subsidiary

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

glosses: If something is subsidiary, it is connected, but lower in importance, rank, or level, etc.

text: Surprisingly, the subsidiary company became more successful than the parent company.

text: At some point work became subsidiary to music for her.


modify

forms:
modify (canonical)
modifies (third-person singular)
modified (past)
modified (past participle)
modifying (present participle)

pos: verb

glosses: If you modify something, you change it, often only in small ways, and often because you want to use it in a different situation.

text: Both penalties and rewards can be used to modify children's behaviour.

text: It is also possible to modify the original by adding or removing parts.

text: We found some new problems and modified the program accordingly.

glosses: If a word, phrase, or clause modifies another, it is an optional word, phrase, or clause that gives more information about the other.

text: The adjective "big" modifies the noun "bridge" in the expression "big bridge".

ipa: /ˈmɒdɪfaɪ/

ipa: /ˈmɑdɪfaɪ/

hyphenation: mod‧i‧fy

verb

modif

y

expansion: [POS TABLE]


powder

forms:
powder (singular)
powders (plural)

pos: noun

glosses: Powder is the small parts that are made from any dry substance that is pounded, or ground into dust.

text: Flour is a powder.

text: When it's very cold, the snow is like powder.

glosses: A powder is an explosive mixture used in blasting.


powder

forms:
powder (canonical)
powders (third-person singular)
powdered (past)
powdered (past participle)
powdering (present participle)

glosses: If you powder something, you reduce something to small parts.

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


only

pos: adv

text: There are only three schools in this town.

text: You can get this only in Canada.

text: I'm only able to go on Monday.

text: He comes only once a year.

text: She only eats vegetables.

text: This is only what we got.

text: He's not only nice, but also good looking.

text: We will stop only to rest.

text: Things will only get worse.

text: Only call me if you have to.

ipa: /əʊnliː/

ipa: /oʊnli/

sampa: /oUnli/


only

forms: only (positive)

pos: adj

glosses: Just one or just a few; this and no other; no more than this.

text: She is the only woman doctor in this city.

text: These are the only coins I have.

glosses: An only child, son, girl, etc. has no brothers or sisters.


only

forms: only

pos: prep

glosses: You use only to introduce a fact that prevents a statement from being completely true.

text: They probably could do it, only you never let them try.


reward

forms:
reward (singular)
rewards (plural)

glosses: A reward is something good that is given after an act.

text: He gave the dog a small thing to eat to reward it for sitting still.

text: I got extra money as a reward for working hard.

glosses: A reward is a prize that is given for doing certain things.

glosses: A reward is the result of an action, no matter if it is good or bad.

ipa: /rɪˈwɔːd/

ipa: /rɪˈwɔrd/


reward

forms:
reward (canonical)
rewards (third-person singular)
rewarded (past)
rewarded (past participle)
rewarding (present participle)

glosses: If you reward someone, you give something to them as a reward.

glosses: If you reward someone, you give a reward to or for.

text: Why did you reward the kid for not behaving?


comb

forms:
comb (singular)
combs (plural)

glosses: A person moves a comb through their hair many times to make their hair look nice.

text: Joe always had a comb in his pocket.

enpr: kōm

ipa: /kəʊm/

ipa: /koʊm/


comb

forms:
comb (canonical)
combs (third-person singular)
combed (past)
combed (past participle)
combing (present participle)

text: I washed and combed my hair.

text: The police combed the forest for the person but didn't find him.


incentive

forms:
incentive (singular)
incentives (plural)

glosses: An incentive is something that makes you feel like you want to do something.

text: Companies should give their workers financial incentives to take the bus to work.

text: The government is cutting taxes to provide incentives for investment.

text: Doctors have a lot of incentive to see many patients and little incentive to spend much time with each one.

ipa: /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/

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

hyphenation: in‧cen‧tive


cooperative

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

glosses: In a cooperative effort, project, etc., a number of people work together to do something.

text: Development of the machine became a cooperative effort between university and industry in the UK.

glosses: If someone is cooperative, they listen and try to help or work with you.

text: He was very hard to work with, but recently has become much more cooperative.

adjective

more: true


cooperative

forms:
cooperative (singular)
cooperatives (plural)

glosses: A cooperative is a type of business that is owned by the people working there or by its customers.

text: Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), a retail co-operative, is Canada's largest supplier of outdoor equipment and has more than two million members.


laugh

forms:
laugh (canonical)
laughs (third-person singular)
laughed (past)
laughed (past participle)
laughing (present participle)

glosses: Someone laughs when they make a sound with their mouth because they think something is funny. It can sound like "ha ha", "ho ho", "hee hee", etc.

text: That was a really good joke. I've never laughed so hard!

ipa: /lɑːf/

enpr: lăf

ipa: /læf/


laugh

forms:
laugh (singular)
laughs (plural)

glosses: The sound of someone laughing, or the action of laughing.

text: We had lots of good laughs at the party.

text: I heard a laugh in the other room and went to see what they were laughing at.


lock

forms:
lock (singular)
locks (plural)

glosses: A lock is a metal thing on a door (or on a window, drawer, etc.) that stops people from opening the door unless they have the right key to open it.

text: No one will take things from my house. I have a very strong lock on the door.

glosses: A lock is two or more gates (doors) in water to let boats move from lower water to higher water or the other way.

ipa: /lɒk/

ipa: /lɑːk/


lock

forms:
lock (canonical)
locks (third-person singular)
locked (past)
locked (past participle)
locking (present participle)

glosses: Someone locks a door when they close the lock with a key so that no one can come in.

text: Remember to lock the door when you leave the house.


miner

forms:
miner (singular)
miners (plural)

glosses: A miner is a person who works in a mine. They go into a deep tunnel in the earth to get diamonds, coal, silver, gold or other minerals.

text: It was difficult for the miners to come out of the mine after some rocks fell in the tunnel.

ipa: /maɪnə/


feeble

forms:
feeble (positive)
feebler (comparative)
feeblest (superlative)

text: The old man is feeble.

text: I was very feeble that day because I was sick.

text: That's a feeble excuse.

text: Don't listen to her; she's feeble-minded.

ipa: /ˈfiːbəl/

hyphenation: fee‧ble

adj

feeble

feebler

feeblest


express

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

glosses: If you express yourself, you say something about how you feel.

text: Sam expressed his feelings.

ipa: /ɪkˈsprɛs/

verb

express

es


express

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

text: To mail the letter, Anna used the express service.


produce

forms:
produce (canonical)
produces (third-person singular)
produced (past)
produced (past participle)
producing (present participle)

glosses: Someone or something produces something when they make it or create it or make it come out.

text: This tree produces a lot of fruit every year.

text: He produced the paper out of his bag.

glosses: If you produce a play, TV show, or movie, you are its main business manager.

glosses: If you produce a recording, you are in charge of its arrangement, recording, and mixing.

ipa: /prəˈdjuːs/

produc

e


produce

forms: produce (singular)

glosses: Food from plants when they're being sold in a store.

text: There are carrots and apples in the produce part of the store.

ipa: /ˈprɒdjuːs/


driving

forms:
drive (canonical)
drives (third-person singular)
drove (past)
driven (past participle)
driving (present participle)

text: The man driving the truck went to the run-down weigh station.

text: In the European Union, driving on the right side of the road is normal.

glosses: If something is driving, it is moving quickly and strongly.

text: The driving wind blew the rain sideways.

enpr: drīʹvĭng

ipa: /ˈdraɪvɪŋ/

drive

drives

drove

driven

driving


note

forms:
note (singular)
notes (plural)

text: In this song, every word is on a different note.

glosses: A note is a short letter; something written on a small piece of paper.

text: If you go out, leave me a note to tell me where you went.

ipa: /nəʊt/

ipa: /noʊt/

sampa: /noUt/


note

forms:
note (canonical)
notes (third-person singular)
noted (past)
noted (past participle)
noting (present participle)

glosses: You note that something happened when you see that it happened and remember it.

text: I noted that you weren't wearing shoes.

not


mark

forms:
mark (singular)
marks (plural)

glosses: A mark is a single line left by a pen or pencil, or any small bit of color that got onto something.

text: You have a mark on your shirt from that tomato sauce you were eating.

ipa: /mɑːk/

ipa: /mɑrk/

homophones: Mark marque


mark

forms:
mark (canonical)
marks (third-person singular)
marked (past)
marked (past participle)
marking (present participle)

glosses: If you mark something, you put a mark on it.

text: The big rock marked the side of the car a little when she drove too close to it.

text: I marked the boxes so we would know which ones are mine.

glosses: If you mark something, you notice it or pay attention to it.

text: Mark my words!


control

forms:
control (singular)
controls (plural)

glosses: If you have control over someone or something, you can make it do what you want.

text: He should try to take control and tell the other handlers what to do.

text: driving in the rain, he had lost control on the wet surface and spun off the road.

text: The country fell under the direct control of the army.

text: They are trying to keep tighter control over spending.

text: The government will demand improved pollution control systems for all factories.

text: Most companies devote some resources to quality control and product testing.

text: Unless birth control methods are used, sooner or later the woman is likely to get pregnant.

text: The continuing Soviet desire for arms control led to a SALT II treaty.

text: The brain's control systems tend to decline with age so that, for instance, our balance gets less good.

text: The experimental group took the medicine while the control group took a sugar pill.

text: Suddenly the airplane went out of control and started diving.

glosses: A control is a button, switch, dial, etc. that lets you make a machine do what you want.

text: If you turn off your TV with the remote control, it continues to use a quarter of normal power.

text: She touched the volume control and the sound dropped.

ipa: /kənˈtrəʊl/

ipa: /kənˈt(ʃ)roʊl/


control

forms:
control (canonical)
controls (third-person singular)
controlled (past)
controlled (past participle)
controlling (present participle)

glosses: If you control something, you make it do what you want.

text: Too many people are overweight because they can't control their eating behaviour.

text: The company is controlled by a New York businessman.

glosses: If you control something, you do not let its numbers or size grow too much.

text: The new plan should control inflation.

control

l


too

forms:
too (positive)
Superlative–

glosses: If you say I am too tall, I am taller than I should be.

text: You can't come in. You are too dirty.

glosses: After someone says something, you can use too to say that something else is the same.

text: "It's nice to meet you." "It's nice to meet you, too."

text: I speak Japanese and Korean too.

text: I like it, and she likes it too.

