📖 A — The English dictionary · page 42

appraisal — Everyday, meaning 1: An appraisal is a careful judgement of how good, useful or valuable something or someone is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (work) A meeting at work where a manager talks with a worker about how well they are doing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (money) An official judgement of how much something, such as a house or a ring, is worth.↗ Example: Mum has her appraisal at work next week.↗ · The expert gave an appraisal of the old painting.↗ · The bank wanted an appraisal of the house before lending money.↗ · The coach gave an honest appraisal of our game.↗ · After the storm, the council made an appraisal of the damage.↗ · My teacher's appraisal of my story was very kind.↗ · The ring's appraisal said it was worth a lot.↗

appreciable — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Large or important enough to be noticed or measured.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Big enough to matter.↗ Example: There was an appreciable difference in the plants given sunlight.↗ · The new road has made an appreciable change to traffic.↗ · It took an appreciable amount of time to finish.↗ · The extra practice made an appreciable improvement in her reading.↗ · The temperature dropped appreciably after sunset.↗ · There was no appreciable change in the results.↗ · An appreciable number of pupils walk to school.↗

appreciate — Everyday, meaning 1: To be thankful for something: «I appreciate your help».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To understand how good or valuable something is and enjoy it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To understand a situation fully: «I appreciate it's hard».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (money) To go up in value.↗ Example: I really appreciate your help.↗ · We learned to appreciate classical music.↗ · I appreciate that you're tired, but please finish.↗ · Houses often appreciate over time.↗ · Your card was much appreciated.↗ · She appreciates a good joke.↗ · I'd appreciate it if you shut the door.↗ · Our best blessings are often the least appreciated.↗

appreciation — Everyday, meaning 1: Thanks or gratitude for something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Understanding and enjoying how good something is.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Understanding of a situation.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (money) A rise in value.↗ Example: We gave the caretaker flowers in appreciation.↗ · She has a deep appreciation of nature.↗ · The class showed their appreciation with applause.↗ · Music appreciation is on Wednesdays.↗ · There's been an appreciation in house prices.↗ · He has no appreciation of how hard it was.↗

appreciative — Everyday, meaning 1: Showing that you are thankful: an appreciative letter.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Enjoying and understanding the good qualities of something: an appreciative audience.↗ Example: We were very appreciative of your help.↗ · The appreciative crowd clapped and cheered.↗ · Mole was appreciative of Badger's warm kitchen.↗ · She gave an appreciative smile.↗ · Thank-you cards show you are appreciative.↗ · The judges were appreciative of her painting.↗

apprehend — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To apprehend someone is to catch and arrest them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To apprehend something is to understand it.↗ Example: The police apprehended the thief at the station.↗ · The suspect was apprehended after a chase.↗ · It took time to apprehend the full danger.↗ · Officers apprehended two people.↗ · Security guards cannot always apprehend shoplifters.↗ · She quickly apprehended what was happening.↗

apprehended — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Caught and arrested by police.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, rare) Understood.↗ Example: The burglar was apprehended near the station.↗ · Police apprehended two suspects.↗ · The thief ran but was soon apprehended.↗ · The shoplifter was apprehended by a security guard.↗ · Nobody has been apprehended for the crime yet.↗ · She slowly apprehended what had happened.↗ (rare, formal)↗

apprehension — Everyday, meaning 1: Apprehension is worry or fear that something bad might happen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Apprehension is the arrest of someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Apprehension can also mean understanding.↗ Example: She felt apprehension before her first day at a new school.↗ · With apprehension, he opened the door.↗ · The apprehension of the robber took weeks.↗ · There was apprehension in his voice.↗ · Talking to someone can ease apprehension.↗ · They waited for the results with apprehension.↗ · Her confusion changed to apprehension, her color from scarlet to white.↗

