📖 A — The English dictionary · page 55

athirst — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: very thirsty.↗ Example: And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said: 'Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of Thy servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?'↗ (Prophets JDG.15.18, JPS 1917)↗

athlete — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who is good at sports and trains to take part in them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK) A person who competes in athletics: running, jumping and throwing events.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Athlete's foot: an itchy skin infection between the toes.↗ Example: The athlete trained every day for the race.↗ · Olympic athletes come from all over the world.↗ · She is a natural athlete and good at every sport.↗ · The three athletes ran 100 m in 12.1, 11.8 and 12.4 seconds; who won?↗ · Athletes need good sleep and healthy food.↗ · Dry your feet well to avoid athlete's foot.↗

athletic — Everyday, meaning 1: Strong, fit and good at sport.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To do with athletics or sport.↗ Example: She is very athletic and runs every day.↗ · He has an athletic build.↗ · Wear athletic shoes for PE.↗ · The athletic club meets on Saturdays.↗ · Cheetahs are athletic animals.↗ · Our school has strong athletic teams.↗ · At length, being now a tall and athletic youth, Jason resolved to seek his fortune in the world, without asking Chiron's advice, or telling him anything about the matter.↗

athwart — Everyday, meaning 1: (old, literary) Athwart means across, from one side to the other of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (sailing) Athwart means across a ship, from side to side.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old) Athwart can mean against, opposite to.↗ Example: A fallen tree lay athwart the path.↗ · A beam of sunlight fell athwart the floor.↗ · The boat drifted athwart the stream.↗ · The sailors stretched a rope athwart the deck.↗ · Dark clouds lay athwart the sky.↗ · The log jammed athwart the river.↗

atlantic — Everyday, meaning 1: The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest ocean, lying between the Americas on the west and Europe and Africa on the east.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, to do with this ocean.↗ e.g. "Atlantic salmon", "the Atlantic coast".↗ Example: The Atlantic Ocean is between America and Europe.↗ · Ireland's west coast faces the Atlantic.↗ · We flew across the Atlantic to visit Grandma.↗ · Atlantic salmon swim up rivers to lay eggs.↗ · The Titanic sank in the North Atlantic.↗ · Hurricanes often form over the warm Atlantic.↗ · That the others came from across the Atlantic is shown by the fact that it occurs in Ireland (Kennedy, Fictions, pp.↗ 5-10) and Scotland (Campbell, No.↗

atlantis — Everyday, meaning 1: A legendary island city that, in an old story by the Greek writer Plato, sank under the sea in one day and night.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In stories and films, Atlantis means a lost, wonderful underwater city.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (a name) Also the name of a NASA space shuttle and of some hotels and games.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Atlantis can also be the title of a magazine or book.↗ Example: Plato wrote about an island called Atlantis that sank into the sea.↗ · Many films show Atlantis as an underwater city.↗ · Nobody has ever found Atlantis.↗ · The space shuttle Atlantis flew many missions.↗ · In our story, the divers discovered a lost Atlantis.↗ · Is Atlantis real, or just a legend?↗

atlas — Everyday, meaning 1: An atlas is a book of maps.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Atlas is a giant in Greek myths who held up the sky on his shoulders.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) The atlas is the top bone of the spine, which holds up the head.↗ Example: Find Canada in the atlas.↗ · Our atlas has a map of every continent.↗ · Use the index at the back of the atlas.↗ · The atlas scale shows 1 centimetre equals 100 kilometres.↗ · In the myth, Atlas holds up the sky.↗ · A road atlas helps drivers find their way.↗ · The atlas bone lets your head nod.↗ · Atlas good-naturedly threw down the apples and once more resumed his load, upon which Heracles bade him adieu, and departed.↗

