capital

A capital is the most important city of a country. The government of the country is usually located there.

The (field) capital is the most important city in that particular field.

Hollywood is the film capital, New York the theater capital, Las Vegas the gambling capital.

A person's capital is all his money and wealth.

A capital forms the topmost member of a column or pilaster. It broadens the area of the column's supporting surface.


capital

A capital object or idea is something that is very important.

That is a capital idea!

Not all felonies are capital crimes.

One begins a sentence with a capital letter.


accommodate

accommodate (canonical)
accommodates (third-person singular)
accommodated (past)
accommodated (past participle)
accommodating (present participle)

If x accommodates y, x has or makes room for y.

The platform didn't look nearly big enough to accommodate a ship the size of the Lady Luck

The seats are designed to accommodate children weighing between 20 and 40 pounds.

If a place accommodates people, they stay, work, or live there.

The school residence currently accommodates students from 27 countries.

If you accommodate someone or something, you do what is needed to help or understand them.

Our restaurant can accommodate the needs of people with special diets.


approve

approve (canonical)
approves (third-person singular)
approved (past)
approved (past participle)
approving (present participle)

If a person in power approves something such as a plan, a sale, a rule, etc., they say it is OK and it may go ahead.

Voters there have approved a plan to remove most cars from the city center.

The Food and Drug Administration has not approved it for medical use.

The plan must now be approved by the president.

If you approve of something, you think it is good.

The latest survey shows that only 32 percent approve of the way the president is handling his job.

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wooden

wooden (positive)
more wooden (comparative)
most wooden (superlative)

Please do not spill your drink on the wooden floor.


mosquito

mosquito (singular)
mosquitos or mosquitoes (plural)

A mosquito is a flying insect that is known for stinging animals and humans to suck their blood.

Sleeping here is nearly impossible because of all those mosquitoes that bite you all the night long.


firm

A firm is a group of people who work together as a business.

John & John is a law firm.

A firm is a group of people that come together to make money.


firm

firm (positive)
firmer (comparative)
firmest (superlative)


firm

firm (canonical)
firms (third-person singular)
firmed (past)
firmed (past participle)
firming (present participle)

:
 This short section needs someone to add to it.


working

work (canonical)
works (third-person singular)
worked (past)
worked (past participle)
working (present participle)

I have fixed the machine. It is currently working.

The government takes money from the working class and gives it to the rich.


working

The workings of something is how it functions.

He showed us the machine's inner workings.


segment

How long is that segment of rope?

Separate the orange into 'segments then add the segments to the fruit salad.

The snowflake segment of The Nutcracker is my favorite part of the ballet.

The Cowboy-in-Brooklyn segment of the television show was written by Mel Brooks.


segment

segment (canonical)
segments (third-person singular)
segmented (past)
segmented (past participle)
segmenting (present participle)

If you segment something, you make it into segments or parts

Will you peel and segment the orange for the fruit salad?

I peeled and segmented the orange for the fruit salad.


eyeball

An eyeball is the entire round part of an eye, including the hidden part.

The doctor checked my eyeball when I got my new glasses.


eyeball

eyeball (canonical)
eyeballs (third-person singular)
eyeballed (past)
eyeballed (past participle)
eyeballing (present participle)

If you eyeball something, you estimate or judge it; you look at it.


boron

A hard, black, or brown, chemical element with the atomic number 5 and the symbol B.

The scientist used boron in his experiment.

A lot of glass is made using boron.


race

A race is when people compete to see who is the fastest at either driving or running.

There was a race to see who could finish first.

A race is a group of people that come from the same place and have similar traditions.

A race is a group of people with the same physical characteristics, such as skin color, hair color and type, etc.

There were three different races at the school; blacks, whites, and Asians


race

race (canonical)
races (third-person singular)
raced (past)
raced (past participle)
racing (present participle)

When a person races, he competes with other people to see who can go the fastest.

Tom was hungry, so he raced George down to the ice cream truck.


hopeful

hopeful (positive)
more hopeful (comparative)
most hopeful (superlative)

A hopeful person wishes that something could happen.


hopeful

A hopeful is a person that wishes to win or be victorious at something.

There are many presidential hopefuls this year.


dull

dull (positive)
duller (comparative)
dullest (superlative)

A dull person is boring and not interesting.

The presentation was rather dull.

My friend is dull.


dull

dull (canonical)
dulls (third-person singular)
dulled (past)
dulled (past participle)
dulling (present participle)

When you dull something, you make it softer or less sharp.


forwards

If something goes forwards, it moves in the direction of its front, not its back.

If something goes forwards, it gets better.

If something goes forwards, it moves into the future.


forwards

forward (canonical)
forwards (third-person singular)
forwarded (past)
forwarded (past participle)
forwarding (present participle)

The third-person singular form of forward.

My boss never forwards important emails to me so I never know what's going on.


forwards

The plural form of forward; more than one (kind of) forward.


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dog-eared

dog-eared (positive)
more dog-eared (comparative)
most dog-eared (superlative)

A dog-eared book has been read a lot, making the pages bent like the ears of a dog.

After being opened and closed so many times, this book got all its pages dog-eared.


dog-eared

dog-ear (canonical)
dog-ears (third-person singular)
dog-eared (past)
dog-eared (past participle)
dog-earing (present participle)

The past tense and past participle of dog-ear.


stuffed toy


drawings

The plural form of drawing; more than one (kind of) drawing.


teddy

Though largely an adult, he still has a huge collection of teddies.

A teddy is a type of underwear worn by women, similar to a basque.


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teddy bear

teddy bear (singular)
teddy bears (plural)

A teddy bear or abridged teddy is a stuffed toy looking like an anthropomorphic bear.

If teddy bears are mainly made for children to play with, lots of adults also appreciate them.


aim

An aim is something you want to do or have done.

The aim of the study was to find out if these students would talk differently to themselves during independent work.

We certainly didn't accomplish the war aims set forward by the governments.

The ultimate aim is to be able to cure the disease.

If you take aim at something, you point a gun or other weapon at it.

He takes aim and fires.

If you take aim at something, you turn your attention to it.

The book takes aim at politicians and their wasteful spending.

Your aim is your skill in hitting something that you are shooting, throwing, kicking, etc. at.

He threw the stone at the bird, but his aim wasn't so good.


aim

aim (canonical)
aims (third-person singular)
aimed (past)
aimed (past participle)
aiming (present participle)

If you aim at doing something, you plan or try to do it.

The new rules for cars are aimed at reducing speeds and improving driver safety.

Many cities have a variety of programs aimed at helping the homeless.

If you aim at something, you point a gun or other weapon at it.

He grabbed for his gun, aimed it and started shooting.


amazing

amazing (positive)
more amazing (comparative)
most amazing (superlative)

Amazing things cause wonder and amazement.

That was an amazing book. I enjoyed every moment of it.


amazing

amaze (canonical)
amazes (third-person singular)
amazed (past)
amazed (past participle)
amazing (present participle)


season

A season is a particular time of year with a particular kind of weather, usually spring, summer, fall, and winter, or rainy season and dry season.

A season is a particular time of year when certain activities happen.

The theatrical season lasts from early autumn to late spring.

Taite was out for much of last season after injuring his ankle in the season opener.

The holiday shopping season, which begins in November, is always a busy time for the shops.

Ear infections most commonly occur in the winter cold and flu season.

The Ravens had sold all but 850 of their 57,000 season tickets for this season in Memorial Stadium.

Maine's hunting season ends the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Your apple harvest season can stretch as long as three or four months.

She said this week traditionally is one of the busiest in the tourist season, when 100,000 visitors usually come here.

A cycle or set of episodes of a television show.

Victoria justice wasn't on "Zoey 101", until the second season.

Season one of "glee" was better in my opinion.

The television show "glee" had only six seasons.


season

season (canonical)
seasons (third-person singular)
seasoned (past)
seasoned (past participle)
seasoning (present participle)

If you season food, you add seasonings to it, like salt, pepper, or other herbs and spices.

Place meat in the bottom of a large oven-safe dish, seasoning each layer with salt and pepper.


millennium

millennium (singular)
millenniums or millennia (plural)

A millennium is a period of time lasting one thousand years.

Mankind invented the first writing systems a few millennia ago.

Lots of animal species have disappeared during the last millennium.


sectors

The plural form of sector; more than one (kind of) sector.


drug

Drugs are substances such as alcohol, cocaine, or aspirin, that people take to make changes in their body.

He's in jail for 3 to 15 years for drug trafficking.

You no longer require a doctor's prescription for some drugs.

The Canadian Government launched an investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes.

When children have a fever, avoid giving them any over-the-counter drugs that contain aspirin.

The government is trying to stop traffic in illegal guns and drugs.

Can you pick up some toilet paper at the drug store?


drug

drug (canonical)
drugs (third-person singular)
drugged (past)
drugged (past participle)
drugging (present participle)

If you drug somebody, you give them a drug, usually to put them to sleep.

They put me in hospital, drugged me up and left me in there for two years.

The past tense and past participle of drag.


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robot

A robot is a machine that looks more or less a human being.

Starwars C-3PO is a golden robot.

A robot can also be any man-made automatic device, resembling a human being or not.

When you ask for the time on a phone, a robot will answer you.

A robot is a person who does not show emotions and seems to have no human thoughts.

He has the same expression whatever happens to him: he is a true robot.


isotope

Isotopes are atomic cores belonging to the same element that have the same number of protons, but have a different number of neutrons.

Uranium 235 and uranium 238 are isotopes of uranium.

Deutherium is an isotope of oxygen that has two neutrons.


inside joke

inside joke (singular)
inside jokes (plural)

An inside joke is a joke that only a small group of people can understand because it has information that only the people in the group know.

She and her friends make inside jokes that I can never understand.


guard

A guard is a person or a group of people who watch something and try to stop anything bad from happening to it.

After leaving the police he worked as a security guard at an airport.

The inmate was beaten by a prison guard while other guards watched.

A guard is something that is a barrier between you and something dangerous.

You push a button and a guard comes down to keep your hands out of the machine while it works.

A guard is a position on a basketball team who moves the ball to help their team gain points

A guard is an offensive position in American football who plays either side of the center.


guard

guard (canonical)
guards (third-person singular)
guarded (past)
guarded (past participle)
guarding (present participle)

If you guard something, you watch it and try to stop anything bad from happening to it.

