| 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 | |
| colour |
| 1. n. (AU, Canada, Ireland, NZ, South Africa, UK) standard spelling of color | |
| 2. adj. (AU, Canada, Ireland, NZ, South Africa, UK) standard spelling of color | |
| 3. v. (AU, Canada, Ireland, NZ, South Africa, UK) standard spelling of color | |
| 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. | |
| interpret |
| 1. v. To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms. applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc. | |
| to interpret an Indian speech - | |
| 2. v. To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation | |
| The actor interpreted the character of Hamlet with great skill. - | |
| The way the musician interpreted a sonata was quite special. - | |
| an artist interprets a landscape - | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To act as an interpreter. | |
| He interpreted at the meeting between the Chinese and French associates. - | |
| it |
| 1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals. | |
| Put it over there. | |
| Take each day as it comes. | |
| I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today. | |
| 2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender. | |
| She took the baby and held it in her arms. | |
| 3. pron. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation. | |
| It's me. John. | |
| Is it her? | |
| 4. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it) | |
| It is nearly 10 o’clock. | |
| It’s 10:45 read ten-forty-five. | |
| It’s very cold today. | |
| It’s lonely without you. | |
| 5. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms. | |
| stick it out | |
| live it up | |
| rough it | |
| 6. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject i | |
| It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see) | |
| I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that) | |
| It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing) | |
| He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that) | |
| It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if) | |
| 7. pron. All or the end; something after which there is no more. | |
| Are there more students in this class, or is this it? | |
| That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you. | |
| 8. pron. (chiefly pejorative, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male. | |
| 9. pron. (obsolete) (Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun): That which; what. | |
| 10. det. (obsolete) its | |
| 11. n. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being. | |
| 12. n. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag. | |
| In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it… | |
| 13. n. (British) The game of tag. | |
| Let's play it at breaktime. | |
| 14. n. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty. | |
| 15. n. (euphemism) Sexual activity. | |
| caught them doing it | |
| 16. adj. (colloquial) Most fashionable. | |
| 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. | |
| terms |
| 1. n. plural of term | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of term | |
| term |
| 1. n. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. | |
| Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing. | |
| 2. n. That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary. | |
| 3. n. (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits. | |
| A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid. | |
| 4. n. A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge. | |
| "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science. | |
| 5. n. Relations among people. | |
| We are on friendly terms with each other. | |
| 6. n. Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year. | |
| 7. n. Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length. | |
| He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison. | |
| near-term, mid-term and long-term goals | |
| the term allowed to a debtor to discharge his debt | |
| 8. n. (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force. | |
| 9. n. (archaic) A menstrual period. | |
| 10. n. (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table. | |
| All the terms of this sum cancel out. | |
| One only term is odd nobr - in ( 12; 3; 4 ). | |
| 11. n. (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. | |
| 12. n. (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart. | |
| 13. n. (architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr. | |
| 14. n. (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. | |
| 15. v. To phrase a certain way; to name or call. | |
| 16. adj. (medicine, colloquial) Born or delivered at term. | |
| term neonate | |
| 17. n. (computing, informal) terminal (computer program that emulates a physical terminal) | |
| 18. v. To terminate one's employment | |
| 19. n. One whose employment has been terminated | |
| of |
| 1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. | |
| 2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". | |
| 3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). | |
| 4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). | |
| There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. | |
| 5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to. | |
| What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three. | |
| 6. prep. Expressing separation. | |
| 7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.) | |
| Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband. | |
| 8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.) | |
| He seemed devoid of human feelings. | |
| 9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.) | |
| 10. prep. Expressing origin. | |
| 11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.) | |
| The word is believed to be of Japanese origin. | |
| 12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of. | |
| The invention was born of necessity. | |
| 13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.) | |
| It is said that she died of a broken heart. | |
| 14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.) | |
| I am tired of all this nonsense. | |
| 15. prep. Expressing agency. | |
| 16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).) | |
| I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. | |
| 17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below). | |
| The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties. | |
| 18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.) | |
| It was very brave of you to speak out like that. | |
