📖 E — The English dictionary · page 35

exclusively — Everyday, meaning 1: Only; for one person, group or thing and nobody or nothing else.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Completely and only (made exclusively of wood).↗ Example: This parking space is exclusively for teachers.↗ · Pandas eat almost exclusively bamboo.↗ · The game is sold exclusively in our shop.↗ · The club is exclusively for children under twelve.↗ · The meal was made exclusively from vegetables.↗ · The magazine interview was given exclusively to us.↗ · This festival was celebrated exclusively by women.↗

excrement — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Solid waste that comes out of the body of a person or animal; poo.↗ Example: The park sign said to clean up dog excrement.↗ · Owls cough up pellets, which are not excrement.↗ · Scientists studied bat excrement in the cave.↗ · Bird excrement covered the statue.↗ · Animal excrement can spread germs, so wash your hands.↗ · Dung beetles roll balls of excrement.↗

excrescence — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An unnatural lump or growth sticking out from something.↗

excrete — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) To get rid of waste from the body, such as poo, urine (wee), sweat or carbon dioxide.↗ Example: All living things excrete waste.↗ · The kidneys excrete waste in urine.↗ · We excrete carbon dioxide when we breathe out.↗ · Plants excrete oxygen as a waste product of photosynthesis.↗ · Sweat helps the body excrete some salt.↗ · Excretion is one of the seven life processes.↗

excreting — Everyday, meaning 1: Excreting is getting rid of waste from the body, such as urine (wee), faeces (poo) or sweat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In plants and other living things, excreting means pushing out waste materials they do not need.↗ Example: The kidneys are always excreting waste in urine.↗ · All living things need excreting as a life process.↗ · Fish are excreting ammonia into the water.↗ · Plants get rid of oxygen as waste through their leaves, a kind of excreting.↗ · Sweat is a way of excreting water and salt.↗ · The body is excreting the medicine through the kidneys.↗

excretion — Everyday, meaning 1: Excretion is how living things get rid of waste that their bodies have made, such as urine, sweat and carbon dioxide.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An excretion is a waste substance that is passed out of a living thing.↗ Example: Excretion is one of the seven life processes.↗ · The kidneys help with excretion by making urine.↗ · We breathe out carbon dioxide as part of excretion.↗ · Plants also do excretion through their leaves.↗ · Sweating is a kind of excretion.↗ · Animals need excretion to stay healthy.↗

excruciating — Everyday, meaning 1: Extremely painful.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Terribly embarrassing, boring or awkward, so that you can hardly bear it.↗ Example: The pain in his broken leg was excruciating.↗ · She had an excruciating toothache all night.↗ · The wait for the test results was excruciating.↗ · It was excruciating when Dad danced at my party.↗ · The speech was so long and boring it was excruciating.↗ · Stinging nettles can be painful, but a wasp sting can be excruciating.↗

excruciatingly — Everyday, meaning 1: Extremely painfully.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Extremely, in a way that is hard to bear, as in «excruciatingly slow» or «excruciatingly embarrassing».↗ Example: The cut was excruciatingly painful.↗ · The queue moved excruciatingly slowly.↗ · The film was excruciatingly boring.↗ · It was excruciatingly embarrassing when my phone rang in assembly.↗ · The comedian was excruciatingly funny.↗ · The last minutes before the bell went excruciatingly slowly.↗

excursion — Everyday, meaning 1: An excursion is a short trip, often with a group, to visit a place for fun or to learn, and then come back.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Australia, NZ) An excursion is a school trip.↗ Example: Our class went on an excursion to the zoo.↗ · The excursion costs 15 dollars per child.↗ · We need two buses for the excursion.↗ · Bring a packed lunch on the excursion.↗ · The cruise ship stopped for an afternoon excursion.↗ · The excursion to the beach was cancelled because of rain.↗ · They were students, on a boating excursion, and wanted to get something to eat.↗