apprentice — Everyday, meaning 1: A young person who learns a trade or skill by working with a skilled worker, usually for a set time and a small wage.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A beginner learning from an expert in any field.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb, passive) «be apprenticed to» means to be sent to work and learn under a master.↗ Example: My brother is an apprentice plumber.↗ · In the story the wizard's apprentice caused a flood.↗ · She was apprenticed to a dressmaker.↗ · Apprentices learn by watching and doing.↗ · The apprentice swept the workshop floor every morning.↗ · After four years the apprentice became a master carpenter.↗ · "What should you say, uncle, to taking me as an apprentice?↗ · Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur was as thine apprentice in traffic.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.23, JPS 1917)↗

apprenticeship — Everyday, meaning 1: A time of training when a young person learns a trade or job by working with a skilled worker, often while being paid a small wage.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Any period of learning a skill from someone more experienced.↗ Example: My cousin is doing an apprenticeship as an electrician.↗ · In old times a boy might serve a long apprenticeship with a blacksmith.↗ · Her apprenticeship lasts four years.↗ · During his apprenticeship he earned a small wage and went to college one day a week.↗ · The bakery offers an apprenticeship to school leavers.↗ · She finished her apprenticeship and became a qualified chef.↗ · The second brother of course knew better how to build than poor Margaret, for he served an apprenticeship to learn it.↗

apprise — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To apprise someone of something is to tell them about it or inform them.↗ Example: Please apprise me of any changes to the timetable.↗ · The captain was apprised of the danger.↗ · The head teacher apprised parents of the new rules.↗ · Keep me apprised of your progress.↗ · Badger apprised the others of the weasels' plan.↗ · We were not apprised of the decision.↗

approach — Everyday, meaning 1: To approach means to come nearer to someone or something («The train is approaching the platform»).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To approach someone means to go to them to speak or ask something («approach a teacher for help»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An approach is a way of dealing with a problem or doing a task («a new approach to fractions»).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: An approach is also a path or road leading to a place.↗ Example: The train now approaching platform 2 does not stop here.↗ · Approach the horse slowly from the side.↗ · As we approached the house, the dog barked.↗ · If a stranger approaches you, walk away and tell an adult.↗ · Let's try a different approach to this problem.↗ · The holidays are approaching fast.↗ · The approach to the castle was steep and narrow.↗ · You can approach your teacher if you need help.↗ · "Approach, my son," he said kindly.↗ · None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness.↗ (Torah LEV.18.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy fathers brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.↗ (Torah LEV.18.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.↗ (Torah LEV.18.19, JPS 1917)↗ · God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God shall help her, at the approach of morning.↗ (Writings PSA.46.6, JPS 1917)↗ · He is the beginning of the ways of God; He only that made him can make His sword to approach unto him.↗ (Writings JOB.40.19, JPS 1917)↗ · yea, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, approached close to me about the time of the evening offering.↗ (Writings DAN.9.21, JPS 1917)↗

approacheth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «approacheth» means «approaches», a form of «approach».↗ e.g. To approach means to come nearer to someone or something («The train is approaching the platform»).↗

approbation — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Approval; saying or showing that you think something is good.↗ Example: The teacher nodded with approbation at my story.↗ · The crowd gave a shout of approbation.↗

appropriate — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Right or suitable for a particular situation, person or time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, formal) To take something for yourself, often without permission.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb, formal) To set aside money for a special use.↗ Example: Wear appropriate clothes for the hike: boots and a coat.↗ · That joke is not appropriate in class.↗ · Choose an appropriate unit to measure a pencil: cm or m?↗ · Is this film appropriate for children?↗ · Raise your hand at the appropriate time.↗ · Round your answer where appropriate.↗ · The king appropriated the farmers' land.↗ · At length heaven granted him a daughter of such remarkable beauty that he could think of no name so appropriate for her as ‘Fairer-than-a-Fairy.’↗ · The Zohar represents absolute truth, and the Sepher Jezirah provides the means by which we may seize, appropriate and make use of it."↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