| 19. prep. Expressing composition, substance. | |
| 20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.) | |
| Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic. | |
| 21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.) | |
| She wore a dress of silk. | |
| 22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.) | |
| What a lot of nonsense! | |
| 23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.) | |
| Welcome to the historic town of Harwich. | |
| 24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also". | |
| I'm not driving this wreck of a car. | |
| 25. prep. Introducing subject matter. | |
| 26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma | |
| I'm always thinking of you. | |
| 27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning. | |
| He told us the story of his journey to India. | |
| 28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.) | |
| This behaviour is typical of teenagers. | |
| 29. prep. Having partitive effect. | |
| 30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among". | |
| Most of these apples are rotten. | |
| 31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.) | |
| 32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. | |
| On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort. | |
| 33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).) | |
| He is a friend of mine. | |
| 34. prep. Expressing possession. | |
| 35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. | |
| He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. | |
| 36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. | |
| The owner of the nightclub was arrested. | |
| 37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter | |
| Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames. | |
| 38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive". | |
| 39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.) | |
| She had a profound distrust of the police. | |
| 40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics. | |
| 41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards. | |
| My companion seemed affable and easy of manner. | |
| 42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by". | |
| Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain. | |
| 43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.) | |
| We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%. | |
| 44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod | |
| It's not that big of a deal. | |
| 45. prep. Expressing a point in time. | |
| 46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. | |
| Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river. | |
| 47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time). | |
| I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while. | |
| 48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.) | |
| After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off. | |
| 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. | |
| wavelengths |
| 1. n. plural of wavelength | |
| wavelength |
| 1. n. (physics) The length of a single cycle of a wave, as measured by the distance between one peak or trough of a wave and the next; it is often designated in physics as λ, and corresponds to the velocity | |
| that |
| 1. conj. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement. | |
| He told me that the book is a good read. | |
| I believe that it is true. — She is convinced that he is British. | |
| 2. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that. | |
| Be glad that you have enough to eat. | |
| 3. conj. (now uncommon) Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that. | |
| 4. conj. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect. | |
| The noise was so loud that she woke up. | |
| The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed. | |
| 5. conj. (archaic, or poetic) Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that. | |
| 6. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb. | |
| Was John there? — Not that I saw. | |
| How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw. | |
| 7. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish. | |
| 8. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise. | |
| 9. det. The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction. | |
| That book is a good read. This one isn't. | |
| That battle was in 1450. | |
| That cat of yours is evil. | |
| 10. pron. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "t | |
| He went home, and after that I never saw him again. | |
| 11. pron. The known (thing); (used to refer to something just said). | |
| They're getting divorced. What do you think about that? | |
| 12. pron. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality; used together with a verb and pronoun to emphatically repeat a previous statement. | |
| The water is so cold! — That it is. | |
| 13. pron. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; (representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition). | |
| The CPR course that she took really came in handy. | |
| The house that he lived in was old and dilapidated. | |
| 14. pron. (colloquial) (Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.) | |
| the place that = where or to which I went last year | |
| the last time that = when I went to Europe | |
| 15. adv. (degree) To a given extent or degree. | |
| "The ribbon was that thin." "I disagree, I say it was not that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner...". | |
| 16. adv. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions). | |
| I'm just not that sick. | |
| I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult. | |
| 17. adv. (obsolete, outside, dialects) To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions). | |
| Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her. | |
| 18. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those. | |
| are |
| 1. v. second-person singular present of be | |
| Mary, where are you going? | |
| 2. v. first-person plural present of be | |
| We are not coming. | |
| 3. v. second-person plural present of be | |
| Mary and John, are you listening? | |
| 4. v. third-person plural present of be | |
| They are here somewhere. | |
| 5. v. (East Yorkshire, Midlands) present of be | |
| 6. n. (dialectal, or obsolete) grace, mercy | |
| To bid God's are. | |
| God's are is what children of God seech and seek. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) honour, dignity | |
| 8. n. (rare) an accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a | |
