📖 S — The English dictionary · page 69

solitarily — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In a lonely, alone way.↗ Example: Tend Thy people with Thy staff, the flock of Thy heritage, that dwell solitarily, as a forest in the midst of the fruitful field; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.↗ (Prophets MIC.7.14, JPS 1917)↗

solitary — Everyday, meaning 1: Solitary means alone, with no one else; a solitary animal lives on its own.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Solitary means single, only one: a solitary tree.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A solitary place is lonely and far from people.↗ Example: Tigers are solitary animals.↗ · A solitary tree stood in the field.↗ · The lighthouse keeper lived a solitary life.↗ · He went for a solitary walk on the beach.↗ · Not a solitary person came to the shop all day.↗ · Some bees are solitary and do not live in hives.↗ · A CERTAIN poor widow had one solitary Sheep.↗ · HOW DOTH the city sit solitary, that was full of people!↗ (Writings LAM.1.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Turn Thee unto me, and be gracious unto me; for I am solitary and afflicted.↗ (Writings PSA.25.16, JPS 1917)↗ · God maketh the solitary to dwell in a house; He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity; the rebellious dwell but in a parched land.↗ (Writings PSA.68.7, JPS 1917)↗

solitude — Everyday, meaning 1: Solitude is being alone, usually in a quiet, peaceful way that you have chosen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Solitude can also mean a lonely, empty place where few people go (formal, in stories and poems).↗ Example: After the busy party, Ella enjoyed an hour of solitude in her room.↗ · The old lighthouse keeper lived in solitude on the rock.↗ · Some people find solitude peaceful, others find it lonely.↗ · He walked in the woods for peace and solitude.↗ · Cats often seem to like their solitude.↗ · She wrote her poems in solitude by the lake.↗ · The prince walked on in solitude till he reached the city.↗ · They are called Double, because each letter presents a contrast or permutation; thus Life and Death; Peace and War (Evil); Wisdom and Folly; Riches and Poverty; Grace and Indignation; Fertility and Solitude (Desolation); Power and Servitude.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

solo — Everyday, meaning 1: A piece of music, dance or a performance done by one person alone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Done by one person without help: a solo trip.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adverb) Alone.↗ e.g. She sailed solo round the world.↗ Example: Amy sang a solo in the school concert.↗ · He sailed solo across the ocean.↗ · The drummer played a long solo.↗ · I did the project solo.↗ · It was her first solo flight.↗ · The singer left the band to go solo.↗ · Then the elfin girls had to dance, first in the usual way, and then with stamping feet, which they performed very well; then followed the artistic and solo dance.↗

solstice — Everyday, meaning 1: A solstice is one of the two days each year when the Sun is at its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon.↗ The summer solstice has the longest daylight; the winter solstice has the shortest.↗ Example: The summer solstice is the longest day of the year.↗ · People gather at Stonehenge for the solstice sunrise.↗ · In Australia, the winter solstice is in June.↗ · At Newgrange, sunlight fills the passage at the winter solstice.↗ · After the winter solstice, days slowly get longer.↗ · We measured our shadow on the solstice.↗ · There are two solstices and two equinoxes each year.↗

soluble — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Able to dissolve in a liquid, especially water, like sugar or salt.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of a problem) Able to be solved.↗ Example: Sugar is soluble in water.↗ · Sand is not soluble — it sinks to the bottom.↗ · We tested which powders were soluble.↗ · Mum dissolved a soluble tablet in a glass of water.↗ · The puzzle looked hard, but it was soluble.↗ · More sugar is soluble in hot tea than in cold tea.↗

solution — Everyday, meaning 1: A solution is a way to solve a problem or deal with a difficult situation.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The answer to a maths problem or puzzle.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In science, a liquid in which something has been dissolved, like salt water.↗ Example: We found a solution to the problem.↗ · Check your solution to the puzzle.↗ · Salt water is a solution.↗ · When sugar dissolves in tea it makes a solution.↗ · Talking it over was the best solution.↗ · The solutions are at the back of the book.↗ · Recycling is part of the solution to pollution.↗ · But during these warlike preparations an attempt at a peaceful solution of the difficulty was not neglected.↗ · A solution to this question will be found in the Pythagorean dualism.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Distribution was delayed unril this year (1922) by a supplement aiming at a solution of the Pythagorean philosophy.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Although the Sefer Tetzirah is exceedingly hard to understand, the solution of its many diflicalties is not impossible.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