The front gate was guarded by Iraqi soldiers.


dwarf

dwarfs (plural)
dwarf (singular)
dwarves (plural)

A very little person. A dwarf is a person whose size is much smaller than average.

She is a dwarf, only three feet (one meter) tall.

Some dwarfs used to be shown in circuses like strange animals.

A race of small people, sometime with long beards. This is a type of fictional character found in legends all over the world, whose main characteristic is being much shorter than normal.

In Scandinavian legends dwarves are considered as a true people, different from human beings.

Snow white was adopted by seven dwarves.


dwarf

If something is dwarf is it smaller than normal. Anything of a much smaller than average size can be called dwarf..

I kept a dwarf tree in my house.

Dwarf rabbits are quite popular pet rabbits.


dwarf

dwarf (canonical)
dwarfs (third-person singular)
dwarfed (past)
dwarfed (past participle)
dwarfing (present participle)

The elephant dwarfed the people with it.

The new building will dwarf the old one.


Saros cycle

Saros cycle (singular)
Saros cycles (plural)

A period of 18 years, 11 days and 8 hours in which the Sun, Moon and Earth return to almost exactly the same spots they were at 18 years, 11.3 days ago; the Saros cycle is used to predict when an eclipse is going to happen.


iodine

An element with the atomic number 53 and the symbol I.

People use iodine in salt to make it iodized.

That kid used iodine on his wound to prevent infection.


off-line


event horizon

event horizon (singular)
event horizons (plural)

The imaginary line on a black hole that once passed, nothing can ever escape, except for Hawking radiation.


perform

perform (canonical)
performs (third-person singular)
performed (past)
performed (past participle)
performing (present participle)

Please come help me perform this task.

People perform by entertaining an audience.

The actors are going to perform onstage soon.

The Royal Ballet is performing "Swan Lake" tonight.


password

A secret code that is used to get access to something.


Milky Way

The Milky Way is the galaxy that we live in.

Our solar system is in one of the arms of the Milky Way, at about 30,000 light years from its center.


awkwardness

awkwardness (singular)
awkwardnesses (plural)

Awkwardness is the state of being awkward.

The patient suffer awkwardness when walking.


participations

participation (singular)
participations (plural)

The plural form of participation; more than one (kind of) participation.


tonne

A tonne, also called a metric ton, is an unit of mass that weighs exactly 1,000 kilograms. It is a little different from the US short ton (2,000 pounds or about 907 kilograms) and the British long ton (2,240 pounds or about 1,016 kilograms).


bullet

A bullet is a small piece of metal thrown by a gun at a great speed.

manipulating a loaded gun is dangerous because of the bullets that can be fired by accident.

A bullet is a printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, it is usually used to mark items in a list.


bullet

bullet (canonical)
bullets (third-person singular)
bulleted (past)
bulleted (past participle)
bulleting (present participle)

If something bullets somewhere, it moves at high speed, like a bullet from a gun.

He bulleted around the race track!


vapor

A vapor is a cloudy or other matter in the air, like mist, steam or fumes.

Vapor is the gas of something that used to be liquid or solid.

When you heat up water, vapor appears.


uranium

Uranium is an element of the periodic table with atomic number 92. Its symbol is U.

Uranium is the natural element with the biggest atomic core.

Uranium is also the radioactive metal made of uranium atoms.

Uranium has been increasingly used since the last six decades, its radioactive properties have found both military and civil uses.


thinner

thin (positive)
thinner (comparative)
thinnest (superlative)

The comparative form of thin; more thin.


thinner

A thinner is a liquid that is used to make another liquid more thin.

turpentine can be used as a thinner for oil-based paints.


galaxy

A galaxy is a large astronomical structure containing several billions of stars and other astronomical bodies, looking like a more or less regular spiral with a thick core and thinner edges.

The Milky Way is the galaxy where our Earth is located, it has about 200 billion stars.

The known universe contains billions of galaxies.

The galaxy : the galaxy we live in, the Milky Way (very often employed with the definite article).

Some science fiction writers imagine that mankind will one day settle an empire throughout the galaxy.


encryption

encryption (singular)
encryptions (plural)

A way to make a message look like a lot of random letters by translating a message with an encryption key.

In many wars, soldiers often use encryption to make sure their messages aren't read by their enemies.


aggressive

aggressive (positive)
more aggressive (comparative)
most aggressive (superlative)

Making attacks or assaults that are not just.

Aggressive describes an act of aggression.

Yes, he was aggressive to her.


stuffed animal

stuffed animal (singular)
stuffed animals (plural)

A stuffed animal is a furry toy that is filled with a soft material.

The first stuffed animals to be made at the end of the nineteenth century looked like bears.

Nearly all children have at least one stuffed animal to play with.


hard science

Hard science is a phrase used to describe natural sciences and physical sciences, not social sciences. Hard sciences use the scientific method and experiments to test theories. Some hard sciences are mathematics, biology, physics, and geology.


radium

Radium is an element that has an atomic number of 88 and symbol Ra.

A normal person cannot find radium in any store.


formulae

formula (singular)
formulas or formulae (plural)

The plural form of formula; more than one (kind of) formula.


calcium

An element with atomic number 20 and symbol Ca. Also a nutrient in many different foods.

The human body needs calcium in order to stay healthy.


tosh

Tosh is stupid nonsense, usually made intentionally so that no one can understand.

He always writes tosh on Wikipedia because he thinks it's funny, but in fact he's just blocked.


witherite

Witherite is a yellow-grey mineral. It is made of a form of barium.

I would like that sample of witherite for my collection, please.


lipstick lesbian

lipstick lesbian (singular)
lipstick lesbians (plural)

A lipstick lesbian is a lesbian who looks very feminine. It is sometimes thought to be a stereotype of what a woman should look.

Heterosexual men often imagine scenes between lipstick lesbians.


square root

square root (singular)
square roots (plural)

The square root of a number n is a number that, multiplied by itself, is equal to this number n. Its symbol is √. "The square root of "n" is written √.

The square root of 9 is 3.


squeaky

squeaky (positive)
squeakier (comparative)
squeakiest (superlative)

A squeaky sound is a sound that has a very high pitch.

When sped up, people speaking get a funny squeaky voice.


skinny

skinny (positive)
skinnier (comparative)
skinniest (superlative)

A skinny person or animal has few flesh or muscle around the skeleton, he/she/it has a thin and narrow body.

You should eat more and do some sports, you're too skinny!

This poor village is full of skinny cats and dogs searching for food.


skinny

A skinny is a person who has not enough flesh, enough muscle, whose body appears to be too thin and narrow.

This skinny has lifted this heavy piece of furniture unaided! I couldn't believe my eyes!


allotropy

allotropy (singular)
allotropies (plural)

Allotropy is the property that certain elements have to get their atoms disposed in different structures.

Carbon has two main forms : graphite and diamond, that are each characterized by a different atomic disposition. This is called allotropy.


plutonium

Plutonium is a man-made element of the periodic table, with atomic number 94 and symbol Pu.

Along with neptunium, plutonium was the first man-made element to be created by bombarding uranium-238 cores with neutrons.

Plutonium is also the radioactive metal made of plutonium atoms.

Plutonium is a silvery and very dense metal, its toxicity makes it dangerous to manipulate.


atom

An atom is the smallest bit that matter can be broken down into.

Atoms of hydrogen make up a water molecule.

A particle which is made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons.


customers

The plural form of customer; more than one (kind of) customer.


FTL

FTL is a short way of saying Faster Than Light (travel), the word "travel" is usually not needed to understand.

Though sci-fi uses it a lot, today's physics considers FTL impossible.


salmonid

A group of fish similar to a salmon or a trout.


mortality

Mortality is the condition of being able to die or disappear.

When they begin aging, certain people become afraid of their mortality.


aluminum

Aluminum is a metallic (meaning made of metal) element with an atomic number of 13 and the symbol Al.

These cans are made from aluminum.


astronomy

astronomy (singular)
astronomies (plural)

The study of space and everything related to it, like stars, black holes, meteors, etc.


pulsar

A pulsar is an extremely dense astronomical body more massive than our Sun but not larger than 20 kilometers in diameter, essentially composed of neutrons with an iron shell. This astronomical body pulsates at very regular intervals, from a few milliseconds to more than one second : its name is a portmanteau-word coming from pulsating star.

When the first pulsar was detected, its pulsating period was so regular that scientists first believed it came from an extraterrestrial civilization.


gibberish

Gibberish is a language that is not understandable, because it has no meaning or is too complicated or technical.

Extraterrestrials in bad science-fiction often speak gibberish to make you understand that they are extraterrestrials.

Some people want to be considered specialists though they mainly use gibberish.


country music

A kind of (mostly American) music started by people who lived far from cities.

I've been listening to a lot of country music this month.


IPA

International Phonetic Alphabet, one of the writing systems used to transcribe every sound that exists in any known human language.


diary

A diary is a journal that some people keep to write down what has happened on days during their lives.

I have kept a diary ever since I was a little girl.


neon

Neon is an element with atomic number 10 and the symbol Ne.

Neon is used in signs to make them glow.

Neon is used to describe neon tetra fish.

My mom and I went to the pet store to buy a neon tetra fish.


mortal

Someone or something that is mortal can age, be injured, die, or disappear.

Even stars, though living millions or billions of years, are mortal.

When they are young, people usually don't think they are mortal.


mortal

A mortal is a human being, as opposed to immortal beings such as gods or beings with supernatural powers.

To ancient Greeks mortals were only toys in the hands of gods.

Son of a sorceress and a mortal, he still inherited his mother's powers.


tuxedo

tuxedo (singular)
tuxedos or tuxedoes (plural)

A tuxedo is black jacket that men wear in formal occasions.

A tuxedo is also the whole upper suit that includes this jacket, with a white shirt and a black bowtie.

In official receptions men always wear tuxedoes.


hamster

A hamster is a furry rodent a little larger than a mouse and with a very short tail. They are popular as pets.


creepy-crawly

creepy-crawly (singular)
creepy-crawlies (plural)

A creepy-crawly is a small animal that crawls, such as an insect, spider, or worm; this word describes the way these animals move.

While most people are disgusted by creepy-crawlies, some find them interesting.


replicator

replicator (singular)
replicators (plural)

A replicator is a device or a structure that can make copies of itself.

