📖 U — The English dictionary

udder — Everyday, meaning 1: An udder is the bag-like part that hangs under the belly of a female cow, goat or sheep, where milk is made.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Milk comes out of the teats on the udder when a calf drinks or when the animal is milked.↗ Example: The farmer washed the cow's udder before milking.↗ · A cow's udder has four teats.↗ · The calf drank milk from its mother's udder.↗ · Goats have udders with two teats.↗ · The milking machine attaches to the udder.↗ · The cow's udder was full and heavy.↗

ufo — Everyday, meaning 1: A UFO is short for «unidentified flying object»: something seen in the sky that people cannot explain or name.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In everyday talk and films, a UFO often means a flying saucer, an alien spaceship.↗ Example: Grandad says he saw a UFO over the lake.↗ · The «UFO» turned out to be a weather balloon.↗ · In the film, a UFO landed in the park.↗ · UFO stands for unidentified flying object.↗ · Scientists check UFO reports carefully.↗ · My little brother drew a UFO with green aliens.↗ · That bright «UFO» was actually the planet Venus.↗

uglify — Everyday, meaning 1: To make something ugly or uglier.↗ Example: The huge car park uglified the village green.↗ · Graffiti uglified the old bridge.↗ · «Don't uglify your homework with scribbles,» said the teacher.↗ · The witch tried to uglify the princess with a spell.↗ · Some people think the new tower block uglifies the skyline.↗ · The programmer used a tool to uglify the code.↗

ugliness — Everyday, meaning 1: Ugliness is the quality of being ugly or very unpleasant to look at.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ugliness can also mean nastiness or cruelty in how people behave, like the ugliness of bullying or war.↗ Example: The Ugly Duckling was teased for his ugliness.↗ · Beauty is on the inside, so outward ugliness does not matter.↗ · The book shows the ugliness of war.↗ · The old car park's ugliness spoiled the view.↗ · Bullying shows the ugliness in how people can treat others.↗ · Belle looked past the Beast's ugliness and saw his kindness.↗ · Setting aside my ugliness and deformity, is there any thing in me which displeases you?↗ · The antithesis of wisdom is foolishness; of wealth, poverty; of fruitfulness, childlessness; of life, death; of dominion, dependence; of peace, war; and of beauty, ugliness.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

ugly — Everyday, meaning 1: Ugly means not nice to look at.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ugly can describe something nasty, unpleasant or violent, like an ugly fight or an ugly mood.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Ugly can describe something that looks dangerous, like an ugly cut or ugly storm clouds.↗ Example: The ugly duckling grew into a beautiful swan.↗ · That old building is really ugly.↗ · Calling people ugly is unkind.↗ · The argument turned ugly.↗ · He had an ugly cut on his knee.↗ · The sky looked ugly before the storm.↗ · The troll was the ugliest creature in the forest.↗ · She wore an ugly jumper for fun.↗ · "What an ugly creature he is!"↗

ukrainian — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Ukrainian means from or about Ukraine, a large country in eastern Europe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A Ukrainian is a person from Ukraine.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Ukrainian is the language spoken in Ukraine, a Slavic language written in the Cyrillic alphabet.↗ Example: She speaks Ukrainian and English.↗ · The Ukrainian flag is blue and yellow.↗ · Our new classmate is Ukrainian.↗ · Borscht is a famous Ukrainian soup.↗ · Ukrainian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet.↗ · We painted eggs in the Ukrainian style.↗ · Kyiv is the Ukrainian capital.↗

ukulele — Everyday, meaning 1: A ukulele is a small guitar-like instrument with four strings, first made popular in Hawaii.↗ Example: Our whole class is learning the ukulele.↗ · She strummed a happy song on her ukulele.↗ · A ukulele has four nylon strings.↗ · The ukulele came to Hawaii from a Portuguese instrument in the 1800s.↗ · Tune your ukulele before you play.↗ · I can play three chords on the ukulele.↗

