warm

forms:
warm (positive)
warmer (comparative)
warmest (superlative)

glosses: If something is warm, it is a nice temperature between cool and hot.

text: It's good to come into a nice warm house on a winter's day.

text: She washed her face in the warm water.

ipa: /wɔːm/

ipa: /wɔːrm/

adj

warm

warmer

warmest


warm

forms:
warm (canonical)
warms (third-person singular)
warmed (past)
warmed (past participle)
warming (present participle)

pos: verb

glosses: If you warm something, you increase the temperature.

text: At 7:30, the sun came up and warmed them a little.

text: Oh, the coffee's cold. Can you warm it up for me?

verb

expansion: [POS TABLE]


aid

forms:
aid (singular)
aids (plural)

pos: noun

glosses: Aid is the help that is given to people, usually by a government or institution.

text: After the flood the UN sent $500 million of aid in the form of food, water, tents, and medical supplies.

glosses: An aid is a person or thing that helps you do an activity.

text: The president's aid spoke to the newspapers today.

text: I can't see, but I have a number of aids, such as a cane, a dog, and a talking computer, that make my life easier.

ipa: /eɪl/


aid

forms:
aid (canonical)
aids (third-person singular)
aided (past)
aided (past participle)
aiding (present participle)


vary

forms:
vary (canonical)
varies (third-person singular)
varied (past)
varied (past participle)
varying (present participle)

glosses: If something varies, it is not always the same.

text: The summer temperature in Toronto can vary from 12 degrees at night to over 30 degrees during the day.

text: "Do you enjoy your job?" "You know, it varies. Some days are good..."

text: Teachers sometimes need to vary the order and manner in which things are taught and learnt.

ipa: /ˈvɛəri/

var

y


crush

forms:
crush (canonical)
crushes (third-person singular)
crushed (past)
crushed (past participle)
crushing (present participle)

text: I will crush the spider with a book.

ipa: /krʌʃ/

audio: EN-AU ck1 crush.ogg

crush

es


crush

forms:
crush (singular)
crushes (plural)

glosses: If you have a crush on someone, you like them and want to date them. This could be because you think they are attractive.

text: I've got a crush on Joey, but you can't tell anyone.

glosses: The person you have a crush on is called a crush.

text: Cindy was my boyhood crush.

irrnoun

crushes


balance

forms:
balance (singular)
balances (plural)

glosses: If something is in balance, it has equal amounts all around.

text: She was walking on a thin line, but lost her balance and fell down.

text: This plan has a good balance of new and old ideas.

glosses: The balance in your bank account is the amount of money you have in the account.

glosses: A type of scale where there are two parts.

ipa: /ˈbæləns/

hyphenation: bal‧ance


balance

forms:
balance (canonical)
balances (third-person singular)
balanced (past)
balanced (past participle)
balancing (present participle)

glosses: If you balance something, you make it have equal amounts all around.

text: The bird balanced easily on the wire for a few moments before flying off.

text: A good manager has to balance the costs and benefits of doing business.

verb

balanc

e


subject

forms:
subject (singular)
subjects (plural)

glosses: A subject is a branch of knowledge in school, college or university, such as English, math, science, and history.

text: The subject of the class is English literature.

glosses: In English grammar, the subject of a sentence is usually a noun that comes before the verb. This noun is usually the thing that is doing the action, and it is usually the topic of the sentence.

text: In the sentence, "Tom gave the box to Wilma", Tom is the subject.

glosses: A subject is a person who is governed by a king, queen, emperor, etc.

enpr: sŭbʹjĕkt

sampa: /"sVbdZEkt/


subject

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

pos: adj

glosses: If someone or something is subject to something, they are likely to be affected by it or experience it.

text: Home prices are even more subject to change than gas prices.

adj

more: true


subject

forms:
subject (canonical)
subjects (third-person singular)
subjected (past)
subjected (past participle)
subjecting (present participle)

text: They were subjected to intense labor.

enpr: səb-jĕktʹ

ipa: /səbˈdʒɛkt/


map

forms:
map (singular)
maps (plural)

glosses: A map is an image of a place, usually with place names written in.

text: I think we're lost. Do you have a map?

text: I've got a good street map of London.

ipa: /mæp/

audio: en-uk-a map.ogg


map

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

glosses: If you map something, you create a visual representation of it.

text: John mapped out his idea so that his friends could understand it.

verb

map

p


topic

forms:
topic (singular)
topics (plural)

glosses: A topic is a general idea that someone is speaking (reading, thinking, etc.) about at a specific time.

text: We were talking about my problems. Don't change the topic.

text: Our library has books on a wide range of topics.

text: When you're writing for school, it's important to stay on topic, and not start talking about other things.

ipa: /ˈtɒpɪk/

ipa: /ˈtɑpɪk/

hyphenation: top‧ic


identical

forms: identical (positive)

glosses: If two ore more things are identical, they are exactly the same.

text: The teachers teach from identical textbooks, but the ways they teach are quite different.

ipa: /ɪˈdɛntɪkl̩/

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

hyphenation: i‧den‧ti‧cal


decrease

forms:
decrease (canonical)
decreases (third-person singular)
decreased (past)
decreased (past participle)
decreasing (present participle)

glosses: If something decreases, it goes down in number or value.

text: The Australian dollar has decreased 3% against the Euro.

text: The government has decreased the amount of money it gives to schools.

enpr: dĭkrēs'

ipa: /dɪˈkriːs/

hyphenation: de‧crease

decreas


decrease

forms:
decrease (singular)
decreases (plural)

glosses: A decrease happens when the number or value of something goes down.

text: There has been a 3% decrease in the Australian dollar against the Euro.

text: Every year we see a larger decrease in the number of students studying foreign languages.

enpr: dē'krēs

ipa: /ˈdiːkriːs/


contrast

forms:
contrast (singular)
contrasts (plural)

glosses: Contrasts are the differences you find when you compare something or someone.

text: When comparing English and Japanese, there are many contrasts but also a large number of similarities.

text: Married life is a sharp contrast to the life of a single person.

ipa: /ˈkɒntrɑːst/

enpr: kŏn'trăst

ipa: /ˈkɑnt(ʃ)ræst/


contrast

forms:
contrast (canonical)
contrasts (third-person singular)
contrasted (past)
contrasted (past participle)
contrasting (present participle)

glosses: If you contrast two things, you look for or explain the differences between them.

text: It's difficult not to contrast the good things he says with the terrible way he acts.

ipa: /kənˈtrɑːst/

enpr: kəntrăst'

ipa: /kənˈt(ʃ)ræst/


area

forms:
area (singular)
areas (plural)

text: This is the business area of town.

text: We have chosen a large forest area for the new park.

glosses: An area of study is a special subject, such as mathematics, grammar, music, or biology.

text: Economics is quite interesting, but my area is more related to politics.

glosses: The area of a surface, is the size of the surface.

text: The length is 10 cm and the width is 5 cm, so the area is 50 cm².

enpr: âʼrĭ-ə

enpr: ârʼē-ə


shall

forms:
shall (present)
should (past)
shan't (negative)

glosses: Shall is usually used to make a suggestion about your own actions.

text: Shall I get that for you?

text: Shall we go?

text: Where shall I put the plates?

glosses: Shall is used like will to make a promise.

text: We shall send your order immediately.

ipa: /ˈʃæl/

ipa: /ʃəl/

shall

should

shan't


doctor

forms:
doctor (singular)
doctors (plural)

glosses: A person who helps people who are sick, and looks after their health.

glosses: A person who can work very well about a particular thing and is given the title Doctor by a university, for example a doctor in psychology could be called Doctor John Smith.

ipa: /ˈdɒktə/

hyphenation: doc‧tor


doctor

forms:
doctor (canonical)
doctors (third-person singular)
doctored (past)
doctored (past participle)
doctoring (present participle)

glosses: If you doctor someone, you act as a medical doctor towards them.

glosses: If you doctor something or someone, you change them.


computer

forms:
computer (singular)
computers (plural)

etymology_text: compute + -er

ety-suffix

compute

er

expansion: compute + -er

glosses: A computer is a machine that helps you store, organize, and use information.

text: If you're looking at a web page, you must be using a computer.

glosses: A computer is a person whose job is doing computations.

ipa: /kəmˈpjuːtə/

ipa: /kəmˈpjutɚ/

hyphenation: com‧pu‧ter


complex

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

glosses: If something is complex, it has lots of parts or pieces, or is difficult to understand.

text: He has constructed a complex computer system to send translated messages between humans and dolphins.

text: A complex problem that we face today is poverty, especially in Africa.

enpr: kəmplĕks'

ipa: /kəmˈplɛks/


complex

forms:
complex (singular)
complexes (plural)

glosses: A group of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.

glosses: A psychologically-based dislike or fear of a particular thing.

text: Jim has a complex about working for a woman boss.

glosses: A thunderstorm that forms when two storm fronts collide.

glosses: A structure with a central atom or molecule that has a weak connection to atoms or molecules around it.

enpr: kŏm'plĕks

ipa: /ˈkɒmplɛks/

sampa: /"kQmplEks/

ipa: /ˈkɑmplɛks/

sampa: /"kAmplEks/

irrnoun

complexes


exactly

pos: adv

etymology_text: exact + -ly

ety-suffix

exact

ly

expansion: exact + -ly

glosses: You use exactly when you want to say that something is 100% true, not just close.

text: The movie will start at exactly 7:02 PM.

text: That is exactly the same picture that I was thinking of.

glosses: You use exactly to show that you agree strongly with something.

text: "We can't stay here. It's too cold." "Exactly!"

ipa: /ɪɡˈzæk(t)li/


chicken

forms:
chicken (singular)
chickens (plural)

glosses: A chicken is a bird that farmers raise for meat and eggs.

text: My father went out back, caught a chicken, cut off its head, and cleaned it for dinner.

text: They make a very tasty fried chicken dish here that comes with vegetables and potatoes.

sampa: /"tSIkIn/

audio: en-uk-a chicken.ogg


chicken

forms: chicken (positive)

glosses: Someone who is afraid to do something is chicken.

text: You won't jump your bike because you're chicken.


chemical

forms:
chemical (singular)
chemicals (plural)

glosses: A chemical is a basic substance that is used in or produced by mixing elements or other chemicals.

text: When you burn plastics, you put dangerous chemicals into the air.

text: The chemical industry in China is producing more and more useful paints, glues, and other products.

enpr: kĕm'ĭk-əl

ipa: /ˈkemɪkəl/

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


chemical

forms: chemical (positive)

text: This test can detect small changes in the chemical composition of water.


breakfast

forms:
breakfast (singular)
breakfasts (plural)

glosses: Breakfast is the first meal that we eat in the morning.

text: I'm late for school. I don't have time for breakfast today.

text: "What time do you usually eat breakfast?" "Oh, I don't know, usually about 6:30."

ipa: /ˈbrɛkfəst/

hyphenation: break‧fast


house

forms:
house (singular)
houses (plural)

glosses: A house is a building that one family lives in.

text: The president lives in a house in Washington, called The White House.

ipa: /haʊs/


house

forms:
house (canonical)
houses (third-person singular)
housed (past)
housed (past participle)
housing (present participle)

glosses: If you house someone or something, you give them a home.

text: The building houses a research centre and a school.

