📖 A — The English dictionary · page 33

anatomically — Everyday, meaning 1: Anatomically means in a way that is to do with the structure of the body.↗ Example: The model skeleton is anatomically correct.↗ · Anatomically, a whale's flipper is like a human hand.↗ · Humans and chimpanzees are anatomically similar.↗ · The artist drew the horse anatomically accurately.↗ · Anatomically, the heart is slightly to the left.↗ · Anatomically modern humans appeared about 300,000 years ago.↗

anatomy — Everyday, meaning 1: The study of the parts of the body and how they are arranged: bones, muscles, organs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The body structure of a person, animal or plant: «the anatomy of a frog».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, humorous) A part of the body: «He hurt a delicate part of his anatomy.».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A close, careful study of something: «the anatomy of a crime».↗ Example: We learned about the anatomy of the heart.↗ · Doctors must study anatomy for years.↗ · The poster shows the anatomy of a fish.↗ · Leonardo da Vinci drew careful pictures of human anatomy.↗ · The anatomy of a flower includes petals, stamens and a pistil.↗ · The ball hit him in a painful part of his anatomy.↗ · When they were about half-way, the jelly fish, who knew very little of anatomy, began to wonder if the monkey had his liver with him or not!↗ · Presumably, the anatomy of slaughtered livestock would have been fairly familiar to many writers and readers of the time, while blessedly few indeed would have had first-hand knowledge of human innards.]↗ Like what did He make them?↗ (A city) [strife].↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

ancestor — Everyday, meaning 1: An ancestor is a person in your family who lived long ago, before your grandparents, like a great-great-grandparent.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An ancestor of an animal or plant is an older kind from which it developed: the wolf is an ancestor of the dog.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An ancestor of a machine or idea is an earlier form of it.↗ Example: My ancestors came from Ireland on a ship.↗ · We made a family tree to find our ancestors.↗ · The wolf is the ancestor of the dog.↗ · Birds have dinosaur ancestors.↗ · Our ancestors hunted and gathered their food.↗ · Grandma has a photo of an ancestor from 1890.↗ · The horse's ancestor was as small as a fox.↗ · Many cultures tell stories about their ancestors.↗ · Consider what you owe to yourself, and to the blood of your ancestors."↗ · But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.26.45, JPS 1917)↗

ancestral — Everyday, meaning 1: Ancestral means belonging to, coming from or connected with your ancestors, the people in your family who lived long before you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Ancestral describes an early form of a living thing from which later kinds developed.↗ Example: The castle was the duke's ancestral home.↗ · The Māori people care deeply for their ancestral land.↗ · Grandma took us to her ancestral village in Ireland.↗ · Many families keep ancestral photos and letters.↗ · Birds are thought to have dinosaurs as ancestral relatives.↗ · The tribe performed an ancestral dance at the festival.↗ · Our ancestral language was Ukrainian, though we now speak English.↗ · He first sought refuge on Mount Ida, and afterwards fled to Italy, where he became the ancestral hero of the Roman people.↗

ancestress — Everyday, meaning 1: An ancestress is a woman from whom a family or people is descended; a female ancestor long ago.↗ Example: Her ancestress was a famous queen of the sea.↗ · The healers said their skill came from an ancestress.↗ · He was as beautiful as his ancestress.↗

ancestry — Everyday, meaning 1: Your ancestry is all the people in your family who lived long before you, such as great-grandparents, and the places and groups they came from.↗ Example: She is of Irish and Polish ancestry.↗ · We drew a family tree to trace our ancestry.↗ · Many Americans have European, African or Asian ancestry.↗ · His ancestry goes back to Viking times.↗ · DNA tests can tell you some things about your ancestry.↗ · Ancestry is about the past; who you are is also about your choices.↗

anchor — Everyday, meaning 1: An anchor is a heavy metal object on a chain or rope that is dropped from a boat to the sea floor to stop the boat from drifting.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To anchor is to stop a boat with an anchor, or to fix something firmly so it cannot move.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An anchor (news anchor) is the main person who presents a TV news programme.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In a team, the anchor is the strongest one who goes last, like in a relay race or tug of war.↗ Example: The ship dropped anchor in the bay.↗ · The sailors pulled up the heavy anchor.↗ · We anchored the tent with pegs.↗ · Roots anchor the tree in the ground.↗ · The boat was at anchor near the island.↗ · The news anchor read the headlines.↗ · She ran the anchor leg in the relay.↗ · Dad anchored the bookcase to the wall so it won't tip over.↗ · Presently the sailors lowered the anchor and landed.↗