ulcer — Everyday, meaning 1: An ulcer is a sore place on the skin or inside the body where the surface has broken down; it is slow to heal and can hurt.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A mouth ulcer is a small, painful white or yellow spot inside your mouth.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A stomach ulcer is a sore in the lining of the stomach.↗ Example: I have a mouth ulcer, so orange juice really stings.↗ · Mouth ulcers usually heal on their own in a week or two.↗ · Grandad's doctor treated his stomach ulcer with medicine.↗ · The nurse put a dressing on the ulcer on Gran's leg.↗ · Biting your cheek by accident can cause an ulcer.↗ · Salty crisps make my ulcer hurt.↗

ull — Everyday, meaning 1: «Ull» is not a word by itself.↗ It is usually a piece of a longer word or a clipped spelling: «you'll» or «it'll» written carelessly, or the end of words such as «full», «dull», «skull», «hull».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hull (with H and a capital) is a city in England; in some local accents people drop the h and say «'Ull».↗ Example: «Ull be late,» he mumbled, meaning «I'll be late».↗ · The words full, dull and skull all end in «ull».↗ · He's from 'Ull, he said, meaning the city of Hull.↗ · If you see «ull» alone, check whether a letter is missing.↗

ulna — Everyday, meaning 1: The ulna is one of the two long bones in the forearm, between the elbow and the wrist; it is on the little-finger side.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The other forearm bone is the radius, on the thumb side.↗ Example: The ulna runs from your elbow to your wrist.↗ · Feel the bony point of your elbow; that's the end of your ulna.↗ · She broke her ulna falling off her scooter.↗ · The ulna is on the same side as your little finger.↗ · The radius and the ulna let you turn your palm up and down.↗ · Birds have an ulna in their wings too.↗ · The X-ray showed a crack in the ulna.↗

ulster — Everyday, meaning 1: (proper noun) One of the four historic provinces of Ireland, in the north; it has nine counties – six are in Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and three in the Republic of Ireland.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun, old-fashioned) A long, loose, heavy overcoat, often with a belt and a short cape, worn in Victorian and Edwardian times.↗ Example: Donegal is part of Ulster but is in the Republic of Ireland.↗ · Ulster is one of the four provinces of Ireland.↗ · The traveller buttoned his heavy ulster against the wind.↗ · Ulster Rugby play in Belfast.↗ · Victorian gentlemen wore long ulsters in winter.↗ · Six of Ulster's nine counties are in Northern Ireland.↗

ultimate — Everyday, meaning 1: Ultimate means final; happening at the end of a long process.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ultimate means the best, greatest or most extreme of its kind.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Ultimate means basic or most important, as in «the ultimate cause».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) «The ultimate in» means the very best example of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Ultimate (frisbee) is a team game with a flying disc.↗ Example: Our ultimate goal is to win the cup.↗ · This is the ultimate chocolate cake!↗ · Climbing Everest is the ultimate challenge.↗ · The head teacher has ultimate responsibility for the school.↗ · The ultimate cause of the fire was a faulty plug.↗ · We played ultimate frisbee in PE.↗ · This sofa is the ultimate in comfort.↗

ultimately — Everyday, meaning 1: Ultimately means in the end, finally, after everything else: ultimately, the team won.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ultimately means at the most basic level, most importantly: ultimately, it is your choice.↗ Example: We tried many plans, but ultimately we chose the simplest one.↗ · Ultimately, it's up to you which book you read.↗ · The journey was long, but ultimately worth it.↗ · The money ultimately went to the animal shelter.↗ · Ultimately, all the water flows into the sea.↗ · She started with 10 marbles, won some, lost some, and ultimately had 14.↗ · This way of thinking about language imbues the Hebrew root itself with a certain metaphysical reality, an entity from which more concrete instantions of individual words may ontologically descend and ultimately crystallize into concrete speech or material reality.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The linear characters in Egypt are earlier than the hieroglyphics, though a few of the forms may ultimately have been fused with the latter.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

ultramarine — Everyday, meaning 1: Ultramarine is a bright, deep blue colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ultramarine is also a blue pigment (colouring powder) for paint, first made by grinding a precious blue stone called lapis lazuli.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Ultramarine describes something that has this deep blue colour.↗ Example: I painted the sea with ultramarine.↗ · The sky turned a deep ultramarine at dusk.↗ · Mix ultramarine with white to make a pale blue.↗ · Long ago, ultramarine paint cost more than gold.↗ · She wore an ultramarine dress to the party.↗ · Ultramarine was made from a blue stone called lapis lazuli.↗

