television

forms:
television (singular)
televisions (plural)

glosses: A television is a box that moving pictures can be watched on.

ipa: /ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/


wants

forms:
want (canonical)
wants (third-person singular)
wanted (past)
wanted (past participle)
wanting (present participle)

pos: verb

ipa: /wɑnts/

ipa: /wɒnts/

verb

want

expansion: [POS TABLE]


wants

forms:
want (singular)
wants (plural)

pos: noun

glosses: The plural form of want; more than one (kind of) want.


stands

forms:
stand (canonical)
stands (third-person singular)
stood (past)
stood (past participle)
standing (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of stand.

ipa: /stændz/

stand

stands

stood

stood

standing


stands

forms:
stand (singular)
stands (plural)

glosses: The plural form of stand; more than one (kind of) stand.


religions

forms:
religion (singular)
religions (plural)

glosses: The plural form of religion; more than one (kind of) religion.

hyphenation: re‧li‧gions

noun

religion


schedule

forms:
schedule (singular)
schedules (plural)

glosses: A schedule is a plan of things that are happening and the times when they happen.

text: He visits each village in his or her area on a weekly schedule.

text: The train is right on schedule.

text: The meeting was running 10 minutes ahead of schedule.

text: His doctors told him to cut down on his work schedule.

glosses: A schedule is a list, usually one with prices.

text: Please see the enclosed schedule of costs for facilities and activities.

ipa: /ˈʃɛdjul/


schedule

forms:
schedule (canonical)
schedules (third-person singular)
scheduled (past)
scheduled (past participle)
scheduling (present participle)

glosses: If you schedule something, you make a plan for when and where it will happen.

text: The party was originally scheduled for June 5th.

verb

schedul

e


bladder

forms:
bladder (singular)
bladders (plural)

glosses: The bladder is the internal organ where urine collects.

text: An hour after drinking four glasses of water his bladder was full.

glosses: A bladder is a bag made of a material that stretches to hold a liquid or gas.

text: The football has a bladder that holds air so it will bounce.

ipa: /ˈblædə/

ipa: /ˈblæɾɚ/


drank

forms:
drink (canonical)
drinks (third-person singular)
drank (past)
drunk (past participle)
drinking (present participle)

text: I drank four glasses of water today.

text: Rob drank way too much beer last night and acted like a fool.

drink

drinks

drank

drunk

drinking


spoke

forms:
spoke (singular)
spokes (plural)

glosses: One of many rods that are between the center and outer surface of a wheel.

ipa: /ˈspəʊk/

ipa: /ˈspoʊk/

noun

spoke

spokes


spoke

forms:
speak (canonical)
speaks (third-person singular)
spoke (past)
spoken (past participle)
speaking (present participle)

text: John spoke to me about his idea.

speak

speaks

spoke

spoken

speaking


nature

forms:
nature (singular)
natures (plural)

text: We went on a nature walk.

glosses: Things that people did not make. The world or universe.

text: Nature contains many beautiful things.

glosses: The way something is without people causing it, or a quality people did not cause. Often, this is a part of your personality that is natural to you.

text: She has a very gentle nature.

text: It is the nature of dogs to eat meat.

text: Our natures don't match, we are just too different.

ipa: /ˈneɪtʃə/

ipa: /ˈneɪtʃɚ/


mean

forms:
mean (canonical)
means (third-person singular)
meant (past)
meant (past participle)
meaning (present participle)

glosses: A word means something when the word expresses the same idea as the other something.

text: slay means kill. Both of them mean to make dead.

enpr: mēn

ipa: /miːn/

mean

means

meant

meant

meaning


mean

forms:
mean (positive)
meaner (comparative)
meanest (superlative)

pos: adj

glosses: When you are a mean person, you are not nice.

text: The boys who hit you were very mean.

adj

meaner

meanest


mean

forms:
mean (singular)
means (plural)

glosses: The mean is a measure of the average of a list of numbers. The sum total of the numbers divided by how many numbers in the list.

text: The mean of the numbers 2,3,4 is 3. (2+3+4)/3 = 9/3 = 3.


advocate

forms:
advocate (singular)
advocates (plural)

glosses: An advocate is someone who recommends something.

text: She is a strong advocate for children's right to education.

glosses: An advocate is someone who speaks for someone else, especially a lawyer in court.

text: Volunteers are needed to act as advocates for people with mental health problems.

text: Only qualified lawyers may act as advocates in the Crown Court.

enpr: ăd'vəkət

ipa: /ˈædvəkət/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-advocate.wav


advocate

forms:
advocate (canonical)
advocates (third-person singular)
advocated (past)
advocated (past participle)
advocating (present participle)

glosses: If you advocate something, you recommend it.

text: We wish for freedom, but cannot advocate the use of violence.

text: The Government wants to adopt the approach advocated by Professor David Pearce.

enpr: ăd'vəkāt

ipa: /ˈædvəkeɪt/

verb

advocat


main

forms: main (positive)

glosses: The main thing is the most important or biggest one.

text: They turned off the main road and saw a small house.

text: There are many problems, but the main one is money.

text: what was the main reason for war in Europe in 1914?

enpr: mān

ipa: /meɪn/

sampa: /meIn/

homophones: mane Maine


main

forms:
main (singular)
mains (plural)

glosses: A main is a large pipe or wire that carries gas, water, electricity, etc.

text: A break in a water main has closed the road.


catch

forms:
catch (singular)
catches (plural)

glosses: A catch is something that is caught, like the fish a fishermen catches.

text: My dad brought home a good catch of trout today.

text: We sang a catch by Purcell.

enpr: kăch

ipa: /kætʃ/

sampa: /k{tS/

noun

catch

catches


catch

forms:
catch (canonical)
catches (third-person singular)
caught (past)
caught (past participle)
catching (present participle)

glosses: When you catch something, you stop and hold it.

text: Can you catch a fish in your hands with no fish net?

text: They caught the bad guys and locked them up.

caught

caught

catching


cakes

forms:
cake (singular)
cakes (plural)

glosses: The plural form of cake; more than one (kind of) cake.

cake


cakes

forms:
cake (canonical)
cakes (third-person singular)
caked (past)
caked (past participle)
caking (present participle)

verb

cak


study

forms:
study (singular)
studies (plural)

glosses: A study is a formal effort to learn about something, usually with a written report at the end.

text: A recent study of New Mexico, completed using national survey data, indicates that many older New Mexicans are returning to school.

ipa: /ˈstʌdi/

sampa: /"stVdi/

audio: en-uk-to study.ogg

noun

study

studies


study

forms:
study (canonical)
studies (third-person singular)
studied (past)
studied (past participle)
studying (present participle)

glosses: If you study something, you make an effort to learn it.

text: We study math at the school.

verb

stud

y


stand

forms:
stand (canonical)
stands (third-person singular)
stood (past)
stood (past participle)
standing (present participle)

glosses: When you stand, your body is at rest and supported only by your feet.

text: I stand in the bus when there are no seats.

text: He stood in line at the store for a long time.

ipa: /'stænd/


stand

forms:
stand (singular)
stands (plural)

glosses: A stand is a position or opinion that you plan to defend and not move from.

glosses: You put something on a stand to keep it off the ground or floor.

text: The clock was on the night stand next to the bed.


mode

forms:
mode (singular)
modes (plural)

glosses: A mode is a specific way of doing something.

text: The study combines two different research modes: oral history and written history.

text: The machine is in warm-up mode right now.

text: A modern city offers many different modes of transport from bicycle lanes to high speed trains.

text: Modern medicine must be seen as part of the capitalist mode of production.

text: There is a difference in English between casual and formal modes of speech.

text: She was always dressed in the latest mode.

glosses: A mode is a specific type or form of something.

text: Heat is a mode of energy transfer, like work, not a substance or other seawater property.

text: The Mixolydian mode is a good way for inducing a bluesey kind of mood.

glosses: The mode is the number that occurs most often in a group of numbers.

text: In a normal distribution, with large sets, the mean, median and mode will typically be the same value.

glosses: A mode is specific a kind of clause that shows how the speaker feels about it. Modes show whether something is true, probably true, a wish, etc. Usually called mood.

text: In Finnish, for example, the conditional mode is used both in the main clause and the subordinate.

glosses: The mode of a rock is the different minerals in it.

glosses: A mode is a specific pattern of wave movement.

text: Under normal circumstances, there is no coupling between the two modes, which have different propagation constants.

ipa: /məʊd/

ipa: /moʊd/

sampa: /moUd/


calling

forms:
call (canonical)
calls (third-person singular)
called (past)
called (past participle)
calling (present participle)

call


calling

forms:
calling (singular)
callings (plural)

glosses: A strong feeling that makes you want to become religious.


deer

forms:
deer (singular)
deer or deers (plural)

glosses: A deer is a medium- to large-sized animal that eats plants and has hard feet (hooves) that are split in two.

enpr: dîr

ipa: /dɪə(r)/

noun

deer

deer

deers


confine

forms:
confine (canonical)
confines (third-person singular)
confined (past)
confined (past participle)
confining (present participle)

glosses: If you confine someone or something to a particular topic or activity, you do not let them do other topics or activities.

text: Humphrey did not confine his activities just to the factory.

text: Her relatively short life was largely confined to Copenhagen.

glosses: If you confine somebody or something, you put them in a place that they cannot leave.

text: For the first twenty years he was confined in prison-like conditions.

text: The disease was confined to a small area within the Camperdown district.

enpr: kənfīnʹ

ipa: /kənˈfaɪn/

verb

confin


buy

forms:
buy (canonical)
buys (third-person singular)
bought (past)
bought (past participle)
buying (present participle)

glosses: If you buy something, you give money and the thing becomes yours.

text: Could you buy some milk at the store?

text: We sold the house and bought a small apartment near Lincoln Center.

text: I stood in line all night to buy tickets for the show.

text: My kids don't want to wear the clothes I buy for them.

text: I can't afford to buy a new house.

text: In 1960, Willard bought the business from his father.

text: He bought the guitar for $150 on the internet.

glosses: If money buys something, it is enough money to pay for it.

text: $10 doesn't even buy a case of beer.

text: $100 buys a nice dinner or a hotel for the night.

glosses: If you buy (somebody) time, you stop something from happening soon so that you have time to prepare for it.

text: She went to the washroom to buy time. She didn't want to answer before Kate arrived.

text: Your mother won't buy the story about getting lost.

text: I can buy that your way works, but other ways might work too.

enpr: bī

ipa: /baɪ/

sampa: /baI/

audio: en-uk-to buy.ogg

homophones: bi by bye

buy

buys

bought

bought

buying


buy

forms:
buy (singular)
buys (plural)

glosses: A buy is something that someone has bought, usually for a cheap price.

text: This dress was a good buy. It was on sale.


stays

forms:
stay (canonical)
stays (third-person singular)
stayed (past)
stayed (past participle)
staying (present participle)

stay


stays

forms:
stay (singular)
stays (plural)

glosses: The plural form of stay; more than one (kind of) stay.