Genes are natural replicators.

A replicator is also a (fictional) man-made device that can make copies of itself, or transform matter to build any object or structure, living or not.

Replicators still belong to science-fiction nowadays, but could exist one day thanks to technological progress.


fail

fail (canonical)
fails (third-person singular)
failed (past)
failed (past participle)
failing (present participle)

The event is going to fail.


showoff

A person trying to show prowess or ability.

They were a showoff.


electron configuration

electron configuration (singular)
electron configurations (plural)

How the electrons in an atom are arranged.

The electron configuration in a Hydrogen-1 atom is 1s¹.


assure

assure (canonical)
assures (third-person singular)
assured (past)
assured (past participle)
assuring (present participle)

If you assure somebody about something, you tell them not to worry because the thing you say is true.

The doctor assured me that he would be OK.

He certainly won't be boring; I can assure you of that.

If x assures that y happens, x makes it certain that y happens.

You need to begin now to assure that the everything is ready in January.


offline

If a system is offline, it is not connected (generally electronically) to a larger network.

If a machine is offline, it is not powered on.

The printer is offline for a few minutes while it starts up.


clown

A clown is a person that entertains people, usually at a circus. He dresses in bright colors, has paint on his face, and wears clothes that are too big for him.

Some children are afraid by clowns because of their unusual appearance that can be rather impressive.

A clown is also a person whose behaviour is a bit silly, not serious.

Though very intelligent, this person is a true clown so that no one believes what he says.


clown

clown (canonical)
clowns (third-person singular)
clowned (past)
clowned (past participle)
clowning (present participle)

A person who is clowning is not serious, acts in a silly way, like a clown.

Stop clowning all the time, you're annoying me!


counterfeiter

counterfeiter (singular)
counterfeiters (plural)

A counterfeiter is a person who makes copies of things, copies that are considered false and not legal; a person who counterfeits.

The police have arrested a gang of counterfeiters that made many false banknotes.

To make such well-imitated paintings, counterfeiters must have very good skills.


identifications

identification (singular)
identifications (plural)

The plural form of identification; more than one (kind of) identification.


barium

An element with atomic number 56 and the symbol Ba.

This rock has parts of barium on it.


chord

A chord is made of several notes together, usually three or four.

Some singers accompany themselves on guitar by playing chords.

A chord is a straight line, that can be material or an abstract line linking two points together.


density

Density is how much stuff fits in a particular area.

The population density of Singapore is one of the highest in the world.

The density of a material is how closely packed its atoms are.

The density of water is higher than the density of steam.


backup

A secondary plan that can be used in case the first plan fails.


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answering machine

answering machine (singular)
answering machines (plural)

An answering machine is an automatic device on a phone that leaves a message to people calling when you are absent or when you do not want to be phoned. At the end of the message they can also leave you their own message.


smolt

A young salmon fish, just before becoming an adult which breeds.


notable

notable (positive)
more notable (comparative)
most notable (superlative)

A person or a thing is notable if the person or thing is famous, important, significant. It means that many people know about that person or thing; many things have been said or written about that person or thing.

She is a notable writer: people in many different countries read her books.

A notable event happened here today. It will be in the newspaper.


countrymen

countryman (singular)
countrymen (plural)

The plural form of countryman; more than one (kind of) countryman.


salmon

salmon (singular)
salmons or salmon (plural)

A yellowish pink colour, the colour of cooked salmon.


arson

Arson is the crime of setting a fire to cause damage.

A man is being held by police in connection with an arson attack that destroyed a school.

The cause of the fire is unknown, but investigators believe it to be an arson.


unobtainium

Unobtainium is a fictional material that has extraordinary properties and is considered very difficult, maybe even impossible, to obtain.

Science-fiction works have a lot of devices that could not even exist if they were not made of unobtainium!


parr

A parr is a young salmon fish, more mature than a fry.


cyborg

Mixing of cybernetic and organism, a cyborg is a being, usually human, that has an important part of mechanical/robotic devices in his or her body. He or she still has an organic brain, contrary to a robot.

A true robot that has a relation with organic life, such as looking like a normal human being or having a human soul inside.

Terminator is a cyborg.


tomato

A tomato is a red, roundish fruit, roughly the size of a fist. It does not have a core nor pips.

Bad singers or musicians used to be thrown tomatoes at.

A tomato is also the plant bearing tomatoes.

Tomatoes were imported from Central America to Europe in the sixteenth century.

Ketchup sauce contains some amount of tomato.

Tomato is a color that looks like oxygenated blood.


wizard

A person who uses magic, who has magical powers.

Wizards use magic to cast spells.

A person who is very talented in one area or more.

That guy is a wizard at problem-solving!

A computer program that simplifies operations for users that have little or no experience in computing.

To install this drawing program, we had to use the install wizard to set the program up on the computer.


ton

A ton is a metric unit of weight that as three main values : the international metric ton that is exactly 1,000 kilograms, the short ton used in Northern America that is 2,000 pounds (about 907 kilograms), and the long ton used in United Kingdom that is 2,240 pounds or about 1016 kilograms.

A ton is also a great amount of something, or many things.

Today I have tons of things to do: how discouraging!


i.e.

This is a Latin abbreviation for id est (literally "that is"), and is used to explain something by saying it in a different way : in other words, which means are expressions having roughly the same meaning.

They are just liars, i.e. they never tell the truth.


immortal

An immortal is a being that lives forever and does not age or die.

Though never dying, an immortal can still be killed in certain cases.


immortal

If something or someone is immortal, it lives forever and never dies or disappears.

In ancient Greek civilization, gods were believed to be immortal.

Lots of people believe that human beings have an immortal soul inside.


sprinted

sprint (canonical)
sprints (third-person singular)
sprinted (past)
sprinted (past participle)
sprinting (present participle)


boundary

A boundary is the line around something's outside edge.

The elephants have to live within the boundary of the park or risk being shot.

There have been many times in their lives when the boundaries between their personal and professional lives have disappeared.

More manufactured goods are crossing international boundaries every day.

An international commission that regulates the boundary waters between the U.S. and Canada.


terse

terse (positive)
terser (comparative)
tersest (superlative)

A terse reply or message uses very few words to say only the most important information.

He gave a terse, one-word answer.


helium

Helium is a colourless gas that has an atomic number of 2 and the symbol He.

Sir, can you please fill my balloon up with helium, please?


arsonist

An arsonist is a person who sets fire to cause damage, especially in buildings or forests.

Forest fires are often caused by arsonists, but they are difficult to arrest.


mess

A mess is a dirty or untidy place or situation.

Your room is such a mess! You're not leaving the house until you clean it up!

A mess is a chaotic, confused or troublesome state or situation.

Look at the mess you've gotten us into now!

A mess is a number of people who eat together.


mess

mess (canonical)
messes (third-person singular)
messed (past)
messed (past participle)
messing (present participle)

If you mess, you take meals with a mess.


zoom

zoom (canonical)
zooms (third-person singular)
zoomed (past)
zoomed (past participle)
zooming (present participle)


gegenschein

A faint glow that can be seen on the opposite side of the sky where the sun is, due to dust and debris around that position.


flowers

The plural form of flower; more than one (kind of) flower.

John gave me flowers for our anniversary this year.


flowers

flower (canonical)
flowers (third-person singular)
flowered (past)
flowered (past participle)
flowering (present participle)

The third-person singular form of flower.


tricks

trick (canonical)
tricks (third-person singular)
tricked (past)
tricked (past participle)
tricking (present participle)

The third-person singular form of trick.


tricks

The plural form of trick; more than one (kind of) trick.


lame duck

lame duck (singular)
lame ducks (plural)

A lame duck is a person who is handicapped or not efficient.

The whole group wasted a lot of time only because of him. He's what I call a lame duck!

In the United States, a lame duck is a politician who holds an office now, but lost the recent election or is not eligible to hold the position anymore; they are called a lame duck because they have very little power in the last few months of their service.

Being accused of corruption, this congressman has become a lame duck.


smoulder

smoulder (canonical)
smoulders (third-person singular)
smouldered (past)
smouldered (past participle)
smouldering (present participle)

Smoulder is another way of spelling smolder.


countryman

Your countrymen are people who come from the same country (nation) that you are from.

My fellow Americans are my countrymen.

The student from Japan wished she could see more of her countrymen.


semi-detached house

semi-detached house (singular)
semi-detached houses (plural)

A semi-detached house is a house that has a common wall with another house.

I don't especially like my semi-detached house because I can hear what my neighbors do. It's not very intimate.


firewoman

A firewoman is a woman whose job is to fight fires and extinguish them. This word was created when woman began to do this job and not only men.

The firewoman sprayed the house with the fire hose.


exclamation mark

exclamation mark (singular)
exclamation marks (plural)

An exclamation mark is the sign ! used at the end of a sentence to express a strong emotion such as surprise, annoyance or anger.

In English a space is not needed between the last word and the exclamation mark.

Comics use a lot of exclamation marks alone to express strong emotions.


alevin

An alevin is a young salmon fish who has just hatched.


booking

A booking is an agreement between you and a business such as a hotel or airline to use their services on a particular date.

If you need to cancel your booking, you must advise the hotel before Aug. 22.

The band has a number of bookings in Toronto this summer.


booking

book (canonical)
books (third-person singular)
booked (past)
booked (past participle)
booking (present participle)


fireman

A fireman is a person whose job is to fight fires and stops them. It can be used for men or both sexes.

Firemen often use red trucks to make them easily recognizable.

Forest fires were fought by firemen all the summer long.

A fireman is the person who puts coal in the fire of a steam engine on a train.


wilderness

Places that are far from cities or farms; usually places where no people live.

We were hunting deer in the wilderness.

I was lost in the wilderness for two weeks.

There are miles of wilderness between here and the city.


semicolon

semicolon (singular)
semicolons (plural)

A semicolon is the sign ; used to mark a pause longer than the comma (,) but shorter than the period (.).

A space is needed after the semicolon.

Do not use a semicolon between a clause and a phrase, or a main clause and a subordinate clause.


awkward

awkwarder (comparative)
awkwardest (superlative)
awkward (positive)
more awkward (comparative)
most awkward (superlative)

An awkward person or animal is clumsy, lacks agility, dexterity or grace.