| 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? | |
| coming |
| 1. v. present participle of come | |
| 2. n. The act of arriving; an arrival | |
| 3. adj. Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next. | |
| We expect great things from you this coming year. | |
| She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition. | |
| 4. adj. Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement. | |
| Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing. | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete) Ready to come; complaisant; fond. | |
| come |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to. | |
| She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes... | |
| 2. v. To move towards the speaker. | |
| I called the dog, but she wouldn't come. | |
| Stop dawdling and come here! | |
| 3. v. To move towards the listener. | |
| Hold on, I'll come in a second. | |
| You should ask the doctor to come to your house. | |
| 4. v. To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence. | |
| No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit. | |
| Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year. | |
| 5. v. (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause. | |
| King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming. | |
| He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him. | |
| 6. v. To move towards an unstated agent. | |
| The butler should come when called. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To arrive. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself. | |
| The pain in his leg comes and goes. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence. | |
| Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate. | |
| He came after a few minutes. | |
| 11. v. (copulative figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment. | |
| They came very close to leaving on time. His test scores came close to perfect. | |
| One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart. | |
| 12. v. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something. | |
| He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits. | |
| 13. v. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be. | |
| He was a dream come true. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist. | |
| He's as tough as they come. Our milkshakes come in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavours. | |
| 15. v. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in. | |
| You can't come any tricks here. | |
| 16. v. (intransitive) Happen. | |
| This kind of accident comes when you are careless. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate. | |
| 18. v. To have a certain social background. | |
| 19. v. To be or have been a resident or native. | |
| Where did you come from? | |
| 20. v. To have been brought up by or employed by. | |
| She comes from a good family. | |
| He comes from a disreputable legal firm. | |
| 21. v. To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from). | |
| The river comes from Bear Lake. | |
| Where does this road come from? | |
| 22. v. (intransitive, of grain) To germinate. | |
| 23. n. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach. | |
| 24. n. (vulgar, slang) Semen | |
| 25. n. (vulgar, slang) Female ejaculatory discharge. | |
| 26. prep. Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time. | |
| Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests. | |
| Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on. | |
| 27. interj. An exclamation to express annoyance. | |
| Come come! Stop crying. Come now! You must eat it. | |
| 28. interj. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request. | |
| Come come! You can do it. Come now! It won't bite you. | |
| 29. n. (typography) alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon. | |
| back |
| 1. adj. (not comparable) Near the rear. | |
| Go in the back door of the house. | |
| 2. adj. (not comparable) Not current. | |
| I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine. | |
| 3. adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area. | |
| They took a back road. | |
| 4. adj. (not comparable) In arrear; overdue. | |
| They still owe three months' back rent. | |
| 5. adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating backward. | |
| back action | |
| 6. adj. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel). | |
| The vowel of smallcaps - lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England. | |
| 7. adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place. | |
| He gave back the money. He needs his money back. He was on vacation, but now he’s back. The office fell into chaos when you left, but now order is back. | |
| 8. adv. Away from the front or from an edge. | |
| Sit all the way back in your chair. | |
| Step back from the curb. | |
| 9. adv. In a manner that impedes. | |
| Fear held him back. | |
| 10. adv. In a reciprocal manner. | |
| If you hurt me, I'll hurt you back. | |
| 11. adv. Earlier, ago. | |
| many years back | |
| 12. n. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly. | |
| Could you please scratch my back? | |
| 13. n. The spine and associated tissues. | |
| I hurt my back lifting those crates. | |
| 14. n. (slang) Large and attractive buttocks. | |
| 15. n. (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back. | |
| I still need to finish the back of your dress. | |
| 16. n. The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back. | |
| Can you fix the back of this chair? | |
| 17. n. (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.) | |
| 18. n. That which is farthest away from the front. | |
| He sat in the back of the room. | |
| 19. n. The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side. | |
| Turn the book over and look at the back. | |
| 20. n. # The edge of a book which is bound. | |
| # The titles are printed on the backs of the books. | |
| 21. n. # (printing) The inside margin of a page. | |
| 22. n. # The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting. | |
| # Tap it with the back of your knife. | |
| 23. n. The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen. | |
| I hung the clothes on the back of the door. | |
| 24. n. Area behind, such as the backyard of a house. | |
| We'll meet out in the back of the library. | |
| 25. n. The part of something that goes last. | |
| The car was near the back of the train. | |
| 26. n. (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team. | |