ultrasound — Everyday, meaning 1: Ultrasound is sound that is too high-pitched for humans to hear, but some animals like bats and dogs can hear it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An ultrasound (scan) is a medical test that uses these sound waves to make a picture of the inside of the body, often used to look at a baby before it is born.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Ultrasound is also used in cleaning machines and in some medical treatments.↗ Example: Mum showed us the ultrasound of our baby sister.↗ · Bats use ultrasound to find insects in the dark.↗ · The doctor used ultrasound to look at Dad's sore knee.↗ · We can't hear ultrasound, but a dog whistle shows dogs can.↗ · The ultrasound picture looked like a fuzzy black-and-white blob.↗ · Dolphins send out ultrasound clicks and listen for the echoes.↗ · Ultrasound waves bounce back from things inside the body.↗

ultraviolet — Everyday, meaning 1: Ultraviolet (UV) light is a kind of light from the Sun that our eyes cannot see.↗ It can burn the skin and harm the eyes.↗ Example: Ultraviolet light from the Sun can burn your skin.↗ · Sunscreen protects you from ultraviolet rays.↗ · Check the UV index before you go out.↗ · Sunglasses with UV protection keep your eyes safe.↗ · Bees can see ultraviolet light.↗ · Some special paints glow under ultraviolet light.↗

umbrella — Everyday, meaning 1: An umbrella is a cover of cloth on a folding frame and stick that keeps you dry in the rain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A beach umbrella or sun umbrella keeps off the sun.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An umbrella term or group covers many smaller things together.↗ Example: An umbrella costs 9 dollars.↗ · The shop sold 14 umbrellas.↗ · She has 3 umbrellas.↗ · How many umbrellas are left?↗ · Take an umbrella, it's going to rain.↗ · We sat in the shade of a beach umbrella.↗ · Mary Poppins floated down holding her umbrella.↗ · The wind turned my umbrella inside out.↗ · Then old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, and went through the wood to the baker's.↗

ummah — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The name of a town in the land of Asher.↗ Example: Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob; twenty and two cities with their villages.↗ (Prophets JOS.19.30, JPS 1917)↗

ump — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, mostly US and Canada) Ump is a short word for «umpire», the official who watches a game such as baseball, cricket or tennis and decides if the rules are kept.↗ Example: The ump called him out at third base.↗ · Don't argue with the ump!↗ · The ump yelled «Strike three!»↗ · Our coach shook hands with the ump after the game.↗ · Fans booed when the ump made a strange call.↗ · My uncle is an ump for the kids' baseball league.↗

umpire — Everyday, meaning 1: An umpire is a person who watches a game to make sure the rules are followed and decides what happens, in sports like cricket, baseball, tennis and Australian rules football.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To umpire is to be the umpire in a game.↗ Example: The umpire said the batter was out.↗ · In tennis the umpire sits on a tall chair.↗ · Always respect the umpire's decision.↗ · The baseball umpire called «Strike three!».↗ · Our PE teacher umpired the netball match.↗ · The umpire raised one finger.↗ · Players shook hands with the umpires after the game.↗ · The bear came forward as umpire.↗

un — Everyday, meaning 1: As «un-» at the start of a word, it means «not» or «the opposite of»: unhappy (not happy), unkind, unlock (do the opposite of lock).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: UN (written in capitals) stands for the United Nations, a group of nearly all the countries of the world that works for peace.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In French and Spanish, «un» means «a» or «one».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, dialect) In some speech «'un» is a clipped «one»: «a good 'un», «the little 'uns».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In old dialect speech, «un» can mean «him» or «it».↗ Example: Add un- to «happy» and you get «unhappy».↗ · The door was unlocked, so we went in.↗ · The UN sends peacekeepers to troubled places.↗ · In French, «un chat» means «a cat».↗ · Grandad says our dog is a good 'un.↗ · The little 'uns are playing in the sandpit.↗ · Find the unknown number in the sum.↗ · But Isaac Myer states that there are un- doubted traces of pointing in Hebrew MSS. of the second century.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · It therefore follows that, according to the author of the Sefer Yetzirali II, the twenty-two letters are divided into ten double rns: -:c ,rox and twelve simple letters psy cjr "un Ti.-i. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