📖 S — The English dictionary · page 31

severe — Everyday, meaning 1: Very bad, serious or harmful.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very strict and harsh.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Very plain, with no decoration.↗ Example: There is a severe weather warning for snow tonight.↗ · She has a severe nut allergy.↗ · The storm caused severe damage to the houses.↗ · He had severe pain in his tummy, so they went to hospital.↗ · The headmistress had a severe look on her face.↗ · Severe flooding closed the roads.↗ · The punishment was too severe for such a small mistake.↗ · In severe heat, drink lots of water and stay in the shade.↗ · Once upon a time a severe plague raged among the animals.↗ · Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

severely — Everyday, meaning 1: Very badly or seriously.↗ e.g. The house was severely damaged.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Strictly or harshly.↗ e.g. He was severely punished.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Plainly, without decoration: a severely plain dress.↗ Example: The storm severely damaged the roof.↗ · He was severely injured in the crash.↗ · The teacher looked at us severely.↗ · Water is severely limited in the desert.↗ · The crops were severely hit by drought.↗ · Do not severely punish a puppy; teach it kindly.↗ · The town was severely flooded.↗ · The hawk fell heavily under a big stone, severely wounded in its right wing.↗

severity — Everyday, meaning 1: Severity is how serious, strong or bad something is, such as the severity of an illness, an injury, a storm or a punishment.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Severity can mean strictness or harshness, as in a teacher's severity.↗ Example: Doctors decide treatment by the severity of the injury.↗ · The severity of the storm surprised everyone.↗ · Earthquakes are measured to show their severity.↗ · Her allergy varies in severity from a rash to trouble breathing.↗ · The punishment was too harsh for the severity of the crime.↗ · He spoke with such severity that the room went silent.↗ · Wearing a helmet reduces the severity of head injuries.↗ · The girl was frightened by her father’s severity.↗

sew — Everyday, meaning 1: To sew is to join cloth or attach things like buttons with a needle and thread.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To sew is to make or mend clothes with a needle or a sewing machine.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To sew up something is to finish or make sure of it (informal).↗ Example: She sews 4 dresses a week.↗ · He sews 5 buttons on each shirt.↗ · Each bag needs 2 m of cloth to sew.↗ · How many shirts can she sew?↗ · Grandma taught me to sew on a button.↗ · We sewed felt puppets in class.↗ · Keep your needles in a pincushion when you sew.↗ · Mum sewed up the hole in my sock.↗ · He sewed them on his coat.↗ · And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles.↗ (Torah GEN.3.7, JPS 1917)↗ · I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.↗ (Writings JOB.16.15, JPS 1917)↗ · A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; (Writings ECC.3.7, JPS 1917)↗ · and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe to the women that sew cushions upon all elbows, and make pads for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls!↗ (Prophets EZK.13.18, JPS 1917)↗

sewage — Everyday, meaning 1: Sewage is the dirty water and waste from toilets, sinks and drains that flows through pipes called sewers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is cleaned at a sewage treatment plant before the water goes back into rivers or the sea.↗ Example: Sewage goes from our toilets through pipes to the treatment plant.↗ · The beach was closed because sewage leaked into the sea.↗ · Old cities without sewage systems had lots of diseases.↗ · Don't swim in flood water; it may have sewage in it.↗ · The sewage works cleans the water before it goes to the river.↗ · Only flush pee, poo and toilet paper, or the sewage pipes can block.↗

sewer — Everyday, meaning 1: A sewer is a large underground pipe or tunnel that carries away dirty water and waste from toilets, sinks and streets.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sewer (said «SOH-er») is also a person who sews.↗ Example: Rainwater runs into the sewer through the drain.↗ · Rats live in the sewers.↗ · The Victorians built huge sewers under London.↗ · The Ninja Turtles live in a sewer.↗ · My nan is a great sewer — she made my costume.↗ · Don't pour fat down the sink, it blocks the sewers.↗ · Now they are vanishing points in that new underground world--that wonder of the present day--the sewers of Paris.↗