He doesn't managed well when I try to juggle. He's still awkward.

An awkward situation, event is an embarrassing situation, event.

When I fell in front of everybody, I felt ridiculous. It was so awkward!

What an awkward device! I can't even imagine how it works.


cherry

A cherry is a roundish small piece of fruit with a core inside. Its color varies from pale yellow to red or purple and even nearly black.

We should eat our cherries quickly before birds get them all eaten!

By extension, cherry can also be the tree or the bush bearing this fruit.

The wood of which a cherry tree is made of.

Cherry is also the color of the fruit, bright red or purple.

Cherry is a color that human eyes immediately remark.

Her cherry make-up makes her look ugly.

(uncountable) Cherry is the flavour or smell of cherries.

This cherry perfume is rather strange but not unpleasant at all.


firefighter

firefighter (singular)
firefighters (plural)

A firefighter is a person whose job is to fight fires and put them out.


acronym

An acronym is an abbreviation usually made by the first letters of a series of words, and which is itself said as a word

RAM, radar and scuba are acronyms.


reprise

reprise (canonical)
reprises (third-person singular)
reprised (past)
reprised (past participle)
reprising (present participle)


sodium

A metal and element with the atomic number 11 and the symbol Na. Also used as a nutrient, preservative, and seasoning in food.

It is pretty hard to find an item of food that doesn't contain sodium in it.

Scientists sometimes use sodium in experiments to see what it reacts with.

Many of the top food brands use a kind of sodium to preserve the food that they make for people to eat..


detached house

detached house (singular)
detached houses (plural)

A detached house is a house standing alone, that has no common wall with another house.

People usually prefer detached houses not to hear the noise their neighbors could do.


An exclamation mark used to show excitement, surprise or anger.

Ouch! Help! I am hurt!

Children's rhyme: "The interjection cries out: 'Hark! I need an exclamation mark!'"

c.1649 A Fiery Flying Roll by Abiezer Coppe: "And now (my dearest ones!) every one under the Sun..."

(symbol) Used by itself as a sign to make you notice something, such as something that is dangerous or something that has gone wrong.

In computing, it usually represents a Boolean not.

"if !x" means "if not x"

5! = 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1

"five factorial equals…"


brochure

A brochure is a small book, often just a few pages, explaining or advertising something.

For more information, pick up our free self-help brochure called "Gum Disease".


impossible

impossible (positive)
more impossible (comparative)
most impossible (superlative)

If something is impossible it cannot happen or cannot be done.

It is impossible for people to breathe water.

It's impossible for one man to build a whole city in one day.

That shot is impossible, no one could hit the target from here.

If a person is impossible they refuse to agree or to be peaceful.

No point arguing with you! You're just impossible!


arrive

arrive (canonical)
arrives (third-person singular)
arrived (past)
arrived (past participle)
arriving (present participle)

If you arrive somewhere, you come to that place, usually the place that you planned to go to.

Is everything ready? I expect the guests to arrive soon.

Please arrive at the airport at least 2 hours before your flight.

We arrive in New York at 10:52.

They asked us to arrive early to help get ready for the party.

Different people thinking about the same question often arrive at the same answer.

If something arrives somewhere, it comes to that place, usually the place that it was supposed to go to.

Five days later a letter arrived by Federal Express.

If a time or event arrives, it moves from the future into the present.

Finally the day arrived for him to come home.


Spanish

I enjoy Spanish food.


assemble

assemble (canonical)
assembles (third-person singular)
assembled (past)
assembled (past participle)
assembling (present participle)

If you assemble many people or things, you bring them together.

They went into the meeting room where a dozen other people had already assembled.

The first thing you try to do is assemble people you want to work with.

If you assemble something, you put it together.

He would have to go to Japan to find a company to supply parts and assemble the machine.

They worked together in assembling the art collection.

She had assembled a team of 10 lawyers to attack the court's ruling.


bloom

The seeds you plant in the spring will give blooms from summer through fall.

If something is in bloom, its flowers are open or it is reaching a state of fullness.

The weather is warming and spring flowers are coming into bloom.

She had a wide circle of friends and her career was in full bloom .

The bloom is the best time or a look of freshness or fullness.

The bloom is off their love.

It's wonderful to see the children in the bloom of youth.

As she approached, he saw the round of her hips and the bloom of her breasts.


bloom

bloom (canonical)
blooms (third-person singular)
bloomed (past)
bloomed (past participle)
blooming (present participle)

If something such as a flower blooms, it opens, or is reaching a state of fullness.

The blue sky was the color of the sea, and flowers were blooming in the fields.

She had a wide circle of friends and her life was in full bloom.

Business is blooming on this busy street.


identification

identification (singular)
identifications (plural)

Identification is the process of naming a thing by seeing it, hearing it, and/or touching it.

With finding new animals, the process of identification is a long and difficult one.

You have to show your identification card before entering.

/ɪˌdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/


treats

The plural form of treat; more than one (kind of) treat.


treats

treat (canonical)
treats (third-person singular)
treated (past)
treated (past participle)
treating (present participle)

The third-person singular form of treat.


assassin

An assassin is a person who kills a famous or important person, usually for political reasons or for money.

Lee Harvey Oswald is believed to be the assassin of President John F. Kennedy.


broad

broad (positive)
broader (comparative)
broadest (superlative)

If something is broad, the distance from one side to the other is large.

Her shoulders were swimmer's shoulders, strong and broad.

If something is broad, it includes a lot.

They have laws now which give very, very broad powers to the President.

We have a range of activities broad enough to include teachers in all program areas and in all grade levels.

Broad senses, definitions, agreements, etc. are general, not detailed.

We accept a broad definition of music to include any sound organized in an meaningful way.

They walked through the broad field behind the building.

A broad accent is one that is very noticeable.

If something happens in broad daylight, it happens during the day where many people can see it.


broad

There's this German broad, fuckin' bitch, who told me I'm going to jail for her pushin' her stupid ass.


wake

wake (canonical)
wakes (third-person singular)
woke (past)
woken (past participle)
waking (present participle)

I woke up early to catch the bus.

I woke up at four o'clock this morning.

If someone or something wakes you up, they make you stop sleeping.

Could you please wake Donald up?

The alarm clock woke me up.


wake

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immortality

im- + mortal + -ity
immortal + mortality

ety-affix

Immortality is the condition of not dying or ageing.

Jesus promised immortality after our death.

Technological civilizations believe in their own immortality.

/ˌɪmɔːˈtæləti/


rehearse

rehearse (canonical)
rehearses (third-person singular)
rehearsed (past)
rehearsed (past participle)
rehearsing (present participle)

There's no need to rehearse that, we already know.

The witness rehearsed the events.

To practice by repeating something in private.

The band rehearsed before the show.


gifts

The plural form of gift; more than one (kind of) gift.

He always likes to receive gifts.


gifts

gift (canonical)
gifts (third-person singular)
gifted (past)
gifted (past participle)
gifting (present participle)


gibber

gibber (canonical)
gibbers (third-person singular)
gibbered (past)
gibbered (past participle)
gibbering (present participle)

To gibber is to speak in a way you that cannot be understood, especially when using unknown words or known words that have no meaning put together.

This magician gibbers when he does his tricks, because he wants to appear more mysterious.


magical

magical (positive)
more magical (comparative)
most magical (superlative)

Something that is magical is related to magic.

Sorcerers have magical objects besides their own powers.

Something magical is also something so unusual that it appears to be caused by magic.

This landscape is so beautiful! It has something magical.


attract

attract (canonical)
attracts (third-person singular)
attracted (past)
attracted (past participle)
attracting (present participle)

If something attracts you, it makes you interested in it.

She jumped up and down to attract attention.

A cheaper price should also help attract customers.

If you are attracted to someone, you want to have a relationship with them, often a sexual relationship.

Boys were mad about her, attracted by her good looks.

The city hoped the new roads would attract businesses.

With magnets, opposite poles attract each other.


zodiac

A belt-like area of the sky that the Sun, Moon, and the planets pass through; it extends about eight degrees north and south of the ecliptic, and is divided into 12 equal parts which are each named after a constellation.

The 12 signs, or houses, of the zodiac. Each sign is named after one of the constellations in the zodiac.

My zodiac constellation is Gemini.

A circle decorated with the signs of the zodiac.

My friend has a tattoo of a zodiac.


totals

The plural form of total; more than one (kind of) total.


totals

totaled (past)
totaled (past participle)
totaling (present participle)
total (canonical)
totals (third-person singular)
totalled (past)
totalled (past participle)
totalling (present participle)

The third-person singular form of total.


define

define (canonical)
defines (third-person singular)
defined (past)
defined (past participle)
defining (present participle)

If you define a word, you state exactly what the word means.

The dictionary defines the word "define" as "to state exactly what a word means".


goose

A goose is a big flying bird looking like a duck, with a long neck and webbed feet. The color of its feathers is usually a mix of grey, black and/or white, certain individuals having a uniform color.

Wild geese regularly fly over our house when they migrate to Southern countries.

I have a pet goose that honks when someone comes into the yard.

Aunt Dreeda acts like a goose whenever a man comes to her front door.


goose

goose (canonical)
gooses (third-person singular)
goosed (past)
goosed (past participle)
goosing (present participle)

To goose someone is to take him by surprise with a finger jab to the cleft of the buttocks that penetrates to the anus. The violated may be clothed or unclothed and usually reacts with a sudden, offended start.

I was wearing only a jockstrap when a teammate goosed me in the locker room.


keyboard

A keyboard is a range of black and white keys (buttons) on a musical instrument.

Pianos, organs, harpsicords and some accordions have keyboards.

A keyboard is also a set of square or rectangular buttons on a typewriter or a computer.

Almost everybody has to use a keyboard in everyday life nowadays.


keyboard

keyboard (canonical)
keyboards (third-person singular)
keyboarded (past)
keyboarded (past participle)
keyboarding (present participle)

To keyboard is to type on a computer keyboard.

Everyday life in an office usually consists in keyboarding.


dildo

dildo (singular)
dildos or dildoes (plural)

A dildo is a device shaped like a penis that is used for masturbation and sex.


weekend

The end of the working week, usually Saturday and Sunday.

