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prep
- Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
- Used to indicate the target or recipient of an action.
- Indicating a degree or level reached.
- So as to bring about or elicit (an effect or outcome).
- Denotes the end of a range.
- According to.
- Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
- In the direction of; towards.
- (informal) With implied hour.
- So as to become or reach: indicating a terminal state resulting from an action.
- Used more-or-less idiomatically with various verbs: keep to the left, agree to the proposal, attend to the matter, etc. See the individual entries.
- (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
- (Canada, Cornwall (UK), Newfoundland, Wales, West Midlands (UK)) At.
- Indicating destination or final position: In the direction of, so as to arrive at or reach.
- (time) Preceding (the stated hour).
- So as to contact, press against, impact, etc.
- Used to indicate a ratio or comparison; compared to, as against.
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particle
prep
- (following an adjective) Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.
- (following an adjective) Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
- (following an adjective) Introduces its subject matter.
- Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
- (US, informal, considered incorrect by some) Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.
- Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
- (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) Used to indicate the material or substance used.
- (following an intransitive verb) Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
- From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
- (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
- Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.
- (directly following a noun) Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.
- (UK, dialectal, chiefly in the negative) For (a given length of time).
- Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.
- (following a passive verb) Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
- Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.
- Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.
- (informal) Often used without the hour
- Forming the "objective genitive".
- (following a noun) Indicates a given part.
- Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".
- (after a noun) Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.
- Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)
- (chiefly US) Before (the hour); to (the hour).
- Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
- (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
- (following a number or other quantitive word) Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".
- Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).
- Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.
- Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below; see also double possessive).
- Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
- (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
- Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
- Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".
verb
noun
- Abbreviation of adjective.
- Abbreviation of atmosphere.
- Abbreviation of axis.
- Abbreviation of accommodation.
- Abbreviation of age.
- Abbreviation of aunt.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of area.
- Abbreviation of altitude; altitude intercept.
- Abbreviation of act; acting.
- Abbreviation of abbreviation.
- Abbreviation of aviation; aviator.
- Abbreviation of annealing.
- Abbreviation of afternoon.
- Abbreviation of audit; auditor.
- Abbreviation of adjutant.
- Abbreviation of adult.
- Abbreviation of account.
- Abbreviation of answer.
- Abbreviation of attendance.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of arc.
- Abbreviation of anthracite.
- Abbreviation of anode.
- Abbreviation of assist; assists.
- Abbreviation of acceleration (in feet per second).
- Abbreviation of activity.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of are or ares.
- Abbreviation of ampere.
- Abbreviation of acre; acres; acreage.
- Abbreviation of acronym.
- Abbreviation of apprentice.
adj
- Abbreviation of artery; arterial blood.
- (linguistics, by extension) Abbreviation of transitive.
- Abbreviation of acting.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of accidental.
- Abbreviation of absent.
- Abbreviation of abundant.
- Abbreviation of ante (“before”).
- Abbreviation of anterior.
- Abbreviation of annus (“a year”).
- Abbreviation of aerial.
- Abbreviation of accepted.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of anonymous.
- Abbreviation of aqua.
- Abbreviation of available.
- Abbreviation of active.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of automatic.
- Abbreviation of absolute.
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noun
- Abbreviation of adjectives.
- Initialism of atomic absorption.
- Initialism of approximate absolute.
- Initialism of arachidonic acid.
- Initialism of armature accelerator.
- (volcanology) A form of lava flow associated with Hawaiian-type volcanoes, consisting of basaltic rock, usually dark-colored with a jagged and loose, clinkery surface. Compare pahoehoe.
- Initialism of acting age.
- Initialism of amino acid.
- Initialism of average audience.
- Initialism of acetic acid.
- Initialism of ascending aorta.
- Abbreviation of arteries.
- Initialism of aminoacetone.
- (medicine) Initialism of alveolar-arterial.
- Initialism of author's alteration.
- a dry form of lava resembling clinkers
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adj
- (grammar) Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy in the heavy dictionary).
- (sciences, philosophy) Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.