anchorage — Everyday, meaning 1: An anchorage is a place where ships can safely drop anchor, usually a calm, sheltered bit of water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Anchorage is the largest city in the US state of Alaska.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An anchorage can also be a strong point that something is fixed to, like where a bridge cable or a seat belt is attached.↗ Example: The ships waited in the anchorage until the storm passed.↗ · The bay is a safe anchorage.↗ · Anchorage is the biggest city in Alaska.↗ · Moose sometimes walk through the streets of Anchorage.↗ · The sailors found a quiet anchorage behind the island.↗ · The child seat clips into the anchorage points in the car.↗ · The bridge cables are fixed to huge anchorages.↗ · In Anchorage it stays light almost all night in June.↗

anchovy — Everyday, meaning 1: An anchovy is a small, thin, salty fish, often sold in tins or used on pizza.↗ Example: The cook fried the mullets and the anchovies in hot oil.↗ · Anchovies taste very salty on a pizza.↗ · Each anchovy in the tin is one fish.↗

ancient — Everyday, meaning 1: Ancient means belonging to a time very, very long ago, often thousands of years ago.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ancient can mean very old (often said as a joke about something old).↗ Example: The Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids.↗ · We are learning about Ancient Greece.↗ · The forest has ancient oak trees.↗ · The museum shows ancient coins.↗ · The ancient Romans built straight roads.↗ · This computer is ancient!↗ · The temple is in ruins because it is so ancient.↗ · Dinosaur fossils are found in ancient rocks.↗ · MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME.↗ · And for the tops of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the everlasting hills, (Torah DEU.33.15, JPS 1917)↗ · both these Hebrew classics speak of it as a very ancient work.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Some parts are not very ancient, since some versions mention the Crusades.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.↗ (Writings PRO.22.28, JPS 1917)↗ · The brook Kishon swept them away, that ancient brook, the brook Kishon.↗ (Prophets JDG.5.21, JPS 1917)↗ · I have pondered the days of old, the years of ancient times.↗ (Writings PSA.77.6, JPS 1917)↗

anciently — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In a time long ago.↗ Example: The alphabet was anciently believed to symbolize the whole universe.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Further investigation proved that anciently there were counted ten double letters.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · symbolized by the letter V, which was anciently written also as 4=.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

and — Everyday, meaning 1: And joins two words or two parts of a sentence: bread and butter.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: And can mean then, after that: she smiled and waved.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In numbers said aloud, and links parts: one hundred and five.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: And can mean «plus» in sums: two and three make five.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (casual) «And?» or «So?» on its own means «so what, why does it matter?», often rude.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (casual) Chatty speakers start sentence after sentence with «and» or «and then», and «and that» or «and stuff» (UK, Australia) means «and so on».↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (formal) The exam voice joins with «as well as», «in addition to», «together with», «furthermore».↗ Example: Student: one book and one plum↗ · Ben bought 6 cards on Monday and 5 cards on Tuesday.↗ · Mia has 4 red balls and 7 green balls.↗ How many balls does she have?↗ · Leo had 9 kites and lost 5.↗ · Two and three make five.↗ · I like cats and dogs.↗ · We went to the beach and built a sandcastle.↗ · My grandpa is ninety and still swims every day.↗ · and then the bus was late, and then nan rang, anyway she gave me 4↗ · «I ate the last 3 biscuits.»↗ «And?↗ There's loads more.»↗ · Me and Jo got crisps and drinks and stuff.↗ · Mia possesses 4 red spheres in addition to 7 green spheres; ascertain the total quantity.↗ · "Some wine and meat," she replied.↗ · And God called the firmament Heaven.↗ (Torah GEN.1.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And God spoke unto Noah, saying: (Torah GEN.8.15, JPS 1917)↗ · and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah; (Torah GEN.10.27, JPS 1917)↗ · All the kings thirty and one.↗ (Prophets JOS.12.24, JPS 1917)↗ · and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath; (Prophets JOS.13.18, JPS 1917)↗ · and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah; (Prophets JOS.15.22, JPS 1917)↗