I do not have work on the weekend.


weekend

weekend (canonical)
weekends (third-person singular)
weekended (past)
weekended (past participle)
weekending (present participle)

If you weekend somewhere, you stay there just for the weekend.

We'll weekend at the beach.


master

A master is someone who controls something.

She is the master of this domain.

She is a master at sculpting humans.

She holds a master's degree at Balliol College.


master

master (canonical)
masters (third-person singular)
mastered (past)
mastered (past participle)
mastering (present participle)

If a person masters something, they become very good at it; they are skilled at it.

Through their courses, they will master the fine arts.


sack

She opened the brown paper sack and put the shopping in it.

To sack is to plunder and pillage a captured town or city.

The sack of Rome.

I'm tired. I think I'll hit the sack and get some sleep.


sack

sack (canonical)
sacks (third-person singular)
sacked (past)
sacked (past participle)
sacking (present participle)

If the company sacks you, they end your job; they fire you.

Phil was sacked last week, and I think they will get rid of more people soon.

To plunder or pillage a captured town or city.

The barbarians sacked Rome.


didgeridoo

didgeridoo (singular)
didgeridoos (plural)

A didgeridoo is a long and straight, wooden wind instrument that Australian aborigines traditionally use. Roughly the size of a man, it produces sound when you continuously blow into it.

Didgeridoos often have drawings showing mythological elements of the Aboriginal culture or clanic symbols.

While playing didgeridoo, you can imitate some natural sounds such as bird songs.


meter

This table is 2 meters wide.


bind

bind (canonical)
binds (third-person singular)
bound (past)
bound (past participle)
binding (present participle)

If you bind something put rope or string around it, often many times.

She tied the rope around their hands, binding them tightly together.

He bound the books with string and carried them downstairs.

If something binds two people or things, it connects them.

Now that he couldn't walk, he was bound to his nurse.

(transitive), (usually passive) If someone is bound by a rule, promise, etc., they must not break it.

The media are not bound by the same rules that govern lawyers.

When they join the European Union, they will have to agree to be bound by the European Convention on Human Rights.

The president is not bound to sign any law that Congress sends up.

If two things bind, they stick together.

Carbon binds with oxygen to form carbon dioxide.

If you bind a book, you put it together so the pages stay together.


bind

A bind is a difficult position or situation.

I've lost my job and I'm in a terrible bind.


gift

A gift is something given to another person voluntarily.

I didn't receive many gifts this Christmas.

She has a gift for singing.


gift

A gift is given to someone as a present.

I received a gift from my parents as my Christmas present.


rural

rural (positive)
more rural (comparative)
most rural (superlative)

If something is rural, it is related to the country and is not of the city.

If a place is rural, it is far from any city.

If a person is rural, it means they live away from the city.


candidate

candidate (singular)
candidates (plural)

A candidate is one person or thing that may be chosen, especially in an election.

The three presidential candidates will be interviewed on TV tonight.

Crouch said LaBossiere was the more qualified of the two job candidates.

Because the school has a lot of poor children, it's a good candidate to receive extra money.


chaos

Chaos is a state of disorder or confusion.


mirror

A very reflective surface which light can bounce off of.

She kept staring at the mirror all day.


mirror

mirror (canonical)
mirrors (third-person singular)
mirrored (past)
mirrored (past participle)
mirroring (present participle)

If something/someone mirrors something, then it is identical to it.


cabinet

A country's cabinet is the main group of politicians who work closely with the leader of the government.

Nearly all the cabinet ministers in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's coalition government are immigrants or the sons of immigrants.

He was senior businessman before he joined President Clinton's Cabinet as Treasury secretary.

A cabinet is a piece of furniture used to keep things in.

He walked over to the filing cabinet, took out the file and put it on his desk.


illegal

illegal (positive)
more illegal (comparative)
most illegal (superlative)

An illegal act or object is one that does not follow the law.

This drug is illegal in that country. If you are caught with it, you will be arrested.


sake

If something is for x's sake or for the sake of x, it is to help x or make x happy.

You are the reason I did it. I did it for your sake.

I must pretend to be happy when I am not, for everyone's sake.

The parents are staying together for the children's sake.

You use for God's/Christ's/Heaven's/Pete's/pity's/fuck's sake when you feel strongly about something.

"No, I will not." "For God's sake, why not?"

If something is for x's sake or for the sake of x, it is for that purpose.

I carried my gun in the jungle for safety's sake.

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that he comes out and says, "I love you." Then what?


sake

Sake is a kind of Japanese wine made from rice.


edit

edit (canonical)
edits (third-person singular)
edited (past)
edited (past participle)
editing (present participle)

When you edit something, you change or move around words.

You can edit pages on Simple English Wiktionary by clicking the button that says "change this page".


edit

An edit is a change in text or a document.

Thank you for your edit to the page hello on the Simple English Wiktionary!


swarm

A swarm is a group of many insects, especially flying insects like bees, wasps or flies.

He walked on a wasp nest and was attacked by the swarm.

Less commonly, a swarm can also be a group of fish or birds.

When attacked, sardinas group into compact swarms to protect themselves.

A crowd of people or animals moving in a chaotic way.

By observing the sky with telescopes, astronomers can see swarms of stars.


swarm

swarm (canonical)
swarms (third-person singular)
swarmed (past)
swarmed (past participle)
swarming (present participle)

I felt disgusted when I saw all these flies swarming on this dead body.

When there are to many insects in a place.

Fire ants swarm in the Southern United States since man accidentally brought some with him by ship.

Ants are swarming the kitchen since we let food accessible.


medical student

medical student (singular)
medical students (plural)

An medical student is an adult student who goes to a school and is learning to be a doctor so that they can treats sick people.

The medical student has been learning for three years.


technobabble

Technobabble is a language that appears very technical or scientific, but that has in fact little or no meaning at all.

Science-fiction often uses technobabble to speak about advanced technologies or non-existent physical phenomena.

Some advertisers want to impress people by saying their product is very sophisticated, but we know it's just technobabble.


aluminium

Aluminium is another way of spelling aluminum.


organized

organized (positive)
more organized (comparative)
most organized (superlative)

If something is organized, it is in a state of order.

/ˈɔːɡənaɪzd/


organized

organize (canonical)
organizes (third-person singular)
organized (past)
organized (past participle)
organizing (present participle)

The past tense and past participle of organize.

/ˈɔːɡənaɪzd/


inch

A unit of length that is equal to 2.54 centimetres; there are 12 inches in a foot.

My pencil is six inches long.


inch

inch (canonical)
inches (third-person singular)
inched (past)
inched (past participle)
inching (present participle)

Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.


squeak

A squeak is a high-pitched sound that objects produce, especially when rubbing together.

The squeak of this old door is so annoying!


squeak

squeak (canonical)
squeaks (third-person singular)
squeaked (past)
squeaked (past participle)
squeaking (present participle)

If something squeaks it produces this kind of sound.

His wheelchair is always squeaking when it moves.


bowl

In large mixing bowl, stir together flours, baking powder, and salt until thoroughly combined.

Why don't you let me fix you a nice hot bowl of soup.

The bowl is the part of an object that looks like a bowl.

When's the last time you cleaned the toilet bowl?

An important American football game played outside the regular season is sometimes called the ~ bowl.

These two teams will head to the Super Bowl to decide the champion.

A stadium is sometimes called the ~ bowl.

Every Tuesday and Thursday evening, you can hear the finest classical music at the Hollywood Bowl.


bowl

bowl (canonical)
bowls (third-person singular)
bowled (past)
bowled (past participle)
bowling (present participle)

If you bowl, you roll a ball along the ground or floor as part of a game.

If you bowl in cricket, you throw the ball at the batsman.

If you are bowling along, down, etc., you are moving very fast.

We were bowling down the hill when we hit a tree.

If you bowl somebody over, you hit them when you are running and make them fall down.


paintball

paintball (singular)
paintballs (plural)

Paintball is a game where people shoot small balls filled with paint instead of bullets.

You should get changed if you want to play paintball; I don't want to have more clothes to wash!

A paintball is a paint-filled ball that is used in the game of paintball.


paintball

paintball (canonical)
paintballs (third-person singular)
paintballed (past)
paintballed (past participle)
paintballing (present participle)

If you paintball someone, you shoot them with a paintball.

If you paintball, you play the sport paintball.


magician

A magician is a man who uses magic, who has magical or mystical powers.

A magician is a person who does things that seem magical, but that are in fact tricks.

Magicians do not want reveal their secrets because their shows would become less interesting and mysterious since everybody could understand what happens.

A magician is a very skilled person, in one area or more.


gain

You have nothing to gain.

What one gains, as a return on investment or dividend.

No pain, no gain.

The factor by which a signal is multiplied.


gain

gain (canonical)
gains (third-person singular)
gained (past)
gained (past participle)
gaining (present participle)

You gain something by getting or receiving it.


clone

A clone is a living being produced from another being that is genetically identical to the first being.

Ewe Dolly is known to be the first man-made clone.

All these cells are clones of a first cell that has divided.

A clone is a copy or imitation of something, living or not.

This counterfeiter has a lot of talent : the painting he has made is a perfect clone of the original one.


clone

clone (canonical)
clones (third-person singular)
cloned (past)
cloned (past participle)
cloning (present participle)

To clone is to make an identical copy of something, especially a living being.

Cells usually reproduce by cloning themselves.

It is considered morally unacceptable to clone human beings.


joint

A place where two things meet but are still able to move.

Any part of the body where two bones join, sometimes letting that part of the body to be bent or straightened.

A way to join two pieces of wood together so that they interlock.

It was the kind of joint you wouldn't want your boss to see you in.

I'm not breaking any more laws because I don't want to go back to the joint.

Let's smoke a joint and then go skateboarding.


firewall

computer software that can be installed or downloaded to protect the person's computer from viruses, spyware, malware, and other kinds of unwanted junk


firewall

firewall (canonical)
firewalls (third-person singular)
firewalled (past)
firewalled (past participle)
firewalling (present participle)

When you firewall, you set up software to protect your electronic item from viruses.

If you firewall someone, you maintain social distance from a manipulative person to avoid manipulative or narcissistic abuse.

She firewalled her narcissistic stepmother.


cancel

canceled (past)
canceled (past participle)
canceling (present participle)
cancel (canonical)
cancels (third-person singular)
cancelled (past)
cancelled (past participle)
cancelling (present participle)

If you cancel something that was going to happen, you decide that it will not happen.