- Of, relating to, or providing a description.
- (linguistics) Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.
- of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage
- serving to describe or inform or characterized by description
prep
- (not in common modern use) Following an adjective.
- Following a noun.
- (horse breeding) Designates a horse's sire (“male parent”).
- Invokes an authority in an oath.
- (chiefly Yeshivish) At; with; among.
- Per; with or in proportion to each.
- Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
- Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
- Indicates a means of classification or organisation.
- Indicates an authority according to which something is done.
- Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).
- [with the] Acted on in units of the specified size or measure. (Sometimes hyperbolically)
- Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.
- Following a passive verb.
- Near or next to.
- In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
- Indicates a referenced source: According to.
- (mathematics) multiplied by or (chiefly South Asia) divided by
- Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy
- From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.
- (nautical) in a windward direction, sailing near to the direction from which the wind is blowing
adj
adv
- (uncommon outside the phrase 'put by') Aside, away.
- In the vicinity, near.
- Along a path which runs past someone or something.
- (uncommon except in set phrases) Beyond or past a certain point.
- To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
- so as to pass a given point
- in reserve; not for immediate use
noun
adj
- (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
- of or relating to or functioning as an adjective
- (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
- (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law
verb
noun
adv
adj
noun
- (figurative) A reward.
- (US, informal, in the plural) A dollar.
- (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
- A bonefish.
- (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.
- (figurative) The framework of anything.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
- (slang) Clipping of trombone.
- (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
- rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- a shade of white the color of bleached bones
verb
- (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
- To put whalebone into.
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
- (usually with "up") To study.
- (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
- To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- To fertilize with bone.
- study intensively, as before an exam
- remove the bones from
suffix
- (of adjectives from adjectives, with a diminutive force) Somewhat, rather.
- (no longer productive) An ending found on some verbs; see usage notes.
- (of adjectives from roots of proper nouns denoting names of nations or regions) Of, belonging, or relating to (a nationality, place, language or similar association with something).
- (of adjectives from numbers, especially of times and ages) About, approximately.
- (of adjectives from common nouns) Typical of, similar to, being like.
suffix
- Used to form adjectives from nouns with the meaning “of or pertaining to”.
- (chemistry) Used to denote certain chemical compounds in which a specified chemical element has a higher oxidation number than in the equivalent compound whose name ends in the suffix -ous. For example sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄) has more oxygen atoms per molecule than sulphurous acid (H₂SO₃).
noun
- the comparative form of an adjective or adverb
- (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the comparative degree.
- (grammar) The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing two entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the comparative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -er or the word more (e.g. bigger, more fully); the comparative of equality, by adding the word as (e.g. as big, as fully); the comparative of inferiority, by adding the word less (e.g. less big, less fully).
- (chiefly in the plural) Data used to make a comparison.
adj
noun
- the comparative form of an adjective or adverb
- (grammar) The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing two entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the comparative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -er or the word more (e.g. bigger, more fully); the comparative of equality, by adding the word as (e.g. as big, as fully); the comparative of inferiority, by adding the word less (e.g. less big, less fully).
noun
- (linguistics) A noun used as an adjective.
- (in Czech and Slovak grammar) Nouns that have the form of adjectives (often originally adjectives used as nouns).
- (in Japanese grammar) A specific part of speech, categorized in Japanese as 形容動詞 (keiyō dōshi). Some of these words can be used as regular nouns, and all can be used as adjectives when followed by the postfix な (na), in contrast to Japanese common adjectives, 形容詞 (keiyōshi).
- (in English metalanguage, sometimes) A nominalized adjective.
suffix
- Forming nouns relative to an adjective.
- Forming colloquial interjections or phrases.
- (occasionally derogatory) Forming colloquial nouns signifying the person or thing associated with suffixed noun or verb.
- A photograph, especially a selfie.
- Forming diminutive or affectionate forms of nouns or names.
- Forming feminine or gender-neutral forms of given names.
suffix
- Forming nouns relative to an adjective.