solve — Everyday, meaning 1: To solve a problem is to find the answer to it or the way to make it right.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To solve a mystery or crime is to find out what really happened.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To solve a puzzle, riddle or equation is to work out its answer.↗ Example: Can you solve this sum?↗ · The detective solved the mystery.↗ · We solved the puzzle together.↗ · Talking helped them solve the argument.↗ · Solve the equation: x + 5 = 9.↗ · She solved the riddle in one minute.↗ · Scientists try to solve big problems like pollution.↗ · Use the clues to solve the case.↗ · The man who thinks he can solve the problem is named Robert Fulton.↗ · I do not pretend to be able to solve this difficult question.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

solved — Everyday, meaning 1: Solved is the past form of solve: found the answer to a problem or puzzle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Solved also means already answered or worked out: a solved mystery.↗ Example: She solved 15 problems.↗ · He solved 4 puzzles a day.↗ · How many problems are not solved yet?↗ · They solved 80% of the questions.↗ · The detective solved the case.↗ · We solved the argument by taking turns.↗ · Once the puzzle was solved, we put it back in the box.↗ · The flower of my heart will travel with me; and so the riddle is solved.↗

solvent — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) A solvent is a liquid that dissolves another substance; water is the most common solvent.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Solvent can mean a strong chemical liquid that dissolves paint, glue or grease, like white spirit or nail-varnish remover.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (money) A person or company that is solvent has enough money to pay all its debts.↗ Example: Water is a solvent for sugar and salt.↗ · In a solution, the solvent dissolves the solute.↗ · Dad cleaned the brushes with a solvent.↗ · Solvent fumes can make you dizzy, so open a window.↗ · Nail-varnish remover is a solvent.↗ · The shop is still solvent, though times are hard.↗ · Sugar dissolves faster in a warm solvent.↗

solver — Everyday, meaning 1: A solver is a person who solves something, like a problem, puzzle or crime: a problem solver.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In computing and maths, a solver is a program that finds answers to equations or puzzles.↗ Example: She is a brilliant problem solver.↗ · Crossword solvers enjoy tricky clues.↗ · The fastest solver of the Rubik's cube won a prize.↗ · Our class practised being good maths solvers.↗ · The computer solver found the answer in one second.↗ · A good solver checks their answer at the end.↗ · The detective was a famous solver of mysteries.↗

som — Everyday, meaning 1: The som is the money (currency) of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan (money).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Ukrainian) «Som» (сом) means catfish, a big river fish with whiskers; it is not an English word.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Som» is often a fragment of longer words like «some», «somersault» or «blossom».↗ Example: In Kyrgyzstan, bread costs a few som.↗ · «Som» in Ukrainian means catfish.↗ · «Som» is the start of «somersault».↗ · We changed dollars into som at the airport.↗ · The fisherman caught a huge som in the river.↗ · Don't write «som» when you mean «some».↗

somali — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with Somalia, a country in the Horn of East Africa, or its people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A Somali person.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The Somali language, spoken by about 20 million people in Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and by Somalis around the world.↗ Example: My friend Hodan is Somali and speaks Somali at home.↗ · Somali is written with Latin letters.↗ · The Somali community celebrated Eid at the park.↗ · Somalia is on the Horn of Africa.↗ · Somali families often drink spiced tea.↗ · Many Somalis live in Minneapolis.↗

sombre — Everyday, meaning 1: Dark and gloomy in colour or light.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Serious and sad, without cheer.↗ Example: He wore a sombre black coat.↗ · The room was dark and sombre.↗ · The king's sombre mood frightened the children.↗