atm — Everyday, meaning 1: An ATM (automated teller machine) is a machine where people take money out of their bank account using a card and a secret number (PIN).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: At an ATM people can also check how much money they have.↗ Example: He took 60 dollars from the ATM.↗ · The ATM gives only 20-dollar bills.↗ · She used the ATM twice.↗ · The ATM charges a 3 dollar fee.↗ · Mom got cash from the ATM.↗ · Never tell anyone your PIN.↗ · Cover the keypad when you type your number.↗ · The ATM was out of cash.↗ · In the UK it's called a cashpoint.↗ · The ATM showed how much money was in the account.↗

atmosphere — Everyday, meaning 1: The atmosphere is the layer of gases (air) around the Earth or another planet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The atmosphere of a place or event is the mood or feeling it has: a happy, scary or calm atmosphere.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The air in a room or place: «a smoky atmosphere».↗ Example: The Earth's atmosphere is made mostly of nitrogen.↗ · Meteors burn up when they enter the atmosphere.↗ · There is no breathable atmosphere on the Moon.↗ · Clouds and weather happen in the lower atmosphere.↗ · The party had a happy atmosphere.↗ · The old house had a spooky atmosphere.↗ · Use describing words to create atmosphere in your story.↗ · The atmosphere in the classroom was calm during the test.↗ · The sun now set: the atmosphere glowed like fire.↗

atmospheric — Everyday, meaning 1: Atmospheric means to do with the atmosphere, the layer of air around the Earth or another planet («atmospheric pressure»).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Atmospheric also describes a place, picture, film or music that creates a strong mood or feeling, often mysterious, cosy or spooky.↗ Example: Atmospheric pressure is lower at the top of a mountain.↗ · Scientists measure atmospheric carbon dioxide.↗ · The old castle was dark and atmospheric.↗ · The film has atmospheric music that makes you nervous.↗ · Use atmospheric words like «mist» and «creaking» in your ghost story.↗ · Mars has a very thin atmospheric layer.↗ · The candlelit room felt atmospheric.↗ · Heaven was created from fire or ether; the earth (comprising sea and land) from the elementary water; and the atmospheric air from the elementary air, or spirit, which establishes the balance among them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

atom — Everyday, meaning 1: An atom is the smallest piece of a chemical element, far too small to see even with an ordinary microscope; everything around us is made of atoms.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An atom has a tiny centre called the nucleus, with even tinier electrons moving around it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (figurative) «Not an atom of» means not even the tiniest bit: «not an atom of truth».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To atoms means into tiny broken pieces, as when something is smashed to bits.↗ Example: Everything is made of tiny atoms.↗ · A water molecule has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.↗ · Gold is made only of gold atoms.↗ · An atom is mostly empty space.↗ · Scientists use special microscopes to see the shapes of atoms.↗ · The word «atom» comes from a Greek word meaning «cannot be cut».↗ · There wasn't an atom of doubt in her mind.↗ · In a moment the witch had the bridge shivered to atoms, and then she hastened away to the palace.↗

atomic — Everyday, meaning 1: Atomic means to do with atoms, the tiny particles everything is made of.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Atomic means to do with nuclear energy or nuclear weapons, as in an atomic bomb.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An atomic clock is a super-accurate clock using atoms.↗ Example: Hydrogen has the atomic number 1.↗ · The atomic bomb destroyed a whole city.↗ · An atomic clock loses less than a second in millions of years.↗ · Everything has an atomic structure.↗ · We studied atomic energy in science.↗ · Carbon's atomic number is 6.↗

atone — Everyday, meaning 1: To make up for a wrong you have done, by doing something good or by paying for the harm.↗ Example: He promised to atone for all his faults.↗ · I will let him wander the world to atone for his sin.↗ · He would pay handsomely to atone for the accident.↗ · And when he hath made an end of atoning for the holy place, and the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.↗ (Torah LEV.16.20, JPS 1917)↗

atonement — Early Modern English, meaning 1: In these texts, a gift or offering to God that makes up for a sin.↗ Example: one he-goat, to make atonement for you.↗ (Torah NUM.28.30, JPS 1917) · and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you.↗ (Torah NUM.28.22, JPS 1917) · and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you;↗ (Torah NUM.29.5, JPS 1917)