andean — Everyday, meaning 1: Andean describes the Andes, the long chain of mountains along the west of South America, or the people and things from there.↗ Example: The Andean condor is one of the largest flying birds.↗ · Llamas carry loads on Andean paths.↗ · The Incas were an Andean people.↗ · Potatoes first came from the Andean region.↗ · Andean music uses pan pipes.↗ · The Andean mountains are very high and cold.↗

andromeda — Everyday, meaning 1: Andromeda is the nearest large galaxy to our own galaxy, the Milky Way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Andromeda is also a group of stars (a constellation) in the night sky.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In old Greek myths, Andromeda was a princess saved from a sea monster by the hero Perseus.↗ Example: The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral of billions of stars.↗ · On a very dark night you can see Andromeda as a faint smudge.↗ · Andromeda is much farther away than any star we can see.↗ · In the myth, Perseus saved Andromeda from a sea monster.↗ · We found the Andromeda constellation on our star map.↗ · Light from Andromeda takes over two million years to reach us.↗ · This was Andromeda, the king's daughter.↗

ane — Everyday, meaning 1: (Scots) «Ane» is the Scots word for «one»: «ane o them» means one of them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) «-ane» is an ending in chemistry names of some gases and fuels: methane, propane, butane, octane.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As a word alone it is not standard English.↗ Example: In Scots, «ane» means one.↗ · «Ane day» is Scots for one day.↗ · Methane ends in «-ane».↗ · Propane and butane are camping gas fuels ending in -ane.↗ · Burns wrote «ane» in his poems.↗ · My Scottish nan counts «ane, twa, three».↗ · So the young man went on, and by-and-by he saw a multitude of very dreadfu’ beasts, ilk ane o’ them wi’ twa heads, and on every head four horns.↗

anecdote — Everyday, meaning 1: A short, interesting or funny story about a real event or person.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) A story from one person's experience used as evidence, which may not be true in general.↗ Example: Grandad told us an anecdote about his first day at school.↗ · The speaker began with a funny anecdote about her dog.↗ · Write an anecdote about a time you were surprised.↗ · One anecdote is not enough to prove that a medicine works.↗ · His speech was full of anecdotes about the team.↗ · That's just anecdotal — we need real data.↗ · These are very few in number, and generally bear the character of anecdotes.↗

anemometer — Everyday, meaning 1: An anemometer is an instrument that measures how fast the wind is blowing.↗ Example: We made an anemometer from paper cups.↗ · The anemometer spins faster when the wind is strong.↗ · The weather station has an anemometer on its roof.↗ · Count how many times the anemometer turns in one minute.↗ · The anemometer showed a wind speed of 30 kilometres per hour.↗ · Sailors check the anemometer before going out.↗

anemone — Everyday, meaning 1: An anemone is a garden or wild flower with bright petals, often red, purple, pink or white, and a dark centre.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sea anemone is a soft sea animal that looks like a flower; it sticks to rocks and catches food with stinging tentacles.↗ Example: The clownfish hid among the anemone's tentacles.↗ · We found red sea anemones in the rock pool.↗ · A sea anemone is an animal, not a plant.↗ · When the tide went out, the anemones looked like blobs of jelly.↗ · Gran planted purple anemones in her garden.↗ · Sea anemones sting small fish to catch them.↗ · The anemone closed up when I touched it gently.↗ · Primroses and anemones sprung forth, and violets bloomed in the shade, while every blade of grass was full of strength and sap.↗

anew — Everyday, meaning 1: Again, once more.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a new and different way, starting fresh.↗ Example: After the storm, they built their house anew.↗ · Each spring the garden comes alive anew.↗ · Let's start anew tomorrow.↗ · She read the poem anew and saw new meanings.↗ · After moving schools, he felt he could begin anew.↗ · The war started anew after the peace failed.↗ · And the next morning they set out anew on their journey.↗