📖 S — The English dictionary

sa — Everyday, meaning 1: SA is a short form of South Australia, a state of Australia whose capital is Adelaide.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: SA is also a short form of South Africa.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (French) «Sa» is a French word meaning «his» or «her» before a feminine noun, as in «sa mère» (his or her mother); said like «sah».↗ It is not an English word.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (business) After a company name, S.A. is like «Ltd» or «Inc.» in some countries.↗ Example: Adelaide is the capital of SA.↗ · Grandma lives in Port Lincoln, SA.↗ · The rugby match was SA against New Zealand.↗ · In French, «sa maison» means his house or her house.↗ · «Elle aime sa chatte» means «She loves her cat».↗ · Write SA in capitals when you mean South Australia.↗

sabaoth — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An old word, from Hebrew, meaning "armies" or "hosts", used in the name "Lord of Sabaoth".↗ Example: This divine name is printed in EngHsh Bibles as Jehovah Sabaoth, or as '* Lord of hosts " as in Psalm xxiv.↗ 10.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

sabbath — Everyday, meaning 1: (religion) The Sabbath is a weekly day of rest and worship: for Jews it is from Friday evening to Saturday evening; for most Christians, Sunday is kept as the Lord's Day.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sabbatical (from the same word) is a long break from work to rest or study.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A witches' sabbath is a secret night meeting of witches and sorcerers.↗ Example: Rachel's family lights candles to welcome the Sabbath.↗ · On the Sabbath, they don't do homework or go shopping.↗ · Jesus healed a man on the Sabbath, and some leaders were angry.↗ · Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.↗ · Grandad says Sunday was a quiet Sabbath when he was small.↗ · The Sabbath begins when the sun sets on Friday.↗ · Others, That all the sorcerers and witches of the country kept there their sabbath or night’s meeting.↗ · Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.↗ (Torah EXO.20.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.'↗ (Torah EXO.35.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye shall keep My sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.19.30, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou hast despised My holy things, and hast profaned My sabbaths.↗ (Prophets EZK.22.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And some of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the showbread, to prepare it every sabbath.↗ (Writings 1CH.9.32, JPS 1917)↗ · Moreover this they have done unto Me: they have defiled My sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned My sabbaths.↗ (Prophets EZK.23.38, JPS 1917)↗

sable — Everyday, meaning 1: A small animal of the weasel family that lives in the forests of Russia and northern Asia, with soft dark brown fur.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The fur of this animal, which was once very expensive.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (literary, heraldry) Black: «sable» is the word for black on coats of arms.↗ Example: A sable is a small furry animal like a weasel.↗ · The tsar wore a coat trimmed with sable.↗ · Artists use soft sable brushes for watercolours.↗ · Sables live in the cold forests of Siberia.↗ · The knight's shield showed a sable lion on gold.↗ · The sable's thick fur keeps it warm in winter.↗ · Thus the vessel returned, like a raven, with the same sable wings that had wafted her away.↗

sabotage — Everyday, meaning 1: Damaging or destroying something on purpose, especially machines, roads or plans, to stop an enemy or rival.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To damage something on purpose.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To secretly spoil someone's plan or chance.↗ Example: The spies planned sabotage on the bridge.↗ · Someone sabotaged our sandcastle while we were swimming.↗ · Don't sabotage the group project by not doing your part.↗ · The train crash was caused by sabotage, not an accident.↗ · She thought her rival had sabotaged her bike.↗ · Staying up late before a test is self-sabotage.↗

sabre — Everyday, meaning 1: A sabre is a heavy sword with a curved blade and one sharp edge, once used by soldiers on horseback (cavalry).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the sport of fencing, the sabre is one of three weapons (with foil and épée), and points are scored by hitting with the edge or the tip.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Sabre-rattling» means threatening to use force or war to scare others, without actually fighting.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A sabre-toothed cat (sabre-toothed tiger) was an extinct big cat with two very long curved teeth.↗ Example: The cavalry officer drew his sabre.↗ · Sabre is the fastest of the three fencing weapons.↗ · The sabre-toothed cat had teeth as long as a ruler.↗ · The two countries were accused of sabre-rattling.↗ · A sabre has a curved blade.↗ · Fossils of sabre-toothed cats were found in tar pits.↗ · She won a medal for sabre fencing.↗ · In «Star Wars» the Jedi fight with lightsabers.↗ · In vain, however, for the robbers with their sabres soon killed him.↗