wear

forms:
wear (canonical)
wears (third-person singular)
wore (past)
worn (past participle)
wearing (present participle)

glosses: When you wear something, you put it on your body and cover your body with it.

text: I don't wear shoes on my feet when I am inside.

text: She wore a red dress.

glosses: When something wears, it gets damaged, over time.

text: The car was worn from ten years of hard driving.

text: My best leather shoes wore out from all the walking.

text: The young girl wore her mother down.

ipa: /wɛə/

enpr: wĕr

ipa: /wɛr/

sampa: /wEr/

homophones: ware where

wear

wears

wore

worn

wearing


wear

forms:
wear (singular)
wears (plural)

glosses: Things show wear after being used for a long time.

text: The old school was starting to show wear after one hundred years.


extract

forms:
extract (singular)
extracts (plural)

glosses: An extract is something that has been taken out of something else, usually something that it was part of.

text: Just because a cream contains plant extracts doesn't mean it's good for your skin.

text: I'll read a short extract from his speech.

text: Many scientists were interested in other tissue extracts.

enpr: ĕks'trăkt

ipa: /ˈɛkstrækt/

hyphenation: ex‧tract


extract

forms:
extract (canonical)
extracts (third-person singular)
extracted (past)
extracted (past participle)
extracting (present participle)

glosses: If you extract something, you take it out of something else.

text: Computers are becoming more useful in helping us extract useful information from the data.

text: The dentist will have to extract two of my teeth.

text: The roots of the plant extract water from the earth.

enpr: ĭkstrăkt'

ipa: /ɪksˈtrækt/


chart

forms:
chart (singular)
charts (plural)

glosses: A chart is information that is organised in rows and columns or as a picture.

text: In India as a whole the figure is about 40% (see chart).

text: This week's bar chart shows the correct figures.

text: You can write your weight in a diary or on a chart.

glosses: (often plural) A chart is a list of most popular songs, movies, etc. that is published regularly.

text: This week, the newest Star Wars movie is topping the charts.

ipa: /tʃɑrt/


chart

forms:
chart (canonical)
charts (third-person singular)
charted (past)
charted (past participle)
charting (present participle)

glosses: If you chart something, you record it in a chart.

glosses: If something charts, it is on a list of most popular things.

glosses: If you "chart a course" you find out how to get somewhere.


radical

forms:
radical (positive)
more radical (comparative)
most radical (superlative)

glosses: A radical change, difference, etc. is very big and important; from the roots.

text: The plan will not be easy and requires a radical change in the culture of the city.

text: Many voices are calling for a more radical move away from the current situation.

glosses: A radial idea, policy, etc. is one that is new and different; not standard.

text: More radical organisations like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have brought attention to these issues.

text: In a totalitarian society there is no more radical emotion than disbelief.

glosses: Of or about a root (e.g., √=2, the roots of plants, the root of a word, etc.)

text: Dude, that outfit is rad!

ipa: /ˈrædɪkəl/

adj

more: true


radical

forms:
radical (singular)
radicals (plural)

glosses: A radical is a person whose views are very different from most people.

text: Leading radicals have called for a two-hour general strike on Monday.

text: These were young radicals, overturning the post war consensus, rolling back the state, liberalising markets, and transforming the political economy.

glosses: A quantity expressed as a root of another quantity. (e.g., √)

glosses: An atom or a group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron.

glosses: The basic part of a word to which other parts can be added (e.g., runner)

glosses: A radical is one part of a Chinese or Japanese written character that can be combined with other parts to form a whole character.


shirts

forms:
shirt (singular)
shirts (plural)

glosses: The plural form of shirt; more than one (kind of) shirt.

text: I lost some weight and now my shirts are a little big.

noun

shirt


calls

forms:
call (singular)
calls (plural)

glosses: The plural form of call; more than one (kind of) call.


calls

forms:
call (canonical)
calls (third-person singular)
called (past)
called (past participle)
calling (present participle)


exporters

forms:
exporter (singular)
exporters (plural)

glosses: The plural form of exporter; more than one (kind of) exporter.

text: Saudi Arabia and Iran are among the world's biggest exporters of oil.

exporter


accompany

forms:
accompany (canonical)
accompanies (third-person singular)
accompanied (past)
accompanied (past participle)
accompanying (present participle)

glosses: If one thing accompanies something else, it comes or goes with it, or they happen together.

text: She accompanied me to the hospital after my accident.

text: Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

text: The text accompanying the illustrations is brief but helpful.

glosses: If person A accompanies person B on a musical instrument, B sings or plays the main part while A plays along.

text: Joe Falcon sings and plays the accordion and is accompanied by Cleoma Breaux on guitar.

hyphenation: ac‧com‧pa‧ny

verb

accompan


game

forms:
game (singular)
games (plural)

glosses: A game is something that people do to have fun.

text: Shall we play a game?

glosses: Game are wild animals that are hunted for food.

text: The forest is full of game.

enpr: /gām/

ipa: /ɡeɪm/

sampa: /geIm/


game

forms:
game (canonical)
games (third-person singular)
gamed (past)
gamed (past participle)
gaming (present participle)

text: Peter has been gaming for four hours without eating any lunch.

gam


win

forms:
win (canonical)
wins (third-person singular)
won (past)
won (past participle)
winning (present participle)

glosses: You win when you do better than other people.

text: I will win the game.

text: Will Germany win the war?

ipa: /wɪn/

sampa: /wIn/

win

wins

won

won

winning


win

forms:
win (singular)
wins (plural)

text: Their win in the game was not expected.


university

forms:
university (singular)
universities (plural)

glosses: A university is a school of advanced study that offers both undergraduate and graduate classes.

text: A doctor studies for many years at a university before going to work in a hospital.

ipa: /juːnɪˈvɜːsətiː/

noun

universities


insert

forms:
insert (canonical)
inserts (third-person singular)
inserted (past)
inserted (past participle)
inserting (present participle)

text: The company inserted a new clause into the contract.

text: Insert a wood screw into each hole.

text: Doctors removed part of his brain and inserted a silver plate.

text: A song was inserted into the opening ceremonies.

enpr: ĭnsûtʹ

ipa: /ɪnˈsɜːt/

enpr: ĭnsûrtʹ

ipa: /ɪnˈsɝt/

hyphenation: in‧sert


insert

forms:
insert (singular)
inserts (plural)

glosses: An insert is something that is put into something else.

text: The bathing suit top comes with foam inserts to make your breasts look bigger.

text: The three-page advertisement was included as an insert in today's newspaper.

enpr: ĭnʹsût

ipa: /ˈɪnsɜːt/

enpr: ĭnʹsûrt

ipa: /ˈɪnsɝt/


drinking

forms:
drink (canonical)
drinks (third-person singular)
drank (past)
drunk (past participle)
drinking (present participle)

text: I like drinking wine with steak.

text: Are you drinking my orange juice again?

ipa: /ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ/

drink


bear

forms:
bear (singular)
bears (plural)

glosses: A bear is a big animal with a short tail. They either eat only meat or meat and plants. There are many different types of bears, for example brown bears and polar bears.

text: Polar bears are white.

text: Grizzly bears live in North America.

glosses: Someone who acts rough and lacks manners could be called a bear.

glosses: A large, hairy, homosexual man is called a bear.

ipa: /bɛə/

ipa: /bɛɚ/


bear

forms:
born (past participle)
bear (canonical)
bears (third-person singular)
bore (past)
borne (past participle)
bearing (present participle)

text: This wall bears half the weight of the roof.

text: The chieftain bears a spear.

glosses: If someone bears something bad, they accept it or deal with it.

text: He has to bear insults because of his appearance.

text: I cannot bear looking at the news.

text: The pain is so bad, I can hardly bear it.

glosses: If a baby is born, it comes out of its mother.

text: The woman bore a little boy.

text: He was born on October 22, 1983.

glosses: If something is born, it is newly created.

text: This idea was born out of boredom.

glosses: If something bears fruit, flowers, etc., it grows them.

text: This apple tree is 100 years old, it does not bear apples anymore.

text: Peter bears a small scar on his forehead.

text: The flag bore a white lion.

text: The sign bears the words "Hey there!".

bear

bears

bore

born

bearing

borne


gamed

glosses: The past tense and past participle of game.


abdomens

forms:
abdomen (singular)
abdomens (plural)

glosses: The plural form of abdomen; more than one (kind of) abdomen.

abdomen


abdomen

glosses: The abdomen is the front part of the lower torso containing many internal organs.

text: The stomach and intestines are inside the abdomen.

glosses: The abdomen is the last of the three parts of an insect's body.

ipa: /ˈæbdəmən/

hyphenation: ab‧do‧men


budget

forms:
budget (singular)
budgets (plural)

glosses: A budget is a limit to how much money can be spent on something.

text: Our budget for a new car is $10,000.

glosses: A budget is a plan for how money will be spent.

text: The accountant made a new budget that showed us how much we would spend on materials.

text: A family budget is a good idea to help you manage your finances.

glosses: If you are on a budget, you are trying not to spend a lot of money.

glosses: A budget item is something that can be bought cheaply.

glosses: A budget item is one thing that you plan to spend money on.


budget

forms:
budget (canonical)
budgets (third-person singular)
budgeted (past)
budgeted (past participle)
budgeting (present participle)

glosses: If you budget, you plan how money or time will be spent.

text: It is important to budget your time on the test. Don't take too long on any one question.


drinks

forms:
drink (singular)
drinks (plural)

glosses: The plural form of drink; more than one (kind of) drink.

text: I bought her three drinks but she still won't give me her phone number.

text: You can have a couple drinks of my juice if you're thirsty.


drinks

glosses: The third-person singular form of drink.

text: He drinks soda with everything he eats.

text: She always gets silly when she drinks beer.


talked

forms:
talk (canonical)
talks (third-person singular)
talked (past)
talked (past participle)
talking (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of talk.

verb

talk


showers

forms:
shower (singular)
showers (plural)

glosses: The plural form of shower; more than one (kind of) shower.

noun

shower


showers

forms:
shower (canonical)
showers (third-person singular)
showered (past)
showered (past participle)
showering (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of shower.


rise

forms:
rise (singular)
rises (plural)

glosses: A rise is an increase in something, is when something gets higher.

text: I got a pay rise so now I can buy a bigger car.

enpr: rīz

ipa: /raɪz/

sampa: /raIz/


rise

forms:
rise (canonical)
rises (third-person singular)
rose (past)
risen (past participle)
rising (present participle)

glosses: When you rise, you get up from where you are sitting or lying down.

text: I rise from bed in the morning.

text: He rose from his seat very quickly.

text: The airplane rose off the ground.

rise

rises

rose

risen

rising


sizes

forms:
size (singular)
sizes (plural)

glosses: The plural form of size; more than one (kind of) size.

text: What sizes do these shoes come in?

text: I have different sizes of boxes for different things.

size


sizes

forms:
size (canonical)
sizes (third-person singular)
sized (past)
sized (past participle)
sizing (present participle)

verb

siz


rib

forms:
rib (singular)
ribs (plural)

glosses: The ribs are a number of bones just below the shoulder that wrap around the top of the torso that protect the lungs and heart.

