📖 E — The English dictionary · page 22

enumerate — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To name things one by one, like making a list.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, maths) To count things, or to find how many there are.↗ Example: Enumerate the planets in order from the Sun.↗ · She enumerated all the reasons she wanted a dog.↗ · Enumerate all the ways to make 10p with 1p and 5p coins.↗ · The report enumerates the safety rules.↗ · Can you enumerate the colours of the rainbow?↗ · The teacher enumerated the steps of the experiment.↗

enumeration — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Counting or naming things one by one.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) A numbered or ordered list of things.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) Listing all possible cases or arrangements to count them.↗ Example: The enumeration of all the outfits gave twelve different ways.↗ · His enumeration of excuses was very long.↗ · Careful enumeration helps you find every possible pair.↗ · The report begins with an enumeration of the main risks.↗ · The census is an enumeration of everyone living in the country.↗ · Use enumeration to list the ways to make 10p.↗

enunciate — Everyday, meaning 1: To say words clearly and carefully, sounding each part.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To state an idea, plan or belief clearly: «enunciate a principle».↗ Example: Please enunciate so everyone at the back can hear.↗ · The actor enunciated every word of the poem.↗ · When you read in church, enunciate clearly and slowly.↗ · The head teacher enunciated the new rules at assembly.↗ · Practise tongue twisters to help you enunciate.↗ · She enunciated "thank you" very carefully in Irish.↗

envelop — Everyday, meaning 1: To envelop something is to cover or wrap it all round so that it cannot be seen clearly.↗ Example: Fog enveloped the village.↗ · She enveloped the baby in a warm blanket.↗ · Darkness envelops the forest at night.↗ · A thick cloud enveloped the mountain top.↗ · And if I say: 'Surely the darkness shall envelop me, and the light about me shall be night'; (Writings PSA.139.11, JPS 1917)↗

envelope — Everyday, meaning 1: An envelope is a flat paper cover in which you put a letter or card before posting it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An envelope can be any covering that wraps something, like the layer of gases around a planet.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To envelop something is to wrap it or surround it completely.↗ Example: Put the letter in the envelope and lick the flap.↗ · Write the address clearly on the envelope.↗ · Stick the stamp in the top right corner of the envelope.↗ · She opened the envelope and found a birthday card.↗ · The winner's name was in a sealed envelope.↗ · We did a quick sum on the back of an envelope.↗ · The pilot liked to push the envelope.↗ · The Dryad saw herself enveloped in lace and silk, like the women of wealth and of high birth around her.↗

enviable — Everyday, meaning 1: Something enviable is so good that other people wish they had it or were in its place.↗ Example: Winning the prize was an enviable honour.↗ · She has an enviable collection of books.↗ · He is in the enviable position of having two weeks off.↗ · Her life seems enviable to me.↗

envious — Everyday, meaning 1: Wanting something that someone else has, and feeling unhappy or annoyed that you do not have it; jealous.↗ Example: Tom was envious of his friend's new bike.↗ · Joseph's brothers were envious of his special coat.↗ · She cast envious looks at the girl with the puppy.↗ · I'm a bit envious that you're going to the beach.↗ · Being envious made him unhappy all day.↗ · The envious stepsisters were cruel to Cinderella.↗ · And with this the envious brother was forced to be content.↗ · Be not thou envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them.↗ (Writings PRO.24.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious at the wicked; (Writings PRO.24.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.↗ (Writings PSA.37.1, JPS 1917)↗

environment — Everyday, meaning 1: The environment is the natural world — air, water, land, plants and animals — that all living things depend on.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An environment is the surroundings and conditions where a person, animal or plant lives or works.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In computing, an environment is the set of programs and settings you work in.↗ Example: We should protect the environment by recycling.↗ · Litter is bad for the environment.↗ · A polar bear's environment is cold and icy.↗ · Plants need the right environment to grow.↗ · Our school wants a safe, friendly environment.↗ · Cars that burn petrol pollute the environment.↗ · Camels are adapted to a desert environment.↗ · Saving water is good for the environment.↗