some — Everyday, meaning 1: Some means a part of a group, not all of it.↗ e.g. Some birds can't fly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Some means an amount or number that is not said: some water, some apples.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Some means a certain one that you do not know or name.↗ e.g. Some boy left his coat.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Before a number, some means about: some 20 children.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (casual) «Some» can mean «a great» or «a terrible»: «That was some storm!».↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (casual, rude) «Some» can show you do not think much of someone: «Some idiot parked on the path».↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (casual) «and then some» means and even more.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (formal) Exams say «a certain number of», «a portion of», «an unspecified quantity» for «some».↗ Example: When some of a group goes away, we subtract.↗ · Tom had 12 balloons; some flew away, and 7 are left.↗ How many flew away?↗ · Can I have some water, please?↗ · Some animals sleep all winter.↗ · Would you like some cake?↗ · Some day I will see the Grand Canyon.↗ · Want some?↗ There's heaps of chips.↗ · Some guy at the shop gave me 2 dollars too much.↗ · Some idiot ate 4 of my sausages.↗ · That was some match, they scored 6 goals and then some!↗ · A certain number of apples were removed; 7 remained of the original 12.↗ Ascertain the quantity removed.↗ · Some 30 people waited for the bus.↗ · He ran out for some water.↗ · And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.↗ (Torah EXO.16.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.↗ (Torah GEN.35.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the people to gather, and they found none.↗ (Torah EXO.16.27, JPS 1917)↗ · And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.↗ (Writings 2CH.16.10, JPS 1917)↗ · If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?↗ (Prophets OBA.1.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And some from among the heads of fathers' houses gave unto the work.↗ (Writings NEH.7.70, JPS 1917)↗

somebody — Everyday, meaning 1: Somebody means a person, but we do not know or do not say who.↗ It means the same as someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A somebody is a person who is important or famous: he wants to be a somebody.↗ Example: Somebody took 3 cookies from the jar.↗ · If somebody gives you 5 more, how many will you have?↗ · Somebody left 2 books on the desk.↗ · Somebody ate half of the cake.↗ · Somebody is knocking at the door.↗ · If you are lost, ask somebody who works in the shop.↗ · Is somebody sitting here?↗ · I think somebody else has my pencil.↗ · "Why did not somebody tell me?"↗

someday — Everyday, meaning 1: Someday means at some time in the future that is not known yet.↗ e.g. "Someday I'll go to Japan."↗ It often expresses a hope or dream.↗ Example: Someday I want to be an astronaut.↗ · "Can we get a dog?" "↗ Someday, maybe."↗ · Someday we will laugh about this.↗ · She hopes to visit her grandparents in Ireland someday.↗ · Someday soon the new park will open.↗ · I'll learn to play the guitar someday.↗ · Someday the little seed will be a tall tree.↗ · “I shall keep it, just the same,” said the Witch, laughing at her, “and someday I shall get the other one from you, too.”↗

somehow — Everyday, meaning 1: Somehow means in some way, although you do not know how or it is hard to explain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Somehow can mean for some reason that you cannot quite say: somehow I didn't trust him.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Somehow or other» means by some way or another, even if it is difficult.↗ Example: Somehow the cat got onto the roof.↗ · We will get the project finished somehow.↗ · Somehow I knew it was going to rain.↗ · The dog somehow opened the gate and ran out.↗ · I lost my key, but somehow or other I got into the house.↗ · Somehow the cake didn't taste as good as last time.↗ · The team was losing, but somehow they won in the last minute.↗ · Can I not manage to see her somehow?↗

someone — Everyday, meaning 1: Someone means a person, but we do not say who.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Someone» can also mean an important person: she wants to be someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (casual) «Someone» is used to hint at a person everybody knows: «Someone ate my chips» means I know it was you.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (casual, sarcastic) «Someone's grumpy» or «someone's in a mood» teases a person who is right there.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (formal) «A person», «an individual» and «a party» are stiff words: «an unidentified individual», «a third party».↗ Example: Someone took 3 cookies from the jar.↗ · Someone gave her $5.↗ · If someone buys 4 pens, how much do they pay?↗ · Someone left 2 books on the desk.↗ · Someone is knocking at the door.↗ · Ask someone for help if you are lost.↗ · Is someone sitting here?↗ · She wanted someone else to go first.↗ · someone ate 3 of my 8 chips and i know it was u (casual)↗ · Ooh, someone's in a mood today.↗ (casual, teasing)↗ · Someone's gonna get a smack if they touch my bike.↗ (rough threat)↗ · An individual purchases 4 pens at 30 cents per pen; compute the total expenditure.↗ (formal exam)↗ · “Because someone has eaten my feet.”↗