📖 A — The English dictionary · page 61

averting — Everyday, meaning 1: Stopping something bad from happening.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Turning your eyes or face away.↗ Example: The pilot's quick thinking was key to averting a crash.↗ · She kept averting her eyes from the scary film.↗ · Averting a flood meant building a wall.↗ · They succeeded in averting a strike.↗ · Averting his gaze, he said sorry.↗ · Firefighters worked all night, averting disaster.↗ · Nemesis was worshipped by the Romans, (who invoked her on the Capitol), as a divinity who possessed the power of averting the pernicious consequences of envy.↗

avian — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with birds: «avian flu» is bird flu.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Belonging to birds as a group: «avian dinosaurs» means birds, which scientists count as living dinosaurs.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Avian is also the name of a Roman writer of animal fables, who put Greek fables into Latin.↗ Example: Avian flu is a disease that spreads among birds.↗ · Scientists say birds are avian dinosaurs.↗ · The vet specialises in avian medicine.↗ · Feathers are an avian feature.↗ · The zoo has a new avian house full of parrots.↗ · Avian eggs come in many colours.↗ · Remarks.--Avian wrote towards the end of the third century, and put into Latin mainly those portions of Babrius which are unparalleled by Phædrus.↗

aviary — Everyday, meaning 1: An aviary is a large cage, building or enclosed space where birds are kept, big enough for them to fly about.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Zoos and bird parks often have walk-through aviaries where visitors can walk among the birds.↗ Example: The zoo has a huge aviary full of parrots.↗ · We walked through the aviary while birds flew over our heads.↗ · Grandpa built an aviary for his budgies in the back garden.↗ · The rare kakapo chicks were raised in an aviary.↗ · The aviary netting stops the birds from escaping.↗ · Feeding time at the aviary was noisy and colourful.↗ · He next hastened to the aviary, and was almost deafened by the clamour that rose as he shut the door behind him.↗

aviation — Everyday, meaning 1: Flying aircraft, and everything to do with building, running and flying planes.↗ Example: The Wright brothers started modern aviation in 1903.↗ · Amelia Earhart was a hero of aviation.↗ · My uncle works in aviation.↗ · The museum has an aviation section.↗ · Aviation fuel is very flammable.↗ · Safety rules in aviation are very strict.↗

avocado — Everyday, meaning 1: An avocado is a pear-shaped fruit with dark green or black skin, soft pale-green flesh and one big seed (stone) in the middle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Avocado is also the name of the tree it grows on and of a pale green colour.↗ Example: I like avocado on toast.↗ · A ripe avocado feels a bit soft when you press it.↗ · We mashed avocados to make guacamole.↗ · The avocado has one big stone in the middle.↗ · We grew an avocado plant from a seed in a jar of water.↗ · Let an adult cut the avocado — the knife can slip.↗

avoid — Everyday, meaning 1: To avoid something means to keep away from it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To avoid doing something means to try not to do it or to stop it happening.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To avoid a person means to stay away from them on purpose.↗ Example: Avoid swimming where there are no lifeguards.↗ · Wash your hands to avoid getting sick.↗ · Check your answers to avoid silly mistakes.↗ · She avoided me all day because she was upset.↗ · People with a nut allergy must avoid nuts.↗ · We took a different road to avoid the traffic.↗ · Avoid looking straight at the Sun.↗ · He tried to avoid the puddles on the way to school.↗ · It is necessary to avoid confusion between these letters ; different authors translate them in different manners.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · To avoid writing too many strokes, the Chinese made one stroke to represent five units.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass on.↗ (Writings PRO.4.15, JPS 1917)↗

avoidance — Everyday, meaning 1: The act of keeping away from something or not doing something.↗ Example: Avoidance of sugary drinks helps your teeth.↗ · Fire safety is about the avoidance of risks.↗ · His avoidance of homework got him into trouble.↗ · Zebras' stripes may help in predator avoidance.↗ · Avoidance doesn't solve the problem.↗ · Tax avoidance means using legal tricks to pay less tax.↗