| The backs were lined up in an I formation. | |
| 27. n. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back. | |
| The small boat raced over the backs of the waves. | |
| 28. n. A support or resource in reserve. | |
| 29. n. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship. | |
| The ship's back broke in the pounding surf. | |
| 30. n. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage. | |
| 31. n. (slang) Effort, usually physical. | |
| Put some back into it! | |
| 32. n. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail. | |
| Could I get a martini with a water back? | |
| 33. n. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides. | |
| 34. v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction. | |
| the train backed into the station; the horse refuses to back | |
| 35. v. To support. | |
| I back you all the way; which horse are you backing in this race? | |
| 36. v. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere. | |
| 37. v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship. | |
| 38. v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power. | |
| 39. v. (of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed. | |
| 40. v. To push or force backwards. | |
| to back oxen | |
| The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet. | |
| 41. v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount. | |
| 42. v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back. | |
| 43. v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back. | |
| to back books | |
| 44. v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of. | |
| 45. v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement. | |
| to back a letter; to back a note or legal document | |
| 46. v. (legal, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender). | |
| 47. v. To row backward with (oars). | |
| to back the oars | |
| 48. n. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. | |
| 49. n. A ferryboat. | |
| from |
| 1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at. | |
| This wine comes from France. | |
| I got a letter from my brother. | |
| 2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. | |
| He had books piled from floor to ceiling. | |
| He left yesterday from Chicago. | |
| Face away from the wall! | |
| 3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation. | |
| 20 from 31 leaves 11. | |
| 4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of. | |
| An umbrella protects from the sun. | |
| He knows right from wrong. | |
| 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. | |
| whole |
| 1. adj. Entire. | |
| I ate a whole fish. | |
| 2. adj. (Used as an intensifier.) | |
| I brought a whole lot of balloons for the party. She ate a whole bunch of french fries. | |
| 3. adj. Sound, uninjured, healthy. | |
| He is of whole mind, but the same cannot be said about his physical state. | |
| 4. adj. (of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed. | |
| whole wheat; whole milk | |
| 5. adj. (mining) As yet unworked. | |
| 6. adv. (colloquial) In entirety; entirely; wholly. | |
| I ate a fish whole! | |
| 7. n. Something complete, without any parts missing. | |
| This variety of fascinating details didn't fall together into an enjoyable, coherent whole. | |
| 8. n. An entirety. | |
| image |
| 1. n. An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture. | |
| The Bible forbids the worship of graven images. | |
| 2. n. A mental picture of something not real or not present. | |
| 3. n. A statue or idol. | |
| 4. n. (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image, executable image and image copy.) | |
| Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons. | |
| 5. n. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others. | |
| 6. n. (mathematics) Something mapped to by a function. | |
| The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2*x. | |
| 7. n. (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something. | |
| The image of this step function is the set of integers. | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast. | |
| 9. v. To represent by an image or symbol; to portray. | |
| 10. v. To reflect, mirror. | |
| 11. v. To create an image of. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity. | |
| So |
| 1. n. A Mon-Khmer-speaking people of Laos and Thailand. | |
| 2. conj. In order that. | |
| Eat your broccoli so you can have dessert. | |
| 3. conj. With the result that; for that reason; therefore. | |
| I was hungry so I asked if there was any more food. | |
| He ate too much cake, so he fell ill. | |
| He wanted a book, so he went to the library. | |
| “I need to go to the bathroom.”―“So go!” | |
| 4. conj. (archaic) Provided that; on condition that, as long as. | |
| 5. adv. To the (explicitly stated) extent that. | |
| It was so hot outside that all the plants died. He was so good, they hired him on the spot. | |
| 6. adv. (informal) To the (implied) extent. | |
| I need a piece of cloth so long. = this long | |
| 7. adv. (informal) Very (positive clause). | |
| He is so good! | |
| 8. adv. (informal) Very (negative clause). | |
| It’s not so bad. i.e. it's acceptable | |
| 9. adv. (slang) Very much. | |
| But I so want to see the Queen when she visits our town! That is so not true! | |
| 10. adv. In a particular manner. | |
| Place the napkin on the table just so. If that's what you mean, then say so; (or do so). | |
| 11. adv. In the same manner or to the same extent as aforementioned; also. | |
| Just as you have the right to your free speech, so I have the right to mine. Many people say she's the world's greatest athlete, but I don't think so. "I can count backwards from on | |
| 12. adv. (with as) To such an extent or degree; as. | |
| so far as; so long as; so much as | |
| 13. adj. True, accurate. | |
| That is so. You are responsible for this, is that not so? | |
| 14. adj. In that state or manner; with that attribute. A proadjective that replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase. | |
| 15. adj. (dated, UK, slang) Homosexual. | |
| Is he so? | |
| 16. interj. Used after a pause for thought to introduce a new topic, question or story. | |
| So, let's go home. | |
| So, what'll you have? | |
| So, there was this squirrel stuck in the chimney... | |
| 17. interj. (Short for) so what. | |
| "You park your car in front of my house every morning." — "So?". | |
| 18. interj. Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question. | |
| So how does this story end? | |
| So, everyone wants to know - did you win the contest or not? | |
