juego de bolita y hoyo

Phonetic: "/ɡeɪm/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A playful or competitive activity.

Definition: A video game.

Definition: (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

Example: He's in the securities game somehow.

Definition: Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.

Example: In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.

Definition: An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.

Definition: Wild animals hunted for food.

Example: The forest has plenty of game.

Definition: (used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.

Example: He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.

Definition: Mastery; the ability to excel at something.

Definition: A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.

Example: You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?

Phonetic: "/ɡeɪm/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To gamble.

Definition: To play card games, board games, or video games.

Definition: To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.

Example: We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.

Definition: (of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

Phonetic: "/ɡeɪm/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Willing to participate.

Definition: (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.

Definition: Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

Definition: Injured, lame (of a limb).

Phonetic: "/ˈðæt/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Something being indicated that is there; one of those.

Phonetic: "/ˈðæt/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: (degree) To a given extent or degree.

Example: "The ribbon was that thin." "I disagree, I say it was not that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner..."

Definition: (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).

Example: I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult.

Definition: To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).

Example: Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her.

Phonetic: "/ˈðæt/"

Part Of Speech: pronoun

Definition: (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.

Example: He went home, and after that I never saw him again.

Definition: The known (thing); used to refer to something just said.

Example: They're getting divorced. What do you think about that?

Definition: (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.

Example: The water is so cold! — That it is.

Definition: (relative) (plural that) Which, who; representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.

Example: The CPR course that she took really came in handy.

Definition: Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.

Example: the last time that [= when] I went to Europe

Phonetic: "/ˈðæt/"

Part Of Speech: conjunction

Definition: Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.

Example: He told me that the book is a good read.

Definition: Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.

Example: Be glad that you have enough to eat.

Definition: Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that.

Definition: Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect.

Example: The noise was so loud that she woke up.

Definition: Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.

Definition: Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.

Example: How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw.

Definition: Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.

Example: Oh that spring would come!

Definition: Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.

Phonetic: "/kənˈsɪsts/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To be.

Definition: To exist.

Definition: (with in) To be comprised or contained.

Definition: (with of) To be composed, formed, or made up (of).

Example: The greeting package consists of some brochures, a pen, and a notepad.

Phonetic: "/kənˈsɪsts/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.

Example: The train's consist included a baggage car, four passenger cars, and a diner.

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: "[ˈpʰʊɾɪŋ]"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To place something somewhere.

Example: She put her books on the table.

Definition: To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.

Example: He is putting all his energy into this one task.

Definition: To exercise a put option.

Example: He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.

Definition: To express something in a certain manner.

Example: When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.

Definition: To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)

Definition: To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

Definition: To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

Definition: To attach or attribute; to assign.

Example: to put a wrong construction on an act or expression

Definition: To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

Definition: To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.

Example: to put a question; to put a case

Definition: To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

Definition: To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

Phonetic: "[ˈpʰʊɾɪŋ]"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Instigation or incitement; enticement.

Definition: The action or result of the verb put.

Phonetic: "/kɔɪnz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.

Definition: A token used in a special establishment like a casino.

Definition: That which serves for payment or recompense.

Definition: Money in general, not limited to coins.

Example: She spent some serious coin on that car!

Definition: One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.

Definition: A corner or external angle.

Definition: A small circular slice of food.

Definition: A cryptocurrency.

Example: What's the best coin to buy right now?

Phonetic: "/kɔɪnz/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.

Example: to coin a medal

Definition: (by extension) To make or fabricate.

Example: Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined.

Definition: To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

Phonetic: "/ɔː(ɹ)/"

Part Of Speech: conjunction

Definition: Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either [...] or".

Example: He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.

Definition: An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.

Definition: Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.

Definition: Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).

Example: It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!

Definition: Connects two equivalent names.

Example: The country Myanmar, or Burma

Phonetic: "/bɔːlz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

Example: a ball of spittle; a fecal ball

Definition: A round or ellipsoidal object.

Definition: (mildly, usually in the plural) A testicle.

Definition: A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.

Definition: A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.

Phonetic: "/bɔːlz/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To form or wind into a ball.

Example: to ball cotton

Definition: To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

Definition: To have sexual intercourse with.

Definition: To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.

Example: The horse balls; the snow balls.

Definition: (usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.

Definition: To play basketball.