avouch — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: to say openly that something is true, or to declare a promise.↗ Example: And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be His own treasure, as He hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all His commandments; (Torah DEU.26.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and that thou wouldest walk in His ways, and keep His statutes, and His commandments, and His ordinances, and hearken unto His voice.↗ (Torah DEU.26.17, JPS 1917)↗

avow — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To say something openly and firmly, to declare it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To admit or confess something openly.↗ Example: The knight avowed his loyalty to the king.↗ · She avowed that she had never seen the stolen ring.↗ · He was an avowed fan of the team.↗ · The two families were avowed enemies.↗ · They avowed their love in front of everyone.↗ · The avowed aim of the club is to help animals.↗ · He avowed his mistake and apologised.↗

await — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To await is to wait for something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To await can mean to be ready or waiting for someone.↗ e.g. A surprise awaits you.↗ Example: We await your reply.↗ · A big surprise awaits you at home.↗ · The children eagerly awaited the holidays.↗ · The results are still awaited.↗ · Danger awaited the explorers in the cave.↗ · (formal) Please await further instructions.↗ · And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, as dew from the LORD, as showers upon the grass, that are not looked for from man, nor awaited at the hands of the sons of men.↗ (Prophets MIC.5.6, JPS 1917)↗

awaiteth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «awaiteth» means «awaits», a form of «await»: (formal) To await is to wait for something.↗ Example: But an hour had scarcely passed, when the knight stood before the captive pasha, and inquired, "What do you suppose awaiteth thee?"↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen)

awake — Everyday, meaning 1: Awake means not sleeping.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To awake (or awaken) means to wake up or to make someone wake up.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Wide awake means fully awake and alert.↗ Example: Are you awake?↗ · I lay awake thinking about the trip.↗ · The noise kept me awake all night.↗ · Owls are awake at night.↗ · By six o'clock the baby was wide awake.↗ · Try to stay awake until the end of the film.↗ · Sleeping Beauty awoke after a hundred years.↗ · Gerda lay awake for some time.↗ · And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said: 'Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.'↗ (Torah GEN.28.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord?↗ (Writings PSA.44.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake the dawn.↗ (Writings PSA.108.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake the dawn.↗ (Writings PSA.57.9, JPS 1917)↗

awaken — Everyday, meaning 1: To wake up, or to wake someone up (a bit formal or story-like).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make a feeling, memory or interest start (The trip awakened her love of nature).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To make someone realise something (awaken someone to a danger).↗ Example: The princess awakened after a hundred years of sleep.↗ · Bears awaken from hibernation when the weather warms.↗ · The smell of pancakes awakened me.↗ · The museum trip awakened his interest in fossils.↗ · The film awakened people to the danger of plastic in the sea.↗ · She had a rude awakening when she saw her test score.↗ · Do not awaken the baby!↗ · She was awakened in the morning by a great shout.↗ · 'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem: Why should ye awaken, or stir up love, until it please?'↗ (Writings SNG.8.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Under the apple-tree I awakened thee; there thy mother was in travail with thee; there was she in travail and brought thee forth.↗ (Writings SNG.8.5, JPS 1917)↗ · 'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor stir up love, until it please.'↗ (Writings SNG.2.7, JPS 1917)↗

award — Everyday, meaning 1: A prize or a reward given for doing something well.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To give someone a prize, money or a mark officially.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) An amount of money given after a court or official decision.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb, sport) To give a penalty, a free kick or points.↗ Example: She won an award for her painting.↗ · The school gives an award for the best speller.↗ · He was awarded a gold medal.↗ · 3 points are awarded for a win and 1 for a draw.↗ · The referee awarded a penalty.↗ · The film won many awards.↗ · Two marks are awarded for each correct answer.↗ · But when they were all led before the King, the whole Court with one consent awarded the prize of beauty to the fair Parsley.↗

