📖 A — The English dictionary · page 32

ana — Everyday, meaning 1: Ana is mostly a girl's name, a form of Anna, common in Spanish and Portuguese.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an ending, -ana (also -iana) means a collection of things about a person or place: «Victoriana» = things from Queen Victoria's time; «Americana» = things typical of American culture.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As a rare noun, «ana» means a collection of sayings or stories about someone.↗ Example: Ana is my best friend's name.↗ · Ana lives with her grandma in Madrid.↗ · The museum shop sells Victoriana, like old toys and lamps.↗ · The diner was full of Americana: neon signs and old posters.↗ · «Ana» is the Spanish form of Anna.↗ · Montana and Indiana end in -ana.↗ · The book is a collection of ana about a famous poet.↗ · Ana wrote her name on the board.↗ · “Would you have got as good poems by the Shannon or the Suir or by sweet Ana Life’?”↗

anabolic — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Anabolic means building up bigger molecules from smaller ones in the body, like building muscle and growing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Anabolic steroids are drugs that build muscle; using them in sport is cheating and can harm health.↗ Example: Growth is an anabolic process.↗ · Anabolic reactions use energy to build new tissue.↗ · The athlete was banned for taking anabolic steroids.↗ · Anabolic steroids can damage the heart and liver.↗ · Sleep helps the body's anabolic work of repair.↗ · Building proteins from amino acids is anabolic.↗

anachronism — Everyday, meaning 1: Something put in the wrong time, especially in a story or picture, like a wristwatch on a Roman soldier.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person, custom or thing that seems old-fashioned and belongs to an earlier time.↗ Example: The film showed a knight with a mobile phone, which is a funny anachronism.↗ · Can you spot the anachronism in this picture of ancient Egypt?↗ · A clock striking in Julius Caesar's Rome is an anachronism, because such clocks did not exist yet.↗ · Some people think writing cheques is an anachronism now that we pay by phone.↗ · Grandad says the old red phone box is a lovely anachronism.↗ · Our teacher hid three anachronisms in the story about the Vikings.↗ · A dinosaur next to cavemen is a famous anachronism in cartoons.↗ · The steam train in the medieval story was an anachronism.↗ · My battery captain called me a Pachydermatous Anachronism the other day.”↗

anaconda — Everyday, meaning 1: An anaconda is a very large snake from South America that lives in and near rivers and swamps.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The green anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world; it is not venomous but kills its prey by squeezing it until it cannot breathe, then swallows it whole.↗ Example: An anaconda can stay under water for a long time.↗ · The green anaconda lives in the Amazon rainforest.↗ · Anacondas squeeze their prey instead of biting with venom.↗ · We saw an anaconda sleeping in the warm pool at the zoo.↗ · An anaconda can swallow an animal bigger than its own head.↗ · The anaconda's eyes sit high on its head so it can see above the water.↗ · In the film the anaconda was much bigger than any real snake.↗ · Baby anacondas are born live, not hatched from eggs outside.↗

anaemia — Everyday, meaning 1: Anaemia is an illness where the blood does not have enough healthy red blood cells or iron, so the person feels very tired, weak and pale.↗ Example: The doctor said her tiredness was caused by anaemia.↗ · Eating iron-rich foods helps prevent anaemia.↗ · Anaemia can make your skin look pale.↗ · Red blood cells carry oxygen, so anaemia makes you breathless.↗ · Some people with anaemia take iron tablets.↗ · A blood test showed he had anaemia.↗

anaesthesia — Everyday, meaning 1: (medicine) Using medicine so a person feels no pain during an operation, either by putting them to sleep (general) or numbing one part (local).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A loss of feeling in the body.↗ Example: She had her tonsils out under anaesthesia.↗ · The dentist used local anaesthesia, so my tooth went numb.↗ · Anaesthesia was first used in surgery in the 1840s.↗ · General anaesthesia puts you into a deep sleep.↗ · An anaesthetist watches you during anaesthesia.↗ · After anaesthesia, you may feel sleepy.↗