Definition: To punish by affixing a ball and chain

Phonetic: "/bɔːlz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A formal dance.

Definition: A very enjoyable time.

Example: I had a ball at that concert.

Phonetic: "/bɔːlz/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something)

Definition: To engage in sexual intercourse.

Phonetic: "/bɔːlz/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: Very. Intensifier.

Example: It is balls cold out there.

Phonetic: "/ɪn/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A position of power or influence, or a way to get it.

Example: His parents got him an in with the company.

Definition: (chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is in; especially, one who is in office.

Definition: The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting; see innings.

Definition: A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.

Phonetic: "/ɪn/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To enclose.

Definition: To take in; to harvest.

Phonetic: "/ɪn/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.

Example: Is Mr. Smith in?

Definition: Located inside something.

Example: Little by little I pushed the snake into the basket, until finally all of it was in.

Definition: (of the ball or other playing implement) Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.

Example: If the tennis ball bounces on the line then it's in.

Definition: Inserted or fitted into something.

Example: I've discovered why the TV wasn't working – the plug wasn't in!

Definition: Having been collected or received.

Example: The replies to the questionnaires are now all in.

Definition: In fashion; popular.

Example: Skirts are in this year.

Definition: Incoming.

Example: the in train

Definition: (of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.

Definition: Of the tide, at or near its highest level.

Example: You can't get round the headland when the tide's in.

Definition: With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.

Example: in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband

Definition: Currently batting.

Definition: Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.

Example: He is very in with the Joneses.

Definition: Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.

Example: I think that bird fancies you. You're in there, mate!

Phonetic: "/ɪn/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.

Example: He ran to the edge of the swimming pool and dived in.

Definition: Towards the speaker or other reference point.

Example: For six hours the tide flows in, then for another six hours it flows out.

Definition: So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.

Example: Bring the water to the boil and drop the vegetables in.

Definition: Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.

Example: He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.

Definition: After the beginning of something.

Example: The show still didn't become interesting 20 minutes in.

Definition: (in combination, after a verb) Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.

Phonetic: "/ɪn/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.

Definition: Into.

Example: Less water gets in your boots this way.

Definition: Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.

Example: In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.

Definition: Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.

Phonetic: "/æɪ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The name of the Latin script letter A/a.

Phonetic: "/smoːl/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.

Phonetic: "/smoːl/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To make little or less.

Definition: To become small; to dwindle.

Phonetic: "/smoːl/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.

Example: A small group.

Definition: Young, as a child.

Example: Remember when the children were small?

Definition: (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.

Definition: Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.

Definition: Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.

Example: a small space of time

Definition: Slender, gracefully slim.

Phonetic: "/smoːl/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: In a small fashion.

Definition: In or into small pieces.

Definition: To a small extent.

Definition: In a low tone; softly.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.

Example: There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.

Definition: (heading) In games.

Definition: An excavation pit or trench.

Definition: A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.

Example: I have found a hole in your argument.

Definition: A container or receptacle.

Example: car hole;  brain hole

Definition: In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.

Definition: A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

Definition: An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.

Example: Just shut your hole!

Definition: (particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.

Example: Are you going out to get your hole tonight?

Definition: (with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

Definition: An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.

Example: His apartment is a hole!

Definition: Difficulty, in particular, debt.

Example: If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Definition: A chordless cycle in a graph.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To make holes in (an object or surface).

Example: Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.

Definition: (by extension) To destroy.

Example: She completely holed the argument.

Definition: To go into a hole.

Definition: To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

Example: Woods holed a standard three foot putt

Definition: To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

Example: to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

Phonetic: "/meɪd/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A grub or maggot.

Phonetic: "/ɪn/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A position of power or influence, or a way to get it.

Example: His parents got him an in with the company.

Definition: (chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is in; especially, one who is in office.

Definition: The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting; see innings.

Definition: A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.

Phonetic: "/ɪn/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To enclose.

Definition: To take in; to harvest.

Phonetic: "/ɪn/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.

Example: Is Mr. Smith in?

Definition: Located inside something.

Example: Little by little I pushed the snake into the basket, until finally all of it was in.

Definition: (of the ball or other playing implement) Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.

Example: If the tennis ball bounces on the line then it's in.

Definition: Inserted or fitted into something.

Example: I've discovered why the TV wasn't working – the plug wasn't in!

