remiel

Phonetic: "/ˈsɛkɪnd/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Something that is number two in a series.

Definition: Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.

Definition: The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.

Definition: (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.

Example: They were discounted because they contained blemishes, nicks or were otherwise factory seconds.

Definition: (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.

Example: That was good barbecue. I hope I can get seconds.

Definition: A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)

Definition: The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).

Definition: The second gear of an engine.

Definition: Second base.

Definition: The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.

Definition: A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.

Phonetic: "/ˈsɛkɪnd/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under #Etymology 3 for translations.)

Example: I second the motion.

Definition: To follow in the next place; to succeed.

Definition: To climb after a lead climber.

Phonetic: "/ˈsɛkɪnd/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.

Example: He lives on Second Street.

Definition: Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.

Definition: Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.

Example: Residents of Texas prepared for Hurricane Harvey, which would in some ways turn out to become the second Hurricane Katrina.

Phonetic: "/ˈsɛkɪnd/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: (with superlative) After the first; at the second rank.

Example: Saturn is the second largest planet.

Definition: After the first occurrence but before the third.

Example: He is batting second today.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Something that is extracted or drawn out.

Definition: A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.

Example: I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.

Definition: A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue

Example: extract of beef

Definition: Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained

Example: quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

Definition: A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).

Definition: A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.

Definition: Ancestry; descent.

Definition: A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.

Example: to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger

Definition: To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

Example: to extract an essential oil from a plant

Definition: To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

Definition: To select parts of a whole

Example: We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.

Definition: To determine (a root of a number).

Example: Please extract the cube root of 27.

Phonetic: "/ɔv/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Expressing distance or motion.

Definition: Expressing separation.

Definition: Expressing origin.

Definition: Expressing agency.

Definition: Expressing composition, substance.

Definition: Introducing subject matter.

Definition: Having partitive effect.

Definition: Expressing possession.

Definition: Forming the "objective genitive".

Definition: Expressing qualities or characteristics.

Definition: Expressing a point in time.

Phonetic: "/sɑft/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A soft or foolish person; an idiot.

Definition: Ellipsis of soft tyre (A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.)

Definition: A soft sound or part of a sound.

Phonetic: "/sɑft/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Easily giving way under pressure.

Example: My head sank easily into the soft pillow.

Definition: (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.

Example: Polish the silver with a soft cloth to avoid scratching.

Definition: (of a sound) Quiet.

Example: I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees.

Definition: Gentle.

Example: There was a soft breeze blowing.

Definition: Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.

Example: soft eyes

Definition: Gentle in action or motion; easy.

Definition: Weak in character; impressible.

Definition: Requiring little or no effort; easy.

Definition: Not bright or intense.

Example: soft lighting

Definition: Having a slight angle from straight.

Example: At the intersection with two roads going left, take the soft left.

Definition: Voiced; sonant.

Definition: Voiceless

Definition: (Slavic languages) palatalized

Definition: Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.

Example: When it comes to drinking, he is as soft as they come.

Definition: (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.

Example: You won't need as much soap, as the water here is very soft.

Definition: Foolish.

Definition: Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non-magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard)

Definition: (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.

Definition: Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.

Example: The admin imposed a soft block/ban on the user or a soft lock on the article.

Definition: (of a man) Effeminate.

Definition: Agreeable to the senses.

Example: a soft liniment

Definition: Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.

Example: soft colours

Definition: (of light) Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.

Definition: Emulated with software; not physically real.

Example: Press the red button on the soft phone to hang up.

Phonetic: "/sɑft/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.

Phonetic: "/sɑft/"

Part Of Speech: interjection

Definition: Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.

Phonetic: "/ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.

Definition: A specific variety of sugar.

Definition: Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.

Definition: A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.

Example: He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.

Definition: A term of endearment.

Example: I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.

Definition: A kiss.

Definition: Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.

Example: I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.

Definition: Diabetes.

Definition: Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.

Example: Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste.

Definition: Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.

Definition: Heroin.

Definition: Money.

Definition: Syntactic sugar.

Phonetic: "/ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.

Example: John heavily sugars his coffee.

Definition: To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

Example: She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.

Definition: In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.

Definition: To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.

Definition: To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.

Definition: To compliment (a person).

Phonetic: "/ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)/"

Part Of Speech: interjection

Definition: Used in place of shit!

Example: Oh, sugar!

Phonetic: "/fɹɒm/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Used to indicate source or provenance.

Example: I got a letter from my brother.

Definition: Originating at (a year, time, etc.)

Example: This manuscript is from the 1980s.

Definition: Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.

Example: Face away from the wall!

Definition: Indicating removal or separation.

Example: After twenty minutes, remove the cake from the oven.

Definition: Indicating exclusion.

Example: A parasol protects from the sun.

Definition: Indicating differentiation.

Example: He knows right from wrong.

Definition: Produced with or out of (a substance or material).

Example: It's made from pure gold.

Definition: Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.

Example: Too many people die from breast cancer.

Phonetic: "/ði/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

Example: It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

Definition: With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.

Example: I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

Phonetic: "[kʰeɪn]"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof

Definition: The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool

Definition: A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane

Definition: Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like

Definition: A local European measure of length; the canna.

Phonetic: "[kʰeɪn]"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement

Definition: To destroy; to comprehensively defeat

Example: Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0.

Definition: To do something well, in a competent fashion

Definition: To produce extreme pain

Example: Don't hit me with that. It really canes!

Definition: To make or furnish with cane or rattan.

Example: to cane chairs