| they |
| 1. pron. (the third-person plural) A group of people, animals, plants or objects previously mentioned. | |
| Fred and Jane? They just arrived. Dogs may bark if they want to be fed. Plants wilt if they are not watered. | |
| I have a car and a truck, but they are both broken. | |
| 2. pron. (the third-person singular, sometimes proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender, but not if previously named and identified as male or female. | |
| 3. pron. (indefinite pronoun, vague meaning) People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker. | |
| They say it’s a good place to live. | |
| They didn’t have computers in the old days. | |
| They should do something about this. | |
| They have a lot of snow in winter. | |
| 4. det. (now Southern England dialect, or nonstandard) The, those. | |
| 5. det. (US dialects including AAVE) Their. | |
| 6. pron. (US dialectal) There (especially as an expletive subject of be). | |
| all |
| 1. adv. (degree) intensifier. | |
| It suddenly went all quiet. | |
| She was all, “Whatever.” | |
| 2. adv. (poetic) Entirely. | |
| 3. adv. Apiece; each. | |
| The score was 30 all when the rain delay started. | |
| 4. adv. (degree) So much. | |
| Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets. | |
| 5. adv. (obsolete, poetic) even; just | |
| 6. det. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or un). | |
| All contestants must register at the scorer’s table. All flesh is originally grass. All my friends like classical music. | |
| 7. det. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer). | |
| The store is open all day and all night. (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.) | |
| I’ve been working on this all year. (= from the beginning of the year until now.) | |
| 8. det. (obsolete) Any. | |
| 9. det. Only; alone; nothing but. | |
| He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice. | |
| 10. pron. Everything. | |
| some gave all they had; she knows all and sees all; Those who think they know it all are annoying to those of us who do. | |
| 11. pron. Everyone. | |
| A good time was had by all. | |
| 12. n. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of. | |
| She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line. | |
| 13. n. The totality of one's possessions. | |
| 14. conj. (obsolete) although | |
| 15. adj. (dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead. | |
| The butter is all. | |
| End |
| 1. n. A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the last character of the current line. | |
| 2. n. The terminal point of something in space or time. | |
| At the end of the road, turn left. | |
| At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love. | |
| 3. n. (by extension) (euphemistic) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion. | |
| Is there no end to this madness? | |
| 4. n. (by extension) Death, especially miserable. | |
| He met a terrible end in the jungle. | |
| I hope the end comes quickly. | |
| 5. n. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide. | |
| Hold the string at both ends. | |
| My father always sat at the end of the table. | |
| 6. n. Result. | |
| 7. n. A purpose, goal, or aim. | |
| 8. n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground. | |
| The Pavillion End | |
| 9. n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end. | |
| 10. n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion. | |
| 11. n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. | |
| 12. n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap. | |
| odds and ends | |
| 13. n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. | |
| 14. v. To finish, terminate. | |
| Is this movie never going to end? | |
| The lesson will end when the bell rings. | |
| The referee blew the whistle to end the game. | |
| up |
| 1. adv. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity. | |
| I looked up and saw the airplane overhead. | |
| 2. adv. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state Thoroughly, completely. | |
| I will mix up the puzzle pieces. | |
| Tear up the contract. | |
| He really messed up. | |
| Please type up our monthly report. | |
| 3. adv. To or from one's possession or consideration. | |
| I picked up some milk on the way home. | |
| The committee will take up your request. | |
| She had to give up her driver's license after the accident. | |
| 4. adv. North. | |
| I will go up to New York to visit my family this weekend. | |
| 5. adv. To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc. | |
| Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets. | |
| Turn it up, I can barely hear it. | |
| Listen to your voice go up at the end of a question. | |
| Cheer up, the weekend's almost here. | |
| 6. adv. (rail transport) Traditional term for the direction leading to the principal terminus, towards milepost zero. | |
| 7. adv. (sailing) Against the wind or current. | |
| 8. adv. (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction. | |
| 9. adv. (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman. | |
| The bowler pitched the ball up. | |
| 10. adv. (hospitality, US) Without additional ice. | |
| Would you like that drink up or on ice? | |