Her father had cancelled his trip to Canandaigua because of the weather.

The mayor is also reducing city services and canceling plans to hire thousands of new workers.

I'm afraid I can't make it; I'll have to cancel.


blame

blame (canonical)
blames (third-person singular)
blamed (past)
blamed (past participle)
blaming (present participle)

If you blame someone or something for something bad, you say or think that they are the reason for or cause of it.

It's not your fault... don't blame yourself.

If you keep asking the woman why he attacked her, you're blaming the victim.

She's changed, but I blame it on the drugs.

Everything's gone wrong, and I want to know who's to blame.


blame

The blame for something bad is the idea that you made or let it happen.

You keep your mouth shut and I'll take the blame.

I went told lies, beat up smaller boys, and put the blame on someone else.

Coaches and players must share the blame for the worst season in club history.


experiment

experiment (singular)
experiments (plural)

A test that is done to prove something, to see if a guess is valid, or to do something that has not been tried before.

The experiment will prove that water boils at 100°C.


experiment

experiment (canonical)
experiments (third-person singular)
experimented (past)
experimented (past participle)
experimenting (present participle)


career

A career is a job or a series of related jobs that you do for many years.

His pro coaching career spans 23 years, including time with the 49ers (1967–73 and' 77), the Browns (1978–80), the Oilers (1981–82), the Cowboys (1983–85) and the Cardinals (1986–89).

She says that she enjoyed making the movie, but has no plans to pursue an acting career.

Students need more support from teachers and advisers in deciding about academic programs and career paths.

Don quit his old job and launched a new career, restoring classic cars in a backyard garage.

He lost his hand in an accident, which ended his painting career.

Career advancement is often based on job performance, not just how long you've been in the job.


locate

locate (canonical)
locates (third-person singular)
located (past)
located (past participle)
locating (present participle)

If you locate something you find it, you learn where it is.

I need to locate the nearest gas station.

If you locate something somewhere, you put it there.

The city plans to locate the subway stop right across the street.


remarkable

remarkable (positive)
more remarkable (comparative)
most remarkable (superlative)

Something worth noticing; not common; extraordinary.

It's remarkable that many mothers don't breastfeed their children, despite the evidence that it is good for babies to breastfeed.


creep

When an animal moves with its belly close to the ground.

The creep of the snake makes it frightening.

Small and progressive changes of a measure.

Few people noticed the creep of the prices this year.

A very annoying person who makes you nervous.

Stop staring at me all the time, you creep!


creep

crept (past)
crept (past participle)
creep (canonical)
creeps (third-person singular)
creeped (past)
creeped (past participle)
creeping (present participle)

An animal creeps when it moves with its belly close to the ground.

Snakes and lizards creep.

A plant creeps when it grows close to the ground or stuck to a wall, instead of growing upwards.

To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction, like a snake can move.

When prices creep, some people do not immediately notice the changes.


award

An award is something that you give to someone who has done something very well.

Each year, Westinghouse announces the winners of its awards for the best high-school science projects.

He won the National League's Most Valuable Player award in 2007.

An award is money that a court decides should be given to somebody who has won a legal case.

The lawyer often takes 10 to 30 percent of any awards of damages.


award

award (canonical)
awards (third-person singular)
awarded (past)
awarded (past participle)
awarding (present participle)

If you award somebody something, you officially give it to them, usually because they have done something well.

A total of $205,000 in prize money will be awarded, with $50,000 for the winner and $25,000 for second place.

If you award somebody something, you officially decide that somebody should receive money or a contract.

The judge ruled that the company had no just cause for dismissing Morsi, and he was awarded damages.

The company was awarded a contract worth $2.3 billion to build the new highway.


scissor

scissor (canonical)
scissors (third-person singular)
scissored (past)
scissored (past participle)
scissoring (present participle)


bless

bless (canonical)
blesses (third-person singular)
blessed (past)
blessed (past participle)
blessing (present participle)

You say, bless you when someone sneezes.

You say, bless you, him, her, etc. when that person has done something nice.

If you are blessed with an ability or something, you are lucky to have it.

If God blesses something, he gives it special attention and takes care of it.


bracket

A tax, income, or age bracket is a set of values with a bottom limit and a top limit or a group of people who fit between the limits.

In the 25 to 29 age bracket, 43 percent of men and 29 percent of women had never married.

Investors in the 28% tax bracket (taxable income between $32,450 and $46,200 a year) will pay less tax next year.

A bracket is a punctuation mark used to set off extra information. The basic shape is round, like this: ( ), but the following are also brackets: [ ], { }, < >.

Weight is given in kilograms, while numbers in brackets show weight in pounds.

A common error in writing computer code is to forget to close your brackets.

A bracket is one of a wide variety of pieces, usually metal, wood, or plastic that are used to support or connect machines or materials. Commonly brackets are L-shaped.


bracket

bracket (canonical)
brackets (third-person singular)
bracketed (past)
bracketed (past participle)
bracketing (present participle)

Her desk was bracketed by bookcases.

If two things are bracketed together, they are put together in the same group.


peoples

The plural form of people; more than one (kind of) people.

The native peoples of America speak different languages.


peoples

people (canonical)
peoples (third-person singular)
peopled (past)
peopled (past participle)
peopling (present participle)

The third-person singular form of people.


platinum

Platinum is an element of the periodic table with the atomic number 78. Its symbol is Pt.

Platinum is also the silver-grey metal made of platinum atoms.

With a density of 21,4, platinum is one of the densest materials known to Earth.

Platinum is the silver-grey color of the metal.

A platinum is a musical recording that has sold over one million copies (for singles), or two million (for albums)


platinum

Something platinum has the silver-grey color of the metal.

She has always had her strange platinum hair.


bid

A bid is an offer to enter into a contract to buy something or to do some kind of job.

He amazed the art world with his winning bid of nearly $54 million for Van Gogh's painting, Irises.

The Suns also made a bid for $2.3 million to get Willis from the Bulls.

He went back to teaching after his unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988.

She lost her bid at a world record fourth gold medal in swimming.


bid

bid (past)
bid (past participle)
bid (canonical)
bids (third-person singular)
bade (past)
bidden (past participle)
bidding (present participle)

If you bid for something, you offer to enter into a contract to buy it or to do it.

Microsoft bid $44.6 billion to acquire Yahoo.

If you bid for something, you attempt to do or get it.

Montesinos, decided not to bid for the new position.

They bid on and won a job to build a bank in Marietta, Ohio.

If you bid someone a good day, evening, etc., you wish it to them in greeting.

She bade farewell to her sister, Fannie, and to other relatives and friends.

If you bid someone (to) do something, you tell them to do it.

Standing with her back to the open door, she bade him pass.

The past tense and past participle of bid.


bugger

He was wearing his hat in church, so I yelled, "Take your hat off, you silly bugger.


bugger

bugger (canonical)
buggers (third-person singular)
buggered (past)
buggered (past participle)
buggering (present participle)

You say "bugger it" to show that you are very angry or that you don't care.

You say "bugger me" or "I'm buggered" to show that you're very surprised.

If you bugger somebody, you have anal sex with them.

You say "bugger off" you want someone to leave you alone.

If you bugger something up, you make a problem with it.


cube

A cube is a shape that has six square faces of the same size.

A cube is also a solid object that has more or less this shape.

I usually take two sugar cubes with my coffee.

The cube of a number n is this number multiplied three times by itself. Its symbol is n³.

The cube of 3 is 27, also written 3³.


cube

cube (canonical)
cubes (third-person singular)
cubed (past)
cubed (past participle)
cubing (present participle)

To cube a number is multiplying this number three times by itself.

3 cubed is 27.

To cube the meat.


scared

scared (positive)
more scared (comparative)
most scared (superlative)

If someone or something is scared, they are afraid of someone or something.

I'm scared of monsters.


scared

scare (canonical)
scares (third-person singular)
scared (past)
scared (past participle)
scaring (present participle)

The past tense and past participle of scare.


bomb

The man killed himself and eight others by detonating a very powerful bomb.

On August 6, a U.S. B-29 dropped a 9,000-pound atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

One U.S. soldier and two Iraqi children were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in central Baghdad.

If something, often a movie or a concert, was a bomb, it was very unsuccessful.

The first computer was a bomb, but IBM improved it and the new machine sold very well.


bomb

bomb (canonical)
bombs (third-person singular)
bombed (past)
bombed (past participle)
bombing (present participle)

If you bomb a place, you drop or put one or more bombs there.

This woman's mother and son were killed when American planes bombed the village.

If you bomb somewhere, you go there at high speed.

They walked up the mountain with their bikes and then bombed down as fast as they could go.

If you bomb a test, course, etc., you get a very low grade on it.

If something, often a movie or a concert, bombs, it is very unsuccessful.

The show bombed in London as well as flopping on Broadway.


boss

Your boss is the person who tells you what to do at work.

My former boss was very happy for the chance to fire me.

I started the company because I wanted to be my own boss.

The Mayor was an old-style political boss who made his own decisions.


boss

boss (canonical)
bosses (third-person singular)
bossed (past)
bossed (past participle)
bossing (present participle)

If you boss somebody around/about, you tell them what to do, especially when you don't have any special power to do so.

This was just another occasion when Indians were bossed around by white people.


boss

boss (positive)
more boss (comparative)
most boss (superlative)


cash

Cash is money in the form of bills and coins, rather than checks/cheques or credit cards.

The publisher supplied cash prizes and books for the winning essays written by fourth through sixth graders.

Payment is by cash, VISA, or MasterCard.


cash

cash (canonical)
cashes (third-person singular)
cashed (past)
cashed (past participle)
cashing (present participle)

To exchange a check/cheque for money in the form of bills.

I need to stop at the back to cash my paycheck before we go out to dinner.


swamp

A swamp is an area where most of the land is underwater. Land in a swamp is not usually more than a meter (or a few feet) under water.

We were wading through the swamp.

The swamp is home to many animals, including alligators, frogs, and birds.

U.S. state of Louisiana is famous for its swamps.


swamp

swamp (canonical)
swamps (third-person singular)
swamped (past)
swamped (past participle)
swamping (present participle)

If something is swamped it is being covered of filled with water.

The deck of our boat was swamped by the storm.

