there's |
1. contraction. contraction of there is | |
There’s a strange guy over there. | |
2. contraction. contraction of there has | |
There’s been an accident! | |
3. contraction. contraction of there was | |
4. contraction. contraction of there does | |
5. contraction. (proscribed) contraction of there are See there're. | |
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 | |
is |
1. 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. | |
2. n. plural of i | |
remember to dot your is | |
some |
1. pron. A certain number, at least one. | |
Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder. | |
2. pron. An indefinite quantity. | |
Can I have some of them? | |
3. pron. An indefinite amount, a part. | |
please give me some of the cake; everyone is wrong some of the time | |
4. det. A certain proportion of, at least one. | |
Some people like camping. | |
5. det. An unspecified quantity or number of. | |
Would you like some grapes? | |
6. det. An unspecified amount of (something un). | |
Would you like some water? | |
After some persuasion, he finally agreed. | |
7. det. A certain, an unspecified or unknown. | |
I've just met some guy who said he knew you. | |
The sequence S converges to zero for some initial value v. | |
8. det. A considerable quantity or number of; approximately. | |
He had edited the paper for some years. | |
9. det. (informal) A remarkable. | |
He is some acrobat! | |
10. adv. Of a measurement: approximately, roughly | |
I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos. | |
Some 30,000 spectators witnessed the feat. | |
Some 4,000 acres of land were flooded. | |
one |
1. num. (cardinal) The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. | |
In some religions, there is only one god. | |
In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth. | |
One person, one vote. | |
2. num. (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers. | |
3. num. (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. | |
4. num. (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one. | |
5. pron. (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. | |
The big one looks good. I want the green one. A good driver is one who drives carefully. | |
6. pron. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. | |
She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the other. | |
7. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general). | |
One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed. One shouldn’t be too quick to judge. | |
8. pron. (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing. | |
"driver", noun: one who drives. | |
9. n. The digit or figure 1. | |
10. n. (mathematics) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. | |
11. n. (US) A one-dollar bill. | |
12. n. (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single. | |
13. n. A joke or amusing anecdote. | |
14. n. (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing. | |
15. n. (Internet slang) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1". | |
A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?! | |
Someone help me; I'm always losing! | |
B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1! | |
Why don't you just go away loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
16. adj. Of a period of time, being particular. | |
One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries. | |
17. adj. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any. | |
My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other.". | |
18. adj. Sole, only. | |
He is the one man who can help you. | |
19. adj. Whole, entire. | |
Body and soul are not separate; they are one. | |
20. adj. In agreement. | |
We are one on the importance of learning. | |
21. adj. The same. | |
The two types look very different, but are one species. | |
22. adj. Being a preeminent example. | |
He is one hell of a guy. | |
23. adj. Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain". | |
The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”. | |
24. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite. | |
next |
1. adj. nearest, Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining. | |
2. adj. Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately preceding or following in order. | |
the next chapter; the next man I see; the next week; the Sunday next before Easter | |
3. adj. (figuratively) Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind. | |
4. det. The one immediately following the current or most recent one | |
Next week would be a good time to meet. | |
I'll know better next time. | |
5. det. Closest to seven days (one week) in the future. | |
The party is next Tuesday; that is, not this Tuesday, but nine days from now. | |
6. adv. In a time, place or sequence closest or following. | |
They live in the next closest house. | |
It's the next best thing to ice cream. | |
Next, we stripped off the old paint. | |
7. adv. On the first subsequent occasion | |
Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next? | |
When we next meet, you'll be married. | |
8. prep. On the side of; next to. | |
9. n. The one that follows after this one. | |
Next, please, don't hold up the queue! | |
door |
1. n. A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to ho | |
I knocked on the vice president's door | |
2. n. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door. | |
the 24 doors in an Advent calendar | |
3. n. (immigration) An entry point. | |
4. n. (figurative) A means of approach or access. | |
Learning is the door to wisdom. | |
5. n. (figurative) A barrier. | |
Keep a door on your anger. | |
6. n. (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door. | |
7. v. (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian. | |
over |
1. adj. Discontinued; ended or concluded. | |
The show is over. | |
2. adv. Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end. | |
Let's talk over the project at tomorrow's meeting. | |
Let me think that over. | |
I'm going to look over our department's expenses. | |
3. adv. To an excessive degree; overly. | |
4. adv. From an upright position to being horizontal. | |
He tipped the bottle over, and the water came gushing out. | |
That building just fell over! | |
He bent over to touch his toes. | |
5. adv. Horizontally; left to right or right to left. | |
Slide the toilet-paper dispenser's door over when one roll is empty in order to reveal the other. | |
I moved over to make room for him to sit down. | |
6. adv. From one position or state to another. | |
Please pass that over to me. | |
He came over to our way of thinking on the new project. | |
Come over and play! | |
I'll bring over a pizza. | |
7. adv. Overnight (throughout the night). | |
We stayed over at Grandma's. | |
Can I sleep over? | |
8. adv. (US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again. | |
I lost my paper and I had to do the entire assignment over. | |
9. adv. (procedure word, military) a procedure word meaning that a station is finished transmitting and is expecting a response. | |
Bravo Six, this is Bravo Six Four. Stand by for ten mike report one dash three, over. | |
Bravo Six Four, this is Bravo Six Actual. Send your traffic, over. | |
10. n. (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled. | |
11. n. Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc. | |
12. prep. Physical positioning. | |
13. prep. On top of; above; higher than; further up. | |
Hold the sign up over your head. climb up the ladder and look over the roof | |
14. prep. Across or spanning. | |
There is a bridge over the river. | |
15. prep. In such a way as to cover. | |
drape the fabric over the table; there is a roof over the house | |
16. prep. From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards. | |
The dog jumped over the fence. | |
I'll go over the fence first and then help you. | |
Let's walk over the hill to get there. | |
17. prep. By comparison. | |
18. prep. More than; to a greater degree. | |
I prefer the purple over the pink. | |
19. prep. Beyond; past; exceeding; too much or too far. | |
I think I’m over my limit for calories for today. | |
20. prep. (in certain collocations) As compared to. | |
Sales are down this quarter over last. | |
21. prep. Indicating relative status, authority, or power | |
The owner's son lorded over the experienced managers. | |
The prince ruled over a portion of the kingdom. | |
22. prep. (mathematics) Divided by. | |
four over two equals two over one | |
23. prep. (poker) (Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.) | |
9♦9♠9♣6♥6♠ = nines over sixes | |
24. prep. Finished with; done with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two. | |
We got over the engineering problems and the prototype works great. | |
I am over my cold and feel great again. | |
I know the referee made a bad call, but you have to get over it your annoyance with the referee's decision. | |
She is finally over the distress of losing her job. | |
He is finally over his distress over the loss of the relationship with his ex-girlfriend. | |
25. prep. While using, especially while consuming. | |
26. prep. Concerning or regarding. | |
The two boys had a fight over whose girlfriend was the best. | |
27. prep. Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding. | |
We triumphed over difficulties. | |
The bill was passed over the veto. | |
It was a fine victory over their opponents. | |
28. interj. In radio communications: end of sentence, ready to receive reply. | |
How do you receive? Over! | |
29. n. (rare, dialectal, or obsolete) A shore, riverbank. | |
The sea's over. | |
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 | |