sewerage — Everyday, meaning 1: The system of underground pipes and drains that carries dirty water and toilet waste away from homes and buildings.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The work of taking away and dealing with that waste.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (sometimes, loosely) The waste itself, more often called sewage.↗ Example: Our town's sewerage system was built over a hundred years ago.↗ · The water bill includes a charge for sewerage.↗ · Before proper sewerage, cities smelled terrible and diseases spread.↗ · Workers are fixing the sewerage pipes under the main road.↗ · Joseph Bazalgette designed London's sewerage system.↗ · Good sewerage keeps rivers cleaner and people healthier.↗ · The new houses must be joined to the sewerage network.↗

sewn — Everyday, meaning 1: Joined or fixed with a needle and thread.↗ e.g. My name is sewn into my coat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Sewn up» (informal) means settled or certain to be won.↗ e.g. The match is sewn up.↗ Example: Mum has sewn a badge on my jumper.↗ · My name tag is sewn inside my coat.↗ · The bag was hand-sewn.↗ · The cut was sewn up by the doctor with stitches.↗ · With two goals, the game was sewn up.↗ · Have you sewn the button back on?↗ · “Yes, it fits very well,” said he, “and you have sewn it very neatly.↗

sex — Everyday, meaning 1: Sex is being male or female; people and most animals are born one sex or the other, decided by their body.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sex is one of these two groups, as in "both sexes".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Sex is also a private, physical act of love between adults, which is how babies can be made.↗ Example: Some fish can change their sex.↗ · You can tell the sex of a lion by its mane.↗ · Our school is a single-sex school for girls.↗ · The form asks for your name, age and sex.↗ · In science, we learned how flowers have male and female parts.↗ · Sex education is part of health lessons for older pupils.↗ · Male and female birds of the same kind can look very different.↗ · The sex test at the end is different from any of those enumerated by Prof.↗ · == Chapter 5 == [5:1] Twelve Simple Letters, Heh-Waw Zayin-Chet Tet-Yod Lamed-Nun ʽAyin-Samekh Tzadi-Qof—Their foundation is Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Talking, Eating, Sex, Work, Movement, Excitement, Play, Contemplation, Sleep.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

sexagesimal — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Based on the number sixty, as in counting with a base of sixty.↗ Example: We are, however, now certain that in Babylon, many centuries before the Christian Era. a sexagesimal position was known.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Although tlie sexagesimal position was anciently known in Babylonia, yet it was used only, in higher mathematics, as in (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · In my opinion, the sexagesimal position originated from the decimal position, and not the reverse ; for the earliest abacus, which was doubtless based on a decimal position, is older than the (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

sexist — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Treating people unfairly or badly because they are a boy or a girl, a man or a woman.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A person who thinks or behaves in this unfair way.↗ Example: Saying girls can't be engineers is sexist.↗ · The class decided the rule about only boys playing football was sexist.↗ · «That's a sexist joke,» said Chloe.↗ · The old advert was sexist because it showed only women cleaning.↗ · It's sexist to say boys shouldn't do ballet.↗ · Connor said he wasn't sexist, but he never passed the ball to the girls.↗

sexton — Everyday, meaning 1: A sexton is a church helper who looks after the church and its churchyard, digs graves and rings the bells.↗ Example: The sexton rang the bell at noon.↗ · "Now, how can I tell?" said the sexton's wife.↗ · The sexton dug the grave in the churchyard.↗

sexual — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Having to do with sex, the body's way of making babies.↗ Example: He produced Lamed, predominant in sexual desire, crowned, combined, and formed Libra in the world, Tisri in the year, and the gall in man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · He produced Lamed, predominant in Sexual desire, crowned it, combined and formed with it Libra in the Universe, Tishri in the Year, and the private parts of Man.↗ (Kalisch gives "gall.")↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · He produced Lamed, predominant in Sexual desire, crowned it, combined and formed with it Libra in the Universe, Tishri in the Year, and the private parts of Man.↗ (Kalisch gives *' gall.")↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