text: A broken rib is generally treated by putting a bandage several times around the chest and the back.

enpr: rĭb

ipa: /rɪb/


rib

forms:
rib (canonical)
ribs (third-person singular)
ribbed (past)
ribbed (past participle)
ribbing (present participle)

glosses: When you rib someone, you gently make fun of them.

rib

b


nonwhite

forms:
nonwhite (singular)
nonwhites (plural)

etymology_text: non- + white

ety-prefix

non

white

expansion: non- + white

glosses: A person who is not white; a person who is not Caucasian.


nonwhite

forms:
nonwhite (positive)
more nonwhite (comparative)
most nonwhite (superlative)

glosses: Not white; being any color other than white.

text: I don't care what color we paint the room as long as it's nonwhite.


age

forms:
age (singular)
ages (plural)

glosses: Something's age is how long it has existed or been alive; how old something is.

text: The boy said he was age five.

text: Scott is showing his age.

text: The 1960s was a new age in music.

ipa: /eɪd͡ʒ/

sampa: /eIdZ/


age

forms:
age (canonical)
ages (third-person singular)
aged (past)
aged (past participle)
aging (present participle)

text: Lillian has aged gracefully.

verb

ag

e


happen

forms:
happen (canonical)
happens (third-person singular)
happened (past)
happened (past participle)
happening (present participle)

glosses: if something happens, it starts or changes without a plan.

text: Did anything happen at school today?

text: It may happen to rain today.

ipa: /ˈhapən/

ipa: /ˈhæpən/


happens

glosses: The third-person singular form of happen.

text: What a coincidence. It just so happens to be my birthday today, too.

text: If anyone happens to return my wallet, please call me.

text: Don't worry about it. It happens all the time.

ipa: /ˈhæpənz/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-happens.wav

happen


official

forms:
official (positive)
more official (comparative)
most official (superlative)

glosses: Something that is official is approved by some authority.

text: The letter was an official document from the president.

ipa: /əˈfɪʃəl/


official

forms:
official (singular)
officials (plural)

glosses: An official is a person who has certain authority.

text: That government official collects taxes.


stayed

forms:
stay (canonical)
stays (third-person singular)
stayed (past)
stayed (past participle)
staying (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of stay.

text: I stayed at my friends house last night.

ipa: /steɪd/

ipa: /steːd/

stay


Bangalore

forms: Bangalore

pos: name

glosses: Bangalore is the state capital of Karnataka, India.

ipa: /'bæŋgəlɔː(r)/


mall

forms:
mall (singular)
malls (plural)

glosses: A mall is a shopping center where there are many stores that are all in one building.

text: My friends and I like to go to the mall.

glosses: A mall is a planned open grassy area near important buildings or landmarks.

text: The Mall is between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.

ipa: /mɔːl/

ipa: /mɑːl/


unavailable

forms:
unavailable (positive)
more unavailable (comparative)
most unavailable (superlative)

etymology_text: un- + available

ety-prefix

un

available

expansion: un- + available

glosses: If something is unavailable, it does not exist or you cannot use it.

text: We can't answer the question because the needed information is unavailable at this time.

text: The manager is unavailable for comment right now.

ipa: /ˌʌnəˈveɪləbəl/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unavailable.wav

hyphenation: un‧a‧vail‧a‧ble


prepare

forms:
prepare (canonical)
prepares (third-person singular)
prepared (past)
prepared (past participle)
preparing (present participle)

glosses: When we prepare something, we get it ready.

text: The mother prepared food for the meal.

text: We must hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

ipa: /prɪˈpɛː/

ipa: /priˈpɛ(ə)r/

verb

prepar


talks

forms:
talk (canonical)
talks (third-person singular)
talked (past)
talked (past participle)
talking (present participle)

text: The teacher talks to the children sternly when they are naughty.


talks

forms:
talk (singular)
talks (plural)

glosses: The plural form of talk; more than one (kind of) talk.

text: The talks by the teacher were all very long.


wore

forms:
wear (canonical)
wears (third-person singular)
wore (past)
worn (past participle)
wearing (present participle)

ipa: /'wɔr/

wear


labor

forms:
labor (singular)
labors (plural)

glosses: Labor is the work that people do, usually lifting, moving, building, etc. rather than desk work.

text: The cost of labor is higher than the cost of building materials.

glosses: Labor are the people who do this kind of work.

text: There's a big labor shortage in the construction industry.

glosses: Labor is the process a pregnant woman goes through when she is giving birth.

text: She was in labor for more than 12 hours before her baby was born.

text: Her labor was painful and slow. The doctors had to give her medicines to speed up her labor.

glosses: Labor is the name of a big political party in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

text: Labor won the election.

hyphenation: la‧bor


labor

forms:
labor (canonical)
labors (third-person singular)
labored (past)
labored (past participle)
laboring (present participle)

text: He labored over the food all afternoon to get ready for dinner.

glosses: If you labor the point, you keep talking about it after people understand it well.


bought

forms:
buy (canonical)
buys (third-person singular)
bought (past)
bought (past participle)
buying (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of buy.

text: I bought gasoline for my car yesterday at the gas station.

ipa: /'bɔːt/

buy


fair

forms:
fair (positive)
fairer (comparative)
fairest (superlative)

glosses: Something is fair when it seems right or is done for a good purpose.

text: A law is fair when good people are not hurt by it.

text: To pay every person the same for working on the same job is only fair.

glosses: Those people who have light skin color are called fair.

text: He was fair skin, because he never went into the sun.

glosses: If the weather is fair, it is good and it is not raining. If it is day, the sun can be seen.

glosses: If dice are fair any number has an equal chance of coming up.

ipa: /fɛə/

ipa: /fɛr/

adj

fair

fairer

fairest


fair

forms:
fair (singular)
fairs (plural)

glosses: A fair is a special event where people come to have fun and learn something.

text: There are games and shows at the fair that is held every year.


alternatives

forms:
alternative (singular)
alternatives (plural)

glosses: The plural form of alternative; more than one (kind of) alternative.

noun

alternative


post

forms:
post (singular)
posts (plural)

glosses: Post is the letters and parcels that you send to other people.

text: There's no post today because it's a Sunday.

text: The new book arrived in the post.

glosses: A post is a tall rod or stick. Examples are a sign post, a lamp post, and a goal post.

ipa: /pəʊst/

enpr: pōst

ipa: /poʊst/

sampa: /poUst/


post

forms:
post (canonical)
posts (third-person singular)
posted (past)
posted (past participle)
posting (present participle)

glosses: If you post something, you send it through the post.

text: I posted a birthday card to him last week.

glosses: If you post a message, you add it to a website or discussion board.

text: I posted a reply to your comment on the website.


post

forms: post

pos: prep

text: Post the test results becoming public, there were many complaints.


channel

forms:
channel (singular)
channels (plural)

glosses: A channel is a path that carries or directs flow or movement, especially of TV & radio signals and water.

text: He only watches two television news channels.

glosses: The bottom and sides ("banks") of a river or other place where water moves.

glosses: The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.

glosses: The part of a river where boats can pass.

text: We have to keep our boat in the channel.

glosses: A narrow body of water between two land masses.

text: The English Channel lies between France and England.

glosses: A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.

text: The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.

glosses: The part that connects a data source to a data sink.

text: A channel stretches between them.

glosses: A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals.

text: We are using one of the 24 channels.

glosses: A path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.

text: The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.

glosses: A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.

text: Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.

glosses: A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.

text: KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.

glosses: A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.

text: NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.

glosses: The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.

text: This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.

glosses: The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.

text: The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.

ipa: ˈtʃænəɫ


channel

forms:
channeled (past)
channeled (past participle)
channeling (present participle)
channel (canonical)
channels (third-person singular)
channelled (past)
channelled (past participle)
channelling (present participle)

glosses: If you channel something, you direct its flow.

text: We will channel the cars to the left.

glosses: To take on the personality of another person.

text: When it is my turn to sing Karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.

verb

channel

l


nouns

forms:
noun (singular)
nouns (plural)

glosses: The plural form of noun; more than one (kind of) noun.

text: "Cat", "tree" and "house" are examples of nouns.

noun

noun


alongside

forms: alongside

glosses: You use alongside to talk about something being beside something else.

glosses: You use alongside to talk about something being at the same time as something else.


photographs

forms:
photograph (singular)
photographs (plural)

glosses: The plural form of photograph; more than one (kind of) photograph.

photograph


verbs

forms:
verb (singular)
verbs (plural)

glosses: The plural form of verb; more than one (kind of) verb.

verb


pictures

forms:
picture (singular)
pictures (plural)

glosses: The plural form of picture; more than one (kind of) picture.

picture


pictures

forms:
picture (canonical)
pictures (third-person singular)
pictured (past)
pictured (past participle)
picturing (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of picture.

verb

pictur


painted

forms:
paint (canonical)
paints (third-person singular)
painted (past)
painted (past participle)
painting (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of paint.

paint


rich

forms:
rich (positive)
richer (comparative)
richest (superlative)

glosses: When someone is rich, they have a lot of money and things.

text: Bill Gates is rich because he has 60 billion dollars.

glosses: When food is rich, it has a very strong flavor.

text: This dish is rich tasting.

text: This simple dish is made richer with the addition of cream.

text: Adding truffles to this dish will make it the richest dish you've ever tasted.

ipa: /rɪʧ/

adj

rich

richer

richest


archipelago

forms:
archipelago (singular)
archipelagos or archipelagoes (plural)

glosses: An archipelago is a number of islands that are close together.

text: Ambon is an island in the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago.

ipa: /ɑːkɪˈpɛləgəʊ/

ipa: /ɑːrkəˈpɛləgoʊ/

noun

archipelagoes


accepts

forms:
accept (canonical)
accepts (third-person singular)
accepted (past)
accepted (past participle)
accepting (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of accept.

verb

accept


richest

glosses: The superlative form of rich; most rich.

ipa: /ˈrɪt͡ʃəst/

hyphenation: rich‧est


smelling

forms:
smell (canonical)
smells (third-person singular)
smelled (past)
smelled (past participle)
smelling (present participle)

ipa: /ˈsmɛlɪŋ/

smell


cuts

forms:
cut (canonical)
cuts (third-person singular)
cut (past)
cut (past participle)
cutting (present participle)

text: She cuts hair for a living.

ipa: /kʌts/

audio: EN-AU ck1 cuts.ogg

cut

cuts

cut

cut

cutting


cuts

forms:
cut (singular)
cuts (plural)

glosses: The plural form of cut; more than one (kind of) cut.

text: He only buys expensive cuts of meat.


practises

forms:
practise (canonical)
practises (third-person singular)
practised (past)
practised (past participle)
practising (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of practise.

practis


county

forms:
county (singular)
counties (plural)

glosses: A county is an area of land with a local government, often including a number of towns or cities. It is used differently in different countries.

text: Hampshire County Council has provided £20,000 to furnish the building.