Definition: Having been collected or received.

Example: The replies to the questionnaires are now all in.

Definition: In fashion; popular.

Example: Skirts are in this year.

Definition: Incoming.

Example: the in train

Definition: (of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.

Definition: Of the tide, at or near its highest level.

Example: You can't get round the headland when the tide's in.

Definition: With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.

Example: in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband

Definition: Currently batting.

Definition: Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.

Example: He is very in with the Joneses.

Definition: Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.

Example: I think that bird fancies you. You're in there, mate!

Phonetic: "/ɪn/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.

Example: He ran to the edge of the swimming pool and dived in.

Definition: Towards the speaker or other reference point.

Example: For six hours the tide flows in, then for another six hours it flows out.

Definition: So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.

Example: Bring the water to the boil and drop the vegetables in.

Definition: Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.

Example: He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.

Definition: After the beginning of something.

Example: The show still didn't become interesting 20 minutes in.

Definition: (in combination, after a verb) Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.

Phonetic: "/ɪn/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.

Definition: Into.

Example: Less water gets in your boots this way.

Definition: Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.

Example: In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.

Definition: Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.

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: "/ɡɹaʊnd/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.

Example: Look, I found a ten dollar bill on the ground!

Definition: Terrain.

Definition: Soil, earth.

Example: The fox escaped from the hounds by going to ground.

Definition: The bottom of a body of water.

Definition: Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.

Definition: (chiefly in the plural) Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.

Example: He could not come on grounds of health, or on health grounds.

Definition: Background, context, framework, surroundings.

Definition: The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".

Definition: (by extension) Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.

Definition: The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.

Example: crimson flowers on a white ground

Definition: In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.

Definition: In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.

Example: Brussels ground

Definition: In etching, a gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.

Definition: (chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.

Example: Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them.

Definition: A soccer stadium.

Example: Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.

Definition: An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).

Definition: The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).

Definition: A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.

Definition: The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.

Definition: The pit of a theatre.

Phonetic: "/ɡɹaʊnd/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.

Definition: To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.

Example: Eric, you are grounded until further notice for lying to us about where you were last night!

Definition: To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.

Example: Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.

Definition: To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.

Example: Jim was grounded in maths.

Definition: To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb(regular)) and line (verb).

Definition: To place something on the ground.

Definition: To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.

Example: The ship grounded on the bar.

Definition: To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.

Definition: To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.

Definition: To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.

Example: I ground myself with meditation.

Phonetic: "/baɪ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.

Phonetic: "/baɪ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.

Example: geography bee

Definition: A community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.

Phonetic: "/baɪ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A ring or torque; a bracelet.

Phonetic: "/baɪ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The name of the Latin-script letter B.

Phonetic: "/baɪ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (usually in the plural) Any of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through.

Phonetic: "/baɪ/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Out of the way, subsidiary.

Phonetic: "/baɪ/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: Along a path which runs past the speaker.

Example: I watched as it passed by.

Definition: In the vicinity, near.

Example: The shop is hard by the High Street.

Definition: To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.

Example: I'll stop by on my way home from work.

Definition: Aside, away.

Example: The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.

Phonetic: "/baɪ/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Near or next to.

Example: The mailbox is by the bus stop.

Definition: From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.

Example: He ran straight by me.

Definition: Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).

Example: Be back by ten o'clock!.

Definition: Indicates the person or thing that does or causes something: Through the action or presence of.

Definition: Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.

Example: There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare

Definition: Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.

Example: By 'maybe' she means 'no'.

Definition: Indicates an authority according to which something is done.

Example: By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.

Definition: Indicates a means of classification or organisation.

Example: I sorted the items by category.

Definition: Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy

Example: His date of birth was wrong by ten years.

Definition: In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.

Example: We crawled forward by inches.

Definition: Indicates a referenced source: According to.

Example: By my reckoning, we should be nearly there.

Definition: Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.

Example: It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix.

Definition: (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.

Example: She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.

Phonetic: "/baɪ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.

Example: Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.

Definition: An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.

Definition: A dwelling.

Definition: A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.

Definition: A pass.

Phonetic: "/baɪ/"

Part Of Speech: interjection

Definition: Goodbye.

Phonetic: "/ˈθɹəʊ.ɪŋ/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To change place.

Definition: To change in state or status

Definition: To move through time.