sac — Everyday, meaning 1: A sac is a small bag-like part inside a plant or animal, often filled with liquid or air, like an egg sac or an ink sac.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) In a spider, an egg sac is a silk bag holding its eggs; in a squid or octopus, the ink sac squirts dark ink to escape enemies.↗ Example: The spider guarded its egg sac.↗ · The octopus squirted ink from its ink sac.↗ · Our lungs have millions of tiny air sacs.↗ · Frogs puff up a vocal sac to croak.↗ · The baby spiders hatched from the egg sac.↗ · A bee's sting has a venom sac.↗

sachet — Everyday, meaning 1: A small sealed plastic or paper packet holding a small amount of something, like sugar, ketchup, shampoo or medicine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A small cloth bag of nice-smelling dried flowers or herbs, put in drawers.↗ Example: Can I have a sachet of ketchup, please?↗ · Mix one sachet of powder in a glass of water.↗ · Gran puts lavender sachets in her drawers.↗ · The hotel gave us little sachets of shampoo.↗ · A box holds 20 sachets of hot chocolate.↗ · Don't leave empty sachets on the table.↗

sack — Everyday, meaning 1: A sack is a big strong bag for carrying things like potatoes, flour or coal.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To sack someone is to tell them they no longer have their job; «get the sack» means lose your job.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Hit the sack» means go to bed.↗ Example: They harvest 74 sacks of oranges per day.↗ · 71 sacks are of ripe oranges.↗ · How many sacks after 51 days?↗ · Each sack holds 20 pounds.↗ · We had a sack race on sports day.↗ · Santa carries a sack of toys.↗ · The farmer lifted a sack of flour.↗ · I'm tired, I'll hit the sack.↗ · He got the sack for being late.↗ · The old mill made sacks of grain.↗ · The ostler was carrying a sack.↗ · We know not who put our money in our sacks.'↗ (Torah GEN.43.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Then they hastened, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.↗ (Torah GEN.44.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And he searched, beginning at the eldest, and leaving off at the youngest; and the goblet was found in Benjamin's sack.↗ (Torah GEN.44.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of corn in his sack.↗ (Prophets 2KI.4.42, JPS 1917)↗ · they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine skins, worn and rent and patched up; (Prophets JOS.9.4, JPS 1917)↗

sackcloth — Everyday, meaning 1: A rough, coarse cloth made from sacking, once worn to show sadness or sorrow.↗ Example: She had been dressed in a garment of sackcloth.↗ · The beggar wore sackcloth and ashes.↗ · And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.↗ (Torah GEN.37.34, JPS 1917)↗ · Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.↗ (Writings 1CH.21.16, JPS 1917)↗ · I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.↗ (Prophets ISA.50.3, JPS 1917)↗ · I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a byword unto them.↗ (Writings PSA.69.12, JPS 1917)↗

sackful — Everyday, meaning 1: A sackful is the amount that one sack holds, or a whole sack full of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, hyperbole) A sackful can mean a large amount of something, like a sackful of letters or presents.↗ Example: Santa carried a sackful of presents down the chimney.↗ · The farmer sold ten sackfuls of potatoes.↗ · The miller ground a sackful of wheat into flour.↗ · We got a sackful of fan letters after the show.↗ · Each sackful of sand weighs 20 kilograms.↗ · The children collected a sackful of conkers.↗ · Why, I know a whole sackful of tricks!"↗

sacrament — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) A sacrament is a holy ceremony in Christian churches, which Christians believe is an outward sign of God's grace (love and help) given to people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The Blessed Sacrament (Catholic) is the bread blessed at Mass, which Catholics believe is Jesus' body.↗ Example: Baptism is the first sacrament for many Christians.↗ · Catholics have seven sacraments.↗ · Marriage is a sacrament in the Catholic Church.↗ · The priest carried the Blessed Sacrament in procession.↗ · Our RE teacher explained the sacrament of confirmation.↗ · Most Protestant churches celebrate two sacraments.↗ · The next Sunday there was the sacrament, and Karen looked at the black shoes, looked at the red ones--looked at them again, and put on the red shoes.↗