ipa: /tuː/

ipa: /tu/

sampa: /tu/

homophones: to two


order

forms:
order (singular)
orders (plural)

glosses: Order is when things are where they should be.

text: I need to take some time to put my things in order.

glosses: The order of some things means which thing is first, which one is second, which one is last, etc.

text: The children will take turns in order of age.

ipa: /ˈɔːdə/

ipa: /ˈɔrdɚ/


order

forms:
order (canonical)
orders (third-person singular)
ordered (past)
ordered (past participle)
ordering (present participle)

glosses: To order something is to ask someone to sell it to you.

text: At the restaurant, she ordered chicken and potatoes.

glosses: To order someone to do something is to tell the person that they must do it.

text: The father ordered his children to be quiet.


title: scizzors

redirect: scissors

pos: hard-redirect


rational

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

glosses: If something is rational, it makes sense and is based on reason.

text: Driving without a seatbelt is simply not rational.

text: Use of clean fuels is a healthier and more rational approach to meeting our energy needs.

text: Science is more linear, logical and rational than art.

text: I don't know what happened, but I'm sure there's a perfectly rational explanation.

glosses: If someone is rational, they are calm and not emotional.

text: It's often difficult to remain rational when people are telling you you're terrible.

enpr: ră'sh(ə)nəl

ipa: /ˈræʃ(ə)nəl/


principal

forms: principal (positive)

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

text: Canada's principal trading partner is the USA.

text: Presumably most of us work for the same principal reason – in order to live.

ipa: /ˈprɪnsɪpəl/

adj

principal


principal

forms:
principal (singular)
principals (plural)

glosses: In American English, a principal is the head of a school. (headmaster in British English)

glosses: The principal is the most important person in a business, or an artistic group such as a dancers.

glosses: Principal is the money that you borrow and must pay back. It does not include interest.


live

forms:
live (canonical)
lives (third-person singular)
lived (past)
lived (past participle)
living (present participle)

text: He's not expected to live for more than a few months.

text: I live at 256 Oak Avenue.

text: Her memory lives in that song.

enpr: lĭv

ipa: /lɪv/

sampa: /lIv/

verb

liv


live

forms: live (positive)

text: The post office will not ship live animals.

glosses: A live firearm or explosive is able to cause harm.

text: The air force practices dropping live bombs on the uninhabited island.

glosses: charged or energized with electricity, usually meaning that the item may cause electrocution if it is touched.

text: Use caution when working near live wires.

glosses: A live bet is a bet that can be raised by the person betting.

text: Tommy's blind was live, so he was given the option to raise.

enpr: līv

ipa: /laɪv/

sampa: /laIv/


live

glosses: A live event is an event that happens in real time; direct.

text: The concert was broadcast live by radio.


incidence

forms:
incidence (singular)
incidences (plural)

glosses: The incidence of something is how often it happens.

text: regular blood pressure checks would reduce the incidence of heart disease and sudden heart attacks.

text: There is a surprisingly high incidence of theft in book stores.

hyphenation: in‧ci‧dence


look

forms:
look (canonical)
looks (third-person singular)
looked (past)
looked (past participle)
looking (present participle)

glosses: Someone looks at something when they move their head or move their eyes so that they can see the thing.

text: Look at this picture! Isn't it beautiful?

glosses: The way that something looks is the way that it appears.

text: A new car looks very nice until it gets dirty.

text: That doughnut looks delicious.

ipa: /lʊk/

sampa: /lUk/

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


nail

forms:
nail (singular)
nails (plural)

glosses: A nail is a small, long, thin sharp metal thing for holding wood together. People put it into the wood by hitting it with a hammer.

text: I need some nails to fix the roof.

glosses: A nail is the thick, hard part at the ends of fingers and toes.

text: I broke the top off my finger nail and it was very painful.

ipa: /neɪl/


nail

forms:
nail (canonical)
nails (third-person singular)
nailed (past)
nailed (past participle)
nailing (present participle)

glosses: If you nail something to something else, you use a nail to join them.

text: He nailed the set of shelves onto the wall.

glosses: When someone gets an idea just right, we say they nailed it or "hit the nail on the head".

text: I think you've nailed the reason why this isn't working.


slip

forms:
slip (canonical)
slips (third-person singular)
slipped (past)
slipped (past participle)
slipping (present participle)

glosses: When something slides, or moves a small distance while touching what it's on, we say it slips.

text: The hat slipped down until it covered her eyes.

glosses: When someone or something moves without wanting to move, we say it slips.

text: My foot slipped when I stepped on some ice, and I almost fell.

glosses: When someone moves quickly and quietly so that other people won't see them move, we say the person slips.

text: I slipped into the kitchen to start washing dishes while people were talking.

enpr: slĭp

ipa: /slɪp/

slip

p


slip

forms:
slip (singular)
slips (plural)

glosses: A slip is a piece of clothing like a small white skirt, that a woman sometimes wears hidden under her skirt or dress.


event

forms:
event (singular)
events (plural)

text: The event of her walking into the room happened before the event of the book falling off the table, so she saw it fall.

text: In the event that the machine breaks, read this to know what to do.

glosses: An event is when many people come together at a time they choose for a reason or for fun.

text: At the event tomorrow we're going to have balloons and music.

ipa: /ɪˈvɛnt/

sampa: /I"vEnt/


love

forms:
love (canonical)
loves (third-person singular)
loved (past)
loved (past participle)
loving (present participle)

glosses: When someone loves another person, they feel good about the person and want the person to be happy.

text: I love Colin.

text: Mothers love their children very deeply.

ipa: /lʌv/

sampa: /lVv/

lov


love

forms:
love (singular)
loves (plural)

glosses: The feeling of loving someone and caring for them.

text: Is my love for him a real love that will last a long time?

glosses: The feeling of liking something very much.

text: I love the simple English Wikipedia.

glosses: A tennis player who has scored love has a score of zero.

text: (From a sports commentator) Fifteen-love!


reject

forms:
reject (canonical)
rejects (third-person singular)
rejected (past)
rejected (past participle)
rejecting (present participle)

glosses: If you reject an idea or belief, you decide that you do not believe it.

text: We reject the idea that English is somehow "better" than other languages.

text: The court rejected his arguments that he should be set free.

glosses: If you reject a person, you refuse to care for that person.

text: Often people who are infected with AIDS are rejected by family and friends.

glosses: If you reject an object, you refuse to take it or keep it.

text: Consumers have the right to reject problem goods and demand a refund.

enpr: rĭjĕktʹ

ipa: /rɪˈdʒɛkt/

hyphenation: re‧ject


reject

forms:
reject (singular)
rejects (plural)

glosses: A reject is something that has been rejected.

enpr: rēʹjĕkt

ipa: /ˈriːdʒɛkt/


level

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

glosses: Even, flat, straight, smooth, horizontal. Having all parts equally as high as all other parts.

text: This table is not level: things are rolling off it.

ipa: ˈlɛvəl


level

forms: level

glosses: If one thing is level with another, they are at the same height.

text: The bookshelf is level with the top of the door frame.


level

forms:
level (singular)
levels (plural)

glosses: A level is a place that is higher or lower than some other places.

text: The room you want is on the third level of this building.

glosses: A tool for finding out whether a surface is level.


level

forms:
leveled (past)
leveled (past participle)
leveling (present participle)
level (canonical)
levels (third-person singular)
levelled (past)
levelled (past participle)
levelling (present participle)

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

level


underlie

forms:
underlie (canonical)
underlies (third-person singular)
underlay (past)
underlain (past participle)
underlying (present participle)

glosses: If x underlies y, x causes y; x is the reason for y.

text: Poor education underlies much of the crime and violence in our society.

glosses: If x underlies y, x is the basis for y or the most important part of y.

text: The basic principle underlying the argument is that we can know what each of the parts is.

ipa: /ʌndər'laɪ/

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

underlie

underlies

underlay

underlain

underlying


input

forms:
input (singular)
inputs (plural)

glosses: The input is the information that is put into something.

text: Everyone who is affected should have a chance to provide input.

text: You can put a mask over your eyes and plugs in your ears, but it's impossible to block out all sensory input.

text: The input to the amplifier should be digital.

text: Teachers should welcome input from their students.

text: It is important to avoid errors during data input.

ipa: /'ɪnpʊt/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-input.wav

hyphenation: in‧put


input

forms:
inputted (past)
inputted (past participle)
input (canonical)
inputs (third-person singular)
input (past)
input (past participle)
inputting (present participle)

glosses: If you input something (often into a computer) you put it in.

text: If the text has been correctly input to the computer, there should be no problems.

glosses: The past tense and past participle of input.

input

t

inputs

input

input

inputting


given

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

text: On any given day, you're likely to see her there.

ipa: /'gɪvən/

give

gives

gave

given

giving


given

forms: given

glosses: Given x means if x is true, happened, exists, etc.

text: Given our current problems, I don't think we can spend any more.

text: Given a number, we can find another number that is bigger.

glosses: Given that-clause means in consideration of the fact that-clause.

text: Given that they are inexperienced, they've done a good job.


given

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

glosses: If someone is given to doing something, they do it regularly.

text: My father's given to making long speeches about when he was a boy.

glosses: If someone is given to something, they wear, use, or do it often.

text: When she got older, she was given to elegant clothes and long speeches.


given

forms:
given (singular)
givens (plural)

glosses: A given is something that you accept as true.

text: We need to make a decision about where we will live after this, but selling this house is a given.


increase

forms:
increase (canonical)
increases (third-person singular)
increased (past)
increased (past participle)
increasing (present participle)

text: The amount of money in my bank account is increasing.

enpr: ĭnkrēs’

ipa: /ɪnˈkriːs/

hyphenation: in‧crease

increas


increase

forms:
increase (singular)
increases (plural)

text: There was an increase in movie releases last year.

enpr: ĭn'krēs

ipa: /ˈɪnkriːs/


favourite

forms: favourite (positive)

glosses: My favourite brand is the brand I like most.

text: Ford is my favourite brand of truck.

audio: EN-AU ck1 favourite.ogg


favourite

forms:
favourite (singular)
favourites (plural)

glosses: A favourite is a thing or person that someone likes the most. It is a thing that someone prefers, or likes more than any other.

text: chocolate ice cream is my favourite.

glosses: When kings and other royalty have favourites, these are people they trust.

text: He was a favourite of the king.


