Showing posts with label found. Show all posts
Showing posts with label found. Show all posts
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
hello. (160/365)

...sticker found on back of stop sign.
Noun
- S: (n) hello, hullo, hi, howdy, how-do-you-do (an expression of greeting) "every morning they exchanged polite hellos"
Saturday, April 9, 2011
eat. (110/365)

found in Clarendon, Va.
Verb
- S: (v) eat (take in solid food) "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
- S: (v) eat (eat a meal; take a meal) "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"
- S: (v) feed, eat (take in food; used of animals only) "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
- S: (v) eat, eat on (worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way) "What's eating you?"
- S: (v) consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out (use up (resources or materials)) "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
- S: (v) corrode, eat, rust (cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid) "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"
Definition of "eat" from Princeton's WordNet
Sunday, March 27, 2011
soap. (98/365)

found at Church Hill Irish Festival, RVA.
Noun
- S: (n) soap (a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats)
- S: (n) soap (money offered as a bribe)
- S: (n) soap, scoop, max, liquid ecstasy, grievous bodily harm, goop, Georgia home boy, easy lay (street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate)
Verb
S: (v) soap, lather (rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning)Definition of "soap" from Princeton's WordNet
also found at the Church Hill Irish Festival...

Wednesday, March 23, 2011
extinguish. (94/365)

found at Village Cafe, RVA.
Verb
- S: (v) snuff out, extinguish (put an end to; kill) "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
- S: (v) snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench (put out, as of fires, flames, or lights) "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"
- S: (v) stub out, crush out, extinguish, press out (extinguish by crushing) "stub out your cigar"
- S: (v) extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with (terminate, end, or take out) "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
- S: (v) eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off (kill in large numbers) "the plague wiped out an entire population"
Definition of "extinguish" from Princeton's WordNet
Saturday, March 19, 2011
rust. (90/365)



found in Shockoe Bottom.
Noun
- S: (n) rust (a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture)
- S: (n) rust (a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi)
- S: (n) rust, rusting (the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water)
- S: (n) rust, rust fungus (any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants)
Verb
- S: (v) corrode, rust (become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid) "The metal corroded"; "The pipes rusted"
- S: (v) corrode, eat, rust (cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid) "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"
- S: (v) rust (become coated with oxide)
Adjective
S: (adj) rust, rusty, rust-brown (of the brown color of rust)Definition of "rust" from Princeton's WordNet
Thursday, March 17, 2011
bread. (87/365)


found in Shockoe Bottom, VA
Noun
- S: (n) bread, breadstuff, staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)
- S: (n) boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum (informal terms for money)
Verb
Definition of "bread" from Princeton's WordNet
Monday, March 7, 2011
fresh. (77/265)

found in Shockoe Bottom.
Adjective
- S: (adj) fresh (recently made, produced, or harvested) "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent"; "fresh lettuce"
- S: (adj) fresh ((of a cycle) beginning or occurring again) "a fresh start"; "fresh ideas"
- S: (adj) bracing, brisk, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic (imparting vitality and energy) "the bracing mountain air"
- S: (adj) fresh, new, novel (original and of a kind not seen before) "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
- S: (adj) fresh (not canned or otherwise preserved) "fresh vegetables"
- S: (adj) fresh, sweet (not containing or composed of salt water) "fresh water"
- S: (adj) fresh (having recently calved and therefore able to give milk) "the cow is fresh"
- S: (adj) fresh, invigorated, refreshed, reinvigorated (with restored energy)
- S: (adj) fresh, sweet, unfermented (not soured or preserved) "sweet milk"
- S: (adj) clean, fresh (free from impurities) "clean water"; "fresh air"
- S: (adj) fresh, unused (not yet used or soiled) "a fresh shirt"; "a fresh sheet of paper"; "an unused envelope"
- S: (adj) fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy, wise (improperly forward or bold) "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!"
Adverb
- S: (adv) newly, freshly, fresh, new (very recently) "they are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh out of tomatoes"
Definition of "fresh" from Princeton's WordNet
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
i'd prefer to be a... (54/265)

found on old East End Movie Theater... by the post office, North Twenty-fifth Street, between Clay and Marshall in Church Hill, Richmond.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
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