If something is swamped is has gotten more of something than it can work with.

Our office was swamped with phone calls.

The store was swamped with customers last night.

That many downloads would swamp our computers.


campaign

A campaign is a group of activities working towards a particular goal, often to elect a political candidate or in a war.

Angry TV viewers did launch a letter-writing campaign against CBS's decision to cancel the show.

The president is preparing for his re-election campaign.

For four months the government has waged a campaign to shut down the illegal drug operations.

The Shining Path waged a bloody campaign against the Peruvian government, killing more than 40,000 people.


campaign

campaign (canonical)
campaigns (third-person singular)
campaigned (past)
campaigned (past participle)
campaigning (present participle)

If you are campaigning, you are working in an organized way with a goal.


blind

blind (positive)
blinder (comparative)
blindest (superlative)

If someone or something is blind, they can't see.

I'm not totally blind. I can see a little.

If someone or something is blind, they can't see the truth about something.

How can you be so blind about your problems?


blind

blind (canonical)
blinds (third-person singular)
blinded (past)
blinded (past participle)
blinding (present participle)

If someone is blinded, they become unable to see.

The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded.

Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?


blind

A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.

Any device intended to conceal or hide; as, a duck blind.

The player was in the big blind.

An 1800s baseball term meaning no score.


blind

In three card brag, without looking at the cards dealt.


calculate

calculate (canonical)
calculates (third-person singular)
calculated (past)
calculated (past participle)
calculating (present participle)

If you calculate something, you find its value, usually by using mathematics.

These scores were calculated by subtracting total errors from total correct.

The computers can calculate how much your family can afford to pay for college.

If you calculate something, you find the answer by thinking about the facts.

The leaders seems to have calculated that the political benefit outweighs the cost to their people.

If something is calculated to do something, you hope or expect it to do it.

She waved her hands around in a way calculated to make him laugh.

If you calculate on something, you plan on it or expect it.

He hadn't calculated on her being late.


debut

Debut is a person's first time doing something in public.

I made my theatrical debut in a production of "The King and I" many years ago.


debut

debut (canonical)
debuts (third-person singular)
debuted (past)
debuted (past participle)
debuting (present participle)

To appear or do something for the first time, as to the public.

The new baseball player debuted in September of 2008.

The police agency is making their debut tomorrow.


i. e.


i.e.,


Leh

Leh is a city and a district in the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir.


Pakistan

Pakistan is a country in South-Central Asia. Its full, official name is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.


New Delhi

New Delhi is the capital city of India. It is located in the national capital territory of Delhi.


Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a landlocked country in South-Central Asia. The capital is Kabul.


Kargil

Kargil is a district in the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir.


India

A country in South Asia, also known as Bharat. Its full official name is the Republic of India.

In 1947, The British were leaving India after Independence Day.


Dhaka

Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh.


Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad is the capital city of Gujarat in India.


Khalistan

Khalistan is the name of a proposed country based on theocratic ideas.


Calcutta

Calcutta was the name of the city that is now called Kolkata.


Brahui

A group of people of Eastern Baluchistan.


Pashto

Pashto is a language spoken mainly in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan.


Oriya

Oriya is the official language of the state of Orissa, India.


Lucknow

Lucknow is the state capital of Uttar Pradesh, India.


Chittagong

Chittagong is the second largest city in Bangladesh.

Chittagong is where I live.

Chittagong is also a district and Sadar Upzilla in Bangladesh.


Haryana

/hʌrɪˈjɑːnə/


Kabul

Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.


Lhasa

Lhasa is the capital city of Tibet, China.


Shimla

Shimla is a city of India, the capital of the state of Himachal Pradesh.


Tibet

Tibet is a province of China. The capital is Lhasa.


Taipei

Taipei is the capital of the Republic of China.


Jammu

A region in the southern part of the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Azad Kashmir (Pakistan).


Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the ancient holy city, and the capital city of Israel and Palestine.


Ambala

Ambala is a city in the state of Haryana in India.


ridiculous

ridiculous (positive)
more ridiculous (comparative)
most ridiculous (superlative)

Describes something that deserves ridicule, is foolish or absurd

Adam's mohawk is ridiculous.


Albania

Albania is a country in southeastern Europe. The capital is Tirana.


Madras

Madras was the name of a city in India that is now called Chennai.


Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a country in southeast Asia.

Bn-বাংলাদেশ.oga


Balochi

Balochi is a language spoken mainly in southwest Pakistan (80% of speakers), southeast Iran and southern Afghanistan.


Moroni

Moroni is the capital city of the island nation of Comoros.


Eritrea

Eritrea is a country in Africa; the capital city is Asmara.


Ulan Bator

Ulan Bator is the capital city of Mongolia.


Gujarati

A language that is spoken in the state of Gujarat, India.

/ˌɡʊdʒəˈrɑːti/


K2 is the second-tallest mountain in the world located in Pakistan. It is part of the Himalayas.

K2 can be slang for man-made marijuana, a drug.


Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur is the capital city of Malaysia.


Awadh

Awadh is a region in the state Uttar Pradesh in India.


piecemeal

piecemeal (positive)
more piecemeal (comparative)
most piecemeal (superlative)

Made or done piece by piece, or occurring slowly.


piecemeal

gradually, slowly, bit by bit; into pieces, into fragments.


Riyadh

Riyadh is the capital city of Saudi Arabia.


cell

A cell is a room in a jail where prisoners are kept.

He was arrested and kept in a small cell for one day.

A plant cell has a cell wall.


Djibouti City

Djibouti is the capital of Djibouti, Africa.


Jaipur

Jaipur is the capital city of the state of Rajputstan in India.


Tamil

Tamil is a language of India and Sri Lanka.


Sarajevo

Sarajevo is the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.


Taiwan

Taiwan is an island that forms most of the Republic of China.


Iran

' Iran' is a country in South-Central Asia. The capital is Tehran. It was known as Persia until 1935.


Comoros

Comoros is an island country in Africa; the capital city is Moroni.


Skopje

Skopje is the capital city of Macedonia.


Sudan

Sudan is a country in northern Africa, the capital city is Khartoum.


Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia is a country on the Balkan peninsula in Europe. The capital city is Sarajevo.

bŏz′·nē·ə and hûrts′·ə·gōv′·ĭn·ə

bŏz′·nē·ə and hûrts′·ə·gōv′·ĭn·ə

bŏz′·nē·ə ənd hûrts′·ə·gōv′·ĭn·ə

bŏz′·nē·ə ənd hûrts′·ə·gōv′·ĭn·ə


Yemen

Yemen is a country in Asia. The capital city is Sanaa.


Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea is a sea which is part of the Indian Ocean. It is between the Arabian Peninsula, India and Somalia.


Oman

Oman is a country in Asia, the capital city is Muscat.


Nouakchott

Nouakchott is the capital city of Mauritania.


Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is a country in Asia, and the capital city is Baku.


Mongolia

Mongolia is a country in Asia, the capital city is Ulan Bator.

/mɒŋˈɡəʊli.ə/

/mɑːŋˈɡoʊli.ə/


Tajikistan

Tajikistan is a country in South-Central Asia, the capital city is Dushanbe.


Sikkim

Sikkim is a state in eastern India which has Gangtok as its capital.


Djibouti

Djibouti is the capital city of the country Djibouti.


Mauritania

Mauritania is a country in Africa, the capital city is Nouakchott.


Republic of Turkey

Republic of Turkey is the official name for Turkey.


Sofia

Sofia can also be a woman's name. It is a less common spelling of Sophia.


Tunisia

Tunisia is a country in Africa. The capital city is Tunis.


Mali

Mali is a country in Africa, the capital city is Bamako.


Jakarta

Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia.


Algeria

Algeria is a country in Africa. The capital city is Algiers.

/ælˈdʒɪəriə/


carpet

A carpet is a floor covering, usually made of nylon or wool.

He walked in with his boots leaving snow on the carpet.

A carpet of something is a thick layer of it.

A carpet of snow lay on the ground.


carpet

carpet (canonical)
carpets (third-person singular)
carpeted (past)
carpeted (past participle)
carpeting (present participle)

If a floor or room is carpeted, it has carpets on the floor.

If something carpets a place, it covers the ground.

The road was carpeted with broken glass.


Bishkek

Bishkek is the capital city of Kyrgyzstan.


Karnataka

Karnataka is a state in southern India. Bangalore is the capital city.


Granada

Granada is the capital city of the Granada province.


Libya

Libya is a country in Africa, the capital city is Tripoli.


Marathi

A language spoken by the people of Maharashtra, India.


Tashkent

Tashkent is the capital city of Uzbekistan.

I used to live in Tashkent.


Patna

Patna is the capital city of the state of Bihar in India.


Manchester

Manchester is a part of Greater Manchester, which is a main city in northern England of the United Kingdom.


Syria

Syria is a country in Asia, the capital city is Damascus.


Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan is a country in South-Central Asia, the capital city is Ashgabat.


Dacca

The old spelling of Dhaka, capital of East Bengal, later East Pakistan.


presidential

presidential (positive)
more presidential (comparative)
most presidential (superlative)

Bush won the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

If somebody is presidential, they seem or act like a president.

Dan Quayle didn't appear very presidential.


Astana

Nur-Sultan, formerly Astana, is the capital city of Kazakhstan.


Bengali

Bangla or Bengali is a language spoken in Bangladesh and the states of Tripura and West Bengal, India.


San Francisco

San Francisco is a city in California in the United States of America.


celebrate

celebrate (canonical)
celebrates (third-person singular)
celebrated (past)
celebrated (past participle)
celebrating (present participle)

If you celebrate something, you do something special to show that you are happy about it.

The town celebrates its 200th anniversary this Saturday by launching 20,000 balloons.

Some American homes are treeless during Christmas as these families celebrate other holidays.

Fans poured into the streets to celebrate after their team's victory.

When you celebrate something, you perform or participate in it, usually a sacrament or solemn rite.

The Christians gathered together to celebrate a mass.


Tatarstan

Tatarstan is an autonomous republic in Russia; the capital city is Kazan.


Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is landlocked country in South-Central Asia; the capital city is Astana.


Egypt

Egypt is a country of Africa. The capital city is Cairo.


Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is a country in Asia, the capital city is Riyadh. Often this country is just called Arabia.

