then |
1. adv. (temporal location) At that time. | |
He was happy then. | |
2. adv. (temporal location) Soon afterward. | |
He fixed it, then left. | |
Turn left, then right, then right again, then keep going until you reach the service station. | |
3. adv. (sequence) Next in order; in addition. | |
There are three green ones, then a blue one. | |
4. adv. (conjunctive) In that case. | |
If it’s locked, then we’ll need the key. | |
Is it 12 o'clock already? Then it's time for me to leave. | |
You don't like potatoes? What do you want me to cook, then? | |
5. adv. (sequence) At the same time; on the other hand. | |
That’s a nice shirt, but then, so is the other one. | |
6. adv. (dialect) Used to contradict an assertion. | |
7. adj. Being so at that time. | |
8. n. That time | |
It will be finished before then. | |
finally |
1. adv. At the end or conclusion; ultimately. | |
The contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered. | |
2. adv. (sequence) To finish (with); lastly (in the present). | |
Finally, I washed my dog. | |
3. adv. (manner) Definitively, comprehensively. | |
The question of his long-term success has now been finally settled. | |
last |
1. adj. Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind. | |
“Eyes Wide Shut” was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick. | |
2. adj. Most recent, latest, last so far. | |
The last time I saw him, he was married. | |
I have received your note dated the 17th last, and am responding to say that.... (archaic usage) | |
3. adj. Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable. | |
He is the last person to be accused of theft. | |
The last person I want to meet is Helen. | |
More rain is the last thing we need right now. | |
4. adj. Being the only one remaining of its class. | |
Japan is the last empire. | |
5. adj. Supreme; highest in degree; utmost. | |
6. adj. Lowest in rank or degree. | |
the last prize | |
7. det. The (one) immediately before the present. | |
We went there last year. | |
8. det. (of a day of the week) Closest to seven days (one week) ago. | |
It's Wednesday, and the party was last Tuesday; that is, not yesterday, but eight days ago. | |
9. adv. Most recently. | |
When we last met, he was based in Toronto. | |
10. adv. (sequence) after everything else; finally | |
I'll go last. | |
last but not least | |
11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To perform, carry out. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To endure, continue over time. | |
Summer seems to last longer each year. | |
They seem happy now, but that won't last long. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire. | |
I don't know how much longer we can last without reinforcements. | |
14. n. A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes. | |
15. v. To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last. | |
to last a boot | |
16. n. (obsolete) A burden; load; a cargo; freight. | |
17. n. (obsolete) A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned. | |
18. n. (obsolete) An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons. | |
19. n. A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value. | |
september |
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we |
1. pron. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.) | |
2. pron. (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.) | |
3. pron. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sen | |
4. pron. (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed. | |
How are we all tonight? | |
5. pron. (personal, generally considered patronising) A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care. | |
How are we feeling this morning? | |
6. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person. | |
We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different. | |
renewed |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of renew | |
renew |
1. v. To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition. | |
2. v. To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of. | |
3. v. (theology) To make new spiritually; to regenerate. | |
4. v. (now rare, intransitive) To become new, or as new; to revive. | |
5. v. To begin again; to recommence. | |
6. v. (rare) To repeat. | |
7. v. (transitive, intransitive) To extend a period of loan, especially a library book that is due to be returned. | |
I'd like to renew these three books. Did you know that you can renew online? | |
8. n. synonym of renewal | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
revived |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of revive | |
revive |
1. v. (intransitive) To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. | |
2. v. To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew | |
The dying puppy was revived by a soft hand. | |
Her grandmother refused to be revived if she lost consciousness | |
3. v. To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression | |
classical learning revived in the fifteenth century | |
In recent years, The Manx language has been revived after dying out and is now taught in some schools on the Isle of Man. | |
4. v. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. | |
Hopefully this new paint job should revive the surgery waiting room | |
5. v. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. | |
6. v. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning. | |
7. v. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. | |
The Harry Potter films revived the world's interest in wizardry | |
8. v. (intransitive) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. | |
9. v. To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state | |
revive a metal after calcination. | |
once |
1. adv. (frequency) One and only one time. | |
I have only once eaten pizza. | |