sacramental — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) Connected with a sacrament, a holy rite such as baptism or communion.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: noun (Catholic Church) A blessed object or action, like holy water or a rosary, that Catholics believe helps prayer.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Feeling holy or very special.↗ Example: The priest poured the sacramental wine.↗ · Baptism is a sacramental act in many churches.↗ · Holy water is one of the sacramentals in the Catholic Church.↗ · Catholics believe sacramentals help them pray.↗ · The sacramental bread is shared at communion.↗ · The service had a quiet, sacramental feel.↗

sacred — Everyday, meaning 1: Holy; connected with God, a god or a religion and treated with deep respect.↗ e.g. "a sacred building".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very important to someone, so it must not be harmed.↗ e.g. "Saturday morning is sacred to my dad."↗ Example: The Qur'an is a sacred book for Muslims.↗ · Uluru is a sacred site for its traditional owners.↗ · Cows are sacred to many Hindus.↗ · Please be quiet in the sacred building.↗ · The river Ganges is sacred in India.↗ · Family dinner is sacred in our house.↗ · They sang sacred songs in the church.↗ · A sacred Image was being carried to the temple.↗ · And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a sacred gift before the LORD; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.↗ (Torah NUM.8.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, https://archive.sacred-texts.com/jud/yetzirah.htm .↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned at sacred-texts.com, September 2005.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · even to give to them that were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation; for in their office of trust they administered the sacred gifts; (Writings 2CH.31.18, JPS 1917)↗

sacrifice — Everyday, meaning 1: Giving up something you value for something more important or for someone else.↗ e.g. Her parents made sacrifices so she could go to college.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Verb: to give up something valuable for a reason.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In old religions, killing an animal or offering something to a god.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (games) Giving up a piece on purpose to gain an advantage, as in chess.↗ Example: She sacrificed her break to help a friend with maths.↗ · Firefighters sometimes sacrifice their own safety to save others.↗ · The ancient Greeks made sacrifices to their gods.↗ · He sacrificed his knight to trap the king.↗ · Saving for a bike means sacrificing sweets for a while.↗ · Remembrance Day honours the sacrifice of soldiers.↗ · She would not sacrifice herself for others.↗ · And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto the satyrs, after whom they go astray.↗ (Torah LEV.17.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which one may offer unto the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.7.11, JPS 1917)↗ · With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving.↗ (Torah LEV.7.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt-offerings.↗ (Prophets 2KI.10.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons, (Writings PSA.106.37, JPS 1917)↗ · Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto Me.↗ (Prophets JER.6.20, JPS 1917)↗

sacrificial — Everyday, meaning 1: Used or given as an offering to a god, usually by killing or giving up something valued.↗ Example: Heracles sent for a sacrificial robe.↗ · The priest lit the sacrificial fire.↗ · The farmer chose a lamb for the sacrificial feast.↗

sacrilege — Everyday, meaning 1: Great disrespect shown to something holy, such as a god, a temple or a church.↗ Example: Stealing the gold from the temple was sacrilege.↗ · Apollo saw the sacrilege and came down to defend his shrine.↗

sacrilegious — Everyday, meaning 1: Showing disrespect for something holy; wicked against a god or holy place.↗ Example: The king paid for his sacrilegious deeds.↗ · It was sacrilegious to steal from the church.↗ · Their sacrilegious plans were stopped.↗

sad — Everyday, meaning 1: Sad means unhappy, feeling sorrow, often wanting to cry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sad means making you feel unhappy: sad news, a sad film.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Sad (informal) can mean boring or embarrassing — can be unkind.↗ Example: I felt sad when my goldfish died.↗ · She looks sad — let's ask if she's okay.↗ · This is the saddest film I've seen.↗ · It's sad that the park is closing.↗ · He was sad about leaving his friends.↗ · It's okay to be sad sometimes.↗ · Draw a sad face and a happy face.↗ · Sad to say, we lost the match.↗ · This made the boy very sad.↗ · And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and saw them, and, behold, they were sad.↗ (Torah GEN.40.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his master's house, saying: 'Wherefore look ye so sad to-day?'↗ (Torah GEN.40.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.↗ (Writings NEH.2.1, JPS 1917)↗ · If I say: 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer', (Writings JOB.9.27, JPS 1917)↗ · And she said: 'Let thy servant find favour in thy sight.'↗ So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.↗ (Prophets 1SA.1.18, JPS 1917)↗