text: During the storm they were housed in the local school's gym.

ipa: /haʊz/

verb

hous


medicine

forms:
medicine (singular)
medicines (plural)

glosses: Medicine is something you put into or on your body when you are sick to make yourself healthy.

text: After I got out of the hospital, I went to the drug store and bought medicine for my ear problem.

text: The school of medicine at the University of Western Ontario has produced some of the country's best doctors.

text: Many doctors go to Canada but find that they can't practice medicine there.

enpr: ˈmed-sən

ipa: /ˈmɛdsən/

enpr: ˈme-də-sən

ipa: /ˈmɛdəsɪn/

hyphenation: me‧di‧cine


plural

forms: plural (positive)

glosses: If a noun is plural in English grammar, it refers to other than one thing.

text: If I say, "one cat", that's singular, but if I say, "a lot of cats", that's plural.

glosses: A plural person is someone with dissociative identity disorder.

ipa: /ˈplʊrəl/

hyphenation: plu‧ral


plural

forms:
plural (singular)
plurals (plural)

glosses: The form of a word that normally refers to other than one thing.

text: The plural of the word "dog" is "dogs."


himself

pos: pron

etymology_text: him + -self

ety-suffix

him

self

expansion: him + -self

glosses: Third person masculine singular reflexive pronoun.

text: He went by himself to the store.

ipa: /hɪmˈsɛlf/

sampa: /hIm"sElf/

hyphenation: him‧self


fruit

forms:
fruit (singular)
fruits (plural)

glosses: The fruit is the part of a plant or tree that holds the seeds. It's usually sweet and good to eat.

text: Most people don't eat enough fruit and vegetables.

text: Apples, oranges, and bananas are the most common fruits in most supermarkets.

enpr: fro͞ot

ipa: /fruːt/


element

forms:
element (singular)
elements (plural)

glosses: An element is one part of something bigger, such as a plan, an engine, or a business.

text: He's the best salesman on our team, but he's only one element in our success.

glosses: An element is one basic kind of substance, such as iron (Fe) oxygen (O) or sodium (Na).

text: Water is made up of two elements: Hydrogen and Oxygen.

enpr: ĕl'ĭmənt

ipa: /ˈɛlɪmənt/

hyphenation: el‧e‧ment


contact

forms:
contact (singular)
contacts (plural)

glosses: When x makes or has contact with y, they touch each other physically.

text: The trains in Tokyo are so crowded that everyone has to stand in close contact to everyone else.

text: He wore dark glasses so that he wouldn't have to make eye contact with anyone.

text: "Did you tell Chris about lunch today?" "No, I wasn't able to get in contact with him."

ipa: /ˈkɑntækt/

ipa: /ˈkɒntækt/


contact

forms:
contact (canonical)
contacts (third-person singular)
contacted (past)
contacted (past participle)
contacting (present participle)

glosses: If A contacts B, A telephones B or writes a letter or e-mail to B.

text: If I can help further please do not hesitate to contact me at 012-345-6789.


our

glosses: Our things are things that belong to us.

text: We've come in our new car.

text: Our daughter got a new job.

enpr: ou(ə)

enpr: ouə(r)

ipa: /aʊə(r)/

enpr: our

ipa: /aʊr/

sampa: /aUr/

enpr: ar

ipa: /ɑr/

sampa: /Ar/


dish

forms:
dish (singular)
dishes (plural)

glosses: Dishes are the flat round holder for food that we usually put on the table and eat off of.

text: There was a crash when the waiter dropped his tray of dishes on the floor.

glosses: A dish is a particular kind of cooked or prepared food.

text: Last night she made a wonderful Indian dish that I had never eaten before.

ipa: /dɪʃ/

irrnoun

dishes


dish

forms:
dish (canonical)
dishes (third-person singular)
dished (past)
dished (past participle)
dishing (present participle)

glosses: To dish is to gossip about something or somebody.

verb

dish


transport

forms:
transport (singular)
transports (plural)

glosses: Transport refers to how things are moved, or a system of transportation.

text: I prefer my own means of transport.

glosses: A transport is a vehicle or vessel used to move things or people.

text: On Tatooine, C-3PO thought he saw a transport in the distance.

ipa: /ˈtrænzpɔːt/


transport

forms:
transport (canonical)
transports (third-person singular)
transported (past)
transported (past participle)
transporting (present participle)

glosses: If you transport something, you carry it from one place to another, usually on a truck, boat, or other large vehicle.

text: One of the most important parts of doing business is transporting your materials from the factory to the shop.

ipa: /trænzˈpɔːt/


fried

forms:
fry (canonical)
fries (third-person singular)
fried (past)
fried (past participle)
frying (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of fry.

text: I fried some chicken last night for dinner.

fr


fried

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

glosses: Fried food is food that has been cooked in a pan with hot oil.

text: I don't like fried chicken. It's too oily.


water

forms:
water (singular)
waters (plural)

glosses: Water is a clear liquid of the chemical compound H₂O that all living things need in order to live.

text: The dog drank the water from his dish

text: Can I please have a glass of water?

text: Your plant needs more water as it is about to die.

glosses: A water is a bottle or glass serving of water.

text: "I want to order two waters, waiter".

glosses: Water is one of the four basic elements.

glosses: Water is one of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).

text: Right before the woman went into labor, her water broke.

ipa: /ˈwɔːtə/

enpr: wô'tə(r)

ipa: /ˈwɔːtɚ/


water

forms:
water (canonical)
waters (third-person singular)
watered (past)
watered (past participle)
watering (present participle)

glosses: If you water something, you add water to soil around plants.

text: He waters the plants.

glosses: If you water something, you give water to animals.

text: He waters the horses.

glosses: If something waters, it fills with water; it secretes water.

text: His eyes watered as he cut up the onion.


treatment

forms:
treatment (singular)
treatments (plural)

etymology_text: treat + -ment

ety-suffix

treat

ment

expansion: treat + -ment

glosses: A treatment is an action, usually by a doctor, to make somebody healthy.

text: He has had treatments every day since he hurt his neck.

text: My sister is undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

glosses: The treatment that you give someone or something is the way that you act toward it.

text: The treatment that I have received since beginning this job has been terrible. My boss yells at me every day and nobody is friendly at all.

ipa: /ˈtriːtmənt/

hyphenation: treat‧ment


flood

forms:
flood (singular)
floods (plural)

glosses: A flood happens when there has been a lot of rain in a short time and the water covers the ground.

text: The storm brought heavy rains, and the resulting flood caused $14 million in damage to crops.

enpr: flŭd

ipa: /flʌd/


flood

forms:
flood (canonical)
floods (third-person singular)
flooded (past)
flooded (past participle)
flooding (present participle)

glosses: If a place is flooded, the water covers the ground and often causes a lot of damage.

text: In 2005, a hurricane brought so much rain that much of Louisiana was flooded, killing many people, and destroying large parts of the city.

text: The market has been flooded with boy band recordings.

text: Stop flooding the editorial office with your complaints.


these

forms: these

pos: det

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

text: I am going to take these sandwiches for my lunch.

text: These paintings around me are not to be touched.

text: These are the simple rules you have to follow.

text: I have always wanted to own books like these.

enpr: thēz

ipa: /ðiːz/

ipa: /ðiz/

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


offense

forms:
offense (singular)
offenses (plural)

glosses: An offense is an action that breaks the law.

text: Murder is a serious criminal offense.

glosses: When you give offense to someone, you do something that they don't like.

text: I didn't mean to give offense, but I didn't know that you don't do that in China.

glosses: The offense is the person or team who is attacking.

text: For the first time in the game, Arsenal goes on the offense.

ipa: /əˈfɛns/

hyphenation: of‧fense


those

forms: those

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

text: Those bolts go with these parts.

text: I don't want those oranges because they are too sour.

ipa: /ðəʊz/

ipa: /ðoʊz/

sampa: /DoUz/


location

forms:
location (singular)
locations (plural)

text: When you're opening a new business, the choice of location is very important.

glosses: A site outside of a studio used for shooting all or part of a movie or television show.

text: The show was filmed on location in Hawaii.

ipa: /loʊˈkeɪʃən/

ipa: /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/


view

forms:
view (singular)
views (plural)

text: He had a view of the fight.

text: My window has a great view of the ocean.

text: They had a narrow view on marriage.

ipa: /vjuː/


view

forms:
view (canonical)
views (third-person singular)
viewed (past)
viewed (past participle)
viewing (present participle)

text: I view your changes with suspicion.

text: He views movies for content.

text: They viewed the rescue from the street.


itself

etymology_text: it + -self

it

expansion: it + -self

glosses: Third person neutral singular reflexive pronoun.

text: No person did a thing, but the car started all by itself.

ipa: /ɪtˈsɛlf/

hyphenation: it‧self


hers

glosses: If something is hers, it belongs to her.

text: Please give this to Susan. It's hers.

ipa: /ˈhɜːz/

ipa: /ˈhɝz/


their

glosses: If something belongs to them it is their thing.

text: That's not their car, it's ours.

ipa: /ðɛɚ/

ipa: /ðɛə(r)/

homophones: there they're


ugly

forms:
ugly (positive)
uglier (comparative)
ugliest (superlative)

glosses: If someone or something is ugly, it's not nice to look at.

text: Hughie had the same ugly face as his father and brother.

ipa: /ˈʌɡli/

adj

ugly

uglier

ugliest


complain

forms:
complain (canonical)
complains (third-person singular)
complained (past)
complained (past participle)
complaining (present participle)

glosses: If you complain about someone or something, you say or write that you are not happy about it.

text: We complained to the manager about the service after waiting one hour for our food.

ipa: /kəmˈpleɪn/


cheap

forms:
cheap (positive)
cheaper (comparative)
cheapest (superlative)

glosses: If something is cheap, it costs very little money.

text: "I bought this for $37 last week, but today I saw it in the store for only $22." "Wow! That's cheap."

glosses: If something is cheap, it is low in quality.

text: I don't like that jacket. It looks too cheap. Is it plastic?

ipa: /t͡ʃip/

enpr: chēp

ipa: /t͡ʃiːp/

cheap

cheaper

cheapest


throat

forms:
throat (singular)
throats (plural)

glosses: Your throat is a tube inside your neck. It takes air from your mouth to your lungs.

text: My throat hurts from singing too much.

ipa: /ˈθrəʊt/

ipa: /ˈθroʊt/

sampa: /"TroUt/


kitchen

forms:
kitchen (singular)
kitchens (plural)

glosses: A kitchen is a room used for cooking food.

text: My mother made the dinner in the kitchen.

text: Bring me a kitchen knife.

ipa: /ˈkɪtʃən/

hyphenation: kitch‧en


illustrate

forms:
illustrate (canonical)
illustrates (third-person singular)
illustrated (past)
illustrated (past participle)
illustrating (present participle)

glosses: If you illustrate something, you draw a picture of it, or you explain it.

text: "I'm sorry, can you explain again?" "OK, let me illustrate with an example."

text: This graph illustrates the change in price.

glosses: If you illustrate a book, magazine, poster, etc., you put pictures in it.

text: Have you tried reading these illustrated books for adults?

verb

illustrat


snake

forms:
snake (singular)
snakes (plural)

glosses: A snake is a long, thin reptile with no legs.

text: Some snakes will attack people, but most will try to hide or run away.

