📖 A — The English dictionary · page 59

australian — Everyday, meaning 1: Australian means from or belonging to Australia, its people or its language.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An Australian is a person from Australia.↗ Example: Kangaroos are Australian animals.↗ · My friend is Australian; she comes from Perth.↗ · Australians celebrate Christmas in summer.↗ · Australian English says "arvo" for afternoon.↗ · The Australian flag has the Southern Cross on it.↗ · Many Australian animals are marsupials.↗ · Aboriginal Australians have lived there for tens of thousands of years.↗ · An Australian swimmer won the race.↗

austrian — Everyday, meaning 1: Austrian means from or connected with Austria, a country in central Europe with mountains called the Alps.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) An Austrian is a person from Austria.↗ Example: Mozart was an Austrian composer.↗ · We went skiing in the Austrian Alps.↗ · Austrians mostly speak German.↗ · Vienna is the Austrian capital.↗ · My friend's mum is Austrian and makes amazing apple strudel.↗ · The Austrian flag is red, white and red.↗ · An Austrian team won the ski race.↗

authentic — Everyday, meaning 1: Real and true, not a copy or a fake.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Done in the traditional or original way, like authentic Italian pizza.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Honest and sincere, true to yourself.↗ Example: This is an authentic Roman coin.↗ · The restaurant serves authentic Mexican food.↗ · The expert said the painting was authentic.↗ · She was authentic and never pretended.↗ · The museum has authentic Victorian toys.↗ · Is that signature authentic or fake?↗ · He had the whole strange history out of an old authentic book, which we ourselves can take out and read.↗ · Although the greater part of this passage is obviously spu- rious, attributing, as it does, to Joseph ben Uziel works of other authors, it may be authentic with regard to the Sefer Yetzirah, which heads the list.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

authenticate — Everyday, meaning 1: To prove that something is real or genuine, not fake.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (computing) To check someone's identity, for example with a password or fingerprint, before letting them in.↗ Example: Experts authenticated the old painting.↗ · Use your fingerprint to authenticate.↗ · The website sent a code to authenticate me.↗ · Never share the code you get to authenticate your account.↗ · The museum authenticated the Roman coin.↗ · The letter was authenticated by its signature.↗

authentication — Everyday, meaning 1: Checking that someone really is who they say they are, for example with a password, a code or a fingerprint.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Checking that a thing, such as a painting or a signature, is real and not a fake.↗ Example: The app asks for authentication before you can see your messages.↗ · Two-factor authentication sends a code to Mum's phone.↗ · Face authentication unlocked the tablet.↗ · Never share an authentication code with anyone, even a friend.↗ · The museum sent the old letter for authentication.↗ · Experts did an authentication of the painting and found it was real.↗ · Your password is one kind of authentication.↗

authenticity — Everyday, meaning 1: Being real or genuine, not fake or copied: the authenticity of a painting or a signature.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Being true to yourself; acting in a sincere, honest way rather than pretending.↗ Example: Experts tested the authenticity of the old map.↗ · The signed football came with a certificate of authenticity.↗ · Always check the authenticity of a website before you type your password.↗ · People admired the singer's authenticity; she never pretended.↗ · The museum doubted the authenticity of the dinosaur egg.↗ · Deepfake videos make authenticity hard to judge.↗

author — Everyday, meaning 1: An author is a person who writes a book, story, poem or article.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The author of a plan, idea or event is the person who started or created it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To author something is to write it (formal).↗ Example: Roald Dahl is the author of «Matilda».↗ · The author signed my copy of her book.↗ · Who is the author of this poem?↗ · What was the author's purpose in writing this?↗ · An author came to our school to talk about writing.↗ · You are the author of your own story.↗ · The author uses short sentences to build suspense.↗ · She wants to be an author when she grows up.↗ · Jones, author of the Musical Relicks.↗ · Yod Tzaddi Yod Resh Heh ; modes of transliteration vary with different authors.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The explanatory notes given by this author are, nevertheless, insufficient and sometimes very incorrect.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 15) According to the author, the space and six dimensions emanated from the ether.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

