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Phonetic: "/tʉː/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.

Example: Please push the door to.

Definition: Into the wind.

Phonetic: "/tʉː/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.

Example: We are walking to the shop.

Definition: Used to indicate the target or recipient of an action.

Example: He devoted himself to education.

Definition: Used to indicate result of action.

Example: His face was beaten to a pulp.

Definition: Used to indicate a resulting feeling or emotion.

Example: To everyone's great relief, the tuneless carol singers finally ceased their warbling.

Definition: Used after an adjective to indicate its application.

Example: similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.

Definition: Denotes the end of a range.

Example: It takes 2 to 4 weeks to process typical applications.

Definition: As a.

Example: With God to friend (with God as a friend);   with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe);   lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice);   took her to wife (took her as a wife);   was sold to slave (was sold as a slave).

Definition: Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.

Example: I have ten dollars to your four.

Definition: Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.

Example: Three squared or three to the second power is nine.

Definition: (time) Preceding.

Example: ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).

Definition: Used to describe what something consists of or contains.

Example: Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.

Definition: At.

Example: Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.

Phonetic: "/meɪk/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Brand or kind; model.

Example: What make of car do you drive?

Definition: Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.

Definition: Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.

Example: The camera was of German make.

Definition: A person's character or disposition.

Definition: The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.

Definition: Quantity produced, especially of materials.

Definition: A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.

Definition: Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.

Definition: (usually in phrase "easy make") Past, present or future target of seduction (usually female).

Definition: A promotion.

Definition: A home-made project

Definition: Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.

Definition: A made basket.

Definition: The closing of an electrical circuit.

Phonetic: "/meɪk/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To create.

Definition: To behave, to act.

Example: He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands.

Definition: To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.

Definition: To constitute.

Example: One swallow does not a summer make.

Definition: To add up to, have a sum of.

Example: Two and four make six.

Definition: (construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.

Example: I don’t know what to make of it.

Definition: (usually stressed) To bring into success.

Example: She married into wealth and so has it made.

Definition: (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.

Example: Did I make myself heard?

Definition: To cause to appear to be; to represent as.

Definition: (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).

Example: I was made to feel like a criminal.

Definition: (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.

Example: Don’t let them make you suffer.

Definition: (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.

Example: His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.

Definition: (of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.

Definition: (law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot.

Definition: To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.

Example: We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.

Definition: To proceed (in a direction).

Example: Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!

Definition: To cover (a given distance) by travelling.

Definition: To move at (a speed).

Example: The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas.

Definition: To appoint; to name.

Definition: To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).

Definition: To defecate or urinate.

Definition: To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).

Example: He didn't make the choir after his voice changed.

Definition: To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.

Definition: To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.

Definition: To enact; to establish.

Definition: To develop into; to prove to be.

Example: She'll make a fine president.

Definition: To form or formulate in the mind.

Example: made a questionable decision

Definition: To perform a feat.

Example: make a leap

Definition: To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.

Example: In the end, my class didn't make, which left me with a bit of free time.

Definition: To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.

Definition: To increase; to augment; to accrue.

Definition: To be engaged or concerned in.

Definition: To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.

Definition: To take the virginity of.

Definition: To have sexual intercourse with.

Phonetic: "/nəʊ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval

Definition: A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition

Example: The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and two "nos".

Phonetic: "/nəʊ/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: (now only used with different, with comparatives more and less, and informally with certain other adjectives such as good and fun) Not, not at all.

Example: I just want to find out whether she's coming or no. (Scotland)

Phonetic: "/nəʊ/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Without

Definition: Like

Phonetic: "/bəʊnz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

Definition: Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

Definition: A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

Definition: A bonefish

Definition: One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

Definition: One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

Definition: Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

Definition: The framework of anything.

Definition: An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

Definition: A dollar.

Definition: The wishbone formation.

Definition: An erect penis; a boner.

Definition: (chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.

Phonetic: "/bəʊnz/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

Definition: To fertilize with bone.

Definition: To put whalebone into.

Example: to bone stays

Definition: To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

Example: boning rod

Definition: (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

Definition: (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

Definition: (usually with "up") To study.

Example: bone up

Definition: To polish boots to a shiny finish.

Phonetic: "/bəʊnz/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To apprehend, steal.

Phonetic: "/bəʊnz/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

Phonetic: "/bəʊnz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A percussive folk musical instrument played as a pair in one hand, often made from bovine ribs.

Definition: The act of two fists meeting together in the manner equivalent to a high-five.

Definition: The framework or foundation of something.

Phonetic: "/bəʊnz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).

Example: Jim plays the trombone very well.

Definition: The common European bittern.

Phonetic: "/əˈbɛʊt/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Moving around; astir.

Example: After my bout with Guillan-Barre Syndrome, it took me 6 months to be up and about again.

Definition: In existence; being in evidence; apparent.

Example: This idea has been about for a while but has only recently become fashionable.

Definition: Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood.

Example: I had my keys just a minute ago, so they must be about somewhere.

Phonetic: "/əˈbɛʊt/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: On all sides; around.

Example: I looked about at the scenery that surrounded me.

Definition: Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.

Example: Bits of old machinery were lying about.

Definition: From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.

Example: walking about;  rushing about;  jumping about;  thrashing about

Definition: Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.

Example: messing about;  fooling about;  loafing about

Definition: Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.

Example: Dinner's about ready.

Definition: Near; in the vicinity.

Definition: To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.

Example: to face about;  to turn oneself about

Definition: In succession; one after another; in the course of events.

Definition: In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference.

Example: a mile about, and a third of a mile across

Phonetic: "/əˈbɛʊt/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.

Example: The snake was coiled about his ankle.

Definition: Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.

Example: He was well known about town.

Definition: Indicates that something will happen very soon; indicates a plan or intention to do something.

Definition: Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.

Example: He talked a lot about his childhood.

Definition: Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.

Example: to be about one's business

Definition: Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.

Example: I can't find my reading glasses, but they must be somewhere about the house.

Definition: On one's person; nearby the person.

Example: I had no weapon about me but a stick.

Definition: In or near, as in mental faculties or in the possession of; under the control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.

Example: He has his wits about him.

Phonetic: "/ɪt/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.

Definition: The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.

Example: In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…

Definition: The game of tag.

Example: Let's play it at breaktime.

Definition: Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty.

Definition: Sexual activity.

Example: caught them doing it

Definition: A biological force that inhabits living beings, according to the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck.

Phonetic: "/ɪt/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Most fashionable.

Phonetic: "/ɪt/"

Part Of Speech: pronoun

Definition: The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals.

Example: I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today.

Definition: A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender.

Example: She took the baby and held it in her arms.

Definition: Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.

Example: Is it her?

Definition: The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)

Example: It is nearly 10 o’clock.

Definition: The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms.

Definition: The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a .

Example: He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that)

Definition: All or the end; something after which there is no more.

Example: Are there more students in this class, or is this it?

Definition: A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male.

Definition: Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.