| 19. interj. (archaic) Be as you are; stand still; (used especially to cows; also used by sailors.) | |
| 20. pron. abbreviation of someone | |
| 21. n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale. | |
| 22. n. (foods) A type of dairy product made in Japan between the seventh and 10th centuries. | |
| you |
| 1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object. | |
| 2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself. | |
| 3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) | |
| 4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.) | |
| Both of you should get ready now. | |
| You are all supposed to do as I tell you. | |
| 5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.) | |
| 6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object). | |
| 7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to. | |
| Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus? | |
| 8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis. | |
| You idiot! | |
| 9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal. | |
| can |
| 1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to. | |
| She can speak English, French, and German. I can play football. Can you remember your fifth birthday? | |
| 2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to. | |
| You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework. Can I use your pen? | |
| 3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible. | |
| Can it be Friday already? | |
| Teenagers can really try their parents' patience. | |
| Animals can experience emotions. | |
| 4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception. | |
| Can you hear that?. | |
| I can feel the baby moving inside me. | |
| 5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know. | |
| 6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top. | |
| 7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can). | |
| 8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish. | |
| 9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory. | |
| Shit or get off the can. | |
| Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me. | |
| 10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks. | |
| 11. n. (slang) Jail or prison. | |
| Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years. | |
| 12. n. (slang) Headphones. | |
| 13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup. | |
| 14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark | |
| 15. n. A chimney pot. | |
| 16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar. | |
| They spent August canning fruit and vegetables. | |
| 17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.). | |
| He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail. | |
| 18. v. To shut up. | |
| Can your gob. | |
| 19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee. | |
| The boss canned him for speaking out. | |
| make |
| 1. v. To create. | |
| 2. v. To build, construct, or produce. | |
| We made a bird feeder for our yard. | |
| I'll make a man out of him yet. | |
| 3. v. To write or compose. | |
| I made a poem for her wedding. | |
| He made a will. | |
| 4. v. To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action. | |
| make war | |
| They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men. | |
| 5. v. (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing. | |
| God made earth and heaven. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act. | |
| To make like a deer caught in the headlights. | |
| They made nice together, as if their fight never happened. | |
| He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against. | |
| 8. v. To constitute. | |
| They make a cute couple. | |
| This makes the third infraction. | |
| One swallow does not a summer make. | |
| 9. v. 1995, Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work, p.46: | |
| 10. v. To add up to, have a sum of. | |
| Two and four make six. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive, construed with of typically interrogative) To interpret. | |
| I don’t know what to make of it. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success. | |
| This company is what made you. | |
| She married into wealth and so has it made. | |
| 13. v. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be. | |
| The citizens made their objections clear. | |
| This might make you a bit woozy. | |
| Did I make myself heard? | |
| Scotch will make you a man. | |
| 14. v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as. | |
| 15. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something). | |
| You're making her cry. | |
| I was made to feel like a criminal. | |
| 16. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do. | |
| The teacher made the student study. | |
| Don’t let them make you suffer. | |
| 17. v. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be. | |
| His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person. | |
| 18. v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes. | |
| 19. v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify. | |
| 20. v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time. | |
| We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight. | |
| 21. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction). | |
| They made westward over the snowy mountains. | |
| Make for the hills! It's a wildfire! | |
| They made away from the fire toward the river. | |
| 22. v. To cover (a given distance) by travelling. | |
| 23. v. To move at (a speed). | |
| The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas. | |
| This baby can make 220 miles an hour. | |
| 24. v. To appoint; to name. | |
| 25. v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man). | |
| 26. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate. | |
| 27. v. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status). | |
| They hope to make a bigger profit. | |
| He didn't make the choir after his voice changed. | |
| She made ten points in that game. | |
| 28. v. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability. | |
| 29. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. | |
| 30. v. To enact; to establish. | |
| 31. v. To develop into; to prove to be. | |
| She'll make a fine president. | |
| 32. v. To form or formulate in the mind. | |
| make plans | |
| made a questionable decision | |
| 33. v. To perform a feat. | |
| make a leap | |
| make a pass | |
| make a u-turn | |
| 34. v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make. | |