environmental — Everyday, meaning 1: Environmental means about the natural world — air, water, land, plants and animals — and how people affect it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Environmental can mean about the surroundings or conditions around someone, like noise or light.↗ Example: Plastic in the sea is a big environmental problem.↗ · Our school has an environmental club.↗ · Cutting down forests causes environmental damage.↗ · Environmental scientists study rivers and soil.↗ · Is this packaging environmentally friendly?↗ · The new road had an environmental report.↗ · Greta Thunberg is an environmental campaigner.↗

environs — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The area all around a place.↗ Example: He fixed these as testimonies of the Triad, the Heptad, and the Dodecad; the twelve constellations rulers of the world, the Dragon (THELE) Tali which environs the universe, and the microcosm, man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

envisage — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To imagine or picture something that might happen in the future.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To expect or plan something: «We envisage finishing by summer».↗ Example: Can you envisage living on Mars?↗ · The architect envisaged a school full of light.↗ · I never envisaged that we would win the cup.↗ · It is envisaged that the new bridge will open next year.↗ · Close your eyes and envisage a quiet beach.↗ · The plan envisages more trees on every street.↗

envision — Everyday, meaning 1: To envision something is to imagine it or picture it in your mind, especially something in the future.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To envision a plan is to expect or hope that it will happen in a certain way.↗ Example: Close your eyes and envision your dream bedroom.↗ · The architect envisioned a building made of glass.↗ · I never envisioned winning the race.↗ · Envision what the town might look like in 100 years.↗ · She envisions becoming a vet.↗ · The team envisioned a garden on the roof.↗ · Meroz has argued that the SY envisions Wisdom [חָכְמָה Chochmah] as a co-participant with God in the Work of Creation.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

envoy — Everyday, meaning 1: An envoy is a person sent by a government or a ruler to take a message to another country or to talk for them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A special envoy is someone sent to deal with one problem, such as peace talks.↗ Example: The king sent an envoy to the queen of the next kingdom.↗ · A UN envoy is trying to arrange peace talks.↗ · The envoy brought a letter from the emperor.↗ · The president's special envoy visited the region.↗ · Envoys travelled for weeks on horseback in the old days.↗ · The envoy was treated as an honoured guest.↗ · Should you send an envoy to the island he will take ten years to get there and ten more to return—twenty years in all.↗

envy — Everyday, meaning 1: Envy is the unhappy feeling of wanting something that someone else has, like their toys, skills or luck.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To envy someone is to wish you had what they have.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Someone or something that is «the envy of» others is admired and wanted by them.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (church) Envy is one of the seven deadly sins in Christian teaching.↗ Example: She felt envy when her friend got a new bike.↗ · I envy you; you get to go to the beach!↗ · The queen was green with envy of Snow White's beauty.↗ · Our new playground is the envy of other schools.↗ · I don't envy him; he has three tests tomorrow.↗ · Christians list envy among the seven deadly sins.↗ · He tried to turn his envy into hard work.↗ · Ducks have strong passions, whether they feel envy or pity.↗ · For anger killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.↗ (Writings JOB.5.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Envy thou not the man of violence, and choose none of his ways.↗ (Writings PRO.3.31, JPS 1917)↗ · A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh; but envy is the rottenness of the bones.↗ (Writings PRO.14.30, JPS 1917)↗

enzyme — Everyday, meaning 1: An enzyme is a substance made by living things that speeds up chemical changes, for example breaking down food in your stomach.↗ Example: Enzymes in your saliva start to digest bread.↗ · Biological washing powder has enzymes that eat stains.↗ · Each enzyme does one special job.↗ · Heat can stop an enzyme from working.↗ · Enzymes help turn milk into cheese.↗ · Pineapple has an enzyme that can make your tongue tingle.↗

eon — Everyday, meaning 1: An eon is an extremely long period of time, too long to count easily.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) In geology an eon is the biggest division of Earth's history, lasting hundreds of millions of years or more.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Eons means a very long time, as in «I waited for eons».↗ Example: Rocks form over eons.↗ · Dinosaurs lived eons before people.↗ · I've been waiting for eons!↗ · The Earth's history is split into eons, eras and periods.↗ · The canyon was carved by the river over eons.↗ · It feels like eons since summer.↗