Definition: To be accepted.

Definition: In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.

Definition: To do or be better.

Definition: To take heed.

Phonetic: "/ˈθɹəʊ.ɪŋ/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.

Example: throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider

Definition: To eject or cause to fall off.

Definition: To move to another position or condition; to displace.

Example: throw the switch

Definition: To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.

Definition: (of a bowler) to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.

Definition: To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.

Example: If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid-operation exception.

Definition: To intentionally lose a game.

Example: The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match.

Definition: To confuse or mislead.

Example: The deliberate red herring threw me at first.

Definition: To send desperately.

Example: Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle.

Definition: To imprison.

Example: The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail.

Definition: To organize an event, especially a party.

Definition: To roll (a die or dice).

Definition: To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.

Definition: To discard.

Definition: To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.

Definition: (said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.

Definition: To show sudden emotion, especially anger.

Definition: To project or send forth.

Definition: To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.

Definition: To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.

Definition: (of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).

Definition: To install (a bridge).

Definition: To twist or turn.

Example: a thrown nail

Phonetic: "/ˈθɹəʊ.ɪŋ/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: (said of animals) To give birth to.

Phonetic: "/ˈθɹəʊ.ɪŋ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The act by which something is thrown.

Definition: The process of making ceramic ware on the potter's wheel

Part Of Speech: pronoun

Definition: (plural) Those ones.

Definition: (singular) Him, her, or it; that one.

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: "/æɪ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The name of the Latin script letter A/a.

Phonetic: "/huˈɛvə/"

Part Of Speech: pronoun

Definition: (interrogative) Who ever: an emphatic form of who.

Example: Whoever thought up that stupid idea?

Definition: (fused relative) Any person or persons that.

Example: Whoever breaks the law will be punished.

Definition: (fused relative) The person that (no matter who).

Example: I don't know what it is. Ask whoever put it there.

Definition: Regardless of the person or persons that.

Example: Whoever stole the painting, the police will catch the thief in no time.

Definition: Any person or persons.

Example: I don't care who gets it; give it to whoever.

Definition: Misspelling of who ever other than in interrogative use.

Example: *He is the tallest man whoever lived. (incorrect usage)

Phonetic: "/ɡɛts/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Offspring.

Definition: Lineage.

Definition: A difficult return or block of a shot.

Definition: Something gained; an acquisition.

Phonetic: "/ɡɛts/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.

Example: I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.

Definition: To receive.

Example: He got a severe reprimand for that.

Definition: (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.

Example: I've got a concert ticket for you.

Definition: To fetch, bring, take.

Example: Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?

Definition: To become, or cause oneself to become.

Example: I'm getting hungry; how about you?

Definition: To cause to become; to bring about.

Example: I can't get these boots off (or on).

Definition: To cause to do.

Example: I can't get it to work.

Definition: To cause to come or go or move.

Example: I got him to his room.

Definition: To cause to be in a certain status or position.

Example: Get him here at once.

Definition: (with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).

Example: I'm getting into a muddle.

Definition: To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.

Example: to get a mile

Definition: To begin (doing something or to do something).

Example: After lunch we got chatting.

Definition: To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

Example: I normally get the 7:45 train.

Definition: To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).

Example: Can you get that call, please? I'm busy.

Definition: (followed by infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).

Example: Great. I get to clean the toilets today.

Definition: To understand. (compare get it)

Example: I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!

Definition: To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).

Example: "You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot."

Definition: To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.

Example: He got bitten by a dog.

Definition: To become ill with or catch (a disease).

Example: I went on holiday and got malaria.

Definition: To catch out, trick successfully.

Example: He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time.

Definition: To perplex, stump.

Example: That question's really got me.

Definition: To find as an answer.

Example: What did you get for question four?

Definition: To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.

Example: I'm gonna get him for that.

Definition: To hear completely; catch.

Example: Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?

Definition: To getter.

Example: I put the getter into the container to get the gases.

Definition: To beget (of a father).

Definition: To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.

Example: to get a lesson;  to get out one's Greek lesson

Definition: Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.

Example: Get her with her new hairdo.

Definition: To go, to leave; to scram.

Definition: To kill.

Example: They’re coming to get you, Barbara.

Definition: To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

Definition: To measure.

Example: Did you get her temperature?

Phonetic: "/ɡɛts/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A git.