glosses: A snake is a dishonest, treacherous person.

text: Chuck is a snake to do a low thing like that.

glosses: A snake is a tool used to unclog plumbing.

enpr: snāk

ipa: /sneɪk/

sampa: /sneIK/


snake

forms:
snake (canonical)
snakes (third-person singular)
snaked (past)
snaked (past participle)
snaking (present participle)

glosses: If you snake, you move in a winding path.

text: The river snakes through the valley.

glosses: If you snake, you clean or unclog a clog using a plumbing snake.

snak


butter

forms:
butter (singular)
butters (plural)

glosses: Butter is a firm yellow substance that is made from milk spread on bread or used in cooking.

text: Please pass the butter.

text: Melt some butter in a fry pan, and then add the eggs.

text: If you keep the butter in the fridge, it's too hard to put on bread.

glosses: A bread and butter issue, is a basic and important one.

text: If we want to win this election, we need to focus on bread and butter issues like jobs.

glosses: Your bread and butter is the work that you do most and that earns you the most money.

text: Fixing shoes used to be our bread and butter, but today, nobody gets their shoes fixed.

ipa: /ˈbʌtə/

enpr: bŭtʹər


butter

forms:
butter (canonical)
butters (third-person singular)
buttered (past)
buttered (past participle)
buttering (present participle)

glosses: If you butter something, you put butter on it.

text: Would you like me to butter your toast for you?


offender

forms:
offender (singular)
offenders (plural)

etymology_text: offend + -er

word parts

offend

-er

expansion: offend + -er

glosses: An offender is someone or something that does something wrong, usually someone who breaks the law.

text: The boy who took the car is a young offender, so we can't use his real name.


affect

forms:
affect (canonical)
affects (third-person singular)
affected (past)
affected (past participle)
affecting (present participle)

glosses: If x affects y, then x causes a change in y.

text: The movement of the soccer ball was affected by the wind.

text: Sigmund Freud's ideas were affected by the writings of Frederick Nietzsche.

text: How do you think the new government will affect the economy?

glosses: If you affect a way of speaking, walking, dressing, etc., you pretend that it is your normal way, often to impress people.

text: "No, ma'm," Robert said, affecting a southern accent.

enpr: əfĕkt'

ipa: /ə'fɛkt/


affect

forms:
affect (singular)
affects (plural)

glosses: Your affect is the emotion or feeling you have in response to an idea, object, etc.

text: Actors need to bring out the affect of the scene.

glosses: Affect is emotion or emotional response.

text: When teaching, we need to consider both ideas and affect.


knife

forms:
knife (singular)
knives (plural)

text: He ate with his knife and fork.

text: He worked with a putty knife.

ipa: /naɪf/

audio: En-uk-a knife.ogg

noun

knife

knives


knife

forms:
knife (canonical)
knifes (third-person singular)
knifed (past)
knifed (past participle)
knifing (present participle)

glosses: If you knife someone, you stab someone with a knife; you make a hole in them.

text: The gang knifed him sixteen times.

verb

knif


honey

forms:
honey (singular)
honeys (plural)

glosses: Honey is a sweet, thick liquid that is made by bees. It is usually golden or brown.

text: Add some honey to make it taste good.

text: Honey, I only love you.

text: We need to find some honeys.

ipa: /'hʌni/

sampa: /"hVni/

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


straight

glosses: If something goes straight, it continues to move in one direction without turning.

text: No not that road. Just keep driving straight.

ipa: /streɪt/

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


straight

forms:
straight (positive)
straighter (comparative)
straightest (superlative)

glosses: If something is straight, it does not bend, or turn. It continues in one direction.

text: He had had too much to drink and couldn't walk in a straight line.

glosses: Someone who is straight is heterosexual; being attracted to those of the opposite sex.

adj

straight

straighter

straightest


straight

forms:
straight (singular)
straights (plural)

glosses: In the card game of poker, a straight hand has five sequential cards.

text: A 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 is considered a straight hand.


sick

forms:
sick (positive)
sicker (comparative)
sickest (superlative)

glosses: If a person, animal, or plant is sick, it has a disease and is not healthy.

text: I'm sorry, I'm too sick to go to work today.

text: If you're sick, you should go and see a doctor.

glosses: A way of saying something is bad. (Could mean one or both of the following.)

glosses: If something is sick it makes you feel like vomiting. Usually this is not literal, but just means very bad.

text: Oh sick! There is dog shit all over everything.

glosses: Sick can mean similar to person who is mentally ill (crazy), as an insult. This can also mean something bad that a crazy person might do.

text: Killing children is just plain sick.

text: That guy is really sick in the head.

glosses: You say this about something that is cool. That is, something you like or see as very good.

text: That song is sick!

enpr: sĭk

ipa: /sɪk/

sampa: /sIk/

sick

sicker

sickest


violence

forms:
violence (singular)
violences (plural)

glosses: Violence is an action done to hurt somebody or something.

text: I don't watch boxing, because I don't like all the fighting and violence.

ipa: /ˈvaɪ(ə)ləns/


program

forms:
program (canonical)
programs (third-person singular)
programed (past)
programed (past participle)
programing (present participle)

glosses: When you program a computer, you use code to tell the computer what to do.

text: The student can program the computer to calculate all of his statistics.

text: All of the math students know how to program.

ipa: /ˈprəʊɡræm/

enpr: prōʹgrăm'

ipa: /ˈproʊˌɡræm/


program

forms:
program (singular)
programs (plural)

glosses: A program is a number of steps that are followed to reach a goal or end.

text: His new exercise program gets more difficult every week.

text: Oxford College has an excellent English language program.

glosses: A program is a guide to a dramatic or theatrical performance.

text: After he entered the theatre, he bought a copy of the program.

glosses: A (television or radio) program is a broadcast.

text: Star Trek is her favorite program.

glosses: A (computer) program is the code that tells a computer what to do.

text: Microsoft Word is one of the most popular programs in the world.

text: The new program has a lot of problems. My computer crashes every time I try to run it.


neither

forms: neither

glosses: Not one or the other; not either; none of two things.

text: Neither definition seems correct.

text: Neither Sarah nor John is going to the concert on Saturday.

text: Fresia and Lydia sat on either side of the bed, but neither spoke.

text: Neither of his two kids wants to work for him.

text: He only has two friends, and neither one is interesting.

text: In the first game neither side scored.

text: Neither Darwin nor Huxley worked at Oxford.

text: This helps neither you nor me.

text: We are neither saying that it's wrong, nor are we saying you should try it.

ipa: /ˈnaɪðər/

ipa: /ˈnaɪðə(r)/

hyphenation: nei‧ther


neither

glosses: Neither is used to show that a something that is not true in one case is also not true in another case.

text: She didn't have one, and neither did I.

text: If you don't go, then neither will I.

text: "I can't touch it." "Neither can I."


theirs

glosses: If something is theirs, it belongs to them.

text: This book isn't mine, it's theirs.

text: "Whose laptop is this?" "It's theirs."


grant

forms:
grant (canonical)
grants (third-person singular)
granted (past)
granted (past participle)
granting (present participle)

glosses: If you grant something to something, you give it to them, usually formally.

text: The school has granted us permission to use a classroom in the evenings.

glosses: If you grant something, you accept that it is true.

text: Yes, I'll grant you that the data is old, but I still think it's useful.

ipa: /grɑːnt/

ipa: /grænt/

sampa: /gr\{nt/


grant

forms:
grant (singular)
grants (plural)

glosses: A grant is something, usually money, that is given to someone, usually by a government or institution.

text: The professor received a research grant to study weather changes.

text: I got a $2,000 government grant to help me go to school.


freeze

forms:
freeze (canonical)
freezes (third-person singular)
froze (past)
frozen (past participle)
freezing (present participle)

glosses: If you freeze something, you cool it until it becomes solid.

text: Water freezes at 0°C.

text: The chicken will go bad soon. We should freeze it and then we can cook it next week.

text: I was freezing because I had forgotten my coat.

ipa: /ˈfriːz/

freeze

freezes

froze

frozen

freezing


freeze

forms:
freeze (singular)
freezes (plural)

glosses: A freeze is a time when the temperature is cold.

glosses: A freeze is when the usual way things are done is stopped.


milk

forms:
milk (singular)
milks (plural)

glosses: Milk is a white liquid some animals make for their babies to drink. People often drink cow's milk.

text: The boy had some fresh goat milk.

ipa: /mɪɫk/


milk

forms:
milk (canonical)
milks (third-person singular)
milked (past)
milked (past participle)
milking (present participle)

glosses: If you milk an animal like a cow or a goat, you take the milk out of it.


storm

forms:
storm (singular)
storms (plural)

glosses: A storm is bad weather with high winds that disturbs the atmosphere.

text: Small boats should stay off the water tonight because we are expecting a storm.

ipa: /stɔːm/

ipa: /stɔrm/


storm

forms:
storm (canonical)
storms (third-person singular)
stormed (past)
stormed (past participle)
storming (present participle)

glosses: If you storm, you move fast and noisily like a storm, usually when angered.

glosses: If you storm a building or other fortification, you assault it with military troops.

text: The sargeant and his platoon stormed the stronghold of the most wanted terrorist.


guess

forms:
guess (canonical)
guesses (third-person singular)
guessed (past)
guessed (past participle)
guessing (present participle)

glosses: If you guess at something, you try to imagine what it might be, but you don't know the answer.

text: "What happened? Why has play stopped?" "I don't know. I guess a player's hurt, maybe."

enpr: gĕs

ipa: /ɡɛs/

verb

guess


guess

forms:
guess (singular)
guesses (plural)

glosses: A guess is an answer that you give when you don't know the real answer.

text: "Wow, what a great car! How much do you think it costs?" "My guess is around $80,000."

noun

guesses


coffee

forms:
coffee (singular)
coffees (plural)

glosses: Coffee is a dark brown drink that is very popular around the world.

text: Would you like a cup coffee or tea?

text: "Milk or cream?" "No, thank you. I like my coffee black."

glosses: Coffee is the beans or bean powder used to make coffee.

text: Can you pick up a tin of ground coffee at the shop?

hyphenation: cof‧fee


rare

forms:
rare (positive)
rarer (comparative)
rarest (superlative)

glosses: If something is rare, you seldom see it or there are only a few.

text: It's rare to have snow in June.

text: The vory-billed woodpecker is a very rare bird, and has only been seen by a few people.

glosses: If a meat is cooked rare, it is cooked very lightly so that the meat is still red when it is done.

ipa: /rɛə/

adj

rare

rarer

rarest


attraction

forms:
attraction (singular)
attractions (plural)

glosses: An attraction is a force that pulls two things together.

text: magnets have an attraction to metal.

text: I feel a strong attraction to my husband.

text: I don't understand your attraction to rough men.

glosses: An attraction is a popular feature at an event or site.

text: Elephants and lions are major attractions at many zoos.

text: Country western singer Vince Gill was a big attraction at the State Fair.

text: The Alamo is a tourist attraction in Texas.

glosses: Something that causes interest, pleasure, or liking for someone are something.

text: she has romantic ideas about sexual attraction

ipa: /əˈtrækʃən/


motion

forms:
motion (singular)
motions (plural)

glosses: A motion is a movement, often not a big movement.

text: She made a small motion with her hand to get his attention.