- Added for metrical reasons to songs, often in children's music where it may carry diminutive associations.
- Forming colloquial interjections or phrases.
- Used in the name of some locations which end in -ia in Latin.
- Forming diminutive nouns.
- Forming familiar names, pet names, nicknames and terms of endearment.
- Added to verbs to form adjectives meaning "inclined to".
- Forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state.
- Added to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives meaning “having the quality of”, either “involving the referent” or “analogous to it”.
- (occasionally derogatory) Forming colloquial nouns signifying the person or thing associated with suffixed noun or verb.
adj
- (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Confirmed, straight-up.
- (chemistry) electropositive
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
- (slang) HIV positive.
- (mathematics, of a number) Greater than zero.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- (grammar) Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- Fully assured in opinion.
- (law) Formally laid down.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- (mathematics, of a number, sometimes) Greater than or equal to zero.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- Optimistic.
- (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
- (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- impossible to deny or disprove
- involving advantage or good
- characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
- greater than zero
- formally laid down or imposed
- reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
- indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
- marked by excessive confidence
- of or relating to positivism
- having a positive charge
- persuaded of; very sure
noun
- (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- A positive result of a test.
- (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
verb
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective or prepositional phrase.
- To occupy a place.
- (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
- To pass or spend (time).
- (formal) Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
- (rare and regional, chiefly in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses: a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place) and a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.
- (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
- To remain undisturbed in a certain state or situation.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
- Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
- To take a period of time.
- (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.
- (with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- Used to declare the subject and object identical or equivalent.
- (in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
- (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
- (now usually literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
- Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- To occur, to take place.
- Used with present participles of verbs to form the continuous aspect.
- (colloquial, humorous) To have (a condition, especially a mental or physical disability).
- Used to indicate that a predicate nominal applies to the subject.
- (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.
- (African-American Vernacular, Caribbean, Ireland, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
- (with since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
- occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere
- spend or use time
- have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
- form or compose
- be priced at
- have an existence, be extant
- have life, be alive
- be identical to; be someone or something
- be identical or equivalent to
- represent, as of a character on stage
- to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted — used only in infinitive form
noun
noun
- (grammar) An adjective indicating that a noun refers to an object that is not of the class which that noun ordinarily refers to.
- (grammar) An adjective indicating that a noun lacks some other noun, or a quality of that noun; usually formed in English by the affixation of the suffix -less or suffixoid -free to the noun that is absent.
suffix
- Forms adjectives.
- (rare) Used to form nouns for kinds, mostly from bases of Ancient Greek origin.
- Used to form nouns denoting descendants of a specified historical person, especially a biblical figure.
- (chiefly US, India) Used to form demonyms.
- Used to form nouns denoting the product of a specified process or a commercially manufactured product.
- (biology) Used to form nouns denoting segments or components of the body or an organ of the body.
- (chemistry) Used to form names of certain chemical compounds, especially salts or esters of acids whose name ends in -ous.
- Used to form nouns denoting rocks or minerals.
- (sometimes derogatory) Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.
- Used to form nouns denoting fossil organisms.
adv
adv
- Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
- used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs, indicates that the adjective or adverb is more of something
- To a greater degree or extent.
- (now dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.
- (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
- comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent
adj
- comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
- comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
- (comparative of ‘much’ used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; above; more than
- (comparative of ‘many’ used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number
det
noun
pron
verb
adj
noun
suffix
- (added to nouns or occasionally adjectives) A thing that is related in some way to the root, such as by location or purpose.
- (added to a verb or noun) Used to form diminutives.
- (added to a verb or imitative sound) Frequently; used to form frequentative verbs.
- (added to certain adverbs) More; used to form the comparative.
- (slang, chiefly entertainment, with few limitations) Used to form nouns shorter than more formal synonyms.
- (added to a proper noun) Suffix denoting a resident or inhabitant of (the place denoted by the proper noun); used to form a demonym.
- (added to numbers, measurements or nouns denoting quantified sets) A person or thing to which a certain number or measurement applies.