Part Of Speech: pronoun

Definition: (plural) Those ones.

Definition: (singular) Him, her, or it; that one.

Phonetic: "/ˈɪn.tuː/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: To or towards the inside of.

Example: Mary danced into the house.

Definition: To or towards the region of.

Example: The eagle flew off into the wide blue sky.

Definition: Against, especially with force or violence.

Example: I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall

Definition: Indicates transition into another form or substance.

Example: I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale.

Definition: After the start of.

Example: About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.

Definition: Interested in or attracted to.

Example: My date for tonight has black hair, and I'm into that.

Definition: Expressing the operation of multiplication.

Example: Five into three is fifteen.

Definition: Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".

Example: 24 goes into 48 how many times?

Definition: Investigating the subject (of).

Example: There have been calls for research into the pesticides that are blamed for the decline in bee populations.

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: "/ˈhaɪ.ɪst/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.

Example: The balloon rose high in the sky.   The wall was high.   a high mountain

Definition: Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.

Definition: Having a specified elevation or height; tall.

Example: three feet high   three Mount Everests high

Definition: Elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character.

Example: The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish.

Definition: Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).

Example: high crimes, the high festival of the sun

Definition: Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.

Example: high (i.e. intense) heat; high (i.e. full or quite) noon; high (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i.e. complete) pleasure; high (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; high (i.e. extensive, thorough) scholarship; high tide; high [tourism] season; the High Middle Ages

Definition: (in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time.

Example: high latitude, high antiquity

Definition: (in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing things; see e.g. high church, High Tory.

Definition: Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.

Example: in high spirits

Definition: (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.

Example: high living, the high life

Definition: Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.

Example: a high tone

Definition: (with "on" or "about") Keen, enthused.

Definition: (of a body of water) With tall waves.

Definition: Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).

Example: My bank charges me a high interest rate.   I was running a high temperature and had high cholesterol.   high voltage   high prices   high winds   a high number

Definition: (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).

Example: The note was too high for her to sing.

Definition: Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.

Definition: Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.

Definition: (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.

Example: Epicures do not cook game before it is high.

Definition: Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.

Definition: (of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.

Phonetic: "/ˈhaɪ.ɪst/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: In or to an elevated position.

Example: How high above land did you fly?

Definition: In or at a great value.

Example: Costs have grown higher this year again.

Definition: At a pitch of great frequency.

Example: I certainly can't sing that high.

Phonetic: "/ˈnʌmbəd/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).

Example: Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.

Definition: To total or count; to amount to.

Example: I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.

Example: There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.

Definition: (heading) In games.

Definition: An excavation pit or trench.

Definition: A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.

Example: I have found a hole in your argument.

Definition: A container or receptacle.

Example: car hole;  brain hole

Definition: In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.

Definition: A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

Definition: An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.

Example: Just shut your hole!

Definition: (particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.

Example: Are you going out to get your hole tonight?

Definition: (with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

Definition: An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.

Example: His apartment is a hole!

Definition: Difficulty, in particular, debt.

Example: If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Definition: A chordless cycle in a graph.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To make holes in (an object or surface).

Example: Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.

Definition: (by extension) To destroy.

Example: She completely holed the argument.

Definition: To go into a hole.

Definition: To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

Example: Woods holed a standard three foot putt

Definition: To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

Example: to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

Phonetic: "/wɪnz/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To conquer, defeat.

Definition: To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).

Definition: To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).

Definition: To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.

Example: to win the jackpot in a lottery;  to win a bottle of wine in a raffle

Definition: To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).

Definition: To achieve victory.

Example: Who would win in a fight between an octopus and a dolphin?

Definition: To have power, coercion or control.

Example: Ever since the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Bostonians now run as "One Boston." The terrorists did not win.

Definition: To obtain (something desired).

Example: The company hopes to win an order from the government worth over 5 million dollars.

Definition: To cause a victory for someone.

Example: The policy success should win the elections for Mr. Smith.

Definition: To extract (ore, coal, etc.).

Phonetic: "/wɪnz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: An individual victory.

Example: Our first win of the season put us in high spirits.

Definition: A feat carried out successfully; a victorious achievement.

Definition: Gain; profit; income.

Definition: Wealth; goods owned.

Phonetic: "/wɪnz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Pleasure; joy; delight.