| 35. v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue. | |
| 36. v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in. | |
| 37. v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what. | |
| 38. v. (transitive, euphemism) To take the virginity of. | |
| 39. v. To have sexual intercourse with. | |
| 40. n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model. | |
| What make of car do you drive? | |
| 41. n. How a thing is made; construction. | |
| 42. n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture. | |
| The camera was of German make. | |
| 43. n. Quantity produced, especially of materials. | |
| 44. n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing. | |
| 45. n. A person's character or disposition. | |
| 46. n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand. | |
| 47. n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit. | |
| 48. n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility. | |
| 49. n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence. | |
| 50. n. (slang) Past or future target of seduction (usually female). | |
| 51. n. (slang) A promotion. | |
| 52. n. A home-made project | |
| 53. n. (basketball) A made basket. | |
| 54. n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion. | |
| 55. n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny. | |
| something |
| 1. pron. An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing. | |
| I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what. | |
| I have something for you in my bag. | |
| I have a feeling something good is going to happen today. | |
| 2. pron. (colloquial, of someone or something) A quality to a moderate degree. | |
| The performance was something of a disappointment. | |
| That child is something of a genius. | |
| 3. pron. (colloquial, of a person) A talent or quality that is difficult to specify. | |
| She has a certain something. | |
| 4. pron. (colloquial, often with really or quite) Somebody or something who is superlative in some way. | |
| He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice. | |
| She's quite something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing. | |
| 5. adj. Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify. | |
| 6. adv. (degree) Somewhat; to a degree. | |
| The baby looks something like his father. | |
| 7. adv. (degree, colloquial) To a high degree. | |
| 8. v. Applied to an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song. | |
| 9. n. An object whose nature is yet to be defined. | |
| 10. n. An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense). | |
| appear |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To come before the public. | |
| A great writer appeared at that time. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, etc.; to present oneself as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person t | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest. | |
| 5. v. (intransitive, copulative) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. | |
| He appeared quite happy with the result. | |
| 6. v. To bring into view. | |
| 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 | |
| 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? | |
| a |
| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
| I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
| We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
| 4. art. The same; one. | |
| We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
| 5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
| A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
| He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
| 6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
| 7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
| The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
| 8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
| Stand a tiptoe. | |
| 9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
| Torn a pieces. | |
| 10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
| I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
| 11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
| A God’s name. | |
| 13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
| King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
| To set the people a worke. | |
| 14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
| 1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
| The times, they are a-changin'. | |
| 15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
| 1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
| Jacob, when he was a dying | |
| 16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
| 17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
| I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
| 18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
| 19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
| 20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
| The name of John a Gaunt. | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| 22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| different |
| 1. adj. Not the same; exhibiting a difference. | |
| 2. adj. Various, assorted, diverse. | |
| 3. adj. Distinct, separate; used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity. | |
| Several different scientists all reached this conclusion at about the same time. | |
| 4. adj. Unlike most others; unusual. | |
| 5. n. (mathematics) The different ideal. | |
| colour |
| 1. n. (AU, Canada, Ireland, NZ, South Africa, UK) standard spelling of color | |
| 2. adj. (AU, Canada, Ireland, NZ, South Africa, UK) standard spelling of color | |
| 3. v. (AU, Canada, Ireland, NZ, South Africa, UK) standard spelling of color | |
| by |
| 1. prep. Near or next to. | |
| The mailbox is by the bus stop. | |
| 2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval. | |
| Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July. | |
| 3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of. | |
| The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour. | |
| 4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of. | |
| There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare | |
| 5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of. | |
| 6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of. | |
| I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking. | |
| 7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination. | |
| The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight. | |
| 8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed. | |