text: The light turned green and he put the car into motion.

ipa: /ˈməʊʃən/

ipa: /ˈmoʊʃən/


motion

forms:
motion (canonical)
motions (third-person singular)
motioned (past)
motioned (past participle)
motioning (present participle)

glosses: If you motion a person, you direct or command them with a movement.


up

forms: up

pos: prep

text: The flag is up.

text: The balloon went up.

glosses: If a task or result is up to you, it means you are in charge of deciding or doing it.

text: The outcome of the game is up to the players.

text: It is up to you to choose the restaurant for dinner .

glosses: If you are up to something, you are doing or planning it.

text: What are you up to this evening?

text: We had better make sure he's not up to something stupid again.

text: She's always up to some kind of trouble.

enpr: ŭp

ipa: /ʌp/

sampa: /Vp/

ipa: /ap/

sampa: /ap/


up

forms: up (positive)

text: It was an up day.

text: He is feeling up.

text: What’s up?

text: They act like something is up.

text: Something is up with him.

text: It is all up with them.

up

comparative: false


up

forms:
up (singular)
ups (plural)

text: Life has its ups and downs.


up

forms:
up (canonical)
ups (third-person singular)
upped (past)
upped (past participle)
upping (present participle)

text: We upped the dosage.


wiki

forms:
wiki (singular)
wikis (plural)

glosses: A wiki is a type of website where anyone can change the pages.

text: Simple English Wiktionary is a type of wiki.

enpr: (wĭʹkē)


it

glosses: Used to refer to an object that might have been described earlier in the text.

text: The house was very big. It had many rooms.

text: It is very hot today.

text: I'm staying in because it is raining.

glosses: Used to describe a situation in general.

text: I don't like it when people tell me to do something.

text: It is hard to find a job.

text: It wasn't easy knowing where the ball would go.

enpr: ĭt

ipa: /ɪt/

sampa: /It/

enpr: ət

ipa: /ət/


it

forms: IT

pos: abbrev

glosses: Information Technology, i.e. the use of computers.

initialism

IT


themselves

glosses: You use themselves when the people doing an action and the people receiving an action are the same people, but they are not you or the person you're talking to.

text: They've hurt themselves.

text: They're very happy with themselves.

text: They've got themselves a new pet.

glosses: Use for emphasis, when talking about more than one person or about one person when you don't know who that person is.

text: The classes are as different as the students themselves.

glosses: If somebody or some people do something by themselves, they do it alone.

text: The children earned $500 by themselves. I didn't help.

glosses: If somebody or some people don't feel themselves, they are different from usual, because they are sick, scared, stressed, etc.

ipa: /ðɛmˈsɛlvz/

sampa: /DEm"sElvz/


park

forms:
park (singular)
parks (plural)

glosses: A park is an outdoor area where people can relax and play.

text: We sat under the trees and had lunch in Central Park.

text: Algonquin Provincial Park is the oldest, largest park in Ontario, covering about 7,725 square kilometres.

text: I'm going to take the kids to the park to play on the swings.

enpr: pärk

ipa: /pɑrk/

ipa: [pɑːk]

ipa: [pɑrk]

ipa: [paːk]

ipa: [pɐːk]


park

forms:
park (canonical)
parks (third-person singular)
parked (past)
parked (past participle)
parking (present participle)

glosses: If you park a car or other vehicle, you drive it to a place and let it stand there.

text: She never parks her car under a tree.


tour

forms:
tour (singular)
tours (plural)

glosses: A tour is a planned walk, bus trip, or flight, to look at a particular place.

text: Last year we took a wonderful tour to Rome.

ipa: /tɔː(r)/


tour

forms:
tour (canonical)
tours (third-person singular)
toured (past)
toured (past participle)
touring (present participle)

glosses: If you tour a place, you go around it to look at it, often with a guide.

text: The president gave a short tour around the new factory.

text: The opera company was touring Europe and Africa.

text: The Grammy winner toured several cities on the East Coast last year.

text: Many country western singers tour during the summer months.


grand

forms:
grand (positive)
grander (comparative)
grandest (superlative)

glosses: If something is grand, it's large and impressive.

text: As she got out of the car, she saw that the house was very grand.

adjective

grand

grander

grandest


traditional

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

glosses: If something is traditional, it has been done in the same way for a long time.

text: I learned traditional Japanese cooking from my grandmother.

text: It is traditional to give gifts at Christmas time.

ipa: /trəˈdɪʃənəl/

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


anesthetic

forms:
anesthetic (singular)
anesthetics (plural)

glosses: An anesthetic is a gas that is used by a doctor or nurse to make a person feel no pain or to put a person to sleep.

text: They used an anesthetic on him before performing the surgery.

ipa: /ˌænəsˈθɛtɪk/

audio: en-US anesthetic.ogg


decade

forms:
decade (singular)
decades (plural)

text: The 1960s was a decade of great change in North America.

enpr: dəkād', dĕk'ād

ipa: /dəˈkeɪd/


June

pos: name

glosses: June is the sixth (6th) month of the year.

text: There are 30 days in June.

text: June went to school with David.

enpr: jo͞on

ipa: /d͡ʒuːn/

proper noun

June

Junes


they

glosses: "They" is used to talk about two or more people, not you or the person you are speaking to.

text: I love Josie and Reg. They are nice people.

glosses: "They" is used to talk about two or more things.

text: Can you get the books for me? They're over there.

glosses: "They" is used to talk about one or more person when you don't know the sex or number.

text: If a person is fast, they can get there early.

glosses: "They" is used to talk about people in general.

text: When are they going to finish that new building?

text: They say you should drink eight glasses of water a day.

enpr: thā

ipa: /ðeɪ/

sampa: /DeI/


one another

glosses: Each of a group of more than two people or things to the others.

text: The army recruits helped one another get through the first few difficult days.

audio: en-us-one another.ogg


whichever

forms: whichever

glosses: You use whichever when it doesn't matter which thing.

text: Whichever colour you choose, you'll be happy.

text: It's OK to take whichever bus comes first.

text: Whichever of these two wins will take first prize.

text: "Would you like the blue or the green?" "Oh, whichever colour, it doesn't matter."

glosses: You use whichever when there's a particular thing, but you can't remember what it was.

text: We took whichever bus came first, number 41 I think.


whichever

text: Whichever you choose, you'll be happy.

text: It's OK to take whichever comes first.

text: "Would you like the blue or the green?" "Oh, whichever, it doesn't matter."

text: We took whichever came first, number 41 I think.


July

forms: July

text: There are 31 days in July.

enpr: jo͝o-līʹ

ipa: /d͡ʒʊˈlaɪ/

enpr: jə-līʹ

ipa: /d͡ʒəˈlaɪ/

hyphenation: Ju‧ly


fry

forms:
fry (canonical)
fries (third-person singular)
fried (past)
fried (past participle)
frying (present participle)

glosses: If you fry something, you cook it in a pan on a stove with hot oil.

text: Do you think we should fry the eggs or boil them?

enpr: frī

ipa: /fraɪ/

sampa: /fraI/

verb

fr

y


fry

forms:
fry (singular)
fries (plural)

text: Pass me a fry, I want to see if they taste good.

noun

fry

fries


perfect

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

glosses: Something that is perfect has no mistakes, problems, or damage.

text: She answered him in perfect Japanese.

glosses: Something that is perfect is exactly what was needed or wanted.

text: "Here's the knife." "Oh, yes! Thanks, it's perfect."

text: That's a perfect example of how to start a business.

glosses: In a perfect tense, a verb is used for a situation that is finished before another point in time.

text: I believe that in French the passe compose is equivalent to the present perfect tense in English.

ipa: /ˈpɜːfɪkt/

poses: noun adjective

ipa: /ˈpɝːfɪkt/


perfect

forms:
perfect (canonical)
perfects (third-person singular)
perfected (past)
perfected (past participle)
perfecting (present participle)

glosses: If you perfect something, you fix all its problems or make it as good as possible.

text: Our leaders have perfected the art of sounding good while saying nothing.

ipa: /pəˈfɛkt/

ipa: /pɚˈfɛkt/


perfect

forms:
perfect (singular)
perfects (plural)

glosses: The perfect is a verb tense used for a situation that is finished before another point in time.

text: This verb should be in the present perfect.


myself

etymology_text: my + -self

ety-suffix

my

expansion: my + -self

glosses: You use myself when you are the doer and the receiver of an action.

text: I taught myself.

glosses: If you do something by yourself, you do it without any help or alone.

text: I taught him myself.

glosses: You use myself to emphasize that it is you and not somebody else.

text: I know a lot of people love coffee, but I myself don't really like it.

ipa: /maɪˈsɛɫf/

sampa: /maI"sElf/


nuclear

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

etymology_text: nucleus + -ar

nucleus

ar

expansion: nucleus + -ar

glosses: Nuclear weapons, power, waste, etc. is produced by the collision of more than one nucleus, the central part of an atom.

text: Japan relies mainly on nuclear power (atomic energy) generation for its energy needs.

text: The US has more nuclear weapons than any other country. Many of them are called atomic bombs.

text: Most Canadians live in a nuclear family: the husband, wife, and children.

ipa: /ˈn(j)ukliɚ/


camp

forms:
camp (singular)
camps (plural)

glosses: A camp is a place, usually outside of cities, where people stay for a short time.

text: I don't think I can walk anymore today. Let's set up camp for the night.

ipa: /kæmp/


camp

forms:
camp (canonical)
camps (third-person singular)
camped (past)
camped (past participle)
camping (present participle)

glosses: If you camp, you stay in a place, usually outside of the city for a short time.

text: I hope we can go camping in the mountains this summer.


lunch

forms:
lunch (singular)
lunches (plural)

glosses: Lunch is the meal that we eat in the middle of the day.

text: Shall we have sandwiches for lunch?

text: "Is it lunch time yet?" "No, it's only 10:30."

ipa: /lʌnʧ/

noun

lunches


lunch

forms:
lunch (canonical)
lunches (third-person singular)
lunched (past)
lunched (past participle)
lunching (present participle)

text: Most people lunch around noon time.

verb

lunch

es


sister

forms:
sister (singular)
sisters (plural)

glosses: Your sister is the daughter of your mother and father.

text: My parents have three children: me, my brother, and my sister.

text: The Sister said that I must rest more.

glosses: A sister of a thing is something that has a special or affectionate connection to it, specifically one that is non-hierarchical.

text: Wikipedia is a sister project of Wiktionary.

ipa: /ˈsɪstə/

enpr: sĭs'tər

ipa: /ˈsɪstɚ/


winter

forms:
winter (singular)
winters (plural)

glosses: Winter is the coldest season of the year. In northern countries, December, January and February are winter months.

text: We like to go to Mexico in the winter.

ipa: /'wɪntə/

enpr: wĭnʹtər

ipa: /'wɪntɚ/


sibling

forms:
sibling (singular)
siblings (plural)

text: I think I know your sibling.

enpr: sĭbʹ-lĭng

ipa: /ˈsɪblɪŋ/

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

hyphenation: sib‧ling


little

forms:
little (positive)
littler (comparative)
littlest (superlative)

glosses: If something is little, its size is not big.

text: I just ate a tiny little piece of the cake.

glosses: A little while, distance, etc. is not long.

text: Could you just wait a little while more?

text: Two little boys were fighting on the playground.

ipa: /'lɪtl̩/

sampa: /"lItl/

adj

little

littler

littlest


little

forms:
little
less (comparative)
least (superlative)

glosses: Little money, room, help, etc. is a small amount of it; not much.

text: They understood little or no French.

text: He was busy and had little time for children.

text: Try to spend as little of your money as possible.

text: We saw little of her after the first day.

text: Little is known about the problem.

text: The building was destroyed leaving little more than rock and glass.

text: She's a quiet person with little to say about these things.

text: This has little to do with him and a lot to do with you.

text: We saved what little was left.

determiner-comp

less

least


animal

forms:
animal (singular)
animals (plural)

glosses: An animal is any living thing that can move. people are not animals, but are said to be animals, under the scientific definition. .

text: Dogs, elephants, and horses are all animals.

enpr: ăn'əməl

ipa: /ˈænəməl/

audio: en-uk-an animal.ogg


whose

glosses: Whose is used to ask what person something belongs to.

text: Whose is this? There's no name on it.

text: Whose coat did you take?

glosses: Whose is used to join a relative clause about a person or thing.

text: Children whose parents smoke are more likely to smoke themselves.

text: This is a country whose language is dying.

text: The girl in the picture, whose name is Marion Russell, was from my home town.

ipa: /huːz/


feather

forms:
feather (singular)
feathers (plural)

glosses: Feathers are the things which cover birds.

text: The bird was covered in feathers.

