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. | |
national |
1. adj. Of or having to do with a nation. | |
2. adj. (by extension) Of or having to do with a country (sovereign state). | |
Import tariffs were raised for the national interest. | |
3. n. A subject of a nation. | |
The diplomats were advised not to interact with any foreign nationals except on official duty. | |
4. n. (usually in the plural) A tournament in which participants from all over the nation compete. | |
After winning the regional tournament, the team advanced to the nationals. | |
probation |
1. n. A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance | |
You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently. | |
2. n. (legal) A type of sentence where convicted criminals are allowed to continue living in the community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions | |
He got two years probation for robbery. | |
3. n. (archaic) The act of testing; proof | |
service |
1. n. An act of being of assistance to someone. | |
I say I did him a service by ending our relationship - now he can freely pursue his career. | |
2. n. (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity. | |
Hair care is a service industry. | |
3. n. A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc. | |
4. n. (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another. | |
This machine provides the name service for the LAN. | |
5. n. The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group | |
Lancelot was at the service of King Arthur. | |
6. n. The military. | |
I did three years in the service before coming here. | |
7. n. (anchor, silverware)A set of dishes or utensils. | |
She brought out the silver tea service. | |
8. n. (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games. | |
The player had four service faults in the set. | |
9. n. A religious rite or ritual. | |
The funeral service was touching. | |
10. n. (legal) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ. | |
The service happened yesterday. | |
11. n. (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities. | |
12. n. A musical composition for use in churches. | |
13. n. (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed. | |
14. n. (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines. | |
15. v. To serve. | |
They service the customer base. | |
16. v. To perform maintenance. | |
He is going to service the car. | |
17. v. (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse | |
18. v. (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act. | |
He was going to service her. | |
19. n. service tree | |
Is |
1. n. plural of I | |
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of be | |
He is a doctor. He retired some time ago. | |
Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him. | |
3. n. plural of i | |
remember to dot your is | |
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? | |
blamed |
1. adj. euphemism of damned (intensifier). | |
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of blame | |
blame |
1. n. Censure. | |
Blame came from all directions. | |
2. n. Culpability for something negative or undesirable. | |
The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist. | |
3. n. Responsibility for something meriting censure. | |
They accepted the blame, but it was an accident. | |
4. n. (computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code. | |
5. v. To censure (someone or something); to criticize. | |
6. v. (obsolete) To bring into disrepute. | |
7. v. (transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing somethin | |
The arsonist was blamed for the fire. | |
for |
1. conj. (dated) Because. | |
2. prep. Towards. | |
The astronauts headed for the moon. | |
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to. | |
I have something for you. | |
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of. | |
We're having a birthday party for Janet. | |
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary. | |
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala. | |
5. prep. Supporting. | |
All those for the motion raise your hands. | |
6. prep. Because of. | |
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him. | |
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight. | |
She was the worse for drink. | |
7. prep. Over a period of time. | |
I've lived here for three years. | |
They fought for days over a silly pencil. | |
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space. | |
9. prep. On behalf of. | |
I will stand in for him. | |
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of. | |
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire. | |
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday. | |
He's going for his doctorate. | |
Do you want to go for coffee? | |
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers. | |
Can you go to the store for some eggs? | |
I'm saving up for a car. | |
Don't wait for an answer. | |
What did he ask you for? | |
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward. | |
Run for the hills! | |
He was headed for the door when he remembered. | |
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect. | |
Fair for its day. | |
She's spry for an old lady. | |
14. prep. Despite, in spite of. | |
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive. | |
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.) | |
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.) | |
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio | |
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day | |
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen. | |
At close of play, England were 305 for 3. | |
18. prep. To be, or as being. | |
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.) | |
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs). | |
failing |
1. v. present participle of fail | |
2. n. weakness; defect | |
His worst failing is his temper. | |
3. prep. if the preferred or prior option is not possible | |
A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement. | |
fail |
1. v. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful. | |
Throughout my life, I have always failed. | |
2. v. Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.) | |
The truck failed to start. | |
3. v. To neglect. | |
The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors. | |
4. v. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly. | |
After running five minutes, the engine failed. | |
5. v. To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert. | |
6. v. To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits. | |
I failed English last year. | |
I failed in English last year. | |
7. v. To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour. | |
The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments. | |
8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose. | |
9. v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence. | |
The crops failed last year. | |
10. v. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of. | |
11. v. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink. | |
12. v. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker. | |
A sick man fails. | |
13. v. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person. | |
14. v. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken. | |
15. v. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent. | |
16. n. (slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship. | |
The project was full of fail. | |
17. n. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful) | |
18. n. (slang) A failure (something incapable of success) | |
19. n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action). | |
20. n. A failing grade in an academic examination. | |
21. adj. (slang) That is a failure. | |
22. n. A piece of turf cut from grassland. | |
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 | |
act |
1. n. Something done, a deed. | |
an act of goodwill | |
2. n. (obsolete) Actuality. | |
3. n. A product of a legislative body, a statute. | |
4. n. The process of doing something. | |
He was caught in the act of stealing. | |
5. n. A formal or official record of something done. | |
6. n. A division of a theatrical performance. | |
The pivotal moment in the play was in the first scene of the second act. | |
7. n. A performer or performers in a show. | |
Which act did you prefer? The soloist or the band? | |
8. n. Any organized activity. | |
9. n. A display of behaviour. | |
10. n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student. | |
11. n. A display of behaviour meant to deceive. | |
to put on an act | |
12. v. (intransitive) To do something. | |
If you don't act soon, you will be in trouble. | |
13. v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform. | |
14. v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role. | |
I started acting at the age of eleven in my local theatre. | |
15. v. Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly). | |
16. v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way. | |
He's acting strangely - I think there's something wrong with him. | |
17. v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being. | |
He acted unconcerned so the others wouldn't worry. | |
18. v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer. | |
act on behalf of John | |
19. v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on). | |
High-pressure oxygen acts on the central nervous system and may cause convulsions or death. | |
Gravitational force acts on heavy bodies. | |