authorisation — Everyday, meaning 1: Official permission to do something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A document or code that gives that permission.↗ Example: You need your parents' authorisation to go on the trip.↗ · No entry without authorisation.↗ · The bank sent an authorisation code to Mum's phone.↗ · Only staff with authorisation can open this door.↗ · The head gave authorisation for the fire drill.↗ · He used the computer without authorisation and got in trouble.↗ · Please sign this form to give your authorisation.↗

authorise — Everyday, meaning 1: To give official permission for something to happen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To give someone the power or right to do something.↗ Example: The head teacher must authorise any day off school.↗ · Dad authorised the payment on his phone.↗ · Only authorised people may enter the lab.↗ · The council authorised the new bike lanes.↗ · Missing school without a reason is an unauthorised absence.↗ · She was authorised to speak for the class.↗ · Who authorised this purchase?↗

authorities — Everyday, meaning 1: The authorities: the people or organisations in charge, such as the police, the government or the council.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Experts who know a great deal about a subject (an authority on birds).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Plural of authority: the power or right to give orders or make decisions.↗ Example: The authorities closed the beach because of sharks.↗ · If you find something dangerous, tell the authorities.↗ · The school authorities sent a letter home.↗ · Health authorities say we should wash our hands often.↗ · She is one of the leading authorities on dinosaurs.↗ · The local authorities fixed the broken streetlight.↗ · The lost hikers were found by the authorities.↗ · We'll hand you over to the authorities.↗

authority — Everyday, meaning 1: Authority is the power or right to give orders and make decisions.↗ e.g. "the head teacher has authority over the school".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The authorities are the people or organisations in charge, such as the police or government.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An authority on a subject is an expert who knows a lot about it.↗ e.g. "she's an authority on birds".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A local authority (UK) is the council that runs a town or area.↗ Example: The police have authority to stop cars.↗ · The authorities closed the road after the flood.↗ · Our teacher has the authority to give detentions.↗ · My uncle is an authority on old cars.↗ · She spoke with great authority.↗ · I have it on good authority that we have a test tomorrow.↗ · The local authority runs the library.↗ · "Who gave you authority to come this way?" roared he.↗ · Friedrich Von Meyer and others of reliable authority had in their copies of "Yezirah" the following order: .↗ חמח ניגח כוכב לבנה שבתי צדק מאדינ Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD spoke unto him: 'Behold the man of whom I said unto thee: This same shall have authority over My people.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.9.17, JPS 1917)↗

authorship — Everyday, meaning 1: The fact of being the person who wrote a book, article, song or other piece of work.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The question of who wrote something, when it is not certain.↗ Example: The authorship of the old poem is unknown.↗ · Nobody is sure about the authorship of some fairy tales.↗ · The two friends shared authorship of the comic.↗ · You must not claim authorship of work you copied.↗ · Experts argued about the authorship of the letter.↗ · Putting your name on a project shows your authorship.↗ · Paul Lacroix, in his fine edition of 1886, goes as far as to attribute the entire authorship of the prose tales to Perrault's son.↗ · From the foregoing it is evident that so far we have no historic document by which to prove either the authorship or the exact age of the Sefer Yetzirah.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Thus far. it has been impossible to determine tiic ago and authorship of tlic Sefer Yetzirah. .↗ Tcwish tradition claims divine origin for it: it was intrusted by tlie Lord to Adam and after- wards to Abraham***).↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

autism — Everyday, meaning 1: Autism is a lifelong difference in how a person's brain works, which affects how they communicate, make sense of the world and deal with other people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Autistic people may find noise, light or busy places hard, may like routines, and often have strong special interests and talents.↗ Example: My cousin is autistic and knows everything about trains.↗ · Autism is not something you can catch.↗ · Some autistic people find loud noises painful.↗ · Our class learned about autism and how to be a good friend.↗ · Changes in routine can be hard for someone with autism.↗ · Every autistic person is different.↗