- (added to certain adjectives and adverbs, now especially short ones) More; used to form the comparative.
- (slang, added in slang speech to verbs or adjectives) Indicates a correspondence or coincidence between the action or condition indicated by the root and the noun being described.
- (chiefly law, added to a verb) Instance of (the verbal action); used to form nouns from verbs.
- (Chinese literature) Junior, child, younger person. (Attached to a name, usually one syllable of the given name.)
- (added to nouns) A person who is associated with, or supports a particular theory, doctrine, or political movement.
- (added to verbs, informal) A person or thing to which the root verb is done or can be done satisfactorily.
- (added to nouns, chiefly denoting occupations) A person whose occupation is the root noun; (more broadly, occasionally with adjectives) a person characterized by the root.
- (added to verbs) A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A suffix creating adjectives from verbs, indicating aptitude, proneness, or tendency toward a specified action:
- (originally school slang) Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words.
- Suffix denoting residency in or around a place, district, area, or region.
suffix
- Used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense “producing a material as specified by the noun”.
- Used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense “containing a material as specified by the noun”.
- Used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense “bearing an entity or entities as specified by the noun”.
adj
- A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive, and combined with another adjective.
- Of a perishable item, having existed for most of, or more than, its shelf life.
- That is no longer in existence.
- Of a species or language, belonging to a lineage that is distantly related to others.
- (UK) Being a graduate or alumnus of a school, especially a public school.
- Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
- Familiar.
- (informal, of a person or pet) Indicating affection and familiarity.
- Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
- Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
- Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
- Designed for a mature audience; unsuitable for children below a certain age.
- Obsolete; out-of-date.
- Having existed or lived for the specified time.
- Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
- Former, previous.
- skilled through long experience
- of long duration; not new
- excellent
- (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
- just preceding something else in time or order
- belonging to some prior time
- (used for emphasis) very familiar
noun
- (slang, most often plural) One's parents.
- (slang) A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.
- (Australia, uncountable) A typically dark-coloured lager brewed by the traditional top-fermentation method.
- (with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
- past times
adv
- (slang) Combining with an adjective or (occasionally) a noun, used in a rhetorical question to mock someone for having the specified quality.
- (with a comparative adjective) for emphasis or to indicate a great difference
- To a great extent.
- (in combinations such as 'as much', 'this much') Used to indicate or compare extent.
- Often; frequently.
- (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely
- to a great degree or extent
- incredibly
- frequently or in great quantities
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pron
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
- (linguistics) Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.
- (databases) Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.
- Relating to relations.
- (art) Dealing with the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.
- Friendly and peaceful.
- having a relation or being related
suffix
- forms adjectives with meaning "characterized by the specified thing"
- forms nouns denoting the concrete charge, context of a rank or office
- forms nouns denoting a rank or office
- (chemistry) forms derivatives of specified elements or compounds; especially salts or esters of an acid whose name ends in -ic
- derives verbs (mostly) from Latin stems
- (biology) forms nouns meaning "specimen of a corresponding taxon ending in -ata"
- forms adjectives with meaning "resembling the specified thing"
- forms nouns denoting a group of officials associated with a rank or office
- forms nouns denoting a state associated with one's social situation
- forms nouns denoting a state (government) ruled by people or someone of a certain rank or office
- forms adjectives with meaning "having the specified thing"
- (rare) forms nouns meaning "person or thing that is either the object of a performed transitive verb or the subject of an intransitive one"
- forms nouns denoting a social or political system ruled by people or someone of a certain rank or office
noun
- Abbreviation of adjective.
- Abbreviation of atmosphere.
- Abbreviation of axis.
- Abbreviation of accommodation.
- Abbreviation of age.
- Abbreviation of aunt.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of area.
- Abbreviation of altitude; altitude intercept.
- Abbreviation of act; acting.
- Abbreviation of abbreviation.
- Abbreviation of aviation; aviator.
- Abbreviation of annealing.