draft

forms:
draft (singular)
drafts (plural)

glosses: A draft is a piece of writing which has been or may be edited.

text: In the first draft of the story the characters names are all different.

text: Check final drafts for misspellings, using a dictionary or computer spelling checker.

glosses: A draft is when the military or a sport team chooses its members.

text: Many Americans moved to Canada to avoid the draft during the war.

text: The Tigers' first choice in yesterday's draft was pitcher George Berlin.

glosses: Depth of water needed to float a ship; depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's hull. (UK spelling: draught)

text: The ship had a draft of 6 feet.

glosses: Draft is beer that is served from a large container called a keg. (UK spelling: draught)

glosses: A draft is a wind that blows inside a building. (UK spelling: draught)

text: Close the window! That cold draft is making me sneeze.

ipa: /drɑːft/

ipa: /dræft/


draft

forms:
draft (canonical)
drafts (third-person singular)
drafted (past)
drafted (past participle)
drafting (present participle)

glosses: If you draft a letter, memo, agreement, etc., you write one that has been or may be edited.

text: You should have the contract drafted by a lawyer.

glosses: If a state drafts someone, it chooses them to be in the military.

text: I was drafted when I was 20 and spent two years fighting in France.

glosses: If a team drafts someone, it chooses them to play on the team.


needle

forms:
needle (singular)
needles (plural)

glosses: A needle is a small, long, thin sharp metal thing with a hole in it, used for sewing.

text: She used a needle and blue thread to fix the hole in the shirt.

glosses: A needle is a long, thing, sharp metal thing for putting drugs into a person through the skin.

text: The doctor used the needle to inject the medicine into the patient.


needle

forms:
needle (canonical)
needles (third-person singular)
needled (past)
needled (past participle)
needling (present participle)

text: Billy needled his sister incessantly about her pimples.

needl


out

forms: out

text: Polly opened the door and went out.

glosses: If something using electricity is out, it is turned off or the electricity is not flowing..

text: Turn the light out before you leave.

text: The power's out so nothing's working.

text: I'm trying to find which light went out.

text: Oh, no! The fire's gone out again.

glosses: Something that moves out moves from the inside to a place that is not inside.

text: He took the pen out of his pocket.

text: Please, close the door as you go out.

text: If you walk out that door, you can't come back.

text: The car stopped and out came two men.

text: We live out in the country.

text: He's about half an hour out of Toronto.

glosses: If someone is out, they are not in the place where someone is looking for them.

text: You can't see the doctor now. He is out.

text: We'll give out the books after everyone has arrived.

text: Don't throw that out. I'm still using it.

glosses: If something is out, you can look at or see it.

text: the sun is out

text: the flowers are out

glosses: If something comes out of something, it comes from it.

glosses: If something is out, it is available for sale.

glosses: If something is out, it is not in fashion.

glosses: If someone is out, they are not conscious.

glosses: If a you are out of something, you had it before but you've used or sold all of it.

glosses: If x is made out of y, y is the material that x is made of.

ipa: /aʊt/

sampa: /aUt/


out

forms:
out (canonical)
outs (third-person singular)
outed (past)
outed (past participle)
outing (present participle)

glosses: If you out somebody, you make public something they don't want others to know, especially that they are homosexual.

text: The media recently outed a conservative politician.

out


out

forms:
out (singular)
outs (plural)

glosses: If someone is prevented from scoring in baseball, they make an out.

text: There were two men on base and two outs.


cushion

forms:
cushion (singular)
cushions (plural)

glosses: A cushion is a pillow; a soft item that people can sit on or put their head on when they lie down.

text: Here's a bed with sheets, a cushion and a blanket.

text: Here's a soft chair with two cushions to make it even softer.

ipa: /ˈkʊʃən/


cushion

forms:
cushion (canonical)
cushions (third-person singular)
cushioned (past)
cushioned (past participle)
cushioning (present participle)

glosses: To stop one item from making hard contact with another item.

text: Mats were laid down to cushion the gymnast's fall.


attach

forms:
attach (canonical)
attaches (third-person singular)
attached (past)
attached (past participle)
attaching (present participle)

glosses: If you attach x to y, you put x on y so that they will not come apart.

text: Warnings and instruction should be firmly attached to the container.

text: Attach the wire to the speaker with the red clip.

text: Look for spaces where the tire attaches to the rim.

glosses: If you are attached to an office, department, location, etc. you work for that part of the organisation.

glosses: If a quality such as importance is attached to something, people think the thing has that quality.

text: There was a great deal of importance attached to being well dressed.

glosses: If something is attached to something else, there is a strong connection between them.

text: The promise of more money for the school is attached to better results from the students?

text: There is also something called ground rent, which is attached to these apartments.

ipa: /əˈtæt͡ʃ/

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

hyphenation: at‧tach

attach


hope

forms:
hope (canonical)
hopes (third-person singular)
hoped (past)
hoped (past participle)
hoping (present participle)

glosses: When someone hopes that something will happen, it means that they want it to happen and they think it may happen.

text: We hope that more women will decide to join the course.

text: It was hoped that the job would be filled by a local person.

enpr: /hōp

ipa: /həʊp/

ipa: /hɔʊp/

sampa: /hoUp/

hop


hope

forms:
hope (singular)
hopes (plural)

glosses: A hope is the idea in someone's mind when they're hoping for something.

text: All of my hopes came true!


twenty

forms: twenty

pos: det

text: I was in university when I was twenty years old.

ipa: /twɛniː/

ipa: /twɛntiː/


twenty

forms:
twenty (singular)
twenties (plural)

text: I'd like my $50 as 1 twenty, 2 tens and 2 fives.

glosses: "Twenty" is short for 10-20, meaning location.

text: Jason, what's your twenty?

noun

twenty

twenties


discrimination

forms:
discrimination (singular)
discriminations (plural)

glosses: Discrimination is the act of treating someone unfairly just because of their skin colour, religion, sex, etc.

text: Even in 2007, there's still too much sex discrimination at the higher levels of big business.

glosses: Discrimination is the ability to notice differences.

text: At this small size, discrimination is very difficult.

glosses: Discrimination is the ability to recognise high levels of quality.

text: The clothes were chosen by someone with discrimination.

ipa: /dɪskrɪmɪˈneɪʃən/


minimum

forms:
minimum (singular)
minimums or minima (plural)

glosses: The minimum is the lowest number, size, amount, etc. that exists, that is allowed, or that is possible.

text: Try to keep drinking to a minimum at school.

text: A minimum of three workers is needed to do the job.

hyphenation: min‧imum

minima


minus

forms: minus

glosses: You use x minus y to show that y is taken away from x.

text: Five minus three is two. (5-3=2)

text: The TV is $299 minus a 10% discount.

text: The margin of error is plus or minus one per cent.

enpr: mīn-əs

ipa: /ˈmaɪnəs/


minus

forms:
minus (singular)
minuses (plural)

glosses: A minus sign, negative sign, or minus is the symbol "－". It is used in more than one situation:

text: before a number, to indicate that it is a negative number.

text: in a math problem 3-1=2 to indicate subtraction.

glosses: A minus is a problem or some negative aspect.

text: He's nice, but the way he dresses is a real minus.

minus

minuses


come

forms:
come (canonical)
comes (third-person singular)
came (past)
come (past participle)
coming (present participle)

glosses: To move towards a place or into a place; to move to the place where the person who is talking is.

text: Come to my house and I will give you something to eat.

text: Come here to me.

text: Twenty people came to the party.

text: He came here, but he went away again before you came here.

enpr: kŭm

ipa: /kʌm/

audio: en-uk-to come.ogg

come

comes

came

come

coming


come

forms: come

text: We'll talk again come January.


come

forms: come (singular)

text: (also spelled cum)


heat

forms:
heat (singular)
heats (plural)

glosses: Heat is a kind of energy. It is the quality things have when they are warm or hot.

text: This is a good coat. It keeps the heat in.

text: The heat from the sun is making me feel hot and tired.


heat

forms:
heat (canonical)
heats (third-person singular)
heated (past)
heated (past participle)
heating (present participle)

text: I just need to heat up the food and then we can eat.


root

forms:
root (singular)
roots (plural)

glosses: A root is a part of a tree or plant that is under the ground.

text: The tree was supported by strong roots.

glosses: A root is the important part or the beginning part of something.

text: hatred is the root of all evil.

text: I've lived here so long that I have roots here.

text: The root of the word "being" is "be".

enpr: ro͞ot

ipa: /ruːt/


root

forms:
root (canonical)
roots (third-person singular)
rooted (past)
rooted (past participle)
rooting (present participle)

glosses: To root is to give or enable to something to develop roots; to fix or implant by or as if by roots

glosses: To root is to remove altogether by or as if by pulling out by the roots – usually used with out

text: The school authorities will root out the troublemakers.

text: dandelions took root in my flowerbeds.

text: The love of money has its roots in greed.


cover

forms:
cover (canonical)
covers (third-person singular)
covered (past)
covered (past participle)
covering (present participle)

glosses: Something that is covering another thing is on top of (or over) the other thing in a way that stops people from seeing it.

text: I cover myself in two blankets at night to stay warm.

text: Remember to cover the pot with a lid while you're cooking something.

ipa: /ˈkʌvɚ/

ipa: /ˈkʌvə/


cover

forms:
cover (singular)
covers (plural)

glosses: A cover is something that usually covers something else.

text: The cover of the book has a picture on it under the name of the book.


simulation

forms:
simulation (singular)
simulations (plural)

glosses: A simulation of an event is when people make something that looks like the event happening, but it isn't real.

text: Before we watched them land on the moon, we watched a simulation so we would know what it would look like.

text: Doctors sometimes learn surgery in a simulation of a real operation.

text: To make movies you have to set up a lot of simulations.

ipa: /sɪmjuːˈleɪʃ(ə)n/

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


fight

forms:
fight (canonical)
fights (third-person singular)
fought (past)
fought (past participle)
fighting (present participle)

glosses: When two people fight against each other, they hit each other and try to hurt each other.

text: Two children were fighting over a toy, and one child got hurt and started to cry.

glosses: When two people fight against each other, they want different things and they try to get what they want. They might yell, or they might just try hard.

text: When that husband and wife fight with each other, they don't hit. They just yell at each other.

text: I'm fighting to get more money for the work I do.