text: My grandfather lived his whole life in my home county of Sussex.

ipa: /ˈkaʊnti/

irrnoun

counties


like terms

forms: like terms (plural)

glosses: Like terms are things of the same class, or kind.

glosses: Like terms are two words that mean the same thing.

glosses: Like terms are terms that contain the same variables raised to the same power.

text: In 5xy³+3=6xy³-3, the like terms are 5xy³ and 6xy³.


format

forms:
format (singular)
formats (plural)

glosses: The format of some writing is the way it is organized: the size and colour of the letters, the way it is divided into parts, the kind of words used.

text: What format do you want the report written in?

glosses: The format of some writing is the kind of computer program you need to be able to read it.

text: I can't read that page you sent me. My computer doesn't read that format.

glosses: Something's format is its style, type, organisation, etc.

text: The format of the meeting will be quite casual.

ipa: /ˈfɔːmæt/

ipa: /ˈfɔːrmæt/

hyphenation: for‧mat


format

forms:
format (canonical)
formats (third-person singular)
formatted (past)
formatted (past participle)
formatting (present participle)

glosses: Someone formats some writing when make it have a particular format.

text: How should I format the report?

glosses: Someone formats a computer disk when they prepare a disk for writing and reading.

text: You need to format the disk before you can copy those files onto it.

verb

format

t


foods

forms:
food (singular)
foods (plural)

glosses: The plural form of food; more than one (kind of) food.

text: What are your favorite foods to eat?

ipa: /fuːdz/

ipa: /fudz/

noun

food


muscles

forms:
muscle (singular)
muscles (plural)

glosses: The plural form of muscle; more than one (kind of) muscle.

ipa: /ˈmʌsəlz/

muscle


muscles

forms:
muscle (canonical)
muscles (third-person singular)
muscled (past)
muscled (past participle)
muscling (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of muscle.

verb

muscl


subordinate

forms:
subordinate (positive)
more subordinate (comparative)
most subordinate (superlative)

glosses: If something is subordinate, it is less important than someone or something else.

text: Keeping our natural world healthy remains subordinate to the health of the economy.

text: In society a dominant group often ignores the wishes of subordinate groups.

enpr: sə-bôʹdĭn-ət

ipa: /səˈbɔːdɪnət/

enpr: sə-bôrʹdĭn-ət

ipa: /səˈbɔrdɪnət/


subordinate

forms:
subordinate (singular)
subordinates (plural)

glosses: A subordinate is someone who is at a lower position in an organization.

text: A good manager will talk with her subordinates before making most decisions.


subordinate

forms:
subordinate (canonical)
subordinates (third-person singular)
subordinated (past)
subordinated (past participle)
subordinating (present participle)

glosses: If you subordinate x to y, you give less importance to x and more to y.

text: When he fell in love, everything else was subordinated to it.

enpr: sə-bôrʹdĭn-āt

ipa: /səˈbɔrdɪneɪt/

enpr: sə-bôʹdĭn-āt

ipa: /səˈbɔːdɪneɪt/

subordinat


selling

forms:
sell (canonical)
sells (third-person singular)
sold (past)
sold (past participle)
selling (present participle)

sell

sells

sold

selling


unusual

forms:
unusual (positive)
more unusual (comparative)
most unusual (superlative)

etymology_text: un- + usual

ety-prefix

un

usual

expansion: un- + usual

glosses: If something is unusual, it is not what you expect. It is not an everyday thing or happening.

text: It was a warm night, unusual for mid Winter.

text: With his bright pink hair, he was most unusual to look at.

text: It is not unusual for him to be late.

ipa: /ʌnˈjuːʒuəl/


stay

forms:
stay (canonical)
stays (third-person singular)
stayed (past)
stayed (past participle)
staying (present participle)

glosses: When you stay somewhere, you do not move from there.

text: Whenever I am tired I stay in bed.

text: He stayed at our house for two weeks.

enpr: stā

ipa: /steɪ/

sampa: /steI/


stay

forms:
stay (singular)
stays (plural)

glosses: A stay is a period of time when someone does not move from a location.

text: He had a stay in the country for a year.


finest

forms:
fine (positive)
finer (comparative)
finest (superlative)

glosses: The superlative form of fine; most fine.

glosses: You use (a city's) finest for police officers.

text: Fifty of New York City's finest were at the banquet.

ipa: /ˈfaɪnɪst/

adj

fine

finer

finest


easy

forms:
easy (positive)
easier (comparative)
easiest (superlative)

glosses: If something is easy, it does not need much skill or effort.

text: The teacher gave an easy test to her students.

glosses: If something is easy, it is comfortable.

text: I had to get out of my easy chair in order to open the door for our guests.

text: Since I am well taken care of, I can sleep easy tonight.

ipa: /ˈiːzi/

ipa: /ˈizi/

easy

easier

easiest


easy

pos: adv

glosses: If you do something easy, you do slowly, without effort, calmly.

text: Take it easy. (See also take it easy.)

text: Move it nice and easy, so it doesn't break.


bulk

forms:
bulk (singular)
bulks (plural)

glosses: The bulk of something is the largest part of it.

text: The bulk of the shipment was headed for Toronto.

text: The great bulk of crime has always involved stealing of one kind or another.

glosses: Someone or something's bulk is its size or amount, especially if it is large.

text: She took a deep breath, and, enormously grateful for the solid bulk of Leo at her back, she stepped inside.

glosses: If you sell something in bulk, it is not individually packaged.

text: I usually buy nuts at the bulk food store.

glosses: If you buy something in bulk, you buy large amounts.

text: The store offers discounts for buying in bulk.

glosses: A bulk is an item that is moved about like cargo.

enpr: bŭlk

ipa: /bʌlk/

sampa: /bVlk/


bulk

forms:
bulk (canonical)
bulks (third-person singular)
bulked (past)
bulked (past participle)
bulking (present participle)

glosses: If something bulks, it appears to be big in size.

glosses: If you bulk something, you increase its' size; you expand it.


grandfather

forms:
grandfather (singular)
grandfathers (plural)

glosses: A grandfather is the father of a person or animal's parent.

text: My grandfather was very old when I was still a boy.

ipa: /ˈɡræn(d)ˌfɑːðə(r)/

enpr: grănd′fäthər

ipa: /ˈɡræn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/

hyphenation: grand‧fa‧ther


grandfather

forms:
grandfather (canonical)
grandfathers (third-person singular)
grandfathered (past)
grandfathered (past participle)
grandfathering (present participle)

glosses: When someone is grandfathered, it can continue doing or having something when a new law doesn't allow it.

text: The new laws don't allow buildings that are over 50 feet tall, but the skyscrapers that already exist are grandfathered, so they can stay taller than 50 feet.


hurried

forms:
hurry (canonical)
hurries (third-person singular)
hurried (past)
hurried (past participle)
hurrying (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of hurry.

verb

hurr

y


type

forms:
type (singular)
types (plural)

glosses: A type is one thing or a group of things that are all members of a larger group because of some similarity.

text: I use the same type of camera at work.

text: It's very hard to see the differences between the two types of bird.

text: This type of snake is not dangerous to people.

glosses: A type is a person who is like people from a particular group who are all similar in some way.

text: He's not the usually football type.

glosses: Type is letters that have been printed by a machine.

text: The type in this book is too small to read.

glosses: Type is the blocks of metal with raised letters used to print text.

text: With Gutenberg's movable type printing, books could be made using less money.

ipa: /taɪp/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Nattes à chat-type.wav


type

forms:
type (canonical)
types (third-person singular)
typed (past)
typed (past participle)
typing (present participle)

glosses: If you type something, you write it using a keyboard.

text: I typed up the letter very quickly, so I hope there are no mistakes.

text: Please, type in your user name and password.

text: I don't want handwriting. Please, type it.

text: I can't type with all my fingers.

glosses: If you type something, you put it into a particular group because of some group similarity.

text: The Red Cross collects the blood and the technicians in the hospitals cross and type it.

typ


has

forms:
have (canonical)
has (third-person singular)
had (past)
had (past participle)
having (present participle)

text: He has breakfast at 7:00.

ipa: /hæz/

have

has

had

had

having


has

forms:
have (canonical)
have (present)
has (third-person singular)
had (past)
having (present participle)
haven't (present negative)
hasn't (third-person singular negative)
hadn't (past negative)

having


dos

forms:
do (singular)
dos (plural)

glosses: The plural form of do; more than one (kind of) do.

text: We went to the salon and got new dos. Do you like them?

ipa: /duːz/

noun

do


risen

forms:
rise (canonical)
rises (third-person singular)
rose (past)
risen (past participle)
rising (present participle)

ipa: /'rɪzən/

rise


vote

forms:
vote (singular)
votes (plural)

glosses: A vote is a formal way of choosing things that are controlled by the majority.

text: Let's take a vote for a new president!

glosses: A vote is the decision of one person in an election.

text: I give my vote for the bill.

ipa: /vəʊt/

ipa: /voʊt/


vote

forms:
vote (canonical)
votes (third-person singular)
voted (past)
voted (past participle)
voting (present participle)

glosses: If you vote, you show your support for choosing a person or idea by raising your hand, marking a piece of paper, etc.

text: My brother votes for the Democrats.

text: I voted to oppose the new property tax.

verb

vot


wanted

forms:
want (canonical)
wants (third-person singular)
wanted (past)
wanted (past participle)
wanting (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of want.

ipa: [ˈwɑntʰɪd]

ipa: [ˈwɒntʰɪd]

want


wanted

forms:
wanted (positive)
more wanted (comparative)
most wanted (superlative)

glosses: If a person is wanted, they are being looked for by the police for commiting a crime.


talking

forms:
talk (canonical)
talks (third-person singular)
talked (past)
talked (past participle)
talking (present participle)

ipa: /ˈtɔːkɪŋ/

ipa: /ˈtɔkɪŋ/

ipa: /ˈtɑkɪŋ/

hyphenation: talk‧ing

talk


flashlights

forms:
flashlight (singular)
flashlights (plural)

glosses: The plural form of flashlight; more than one (kind of) flashlight.

text: Quick, grab some flashlights! The power went out again!

noun

flashlight


finer

forms:
fine (positive)
finer (comparative)
finest (superlative)

glosses: The comparative form of fine; more fine.

ipa: /ˈfaɪnɚ/

ipa: /ˈfaɪnə/


sixes

forms:
six (singular)
sixes (plural)

glosses: The plural form of six; more than one (kind of) six.

text: I rolled sixes and got to move ahead 12 spaces on the board.

six

sixes


rules

forms:
rule (singular)
rules (plural)

glosses: The plural form of rule; more than one (kind of) rule.

ipa: /ˈruːlz/

rule


rules

forms:
rule (canonical)
rules (third-person singular)
ruled (past)
ruled (past participle)
ruling (present participle)

verb

rul


agents

forms:
agent (singular)
agents (plural)

glosses: The plural form of agent; more than one (kind of) agent.

noun

agent


loonie

forms:
loonie (singular)
loonies (plural)

glosses: A loonie is a coin that is one Canadian dollar.

