📖 A — The English dictionary · page 58

auditorium — Everyday, meaning 1: A large room or building where an audience sits to watch a play, concert or talk.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The part of a theatre where the audience sits.↗ Example: The play was in the school auditorium.↗ · The auditorium was packed for the concert.↗ · The auditorium has 25 rows with 40 seats each, so 1,000 seats.↗ · We sat at the back of the auditorium.↗ · Please be quiet when you enter the auditorium.↗ · The auditorium lights dimmed and the show began.↗

auditory — Everyday, meaning 1: About hearing or the ears.↗ Example: The auditory nerve sends signals to the brain.↗ · Owls have excellent auditory senses.↗ · The test checks auditory skills.↗ · Loud music can harm the auditory system.↗ · An auditory clue is a sound clue.↗ · Bats rely on auditory signals to find food.↗

aug — Everyday, meaning 1: A short written form of August, the eighth month of the year.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths/computing, rare) Short for "augmented" in some technical names.↗ Example: The calendar shows Jul, Aug, Sep across the top.↗ · The swimming club stops in Aug for the summer break.↗ · August has 31 days.↗ · Write the abbreviations of the months: Jan, Feb ...↗ Aug ...↗ Dec.↗ · In the Southern Hemisphere, August is in winter.↗ · The school trip form said "Aug" for the month.↗ · BATTEN DREW THIS AUG. 20TH, 1801 GOOD-NIGHT↗

aught — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) Aught means anything at all.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In «for aught I know» it means as far as I know, for all I know.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Anything at all.↗ Example: Do you know aught of the lost boy?↗ · If you hear aught, come and tell me.↗ · She may be at home, for aught I know.↗ · And whosoever beareth aught of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.↗ (Torah LEV.11.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.↗ (Torah LEV.11.37, JPS 1917)↗ · And if a man will redeem aught of his tithe, he shall add unto it the fifth part thereof.↗ (Torah LEV.27.31, JPS 1917)↗ · For all this Job sinned not, nor ascribed aught unseemly to God.↗ (Writings JOB.1.22, JPS 1917)↗ · If I have withheld aught that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; (Writings JOB.31.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And they said: 'Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.12.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And whosoever beareth aught of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.↗ (Torah LEV.11.25, JPS 1917) · Say, knowest thou aught of Mabon?"↗ (Celtic Fairy Tales) · And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.↗ (Torah LEV.11.37, JPS 1917)

augment — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To make something bigger, stronger or better by adding to it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (music) To make a musical interval larger (augmented chord).↗ Example: She augments her pocket money by washing cars.↗ · The team was augmented by two new players.↗ · Augmented reality games add creatures to the real world on your screen.↗ · The museum augmented its collection with new fossils.↗ · Exercise can augment your strength.↗ · The farmer augmented the soil with compost.↗ · The choir was augmented by singers from another school.↗ · And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, a brood of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.↗ (Torah NUM.32.14, JPS 1917)↗

augmentation — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Making something bigger, larger or stronger by adding to it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something added to make something larger.↗ Example: The club asked for an augmentation of its budget.↗ · The augmentation of the team made the work faster.↗ · The new wing was an augmentation to the school.↗ · In music, augmentation makes each note last twice as long.↗ · The pay augmentation pleased the workers.↗ · Augmentation of the library added 200 books.↗

augmented — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Augmented means made bigger or added to.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Augmented reality is a computer picture added on top of the real world you see through a phone or glasses.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In music, an augmented chord or interval is made a bit wider.↗ Example: (formal) The team was augmented by three new players.↗ · She augmented her pocket money by washing cars.↗ · The game uses augmented reality to show dinosaurs in your garden.↗ · (formal) The original sum was augmented by 20%.↗ · The museum's collection was augmented by a gift of fossils.↗ · The choir was augmented for the big concert.↗