enpr: fīt

ipa: /faɪt/

sampa: /faIt/

fight

fights

fought

fought

fighting


fight

forms:
fight (singular)
fights (plural)

text: There was a fight in the bar last night and three people had to go to the hospital.


rigid

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

text: It's possible to use flexible materials to form a rigid structure.

ipa: /ˈrɪʤɪd/

sampa: /"rIdZId/


fall

forms:
fall (canonical)
falls (third-person singular)
fell (past)
fallen (past participle)
falling (present participle)

glosses: When something or someone falls, it moves down quickly down through the air because nothing is holding it. It moves to a lower position because of gravity.

text: The apple fell from the tree.

text: The bridge is falling down.

text: He tripped on a banana peel and fell down, hurting his leg.

glosses: When someone falls, they can mean coming down to the ground on purpose, lying with the face down.

text: He fell to the floor and begged for mercy.

glosses: Falling is when someone or something has been defeated.

text: The Romans fell to the Goths in 410 AD.

enpr: fôl

ipa: /fɔːl/

ipa: /fɔl/

fall

falls

fell

fallen

falling


fall

forms:
fall (singular)
falls (plural)

glosses: Fall is the name for autumn used only in North America, named after the falling of leaves during the season. It is the season when the weather is getting colder, after summer and before winter.

text: These plants are growing big and they will be ready to eat in the fall.

glosses: A fall or falls or waterfall is a part of a river where water is falling.

text: We went to the falls to eat lunch outside and watch the water falling.

glosses: A fall is when people suffered a loss of greatness or status, such as the fall of Rome.


harbour

forms:
harbour (singular)
harbours (plural)

glosses: A harbour is some water in a curve of land where it's safe for boats because there are no big waves.

text: A ship in the harbour is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.

ipa: /ˈhɑrbər/


harbour

forms:
harbour (canonical)
harbours (third-person singular)
harboured (past)
harboured (past participle)
harbouring (present participle)

glosses: To provide a harbour or safe place for something or someone.

text: The old docks once harboured all kinds of ships, but they have been closed for years now.

text: The ships harbour in the bay during the winter months.

text: Sam has harboured resentment against Joe since Joe got the job they both applied for.


fish

forms:
fish (singular)
fish or fishes (plural)

glosses: A fish is an animal that lives in the water and has scales and gills.

text: When I went fishing, I only caught two fish.

text: White wine goes well with fish.

ipa: /fɪʃ/

sampa: /fIS/

fish

fish

fishes


fish

forms:
fish (canonical)
fishes (third-person singular)
fished (past)
fished (past participle)
fishing (present participle)

glosses: To fish means to catch fish, or to get other things that are in the water.

text: He fished the ball out of the river.


fold

forms:
fold (canonical)
folds (third-person singular)
folded (past)
folded (past participle)
folding (present participle)

glosses: If you fold something thin such as paper, you bend it so it touches itself.

text: A type of art where paper is folded to make different models is called origami.

text: She folded the letter and put it into the envelope to mail it.

glosses: In poker, if you fold, you stop betting and withdraw.

text: After three people folded, there were only two people left in the game, betting against each other.

glosses: If you fold on ingredient into another, you stir it gently and carefully with a folding action.

text: Fold the egg whites into the batter.


fold

forms:
fold (singular)
folds (plural)

text: There was a fold down the middle of the paper.

glosses: A fold is a small place with a fence around it where people keep sheep.

text: After the sheep eat grass all day in the fields, they come home to the fold where it's safe for the night.


distance

forms:
distance (singular)
distances (plural)

glosses: The distance between two things is how far apart they are. A short distance means they're close to each other, and a long distance means they're far apart.

text: The distance from the Earth to the Sun is 93 million miles.

text: The distance from my house to the store is 2 kilometres.

text: The two girls were sitting a short distance apart, so they could hear each other whisper.

ipa: /ˈdɪstəns/

hyphenation: dis‧tance


distance

forms:
distance (canonical)
distances (third-person singular)
distanced (past)
distanced (past participle)
distancing (present participle)

glosses: If you distance yourself from someone, you move away from something or someone.

verb

distanc


side

forms:
side (singular)
sides (plural)

text: A square has four sides.

glosses: A side is the left part or the right part of something.

text: This car has only one door on each side.

glosses: A side is an area next to or near something else.

text: The statue is on the east side of the school.

glosses: A side is one surface of a sheet of paper.

text: Please write on both sides of the paper.

glosses: A side is one possible way of looking at or thinking about a concept (usually positive or negative).

text: On the plus side, my car is fixed.

text: Try not to look at the down side of things.

glosses: A side is one team of players in a game.

text: Which side is winning?

glosses: A side is country or a group of countries fighting together in a war.

text: In the second world war, the Italians were on the side of the Germans.

glosses: (US) A side is a side dish of food that is not the main dish.

text: Do you want a side of french fries with your hamburger?

enpr: sīd

ipa: /saɪd/

sampa: /saId/


side

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

glosses: (usually with "with") To side with someone is to be in an alliance with them.

text: Who will you side with, Bob or Rachel?

sid


revenue

forms:
revenue (singular)
revenues (plural)

glosses: Revenue is the money that a business receives for doing business, and government receives from taxes.

text: Higher oil prices should raise government revenue by 13%.

text: Individual taxpayers today provide a bigger share of our tax revenues than they did before.

text: The company earned 20% of its revenues from services such as consulting, software and management.

text: The City is happy because a new source of revenue has been located.

ipa: /ˈrɛvənjuː/

enpr: rĕvʹə-n(y)o͞oʹ

ipa: /ˈrɛvəˌn(j)u/

hyphenation: (UK): rev‧en‧ue; (US): rev‧e‧nue; rev‧enue


wealth

forms: wealth (singular)

glosses: Wealth is when one has a lot of money. Wealth is a lot of money or a lot of things of high value like land, houses, factories, jewelry, etc.

text: His wealth is so great that he wears new shoes every day.

ipa: /wɛlθ/


record

forms:
record (singular)
records (plural)

glosses: A record is something in writing to tell what happened.

text: Keep a record of the date and what you said every time you talk to that person.

glosses: A record is a big round black plastic thing with music or other sounds on it.

text: Now people don't use records any more -- they use cassettes or CDs.

ipa: /ˈrɛkɔːd/

enpr: rĕkʹərd

ipa: /ˈrɛkɚd/

hyphenation: rec‧ord; re‧cord


record

forms:
record (canonical)
records (third-person singular)
recorded (past)
recorded (past participle)
recording (present participle)

glosses: To make a written record about something.

text: She recorded everything she did in a little book.

glosses: To put music or other sounds onto a machine.

text: The singer recorded some songs on CDs to sell them.

ipa: /rɨˈkɔːd/

enpr: rĭ-kôrdʹ

ipa: /rɪˈkɔrd/


present

forms:
present (singular)
presents (plural)

glosses: A present is a gift; something that someone gives to someone else.

text: Here's a birthday present for you. I hope you like it.

glosses: The present is the time now at this moment.

text: yesterday is the past, tomorrow is the future, and today is the present.

enpr: prĕ'zənt

poses: noun adjective

ipa: /ˈprɛzənt/


present

forms: present (positive)

glosses: Someone is present if the person is here, or the person is at the place someone is talking about.

text: Five men and two women were present when the meeting started.


present

forms:
present (canonical)
presents (third-person singular)
presented (past)
presented (past participle)
presenting (present participle)

glosses: When you present something, you show it or give it to someone.

enpr: prĭzĕnt'

ipa: /prɪˈzɛnt/

sampa: /prI"zEnt/


history

forms:
history (singular)
histories (plural)

text: China has many old books about its history.

text: The restaurant is close to the city's history and art museums.

glosses: History is the study of what happened in the past.

text: He is a professor of history.

glosses: If somebody or something makes history, they do something very important that will not be forgotten.

text: She made history by becoming Africa's first elected female president.

glosses: If somebody or something goes down in history, they are remembered by people because they were very important or well known.

text: She'll go down in history as one of our greatest writers.

glosses: A history is a book recording things that have happened.

text: He was reading a history of Ancient Rome.

glosses: If somebody or something has a history of something, it's very common for them.

text: She has a history of cheating on tests.

glosses: If you say something is history, you mean it's finished, over, dead, or not important any more.

text: OK, that game's history.

glosses: If you say the rest is history, you mean you don't have to tell about because everyone already knows.

text: They just happened to run into each other at the right time, and the rest is history.

enpr: hĭsʹt(ə)rē

ipa: /ˈhɪst(ə)ri/

hyphenation: his‧to‧ry; hist‧ory

noun

histories


overseas

forms: overseas

etymology_text: over- + seas

ety-prefix

over

seas

expansion: over- + seas

glosses: If something is overseas, it is in a different country, usually across the ocean.

text: After university she went overseas to teach.

glosses: The overseas markets, students, etc. are in or from a different country, usually across an ocean.

text: Wang is an overseas student from China.

text: Canada needs to do more for overseas development, especially in Africa.

text: With the college taking in more overseas students, more attention is being put on language issues.

ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈsiːz/

ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈsiːz/

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


garden

forms:
garden (singular)
gardens (plural)

glosses: A garden is a place where flowers and other plants grow where people want them to. Frequently it is a small place with a wall around it, near a house. It may have rocks and other things in it to look beautiful.

text: She spends a lot of time taking care of the flowers in her garden.

ipa: /ˈɡɑːdən/

enpr: gärʹdən

ipa: /ˈɡɑːrdən/

hyphenation: gar‧den


garden

forms:
garden (canonical)
gardens (third-person singular)
gardened (past)
gardened (past participle)
gardening (present participle)

glosses: If you garden, you work in a garden, especially your own garden around your house.

text: He joined his mother when she gardened and talked to her flowers.


living

forms:
live (canonical)
lives (third-person singular)
lived (past)
lived (past participle)
living (present participle)

ipa: /lɪvɪŋ/

verb

liv


living

forms:
living (singular)
livings (plural)

text: What do you do for a living?


living

forms: living (positive)

glosses: A living thing is a person, animal or plant that is not dead—it is still able to function and grow.

text: Living things grow and make more living things like themselves.


awful

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

glosses: Very bad. So bad that people don't want to think about it.

text: When all the children were crying, it was just awful.

ipa: /ˈɔːfʊl/

ipa: /ˈɔfəl/


sacrifice

forms:
sacrifice (singular)
sacrifices (plural)

glosses: A sacrifice is something that a person gives up in order to help him or somebody else. A person who makes a sacrifice for a friend will do something that he might not want to do in order to help his friend.

glosses: A sacrifice is an offer given as a gift to a god.

text: People in the Old Testament offered a lamb as a sacrifice to God for forgiveness.

ipa: /ˈsækrɪfaɪs/

hyphenation: sac‧ri‧fice


sacrifice

forms:
sacrifice (canonical)
sacrifices (third-person singular)
sacrificed (past)
sacrificed (past participle)
sacrificing (present participle)

glosses: If you sacrifice someone or something, you give them up for other things.

sacrific


dear

forms:
dear (positive)
dearer (comparative)
dearest (superlative)

glosses: Dear is something that is precious or greatly valued to someone. They love the thing or the person.

text: My large stamp collection is very dear to me.

text: Dear George, Thank you for your letter of August 1.

glosses: Dear is something very expensive. It has a higher price; costs a lot of money.

text: That diamond ring is too dear -- we can't buy it.

ipa: /dɪə/

ipa: /dɪr/

sampa: /dIr/

adj

dear

dearer

dearest


dear

forms:
dear (singular)
dears (plural)

text: My cousin is my dear because she gives me flowers very often.


fifth

forms: fifth (positive)

glosses: The fifth thing is something that is number five (5) in order.

ipa: /fifθ/

sampa: /fifT/


fifth

forms:
fifth (singular)
fifths (plural)

glosses: A fifth of something is one of five equal parts of that thing.

text: Three is one fifth of fifteen.

glosses: A fifth of an alcoholic drink is a bottle of it.

text: They drank a fifth of vodka last night.


initiative

forms:
initiative (singular)
initiatives (plural)

glosses: If you have or take the initiative, you are in control and can decide what to do next.

text: It's good to see someone take the initiative and start doing something about this problem.

text: It appears that the army was acting on its own initiative and not on orders from the president.

glosses: If you have initiative, you do things without needing to be told to do them.

text: We're looking to hire somebody with initiative because I won't be able to supervise them much.

glosses: An initiative is an effort to start doing something to solve a problem.

text: The town has no new initiatives to deal with garbage.


seed

forms:
seed (singular)
seeds (plural)

glosses: A seed is a small round thing that can grow to be a plant, a flower or a tree.

text: She put the seeds into the ground in the garden so that food and flowers would grow.

enpr: sēd

ipa: /siːd/


seed

forms:
seed (canonical)
seeds (third-person singular)
seeded (past)
seeded (past participle)
seeding (present participle)

text: I'm going to seed the garden so vegetables grow there.

glosses: If a man seeds in a woman, he ejaculates inside her during sexual intercourse.


parcel

forms:
parcel (singular)
parcels (plural)

glosses: A package; a box wrapped in paper; a thing bigger than a letter that is sent in the mail.

text: On my birthday, I got a parcel in the mail.

glosses: A parcel of land is a piece of land that was part of a larger piece.

enpr: pärʹ-səl

ipa: /ˈpɑrsəl/

hyphenation: par‧cel


parcel

forms:
parcelled (past)
parcelled (past participle)
parcelling (present participle)
parcel (canonical)
parcels (third-person singular)
parceled (past)
parceled (past participle)
parceling (present participle)

glosses: If you parcel something out, you divide it into small parts to give to different people.

text: The set of books was parcelled out among the people who were there.

glosses: If you parcel something off, you divide it into small parts to be sold to different people.

glosses: If you parcel something up, you make it into a parcel by wrapping it up.

verb

parcel


exchange

forms:
exchange (canonical)
exchanges (third-person singular)
exchanged (past)
exchanged (past participle)
exchanging (present participle)

glosses: An exchange is when a person or a group of people trade an item or service with another person or group of people.

text: The children can exchange toys so that each child has a new toy to play with.

ipa: /ɛksʧeɪndʒ/

exchang

e


exchange

forms:
exchange (singular)
exchanges (plural)

text: I did well in that exchange. Now I have three good new books, and I only paid a little money.


conflict

forms:
conflict (singular)
conflicts (plural)

glosses: A conflict is when two or more people or ideas don't agree.

text: People have tried to end the conflict, which has caused more than 100 deaths since February, but it hasn't worked.

text: Conflicts may occur in families when the parents have different values.

text: The two stories examine the conflict between good and evil.

text: There may be a conflict between wanting to give students a broad education and needing to teach the basics.

text: Sometimes a girl is in conflict with her culture or religion in how she wants to dress.

glosses: A conflict is when two things are trying to use the same resources at the same time.

text: I'm sorry I can't meet then. I've got a conflict with another meeting.

ipa: /ˈkɒnflɪkt/

sampa: /"kQnflIkt/

enpr: kŏn'flĭkt

ipa: /ˈkɑːnflɪkt/

sampa: /"kAnflIkt/

hyphenation: con‧flict


conflict

forms:
conflict (canonical)
conflicts (third-person singular)
conflicted (past)
conflicted (past participle)
conflicting (present participle)

glosses: If two goals, plans, meetings, etc. conflict, they both cannot be achieved, work or be true.

text: The goal of hiring more workers conflicts with the plan to cut costs.

text: Sorry, the meeting conflicts with my prior plans.

enpr: kənflĭkt'

ipa: /kənˈflɪkt/


curve

forms:
curve (singular)
curves (plural)

glosses: A curve is a line that is not straight. It is like part of a circle. It starts in one direction and turns.

text: The edge of the flower petal is a beautiful curve.

ipa: /kɜːv/

ipa: /kɝv/


curve

forms:
curve (canonical)
curves (third-person singular)
curved (past)
curved (past participle)
curving (present participle)

text: The car curved around the corner.

text: This piece of wood is not good. It is curved.

curv


high

forms:
high (positive)
higher (comparative)
highest (superlative)

glosses: If something is high, it is a long way up.

text: The airplane flew very high.

glosses: If something is high, its top is a long way up.

text: That is the highest mountain near here.

glosses: If something is high, it is very good. It might be better or more important than other things. This can often means someone has more power.

text: The Supreme Court is the highest court in America.

text: Brian Boru was called the high king of Ireland.

text: Meeting my girlfriend was the high point of my year.

glosses: If someone is high, that person's mind is affected by drugs.

text: John was high from marijuana last night.

enpr: hī

ipa: /haɪ/

homophones: hi hie

adj

high

higher

highest


insurance

forms:
insurance (singular)
insurances (plural)

glosses: Insurance is an agreement where someone pays a small amount of money, and if something bad happens, they get money to help them.

text: I have fire insurance for my house.

hyphenation: in‧sur‧ance


company

forms:
company (singular)
companies (plural)

glosses: A company is an organization for doing work for money.

text: He works for a big company.

text: I own this company, so it's a problem for me if people don't buy what we make.

glosses: Company is people who are visiting other people; people who are in other peoples' house so that they can talk to the other people, or people who are walking with other people or being somewhere with other people.

text: I can't talk to you on the phone right now, because I have company. (people in the house.)

glosses: When someone keeps someone else company, they stay with the person.

text: Will you keep me company while I go to mail this letter?

glosses: A company' is a unit of an army, it usually consists of two or three platoons to form a battalion.

ipa: /'kʌmpəni/

irrnoun

companies


domain

forms:
domain (singular)
domains (plural)

glosses: A domain is a field or area of knowledge or skill, or of where a rule is in force.

text: The question of whether there is a god or not is not within the domain of science.

text: The copyright is expired and the book is now in the public domain.

glosses: A domain is a large area owned by a person or controlled by a government.

text: The Royal Domain of Drottningholm stands on an island in Lake Mälar in a suburb of Stockholm.

glosses: A domain (name) is a group of internet addresses or URLs that share the same last section (e.g., http://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/domain is in the wiktionary.org domain.)

text: If you want to set up a web site, the first step is probably to register a domain name such as amazon.com or google.com.

ipa: /dəʊˈmeɪn/

ipa: /doʊˈmeɪn/

sampa: /doU"meIn/


definite

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

glosses: Someone is definite if they are sure. They have no doubt about what they're saying.

text: She was definite that this is the right place.

glosses: Something is definite if it has defined limits.

ipa: /ˈdɛfɪnɪt/


lead

forms:
lead (singular)
leads (plural)

glosses: A lead is a wire or strap attached to something.

text: The dog can't go far because it's on a short lead.

text: Attach this lead to one end of the battery.

glosses: Lead is a very heavy gray metal. It's a chemical symbol is Pb.

text: This box is so heavy, it feels as if it's full of lead.


lead

forms:
lead (canonical)
leads (third-person singular)
led (past)
led (past participle)
leading (present participle)

glosses: Someone is leading other people if the person is going first and the other people are following or coming after.

text: Please lead us to the house, because you know how to go there.

glosses: Showing or telling other people what to do.

text: He moves that little stick in the air to lead the people making music.

enpr: lēd

ipa: /liːd/

lead

leads

led

led

leading


flexibility

forms:
flexibility (singular)
flexibilities (plural)

etymology_text: flexible + -ity

ety-suffix

flexible

ity

expansion: flexible + -ity

glosses: Flexibility is the quality of being flexible.

text: Current technology allows for greater flexibility in how we do our jobs.

ipa: /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/

flexibilities


tonight

pos: pron

glosses: Tonight is the night that comes between today and tomorrow.

text: Tonight is when the party is scheduled.

text: We will talk tonight.

ipa: /təˈnaɪt/


disgust

forms:
disgust (singular)
disgusts (plural)

glosses: A strong dislike someone feels for something. Disgust is an emotion. People feel it, for example, when they find something dirty or not fit to eat.

text: With an air of disgust, she stormed out of the room.

text: When she saw the meat that was ten days old, she felt a strong disgust.

enpr: dĭs-kŭst'

ipa: /dɪsˈgʌst/

sampa: /dIs"kVst/


disgust

forms:
disgust (canonical)
disgusts (third-person singular)
disgusted (past)
disgusted (past participle)
disgusting (present participle)

glosses: To cause a strong dislike for something.

text: It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.


save

forms:
save (canonical)
saves (third-person singular)
saved (past)
saved (past participle)
saving (present participle)

glosses: If you save something, you keep it; you do not give it or toss it away.

text: Please save that book for me.

glosses: If you save someone, you keep them safe or help them survive.

text: You saved my life.

glosses: If you save information, you put it on a disk or into some kind of long-term memory.

text: He saved the resumé on the floppy disk.