- Abbreviation of afternoon.
- Abbreviation of audit; auditor.
- Abbreviation of adjutant.
- Abbreviation of adult.
- Abbreviation of account.
- Abbreviation of answer.
- Abbreviation of attendance.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of arc.
- Abbreviation of anthracite.
- Abbreviation of anode.
- Abbreviation of assist; assists.
- Abbreviation of acceleration (in feet per second).
- Abbreviation of activity.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of are or ares.
- Abbreviation of ampere.
- Abbreviation of acre; acres; acreage.
- Abbreviation of acronym.
- Abbreviation of apprentice.
adj
- Abbreviation of artery; arterial blood.
- (linguistics, by extension) Abbreviation of transitive.
- Abbreviation of acting.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of accidental.
- Abbreviation of absent.
- Abbreviation of abundant.
- Abbreviation of ante (“before”).
- Abbreviation of anterior.
- Abbreviation of annus (“a year”).
- Abbreviation of aerial.
- Abbreviation of accepted.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of anonymous.
- Abbreviation of aqua.
- Abbreviation of available.
- Abbreviation of active.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of automatic.
- Abbreviation of absolute.
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- Abbreviation of adjectives.
- Initialism of atomic absorption.
- Initialism of approximate absolute.
- Initialism of arachidonic acid.
- Initialism of armature accelerator.
- (volcanology) A form of lava flow associated with Hawaiian-type volcanoes, consisting of basaltic rock, usually dark-colored with a jagged and loose, clinkery surface. Compare pahoehoe.
- Initialism of acting age.
- Initialism of amino acid.
- Initialism of average audience.
- Initialism of acetic acid.
- Initialism of ascending aorta.
- Abbreviation of arteries.
- Initialism of aminoacetone.
- (medicine) Initialism of alveolar-arterial.
- Initialism of author's alteration.
- a dry form of lava resembling clinkers
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- (grammar) Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy in the heavy dictionary).
- (sciences, philosophy) Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.
- Of, relating to, or providing a description.
- (linguistics) Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.
- of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage
- serving to describe or inform or characterized by description
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- the comparative form of an adjective or adverb
- (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the comparative degree.
- (grammar) The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing two entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the comparative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -er or the word more (e.g. bigger, more fully); the comparative of equality, by adding the word as (e.g. as big, as fully); the comparative of inferiority, by adding the word less (e.g. less big, less fully).
- (chiefly in the plural) Data used to make a comparison.
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- the comparative form of an adjective or adverb
- (grammar) The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing two entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the comparative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -er or the word more (e.g. bigger, more fully); the comparative of equality, by adding the word as (e.g. as big, as fully); the comparative of inferiority, by adding the word less (e.g. less big, less fully).
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- (linguistics) A noun used as an adjective.
- (in Czech and Slovak grammar) Nouns that have the form of adjectives (often originally adjectives used as nouns).
- (in Japanese grammar) A specific part of speech, categorized in Japanese as 形容動詞 (keiyō dōshi). Some of these words can be used as regular nouns, and all can be used as adjectives when followed by the postfix な (na), in contrast to Japanese common adjectives, 形容詞 (keiyōshi).
- (in English metalanguage, sometimes) A nominalized adjective.
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- (grammar) An adjective indicating that a noun refers to an object that is not of the class which that noun ordinarily refers to.
- (grammar) An adjective indicating that a noun lacks some other noun, or a quality of that noun; usually formed in English by the affixation of the suffix -less or suffixoid -free to the noun that is absent.
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- (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Confirmed, straight-up.
- (chemistry) electropositive
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
- (slang) HIV positive.
- (mathematics, of a number) Greater than zero.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- (grammar) Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- Fully assured in opinion.
- (law) Formally laid down.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- (mathematics, of a number, sometimes) Greater than or equal to zero.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- Optimistic.
- (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
- (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- impossible to deny or disprove
- involving advantage or good
- characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
- greater than zero
- formally laid down or imposed
- reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
- indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
- marked by excessive confidence
- of or relating to positivism
- having a positive charge
- persuaded of; very sure
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- (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- A positive result of a test.