2. adv. (temporal location) Formerly; during some period in the past. | |
He was once the most handsome man around. I once had a bicycle just like that one. | |
Wang notes that flowers have rooted and grow in the area once covered with ice. | |
3. adv. (mathematics) Multiplied by one: indicating that a number is multiplied by one. | |
Once three is three. | |
4. adv. As soon as. | |
5. adv. (obsolete) At a future time. | |
6. conj. As soon as; when; after. | |
We'll get a move on once we find the damn car keys! | |
Once you have obtained the elven bow, return to the troll bridge and trade it for the sleeping potion. | |
Once he is married, he will be able to claim the inheritance. | |
more |
1. det. comparative degree of many, : in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.) | |
More people are arriving. | |
There are more ways to do this than I can count. | |
2. det. comparative degree of much, : in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.) | |
I want more soup; I need more time | |
There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places. | |
3. adv. To a greater degree or extent. | |
He walks more in the morning these days. | |
4. adv. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. | |
5. adv. Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. | |
You're more beautiful than I ever imagined. | |
6. adv. (now dialectal, or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18thc.) | |
I was more better at English than you. | |
7. adv. rather | |
He is more clever than wise. | |
8. n. An extra amount or extent. | |
9. n. (obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip. | |
10. n. (dialectal) a root; stock. | |
11. n. A plant. | |
12. v. To root up. | |
13. pron. a greater amount of people or things | |
direct |
1. adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption. | |
2. adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end. | |
the most direct route between two buildings | |
3. adj. Straightforward; sincere. | |
4. adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. | |
5. adj. In the line of descent; not collateral. | |
a descendant in the direct line | |
6. adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body. | |
7. adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates. | |
direct nomination; direct legislation | |
8. adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number. | |
9. adv. Directly. | |
10. v. To manage, control, steer. | |
to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army | |
11. v. To aim (something) at (something else). | |
They directed their fire towards the men on the wall. | |
He directed his question to the room in general. | |
12. v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way. | |
He directed me to the left-hand road. | |
13. v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order. | |
She directed them to leave immediately. | |
14. v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent. | |
to direct a letter | |
contact |
1. n. The act of touching physically; being in close association. | |
2. n. The establishment of communication (with). | |
I haven't been in contact with her for years. | |
3. n. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else. | |
Touch the contact to ground and read the number again. | |
4. n. Someone with whom one is in communication. | |
The salesperson had a whole binder full of contacts for potential clients. | |
5. n. (informal) A contact lens. | |
6. n. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections. | |
7. n. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling. | |
I bought myself a new contact ball last week | |
8. n. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. | |
9. v. To touch; to come into physical contact with. | |
The side of the car contacted the pedestrian. | |
10. v. To establish communication with something or someone | |
I am trying to contact my sister. | |
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 | |
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. | |
Chinese |
1. n. Language: | |
2. n. Any of several Sinitic languages spoken in China, especially Literary Chinese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu or Min Nan. | |
Peter is from Hong Kong and speaks Chinese. | |
3. n. The class of Sino-Tibetan dialects including Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Min Nan and others. | |
Wu and Hakka are lesser-known varieties of Chinese. | |
4. n. The logographic writing system shared by this language family. | |
Hong Kong uses traditional Chinese. | |
5. n. Mandarin: the official language of the People's Republic of China | |
“Nǐ hǎo” means “hello” in Chinese. | |
6. n. People: | |
7. n. The people of China. | |
The Chinese have an incredible history. | |
8. n. All people of Chinese descent or self-identity | |
The Chinese are present in all parts of the world. | |
9. n. A person from China or of Chinese descent. | |
10. n. Chinese food or meal. | |
11. n. (UK, informal) A Chinese meal. | |
We're going out tonight for a Chinese. | |
12. n. (UK, North America, informal) Chinese food. | |
Please don't eat the Chinese: I'm saving it for later. | |
13. adj. Of China, its languages or people | |
14. adj. Exotic; unfamiliar; unexpected; used in phrases such as Chinese whispers, Chinese handcuffs, and Chinese checkers. | |
government |
1. n. The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization. | |
2. n. (grammar, linguistics) The relationship between a word and its dependents | |
3. n. A group of people who hold a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in a given territory. | |
4. n. The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power. | |
5. n. The management or control of a system. | |
6. n. The tenure of a chief of state. | |