enpr: sāv

ipa: /seɪv/

sampa: /seIv/

verb

sav


save

forms:
save (singular)
saves (plural)

glosses: A save is when something was saved. This term is used in sports.

text: Due to a great save at the end, the game ended 0:0.


save

forms: save

glosses: All of x save y describes only that part of x that is not y.

text: The night air was still and silent save for the voice of a female dispatcher over his police radio.

text: All my cats are white, save one.

text: We know little of her background, save that she was born in Mississauga.


point

forms:
point (singular)
points (plural)

glosses: A point is a position with no size, or a small dot.

text: These two lines meet at this point.

glosses: A point is the sharp end of a knife or other sharp thing.

text: He used the point of the knife to make a hole in the can.

glosses: The point of something is the reason or purpose for it.

text: The whole point of coming here was to plant this tree, so let's not go home without doing it.

glosses: A point is a dot between two numbers. To the dot's right, you find a decimal.

text: You need a point between the one and the zero.

ipa: /pɔɪnt/

sampa: /pOInt/


point

forms:
point (canonical)
points (third-person singular)
pointed (past)
pointed (past participle)
pointing (present participle)

glosses: To point at something is to hold one finger (or a stick, arrow or other long, thin thing) in the direction of the thing so that people will look at the thing.

text: He pointed her toward the gate.


point

forms: point

glosses: You use point to introduce decimals in a number that is not an integer.

text: The price has gone up by two point five percent (2.5%).


limit

forms:
limit (singular)
limits (plural)

glosses: The limit is the edge of how far something can go. It can go up to the limit but no farther.

text: This fence is at the limit of my property.

text: The heater sets a limit to how cold it can be in the house; it can't get colder than that.

text: There is no limit to what we can do.

ipa: /ˈlɪmɪt/

sampa: /"lImIt/

hyphenation: li‧mit


limit

forms:
limit (canonical)
limits (third-person singular)
limited (past)
limited (past participle)
limiting (present participle)

text: The fence limits the cows from going out of the field.

glosses: If you limit someone, you reduce or take away their freedom.


crucial

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

glosses: When something is crucial, it is very important. It will make a big difference. You cannot succeed without it.

text: To write a great book, it's crucial to have the person in the book change and develop.

text: It was a crucial time in the battle when the king dropped his sword.

text: The development of this company is at a crossroads, and we need to make some crucial decisions.

text: Iron plays a crucial role in moving oxygen around the body.

text: The new doctor was crucial to the success of the operation.

hyphenation: cru‧cial


holy war

forms:
holy war (singular)
holy wars (plural)

glosses: A holy war is a war fought for religious reasons. Examples include jihad and crusades.


reveal

forms:
reveal (canonical)
reveals (third-person singular)
revealed (past)
revealed (past participle)
revealing (present participle)

glosses: If you reveal something, it was hidden and you show it or make it known.

text: A new study reveals that car makers have made little or no gains in fuel economy.

text: It was revealed yesterday that the president has decided to step down.

ipa: /rəˈviːl/

hyphenation: re‧veal


copper

forms:
copper (singular)
coppers (plural)

glosses: Copper is a metal that is a red-brown colour. Sometimes coins of small value are made from copper. The symbol for copper is Cu with an atomic number of 29.

text: Water comes into our house through copper pipes.

glosses: A copper is a penny, a coin of small value made of copper.

text: Could you give me a copper? I have almost enough money to buy that thing.

text: The copper arrested him for stealing.

enpr: kŏ'pə

enpr: kä'pər

audio: EN-AU ck1 copper.ogg

hyphenation: cop‧per


copper

forms: copper (positive)

text: The copper statue has turned green.

glosses: Having the reddish-brown colour/color of copper

text: The copper couch will look really nice with that wallpaper.


frequent

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

glosses: An event is frequent if it happens many times in a short time.

text: Broken toys is the most frequent reason children ask for help here.

text: Seeing a lion is not a frequent event around here.

ipa: /friːkwən̩t/


frequent

forms:
frequent (canonical)
frequents (third-person singular)
frequented (past)
frequented (past participle)
frequenting (present participle)

glosses: Someone frequents a place if they go there regularly.

text: I frequent some of the restaurants on this street.

ipa: /friːkwɛn̩t/


harbor

forms:
harbor (singular)
harbors (plural)

glosses: A harbor is some water in a curve of land where it's safe for boats because there are no big waves.

text: A ship in the harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.

ipa: /ˈhɑrbər/


harbor

forms:
harbor (canonical)
harbors (third-person singular)
harbored (past)
harbored (past participle)
harboring (present participle)

glosses: To provide a harbor or safe place for something or someone.

text: The old docks once harbored all kinds of ships, but they have been closed for years now.

text: The ships harbor in the bay during the winter months.

text: Sam has harbored resentment against Joe since Joe got the job they both applied for.


allocation

forms:
allocation (singular)
allocations (plural)

glosses: An allocation is the amount that is given out or shared.

text: Our department's allocation of computer time is too small.

text: We need to increase the allocation of funds to fix the roads problem.

glosses: Allocation is the act of giving out or sharing something.

text: The budget allocations are becoming less and less frequent.

text: With the new focus on the environment, governments are rethinking their resource allocation plans.

text: The broad allocation of contracts means that we don't depend on any one company.

ipa: /æləˈkeɪʃən/

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


detail

forms:
detail (singular)
details (plural)

glosses: A detail is a small part of something that is not as important as the whole thing.

text: I've written a book, but I still need to change some details in it.

text: Writing your name at the top of the page is a small detail, but it's important.

text: This is a very clear picture. You can see every detail.

text: He's on floor-cleaning detail today.

ipa: /ˈdiːˌteɪl/

ipa: /ˈdiˌteɪl/

hyphenation: de‧tail


detail

forms:
detail (canonical)
details (third-person singular)
detailed (past)
detailed (past participle)
detailing (present participle)

glosses: When someone details something, they tell all the details about it, or record the details.

text: Would you please detail this project for me?


form

forms:
form (singular)
forms (plural)

glosses: Form is the shape or structure of a person or a thing.

glosses: A thing that makes shapes to other things, as in a mold.

glosses: A form is a blank document which is to be filled in by a person.

text: To join with the club, please fill in this application form.

ipa: /fɔːm/

ipa: /fɔrm/

sampa: /fOr\m/


form

forms:
form (canonical)
forms (third-person singular)
formed (past)
formed (past participle)
forming (present participle)

glosses: If you form something, you give it shape or structure.


floor

forms:
floor (singular)
floors (plural)

glosses: The floor is the flat part at the bottom of a room. People stand on the floor.

text: Don't drop your milk on the floor.

text: The children are sitting on the floor to play.

text: To get to room 302 you have to go up three floors.

enpr: flô

ipa: /flɔː/


floor

forms:
floor (canonical)
floors (third-person singular)
floored (past)
floored (past participle)
flooring (present participle)

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


total

forms:
total (singular)
totals (plural)

glosses: A total is the final amount of something. It is a term used in math.


total

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

glosses: If you total something, you add them up.

glosses: If something totals something, it adds up to that; it amounts to.

text: The total of your purchase comes to $53.

glosses: If you total something, you destroy it; you wreck it.

total

l


total

forms: total (positive)

glosses: If something is total, it is complete; it is finished.

text: He is a total failure

text: The total book was very bad.


voluntary

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

glosses: Acting of one's own free will. Something that somebody does is voluntary if the person is doing it because they want to do it, not because someone orders them to do it.

text: Helping to wash the dishes is voluntary.

text: I have a voluntary position helping children learn to read.

hyphenation: vol‧un‧ta‧ry


bond

forms:
bond (singular)
bonds (plural)

glosses: A bond is a connection between two people because of love or friendship.

text: War can often build strong bonds between people who suffered or fought together.

glosses: A bond is a connection between two or more things, for example using glue.

text: The heat created a bond between the plastic and the metal.

glosses: A bond is a financial document promising to pay a certain amount of money. These are often bought and sold.

text: The new benchmark ten-year government bond yielded 6.3%.

text: Most large international banks have issued floating rate bonds as a source of medium-term funding.

text: It took her many years to break free of the bonds of guilt.

glosses: A bond is the force that holds atoms together.

ipa: /bɑnd/

ipa: /bɒnd/


bond

forms:
bond (canonical)
bonds (third-person singular)
bonded (past)
bonded (past participle)
bonding (present participle)

glosses: If you bond two things, you connect them, for example using glue.

text: The melting wax bonded to the table.

text: He bonded the wood to the plastic to make it look more natural.

text: The individual carbon atoms in a diamond are bonded together extremely strongly.

glosses: If you bond with someone, you form a special relationship.

text: Breastfeeding helps the baby bond with its mother.


dependent

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

glosses: If you are dependent on something, you need it or rely on it.

text: Ocean divers are dependent on their oxygen masks for air.

ipa: /dɪˈpɛndənt/


dependent

forms:
dependent (singular)
dependents (plural)

glosses: A dependent is a person who relies on another person for support.

text: With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all ... (In British English, this meaning is spelt dependant.)

glosses: A dependent is an element in a phrase or clause that is not the head.


flag

forms:
flag (singular)
flags (plural)

glosses: A flag is a piece of cloth, usually marked with a colourful symbol or sign.

glosses: A flag flown by a ship is to show the presence on board of the admiral (the leader of a group of ships); the admiral himself; or his flagship.

glosses: The use of a flag, especially to show the start of a race or other event.

text: Be ready to start running immediately at the flag.

glosses: On a computer, a flag is a variable or place in the computer's memory that keeps a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, usually either recording the fact that a certain event has happened or asking for a certain action to happen if it's an action that doesn't always happen.

glosses: In a command line interface (a place on a computer screen for people to type commands for a computer to do), a sign telling the computer to do something it does only sometimes, or a sign changing in some other way the action of the command being typed.

ipa: /flæɡ/


flag

forms:
flag (canonical)
flags (third-person singular)
flagged (past)
flagged (past participle)
flagging (present participle)

glosses: If you mark with a flag, it shows the importance of something.

glosses: (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a car that's driving past, etc.

text: Please flag a taxi down for me.

glosses: When a person flags, the person becomes weak, tired or feeble.

text: His strength flagged toward the end of the race.

glosses: To signal or mark something that happened.

text: The compiler flagged three errors.

glosses: To set the value of a variable in a computer program to true.