- (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
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- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective or prepositional phrase.
- To occupy a place.
- (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
- To pass or spend (time).
- (formal) Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
- (rare and regional, chiefly in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses: a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place) and a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.
- (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
- To remain undisturbed in a certain state or situation.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
- Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
- To take a period of time.
- (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.
- (with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- Used to declare the subject and object identical or equivalent.
- (in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
- (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
- (now usually literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
- Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- To occur, to take place.
- Used with present participles of verbs to form the continuous aspect.
- (colloquial, humorous) To have (a condition, especially a mental or physical disability).
- Used to indicate that a predicate nominal applies to the subject.
- (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.
- (African-American Vernacular, Caribbean, Ireland, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
- (with since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
- occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere
- spend or use time
- have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
- form or compose
- be priced at
- have an existence, be extant
- have life, be alive
- be identical to; be someone or something
- be identical or equivalent to
- represent, as of a character on stage
- to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted — used only in infinitive form
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- (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
- of or relating to or functioning as an adjective
- (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
- (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law
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- (figurative) A reward.
- (US, informal, in the plural) A dollar.
- (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
- A bonefish.
- (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.
- (figurative) The framework of anything.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
- (slang) Clipping of trombone.
- (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
- rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- a shade of white the color of bleached bones
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- (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
- To put whalebone into.
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
- (usually with "up") To study.
- (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
- To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- To fertilize with bone.
- study intensively, as before an exam
- remove the bones from
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- Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
- used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs, indicates that the adjective or adverb is more of something
- To a greater degree or extent.
- (now dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.
- (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
- comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent
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- comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
- comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
- (comparative of ‘much’ used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; above; more than
- (comparative of ‘many’ used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number
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- (slang) Combining with an adjective or (occasionally) a noun, used in a rhetorical question to mock someone for having the specified quality.
- (with a comparative adjective) for emphasis or to indicate a great difference
- To a great extent.
- (in combinations such as 'as much', 'this much') Used to indicate or compare extent.
- Often; frequently.
- (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely
- to a great degree or extent
- incredibly
- frequently or in great quantities
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- (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
- of or relating to or functioning as an adjective
- (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
- (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law
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- (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Confirmed, straight-up.
- (chemistry) electropositive
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
- (slang) HIV positive.
- (mathematics, of a number) Greater than zero.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- (grammar) Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- Fully assured in opinion.
- (law) Formally laid down.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- (mathematics, of a number, sometimes) Greater than or equal to zero.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- Optimistic.
- (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
- (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- impossible to deny or disprove
- involving advantage or good
- characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
- greater than zero
- formally laid down or imposed
- reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
- indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
- marked by excessive confidence
- of or relating to positivism
- having a positive charge
- persuaded of; very sure
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- (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- A positive result of a test.
- (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
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- A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive, and combined with another adjective.
- Of a perishable item, having existed for most of, or more than, its shelf life.
- That is no longer in existence.
- Of a species or language, belonging to a lineage that is distantly related to others.
- (UK) Being a graduate or alumnus of a school, especially a public school.
- Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
- Familiar.
- (informal, of a person or pet) Indicating affection and familiarity.
- Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
- Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
- Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
- Designed for a mature audience; unsuitable for children below a certain age.
- Obsolete; out-of-date.
- Having existed or lived for the specified time.
- Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
- Former, previous.
- skilled through long experience
- of long duration; not new
- excellent
- (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
- just preceding something else in time or order
- belonging to some prior time
- (used for emphasis) very familiar
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- (slang, most often plural) One's parents.
- (slang) A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.
- (Australia, uncountable) A typically dark-coloured lager brewed by the traditional top-fermentation method.
- (with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
- past times
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- (linguistics) Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.
- (databases) Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.
- Relating to relations.
- (art) Dealing with the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.
- Friendly and peaceful.
- having a relation or being related