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

hyphenation: feath‧er


responsibility

forms:
responsibility (singular)
responsibilities (plural)

glosses: A responsibility is any action which somebody trusts or expects that another person will do. Responsibilities are normally given or taken.

text: He took that responsibility upon himself.

text: Looking after that pet is a big responsibility.

enpr: rĭ-spŏn'sə-bĭlʹĭ-tē

hyphenation: res‧pon‧si‧bi‧li‧ty

noun

responsibilities


block

forms:
block (singular)
blocks (plural)

glosses: A block is a hard piece of material, usually with six smooth sides.

text: When I was young, I liked building things with wooden blocks.

glosses: A city block is the distance from one road to the next.

text: We have to walk about three blocks to the restaurant.

glosses: In computers, a block is a restriction that prevents access to something.

text: I could not start a page on Wikipedia because of a block.

ipa: /blɒk/

sampa: /blQk/


block

forms:
block (canonical)
blocks (third-person singular)
blocked (past)
blocked (past participle)
blocking (present participle)

glosses: If X is blocking Y, then Y can't go past X.

text: The water in the bath won't go down. There's something blocking the drain.

text: The road was blocked by police.

text: Excuse me! You're blocking my view. I can't see.


some

forms: some

glosses: Used to mean an amount or number of something when the amount or number is not exact or specific.

text: Would you like some grapes?

text: Every government is ill-disposed to the press, all or some of the time.

text: He had edited the paper for some years.

text: I've just met some man who said he knew you.

glosses: You use some before a number to say that it may be a little more or a little less.

text: Some 200 people attended the event.

ipa: /sʌm/

sampa: /sVm/

ipa: /sam/

sampa: /sam/


arch

forms:
arch (singular)
arches (plural)

glosses: A semi-circle shape, like an inverted "U".

text: Robert drew an arch on the paper.

glosses: Any object having the shape of an arch, from stone bridges and doorways to bows.

text: They went through the arch into the church.

glosses: A part of the foot, on the bottom, which is shaped like an arch.

text: She stepped on a nail and hurt the arch of her foot.

enpr: ärch

ipa: /ɑrt͡ʃ/

ipa: /ɑːt͡ʃ/

arch

arches


arch

forms:
arch (canonical)
arches (third-person singular)
arched (past)
arched (past participle)
arching (present participle)

text: The cat arched its back.


arch

forms: arch-

pos: prefix

glosses: Arch added to the start of a word signifies it is important or the most important

text: An archbishop is a senior bishop.

text: comic-book villains may be an arch-enemy.

prefix

arch-


hit

forms:
hit (canonical)
hits (third-person singular)
hit (past)
hit (past participle)
hitting (present participle)

glosses: If you hit someone or something, then you touch them hard and fast.

text: The bully got suspended for hitting the boy in the face.

text: The red car was turning when the blue car hit it.

glosses: The past tense and past participle of hit.

glosses: If you hit on someone, you flirt with them.

text: I'm just gonna be hitting on chicks tonight

enpr: hĭt

ipa: /hɪt/

sampa: /hIt/

hit

hits

hit

hit

hitting


hit

forms:
hit (singular)
hits (plural)

text: The hit almost knocked me out.

glosses: A great success, especially in the entertainment industry.

text: His new musical comedy was a hit with audiences and critics.

text: He had so many hits last year that he was elected to the Musical Comedy Hall of Fame.


engine

forms:
engine (singular)
engines (plural)

glosses: An engine is the part of a machine which gives it power.

ipa: /ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn/

ipa: /ˈend͡ʒɪn/

ipa: /ˈend͡ʒɘn/

hyphenation: en‧gine


us

glosses: You use us to talk or write about yourself and other people together with you.

text: She said hello to us.

text: Can you tell us where it is?

text: We think this is important for all of us.

enpr: ŭs

ipa: /ʌs/

sampa: /Vs/

ipa: /əs/


us

forms: us

glosses: You use us to refer to yourself and other people together with you.

text: It's OK for you guys, but it's different for us women.


weight

forms:
weight (singular)
weights (plural)

glosses: The weight of something is how heavy it is.

text: She's put on a lot of weight since she went to university.

text: I'm exercising to try to lose some weight.

glosses: A weight is a heavy thing that you use to keep something down or that people lift to become stronger.

text: Can you put a weight on that paper so that it doesn't blow away?

ipa: /weɪt/


weight

forms:
weight (canonical)
weights (third-person singular)
weighted (past)
weighted (past participle)
weighting (present participle)

glosses: When you weight something, you add weight to it.

text: To get your fishing line down to the bottom of the lake, you must weight it.


tree

forms:
tree (singular)
trees (plural)

text: I'm going to climb a tree.

glosses: A tree is a map of ideas that looks like the plant.

text: My family tree shows how I am related to all my family members.

ipa: /triː/

enpr: trē

ipa: /tri/


tree

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

glosses: (uncommon) If you tree something, you chase it up into a tree.

verb

tree

trees

treed

treeing


yours

glosses: If something is yours, it belongs to you.

text: Excuse me, is this yours? I found it on the desk.

ipa: /jɔː(r)z/

enpr: yôrz

ipa: /jɔːrz/


ball

forms:
ball (singular)
balls (plural)

glosses: A ball is a round thing. People often use them to play games.

text: The croquet ball was hit through the wicket and the game was over.

text: A ball is hit with a racquet in tennis.

text: There is an inaugural ball following the swearing-in of the new President.

text: Cinderella lost her glass slipper at the Prince's ball.

text: John's balls ached because he hadn't had sex in two days.

text: John didn't have the balls to quit his job, divorce his wife, and start a new life in Tahiti.

enpr: bôl

ipa: /bɔːl/

ipa: /bɑl/


ball

forms:
ball (canonical)
balls (third-person singular)
balled (past)
balled (past participle)
balling (present participle)

glosses: If you ball something up, you make it into a ball shape.

text: Ball the cookie dough, wrap it in paper, then freeze it.


ourselves

glosses: The reflexive case of we, the first-person plural personal pronoun.

glosses: us (referring to us, when we have already been mentioned)

text: We should keep this for ourselves.

text: We did it ourselves.


object

forms:
object (singular)
objects (plural)

glosses: An object is a thing that you can touch, but it is not alive.

text: We don't know what killed him, but it was a smooth, heavy object.

glosses: The object of an action or plan is the goal or the reason for it.

text: The object of soccer is to kick the ball into the other team's net.

glosses: The object is a type of complement in a verb phrase or preposition phrase with the form of a noun phrase.

text: In the sentence Yoko ate the bread, the bread is the object.

enpr: ŏb'jĕkt

ipa: /ˈɒbdʒekt/

sampa: /"QbdZekt/

hyphenation: ob‧ject


object

forms:
object (canonical)
objects (third-person singular)
objected (past)
objected (past participle)
objecting (present participle)

glosses: If you object to something, you don't agree with it.

text: Most people will object to being asked to work too much.

enpr: əb-jĕkt'

ipa: /əbˈdʒekt/


who

glosses: You use who to add a clause to explain more about the person or people you're talking about.

text: They are good people who are working hard.

text: We saw Kim, who was in his car.

text: We asked everybody who was there.

text: It was you who lost the keys, not me.

glosses: You use who to ask about a person or people.

text: Who was on the phone?

text: Who's your new teacher?

text: Who did you meet today?

text: He told me who was there.

text: I'll ask who can help us.

ipa: /huː/

ipa: /hu/

sampa: /hu/


every

forms: every

text: I work every day from 6:00 to 9:30.

text: I believe every single word she says.

text: Our members are involved in almost every aspect of teaching.

text: The Earth goes around the sun once every year.

text: Every time I go to see him, like, he's happy.

text: Not every person can do this.

text: We get together every other week.

text: They're watching her every move.

text: There's every reason to believe that she will get better.

ipa: /ˈɛvri/

sampa: /"Evri/


March

text: There are 31 days in March.

ipa: /mɑːtʃ/

enpr: märch

ipa: /mɑrtʃ/

sampa: /mArtS/

proper noun

March

Marches


another

forms: another

glosses: Another of something means that there is one more of it.

text: Is there another way to do this?

text: Mike and another man came to our house.

text: I can't do this now. Let's do it another time.

text: Another of the things you can't ask is "how old are you?"

text: I've got this shirt, and another just like it.

text: That's another one of those things I have to do.

text: Can I just sleep for another five minutes?

text: I've been very busy with one thing and another.

text: I'll do it one way or another.

text: And another thing: clean this up!

text: I hope we don't get another George Bush.

text: Oh no! Not another problem!

ipa: /əˈnʌðə/

ipa: /əˈnʌðɚ/


enough

forms: enough

text: I've already had enough coffee today.

text: Do you think this is enough?

text: Is this good enough?

text: I'm not tall enough to reach it.

text: The noise was enough to wake her.

text: You should be bold and tell them that enough is enough.

ipa: /ɪ'nʌf/

sampa: /I"nVf/


terrible

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

glosses: If something is terrible, it's very bad.

text: He said she was ugly. Wasn't that a terrible thing to say to anyone?

glosses: If something is terrible, it causes people to feel terror or fear.

text: The witch laid a terrible curse on him.

ipa: /ˈtɛrəbl/

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


airplane

forms:
airplane (singular)
airplanes (plural)

glosses: An airplane is a vehicle with wings that can fly.

text: Can we hurry? I have to catch an airplane to Miami.

ipa: /ˈɛəpleɪn/

ipa: /ˈɛərˌpleɪ̯n/


partner

forms:
partner (singular)
partners (plural)

glosses: Partners are people, usually two, who are together for a particular purpose, such as for business, sports, or a romantic relationship.

text: My partner, Tom, looks after the administrative parts of the business.