text: Flag the debug option before running the program.

flag

g


fan

forms:
fan (singular)
fans (plural)

glosses: A fan is a thing that moves air to help people stay cool; either a small paper thing a person holds in their hand, or a machine with a part that turns fast to push the air.

text: She held the fan in front of her face so people wouldn't see her smile.

text: Turn on the fan! It's hot here!

glosses: A fan is a person who supports another person or team.

text: John is a fan of that soccer club.

text: When he kicked the ball into the goal, all his fans cheered loudly.

ipa: /fæn/

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


fan

forms:
fan (canonical)
fans (third-person singular)
fanned (past)
fanned (past participle)
fanning (present participle)

glosses: To blow air on something, often with a fan.

text: We had to fan ourselves with our programs because it was so hot and crowded in the auditorium.

text: We enjoyed standing at the edge of the cliff, being fanned by the wind.

glosses: usually to fan out) To move or spread in many directions from one point, similar to the shape of a hand-held fan.

fan

n


massacre

forms:
massacre (singular)
massacres (plural)

glosses: A massacre is when many people are killed. This is especially true when those killed appear to be innocent civilians not linked to the war in progress. Very often, the term is also applied if the killings were done in a brutal way.

text: Many people were killed in the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.


massacre

forms:
massacre (canonical)
massacres (third-person singular)
massacred (past)
massacred (past participle)
massacring (present participle)

glosses: To kill many innocent people without much resistance; to slaughter people.

massacr


last

forms: last (positive)

glosses: Happening or coming after all other similar things or people.

text: I was the last person to go there: when I went, the others were all already there.

text: My house is the last house at the end of the street.

text: At last, after twenty hours on the boat, they arrived at their destination.

enpr: läst

ipa: /lɑːst/

enpr: lăst

ipa: /læst/


last

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

text: Summer seems to last longer each year.

glosses: To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.

text: I don't know how much longer we can last without reinforcements.


last

forms: last

glosses: Last week, month, year, etc. is the one that comes before this one.

text: I didn't see you last week.

text: I haven't seen him since the summer before last.


hearing

forms:
hear (canonical)
hears (third-person singular)
heard (past)
heard (past participle)
hearing (present participle)

glosses: If you hear something, you use your ears to get a sound from it.

text: Are you hearing the music clearly enough, or must I make it louder?

hyphenation: hear‧ing

hear

hears

heard

heard

hearing


hearing

forms:
hearing (singular)
hearings (plural)

glosses: The act of hearing or the quality of being able to hear.

text: I'm worried about my son's hearing -- maybe his ears were hurt by music that was too loud.

text: Hearing is necessary to be a sign language interpreter.

glosses: A trial in a court of law or another kind of event where a group listens to people and makes a formal decision.

text: Next week I have an immigration hearing to decide whether I can stay in this country.


force

forms:
force (singular)
forces (plural)

glosses: A force is the act of a thing pushing on another thing, or how strongly it pushes.

text: The force of the hammer hitting the nail pushes the nail into the wood.

text: In science, energy is force times distance.

text: He pushed his shoulder against the door with great force, but was not able to open the locked door.

glosses: A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.

text: police force

ipa: /fɔːs/

ipa: /fɔrs/


force

forms:
force (canonical)
forces (third-person singular)
forced (past)
forced (past participle)
forcing (present participle)

glosses: Someone forces something to happen when they make it happen.

text: He forced his way into the room.

text: The large size of our family forced me to buy a bigger house.

forc


prime

forms: prime (positive)

glosses: If something is prime, it is best, most important, most suitable, or in some way number one.

text: Canada is a prime example of a multicultural country.

text: He was the prime suspect in the murder investigation.

enpr: prīm

ipa: /praɪm/

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

sampa: /praIm/


prime

forms:
prime (singular)
primes (plural)

glosses: The prime is the best part of something.

text: He was killed at the prime of his life.

glosses: A prime is a number that can be evenly divided only by one and itself.

text: The first six primes are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13.

glosses: A prime is something that primes something else.


prime

forms:
prime (canonical)
primes (third-person singular)
primed (past)
primed (past participle)
priming (present participle)

glosses: If you prime something, you get it ready to do something.

text: The coach has primed them for the game.

glosses: to manipulate, in a subtle manner, people's decision-making by use of symbols, location, etc.

prim


forthcoming

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

glosses: An event that is forthcoming is something that will happen soon. It's coming in a short time.

text: The forthcoming publication of her book will help her get status and respect.

glosses: A person who is forthcoming is someone who tells what they're thinking.

text: I asked him what his plans are for next year but he wasn't very forthcoming.

ipa: /fɔːθˈkʌmɪŋ/

ipa: /fɔrθˈkʌmɪŋ/

hyphenation: forth‧com‧ing


military

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

glosses: If something is military, it is a characteristic of people in the armed forces.

text: Sick soldiers go to the military hospital.

glosses: If something is military, it is about armed forces such as the army, marines, navy, or air force.

glosses: If something is military, it has to do with war.

glosses: If something is military, it has to do with armies and ground troops.

hyphenation: mi‧li‧tary


military

forms:
military (singular)
militaries or military (plural)

glosses: The military is the United States armed forces in general.

text: It's not the job of the military to make policy.

noun

militaries

military


degree

forms:
degree (singular)
degrees (plural)

glosses: We measure an angle using degrees. All the way around a circle is 360 degrees. Often, ° is written instead of "degrees".

text: A right-angled triangle has an angle of 90 degrees.

glosses: We measure how hot or how cold it is (temperature) using degrees on a scale, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.

text: It's going to be 35 degrees Celsius today.

glosses: The amount that an object has of a certain quality.

text: To what degree do the two accounts of the accident agree?

glosses: Any units used to measure specific gravity, bitterness, darkness, etc. in manufacturing commodities.

glosses: An award (usually better than a diploma but not as good as a doctorate) given by a university or, in some countries, a college

text: After four years at university, she got her degree.

glosses: The number of edges that a vertex is part of.

text: The corner of a cube is of degree 3, but the corners of an eight-sided solid have degree 4.

enpr: dĭgrē'

ipa: /dɪˈɡriː/

sampa: /dI"gri/

hyphenation: de‧gree


gender

forms:
gender (singular)
genders (plural)

glosses: A living thing's gender is its sex: male (man, boy), female (woman, girl), both, or neither.

text: There are gender differences in everything from physical size to play style.

text: The effects vary considerably according to such factors as class, race and gender.

glosses: Gender is a way of grouping nouns in some languages, for example: masculine, feminine & neuter.

text: In French, the gender affects everything from the choice of le or la to the adjective endings.

glosses: Someone's gender is whether they behave like a boy or girl. This is called masculine or feminine, and not the same as male or female.

text: His gender was not traditional, he was a very feminine boy.

glosses: The gender of a cord, cable, or plug tells how it connects. If it has a hole (a socket) that can be plugged into, it is female. If it plugs into a hole, it is male.

text: The microphone was the wrong gender for the computer's sound card.

ipa: /ʤɛndə/

ipa: /ʤɛndɚ/

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

hyphenation: gen‧der


interest

forms:
interest (singular)
interests (plural)

glosses: When someone wants to know more about something or likes to do something, we say the person has an interest in it.

text: She has a strong interest in art. She is going to go to an art school.

text: What are your interests?

glosses: When something is important to a person, or if good things happening to the thing are good for the person, we say that the person has an interest in the thing.

text: Because I own a house on this street, I have an interest in keeping the street clean.

text: I'm doing this to look after my own interests.

glosses: When someone borrows money, they have to give back more money than they borrowed. The extra money they have to pay is called interest.

text: The bank gives me two percent interest per year on the money in my account.

ipa: /ˈɪntrɛst/

ipa: /ˈɪntərəst/

hyphenation: in‧ter‧est


interest

forms:
interest (canonical)
interests (third-person singular)
interested (past)
interested (past participle)
interesting (present participle)

glosses: If someone is interested, they are curious and want to find out about something.

text: I am interested in researching flowers.

text: Does maths interest you?


integrity

forms: integrity (singular)

glosses: Integrity is the quality of being honest and of doing only good things.

text: I liked the integrity she showed when she wouldn't let someone from the other company pay for her lunch.

glosses: Integrity is the quality of being whole, not broken.

text: We need to test the integrity of the bridge.

hyphenation: in‧teg‧ri‧ty

integrity


niece

forms:
niece (singular)
nieces (plural)

glosses: A niece is the female child of someone's sister or brother and is a part of their extended family.

text: My brother has a daughter. She is my niece.

enpr: nēs

ipa: /niːs/

ipa: /nis/


guide

forms:
guide (singular)
guides (plural)

glosses: a document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.

glosses: any marking or object that catches a person's attention for quick reference.

glosses: a device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.

glosses: a spirit thought to speak through a medium.

glosses: a member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement for the rest.

ipa: /gaɪd/


guide

forms:
guide (canonical)
guides (third-person singular)
guided (past)
guided (past participle)
guiding (present participle)

glosses: to serve as a guide for someone or something.

glosses: to use control or influence over someone or something.

verb

guid


display

forms:
display (singular)
displays (plural)

glosses: A display is an exhibition, an arrangement, or a show.

text: Mom thought the department store's display of lingerie was indecent.

text: Little Jimmie toppled the display of model airplanes.

text: The ceramic, wood, and fabric art displays are very attractive.

text: Too many displays will confuse our customers.

text: The output is visible on the display.

enpr: dĭsplā'

ipa: /dɪsˈpleɪ/

sampa: /dIs"pleI/


display

forms:
display (canonical)
displays (third-person singular)
displayed (past)
displayed (past participle)
displaying (present participle)

glosses: If you display something, you arrange it so that people can see it. Display means to exhibit, or to show.

text: The players will display their best skills at tonight's game.


power

forms:
power (singular)
powers (plural)

glosses: strength, energy, force, control. A quality that can make things happen.

text: His muscles have a lot of power.

text: The prime minister has power over the country.

text: Fight the power! (Meaning, "Fight authority!")

text: The city had no lights that night because there was no power.

glosses: Power is how fast something uses energy. That is, how much work it does in a certain time.

glosses: x to the power of y is equal to x multiplied by itself y times.

text: Two to the power of three is eight (2³=8).

glosses: A special ability that someone might have.

text: In comic books many heroes have amazing powers.

text: television often shows witches as having magical powers.