20. v. To play (a role). | |
He's been acting Shakespearean leads since he was twelve. | |
21. v. To feign. | |
He acted the angry parent, but was secretly amused. | |
22. v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of). | |
This group acts on the circle, so it can't be left-orderable! | |
23. v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate. | |
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. | |
policy |
1. n. (obsolete) The art of governance; political science. | |
2. n. (obsolete) A state; a polity. | |
3. n. (obsolete) A set political system; civil administration. | |
4. n. (obsolete) A trick; a stratagem. | |
5. n. A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body. | |
The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers. | |
6. n. Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness. | |
7. n. (now rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft. | |
8. n. (Scotland now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house. | |
9. n. (obsolete) Motive; object; inducement. | |
10. v. To regulate by laws; to reduce to order. | |
11. n. law | |
12. n. A contract of insurance. | |
13. n. A document containing or certifying this contract. | |
Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only. | |
14. n. (obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural) | |
15. n. A number pool lottery | |
Issues |
1. n. plural of Issue | |
2. n. plural of issue | |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of issue | |
issue |
1. n. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly: | |
2. n. (military) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie. | |
3. n. (now) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly label, en, now, _, rare in abnormal amounts. | |
The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision. | |
4. n. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly: | |
5. n. (medical) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue. | |
6. n. (now) Offspring: one's natural child or children. | |
He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up. | |
7. n. (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants. | |
Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe. | |
8. n. (figuratively) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor. | |
9. n. (now) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties. | |
3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents | |
10. n. (historical) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves. | |
11. n. (obsolete) The entrails of a slaughtered animal. | |
12. n. (rare) Any action or deed performed by a person. | |
13. n. (obsolete) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God. | |
14. n. (publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication. | |
Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy. | |
15. n. The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly(publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a w | |
The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane. | |
16. n. (finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company. | |
The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities. | |
17. n. The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period. | |
18. n. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly: | |
19. n. (obsolete) A sewer. | |
20. n. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly: | |
21. n. (obsolete) An exit from a room or building. | |
22. n. (now) A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water. | |
23. n. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly: | |
The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency. | |
24. n. (historical) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object. | |
25. n. The production or distribution of something for general use. | |
Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913. | |
26. n. The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group. | |
The uniform was standard prison issue. | |
27. n. (finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities. | |
The company's stock issue diluted his ownership. | |
28. n. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly: | |
Please stand by. We are having technical issues. | |
29. n. (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court. | |
The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute. | |
30. n. (figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided. | |
For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want. | |
31. n. (rare) A dispute between two alternatives, a dilemma. | |
32. n. (now) A psychological or emotional difficulty, label en now _ informal figurative _ and _ usually _ euphemistic any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty. | |
She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... Imma just sayin', girl's got issues. | |
33. n. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly: | |
34. n. (obsolete) The end of any action or process. | |
35. n. (obsolete) The end of any period of time. | |
36. n. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly: | |
37. n. (now) The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement. | |
38. n. (obsolete) The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion. | |
39. n. (figurative) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion. | |
40. n. (figurative) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition. | |
41. n. (figuratively) All of something. | |
The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit. | |
42. v. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from. | |
The water issued forth from the spring. | |
The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means. | |
43. v. To rush out, to sally forth. | |
The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers. | |
44. v. To extend into, to open onto. | |
The road issues into the highway. | |
45. v. To turn out in a certain way, to result in. | |
46. v. (legal) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue. | |
47. v. To send out; to put into circulation. | |
The Federal Reserve issues US dollars. | |
48. v. To deliver for use. | |
The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates. | |
49. v. To deliver by authority. | |
The court issued a writ of mandamus. | |
arising |
1. v. present participle of arise | |
2. n. The process by which something arises; origination; occurrence. | |
arise |
1. v. To come up from a lower to a higher position. | |
to arise from a kneeling posture | |
2. v. To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up. | |
He arose early in the morning. | |
3. v. To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself. | |
A cloud arose and covered the sun. | |
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. | |
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. | |
Case |
1. n. (grammar) abstract feature of a noun phrase that determines its function in a sentence, such as a grammatical case and a position. | |
2. n. An actual event, situation, or fact. | |
For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth. | |
It is not the case that every unfamiliar phrase is an idiom. | |
In case of fire, break glass. sign on fire extinguisher holder in public space | |
3. n. (now rare) A given condition or state. | |
4. n. A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession. | |
It was one of the detective's easiest cases. Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases. The doctor told us of an interesting case he had treated that morning. | |
5. n. (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study. | |
The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies. | |
6. n. (legal) A legal proceeding, lawsuit. | |
7. n. (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence. | |
The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object. Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh. | |
8. n. (grammar) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language. | |
Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages. Latin is a language that employs case. | |
9. n. (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms. | |
There were another five cases reported overnight. | |
10. n. (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch. | |
11. v. (obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases. | |
12. n. A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture. | |
13. n. A box, sheath, or covering generally. | |
a case for spectacles; the case of a watch | |
14. n. A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine. | |
15. n. An enclosing frame or casing. | |
a door case; a window case | |
16. n. A suitcase. | |
17. n. A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed. | |
18. n. The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer. | |
19. n. (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and | |
20. n. (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter. | |
21. n. (poker slang) Four of a kind. | |
22. n. (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces. | |
23. n. (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings. | |
24. n. A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft. | |
25. adj. (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank. | |
He drew the case eight! | |
26. v. To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment. | |
27. v. To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose. | |
28. v. (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery. | |