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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

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

where in the worLd? (37/365)


Noun

  • S: (n) universe, existence, creation, world, cosmos, macrocosm (everything that exists anywhere) "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence"
  • S: (n) world, domain (people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest) "the Western world"
  • S: (n) world, reality (all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you) "his world was shattered"; "we live in different worlds"; "for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were"
  • S: (n) Earth, earth, world, globe (the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on) "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the world"
  • S: (n) populace, public, world (people in general considered as a whole) "he is a hero in the eyes of the public"
  • S: (n) world (a part of the earth that can be considered separately) "the outdoor world"; "the world of insects"
  • S: (n) worldly concern, earthly concern, world, earth (the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife) "they consider the church to be independent of the world"
  • S: (n) world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man (all of the living human inhabitants of the earth) "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"

Adjective

  • S: (adj) global, planetary, world, worldwide, world-wide (involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope) "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis"; "of worldwide significance"
Definition of 'world' from Princeton's WordNet