Our king, Salman bin Abdulaziz, has ruled Saudi Arabia.


Uzbekistan

Uzbek Republic is a landlocked country in South-Central Asia; the capital city is Tashkent.


Morocco

Morocco is a country in Africa; the capital city is Rabat.


Ashgabat

Ashgabat is the capital city of Turkmenistan.


Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country in South-Central Asia. The capital city is Bishkek.

/ˈkɪər.ɡɪˌstɑːn/

/ˌkɪər.ɡɪˈstɑːn/


stealth

characteristic of acting in secret and being hard to detect

He used stealth to creep up on the cat.

technology used to hide airplanes from radar. Also, an airplane which has this technology.

The attack was from a stealth-bomber.


Hindi

Hindi is the national language of India.

I'm sorry, but I do not understand Hindi.


un


Macedonia

Macedonia or Macedon is the name of an Ancient Greek kingdom where Alexander the Great came from.

Macedonia is a geographic region in southeastern Europe. The larger part is in Greece and the rest is in North Macedonia and a smaller part in Bulgaria.

North Macedonia, officially named Republic of North Macedonia, is a country in the Balkan region of Europe that used to be a part of Yugoslavia. The capital city is Skopje.

Macedonia is the name of a region in northern Greece. The capital city is Thessaloniki


Tripura

Tripura is a state in north-eastern India with Agartala as its capital.


United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a country in Asia.

Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.


Wales

Wales is a principality in the west of, and one of the nations of, the United Kingdom. The capital city is Cardiff.


Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Asia, the capital city is Kuala Lumpur.


Cuba

Cuba is a country in North America. The capital city is Havana.


Niger

Niger is a country in Africa. Its official name is the Republic of Niger.

Niger is a river in Africa that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria.


Ürümqi

Ürümqi is a city in northwestern China, formerly the capital of East Turkestan.


United Kingdom

The United Kingdom is a country of northern Europe located in a group of islands, consisting of the entire island of Great Britain and a small part of the island of Ireland. The capital city is London.

I live in the United Kingdom.


Mecca

Mecca is a holy place for Muslims, many of who travel there every year.


gravestone

gravestone (singular)
gravestones (plural)

A gravestone is a stone on a grave, usually with the name of the dead person written on it.

The old gravestone was smooth from many years of rain, but she could still read the name on it.


Jesus freak

Jesus freak (singular)
Jesus freaks (plural)

Someone who is seen to be excessively and overtly Christian.


chase

chase (canonical)
chases (third-person singular)
chased (past)
chased (past participle)
chasing (present participle)

If you chase something, you go after it quickly.

Dogs often play at chasing their own tail.

In my dream, someone's chasing after me and I'm running down this street.

The children were chasing the ball down the soccer field.

If you chase somebody or something away, you make them leave.

He waved his arms to chase the birds out of the cherry tree.


chase

A chase is an act of going quickly after something or trying to get it.

TV has too many high-speed car chases.


besides

We've got a pile of homework and a part time job besides.

Besides the obvious benefit of learning, going to school has helped me make many friends.

I don't really want to go. Besides, it's too late now.

I don't want to go anywhere besides China.


ant-hill

Ant-hill is another way of spelling anthill.


Thor

The god of thunder and lightning to the Vikings (a people from ancient Europe).


audio

Audio is a kind of sound or sound signal.

The audio for the game was playing through the computer speakers.


disappointment

disappointment (singular)
disappointments (plural)

Disappointment is the feeling you have when something isn't as good as you expected.

A disappointment is someone or something that isn't as good as you expected.


uncertain

uncertain (positive)
more uncertain (comparative)
most uncertain (superlative)

Uncertain is the opposite of certain. You don't know whether it is going to happen or not. You have doubts about it.

I'm uncertain whether I should go out tonight.


quadrennial

If something is quadrennial, it happens every four years.


cheque

A cheque is a written promise that allows the receiver to take money from a bank account. It is used instead of cash to pay for things.

Do you take personal cheques?

Did you cash the cheque yet?

I wrote them a cheque for $300.


lend

lend (canonical)
lends (third-person singular)
lent (past)
lent (past participle)
lending (present participle)

When you lend something to another person, you let them use it, after which they must return it to you.

I lent my textbook to Jack to allow him to study from it.

The main functions of banks are to hold your money safely and to lend some of that money to others.

If x lends y support, believability, acceptance, etc., x gives it to y.

Several studies in recent years have lent support to this idea.

We're moving house next week and we were hoping you could lend us a hand.


Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir is a state in northern India. The capital is Srinagar.


gramps

Hi gramps! How's grandma?

Hey gramps, get off the road!


shamans

shaman (singular)
shaman or shamans (plural)

The plural form of shaman; more than one (kind of) shaman.


don't cry over spilt milk

A phrase that means that you shouldn't get upset or worry about something that has already happened and can't be changed.


Appalachia

Appalachia is a region in the eastern United States of America, named for the Appalachian Mountains.

It is hard to pass through the Appalachia region because most of it is mountainous.


later

The comparative form of late; more late.

She arrived later than me.

I'll see you later.

He arrived on Wednesday and left three days later.


later

late (positive)
later (comparative)
latest (superlative)

Most people can't walk in the later stages of the disease.

We can't be there now, but we'd like to meet at a later date.

Much is known about his early days, but are many question about his later life.

I expected you to be later than this.


onlooker

An onlooker is someone who watches but does not participate.

I wasn't in the fight. I was only an onlooker.


Norway

Norway is a country in the north of Europe, with borders to Sweden, Finland and Russia.


Finland

Finland is a country in the north of Europe.


morphologies

morphology (singular)
morphologies (plural)

The plural form of morphology; more than one (kind of) morphology.


rendering

render (canonical)
renders (third-person singular)
rendered (past)
rendered (past participle)
rendering (present participle)


election

An election is a decision, often decided by voting.

The man elected to take part in the work.

The result of voting for the election was more votes that the man should do the work.


snow leopard

snow leopard (singular)
snow leopards (plural)

The snow leopard is a large wildcat that lives in central Asia.


nationalization

nationalization (singular)
nationalizations (plural)

Nationalization is when a privately owned object becomes the property of the government or the public.


Kashmir stag

Kashmir stag (singular)
Kashmir stags (plural)

The Kashmir stag (Cervus canadensis hanglu) is a type of red deer native to northern Pakistan and India.


bird of prey

bird of prey (singular)
birds of prey (plural)

A bird of prey is a bird that hunts and eats other animals. Some birds of prey are the eagle, the owl, and the peregrine falcon.


Pakistani

Pakistani (singular)
Pakistanis (plural)

A Pakistani is a person or thing that comes from Pakistan.


Pakistani

Something or someone that is Pakistani comes from Pakistan.

The Pakistani currency is the Rupee.


valleys

The plural form of valley; more than one (kind of) valley.


conscience

conscience (singular)
consciences (plural)

The ability to feel whether what you're doing is right or wrong.

Even though he stole things, he had some conscience: he didn't kill anyone.


Ireland

An island in the Atlantic Ocean which is a little west of the Britain.

Ireland is the official name for the Republic of Ireland, it is located in the south of the island, forms most of the island and includes 26 counties.


unanimous

If something is unanimous, it is agreed on by all who are present.

The vote to pass the bill was unanimous. Every member of the state congress voted to pass it.


Pakistanis

The plural form of Pakistani; more than one (kind of) Pakistani.


Kentucky

Kentucky is a state in the United States of America.

Frankfort is the capital of Kentucky.


heathens

The plural form of heathen; more than one (kind of) heathen.


corner the market

If you corner the market, you become so successful at selling or making a particular product that almost no one else sells or makes it.

They've more or less cornered the fast-food market – they're in every big city in the country.


disinterested

disinterested (positive)
more disinterested (comparative)
most disinterested (superlative)

If someone is disinterested, they are not affected by a situation, so they can make fair decisions about it.

If someone is disinterested, they are not interested in something; they find it boring.


strict

strict (positive)
stricter (comparative)
strictest (superlative)

The father was very strict about the children coming to dinner on time.

Following rules exactly, or giving strong punishments for not following the rules.


charity

A charity is an organisation that collects money or goods and uses them to help poor or sick people, often with the help of volunteers.

The group, a Catholic charity that runs schools on Indian reservations, collected nearly $17 million from the public.

The party was a charity event that raised over $400,000 to fight breast cancer.

The money was given away to local charities.

Charity is the work of helping the poor and the sick.

All the money raised goes to charity.

Charity is the money, goods, or help that people give to the poor and the sick.

Our family was poor, but my mother would never accept charity.

Charity is the quality of being kind, thoughtful, and helpful.

He led a life of charity.


British

British (positive)
more British (comparative)
most British (superlative)

British people or things are those that come from Britain.

My dad is British, and my Mom is Indian.


hillbilly

hillbilly (singular)
hillbillies (plural)

A person who lives in the country in an area with many hills, and who has little money. Usually, this means an American from a region called Appalachia or a region called the Ozark Mountains. These people have homes and farms in the valleys between the hills.

My dad is a hillbilly from eastern Kentucky.

People often make fun of hillbillies without ever actually knowing one.


hillbilly

hillbilly (positive)
more hillbilly (comparative)
most hillbilly (superlative)

Having to do with hillbillies, or typical of hillbillies.


qualifications

qualification (singular)
qualifications (plural)

The plural form of qualification; more than one (kind of) qualification.


birds of prey

The plural form of bird of prey; more than one (kind of) bird of prey.


definitely

Something that will definitely happen will happen without doubt or with great chances of occurring.

The letter will definitely come this week.

There's a 100% chance of rain tomorrow. It will definitely rain.


priest

A priest is a person who leads or performs ceremonies in a religion.

The priest stood in front of the people and blessed them.


silicon

Silicon is a non-metal chemical element with the atomic number 14 and the symbol "Si".

Sand is made of mostly silicon compounds.

Computers use chips made from silicon.


Denmark

Denmark is a country in the north of Europe.

Copenhagen is the capital city of Denmark.


knowledgeable

knowledgeable (positive)
more knowledgeable (comparative)
most knowledgeable (superlative)

If a person is knowledgeable that person knows many things, or a great amount about something.

She is very knowledgeable when it comes to medicine.

Could we find anyone more knowledgeable than him?


Sweden

Sweden is a country in the north of Europe.


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