text: I need a loonie for the drink machine.


address

forms:
address (singular)
addresses (plural)

glosses: An address is the location where a building is or where a person lives.

enpr: ă'drəs

enpr: ədrĕs

enpr: ă'drĕs

address

addresses


address

forms:
address (canonical)
addresses (third-person singular)
addressed (past)
addressed (past participle)
addressing (present participle)

glosses: If you address a person, you refer to them using a name or title.

text: You will address me as Sir from now on.

glosses: If you address a group, you talk in front of it.

text: The Prime Minister will address the United Nations.

glosses: If you address a letter, you write an address on it.

text: She addressed the envelope to "Mr. John Black."

enpr: ədrĕs'

verb

es


smelled

forms:
smell (canonical)
smells (third-person singular)
smelled (past)
smelled (past participle)
smelling (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of smell.

ipa: /'smεld/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-smelled.wav

smell


as for

forms: as for

glosses: with respect to; in reference to; regarding


intelligent

forms:
intelligent (positive)
more intelligent (comparative)
most intelligent (superlative)

glosses: If you are intelligent, you can understand difficult ideas easily and think clearly.

text: Any intelligent person should be able to understand this.

text: Today's children are more intelligent than children in the past.

text: Baboons are highly intelligent animals and learn to meet their needs in many different ways.

glosses: If an idea or something said is intelligent, it shows good understanding and clear thinking.

text: That's probably the most intelligent comment I've heard today.

glosses: If another living thing or a machine is intelligent, it can think in ways that are similar to us.

text: We will not likely find intelligent life of other planets.

ipa: /ɪnˈtɛlɪʤənt/


build

forms:
build (canonical)
builds (third-person singular)
built (past)
built (past participle)
building (present participle)

glosses: If you build something, you make it out of pieces of other things.

text: I built the house with wood and stone.

text: When the old bridge was built, the cars were slower.

text: It's not easy to find the people who build bombs.

text: We drove down the newly built roads.

glosses: If you build something, you make it bigger, stronger, or better.

text: This is a new idea that others can build upon.

text: This plan gives us a foundation on which to build better, long-term water-sharing agreements.

text: Baseball players drink milk to build muscles.

text: The school is building a reputation for good teaching.

ipa: /bɪld/

audio: en-uk-to build.ogg

build

builds

built

built

building


build

forms:
build (singular)
builds (plural)

text: He was a man of medium build with short hair.

glosses: A build is a version of a computer program.

text: I downloaded the latest build last night to test it.

glosses: A build is a structure you create in a video game, especially a sandbox video game.


coherence

forms: coherence (singular)

glosses: Coherence is the property of being connected, especially of ideas.

text: Even if the story lacks logical coherence, it is still a fun film to watch.

text: Teachers need to help the learner to achieve a genuine sense of coherence across the subjects.

text: We studied loneliness and coherence among Children with learning problems.

noun

coherence


taking

forms:
take (canonical)
takes (third-person singular)
took (past)
taken (past participle)
taking (present participle)

ipa: /ˈteɪkɪŋ/

take

takes

took

taken

taking


taking

forms:
taking (singular)
takings (plural)

glosses: The takings of a business is the cash or money they received or earned.


mountains

forms:
mountain (singular)
mountains (plural)

glosses: The plural form of mountain; more than one (kind of) mountain.

mountain


gives

forms:
give (canonical)
gives (third-person singular)
gave (past)
given (past participle)
giving (present participle)

ipa: /ɡɪvz/

verb

give

gives

gave

given

giving


sciences

forms:
science (singular)
sciences (plural)

glosses: The plural form of science; more than one (kind of) science.

noun

science


drunk

forms:
drunk (positive)
drunker (comparative)
drunkest (superlative)

glosses: If someone is drunk, they have taken in too much alcohol.

text: After he left the restaurant, he was so drunk he couldn't walk.

enpr: drŭngk

ipa: /drʌŋk/

sampa: /drVNk/

adjective

drunk

drunker

drunkest


drunk

forms:
drink (canonical)
drinks (third-person singular)
drank (past)
drunk (past participle)
drinking (present participle)

text: What is the most water you have drunk at one time?

drink

drinks

drank

drunk


drunk

forms:
drunk (singular)
drunks (plural)

glosses: A drunk is a person who often drinks too much alcohol.

text: Two drunks were fighting in the street last night.


paints

forms:
paint (singular)
paints (plural)

glosses: The plural form of paint; more than one (kind of) paint.

noun

paint


paints

forms:
paint (canonical)
paints (third-person singular)
painted (past)
painted (past participle)
painting (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of paint.


nonwhites

forms:
nonwhite (singular)
nonwhites (plural)

glosses: The plural form of nonwhite; more than one (kind of) nonwhite.

text: There is sometimes discrimination against nonwhites by whites.

nonwhite


begging

forms:
beg (canonical)
begs (third-person singular)
begged (past)
begged (past participle)
begging (present participle)

text: She's been begging him for years to put the toilet seat down when he's done.

verb

beg

g


acting

forms:
act (canonical)
acts (third-person singular)
acted (past)
acted (past participle)
acting (present participle)

glosses: An acting director, president, head, etc. is in the position until the regular person returns to the job.

text: He was the acting chairperson for the committee when Tim went for surgery.

hyphenation: act‧ing

act


fast

forms:
fast (positive)
faster (comparative)
fastest (superlative)

glosses: When you are fast, you can move a in very short time.

text: The horse ran very fast.

enpr: fäst

ipa: /fɑːst/

enpr: făst

ipa: /fæst/

adjective

fast

faster

fastest


fast

forms:
fast (canonical)
fasts (third-person singular)
fasted (past)
fasted (past participle)
fasting (present participle)

glosses: You fast when you don't eat for a long time.

text: In many religions people fast for a day or more.


fast

forms:
fast (singular)
fasts (plural)

glosses: A fast is an act of not eating for a period of time.

text: He was very hungry after the fast.


daughters

forms:
daughter (singular)
daughters (plural)

glosses: The plural form of daughter; more than one (kind of) daughter.

ipa: /ˈdɔːtəz/

hyphenation: daugh‧ters

noun

daughter


minors

forms:
minor (singular)
minors (plural)

glosses: The plural form of minor; more than one (kind of) minor.

text: Children are considered minors by the law.

text: I graduated college with a major in Political Science and minors in Business and Spanish.

minor


trust

forms:
trust (canonical)
trusts (third-person singular)
trusted (past)
trusted (past participle)
trusting (present participle)

glosses: When you trust someone, you do not doubt them. You believe that someone is honest and will not cause harm. You believe you can rely on them.

text: I trust all of my friends.

text: We trust in the goodness of others.

ipa: /trʌst/


trust

forms:
trust (singular)
trusts (plural)

text: Your parents have trust in you.

glosses: Your money is put in a trust when you put your money under the control of someone else.

text: The parents put the children's money in a trust at the bank until they reach the age of 18.


appear

forms:
appear (canonical)
appears (third-person singular)
appeared (past)
appeared (past participle)
appearing (present participle)

glosses: If something appears a certain way, it looks or seems that way.

text: At first glance, this would appear to be true.

text: The problems appear likely to continue.

text: School size and class size do not appear to be important factors affecting progress on test scores.

glosses: If something appears, it comes into sight.

text: She was studying when her mother appeared in the doorway.

text: Suddenly, out of nowhere, Lars appeared next to her.

glosses: If something appears in a book, movie, TV program, etc., it is in it.

text: He has appeared in over 100 movies.

text: The word appears nowhere in this book.

text: His articles have appeared in the New York Times.

ipa: /əˈpɪə/

ipa: /əˈpɪr/


reads

forms:
read (canonical)
reads (third-person singular)
read (past)
read (past participle)
reading (present participle)

read

reads

read

read

reading


reads

forms:
read (singular)
reads (plural)

glosses: The plural form of read; more than one (kind of) read.


outsourcing

forms:
outsource (canonical)
outsources (third-person singular)
outsourced (past)
outsourced (past participle)
outsourcing (present participle)

verb

outsourc

e


surprised

forms:
surprised (positive)
more surprised (comparative)
most surprised (superlative)

glosses:
:
 This short section needs someone to add to it.


surprised

forms:
surprise (canonical)
surprises (third-person singular)
surprised (past)
surprised (past participle)
surprising (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of surprise.

surpris


learn

forms:
learned (past)
learned (past participle)
learn (canonical)
learns (third-person singular)
learnt (past)
learnt (past participle)
learning (present participle)

glosses: When you learn something, you start to know how to do things that you didn't know before.

text: I'm going to learn English!

text: Martha is learning to play the piano.

glosses: When you learn something, you start to know something that you didn't know before.

text: I've just learned that I've been adopted.

glosses: When you learn, you start to know more than you knew before.

text: You have to learn from your own mistakes.

enpr: lû(r)n

ipa: /lɜː(r)n/

audio: en-uk-to learn.ogg

learn

learns

learnt

learnt

learning


suspicions

forms:
suspicion (singular)
suspicions (plural)

glosses: The plural form of suspicion; more than one (kind of) suspicion.

text: The police had suspicions that she might be involved in the murder.

ipa: /səˈspɪʃənz/

hyphenation: sus‧pi‧cions

noun

suspicion


worst

forms:
good (positive)
worse (comparative)
worst (superlative)

text: My mistake was bad, but hers was the worst of all.

text: Well, you've seen me at my worst.

text: After a week we began to fear the worst.

ipa: /wɜːst/

ipa: /wɝst/

adjective

good

worse

worst


worst

forms:
worst (canonical)
worsts (third-person singular)
worsted (past)
worsted (past participle)
worsting (present participle)


blanks

forms:
blank (singular)
blanks (plural)

glosses: The plural form of blank; more than one (kind of) blank.

noun

blank


blanks

forms:
blank (canonical)
blanks (third-person singular)
blanked (past)
blanked (past participle)
blanking (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of blank.


something

forms: something

pos: det

text: I'm going to wear something today.

text: Isn't something going to happen?

text: You're really something!

ipa: /ˈsʌmθɪŋ/


something

forms:
something (singular)
somethings (plural)

glosses: A something is a quality that is difficult to identify.

text: This beer has a certain something that I enjoy.


summaries

forms:
summary (singular)
summaries (plural)

glosses: The plural form of summary; more than one (kind of) summary.

text: I just hate writing book summaries for my English class.

summary

summaries


gerund-participle

forms:
gerund-participle (singular)
gerund-participles (plural)

glosses: A gerund-participle is a verb form that ends in -ing.

text: In the following examples, the gerund-participle is underlined:

text: Breaking the rules is bad.

text: They are helping her.


trees

forms:
tree (singular)
trees (plural)

glosses: The plural form of tree; more than one (kind of) tree.

ipa: /triːz/

tree


trees

forms:
tree (canonical)
trees (third-person singular)
treed (past)
treed (past participle)
treeing (present participle)

verb

trees

treed

treeing


helping verb

forms:
helping verb (singular)
helping verbs (plural)

glosses: Helping verb is another word for auxiliary verb.