anaesthetic — Everyday, meaning 1: A medicine that stops you feeling pain, given by a doctor or dentist before an operation or treatment.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A local anaesthetic numbs only one part of the body; a general anaesthetic makes you sleep through the whole operation.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Causing a loss of feeling: an anaesthetic cream.↗ Example: The dentist gave me an anaesthetic before filling my tooth.↗ · She was under general anaesthetic during the operation.↗ · A local anaesthetic numbed his finger.↗ · When the anaesthetic wore off, my mouth felt normal again.↗ · Before anaesthetics, operations were very painful.↗ · Don't eat until the anaesthetic has worn off, or you may bite your cheek.↗

anaesthetist — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A doctor who gives patients medicine (anaesthetic) so they feel no pain or are fully asleep during an operation, and who watches over them until they wake up.↗ Example: The anaesthetist put me to sleep before my operation.↗ · "Count back from ten," said the anaesthetist kindly.↗ · An anaesthetist watches your breathing during surgery.↗ · My mum is an anaesthetist at the children's hospital.↗ · The anaesthetist checked that I hadn't eaten breakfast.↗ · When I woke up, the anaesthetist asked how I felt.↗

anagram — Everyday, meaning 1: An anagram is a word or phrase made by mixing up all the letters of another word or phrase: «listen» is an anagram of «silent».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An anagram puzzle asks you to rearrange the letters to find a hidden word.↗ Example: «Listen» is an anagram of «silent».↗ · Can you find an anagram of «stop»?↗ Pots, spot, tops, post, opts.↗ · The detective solved the anagram and found the secret name.↗ · «Dormitory» is an anagram of «dirty room».↗ · The crossword clue was an anagram.↗ · «Act» and «cat» are anagrams of each other.↗

anagrams — Everyday, meaning 1: Words or phrases made by changing the order of the letters of another word or phrase, using every letter once, like «listen» and «silent».↗ Example: «Listen» and «silent» are anagrams.↗ · «Dormitory» is an anagram of «dirty room».↗ · We solved anagrams in the puzzle club.↗ · Make anagrams of the word «stop»: pots, tops, spot, opts.↗ · Crosswords often use anagrams as clues.↗ · My name has funny anagrams.↗

analects — Everyday, meaning 1: A collection of short sayings or pieces of writing chosen from a writer or teacher.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The Analects: the famous book of sayings of Confucius, a wise teacher in ancient China.↗ Example: The Analects are sayings of the Chinese teacher Confucius.↗ · We read a line from The Analects about treating others well.↗ · In The Analects, Confucius says that learning should be a joy.↗ · Our teacher showed us a page of The Analects in Chinese.↗ · The Analects teach respect for parents and older people.↗ · Many people in China still quote The Analects.↗ · The Analects is a book of short wise sayings.↗

analogous — Everyday, meaning 1: Similar in some way, so that it can be compared: «analogous to» something.↗ Example: The heart is analogous to a pump.↗ · A school is analogous to a small town.↗ · Bird wings and bat wings do analogous jobs.↗ · This problem is analogous to the one we did yesterday.↗ · Electricity in a wire is analogous to water in a pipe.↗ · The two stories have analogous endings.↗ · The seven double consonants are analogous to the six dimensions: height and depth, East and West, North and South, and the holy temple that stands in the centre, which carries them all.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

analogue — Everyday, meaning 1: An analogue clock or watch has hands that move around a dial instead of showing numbers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Analogue describes old-style machines that work with smooth changes, not with digital numbers, like a vinyl record or an old radio.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As a noun, an analogue is something that is like something else and can be compared with it.↗ Example: Can you read the time on an analogue clock?↗ · The analogue clock in our classroom shows half past two.↗ · My watch is analogue, so it has hands.↗ · Grandpa still listens to an analogue radio.↗ · Draw the hands on the analogue clock to show quarter to five.↗ · A digital clock shows 3:15, and an analogue clock shows the same time with hands.↗ · Vinyl records are analogue sound.↗

analogy — Everyday, meaning 1: A comparison that explains one thing by showing how it is like another, for example saying the heart is like a pump.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (school, olympiad) A puzzle of the form «A is to B as C is to D», like «hot is to cold as up is to down».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A likeness between two things in some way.↗ Example: The teacher used the analogy of a pump to explain how the heart works.↗ · Bird is to nest as bee is to hive — can you finish the analogy?↗ · Comparing the eye to a camera is a common analogy.↗ · By analogy with «sing, sang», some children say «bring, brang», but it is «brought».↗ · There is an analogy between a city and an ant colony: both need workers and roads.↗ · Our olympiad paper had ten analogy questions.↗ · Every analogy breaks down somewhere: the heart is not really made of metal.↗ · Hand is to glove as foot is to sock.↗ · I fail to see much analogy.↗ · Certain translators have preferred to render otyot yesod as 'elemental letters' by analogy with the Greek term.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