epaulette — Everyday, meaning 1: An epaulette is a decoration on the shoulder of a uniform, often with gold fringe or stripes showing a person's rank.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A strap on the shoulder of a coat or shirt, used for style.↗ Example: The captain's jacket had gold epaulettes.↗ · Epaulettes show how important an officer is.↗ · The band leader wore red epaulettes with tassels.↗ · Pilots have stripes on their epaulettes.↗ · My raincoat has little epaulettes on the shoulders.↗ · In the old painting the admiral's epaulettes shone.↗ · The toy soldier had painted epaulettes.↗ · Count the stripes on the epaulette to find the rank.↗

ephah — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An ancient Hebrew measure for dry things like flour or grain, about a bushel or a little less.↗ It is also a man's name.↗ Example: Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.↗ (Torah EXO.16.36, JPS 1917)↗ · And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah.↗ (Torah GEN.25.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.↗ (Torah LEV.24.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.↗ (Prophets EZK.45.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begot Gazez.↗ (Writings 1CH.2.46, JPS 1917)↗

ephemera — Everyday, meaning 1: Ephemera are insects, such as mayflies, that live only a very short time as adults.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ephemera are printed things, such as tickets or posters, that are kept for a short time.↗ Example: The ephemera danced over the river all afternoon.↗ · The ephemera of one summer day seemed endless to them.↗ · The museum keeps old ticket ephemera from the fair.↗ · Each ephemera in the box was a poster from a show.↗

ephemeral — Everyday, meaning 1: Ephemeral means lasting only a very short time.↗ Example: The ephemeral fly lives only one day.↗ · The joy of the first snow was ephemeral.↗ · Fame can be ephemeral.↗ · Their fun was ephemeral and ended at dusk.↗

epic — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) A long poem or story about the adventures of heroes, often in ancient times, such as the Odyssey or Beowulf.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A long film or book about big, exciting events.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Very big, long, brave or impressive: «an epic journey».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (adjective, slang) Really great, amazing: «That party was epic!».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (adjective, slang) «epic fail» — a huge, funny failure.↗ Example: Beowulf is an old English epic about a hero who fights a monster.↗ · Homer's Odyssey is an epic poem.↗ · The explorers made an epic journey across the ice.↗ · We watched an epic film about knights and dragons.↗ · That water fight was epic!↗ (slang)↗ · Falling in the pond in my new clothes was an epic fail.↗ · The final was an epic battle that went to penalties.↗ · CALLIOPE, the most honoured of the Muses, presided over heroic song and epic poetry, and is represented with a pencil in her hand, and a slate upon her knee.↗

epicentre — Everyday, meaning 1: The epicentre is the point on the Earth's surface right above where an earthquake starts underground.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The epicentre of something is its centre, where it is strongest or busiest.↗ Example: The epicentre of the earthquake was under a small town.↗ · Houses near the epicentre were badly damaged.↗ · Scientists found the epicentre using readings from three places.↗ · Our kitchen is the epicentre of family life.↗ · The city was the epicentre of the floods.↗ · The shaking was weaker far from the epicentre.↗

epidemic — Everyday, meaning 1: A disease that spreads quickly to many people in one area at the same time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sudden fast spread of something bad, like bullying or a craze.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Happening widely and fast.↗ Example: A cholera epidemic hit the city long ago.↗ · Washing hands helps stop an epidemic.↗ · There was a flu epidemic at school, and half the class was off.↗ · Scientists study how an epidemic spreads.↗ · The town faced an epidemic of bike thefts.↗ · Vaccines helped end the epidemic.↗

epidermis — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) The thin outer layer of the skin that you can see and touch; it protects the body from germs, water and sunlight.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (plants) The outer layer of cells on a leaf, stem or root.↗ Example: The epidermis is the outer layer of your skin.↗ · Dead cells from the epidermis flake off every day.↗ · Sunburn damages the epidermis.↗ · We peeled a thin layer of onion epidermis to look at under the microscope.↗ · The epidermis has no blood vessels, so a tiny scrape may not bleed.↗ · A plant's epidermis is covered in a waxy layer.↗