argue

forms:
argue (canonical)
argues (third-person singular)
argued (past)
argued (past participle)
arguing (present participle)

glosses: If you argue with someone, you debate, disagree or talk about your differing ideas.

glosses: If you argue with someone, you have an argument with them.

hyphenation: ar‧gue

argu


pelvis

forms:
pelvis (singular)
pelves or pelvises (plural)

glosses: The pelvis is a group of bones around the lower torso that form the hip.

text: Older people often fall and break their pelvis.

ipa: /ˈpɛlvɪs/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pelvis.wav

noun

pelvis

pelves

pelvises


games

forms:
game (singular)
games (plural)

glosses: The plural form of game; more than one (kind of) game.

ipa: /ɡeɪmz/

game


games

forms:
game (canonical)
games (third-person singular)
gamed (past)
gamed (past participle)
gaming (present participle)

verb

gam


suggest

forms:
suggest (canonical)
suggests (third-person singular)
suggested (past)
suggested (past participle)
suggesting (present participle)

glosses: If a person says an option, he or she is suggesting.

text: I suggest that we go to the mall.

ipa: /səˈdʒɛst/

hyphenation: sug‧gest


panel

forms:
panel (singular)
panels (plural)

glosses: A panel is a flat piece of wood or other material, used as part of a wall or on the side of something.

text: The house has aluminium panels covering the outside.

glosses: A panel is a group of people who come together at a table to talk or to judge, usually in front of many other people.

text: The panel made a decision that Paul had won the dance contest.

text: I went to listen to a panel talking about global warming.

ipa: /pænəɫ/


panel

forms:
panelled (past)
panelled (past participle)
panelling (present participle)
panel (canonical)
panels (third-person singular)
paneled (past)
paneled (past participle)
paneling (present participle)

panel

l


piece

forms:
piece (singular)
pieces (plural)

glosses: A piece is a part of something that can be or has been separated from it.

text: The man cut a piece of meat and a piece of cake for dinner.

text: I own a piece of land in the country.

glosses: A piece is one example of a class or set of things.

text: He put a piece of wood on the fire.

text: Can I have a piece of paper to write on?

glosses: A piece is something that is made by an artist.

text: The piece of music was beautiful.

text: I thought his earlier pieces were more creative than his more recent stuff.

glosses: In board games, a piece is an object that can be moved to mark your position.

text: There are six types of chess pieces in the game of chess: the pawn, the knight, the bishop, the rook, the queen, and the king.

enpr: pēs

ipa: /piːs/


piece

forms:
piece (canonical)
pieces (third-person singular)
pieced (past)
pieced (past participle)
piecing (present participle)

glosses: If you piece something together, you use bring together enough information to understand something.

text: They gathered enough information to piece together the family history.

glosses: If you piece something together, you put the pieces together.

text: The scientists moved their shop to an empty parking lot to piece together all the bones.

piec


governments

forms:
government (singular)
governments (plural)

glosses: The plural form of government; more than one (kind of) government.

text: Many governments are democracies, but there are also many dictatorships.

ipa: /ˈɡʌvɚ(n)mənts/

ipa: /ˈɡʌvə(n)mənts/

hyphenation: gov‧ern‧ments

noun

government


closed

forms:
close (canonical)
closes (third-person singular)
closed (past)
closed (past participle)
closing (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of close.

ipa: /kləʊzd/

ipa: /kloʊzd/

verb

clos


closed

forms: closed (positive)

text: The store is closed on the weekends.

text: I used a closed source to write the article.


painting

forms:
paint (canonical)
paints (third-person singular)
painted (past)
painted (past participle)
painting (present participle)

ipa: /ˈpeɪntɪŋ/

paint


painting

forms:
painting (singular)
paintings (plural)

glosses: A painting is a picture that is painted.

text: A painting of the president hung on the wall.


modal verb

forms:
modal verb (singular)
modal verbs (plural)

glosses: A modal verb is a verb that shows mood. Modal verbs include can, may, might, dare, must, ought, shall, should, will, would, and so on.

text: In the following examples, the modal verb is underlined:


offset

forms:
offset (canonical)
offsets (third-person singular)
offset (past)
offset (past participle)
offsetting (present participle)

etymology_text: off- + set

ety-prefix

off

set

expansion: off- + set

glosses: If x offsets y, the loss (because) of y is balanced by x.

text: The school will provide limited scholarships to offset the cost of tuition.

text: Increases in efficiency partially offset the increased costs.

text: The few problems are more than offset by the relatively large number of successes.

glosses: If you offset x against y, you compare of contrast them.

text: All this solid colour is offset by the tiny yellow green flowers.

glosses: The past tense and past participle of offset.

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-offset1.wav

ipa: /ɒfˈsɛt/

ipa: /ɑfˈsɛt/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-offset2.wav

offset

offsets

offset

offsetting


offset

forms:
offset (singular)
offsets (plural)

glosses: An offset is something that balances (the loss of) something else.

glosses: A particular way of printing where the ink moves from surface A to B and then from B to the final C.

glosses: The image produced by this kind of printing.

glosses: An offset is the distance that something moves away from where it is supposed to be or where it was.


behind

forms: behind

glosses: When something is behind a second thing, the first thing is in back of the second.

text: The ball is behind the box.

glosses: When something is behind, it is toward the rear.

text: The man stayed behind.

glosses: A thing is behind when it happened in the past.

text: We left that worry behind.

ipa: /bɪˈhaɪnd/

hyphenation: be‧hind


behind

forms:
behind (singular)
behinds (plural)

glosses: Your behind is your butt, the buttocks, or bum.

text: He was told he would get a kick on the behind if he kept being naughty

glosses: In Australian rules football, a behind is the same as one point, scored if the ball goes between the tall goal post and the short behind post.

text: He tried to kick a goal, but the ball went wide and he only got a behind.

ipa: /ˈbiːˌhaɪnd/


wings

forms:
wing (singular)
wings (plural)

glosses: The plural form of wing; more than one (kind of) wing.

noun

wing


wings

forms:
wing (canonical)
wings (third-person singular)
winged (past)
winged (past participle)
winging (present participle)


surface

forms:
surface (singular)
surfaces (plural)

glosses: The surface of an object is the outside of the thing.

text: The surface of the earth is very large.

glosses: The surface of a liquid is the top of it.

text: The surface of the lake was smooth.

ipa: /ˈsɜːfɪs/

ipa: /ˈsɝːfəs/


surface

forms:
surface (canonical)
surfaces (third-person singular)
surfaced (past)
surfaced (past participle)
surfacing (present participle)

glosses: When a thing surfaces, it comes to the top of liquid.

text: The fish surfaced to get food.

text: The swimmer surfaced for air.

glosses: If information or facts surface, they are revealed or become known.

text: reports surfaced that claimed the company was under investigation.

verb

surfac


begged

forms:
beg (canonical)
begs (third-person singular)
begged (past)
begged (past participle)
begging (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of beg.

text: He begged her not to leave.

text: My dog begged for food off of the table until I finally gave it him.

beg


parts

forms:
part (singular)
parts (plural)

glosses: The plural form of part; more than one (kind of) part.

ipa: /pɑːts/

noun

part


parts

forms:
part (canonical)
parts (third-person singular)
parted (past)
parted (past participle)
parting (present participle)


prepared

forms:
prepare (canonical)
prepares (third-person singular)
prepared (past)
prepared (past participle)
preparing (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of prepare.

ipa: /prɪˈpɛəd/

ipa: /prɪˈpɛrd/

hyphenation: pre‧pared

verb

prepar


court

forms:
court (singular)
courts (plural)

glosses: A court is where people are tried for crimes.

text: The bad guy goes to court to stand before the judge.

glosses: A court is an open space where certain games are played.

text: Tennis is played on a court.

glosses: A court is where a sovereign (a king or queen), prince, or nobleman live; a palace.

text: The noblemen visited the queen in her court.

ipa: /kɔːrt/


court

forms:
court (canonical)
courts (third-person singular)
courted (past)
courted (past participle)
courting (present participle)

glosses: When one person courts another, that person does things to get the other to like him or her.

text: The boy sent flowers to court the girl.


amid

forms: amid

glosses: You use amid to talk about something happening at the same time as many other things.

text: Amid all the riots during the blackout, many stores were looted.

glosses: You use amid to talk about something being in the middle of something else.

ipa: /əˈmɪd/


pursues

forms:
pursue (canonical)
pursues (third-person singular)
pursued (past)
pursued (past participle)
pursuing (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of pursue.

pursu


call

forms:
call (canonical)
calls (third-person singular)
called (past)
called (past participle)
calling (present participle)

glosses: If you call someone, you contact them using a telephone.

text: Can you call me tonight at about 8:00?

text: We called 911 and the police came in five minutes.

text: I can't talk now. I'll call back later.

glosses: If you call to someone, you use your voice to make them notice you.

text: I can't see you. Call out to me so I can find you.

glosses: If you call someone or something x, you say they are x.

text: If you ever tell anyone that, I'll call you a liar.

text: The kids at school called him an asshole.

text: Nobody would even call him good-looking.

text: They called it the most important hockey game ever.

glosses: If somebody is called something, that is their name.

text: Their daughter's called Mai.

text: She's a beautiful baby. What do you call her?

glosses: If you call somebody somewhere, you ask or tell them to come there.

text: She called me to her office.

glosses: If you call a meeting, a stop, etc., you say you want one to happen.

text: I've called a meeting for tomorrow, and I'd like you to be there.

text: Coach Dan Bylsma called a timeout to give his five players a rest.

ipa: /kɔːɫ/

audio: En-uk-to call.ogg


call

forms:
call (singular)
calls (plural)

glosses: A call is a time when you use the telephone to contact someone.

text: After she made the phone call, she left the office.

text: I received three calls about the car I was selling.

text: I paid a call to a friend.

text: The doctor does not do house calls.

text: He heard a call from the other side of the room.

text: Cuckoo birds have a unique call.


standing

forms:
stand (canonical)
stands (third-person singular)
stood (past)
stood (past participle)
standing (present participle)

ipa: /ˈstændɪŋ/

stand

stands

stood

standing


standing

forms: standing (positive)

glosses: A standing committee, order, etc. is one that is permanent.


standing

forms:
standing (singular)
standings (plural)

glosses: The standing of a person is the position or reputation they have in a society or profession.

glosses: The standing of a person is the duration they have been in a position.


individuals

forms:
individual (singular)
individuals (plural)

glosses: The plural form of individual; more than one (kind of) individual.

text: Many individuals believe it's important to recycle.

text: Some individuals will be coming in this afternoon to get information about the program.

noun

individual


colours

forms:
colour (singular)
colours (plural)

glosses: The plural form of colour; more than one (kind of) colour.

colour


colours

forms:
colour (canonical)
colours (third-person singular)
coloured (past)
coloured (past participle)
colouring (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of colour.