analyse — Everyday, meaning 1: To look at something closely and carefully, part by part, to understand it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science, maths) To study data, results or a sample to find patterns or what it is made of.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (school) To examine a poem, story or text to explain how it works and what it means.↗ Example: We analysed the results of our plant experiment.↗ · Analyse the graph and say which month was the wettest.↗ · The scientist analysed the water to see if it was clean.↗ · In English we analysed how the poet uses rhyme.↗ · The coach analysed the video to see where we went wrong.↗ · Let's analyse the problem step by step.↗ · The police analysed the fingerprints on the glass.↗

analysis — Everyday, meaning 1: Analysis is studying something carefully by looking at its parts, to understand it or find out what it is made of.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An analysis is a report or piece of work that explains such careful study.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) Analysis is testing a substance to find out what is in it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (maths) Analysis of data means looking for patterns, totals and averages.↗ Example: We did an analysis of our science results.↗ · The detective's careful analysis solved the mystery.↗ · Write an analysis of the main character.↗ · Analysis of the water showed it was safe to drink.↗ · The pundits gave their analysis after the match.↗ · Data analysis showed most pupils walk to school.↗ · In the final analysis, honesty mattered most.↗ · Here is a brief analysis of part of one of the tales in which this elementary abducer figures.↗

analyst — Everyday, meaning 1: A person whose job is to study information closely to understand it or find problems, like a data analyst or sports analyst.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A psychoanalyst, a kind of therapist (mostly US use).↗ Example: The football analyst explained the goal.↗ · A data analyst studies numbers on a computer.↗ · My aunt works as a weather analyst.↗ · Analysts think prices will rise.↗ · The analyst found mistakes in the report.↗ · Spies were studied by intelligence analysts.↗

anaphylaxis — Everyday, meaning 1: Anaphylaxis is a sudden, very serious allergic reaction that can quickly make it hard to breathe, cause swelling of the face, lips, tongue or throat, a rash, dizziness or fainting, and can kill if not treated straight away.↗ Example: Anaphylaxis is a medical emergency.↗ · Jack has a nut allergy and could go into anaphylaxis if he eats peanuts.↗ · The teacher used an EpiPen to treat her anaphylaxis.↗ · Signs of anaphylaxis include a swollen face and trouble breathing.↗ · Call an ambulance straight away if you think someone has anaphylaxis.↗ · Our school is nut-free to protect children at risk of anaphylaxis.↗ · A bee sting can cause anaphylaxis in some people.↗ · Never share food with a friend who has allergies.↗

anarchist — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who believes there should be no government or rulers and people should organise themselves freely.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (loose use) A person who wants to break rules and cause chaos.↗ Example: The anarchist wrote books about life without government.↗ · Some anarchists set up communities in Spain.↗ · He called himself an anarchist, but he still paid his bus fare.↗ · Anarchist ideas spread in the 1800s.↗ · The rebel in the story was a wild anarchist.↗ · Not every anarchist believes in violence.↗

anathema — Everyday, meaning 1: Anathema is something or someone that people strongly hate and want to avoid.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) A curse put on a person by a church or a leader.↗ Example: Lies were anathema to the honest king.↗ · In the old tale, the dispute became an anathema.↗ · Cruelty is anathema to kind people.↗

anatomical — Everyday, meaning 1: Anatomical means to do with the structure of the body of a person, animal or plant, as in an anatomical drawing.↗ Example: We labelled an anatomical diagram of the heart.↗ · Leonardo da Vinci made anatomical drawings.↗ · The museum has an anatomical model of the skeleton.↗ · Doctors use anatomical names for bones.↗ · The book has clear anatomical pictures of insects.↗ · Running shoes have an anatomical shape to fit the foot.↗ · There is also a spatial-anatomical parallelism between the terms employed by the SY: the tongue concealed above, the genitals concealed below.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Both items refer to anatomical hiddenness: the word emerging from the tongue, hidden in the mouth, and circumcision of the genitals, the concealed lower organs revealed during circumcision.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