ipa: /ˈpɑːtnə(r)/

ipa: /ˈpɑrtnɚ/

ipa: /ˈpɐːtnə/

ipa: /ˈpɐːtnɘ/

hyphenation: part‧ner


partner

forms:
partner (canonical)
partners (third-person singular)
partnered (past)
partnered (past participle)
partnering (present participle)

glosses: If you partner someone, you be their partner.


yourself

etymology_text: your + -self

ety-suffix

your

self

expansion: your + -self

glosses: You use yourself when the person doing an action and receiving an action are both you.

text: Be careful. You'll hurt yourself.

text: Are you happy with yourself.

text: I heard you got yourself a new pet.

text: Don't pretend you don't know. You yourself have seen these kinds of problems.

glosses: If you do something by yourself, you do it alone.

text: That's beautiful, son. Did you make it by yourself?

glosses: If you don't feel yourself, you are different from usual, because you are sick, scared, stressed, etc.

ipa: /jɔːˈself/

hyphenation: your‧self


bus

forms:
bus (singular)
buses or busses (plural)

glosses: A bus is a vehicle that carries a large number of people on roads.

text: He ran to catch the school bus, which had stopped at a corner to pick up more kids.

text: This bus makes ten stops before arriving at Union Station.

text: I woke up late and missed my bus this morning.

text: Tourists didn't usually ride the local bus.

text: The bus driver took out tickets as we got on at the station.

text: The two young men boarded a crowded city bus to go home.

text: She was the first and only passenger at this bus stop.

text: Round-trip bus fare to and from the ferry terminal was $1.

glosses: A bus is part of a computer; it moves information.

ipa: /ˈbʌs/

sampa: /bVs/

audio: en-uk-a bus.ogg

noun

bus

buses

busses


bus

forms:
buses (third-person singular)
bused (past)
bused (past participle)
busing (present participle)
bus (canonical)
busses (third-person singular)
bussed (past)
bussed (past participle)
bussing (present participle)

glosses: If you bus people somewhere, you take them there on a bus.

text: The children are bused to school every morning.

glosses: If you bus tables, you take away dirty dishes in a restaurant.

verb

busses

bussed

bussed

bussing


collection

forms:
collection (singular)
collections (plural)

glosses: A collection is a group of things of the same type. They are usually special in some way.

text: He has one of the biggest collections of paintings by Van Gogh.

glosses: If you take a collection, you ask many people for money, for a particular reason.

text: The school took a collection for new books.

ipa: /kəˈlɛkʃən/


herself

etymology_text: her + -self

ety-suffix

her

expansion: her + -self

glosses: Third person singular feminine reflexive pronoun

text: She went by herself to the store.

ipa: /hɜːˈsɛlf/

ipa: /hɝˈsɛlf/

hyphenation: her‧self


hall

forms:
hall (singular)
halls (plural)

glosses: A hall is a large space with a roof and walls. It can be a kind of large building, or a room or part of a building. Most commonly, it is the area just inside the front door.

text: Please leave your boots in the front hall.

ipa: /hɔːl/


few

forms:
few
fewer (comparative)
fewest (superlative)

text: I found very few problems.

text: There are so few good books.

text: I can't believe how few people are here.

text: There are so many problems and few are easy.

ipa: /fjuː/

determiner-comp

few

fewer

fewest


secret

forms:
secret (singular)
secrets (plural)

text: Can you keep a secret?

ipa: /ˈsiːkrət/

hyphenation: se‧cret


secret

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

text: We found her secret diary.


there

glosses: You use there to show that something exists.

text: There is a problem here.

ipa: /ðɛə/

ipa: /ðɛr/

sampa: /DEr/

homophones: their they're


there

forms: there

text: We left for Ottawa and arrived there at 7:00.


there

pos: intj

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


nut

forms:
nut (singular)
nuts (plural)

glosses: A nut is a kind of seed that usually grows on trees inside a hard shell and that people often eat.

text: Nuts are a good source of protein.

glosses: A metal ring that is screwed onto a bolt (thick screw).

enpr: nŭt

ipa: /nʌt/

sampa: /nVt/


nut

forms:
nut (canonical)
nuts (third-person singular)
nutted (past)
nutted (past participle)
nutting (present participle)

verb

nut

nuts

nutted

nutting


which

forms: which

glosses: You use which to ask for the selection of one or more members of some set.

text: There are a lot of new books this year. Which ones do you like?

text: Excuse me, which way is the toilet?

text: Which of the two wines is cheaper?

text: Which of the following cheeses are usually made from sheep's milk? A. pecorino B. vaccino C. provolone D. chevre.

glosses: You use which to add a clause to explain what thing you're talking about.

text: For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived.

text: I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one.

enpr: hwĭch

ipa: /ʍɪʧ/

sampa: /WItS/

enpr: wĭch

ipa: /wɪʧ/

sampa: /wItS/

homophones: wich witch


which

glosses: You use which to add a clause to give more information about the thing you're talking about.

text: We've met some problems which are very difficult to handle.

text: He walked by a door with a sign which reads: PRIVATE OFFICE.

text: He had to leave, which was very difficult.

text: We have to protect the environment in which we live.

text: She appears to actually like the man, which I find incredible.

text: No art can be properly understood apart from the culture of which it is a part.


wine

forms:
wine (singular)
wines (plural)

glosses: Wine is an alcoholic drink made from grapes or other fruit.

text: I don't drink wine very often. Usually I prefer beer.

enpr: wīn

ipa: /waɪn/

sampa: /waIn/


wine

forms:
wine (canonical)
wines (third-person singular)
wined (past)
wined (past participle)
wining (present participle)

glosses: If you wine and dine someone, you entertain them with dinner and wine.

win

e


asleep

forms: asleep (positive)

text: Please be quiet. The baby's asleep.

text: I had trouble falling asleep last night.

ipa: /əˈsliːp/


grass

forms:
grass (singular)
grasses (plural)

glosses: Grass is a green, leafy plant that often covers the ground.

text: We haven't got much rain, and the grass on the lawn is turning brown.

enpr: grăs

ipa: /grɑːs/

ipa: /græs/

sampa: /gr{s/

irrnoun

grasses


roof

forms:
roof (singular)
roofs or rooves (plural)

text: My five brothers, two sisters and seven cousins all live together under one roof.

ipa: /ruːf/

noun

rooves


roof

forms:
roof (canonical)
roofs (third-person singular)
roofed (past)
roofed (past participle)
roofing (present participle)

glosses: If you roof something, then you are putting a roof onto a building.

text: My father had to roof our house because it needed a roof.


part

forms:
part (singular)
parts (plural)

glosses: A part of something is one piece of it or a small amount of it.

text: As a part of this team, you need to come to practice regularly.

text: Part of the page was gone, so I couldn't read it.

text: I don't have the right part to fix your computer, but we've ordered it.

ipa: /pɑːt/

enpr: pärt

ipa: /pɑrt/

ipa: /pɐːt/


part

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

glosses: If A and B part, they were together and now they are not.

text: My wife and I parted after our son died.

text: We didn't want to part with the house, but we had to sell it.

text: He parted the leaves and looked up at the bird.


several

forms: several

glosses: Several things is a small number of things. More than two, but not very many.

text: It rained for several days last week.

text: We changed several of them, but left others untouched.

ipa: /ˈsɛvrəl/


several

forms: several (positive)

glosses: Their several things is a number of their things.

text: They each went their several ways.


now

forms: now

glosses: You use now when you want to say that something is true at this time. It is also used for things a short time in the future or a short time in the past.

text: I had many problems before, but I'm OK now.

text: What did you say just now?

text: The English teacher is at the library now.

glosses: You use now at the beginning of a sentence to get people's attention.

text: Now, I'd like to hear from other people too.

glosses: You use now to refer to the present time, often in contrast to a time in the past or the future.

text: Now is the time when we must all live as economically as possible.

text: Now is a good time to do it.

text: Mary should be home by now.

glosses: You use now to indicate that an event has occurred and as a result something else may or will happen.

text: I’m going to relax now the school year is over.

ipa: /nɑʊ/

sampa: /naU/


smoke

forms:
smoke (singular)
smokes (plural)

glosses: Smoke is the gray or black substance that goes up into the air when something burns.

text: The smoke from that factory is making me sick.

enpr: smōk

ipa: /sməʊk/

ipa: /smoʊk/

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


smoke

forms:
smoke (canonical)
smokes (third-person singular)
smoked (past)
smoked (past participle)
smoking (present participle)

glosses: If somebody is smoking, they are breathing in smoke, usually from a cigarette.

text: Excuse me, you can't smoke in the restaurant.

glosses: If something is smoking, it is making smoke.

text: The fire's still smoking. You'd better put some more water on it.

verb

smok


rat

forms:
rat (singular)
rats (plural)

glosses: Rats are medium-sized rodents. They often live near people and eat garbage. Rats can carry diseases. They are also kept as pets and can be very tame.

text: I caught the rat that was eating our food.

enpr: /răt/

ipa: /ræt/

audio: en-uk-a rat.ogg


aside

forms: aside

glosses: If you put something aside, you put it to the side, often because you want to use it later.

text: We put some money aside for the children's education.

text: The fans were pushed aside by police to let the band go through.

text: Aside from the wine, which was terrible, the dinner was excellent.

glosses: You use something aside to leave that thing out of the topic.

text: The lies aside, they're good workers.

ipa: /əˈsaɪd/


aside

forms:
aside (singular)
asides (plural)

glosses: An aside is something that you write or say that isn't part of your main idea.

text: And, just as an aside, I'd like to say that these ideas are not new...


Saturday

glosses: The seventh and last day of the week, first day of the weekend, and for Jews and some Christians, the day of rest.

text: Tomorrow is Saturday.

ipa: /ˈsætədeɪ/

ipa: /ˈsætədi/

enpr: săʹtər-dā

ipa: /ˈsætɚdeɪ/

enpr: săʹtər-di

ipa: /ˈsætɚdi/

hyphenation: Sa‧tur‧day

proper noun

Saturdays


we

glosses: The person speaking and other people with him or her.

text: "Are you and Mia still going?" "No, we're finished."

text: We went to Paris together.

text: We ought to help.

text: Let's go. We need to talk to Mark.

text: We won our football game.

text: We need to think about other people more.

enpr: wē

ipa: /wiː/

ipa: /wi/

sampa: /wi/


we

forms: we

text: We Canadians don't act that way.


young

forms:
young (positive)
younger (comparative)
youngest (superlative)

glosses: If you are young, you have not lived a long time.

text: She was only a young girl.

text: The young lion plays with his brothers and sisters.

text: He is very young.

text: They were friends from his young manhood.

enpr: yŭng

ipa: /jʌŋ/

sampa: /jVN/

adj

young

younger

youngest


young

forms:
young (singular)
young (plural)

text: The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.

text: The lion's young are curious.

noun

young


Christian

forms:
Christian (singular)
Christians (plural)

glosses: A Christian is a person who believes in salvation from sin through Jesus of Nazareth, called Jesus Christ or Jesus the Christ.

text: He is a conservative Christian.

glosses: To some religions, a Christian is someone who has a certain spiritual way of being. This is said to be from being spiritually born with the help of Jesus Christ. This is someone who has been saved from sin.

text: The Baptist preacher said that most Baptists are not really Christians.

ipa: /ˈkrɪstʃən/


Christian

forms: Christian

text: Hans Christian Andersen is famous for writing books of fairy tales.