autistic — Everyday, meaning 1: Autistic describes a person who has autism, a lifelong difference in how the brain works that affects how a person communicates, makes sense of the world, and feels sounds, lights, touch and other senses.↗ Example: My cousin is autistic and loves trains.↗ · Some autistic people find loud noises painful.↗ · The cinema has an autism-friendly screening with quieter sound.↗ · An autistic child may prefer a clear routine.↗ · Being autistic does not mean you are not clever.↗ · Our class learned how to be a good friend to autistic pupils.↗ · He is autistic and talks to us using pictures as well as words.↗ · Many autistic people have amazing memories for their favourite topics.↗

auto — Everyday, meaning 1: An auto is a car (mainly American, a bit old-fashioned): «auto repair shop».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Auto is short for «automatic» or «automatic mode», a setting where a machine does something by itself: «Set the camera to auto.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Auto- at the start of a word means «self» or «by itself»: autograph, autopilot, automobile, autobiography.↗ Example: Dad took the car to the auto repair shop.↗ · The auto industry makes millions of cars.↗ · Set the lights to auto and they turn on at night.↗ · The video started on autoplay.↗ · Autocorrect changed my word by mistake.↗ · An autograph is a famous person's own signature.↗ · An autobiography is a story of your life that you write yourself.↗ · The pilot switched on the autopilot.↗ · After the lapse of time the theory of Autochthony (from autos, self, and chthon, earth) was laid aside.↗

autobiography — Everyday, meaning 1: A book or story of a person's life written by that person.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The kind of writing (genre) where people tell their own life story.↗ Example: The footballer wrote an autobiography about growing up in Manchester.↗ · In his autobiography, he describes his first day at school.↗ · Our homework is to write a short autobiography.↗ · An autobiography is written in the first person, using «I».↗ · Grandad says his autobiography would fill ten books.↗ · The library has a shelf of autobiographies by famous scientists.↗ · Her autobiography tells how she learned to swim at forty.↗

autochthony — Everyday, meaning 1: The idea that a people has always lived in its own land, or that they came out of the earth there; a rare word from learned writing.↗ Example: The old theory of autochthony was dropped.↗ · Some tales say the first people came out of the earth, an idea called autochthony.↗ · Autochthony comes from Greek words meaning self and earth.↗

autocorrect — Everyday, meaning 1: A tool in phones and computers that changes words it thinks are spelled wrong while you type.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: verb To change a word in this way.↗ Example: Autocorrect changed «ducking» into something silly.↗ · My phone autocorrected my friend's name into «Kitty».↗ · Don't trust autocorrect — read your message before you send it.↗ · I turned off autocorrect when I was writing in French.↗ · Sorry, that was autocorrect, not me!↗ · Autocorrect can't tell «their» from «there» very well.↗

autograph — Everyday, meaning 1: A famous person's signature, written for a fan to keep.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To sign your name on something, such as a book, photo or shirt, for someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) A piece of writing in the author's own hand.↗ Example: I got the footballer's autograph on my shirt!↗ · The author autographed copies of her new book.↗ · At the end of term we all signed each other's autograph books.↗ · He queued for an hour to get an autograph.↗ · This autographed photo is very special.↗ · Can I have your autograph, please?↗ · The singer autographed my ticket.↗

automated — Everyday, meaning 1: Done by machines or computers instead of people.↗ Example: The car factory is fully automated.↗ · The phone call was an automated message.↗ · We used the automated checkout at the supermarket.↗ · Watering the greenhouse is now automated.↗ · The robot does automated tasks all day.↗ · Automated doors open when you walk up to them.↗ · Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

automatic — Everyday, meaning 1: An automatic machine works by itself, without a person controlling each step: automatic doors, an automatic washing machine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An automatic action is done without thinking, from habit or reflex: blinking is automatic.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Automatic also means happening for sure because of a rule: «Breaking this rule means an automatic red card.».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: An automatic is a car with automatic gears.↗ Example: The automatic doors opened when we walked up.↗ · Breathing is automatic; you don't have to think about it.↗ · Practise your times tables until they are automatic.↗ · The street lights are automatic and turn on when it gets dark.↗ · Mum drives an automatic, not a manual.↗ · The heating comes on automatically at six.↗ · Cheating means an automatic zero on the test.↗ · Blinking is an automatic reaction when something flies at your eye.↗