appropriately — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that is right or suitable for the situation.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fittingly; in a way that matches nicely, sometimes in a funny way.↗ Example: Please dress appropriately for the cold weather.↗ · He behaved appropriately at the funeral.↗ · Answer the question appropriately with full sentences.↗ · The fish shop is appropriately called The Plaice.↗ · Use the tools appropriately in the science lab.↗ · She spoke appropriately to the head teacher.↗ · This kingdom was very appropriately called the Land of Tears.↗

appropriation — Everyday, meaning 1: Taking something for yourself, often without permission or without the right to.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (money, law) Money that is officially set aside for a particular use, like a government budget.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Using parts of someone else's culture, art or ideas as your own, sometimes without respect (cultural appropriation).↗ Example: The appropriation of the land angered the farmers.↗ · The council made an appropriation for a new playground.↗ · The treasurer was accused of the appropriation of club money.↗ · People discussed whether the costume was cultural appropriation.↗ · Congress approved the appropriation for schools.↗ · The museum talked about the appropriation of other people's treasures.↗ · An appropriation is money saved for one job only.↗

approval — Everyday, meaning 1: Thinking that someone or something is good or right; liking it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Official permission or agreement to do something.↗ Example: The trip needs your parents' approval.↗ · She smiled with approval at my drawing.↗ · The plan got the head teacher's approval.↗ · He nodded his approval.↗ · The new park is waiting for approval from the council.↗ · The leader's approval rating rose to 60%.↗ · All saw the good sense of his words and showed their approval.↗

approve — Everyday, meaning 1: To think that something or someone is good, right or acceptable ("approve of").↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To officially agree to a plan, request or idea and allow it to happen.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To say yes to something after checking it, like approving a design.↗ Example: My parents approve of my new friend.↗ · The head teacher approved the class trip to the zoo.↗ · Mum doesn't approve of eating in front of the TV.↗ · The council approved the plans for a new library.↗ · This toy has been approved as safe for small children.↗ · The bank approved the loan for the house.↗ · I hope the teacher approves my project idea.↗ · Toto did not approve of this new comrade at first, for he could not forget how nearly he had been crushed between the Lion’s great jaws.↗ · This is the way of them that are foolish, and of those who after them approve their sayings.↗ (Writings PSA.49.14, JPS 1917)↗

approved — Everyday, meaning 1: Officially accepted or allowed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, past) Agreed that something is good or right; gave permission.↗ Example: The head teacher approved the school trip.↗ · Only use approved websites in class.↗ · Wear an approved bike helmet.↗ · My parents approved of my new friend.↗ · The plan was approved by the council.↗ · The new playground design has been approved.↗ · The Empress approved of what the wise men suggested, and ordered them to set out on their mission.↗

approving — Everyday, meaning 1: Showing that you think something is good or right, like an approving smile or nod.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb form) In the act of officially agreeing to something.↗ Example: The teacher gave me an approving nod.↗ · Dad smiled in an approving way when I tidied my room.↗ · The crowd made approving noises.↗ · Grandma looked at my drawing with an approving eye.↗ · The coach nodded approvingly as we passed the ball.↗ · The council is approving new rules this week.↗ · Her approving words made me feel proud.↗ · “You are very clever,” said the demon chief, giving his horns an approving nod.↗

approximate — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Close to the exact number or amount, but not exactly it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To make a close guess or estimate of an amount.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb, formal) To come close to or be nearly like something.↗ Example: The approximate distance to the beach is 5 kilometres.↗ · Give an approximate answer by rounding to the nearest ten.↗ · The approximate time of arrival is noon.↗ · Pi is approximately 3.14.↗ · Approximate 48 + 31 by rounding first.↗ · The crowd was approximately 2,000 people.↗ · This drawing only approximates the real shape.↗ · Midrash Tanchuma 1:5 on [Genesis 1:1], Zohar 1:3a inter alia.]↗ [note 8: Though the phrase is usually translated the ‘Thirty-Two Paths’, I find that the alliteration of ‘Wondrous Ways of Wisdom’ neatly approximates the SY’s choice of poetic vocabulary.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