| I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife. | |
| 9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of. | |
| Our stock is up by ten percent. | |
| 10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another. | |
| We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches. | |
| 11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to. | |
| He cheated by his own admission. | |
| 12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of. | |
| By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this. | |
| 13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something. | |
| It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm. | |
| 14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of. | |
| She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress. | |
| 15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker. | |
| I watched as it passed by. | |
| 16. adv. In the vicinity, near. | |
| There was a shepherd close by. | |
| The shop is hard by the High Street. | |
| 17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business. | |
| I'll stop by on my way home from work. | |
| We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave. | |
| 18. adv. Aside, away. | |
| The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring. | |
| 19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary. | |
| 20. n. (card games) A pass | |
| 21. interj. alternative spelling of bye | |
| arranging |
| 1. v. present participle of arrange | |
| 2. n. Arrangement. | |
| arrange |
| 1. v. To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner. | |
| 2. v. (transitive, intransitive) To plan; to prepare in advance. | |
| to arrange to meet; to arrange for supper | |
| 3. v. (music, transitive, intransitive) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form. | |
| 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. | |
| ones |
| 1. n. plural of one | |
| 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. | |
| around |
| 1. prep. Defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing. | |
| I planted a row of lillies around the statue. The jackals began to gather around someone or something. | |
| 2. prep. Following the perimeter of a specified area and returning to the starting point. | |
| We walked around the football field. She went around the track fifty times. | |
| 3. prep. Following a path which curves near an object, with the object on the inside of the curve. | |
| The road took a brief detour around the large rock formation, then went straight on. | |
| 4. prep. (of distance, time) Near; in the vicinity of. | |
| I left my keys somewhere around here. I left the house around 10 this morning. There isn't another house here for miles around. I'll see you around the neighbourhood, etc. | |
| 5. prep. At various places in. | |
| The pages from the notebook were scattered around the room. Those teenagers like to hang around the mall. | |
| 6. adj. (informal, with the verb "to be") Alive; existing. | |
| The record store on Main Street? Yes, it's still around. | |
| "How is old Bob? I heard that his health is failing." "Oh, he's still around. He's feeling better now.". | |
| 7. adv. Generally. | |
| 8. adv. From place to place. | |
| There are rumors going around that the company is bankrupt. | |
| She went around the office and got everyone to sign the card. | |
| Look around and see what you find. | |
| We moved the furniture around in the living room. | |
| 9. adv. From one state or condition to an opposite or very different one; with a metaphorical change in direction; bringing about awareness or agreement. | |
| The team wasn't doing well, but the new coach really turned things around. | |
| He used to stay up late but his new girlfriend changed that around. | |
| The patient was unconscious but the doctor brought him around quickly. (see bring around, come around) | |
| I didn't think he would ever like the new design, but eventually we brought him around. (see bring around, come around) | |
| 10. adv. (with turn, spin etc.) Partially or completely rotated, including to face in the opposite direction. | |
| Turn around at the end of this street. | |
| She spun around a few times. | |
| 11. adv. Used with verbs to indicate repeated or continuous action, or in numerous locations or with numerous people | |
| Stop kidding around. I'm serious. | |
| I asked around, and no-one really liked it. | |
| Shopping around can get you a better deal. | |
| When are you going to stop whoring around, find a nice girl, and give us grandchildren? | |
| it |
| 1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals. | |
| Put it over there. | |
| Take each day as it comes. | |
| I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today. | |
| 2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender. | |
| She took the baby and held it in her arms. | |
| 3. pron. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation. | |
| It's me. John. | |
| Is it her? | |
| 4. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it) | |
| It is nearly 10 o’clock. | |
| It’s 10:45 read ten-forty-five. | |
| It’s very cold today. | |
| It’s lonely without you. | |
| 5. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms. | |
| stick it out | |
| live it up | |
| rough it | |
| 6. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject i | |
| It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see) | |
| I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that) | |
| It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing) | |
| He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that) | |
| It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if) | |
| 7. pron. All or the end; something after which there is no more. | |
| Are there more students in this class, or is this it? | |
| That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you. | |
| 8. pron. (chiefly pejorative, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male. | |
| 9. pron. (obsolete) (Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun): That which; what. | |
| 10. det. (obsolete) its | |
| 11. n. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being. | |
| 12. n. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag. | |
| In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it… | |
| 13. n. (British) The game of tag. | |
| Let's play it at breaktime. | |
| 14. n. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty. | |
| 15. n. (euphemism) Sexual activity. | |
| caught them doing it | |
| 16. adj. (colloquial) Most fashionable. | |
