📖 E — The English dictionary · page 19

enlightened — Everyday, meaning 1: Enlightened means having understanding and wisdom about something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Enlightened means having been shown the truth, so you see clearly.↗ Example: I may well say that I am enlightened.↗ · The Teacher became perfectly enlightened.↗ · To bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.↗ (Writings JOB.33.30, JPS 1917)↗

enlightening — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Giving light or understanding.↗ Example: The precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.↗ (Writings PSA.19.9, JPS 1917)↗

enlightenment — Everyday, meaning 1: The state of understanding something clearly after it was puzzling; gaining knowledge.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) The Enlightenment: a time in Europe in the 1700s when thinkers said people should use reason, science and evidence and question old ideas.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (religion) In Buddhism, a state of perfect understanding and peace that Buddhists believe the Buddha reached.↗ Example: After the teacher's diagram, I felt a moment of enlightenment.↗ · The Enlightenment was a time of new ideas about science and freedom.↗ · Thinkers of the Enlightenment said people should question kings.↗ · Buddhists believe the Buddha reached enlightenment under a tree.↗ · The library was built for the enlightenment of the townspeople.↗ · For your enlightenment, the answer is on page twelve.↗ · Many ideas in the American Declaration of Independence came from the Enlightenment.↗

enlist — Everyday, meaning 1: To enlist means to join the army, navy or air force.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To enlist someone's help means to ask them to help you and get them to agree.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To enlist someone can also mean to get them to join a group or take on a job, such as standing guard.↗ Example: My great-grandad enlisted in the navy when he was eighteen.↗ · Thousands of men enlisted in 1914.↗ · She enlisted in the air force after school.↗ · We enlisted our neighbour to help find the cat.↗ · The teacher enlisted parents to run the bake sale.↗ · Some boys lied about their age to enlist.↗ · At length he collected himself enough to say:—“If this young man will enlist in my army I will let him off.↗

enlisting — Everyday, meaning 1: Enlisting is joining the army, navy or air force, or signing someone up for them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Enlisting someone's help is asking for and getting their help or support for a job.↗ Example: Thousands of young men were enlisting in 1914.↗ · He is thinking about enlisting in the navy after school.↗ · We are enlisting the help of parents for the school fair.↗ · The teacher is enlisting volunteers to plant trees.↗ · By enlisting her older brother, she finished the model in time.↗ · Posters encouraged people to go enlisting at the town hall.↗

enmity — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) A feeling of hate or strong dislike between people or groups; being enemies.↗ Example: There was bitter enmity between the two families.↗ · The enmity between the kingdoms lasted for generations.↗ · Their enmity ended when they shook hands.↗ · God put enmity between the serpent and the woman.↗ · Jealousy grew into enmity.↗ · Forgiveness can turn enmity into friendship.↗ · THE EAGLE and the Beetle were at enmity together, and they destroyed one another’s nests.↗ · But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him any thing without lying in wait, (Torah NUM.35.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; they shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise their heel.'↗ (Torah GEN.3.15, JPS 1917)↗ · or in enmity smote him with his hand, that he died; he that smote him shall surely be put to death: he is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meeteth him.↗ (Torah NUM.35.21, JPS 1917)↗ · For the multitude of thine iniquity, the enmity is great.↗ (Prophets HOS.9.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Ephraim is a watchman with my God; as for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, and enmity in the house of his God.↗ (Prophets HOS.9.8, JPS 1917)↗

enormity — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A very great wickedness or crime.↗ Example: And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so doth the company of priests; they murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they commit enormity.↗ (Prophets HOS.6.9, JPS 1917)↗

enormous — Everyday, meaning 1: Very, very large in size, amount or degree; huge.↗ Example: The blue whale is an enormous animal.↗ · We ate an enormous bowl of ice cream.↗ · There was an enormous crowd at the match.↗ · The giant had enormous feet.↗ · It took an enormous effort to push the car.↗ · Space is enormous.↗ · (informal) That's a ginormous spider!↗ · After the jackal came an enormous snake.↗