shabbily — Everyday, meaning 1: In a worn-out, old and untidy way: shabbily dressed means wearing old, faded, worn clothes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In an unfair, mean or unkind way: to treat someone shabbily is to treat them badly.↗ Example: The old man was shabbily dressed but very polite.↗ · They lived in a shabbily furnished flat above the shop.↗ · The team treated their loyal goalkeeper shabbily.↗ · I think you behaved rather shabbily towards your friend.↗ · The shabbily painted gate creaked in the wind.↗ · Toad, shabbily dressed as a washerwoman, hurried to the station.↗ · But the girl (and she was a very pretty girl, though so shabbily dressed) begged so hard for one of them that at last he said:↗

shabby — Everyday, meaning 1: Shabby means old, worn and untidy from a lot of use.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Shabby means dressed in old, worn clothes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Shabby means unfair or mean, as in «a shabby trick».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) «Not shabby» means quite good.↗ Example: He wore a shabby old coat.↗ · The hotel was shabby and needed painting.↗ · That was a shabby trick to play on your friend.↗ · The sofa looked shabby but was very comfy.↗ · «Second place?↗ Not too shabby!» said Dad.↗ · The shabby teddy was her favourite.↗ · Directly the Princess Badoura saw the prince she recognised him in spite of his shabby clothes.↗

shade — Everyday, meaning 1: Shade is an area where the sunlight is blocked, so it is cooler and darker: sit in the shade.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A shade is a lighter or darker kind of a colour: a shade of blue.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A shade is something that blocks light, like a lampshade or a window shade (USA blind).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To shade something means to protect it from light, or to colour in part of a picture or diagram.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Shades (informal) are sunglasses.↗ Example: Let's sit in the shade of that big tree.↗ · Play in the shade when the sun is hottest.↗ · Shade one half of the circle.↗ · Her dress is a lovely shade of green.↗ · He shaded his eyes from the sun with his hand.↗ · The new lampshade makes the room cosy.↗ · Shade the squares to show two fifths.↗ · Dogs need shade and water on hot days.↗ · It was very pleasant in the cool shade.↗ · Or shall the shades arise and give Thee thanks?↗ (Writings PSA.88.11, JPS 1917)↗ · The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.↗ (Writings JOB.26.5, JPS 1917)↗ · For her house sinketh down unto death, and her paths unto the shades; (Writings PRO.2.18, JPS 1917)↗

shadow — Everyday, meaning 1: A shadow is a dark shape made on a surface when something blocks the light.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Shadow is an area of darkness where light does not reach.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To shadow someone is to follow them closely, often to learn their job.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A shadow can also be a person who follows someone everywhere, staying close to them.↗ Example: My shadow follows me on a sunny day.↗ · At noon our shadows are short.↗ · We made animal shadows with our hands.↗ · The cat sat in the shadow of the tree.↗ · A shadow forms when light is blocked.↗ · Shadows are longer in the evening.↗ · The new pupil shadowed a buddy on her first day.↗ · Without a shadow of a doubt, she is the fastest runner.↗ · Will you go with me, as shadow?↗ · The Twenty-second Path is the Faithful Intelligence, and is so called because by it spiritual virtues are increased, and all dwellers on earth are nearly under its shadow.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Twenty-second Path is the Faithful Intelligence and is so called because by it spiritual virtues are increased, and all dwellers on earth are nearly under its shadow.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?↗ (Writings JOB.38.17, JPS 1917)↗ · My days are like a lengthening shadow; and I am withered like grass.↗ (Writings PSA.102.12, JPS 1917)↗ · My face is reddened with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; (Writings JOB.16.16, JPS 1917)↗

shadowy — Everyday, meaning 1: Full of shadows; dark and hard to see in: «a shadowy corner».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Like a shadow: dim, faint and not clear: «a shadowy figure».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Mysterious and secret, not well known: «a shadowy organisation».↗ Example: A shadowy figure crept along the alley.↗ · The Mole hurried through the shadowy Wild Wood.↗ · The old house had shadowy corners.↗ · We could see shadowy shapes under the water.↗ · The spy worked for a shadowy group.↗ · The shadowy forest made the children nervous.↗ · They are accordingly represented as misty, shadowy beings, with graceful swaying forms, and robed in pale blue, gauze-like fabrics.↗