attach — Everyday, meaning 1: To fix or join one thing to another, such as with glue, a clip or string.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To add a file to an email or message.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To feel love or fondness for someone or something (be attached to).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To link something like importance or blame to something ("attach importance to").↗ Example: Attach the label to your coat with a safety pin.↗ · Please attach your homework to the email.↗ · The trailer is attached to the back of the car.↗ · I'm very attached to my old teddy bear.↗ · Glue the leaves and attach them to the poster.↗ · Our teacher attaches great importance to neat handwriting.↗ · You get a free gift with no strings attached.↗ · Amphitrite is often represented assisting Poseidon in attaching the sea-horses to his chariot.↗

attached — Everyday, meaning 1: Joined or fixed to something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fond of and loving someone or something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Sent along with an email or letter.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Linked or connected to a name, place or idea in people's minds.↗ Example: A label was attached to the present.↗ · I have attached my homework to the email.↗ · She became very attached to her teddy.↗ · The garage is attached to the house.↗ · Please find the form attached.↗ · The offer has no strings attached.↗ · The nobility of Eleanora d'Este is attached to the name of Tasso.↗ · It counts n among the simple letters, and, conse- quently, no sound in addition to tiiat of /( can be attached to it.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · § 15 The ten digits and zero, their end is joined with their beginning, and their beginning with their end, as the tlame is attached to the coal.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

attachment — Everyday, meaning 1: A file sent with an email.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A feeling of love or closeness to someone or something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An extra part you can fix onto a machine, like a vacuum cleaner attachment.↗ Example: I sent my project as an attachment.↗ · Never open attachments from people you don't know.↗ · The puppy formed a strong attachment to the boy.↗ · The vacuum has an attachment for corners.↗ · The attachment was too big to send.↗ · Children feel attachment to their favourite toys.↗ · Her twin-sons, Castor and (Polydeuces or) Pollux,[15] were {34} renowned for their tender attachment to each other.↗

attack — Everyday, meaning 1: To attack means to try to hurt someone or something with force.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In sports, to attack means to try to score.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To attack also means to say strongly that something is bad.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: An attack is a sudden act of violence, or a sudden bout of illness, like an asthma attack or heart attack.↗ Example: The dog attacked the postman's bag.↗ · Sharks rarely attack people.↗ · Our team attacked and scored a goal.↗ · She had an asthma attack and used her inhaler.↗ · The castle was under attack.↗ · A mother bear may attack if you come near her cubs.↗ · Germs attack your body when you are ill.↗ · He had a heart attack and went to hospital.↗ · They immediately attacked the Mouse army in large numbers.↗

attacker — Everyday, meaning 1: A person or animal that attacks someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (sport) A player whose job is to score goals or points.↗ Example: The police are looking for the attacker.↗ · She managed to escape from her attacker.↗ · Our team's best attacker scored twice.↗ · The shark is not usually an attacker of people.↗ · Defenders try to stop the attackers.↗ · Shout and run to safety if someone attacks you.↗

attain — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To reach or achieve a goal, level or result after effort.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To reach a certain age, size, height or amount.↗ Example: She worked hard to attain her goal.↗ · The rocket attained a speed of 500 metres per second.↗ · Most pupils attained the expected level.↗ · The tree can attain a height of 30 metres.↗ · He attained his black belt in karate.↗ · The team attained first place.↗ · I wish to attain the greatest of all happiness."↗ · all the triliteral combinations, leaving sufficient space between two successive combinations for the addition of a new letter; then by adding an x at the beginning of each triliteral com- bination, we shall attain 10,648 quadriliterals beginning with an N.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Canst thou attain unto the purpose of the Almighty?↗ (Writings JOB.11.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; too high, I cannot attain unto it.↗ (Writings PSA.139.6, JPS 1917)↗ · None that go unto her return, neither do they attain unto the paths of life; (Writings PRO.2.19, JPS 1917)↗