | |
| 4. n. (sports) A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal. | |
| 5. v. To complete (something). | |
| Please finish your homework! | |
| 6. v. To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar). | |
| The furniture was finished in teak veneer. | |
| 7. v. To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal. | |
| Due to BSE, cows in the United Kingdom must be finished and slaughtered before 30 months of age. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To come to an end. | |
| The song has finished. | |
| making |
| 1. n. The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction. | |
| 2. n. Process of growth or development. | |
| As a child he didn’t seem like a genius in the making. | |
| 3. v. present participle of make | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| traps |
| 1. n. plural of trap | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of trap | |
| trap |
| 1. n. A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. | |
| I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem. | |
| 2. n. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. | |
| Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny. | |
| 3. n. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor. | |
| Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck. | |
| 4. n. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball | |
| 5. n. The game of trapball itself. | |
| 6. n. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object. | |
| They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap. | |
| 7. n. A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids. | |
| 8. n. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet. | |
| 9. n. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs. | |
| 10. n. (slang) A person's mouth. | |
| Keep your trap shut. | |
| 11. n. (in the plural) Belongings. | |
| 12. n. (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet). | |
| I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you. | |
| 13. n. (sports) Trapshooting. | |
| 14. n. (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event. | |
| 15. n. (Australia, slang) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush. | |
| 16. n. (US, slang) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold. (Also used attributively to describe things which are used for the sale of drugs, e.g. | |
| 17. n. A kind of movable stepladder. | |
| 18. n. (slang) A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite. | |
| 19. n. (slang) A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's textual gender. | |
| 20. n. (music) A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music. | |
| 21. v. To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap. | |
| to trap foxes | |
| 22. v. To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. | |
| 23. v. To provide with a trap. | |
| to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe | |
| 24. v. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game | |
| trap for beaver | |
| 25. v. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee. | |
| 26. v. (US, slang) To sell narcotics, especially in a public area. | |
| 27. v. (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it. | |
| 28. n. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock. | |
| 29. v. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses). | |
| 30. n. (slang) The trapezius muscle. | |