glosses: A person or group of people with authority; that is a people who control things.

text: The mayor and the sheriff are the major powers in this town.

text: China and the United States are two of the main world powers.

text: I like the idea, but the powers that be will not allow it.

ipa: /paʊə/

ipa: /paʊɚ/


power

forms:
power (canonical)
powers (third-person singular)
powered (past)
powered (past participle)
powering (present participle)

glosses: To provide power for or give power to (a mechanical or electronic device).

text: This CD player is powered by batteries.


flame

forms:
flame (singular)
flames (plural)

text: We saw the flames burning the house.

text: The firefighter's hat is as bright as a flame.

glosses: A flame is a lover that only lasts for a short time.

text: He brought his flame to yesterday's party.

glosses: A flame is a strong comment on the internet to insult (hurt) someone else, making them angry.

text: Today, someone in our forum started posting very mean flames.

text: I posted that someone's idea was a bad idea, and I got a lot of flames for that.

enpr: flām

ipa: /fleɪm/

sampa: /fleIm/


flame

forms:
flame (canonical)
flames (third-person singular)
flamed (past)
flamed (past participle)
flaming (present participle)

text: The pot in the kitchen started to flame when it was left to cook for too long.

glosses: To write an insulting (hurtful) message on the internet to make people angry.

text: My school peer started flaming in my email.

text: Everybody in the newsgroup flamed me for saying that.

flam


aggregate

forms:
aggregate (singular)
aggregates (plural)

glosses: The aggregate is the number or amount when everything is put together.

text: Although demand was up in certain areas, aggregate demand was down.

text: When each day's time is put together, he's been running for an aggregate of over 762 hours.

glosses: Aggregate is the small stones that are used to make concrete.

enpr: ă'grĭgət

ipa: /ˈæɡrɪɡət/


aggregate

forms:
aggregate (canonical)
aggregates (third-person singular)
aggregated (past)
aggregated (past participle)
aggregating (present participle)

glosses: If you aggregate something, you put or bring it together.

text: You shouldn't aggregate the various costs. Look at them individually.

text: The students' income should be aggregated with the parents'.

enpr: ă'grĭgāt

ipa: /ˈæɡrɪɡeɪt/

sampa: /"{grIgeIt/

aggregat


colleague

forms:
colleague (singular)
colleagues (plural)

glosses: A colleague is a person who works together with another person or who does the same kind of work.

text: I like to talk about the science with my colleagues from the other university.

ipa: /ˈkɑliɡ/

ipa: /ˈkɒliːɡ/

hyphenation: col‧league


division

forms:
division (singular)
divisions (plural)

glosses: Division is the act of dividing a whole thing into parts.

text: The division of the pie by the children happened with very little fighting.

glosses: Division is the process or calculation of dividing a number by another number.

text: I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.

glosses: Divisions are the parts of something after division.

text: There are four divisions (or sections) in a classical pas de deux.

glosses: A division is a large military unit (group of soldiers)

glosses: A division is a section of a large company.

text: This division of GenericTech specializes in the manufacturing of routers.

glosses: When scientists are grouping kinds of animals, a division is a kind of group (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class.

text: Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.

glosses: A division is a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.

text: There is a division in the Senate between politicians who support abortions and politicians who do not.

glosses: A division is a piece of music (melody), played with musical instruments, in the 17th and 18th centuries based on another piece.

glosses: A division is a set of pipes in a pipe organ.

glosses: A division is a concept where a common group of debtors (people who owe money) are only responsible for part of the total debt.

ipa: /dɪˈvɪʒən/


general

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

glosses: Usual; about most things. An idea is a general idea if it's about many things or about most things, not just about one specific thing.

text: First I will talk about general problems of farming, and then I will talk about the specific problems of wheat farming.

text: In general, I enjoy pizza.

glosses: General is approximate, not exact; maybe a little different; close but maybe not the same.

ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛnrəl/

ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛnərəl/

hyphenation: gene‧ral; gen‧er‧al


general

forms:
general (singular)
generals (plural)

text: The president told the general to bring the army home.

ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛnərəl/


coat

forms:
coat (singular)
coats (plural)

glosses: An outer piece of clothing that covers the upper part of the body and the arms.

text: The woman wore a fur coat.

text: It's cold today, so you need to wear a coat when you go outside.

text: He applied a thin coat of paint to the wood.

text: The bear's coat was thick for the winter.

glosses: Around the mast or bowsprit of a ship, some canvas painted with thick tar to keep water from running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber).

ipa: /koʊt/

ipa: /kəʊt/


coat

forms:
coat (canonical)
coats (third-person singular)
coated (past)
coated (past participle)
coating (present participle)

glosses: To cover with a coat (2) of some material

text: A person can buy coated frying pans, which are much easier to wash up than normal ones.

text: Thick paint coated the wall.


intervention

forms:
intervention (singular)
interventions (plural)

etymology_text: intervene + -tion

ety-suffix

intervene

tion

expansion: intervene + -tion

glosses: An intervention is an activity designed to change or stop a situation.

text: To prevent government intervention, the companies agreed to stop advertising cigarettes.

text: The teachers planned a reading intervention for the students who were having trouble.

ipa: /ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/

ipa: /ɪntəˈvɛnʃən/

hyphenation: in‧ter‧ven‧tion


author

forms:
author (singular)
authors (plural)

glosses: An author is the creator of a work; a writer.

text: I am the author of this article. I was the one who wrote it.

ipa: /ˈɔːθə/

ipa: /ˈɔːθɚ/


author

forms:
author (canonical)
authors (third-person singular)
authored (past)
authored (past participle)
authoring (present participle)

glosses: If you author something, you create a work as its author.

text: Did you read that article that John authored? It was poorly written.


trace

forms:
trace (singular)
traces (plural)

glosses: A trace of something is a very small amount, almost too small to find.

text: We've found traces of an earlier painting underneath this one.

text: No trace of the original material remains.

text: The last trace of cloud had disappeared from the sky.

text: He said it without a trace of sadness.

text: The fact that each coin has different trace elements provides clear evidence that they were made at different places.

glosses: A trace is a line on a paper drawn by a machine that shows the ups and downs of something.

text: The trace shows a very irregular heartbeat.

glosses: A trace is a path that tells you where something came from.

text: We've got a trace on the call.

text: The fox was able to follow the trace the rabbit left on the ground.

ipa: /treɪs/


trace

forms:
trace (canonical)
traces (third-person singular)
traced (past)
traced (past participle)
tracing (present participle)

glosses: If you trace something, you follow information to find where it came from or where it went.

text: Also, both the church and the farm can trace their origins back to the 1500s.

text: The police soon traced the couple's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris.

text: The disease has been traced back to some bad eggs.

text: He traced a line in the sand.

glosses: If you trace a picture or a shape, you draw it by putting a piece of paper over it and drawing what you see underneath.

text: She traced the Chinese characters carefully, the way you do before you learn to read.

verb

trac


drain

forms:
drain (singular)
drains (plural)

glosses: A drain is a hole, sometimes in the bottom of a basin, to let water flow out, and a pipe attached to the hole.

text: After you wash, you should drain the water from the bath.

ipa: /dreɪn/

ipa: /dʒreɪn/

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


drain

forms:
drain (canonical)
drains (third-person singular)
drained (past)
drained (past participle)
draining (present participle)

glosses: Someone drains something when they take the water or other liquid out of it.

text: She drained her cup in one gulp.

text: The workers drained the wet land to make it a dry place to build houses.


fixed

forms:
fix (canonical)
fixes (third-person singular)
fixed (past)
fixed (past participle)
fixing (present participle)

glosses: The past tense and past participle of fix.

text: The mechanic fixed my car.

text: The mother fixed the broken toy.

text: The meeting of Congress is fixed on January 3.

text: The mechanic has fixed all of the problems.

glosses: Something is fixed if it didn't work before, but now it works or has been repaired.

text: Is your car fixed yet?

glosses: If an animal has been fixed, it had an operation to stop it from having babies.

text: After a male cat is fixed, it doesn't fight with other cats as much.

glosses: If a game, contest, or election is fixed, somebody unfairly controls what will happen before it is over.

text: Don't go to that casino, the roulette wheel is fixed.

text: When we find out who squealed on our roulette wheel, they're going to get fixed.

text: Don't go into my room, or I'll fix you!

text: Don't worry about it, we're fixed with the cops.

ipa: /fɪkst/

fix

es


fixed

forms: fixed (positive)

glosses: Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.

text: fixed assets

text: fixed cost


today

glosses: Today is the current day, the day that is happening now, the day between yesterday and tomorrow.

text: Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

text: I have classes today.

text: Today's meeting should be short.

glosses: Today is modern times; the present in general.

text: Today we don't have many of the old problems but we have many new ones.

ipa: /təˈdeɪ/


have

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

glosses: Someone has something if the thing is in their hands. The person is holding or gripping it.

text: Do you have a spoon, or do you need me to give you one so you can eat the soup?

glosses: If you have to do something, you must do it.

text: I have to go.

text: John had to pay a fine.

glosses: Someone has something if the thing is that person's thing: the person owns it; it belongs to the person.

text: The rich family has a big house.

glosses: If you have you hold something in the mind.

text: I have a doubt about him.

text: We have lunch at 13:00.

glosses: You use have to say that you suffer from something or to tell the experience.

text: I have a defective vision. (I don't see well.)

text: He had a wonderful time with his friends.

ipa: /hæv/

ipa: /həv/

ipa: /hæf/

audio: en-uk-to have.ogg

have

has

had

had

having


have

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

text: I have closed the window. (Also: I've closed the window.)

text: I had already eaten before. (Also: I'd already eaten before.)

having


condition

forms:
condition (singular)
conditions (plural)

glosses: A condition is a logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.

text: The doctor will check my condition.

glosses: A problem, especially a medical problem.

text: I told the doctor about my heart condition. My heart is very weak.

glosses: The state of something, meaning how much wear it has.

text: The tires were flat, the windows were broken, and the paint was peeling. The car was in poor condition.

glosses: A condition is something that must be true, happen, or exist before something else can.

ipa: /kɒndiʃən/

hyphenation: con‧di‧tion


condition

forms:
condition (canonical)
conditions (third-person singular)
conditioned (past)
conditioned (past participle)
conditioning (present participle)

glosses: To become accustomed to changes in the environment.

text: I became conditioned to the weather in San Diego.

glosses: To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.

text: They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.