enormously — Everyday, meaning 1: Enormously means very much or to a very great amount.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Enormously big means hugely, extremely big.↗ Example: I enjoyed the trip enormously.↗ · The new library is enormously popular.↗ · Thank you, you've been enormously helpful.↗ · The whale was enormously long.↗ · Prices have risen enormously.↗ · Practice helped her enormously.↗ · Once upon a time, in a very far-off country, there lived a merchant who had been so fortunate in all his undertakings that he was enormously rich.↗

enough — Everyday, meaning 1: Enough means as much as you need or want.↗ If you have enough money, you can buy it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Enough after a word means to the needed amount: big enough, fast enough.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «That's enough!» means stop now.↗ Example: Does she have enough money to buy the toy?↗ · Are there enough chairs for 30 people?↗ · How many more does he need to have enough?↗ · He has enough paint for 2 walls.↗ · Is the water warm enough to swim?↗ · Children need enough sleep.↗ · That's enough sweets for today.↗ · We have more than enough paper.↗ · "Goodby," he said, "I've seen enough.↗ · 'Ye have compassed this mountain long enough; turn you northward.↗ (Torah DEU.2.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And Esau said: 'I have enough; my brother, let that which thou hast be thine.'↗ (Torah GEN.33.9, JPS 1917)↗ · She said moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.'↗ (Torah GEN.24.25, JPS 1917)↗ · So will there arise enough contempt and wrath.↗ (Writings EST.1.18, JPS 1917)↗ · We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to have bread enough; (Writings LAM.5.6, JPS 1917)↗ · If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not have bread enough.↗ (Writings JOB.27.14, JPS 1917)↗

enquire — Everyday, meaning 1: To ask someone for information: «enquire about train times».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Enquire into» means to investigate officially.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Enquire after someone» means ask how they are.↗ Example: (formal) Please enquire at the front desk.↗ · She enquired about swimming lessons.↗ · He enquired after my grandmother's health.↗ · The police will enquire into the accident.↗ · I rang to enquire whether the museum was open.↗ · «Is it far?» she enquired.↗ · He enquired: ‘And who is the bridegroom?’↗

enquirer — Everyday, meaning 1: An enquirer is a person who asks for information about something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) An enquirer may also be someone who investigates or looks into a question.↗ Example: The receptionist answered every enquirer politely.↗ · The museum sends leaflets to each enquirer.↗ · A good scientist is a curious enquirer.↗ · Several enquirers phoned about the lost dog poster.↗ · The enquirer wanted to know when the pool opens.↗ · Our class became young enquirers about space.↗

enquiry — Everyday, meaning 1: A question you ask to find something out, often to a shop, office or school.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) An official look into something that went wrong, to find out the facts.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The act of asking or looking into things in general.↗ Example: Mum made an enquiry about swimming lessons at the leisure centre.↗ · Please send all enquiries to the school office.↗ · The hotel thanked us for our enquiry.↗ · There will be an enquiry into why the bridge fell down.↗ · The police are making enquiries about the stolen bike.↗ · Our science topic is based on enquiry: we ask a question and test it.↗ · I have a quick enquiry about the homework.↗ · The enquiries desk is next to the main door.↗

enrage — Everyday, meaning 1: To enrage someone is to make them very angry.↗ Example: The rude remark enraged the king.↗ · Stealing her toy enraged my sister.↗ · Do not enrage the bull by waving that red cloth.↗ · The fox's cheating enrages the other animals.↗

enraged — Everyday, meaning 1: Enraged means extremely angry, full of rage.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As a verb form, enraged means made someone extremely angry.↗ Example: The giant was enraged when he found his gold gone.↗ · The unfair decision enraged the fans.↗ · An enraged bull charged at the fence.↗ · She was enraged by the rude comments.↗ · The news of the cancelled trip enraged the whole class.↗ · Keep away from an enraged dog.↗ · Scheih Ibrahim, still more enraged, then went out to fetch a stick.↗

enraptured — Everyday, meaning 1: Filled with great delight and joy, so happy that you forget everything else.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Completely charmed or fascinated by something beautiful.↗ Example: The children were enraptured by the puppet show.↗ · The Mole was enraptured by the sparkling river.↗ · She listened enraptured to the singer.↗ · The crowd sat enraptured as the fireworks burst.↗ · He gazed enraptured at the stars.↗ · Toad was enraptured by the motor car.↗ · All stood with enraptured faces round Thorwaldsen's grave, and a few picked up the fallen rose-leaves and preserved them.↗