Christian

forms: Christian (positive)

glosses: If you are Christian then you are a Christian. (See noun above.)

text: Yes, she is Christian.

glosses: If something is Christian, it has to do with Christianity.

text: Being saved from sin by Christ is a Christian idea.

text: Christmas is a Christian holiday.

text: They went to a Christian church.

glosses: If something you do is Christian it something Christians are supposed to do.

text: The way you forgave them was very Christian.

text: It is not Christian to steal from people.


alphabetical

forms: alphabetical (positive)

etymology_text: alphabet + -ical

word parts

alphabet

-ical

expansion: alphabet + -ical

glosses: In the order of the letters of the alphabet or related to the alphabet.

text: He made the list of names alphabetical.

ipa: /ˌælfəˈbɛdɪkəl/


ours

glosses: If something is ours it belongs to us; the possessive case of we, used without a following noun.

text: This land has been ours for years.

text: Is this bag yours or ours?

ipa: /ˈaʊɚz/

ipa: /ˈaʊəz/


licence

forms:
licence (singular)
licences (plural)

glosses: A licence is an official piece of paper that allows you to do something, such as drive, open a business, etc.

text: I got my driver's licence when I was 16 years old.

ipa: /ˈlaɪsəns/

hyphenation: li‧cence


licence

forms:
licence (canonical)
licences (third-person singular)
licenced (past)
licenced (past participle)
licencing (present participle)

glosses: Another spelling of license, usually thought to be wrong. The verb form should normally be spelt as license.

verb

licenc


third

forms: third (positive)

glosses: The third thing is the one that is number three (3) in order.

text: I have two older brothers. I'm the third child.

enpr: thû(r)d

ipa: /θɜː(r)d/

enpr: thûrd

ipa: /θɝd/


third

forms:
third (singular)
thirds (plural)

glosses: A third of something is one of three equal parts of that thing.

text: Four is one third of twelve.


loose

forms:
loose (positive)
looser (comparative)
loosest (superlative)

glosses: If something is loose, it moves easily or may come away from what it is attached to.

text: His tooth is loose and will probably come out in a day or two.

glosses: If something is loose, it does not fit closely.

text: My pants are so loose that they keep falling down.

enpr: /loo͞s/

ipa: /luːs/

adj

loose

looser

loosest


significant

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

glosses: If something is significant, it is important, or large, enough to pay attention to or to believe.

text: There was a significant drop in the price of gas today, causing drivers to line up at the pumps to fill up.

glosses: A significant look, movement, etc. is one that has a particular meaning.


sufficient

forms: sufficient (positive)

glosses: If something is sufficient, it means there is enough or that it is good enough.

text: We now have a sufficient number of people to do the job.

text: The food supplies should be sufficient to last the winter.

text: The factory was shut down because if didn't meet the necessary and sufficient conditions for safety.

ipa: /səˈfɪʃənt/


sufficient

forms: sufficient

glosses: You use sufficient to identify the smallest amount needed.

text: Sufficient of us are against this idea that we should stop now.


alike

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

glosses: If some things are alike, they are almost the same in some way.

text: My mother and I are very much alike.

ipa: /əˈlaɪk/


alike

forms:
alike (positive)
more alike (comparative)
Superlativemost alike

glosses: If some things act alike, they act in almost the same way.

text: All the men in the office dress alike.

glosses: You use alike to show that what you say is true of both groups or individuals.

text: Teachers and students alike have to work harder to improve this school.


major

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

glosses: A major change, problem, event, etc. is a big and important one.

text: We expected the change to cause a lot of problems, but in the end it wasn't as major as we had thought.

text: Tom Cruise had a major part in the movie. He directed it and acted in it as the main character.

glosses: A major musical scale is the usual scale for music in western culture. The major scale starts two notes above the minor and more often sounds happy.

text: That music could be D minor or F major.

ipa: /ˈmeɪʤɚ/

hyphenation: ma‧jor


major

forms:
major (singular)
majors (plural)

glosses: A major is a subject area that is the main study of a student at a college or university.

text: My major is Speech-Language Pathology, which is about problems people may have with talking.

glosses: A major is a military rank between captain and lieutenant-colonel.

glosses: A major is a person of the legal age of majority.


major

forms:
major (canonical)
majors (third-person singular)
majored (past)
majored (past participle)
majoring (present participle)

glosses: If you major in something, you concentrate on a single area of study as a student at a college or university.

text: My mother majored in English but I will major in psychology.


generation

forms:
generation (singular)
generations (plural)

etymology_text: generate + -ation

ety-suffix

generate

ation

expansion: generate + -ation

glosses: A generation, is all the people or things of about the same age.

text: My father belonged to a generation of travellers who saw the world before there was a McDonalds on every corner.

glosses: A generation is the average time between one when group of people were born and when their children were born, roughly 20–30 years.

text: During previous generations, travel was not so easy.

glosses: A class or type of objects usually developed from an earlier type.

text: A new generation of personal computers is about to hit the stores.

glosses: Generation is the creation of something, often electricity.

text: The increase in new power generation has not kept up with demand for electricity.

ipa: /ˌʤɛnəˈreɪʃən/

hyphenation: gen‧er‧ation


century

forms:
century (singular)
centuries (plural)

text: My great grandfather came to Canada over a century ago.

text: The telephone was invented in the 19th century.

text: Centuries passed before the slaves were freed.

ipa: /ˈsɛnt͡ʃʊri/

ipa: /ˈsɛn(t)ʃ(ə)ri/

hyphenation: cen‧tu‧ry; cent‧ury

irrnoun

centuries


belt

forms:
belt (singular)
belts (plural)

glosses: A belt is a piece of clothing worn around a person's waist. They can be used to hold up trousers or skirts, or for carrying things in pockets, such as on a utility belt.

text: I think I've put on weight. My belt is too tight.

glosses: A belt is used to hold people down for safety, such as a seat belt

ipa: /bεlt/


belt

forms:
belt (canonical)
belts (third-person singular)
belted (past)
belted (past participle)
belting (present participle)

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


plane

forms:
plane (singular)
planes (plural)

glosses: A plane is a vehicle with wings that flies.

text: Can we hurry? I have to catch a plane to Miami.

glosses: A plane is a surface that goes out in all directions indefinitely.

ipa: /pleɪn/

audio: en-uk-a plane.ogg


plane

forms:
plane (canonical)
planes (third-person singular)
planed (past)
planed (past participle)
planing (present participle)

glosses: If you plane a piece of wood, you smooth it with a plane.

verb

plan


noise

forms:
noise (singular)
noises (plural)

glosses: A noise is a sound, usually one that you don't want.

text: There's too much noise. I can't hear what she's saying.

enpr: noiz

ipa: /nɔɪz/

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


resident

forms:
resident (singular)
residents (plural)

glosses: A resident is somebody who lives in a particular area.

text: The local residents like the tourism because it creates more jobs for them.

glosses: A resident is a doctor who is still training, and who works in a hospital.

ipa: /ˈrɛzɪd(ə)nt/

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


resident

forms: resident (positive)

glosses: If you are resident somewhere, you live or work there.

text: If you are not resident in the town, you may not use the town pool.

text: The resident population at the school has grown each year, and now most of our students live here.

text: I am a resident of Thailand.


aunt

forms:
aunt (singular)
aunts (plural)

glosses: Your aunt is the sister of your mother or father.

text: After my parents died, we went to live with my aunt.

ipa: /ˈænt/

enpr: änt


registration

forms:
registration (singular)
registrations (plural)

glosses: Registration is the process of registering something.

text: The soccer club has registration at the school this week.


various

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

glosses: Various ways, types, kinds, etc. are many different ones.

text: I've made the dish a number of times in various ways. It's never the same.

text: What are the differences between the various types of bottled water?

ipa: /ˈvɛəriəs/

ipa: /ˈvɛriəs/


various

forms: various

glosses: You use various to identify more than one thing without saying exactly which ones.

text: Various books have been taken.

text: There are various ways to fix the problem.

text: You have broken various of the rules.


uncle

forms:
uncle (singular)
uncles (plural)

glosses: Your uncle is the brother of your mother or father.

text: My father has a brother, Joe. Joe is my uncle.

text: My mother's brother, Jim, is another uncle.

ipa: /ˈʌŋkəl/


parent

forms:
parent (singular)
parents (plural)

glosses: The parents of a person or animal are its father and mother.

text: Children may only enter the pool with a parent or guardian.

ipa: /ˈpærənt/


parent

forms:
parent (canonical)
parents (third-person singular)
parented (past)
parented (past participle)
parenting (present participle)


ideas

forms:
idea (singular)
ideas (plural)

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

text: I had two ideas that day.

text: He told me his ideas on conservation.

ipa: /aɪˈdɪəz/

noun

idea


murder

forms:
murder (singular)
murders (plural)

glosses: Murder is when one person plans to hurt or kill somebody and they kill somebody.

text: Police are looking into two murders at a club in Brazzaville last night.

text: A woman who lived in 1982 was walking into the woods, and was murdered by a man, who was into the woods, also, and her body was never found, so her family just had a memorial.

ipa: /ˈmɜːdə/

ipa: /ˈmɝdɚ/


murder

forms:
murder (canonical)
murders (third-person singular)
murdered (past)
murdered (past participle)
murdering (present participle)

text: He murdered two people in the bar.


each other

glosses: To one another; one to the other; showing that each of two or more things does something to the other.

text: Maria and Robert loved each other.

text: The two monkeys picked the bugs off each other.


will

forms:
will (present)
would (past)
won't (negative)

glosses: You use will to say that you strongly expect something to happen in the future.

text: Don't worry. The sun will come up again tomorrow.

glosses: If you will do something, you make a plan to do it.

text: I will go to the store.

ipa: /wɪl/

sampa: /wIl/

will

would

won't


will

forms:
will (canonical)
wills (third-person singular)
willed (past)
willed (past participle)
willing (present participle)

glosses: If you will something to happen, you wish for it to happen.

glosses: If you will something to someone, you write down your plan to give it to them after your death.

text: He willed his coin collection to his son.


will

forms:
will (singular)
wills (plural)

glosses: A will is a statement about what you want to happen after you die.

glosses: Will is the ability to push through difficulties.

text: His will states that the house will be inherited by his oldest son after his death.


cottage

forms:
cottage (singular)
cottages (plural)

glosses: A cottage is a small house, usually in the countryside.

text: When we were young, we spent the summers at a cottage on Canoe Lake.

ipa: /ˈkɒtɪd͡ʒ/

ipa: /ˈkɑtɪd͡ʒ/

hyphenation: cot‧tage


improve

forms:
improve (canonical)
improves (third-person singular)
improved (past)
improved (past participle)
improving (present participle)

glosses: If something improves, it changes from bad to good.

text: The government is planning to improve the quality of rail service by adding new trains.

ipa: /ɪmˈpruːv/

verb

improv


island

forms:
island (singular)
islands (plural)

glosses: An island is a piece of ground that is completely surrounded by water.

text: The fisherman lived alone on a small island in James Bay.

glosses: An island of an object, person, or place, is one surrounded by things very different from itself.

text: An island of peace and silence in a noisy city.

ipa: /ˈaɪ̯lənd/

hyphenation: is‧land


many

forms:
many
more (comparative)
most (superlative)

text: There are many people in China.