fit

forms:
fit (canonical)
fits (third-person singular)
fitted (past)
fitted (past participle)
fitting (present participle)

glosses: When you fit something, you match a thing for size, shape or other qualities.

text: They fitted his hat.

glosses: When a thing fits, it is a good match for something.

text: These shoes fit me very well.

ipa: /fɪt/

verb

fit

t


fit

forms:
fit (positive)
fitter (comparative)
fittest (superlative)

glosses: When you are fit, you are healthy and able to do a task.

text: After he slept he looked very fit.

adj

fitter

fittest


fit

forms:
fit (singular)
fits (plural)

glosses: When you have a fit, you have a sudden emotion.

text: He hit the man in a fit of rage.

glosses: If you have a fit, your body moves very quickly without your control.

text: The man had a fit of epilepsy.

text: I suddenly had a coughing fit that I could not stop.


exercise

forms:
exercise (singular)
exercises (plural)

glosses: Exercise is a physical activity to make your body stronger.

text: Losing some weight and doing more exercise will improve your looks.

text: The doctor gave me some exercises to strengthen my back.

text: Roll over and repeat the whole exercise with the other leg.

glosses: Exercise is an activity that helps develop a skill.

text: The next exercise is on page 57 in the textbook.

text: My piano teacher gave me a number of new exercises for the left hand.

glosses: An exercise is an activity for a specific purpose.

text: Her speech the next day was an exercise in damage control.

hyphenation: ex‧er‧cise


exercise

forms:
exercise (canonical)
exercises (third-person singular)
exercised (past)
exercised (past participle)
exercising (present participle)

glosses: If you exercise your power, your rights, etc. you use them.

text: It's no longer true that men exercise all the power, and women just follow.

text: The police are to continue to exercise control over the crowd.

glosses: If you exercise, you do physical activity to make your body stronger.

text: We exercised in the gym.

text: I've been exercising my back regularly and it doesn't hurt anymore.

text: She exercised the horses in the yard all morning.

verb

exercis


rising

forms:
rise (canonical)
rises (third-person singular)
rose (past)
risen (past participle)
rising (present participle)

ipa: /ˈraɪzɪŋ/

rise

rises

rose


classical music

forms: classical music

pos: phrase

glosses: Classical western music is music in a particular style that was written and played from about 1730 through 1820 after the Baroque period and before the Romantic period.

text: Perhaps, the best known classical composer was Mozart.


bias

forms:
bias (singular)
biases or biasses (plural)

glosses: A bias is a preference in one direction that makes things unequal.

text: There is strong evidence of a bias towards the death penalty for black rather than white murderers.

text: They had plans for an international centre, with a strong political bias.

glosses: The bias is the diagonal direction, especially in cloth.

text: The neckline was cut on the bias to improve the drape of the fabric.

ipa: /ˈbaɪəs/

noun

bias

biases

biasses


bias

forms:
biases (third-person singular)
biased (past)
biased (past participle)
biasing (present participle)
bias (canonical)
biasses (third-person singular)
biassed (past)
biassed (past participle)
biassing (present participle)

glosses: If you bias something, you unfairly make one result more likely than another.

text: Sexism in language biases experience constantly towards the male sex.

text: By not providing this information, you bias the results.

verb

es

biasses

biassed

biassing


average

forms:
average (positive)
more average (comparative)
most average (superlative)

glosses: To be average is to be not one extreme or another.

text: In football, he is an average player.

enpr: ăvʹərĭj

ipa: /ˈævərɪd͡ʒ/

hyphenation: av‧er‧age


average

forms:
average (singular)
averages (plural)

glosses: An average is a measure in the middle of several numbers.

text: The average size of a family in America is about two or three.

text: The average height of the boys in my class is five feet and three inches.


average

forms:
average (canonical)
averages (third-person singular)
averaged (past)
averaged (past participle)
averaging (present participle)

glosses:
:
 This short section needs someone to add to it.

averag


soaps

forms:
soap (singular)
soaps (plural)

glosses: The plural form of soap; more than one (kind of) soap.

noun

soap


soaps

forms:
soap (canonical)
soaps (third-person singular)
soaped (past)
soaped (past participle)
soaping (present participle)


expresses

forms:
express (canonical)
expresses (third-person singular)
expressed (past)
expressed (past participle)
expressing (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of express.

text: She expresses herself through her poetry and art.

verb

express


better

forms:
good (positive)
better (comparative)
best (superlative)

glosses: The comparative form of good; more good.

text: I am a better person than you are.

adjective

good

better

best


better

forms:
well (positive)
better (comparative)
Superlativebest

glosses: The comparative form of well; more well.

text: Are you feeling better?

adverb

well


better

forms:
better (canonical)
betters (third-person singular)
bettered (past)
bettered (past participle)
bettering (present participle)

text: I intend to better my situation by going back to school.


better

forms:
better (singular)
betters (plural)

glosses: Someone or something who is superior to another.

text: I thought I was the best around, but I found my better when I played John.


matches

forms:
match (singular)
matches (plural)

glosses: The plural form of match; more than one (kind of) match.

text: Don't let the matches get wet or we'll never be able to start a fire.

noun

match

matches


matches

forms:
match (canonical)
matches (third-person singular)
matched (past)
matched (past participle)
matching (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of match.

text: This store matches prices on all of their furniture; if you find a better price at another store, they'll match it.

text: I'm not sure this shirt matches these pants.


sides

forms:
side (singular)
sides (plural)

glosses: The plural form of side; more than one (kind of) side.

side


sides

forms:
side (canonical)
sides (third-person singular)
sided (past)
sided (past participle)
siding (present participle)

verb

sid

e


lasts

forms:
last (canonical)
lasts (third-person singular)
lasted (past)
lasted (past participle)
lasting (present participle)

last


divide

forms:
divide (canonical)
divides (third-person singular)
divided (past)
divided (past participle)
dividing (present participle)

glosses: When you divide a thing you separate it into two or more other things.

text: The children divide their books so they all have at least one.

glosses: When you divide one number into another, you are computing into how many equal parts one number can be separated from the other.

text: 2 divides into 6 exactly 3 times.

text: Six divided by two is three.

glosses: When a thing divides, it changes from one to more than one.

text: The river divided into two.

ipa: /dɪˈvaɪd/

divid


divide

forms:
divide (singular)
divides (plural)

glosses: A divide is a place where two or more things are separated.

text: There is a divide between the those who have money and those who are poor.


sells

forms:
sell (canonical)
sells (third-person singular)
sold (past)
sold (past participle)
selling (present participle)

sell

sells

sold


wears

forms:
wear (canonical)
wears (third-person singular)
wore (past)
worn (past participle)
wearing (present participle)

ipa: /wɛrz/

ipa: /wɛəz/

wear

wears

wore

worn


wears

forms:
wear (singular)
wears (plural)

glosses: The plural form of wear; more than one (kind of) wear.


portion

forms:
portion (singular)
portions (plural)

text: We need to put more signs up in this portion of the city.

glosses: A portion is an amount of food for one person.

text: Each portion has six meatballs.

ipa: /ˈpɔrʃən/

ipa: /ˈpɔːʃən/

hyphenation: por‧tion


portion

forms:
portion (canonical)
portions (third-person singular)
portioned (past)
portioned (past participle)
portioning (present participle)

glosses: If you portion something out, you give parts of it to different people.

text: They portioned out the water among them.


sold

glosses: The past tense and past participle of sell.

ipa: /'soʊld/

sold

selling


accumulation

forms:
accumulation (singular)
accumulations (plural)

glosses: An accumulation of something, is a number or amount of it that has come together over time.

text: The failure to pump leads to an accumulation of blood in the heart.

text: There was an accumulation of dirt on the part of the floor people were walking on.

glosses: Accumulation is the process of bringing things together.

text: The process of salt accumulation in the soil speeds up under poor watering conditions.

text: Private investment helped to boost capital accumulation.

hyphenation: ac‧cu‧mu‧la‧tion


units

forms:
unit (singular)
units (plural)

glosses: The plural form of unit; more than one (kind of) unit.

text: "Mile", "degree", "gram" and "liter" are all units of measurement.

noun

unit


growing

forms:
grow (canonical)
grows (third-person singular)
grew (past)
grown (past participle)
growing (present participle)

ipa: /ˈɡroʊɪŋ/

ipa: /ˈɡrəʊɪŋ/

verb

grow

grows

grew

grown

growing


notice

forms:
notice (canonical)
notices (third-person singular)
noticed (past)
noticed (past participle)
noticing (present participle)

glosses: If you notice something, you become aware of it.

text: You didn't even notice that I cut my hair.

text: When the cook changed, I noticed the difference right away.

text: I've looked at her a thousand times, but I'd never noticed her green eyes before.

text: "Did you see the mistakes?" "No, I'm afraid I didn't notice.

text: I couldn't help noticing that you look lost. Can I help?

ipa: /ˈnəʊtɪs/

ipa: /ˈnoʊtɪs/

notic


notice

forms:
notice (singular)
notices (plural)

text: She asked for help, but they took no notice of her.

text: When the changed were made, we didn't take much notice.

text: The mistake escaped notice for almost three years.

glosses: A notice is a piece of paper with information or a warning.

text: She sent us a notice about the change of dates.

glosses: Notice is information that you give to someone.

text: The shop closed without any notice.


payments

forms:
payment (singular)
payments (plural)

glosses: The plural form of payment; more than one (kind of) payment.

text: Please be sure to send your payments in on time.

enpr: pāʹmənts

ipa: /ˈpeɪmənts/

hyphenation: pay‧ments

noun

payment


aeroplanes

forms:
aeroplane (singular)
aeroplanes (plural)

glosses: The plural form of aeroplane; more than one (kind of) aeroplane.

aeroplane


gaming

forms:
game (canonical)
games (third-person singular)
gamed (past)
gamed (past participle)
gaming (present participle)

ipa: /ˈɡeɪmɪŋ/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gaming.wav

verb

gam


gaming

forms: gaming (singular)

glosses: Playing games, especially betting games.

text: Las Vegas is famous for its gaming.

noun

gaming


surgeons

forms:
surgeon (singular)
surgeons (plural)

glosses: The plural form of surgeon; more than one (kind of) surgeon.

text: The surgeons are getting ready for the surgery.

surgeon


pronoun

forms:
pronoun (singular)
pronouns (plural)

glosses: Pronoun is a closed class of nouns that usually refers to another noun (see here for a list).


holidays

forms:
holiday (singular)
holidays (plural)

glosses: The plural form of holiday; more than one (kind of) holiday.

holiday


holidays

forms:
holiday (canonical)
holidays (third-person singular)
holidayed (past)
holidayed (past participle)
holidaying (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of holiday.


sarcasms

forms:
sarcasm (singular)
sarcasms (plural)

glosses: The plural form of sarcasm; more than one (kind of) sarcasm.

text: Your sarcasms don't impress me.

sarcasm


seventy

forms: seventy

glosses: ordinal seventieth) Seventy is the number that is after 69 and before 71.

text: To drive seventy miles per hour is too fast in the city.