excuse — Everyday, meaning 1: An excuse is a reason you give to explain why you did something wrong or did not do something, often not the real reason.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To excuse someone means to forgive them for something small.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To excuse someone from something means to let them not do it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Excuse me» is a polite phrase to get attention, to ask someone to move, or to say sorry for a small thing.↗ Example: Excuse me, could you tell me the time?↗ · Excuse me, can I get past?↗ · That's not a good excuse for being late.↗ · He always has an excuse for not doing his homework.↗ · Please excuse the mess.↗ · She was excused from PE because of her sore foot.↗ · May I be excused from the table?↗ · «The dog ate it» is the oldest excuse ever.↗ · Perhaps there was some excuse for him.↗

execrate — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To curse something and say it is hateful.↗ Example: And how shall I execrate, whom the LORD hath not execrated?↗ (Torah NUM.23.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And he took up his parable, and said: From Aram Balak bringeth me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: 'Come, curse me Jacob, and come, execrate Israel.'↗ (Torah NUM.23.7, JPS 1917)↗ · He that saith unto the wicked: 'Thou art righteous', peoples shall curse him, nations shall execrate him; (Writings PRO.24.24, JPS 1917)↗

execration — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A curse, or something hated and spoken of with horror.↗

execute — Everyday, meaning 1: (law) To kill someone as a punishment ordered by a court or ruler.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To carry out a plan, an order or a task.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To perform a movement or skill well, such as a dance step or a dive.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (computers) To run a program or a command.↗ Example: The gymnast executed a perfect backflip.↗ · The team executed their plan and won the match.↗ · When you press Enter, the computer executes the command.↗ · In history we learned that the king was executed long ago.↗ · The soldiers executed the general's orders at once.↗ · The skater executed a tricky jump on the ice.↗ · The robot will execute each step in order.↗ · At sight of the gold, Scheih Ibrahim set off at once to execute the commission.↗ · He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.↗ (Torah DEU.10.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And Moses spoke unto the people, saying: 'Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD'S vengeance on Midian.↗ (Torah NUM.31.3, JPS 1917)↗ · or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he be jealous over his wife; then shall he set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.↗ (Torah NUM.5.30, JPS 1917)↗ · When wilt Thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?↗ (Writings PSA.119.84, JPS 1917)↗ · To execute vengeance upon the nations, and chastisements upon the peoples; (Writings PSA.149.7, JPS 1917)↗ · To execute upon them the judgment written; He is the glory of all His saints.↗ (Writings PSA.149.9, JPS 1917)↗

executed — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Executed means carried out or done, as in «a perfectly executed plan» or «executed a jump».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Killed as an official punishment by law.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (computing) A program is executed when the computer runs it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (law, formal) A will or contract is executed when it is signed and made official.↗ Example: The gymnast executed a perfect flip.↗ · The plan was executed without a mistake.↗ · In history, some kings were executed.↗ · The computer executed the program in a second.↗ · The team executed the pass beautifully.↗ · The soldiers executed their orders quickly.↗ · The fish executed his commission, and they brought the treasure back to their master.↗ · while the Egyptians were burying them that the LORD had smitten among them, even all their first-born; upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.↗ (Torah NUM.33.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And he chose a first part for himself, for there a portion of a ruler was reserved; and there came the heads of the people, he executed the righteousness of the LORD, and His ordinances with Israel.↗ (Torah DEU.33.21, JPS 1917)↗ · So they executed judgment upon Joash.↗ (Writings 2CH.24.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness unto all his people.↗ (Prophets 2SA.8.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness unto all his people.↗ (Writings 1CH.18.14, JPS 1917)↗

executing — Everyday, meaning 1: Doing or carrying out a plan, order, task or movement.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (computing) Running a program or instruction on a computer.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Killing someone as an official punishment.↗ Example: The gymnast is executing a perfect cartwheel.↗ · The computer is executing the program step by step.↗ · The team is executing its plan well.↗ · The robot stops after executing each instruction.↗ · In history we read about kings executing their enemies.↗ · He is executing the dance moves in time with the music.↗ · Before executing this wicked design, however, he decided to put Zeus to the test, and having killed a boy for the purpose, placed before him a dish containing human flesh.↗ · And it came to pass, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and slew them.↗ (Writings 2CH.22.8, JPS 1917)↗