enrich — Everyday, meaning 1: To make something better, fuller or more interesting by adding something good to it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make someone richer, with more money.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) To add useful things to soil, food or a substance, such as vitamins to flour or compost to soil.↗ Example: Reading every night will enrich your vocabulary.↗ · Farmers enrich the soil with manure.↗ · This cereal is enriched with iron.↗ · The school trip enriched our history topic.↗ · Music enriches our lives.↗ · The greedy king enriched himself with the people's gold.↗ · Adding compost enriches the vegetable patch.↗ · Meeting children from other countries enriched our class.↗ · “We do not work for gain,” answered the Fox.↗ “We work only to enrich others.”↗ · Thou hast remembered the earth, and watered her, greatly enriching her, with the river of God that is full of water; Thou preparest them corn, for so preparest Thou her.↗ (Writings PSA.65.10, JPS 1917)↗ · When thy wares came forth out of the seas, thou didst fill many peoples; with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise didst thou enrich the kings of the earth.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.33, JPS 1917)↗

enrichment — Everyday, meaning 1: Enrichment means making something better, richer or more interesting by adding to it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In schools, enrichment means extra activities beyond normal lessons, like clubs, trips and challenges.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In zoos, enrichment means toys, puzzles and changes to an animal's home to keep it busy and happy.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In science, enrichment can mean adding something useful, like vitamins to food, or making a metal like uranium stronger for fuel.↗ Example: Our school has enrichment clubs on Friday afternoons.↗ · The zookeeper gave the tigers a ball for enrichment.↗ · Enrichment week included a trip to the museum.↗ · Frozen fruit treats are enrichment for the monkeys.↗ · Bread flour has vitamins added as enrichment.↗ · Reading for fun is enrichment for your mind.↗

enrobe — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To enrobe someone is to dress them in a robe or special clothes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (cooking) To enrobe food is to coat it all over, especially in chocolate.↗ Example: The biscuits are enrobed in milk chocolate.↗ · The factory machine enrobes each sweet in chocolate.↗ · The new judge was enrobed in red.↗ · The king was enrobed for the ceremony.↗ · The packet said «wafers enrobed in caramel».↗ · The choir was enrobed in white gowns.↗

enroll — Everyday, meaning 1: To enroll means to put your name on the list to join a school, course, club or class.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To enroll someone means to sign them up.↗ Example: Mum enrolled me in swimming lessons.↗ · 30 pupils enrolled in the chess club.↗ · You must enroll before the course starts.↗ · She enrolled at a new school after the move.↗ · Have you enrolled for the summer camp?↗ · Grandpa enrolled in a computer class.↗ · The rich one went away to live in a town, built himself a large house, and enrolled himself among the traders.↗

enrolment — Everyday, meaning 1: Enrolment is the act of joining a school, course or club by putting your name on the list.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Enrolment is the number of people who have joined.↗ Example: Enrolment for the new term starts next week.↗ · Fill in the enrolment form.↗ · The school's enrolment is 450 pupils.↗ · Enrolment in the drama club went up by 12.↗ · The enrolment fee is 20 pounds.↗ · Online enrolment is quick and easy.↗

ensemble — Everyday, meaning 1: An ensemble is a small group of musicians, singers, dancers or actors who perform together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An ensemble is a set of clothes that are worn together as an outfit.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Ensemble means a group of things seen as a whole.↗ Example: She plays flute in the school wind ensemble.↗ · The ensemble sang without a conductor.↗ · The play had an ensemble cast with no single star.↗ · Her party ensemble had a sparkly top and matching shoes.↗ · Our brass ensemble played at the fair.↗ · The dancers moved as one ensemble.↗

ensign — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A flag or banner that shows who a group or army belongs to.↗ Example: 'The children of Israel shall pitch by their fathers' houses; every man with his own standard, according to the ensigns; a good way off shall they pitch round about the tent of meeting.↗ (Torah NUM.2.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Set ye up an ensign upon the high mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.↗ (Prophets ISA.13.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Go through, go through the gates, clear ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway, gather out the stones; lift up an ensign over the peoples.↗ (Prophets ISA.62.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And He will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly; (Prophets ISA.5.26, JPS 1917)↗