seventy

forms:
seventy (singular)
seventies (plural)

text: Seventy is ten less than eighty and ten more than sixty.

text: My father is seventy.

seventy

seventies


ahead

forms: ahead

glosses: You use ahead to talk about something that is in front of you or in the future.

ipa: /ʌˈhed/


prepares

forms:
prepare (canonical)
prepares (third-person singular)
prepared (past)
prepared (past participle)
preparing (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of prepare.

verb

prepar


restore

forms:
restore (canonical)
restores (third-person singular)
restored (past)
restored (past participle)
restoring (present participle)

glosses: If you restore a state, feeling, or ability that has been lost, you make that possible or normal again.

text: Police were sent to restore order after an attack on May 4.

text: The government attempted to restore confidence by announcing tougher laws.

text: With a simple operation, doctors were able to restore his hearing.

glosses: If you restore something, you make it go back to the way it was.

text: The school is restoring the buildings that were damaged in the fire.

text: Art experts are working to restore the painting to its original condition.

glosses: If you restore something, you put or give it back.

text: The lost child was restored to her parents by police.

text: Management has restored the extra vacation time.

enpr: rĭstôrʹ

ipa: /rɪˈstɔr/

enpr: rĭstôʹ

ipa: /rɪˈstɔː/

hyphenation: re‧store

restor


penguins

forms:
penguin (singular)
penguins (plural)

glosses: The plural form of penguin; more than one (kind of) penguin.

noun

penguin


words

forms:
word (singular)
words (plural)

glosses: The plural form of word; more than one (kind of) word.

word


words

forms:
word (canonical)
words (third-person singular)
worded (past)
worded (past participle)
wording (present participle)


photograph

forms:
photograph (singular)
photographs (plural)

glosses: A photograph is a picture that is created by a camera digitally or on film.

text: The photograph of the event won a Pulitzer Prize.


photograph

forms:
photograph (canonical)
photographs (third-person singular)
photographed (past)
photographed (past participle)
photographing (present participle)

glosses: If you take a photograph of someone or something, you take a photograph of it.

text: He photographed the wedding for them.


maps

forms:
map (singular)
maps (plural)

glosses: The plural form of map; more than one (kind of) map.

ipa: /mæps/

map


maps

forms:
map (canonical)
maps (third-person singular)
mapped (past)
mapped (past participle)
mapping (present participle)

verb

p


best

forms:
good (positive)
better (comparative)
best (superlative)

glosses: The superlative form of good; most good.

text:
William is the best football player on our team.
Synonym: top

Antonym: worst

text: You are the best.

text: It's best if you go now.

ipa: /bɛst/

sampa: /bEst/

adj

good


best

glosses: The superlative form of well; most well.

text:
I'm feeling the best that I have in a while.
Antonym: worst


best

forms: best (singular)

text: I did my best.

noun

best


best

forms:
best (canonical)
bests (third-person singular)
bested (past)
bested (past participle)
besting (present participle)

glosses: To do better, especially in a competition.

text: I bested my high score on the game.


grows

forms:
grow (canonical)
grows (third-person singular)
grew (past)
grown (past participle)
growing (present participle)

ipa: /ɡrəʊz/

ipa: /ɡroʊz/

verb

grow


surgeon

forms:
surgeon (singular)
surgeons (plural)

ipa: /ˈsɝdʒən/

ipa: /ˈsɜːdʒən/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-surgeon.wav


controversies

forms:
controversy (singular)
controversies (plural)

glosses: The plural form of controversy; more than one (kind of) controversy.

text: There are many controversies surrounding religion and politics.

noun

controversy

controversies


Augusts

forms:
August (singular)
Augusts (plural)

glosses: The plural form of August; more than one (kind of) August.

text: This is one of the hottest Augusts we've had in a long time.

August


dads

forms:
dad (singular)
dads (plural)

glosses: The plural form of dad; more than one (kind of) dad.

text: Not all dads read to their children.

dad


rises

forms:
rise (canonical)
rises (third-person singular)
rose (past)
risen (past participle)
rising (present participle)

enpr: rīzʹĭz

ipa: /ˈraɪzɪz/

verb

rise

risen


barring

forms:
bar (canonical)
bars (third-person singular)
barred (past)
barred (past participle)
barring (present participle)

ipa: /ˈbɑːrɪŋ(ɡ)/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-barring.wav

bar

r


barring

forms: barring

text: Barring a big change in popular opinion, he should become the next president.

text: Nothing barring a major disaster can stop her.

ipa: /ˈbɑːrɪŋ(ɡ)/


practising

forms:
practise (canonical)
practises (third-person singular)
practised (past)
practised (past participle)
practising (present participle)

practis


letters

forms:
letter (singular)
letters (plural)

glosses: The plural form of letter; more than one (kind of) letter.

noun

letter


inks

forms:
ink (singular)
inks (plural)

glosses: The plural form of ink; more than one (kind of) ink.

text: There are many different colored inks for you to choose from.

text: Some inks are natural, while others are man-made.

ink


inks

forms:
ink (canonical)
inks (third-person singular)
inked (past)
inked (past participle)
inking (present participle)

text: That tattoo artist inks 10 people a day.


auxiliary verb

forms:
auxiliary verb (singular)
auxiliary verbs (plural)

glosses: An auxiliary verb is a verb that works with another verb to show the tense, aspect, mood, or voice. Here is a list of auxiliary verbs.

text: In the following examples, the auxiliary verb is underlined:

text: Do you often go to the store?

text: I am walking to the store.

text: I have walked to the store.

text: Can you walk to the store?


colors

forms:
color (singular)
colors (plural)

glosses: The plural form of color; more than one (kind of) color.

color


colors

forms:
color (canonical)
colors (third-person singular)
colored (past)
colored (past participle)
coloring (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of color.


ants

forms:
ant (singular)
ants (plural)

glosses: The plural form of ant; more than one (kind of) ant.

ant


student

forms:
student (singular)
students (plural)

glosses: A student is person who studies a subject, especially in a school.

text: I am a student at the school.

text: She is a straight-A student from a good family.

text: He teaches learning-disabled (LD) students from kindergarten through twelfth grade.

text: Many first-year law students don't make it to second year.

text: It became the most popular course on campus, enrolling 1400 students.

text: Teachers try to help each student, whether they are a gifted student or a student having trouble.

text: Thousands of academically strong students are rejected by universities every year.

text: The program is open to all undergraduates and graduate students at the university.

text: The school can deal with students with a variety of disabilities.

text: The faculty, staff and students need to work together.

text: They worries about the lack of achievement demonstrated by the students.

text: Learning takes place between students through interaction with one another.

glosses: A student person who is very interested in a subject.

text: He's a student of the game and can answer any baseball question you ask.

hyphenation: stu‧dent


amongst

forms: amongst

glosses: In or into. We say "between" 2 other things, but amongst 3 or more other things.

text: She was amongst her friends.

text: Divide the candy amongst yourselves.

ipa: /əˈmʌŋst/


replaces

forms:
replace (canonical)
replaces (third-person singular)
replaced (past)
replaced (past participle)
replacing (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of replace.

text: She replaces the water filter once a month so it doesn't get too dirty.

verb

replac


practices

forms:
practice (singular)
practices (plural)

glosses: The plural form of practice; more than one (kind of) practice.

ipa: /ˈpræktɪsɪz/

noun

practice


practices

forms:
practice (canonical)
practices (third-person singular)
practiced (past)
practiced (past participle)
practicing (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of practice.

verb

practic


part of speech

forms:
part of speech (singular)
parts of speech (plural)

glosses: The parts of speech are a traditional grouping of word classes into: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, interjection, conjunction, and sometimes article.

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-part of speech.wav

noun

part of speech

parts of speech


carted

forms:
cart (canonical)
carts (third-person singular)
carted (past)
carted (past participle)
carting (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of cart.

verb

cart


spouse

forms:
spouse (singular)
spouses (plural)

text: John is my spouse. I married John, in 1999.

text: Susan is the wife of Paul. She is Paul's spouse.

ipa: /spaʊs/

sampa: /spaUs/


practised

glosses: The third-person singular form of practise.


allows

forms:
allow (canonical)
allows (third-person singular)
allowed (past)
allowed (past participle)
allowing (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of allow.

ipa: /əˈlaʊz/

allow


queens

forms:
queen (singular)
queens (plural)

glosses: The plural form of queen; more than one (kind of) queen.

noun

queen


queens

forms:
queen (canonical)
queens (third-person singular)
queened (past)
queened (past participle)
queening (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of queen.


shocks

forms:
shock (singular)
shocks (plural)

glosses: The plural form of shock; more than one (kind of) shock.

shock


shocks

forms:
shock (canonical)
shocks (third-person singular)
shocked (past)
shocked (past participle)
shocking (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of shock.


cows

forms:
cow (singular)
cows (plural)

glosses: The plural form of cow; more than one (kind of) cow.

text: I have two cows on my farm so that I can have fresh milk.

cow


participle

forms:
participle (singular)
participles (plural)

glosses: A participle is a form of a verb that has not been tensed. The expression headed by a participle is used either as a complement or as an adjunct.

text: In the following sentences, the underlined word is a participle:

text: boiling water is very hot.

text: The used book had a dirty cover.

text: I was studying English when you called this morning.

text: I have walked on this street many times.

text: The table is supported by four legs.

text: Without thinking, he ran down the street.

ipa: /ˈpɑːtɪsɪpəl/

ipa: /ˈpɑːrtɪsɪpəl/

hyphenation: par‧ti‧ci‧ple


barred

forms:
bar (canonical)
bars (third-person singular)
barred (past)
barred (past participle)
barring (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of bar.

ipa: /ˈbɑː(r)d/


shoulders

forms:
shoulder (singular)
shoulders (plural)

glosses: The plural form of shoulder; more than one (kind of) shoulder.

shoulder


shoulders

forms:
shoulder (canonical)
shoulders (third-person singular)
shouldered (past)
shouldered (past participle)
shouldering (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of shoulder.


often

forms:
often (positive)
more often (comparative)
Superlativemost often

glosses: When something happens often, that means that it happens many times and frequently.

text: I drink a lot of water and need to urinate often.

text: How often do you exercise?

text: I often visit my elderly aunt Grace.

text: It's often difficult to learn a new language.

ipa: /ˈɒfn/

sampa: /"Qfn/

ipa: /ˈɔːfn/


bottles

forms:
bottle (singular)
bottles (plural)

glosses: The plural form of bottle; more than one (kind of) bottle.

ipa: /ˈbɑtl̩z/

ipa: /ˈbɒtl̩z/

hyphenation: bot‧tles

bottle


bottles

forms:
bottle (canonical)
bottles (third-person singular)
bottled (past)
bottled (past participle)
bottling (present participle)

glosses: The third-person singular form of bottle.

verb

bottl


although

forms: although

glosses: You use although to show that an idea is surprising or different from another idea.

text: We decided to take rooms in Longwood house, although we knew we could not really afford the rent there.

ipa: /ɑlˈðoʊ/

sampa: /Al"DoU/