august — Everyday, meaning 1: August is the eighth month of the year, with 31 days, coming after July and before September.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Written with a small a, august means grand, important and respected.↗ Example: August is the eighth month of the year.↗ · We go camping in August.↗ · August has 31 days.↗ · In Australia, August is a cold winter month.↗ · School starts again at the end of August in many American states.↗ · July comes before August.↗ · The weather in August was very hot.↗ · The august old professor spoke to the whole school.↗ · Ryn Jin forgave his subject at once at the request of his august guest.↗ · Although the title page bears the date of 1914, the author did not receive the copies of this thesis from German)-, where the booklet was printed, until August 1921, on account of the war.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

auk — Everyday, meaning 1: An auk is a black-and-white seabird of the cold northern seas, which dives and «flies» underwater to catch fish; puffins, guillemots and razorbills are kinds of auk.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The great auk was a big flightless auk, hunted until it became extinct about two hundred years ago.↗ Example: Puffins are a kind of auk.↗ · Auks nest on steep cliffs by the sea.↗ · The great auk could not fly.↗ · People hunted the great auk until none were left.↗ · Auks use their wings to swim underwater.↗ · We watched auks diving off the rocks.↗ · Auks live in the north, penguins in the south.↗

auld — Everyday, meaning 1: (Scottish, dialect) Old.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In «Auld Lang Syne»: a Scottish song by Robert Burns, meaning «old long since», days long ago.↗ Example: We sang «Auld Lang Syne» at midnight.↗ · «My auld granny lives in Aberdeen,» said Hamish.↗ · Robert Burns wrote in Scots words like «auld».↗ · The auld castle stood on the hill.↗ · Edinburgh is called Auld Reekie.↗ · Should auld acquaintance be forgot?↗ · And he gaed into the castle for shelter, and there he saw an auld wife sitting beside the kitchen fire.↗

aunt — Everyday, meaning 1: An aunt is the sister of your mother or father.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An aunt is also the wife of your uncle.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Auntie» is a friendly word for an aunt or for an older woman friend of the family.↗ Example: His aunt gave him $10.↗ · My aunt is 35 years old.↗ · She has 2 aunts.↗ · Aunt Mary baked 24 cookies.↗ · My aunt is my mum's younger sister.↗ · We stayed with Auntie Jo for the holidays.↗ · My aunt's children are my cousins.↗ · His great-aunt is 90 years old.↗ · Aunt Em was washing the dishes.↗ · 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)↗

auntie — Everyday, meaning 1: Auntie is a friendly, informal word for an aunt, the sister of your mum or dad, or the wife of your uncle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In many families and cultures, auntie is a kind name for a woman friend of the family or an older woman.↗ Example: Auntie Mel is coming for tea.↗ · My auntie lives in Scotland.↗ · Auntie brought us a cake for my birthday.↗ · My auntie is my mum's sister, so her children are my cousins.↗ · We call Mum's best friend Auntie Jo.↗ · Two aunties came to my school play.↗ · "Good morning, auntie," says the girl.↗

aunty — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Aunty is a friendly name for an aunt: your mother's or father's sister, or your uncle's wife.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, many cultures, e.g. Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, South Asian and Pacific families) Aunty is a respectful name for an older woman who is a family friend or an elder, not a real relative.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, informal) "Auntie" (with a capital A) is a nickname for the BBC.↗ Example: Aunty Jo is coming for tea.↗ · My aunty gave me a book for my birthday.↗ · I have three aunties on my mum's side.↗ · Aunty Pat lives in New Zealand.↗ · We listened to Aunty, a respected elder, tell the story.↗ · Aunty Kim isn't really my aunt; she is mum's best friend.↗ · "Aunty," said the Raja's son, "why don't you light a lamp?"↗

aura — Everyday, meaning 1: An aura is a special feeling or quality that seems to surround a person or place, like an air of calm, mystery or importance.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In pictures and stories, an aura is a soft glow of light around someone or something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (medicine) Some people with migraines or epilepsy get an aura: strange lights, tingles or feelings just before the headache or the fit starts.↗ Example: The old house had an aura of mystery.↗ · The head teacher had an aura of calm, even when the fire alarm went off.↗ · In the painting, a golden aura glows around the angel.↗ · The champion walked onto the court with an aura of confidence.↗ · There was an aura of excitement in the hall before the show.↗ · Before her migraine starts, Mum sees an aura of flashing zigzags.↗ · The wizard's staff was surrounded by a blue aura.↗