| 11. adv. (academia) Towards Cambridge or Oxford. | |
| She's going up to read Classics this September. | |
| 12. adv. To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with. | |
| I was up to my chin in water. | |
| A stranger came up and asked me for directions. | |
| 13. adv. To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite. | |
| Drink up. The pub is closing. | |
| Can you sum up your research? | |
| The comet burned up in the atmosphere. | |
| I need to sew up the hole in this shirt. | |
| 14. adv. Aside, so as not to be in use. | |
| to lay up riches; put up your weapons | |
| 15. prep. Toward the top of. | |
| The cat went up the tree. They walk up the steps. | |
| 16. prep. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached. | |
| The information made its way up the chain of command to the general. I felt something crawling up my arm. | |
| 17. prep. Further along (in any direction). | |
| Go up the street until you see the sign. | |
| 18. prep. From south to north of | |
| 19. prep. From the mouth towards the source (of a river or waterway). | |
| 20. prep. (vulgar slang) Of a man: having sex with. | |
| Phwoar, look at that bird. I'd love to be up her. | |
| 21. prep. (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more remote from a central location). | |
| 22. adj. Awake. | |
| I can’t believe it’s 3 a.m. and you’re still up. | |
| 23. adj. Finished, to an end | |
| Time is up! | |
| 24. adj. In a good mood. | |
| I’m feeling up today. | |
| 25. adj. Willing; ready. | |
| If you are up for a trip, let’s go. | |
| 26. adj. Next in a sequence. | |
| Smith is up to bat. | |
| 27. adj. Happening; new. | |
| What is up with that project at headquarters? | |
| 28. adj. Facing upwards; facing toward the top. | |
| Put the notebook face up on the table. | |
| Take a break and put your feet up. | |
| 29. adj. Larger; greater in quantity. | |
| Sales are up from last quarter. | |
| 30. adj. Ahead; leading; winning. | |
| The home team were up by two goals at half-time. | |
| 31. adj. Standing. | |
| Get up and give her your seat. | |
| 32. adj. On a higher level. | |
| The new ground is up. | |
| 33. adj. Available; made public. | |
| The new notices are up as of last Tuesday. | |
| 34. adj. (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair. | |
| AAKK = aces up | |
| QQ33 = queens up | |
| 35. adj. Well-informed; current. | |
| I’m not up on the latest news. What’s going on? | |
| 36. adj. (computing) Functional; working. | |
| Is the server back up? | |
| 37. adj. (anchor, Adj_railway)(of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus. | |
| The London train is on the up line. | |
| 38. adj. Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc. | |
| 39. adj. (bar tending) Chilled and strained into a stemmed glass. | |
| A Cosmopolitan is typically served up. | |
| 40. adj. (slang) Erect. | |
| 41. adj. (of the Sun or Moon) Above the horizon, in the sky (i.e. during daytime or night-time) | |
| 42. adj. (slang) well-known; renowned | |
| 43. n. The direction opposed to the pull of gravity. | |
| Up is a good way to go. | |
| 44. n. A positive thing. | |
| I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home. | |
| 45. n. An upstairs room of a two story house. | |
| She lives in a two-up two-down. | |
| 46. v. (transitive, colloquial) To increase or raise. | |
| If we up the volume, we'll be able to make out the details. | |
| We upped anchor and sailed away. | |
| 47. v. (transitive, colloquial) To promote. | |
| It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President. | |
| 48. v. (intransitive) To act suddenly, usually with another verb. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| happy |
| 1. adj. Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous. | |
| Music makes me feel happy. | |
| 2. adj. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious. | |
| 3. adj. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something). | |
| Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week? | |
| Yes, I am happy with the decision. | |
| 4. adj. Of acts, speech, etc.: appropriate, apt, felicitous. | |
| a happy coincidence | |
| 5. adj. (in combination) Favoring or inclined to use. | |
| slaphappy, trigger-happy | |
| 6. adj. (rare) Of persons, especially when referring to their ability to express themselves (often followed by at or in): dexterous, ready, skilful. | |
| 7. n. preceded by the: happy people as a group. | |
| 8. n. (informal, rare) A happy event, thing, person, etc. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up. | |
| 10. v. Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven. | |
| huddle |
| 1. n. a dense and disorderly crowd. | |
| 2. n. (American football) a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To crowd together. | |
| The sheep huddled together seeking warmth. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb. | |
| 5. v. To get together and discuss a topic. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive, American football) To form a huddle. | |
| 7. v. To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system. | |
| 8. v. To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together). | |
| 9. adj. Muted, as if emitted by a huddled embryo | |