text: How many times have I walked down this street?

text: It was so many years ago that we first met.

text: There are not many people like him.

text: As many as 30 per cent of the population carries this disease.

text: In too many cases, people don't get the care they need.

text: A great many questions still have no answers.

text: Some are good, but not very many.

text: Many of our teachers come from other countries.

ipa: /ˈmɛni/

sampa: /"mEni/

determiner-comp

many

more

most


many

forms: many (positive)

glosses: You use many to indicate that you are talking about a large number of people or things.

text: The possibilities are many.


classical

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

glosses: Classical ideas or styles are those that were very common at a time in the past and sometimes continue into the present.

text: Classical theories in physics can't explain certain observations, which has led scientists to come up with new theories.

ipa: /ˈklæsɪkl̩/

hyphenation: clas‧si‧cal


cardboard

forms: cardboard (singular)

glosses: Cardboard is a material like paper, but thicker and stiffer.

text: Cardboard is used to make boxes.

text: I put all my furniture in cardboard boxes to move it.

ipa: /ˈkɑːdbɔːd/

hyphenation: card‧board

noun

cardboard


no

forms:
no (positive)
Superlative–

glosses: Used to disagree or refuse; to say something different from what the other person said.

text: No, I do not fish.

text: No, I still have some things to do first.

glosses: Used to agree with the negative side of a negative question.

text: Isn't the door locked? No, the door is not locked. We can go in.

ipa: /nəʊ/

ipa: /noʊ̯/

sampa: /noU/


no

forms: no

text: There is no water left.

text: No hot dogs were sold yesterday.

glosses: Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something). You can't.

text: No smoking.

text: There's no stopping her once she gets going.

glosses: Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.

text: My mother's no fool.

text: Working nine to five every day is no life.

text: He's no better off.


body

forms:
body (singular)
bodies (plural)

glosses: A body is the main part of a person, animal, physical object, or organisation.

text: After falling out of the tree, his arm was broken and his body hurt all over.

text: The governing body of the UN meets in Geneva.

text: The police found her body after she had been missing for three days.

text: The senate is an important legislative body in the United States.

glosses: A body of something is a lot on it together in one place.

text: Lake Michigan is a large body of water.

glosses: A body is a thing that all moves together.

text: The moon is a body in orbit around Earth.

ipa: /ˈbɒdi/

sampa: /"bQdi/

ipa: /ˈbɑdi/

sampa: /"bAdi/

hyphenation: bod‧y

body

bodies


burst

forms:
burst (canonical)
bursts (third-person singular)
burst (past)
burst (past participle)
bursting (present participle)

glosses: If something bursts, it breaks open because of pressure from the inside.

text: I was driving west on the highway, when my front left tire burst.

text: When the bell rang, the school door burst open and the children came out running.

glosses: The past tense and past participle of burst.

ipa: /bɜːst/

ipa: /bɜrst/

burst

bursts

burst

burst

bursting


burst

forms:
burst (singular)
bursts (plural)

text: There was a burst of laughter from the audience when the clown slipped on the banana peel.

text: A burst of brilliant music greeted the newlyweds when they walked into the ball room.


management

forms:
management (singular)
managements (plural)

etymology_text: manage + -ment

ety-suffix

manage

ment

expansion: manage + -ment

glosses: Management is the act of watching and controlling a business or situation.

text: This building uses a computerized energy management systems to save electricity.

glosses: The management is/are the people who control a business.

text: Management have received a 5% pay raise, but workers are only getting 3.5%.

ipa: /ˈmænəʤmənt/


tooth

forms:
tooth (singular)
teeth (plural)

glosses: A tooth is a hard, white thing in your mouth. You use your teeth to chew food.

glosses: A tooth is a sharp point sticking out of something and forms a row of sharp objects for cutting.

glosses: A tooth is a rounded point on a gear that is used to transmit or receive force and motion to other gears.

ipa: /tuːθ/

noun

teeth


coal

forms:
coal (singular)
coals (plural)

glosses: Coal is a fuel which comes from under the ground. It is black, or sometimes brown. People often burn it for heat.

ipa: /kəʊl/

ipa: /kɒʊl/


head

forms:
head (singular)
heads (plural)

glosses: The head is the highest and most important part of the body.

text: He put his head on the desk and fell asleep.

text: After a series of problems, the head of the company left.

glosses: The bathroom on a ship is called the head.

glosses: The head is the function of the most important element in a phrase.

enpr: hĕd

ipa: /hɛd/

sampa: /hEd/


head

forms:
head (canonical)
heads (third-person singular)
headed (past)
headed (past participle)
heading (present participle)

text: Bill heads for the mall after work.


percent

forms:
percent (singular)
percent (plural)

glosses: You use percent show the number of parts out of a hundred. The symbol for percent is %.

text: The cost of gas has increased seven percent in the last month.

percent

percent


compare

forms:
compare (canonical)
compares (third-person singular)
compared (past)
compared (past participle)
comparing (present participle)

glosses: If you compare two things, you look at, talk about, or think about how they are the same and how they are different.

text: I compared all different kinds of computers before buying this one.

text: Compared to the sun, the moon is quite small.

ipa: /kəmˈpɛr/

verb

compar


birth

forms:
birth (singular)
births (plural)

glosses: A birth is when a new baby comes out of its mother.

text: My mother gave birth to my brother at 12:00 on Dec. 31st.

text: The birth of the personal computer was in 1976.

enpr: bûth

ipa: /bɜːθ/

ipa: /bɜːð/

enpr: bûrth

ipa: /bɝθ/

ipa: /bɝð/

noun

birth


birth

forms:
birth (canonical)
births (third-person singular)
birthed (past)
birthed (past participle)
birthing (present participle)

glosses: If a woman births a child, she bears or give birth to a child.


what

glosses: What is used to ask for information about things.

text: What did you see?

text: What do you mean?

glosses: What is used to add a clause with more information.

text: I don't know what you mean.

text: I'll tell you what to do.

text: I'll see what I can do to help.

glosses: The thing(s) which: a small amount of something.

text: Take what you can find.

text: What you made was great.

text: I am what I am.

text: The city is not what it used to be.

text: They kept blaming him for what he had done.

ipa: /wɔt/

sampa: /wOt/

ipa: /ʍɒt/

sampa: /WQt/

ipa: /wʌt/

sampa: /wVt/


what

forms: what

glosses: What is used to ask about the member(s) of a group.

text: What book did you buy?

glosses: What is used to talk about the member(s) of a group.

text: What gifts you can give are appreciated.

text: What ideas he has to offer are likely to be half-baked.

text: I gave him what money I had.


what

forms: what (positive)

glosses: used to show that you feel strongly about something.

text: What a great book this is!

adjective

what


advertising

forms:
advertise (canonical)
advertises (third-person singular)
advertised (past)
advertised (past participle)
advertising (present participle)

ipa: /ˈædvə(r)ˌtaɪzɪŋ/

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

verb

advertis


advertising

forms: advertising (singular)

glosses: Advertising is the business or study of using newspapers, TV, etc. to sell products or inform people.

text: Coke has a new advertising campaign for a new drink.

text: There's too much advertising on radio.

noun

advertising


previous

forms: previous (positive)

glosses: If something happened at a previous time, it happened before a particular time.

text: Last year, we lived in Seoul, but the previous year we were in Moscow.


previous

forms: previous

glosses: You use previous to refer to a time before something else.

text: The history of this site previous to the seventeenth century is unknown.

text: Four years previous, he had been sick for a month.


slave

forms:
slave (singular)
slaves (plural)

glosses: A slave is a person who is owned by a master and who works for that master, but receives no—or almost no—money.

enpr: slāv

ipa: /sleɪv/

sampa: /sleIv/


slave

forms:
slave (canonical)
slaves (third-person singular)
slaved (past)
slaved (past participle)
slaving (present participle)

text: I've been slaving in the kitchen all day cooking food for Christmas dinner.

verb

slav


dirty

forms:
dirty (positive)
dirtier (comparative)
dirtiest (superlative)

etymology_text: dirt + -y

ety-suffix

dirt

y

expansion: dirt + -y

glosses: If something is dirty, it has dirt on it, or it is not clean.

text: After playing outside all day, her hands were all dirty.

text: You shouldn't say damn, shit, and other dirty words.

ipa: /ˈdɜːti/

ipa: /ˈdɝti/

adj

dirty

dirtier

dirtiest


adult

forms:
adult (singular)
adults (plural)

glosses: An adult is a person who is of the legal age of majority.

text: At age 18 years, he became an adult, so he could move out without his parents' consent.

text: Adult usually means a person who is in a legal sense either age 18 years or older.

glosses: An adult is a human who is sexually, physically and/or mentally mature.

text: The Harry Potter series was read mostly by young adults.

text: A person may be physically mature and a biological adult by age 16 or so.

glosses: An adult is a sexually mature nonhuman animal.

text: Adult female cows feed milk to their offspring.

ipa: /əˈdʌlt/


mass noun

forms:
mass noun (singular)
mass nouns (plural)

glosses: A mass noun is a noun that refers to an amount, not an item.

text: "Water" is a mass noun, but "scissors" is not.


arrange

forms:
arrange (canonical)
arranges (third-person singular)
arranged (past)
arranged (past participle)
arranging (present participle)

glosses: If you arrange something, you put it in order or you organise it.

text: We have arranged a meeting between the president of the company and the new owner.

text: I will arrange for a car to meet you at the airport.

ipa: /əˈreɪndʒ/

verb

arrang


per cent

forms:
per cent (singular)
per cent (plural)

glosses: You use per cent show the number of parts out of one hundred. The symbol for per cent is %.

text: The cost of gas has increased seven per cent in the last month.

noun

per cent

per cent


corner

forms:
corner (singular)
corners (plural)

glosses: A corner is the place where two lines or edges meet.

text: They live on the corner of Main Street and Dundas.

text: Just put it on the table in the corner of the room.

ipa: /ˈkɔrnɚ/

ipa: /ˈkɔːnə(r)/

hyphenation: cor‧ner


corner

forms:
corner (canonical)
corners (third-person singular)
cornered (past)
cornered (past participle)
cornering (present participle)

glosses: To corner someone is to get someone into a place where he or she cannot leave.

text: Jessy cornered him in the supply room and wouldn't let him leave.

text: The car really corners well. Turns are easy for it.


upper

forms:
upper (positive)
uppermost (superlative)

glosses: The upper thing is the one that is in a higher position.

text: The upper floors of the building are for offices and the lower floors for housing.

ipa: /ˈʌpə/

ipa: /ˈʌpɚ/

adj

upper

uppermost


upper

forms:
upper (singular)
uppers (plural)

glosses: A drug that stimulates a body. Uppers give a person energy and lower hunger.

text: He takes uppers so that he can stay awake all night studying.


library

forms:
library (singular)
libraries (plural)

glosses: A library is a place where books and other media are kept, usually on shelves. Most of the time, people are allowed to borrow these things.

text: I borrowed books at the public library today.

glosses: A library is a collection of books of other media. A person may call his/her collection of books a library.

text: The university's online classical music library is very large.

ipa: UK [ˈlaɪbrəri]

sampa: UK /"laIbr@ri/

ipa: [ˈlaɪbrɛri]

sampa: /"laIbrEri/

noun

library

libraries