aware — Everyday, meaning 1: If you are aware of something, you know about it or notice it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Someone who is aware understands what is happening around them and what matters: environmentally aware, safety aware.↗ Example: Be aware of cars when you cross the road.↗ · I wasn't aware that the test was today.↗ · She was aware of someone watching her.↗ · Are you aware of the fire exits in the building?↗ · The poster makes people aware of litter.↗ · He is well aware of the rules.↗ · Being aware of your feelings helps you calm down.↗ · Animals are very aware of sounds around them.↗ · Presently he was aware of a gentle radiance that shed itself before him.↗ · Before I was aware, my soul set me upon the chariots of my princely people.↗ (Writings SNG.6.12, JPS 1917)↗ · I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware; thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.↗ (Prophets JER.50.24, JPS 1917)↗

awareness — Everyday, meaning 1: Awareness is knowing about something or noticing it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Awareness is also understanding why something matters, as in awareness of road safety.↗ Example: Road safety week raises awareness of how to cross safely.↗ · The poster helps build awareness of bullying.↗ · Good awareness of your surroundings keeps you safe.↗ · The charity works to raise awareness about clean water.↗ · Meerkats have great awareness of danger.↗ · Self-awareness means understanding your own feelings.↗

away — Everyday, meaning 1: Away means off to another place, not here any more: the bird flew away.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Away means at a distance: the beach is 2 km away.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Away means not at home: she is away on holiday.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Away can mean on and on: he worked away all day.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Away means in the future: the party is two weeks away.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (rough) «Go away!», «Get away from me!» tell someone to leave rudely; (UK, Ireland) «Away with you!» or «Get away!» can also mean «I don't believe you».↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (euphemism) «Passed away» means died, and «put away» can mean sent to prison or (for a pet) put to sleep.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (formal) The exam voice says «removed», «withdrawn», «deducted», «situated at a distance of».↗ Everyday, meaning 9: Give away means to hand something over for free, or to reveal a secret by accident.↗ Example: When some of a group goes away, we subtract.↗ · Take 16 away from 17.↗ How many remain?↗ · Zoe gives away 4 of her 10 toys.↗ · 3 of the 9 birds fly away.↗ · Please put your books away.↗ · The school is two blocks away from my house.↗ · Come here right away!↗ · Never run away from a grown-up in a crowd.↗ · Christmas is only 5 sleeps away!↗ · Go away, I'm busy counting!↗ · Our old dog passed away last year.↗ · Subsequently, 4 of the 10 articles were removed from Zoe's possession; state the number remaining.↗ · I cannot even give him away.↗ · Asshur shall carry thee away captive.↗ (Torah NUM.24.22, JPS 1917)↗ · So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.↗ (Torah DEU.13.5, JPS 1917)↗ · So thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.↗ (Torah DEU.17.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Why doth thy heart carry thee away?↗ (Writings JOB.15.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And the idols shall utterly pass away.↗ (Prophets ISA.2.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Doth one turn away, and not return?↗ (Prophets JER.8.4, JPS 1917)↗

awe — Everyday, meaning 1: A strong feeling of wonder and respect, sometimes with a little fear, when you see something huge, beautiful or powerful.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To fill someone with awe: «The mountains awed us.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (church) The deep respect and wonder people of faith feel before God; Christians speak of «awe and wonder».↗ Example: We stood in awe at the edge of the Grand Canyon.↗ · The little children were in awe of the big footballers.↗ · Mole felt a great awe fall upon him.↗ · The night sky filled her with awe.↗ · The cathedral was awe-inspiring.↗ · He was too awed to speak.↗ · In assembly we talked about awe and wonder.↗ · In awe and amazement the village was dumb.↗ · And he was afraid, and said: 'How full of awe is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.'↗ (Torah GEN.28.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in awe of him.↗ (Prophets 1SA.18.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of Thy words.↗ (Writings PSA.119.161, JPS 1917)↗ · Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.↗ (Writings PSA.33.8, JPS 1917)↗