execution — Everyday, meaning 1: An execution is the killing of a person as an official punishment for a crime, decided by a court or ruler.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The execution of a plan, task or skill is the doing or carrying out of it, and how well it is done: «Great idea, poor execution».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (law, computing) Execution can mean carrying out a will or legal order, or a computer running a program.↗ Example: Charles I's execution took place in London in 1649.↗ · Many countries have banned execution as a punishment.↗ · The plan was clever, but the execution was messy.↗ · The gymnast scored high marks for execution.↗ · The program stops execution when it finds an error.↗ · The lawyer was in charge of the execution of the will.↗ · These are the same tones, the same execution.”↗

executioner — Everyday, meaning 1: A person whose job is to put a criminal to death, as a punishment ordered by a court.↗ Example: The executioner raised his axe.↗ · The king sent for the executioner.↗ · In the story, the executioner refused to harm the boy.↗

executive — Everyday, meaning 1: An executive is a person with an important job in a company, who makes decisions and manages others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Executive describes things for important managers, often expensive: «executive class».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The executive is the part of a government that runs the country and carries out laws.↗ Example: Her mum is an executive at a bank.↗ · The chief executive spoke at the meeting.↗ · I made an executive decision: pizza for tea.↗ · The executive branch includes the president or prime minister.↗ · The hotel has executive rooms.↗ · Each executive manages 8 workers; how many workers for 5 executives?↗

executor — Everyday, meaning 1: (law) An executor is the person named in a will to carry out what it says after the person who made it has died: sharing out money and things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) A person who carries out a plan or task.↗ Example: Aunt Jane is the executor of Grandpa's will.↗ · The executor shared out the money as the will said.↗ · Mum was chosen as executor because she is careful.↗ · The executor sold the house and paid the bills.↗ · You should pick an executor you trust.↗ · The executor read the will to the family.↗

exemplary — Everyday, meaning 1: Very good; so good that it is an example for others to copy: exemplary behaviour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Serving as a warning or example: an exemplary punishment.↗ Example: Her behaviour on the trip was exemplary.↗ · The headteacher praised his exemplary work.↗ · He was an exemplary student who always helped others.↗ · The firefighter received an award for exemplary courage.↗ · The essay is an exemplary answer to the question.↗ · Their teamwork was exemplary.↗

exemplify — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To be a typical example of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To give an example to show what you mean.↗ Example: Her kindness exemplifies the spirit of our school.↗ · This poem exemplifies the use of rhyme.↗ · Can you exemplify your point with a story?↗ · The old castle exemplifies how people built long ago.↗ · His hard work exemplified what a good team player does.↗ · Which sentence best exemplifies a simile?↗ · The rainforest exemplifies a habitat full of life.↗ · In order to exemplify this, let us suppose that Orpheus, the son of Apollo, so renowned for his extraordinary musical powers, had existed at the present day.↗

exempt — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Free from a rule, duty or payment that others must follow.↗ e.g. Children are exempt from the charge.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To free someone from a rule or payment.↗ e.g. The doctor's note exempted her from PE.↗ Example: Children under 5 are exempt from the entry fee.↗ · He was exempt from PE because of his broken arm.↗ · Food is exempt from the tax in some places.↗ · The school exempted the team from homework for one night.↗ · Nobody is exempt from the rules.↗ · If 30 people go and 6 are exempt, only 24 pay.↗ · “I hold that on account of his great losses Fionn is to be exempt from payment of damages, and that his losses are to be considered as damages.”↗ · Then king Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah; none was exempted; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasa had builded; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.↗ (Prophets 1KI.15.22, JPS 1917)↗