auricle — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) The outer part of the ear that you can see, also called the pinna.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science, old use) A small pouch-like part of the heart's upper chambers (atria).↗ Example: The auricle collects sound waves.↗ · Label the auricle on the ear diagram.↗ · Rabbits can turn their auricles.↗ · Each atrium of the heart has a small auricle.↗ · The auricle is made of cartilage.↗ · Earrings go through the auricle.↗

aurochs — Everyday, meaning 1: A huge wild ox with long horns that lived in Europe, Asia and North Africa and became extinct in 1627; it is the ancestor of today's cattle.↗ Example: The last aurochs died in Poland in 1627.↗ · Cave paintings show aurochs with long horns.↗ · Aurochs were much bigger than cows today.↗ · Our farm cattle came from the aurochs.↗ · Julius Caesar wrote about the wild aurochs.↗ · Scientists are breeding cattle to look like aurochs.↗

aurora — Everyday, meaning 1: An aurora is a display of moving, coloured light (often green, pink or purple) in the night sky near the North or South Pole.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The aurora borealis (northern lights) is seen in the north; the aurora australis (southern lights) in the south.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Aurora is a girl's name (a name), the Roman goddess of the dawn, and the name of Sleeping Beauty in the Disney film.↗ Example: We watched the green aurora dance across the sky in Norway.↗ · The aurora borealis is also called the northern lights.↗ · In Tasmania you can sometimes see the aurora australis.↗ · An aurora happens when particles from the Sun hit our atmosphere.↗ · Last night the aurora was visible even in Scotland.↗ · Aurora is the Roman goddess of the dawn.↗ · Princess Aurora is the heroine of «Sleeping Beauty».↗ · She stood on the balcony and shone as the Aurora Borealis shines.↗

auscultate — Everyday, meaning 1: (medicine) To listen to sounds inside the body, like the heart and lungs, usually with a stethoscope.↗ Example: The doctor auscultated my chest.↗ · Nurses learn to auscultate the heart.↗ · She auscultated his lungs for a wheeze.↗ · To auscultate, you need a quiet room.↗ · The vet auscultated the dog's heart.↗ · Auscultate means to listen with a stethoscope.↗

auspicious — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Showing signs that something will go well; a lucky or promising start.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Special and important, as in «on this auspicious occasion».↗ Example: Winning the first match was an auspicious start to the season.↗ · The head teacher began, «On this auspicious occasion, we open our new library.»↗ · Many families pick an auspicious day for a wedding.↗ · Rain on sports day was not an auspicious beginning.↗ · The rainbow seemed an auspicious sign to the travellers.↗ · It was hardly an auspicious moment to ask for more pocket money.↗ · Red is seen as an auspicious colour at Chinese New Year.↗ · No more auspicious talisman of luck and success could she have given her nephew, and she bade him use it in the hour of his greatest need.↗

aussie — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) An Aussie is a person from Australia.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Aussie means Australian, as in «Aussie rules football».↗ Example: My cousin is an Aussie from Perth.↗ · We had an Aussie barbecue on the beach.↗ · «G'day» is a classic Aussie greeting.↗ · Aussie rules football is very popular in Melbourne.↗ · The Aussies won the cricket match.↗ · Arvo is Aussie slang for afternoon.↗

austere — Everyday, meaning 1: Austere means plain and strict, without comfort, luxury or decoration.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Austere can also mean stern and serious in manner.↗ Example: The monk lived an austere life.↗ · The room was bare and austere.↗ · The old teacher had an austere face.↗

austerity — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) A time when a government cuts spending sharply and people have less money and fewer services.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A plain, simple way of living without comforts or luxury: the austerity of a monk's life.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Strictness or seriousness in how someone looks or acts.↗ Example: The government announced austerity measures to save money.↗ · During the years of austerity, the library opened only three days a week.↗ · After the war people lived with austerity and rationing.↗ · The monks lived a life of austerity, with plain food and no luxuries.↗ · The bare room had a cold austerity.↗ · The austerity of her face made the children quiet.↗