| 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). | |
| best |
| 1. adj. superlative form of good: most good. | |
| I can either be your best friend or your worst enemy. | |
| 2. adj. Most; largest. | |
| Unpacking took the best part of a week. | |
| 3. adv. superlative form of well: most well | |
| 4. adv. To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety. | |
| 5. n. The supreme effort one can make, or has made. | |
| I did my best. | |
| My personal best in that race is eighteen minutes, four seconds. | |
| 6. n. One's best behavior. | |
| I was somewhat distant lately, and my lady promised me head every Tuesday of the week when I'm nice to her, so I better be on my best. | |
| 7. n. The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent. | |
| 8. v. To surpass in skill or achievement. | |
| 9. v. To beat in a contest | |
| keep |
| 1. v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain. | |
| to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession | |
| 2. v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something. | |
| 3. v. To maintain possession of. | |
| I keep a small stock of painkillers for emergencies. | |
| 4. v. To maintain the condition of. | |
| I keep my specimens under glass to protect them. | |
| The abundance of squirrels kept the dogs running for hours. | |
| 5. v. To record transactions, accounts, or events in. | |
| I used to keep a diary. | |
| 6. v. To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book. | |
| 7. v. (archaic) To remain in, to be confined to. | |
| 8. v. To restrain. | |
| I keep my brother out of trouble by keeping him away from his friends and hard at work. | |
| 9. v. (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect. | |
| May the Lord keep you from harm. | |
| 10. v. To supply with necessities and financially support a person. | |
| He kept a mistress for over ten years. | |
| 11. v. (of living things) To raise; to care for. | |
| He has been keeping orchids since retiring. | |
| 12. v. To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage. | |
| 13. v. To have habitually in stock for sale. | |
| 14. v. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state. | |
| 15. v. (obsolete) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell. | |
| She kept to her bed while the fever lasted. | |
| 16. v. To continue. | |
| I keep taking the tablets, but to no avail. | |
| 17. v. To remain edible or otherwise usable. | |
| Potatoes can keep if they are in a root cellar. | |
| Latex paint won't keep indefinitely. | |
| 18. v. (copulative) To remain in a state. | |
| The rabbit avoided detection by keeping still. | |
| Keep calm! There's no need to panic. | |
| 19. v. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for. | |
| 20. v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper. | |
| Godfrey Evans kept for England for many years. | |
| 21. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch. | |
| 22. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place. | |
| School keeps today. | |
| 23. v. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate. | |
| 24. v. (transitive, dated) To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in. | |
| to keep one's house, room, bed, etc. | |
| 25. v. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent. | |
| 26. n. (obsolete) Care, notice | |
| 27. n. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. | |
| 28. n. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance. | |
| He works as a cobbler's apprentice for his keep. | |
| 29. n. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge. | |
| 30. n. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case. | |
| to be in good keep | |
| 31. n. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge. | |
| 32. n. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place. | |
| 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". | |
| their |
| 1. det. Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural). | |
| they will meet tomorrow at their convenience; this is probably their cat | |
| 2. det. Belonging to someone (one person, singular). | |
| 3. adv. misspelling of there | |
| 4. contraction. misspelling of they’re | |
| toes |
| 1. n. plural of toe | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of toe | |
| toe |
| 1. n. Each of the five digits on the end of the foot. | |
| 2. n. An equivalent part in an animal. | |
| 3. n. That part of a shoe or sock covering the toe. | |
| 4. n. Something resembling a toe, especially at the bottom or extreme end of something. | |
| (golf) the extreme end of the head of a club. | |
| (cricket) the tip of the bat farthest from the handle | |
| (kayaking) the bow; the front of the kayak. | |
| (geology) a bulbous protrusion at the front of a lava flow or landslide. | |
| 5. n. (dance) An advanced form of ballet primarily for the females, dancing ballet primarily using a Pointe shoe. | |
| 6. n. An alignment of the wheels of a road vehicle with positive toe (or toe in) signifying that the wheels are closer together at the front than at the back and negative toe (or toe out) the opposite. | |
| 7. n. (engineering) The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step. | |
| 8. n. (engineering) A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, such as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved. | |
| 9. n. (engineering) A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece. | |
| 10. n. (carpentry) The long side of an angled cut. | |
| 11. v. To furnish (a stocking, etc.) with a toe. | |
| 12. v. To touch, tap or kick with the toes. | |
| 13. v. To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to. | |
| to toe the mark | |
| 14. v. (construction) To fasten (a piece) by driving a fastener at a near-45-degree angle through the side (of the piece) into the piece to which it is to be fastened. | |
| The framers toed the irregular pieces into the sill. | |
| 15. v. (golf) To mishit a golf ball with the toe of the club. | |
