📖 U — The English dictionary · page 13

universal — Everyday, meaning 1: Universal means true for, done by or belonging to everyone or everything, in every place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something universal works in all cases: a universal remote works with any TV.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Belonging to the whole universe: universal laws of nature.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal) A universal is an idea or quality that is the same everywhere.↗ Example: Smiling is a universal sign of being happy.↗ · Gravity is a universal force: it pulls on everything with mass.↗ · Music is sometimes called a universal language.↗ · Dad bought a universal charger that fits all our phones.↗ · Every child has the universal right to an education.↗ · Chocolate ice cream is a universal favourite in our class.↗ · Universal Credit is money from the government that helps some families in the UK.↗ · Having vastly delighted the assembly, he sat down amidst universal applause.↗ · Dr. Cassel is of the opinion that our author meant here, probably the invisible, celestial or universal axis that carries the whole Universe.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · [paragraph continues] God stands in close connection with the Universe, and just so is Tali connected with the world, that is, an invisible, celestial or universal axis carries the whole fabric.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

universally — Everyday, meaning 1: Universally means by everyone or everywhere, without exception.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Universally also means true or used in all cases.↗ Example: Chocolate is almost universally loved.↗ · The rule is universally accepted.↗ · Gravity works universally.↗ · Smiles are understood universally.↗ · The book was universally praised.↗ · No idea is universally liked.↗ · That the lessons taught were of the highest moral character is universally admitted.↗ · Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

universe — Everyday, meaning 1: The universe is everything that exists: all of space, time, matter and energy, including all the stars, planets and galaxies.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A universe can mean a whole world of its own, like the imaginary world of a story or film.↗ Example: The universe is enormous.↗ · Our galaxy is just one of billions in the universe.↗ · Scientists think the universe is getting bigger.↗ · Is there life elsewhere in the universe?↗ · The universe began with the Big Bang.↗ · Light from far galaxies takes millions of years to reach us.↗ · The story is set in a magical universe.↗ · He created this universe by the three Sepharim, Number, Writing, and Speech.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · These diverge to all eternity, and an as the arms of the universe.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · 9) In God is the beginning and he is the boundary of the Universe.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

university — Everyday, meaning 1: A place of higher learning where people study for degrees after school and where research is done.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The people (students and teachers) who belong to it.↗ Example: My sister is going to university to study medicine.↗ · The university has a huge library.↗ · Dad works as a cleaner at the university.↗ · She is the first in her family to go to university.↗ · The university museum has dinosaur bones.↗ · A university year often has two or three terms.↗ · Throughout their lives they remained close friends, and both studied law at Marburg University.↗

unjust — Everyday, meaning 1: Unjust means not fair or not right, especially when someone is treated badly without a good reason.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law) An unjust law or punishment goes against fairness and people's rights.↗ Example: It was unjust to blame Mia for the broken window.↗ · The whole class was kept in, which felt unjust.↗ · People marched against the unjust law.↗ · The story is about a king who was cruel and unjust.↗ · Martin Luther King spoke out against unjust treatment.↗ · Is it unjust to punish everyone for one person's mistake?↗ · He was so unjust and cruel that he won for himself the name of tyrant.↗ · Be Thou my judge, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.↗ (Writings PSA.43.1, JPS 1917)↗ · An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous; and he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.↗ (Writings PRO.29.27, JPS 1917)↗

unjustified — Everyday, meaning 1: Unjustified means not fair or not reasonable; without a good reason.↗ Example: The punishment was unjustified.↗ · His anger at me was unjustified.↗ · The price rise is unjustified.↗ · The referee's decision seemed unjustified.↗ · Your fears are unjustified.↗ · It was an unjustified attack.↗

unjustly — Everyday, meaning 1: If someone is treated unjustly, they are treated unfairly, in a way that is not right.↗ Example: She was punished unjustly for something her brother did.↗ · The old king had ruled unjustly for years.↗ · I felt I had been treated unjustly.↗ · 'How long will ye judge unjustly, and respect the persons of the wicked?↗ (Writings PSA.82.2, JPS 1917)↗

unkempt — Everyday, meaning 1: Unkempt means messy or untidy, not neatly cared for, especially of hair, beards or clothes.↗ Example: His hair was unkempt after the storm.↗ · The old man had an unkempt beard down to his belt.↗ · The garden looked unkempt and overgrown.↗

unkind — Everyday, meaning 1: Unkind means not kind; saying or doing things that hurt or upset other people.↗ Example: It was unkind to laugh at his drawing.↗ · Don't say unkind things about people.↗ · She was unkind to the new girl.↗ · It's unkind to pull the cat's tail.↗ · I'm sorry I was unkind to you yesterday.↗ · Leaving someone out of a game is unkind.↗ · The unkind words made him cry.↗ · How unkind of those ugly satyrs!↗

unkindly — Everyday, meaning 1: Unkindly means in a way that is not kind, not caring or a bit cruel.↗ Example: He spoke unkindly to his little sister.↗ · Please don't treat animals unkindly.↗ · The other children laughed unkindly.↗ · She looked at me unkindly.↗ · Don't take it unkindly, but your shoes are on the wrong feet.↗ · Our class rule is never to talk unkindly about others.↗ · Are you ill? or have they treated you unkindly?’↗

unkindness — Everyday, meaning 1: Unkindness is being unkind, mean or cruel to others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An unkindness is one unkind act or word.↗ Example: Unkindness can make someone very sad.↗ · She said sorry for her unkindness.↗ · There is no place for unkindness in our class.↗ · Unkindness to animals is wrong.↗ · He remembered every small unkindness.↗ · Kindness wins over unkindness.↗ · He encountered bad weather, heavy seas, unkindness, and hard men--such were his experiences, for he became ship-boy.↗

unknowable — Everyday, meaning 1: Unknowable means impossible to know or find out, even with study or tools.↗ Example: The future is unknowable.↗ · Some scientists think what happened before the Big Bang may be unknowable.↗ · The ancient king's real thoughts are unknowable.↗ · Without the missing page, the end of the story is unknowable.↗ · Philosophers argue about what is unknowable.↗ · The deep sea once seemed unknowable.↗

unknowing — Everyday, meaning 1: Unknowing means not knowing or not aware of what is happening, often of something important.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An unknowing helper does something without realising what it is part of.↗ Example: The unknowing guard let the thief into the castle.↗ · She was unknowing of the surprise party.↗ · Germs can be spread by unknowing people with no symptoms.↗ · The unknowing fish swam towards the hook.↗ · He unknowingly took the wrong bag home.↗ · The cat sat unknowing on the remote control.↗

unknown — Everyday, meaning 1: Unknown means not known: an unknown number.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Unknown means not famous: an unknown singer.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In maths the unknown is the number you are trying to find, often written as a letter like x or as a box.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The unknown is everything we do not know yet: a journey into the unknown.↗ Example: The unknown number plus 5 is 12.↗ · Find the unknown.↗ · An unknown number of birds flew away.↗ · Let x be the unknown.↗ · The letter came from an unknown sender.↗ · Space is full of unknown worlds.↗ · The painter was unknown until after she died.↗ · Then, silently, he let himself go into the unknown.↗ · 44) This whole paragraph is an interpolation of an unknown hand, as it can be easily proved.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Tlie person of Pythagoras*') is as much an unknown quantity as that of Ben Sira.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · When we find that in Egypt and Phoenicia only a decimal system of notation was used, without the principle of position, it may not be taken as proof that the decimal position and zero were unknown.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

unlabelled — Everyday, meaning 1: Without a label: an unlabelled jar or bottle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not named or marked, like an unlabelled diagram.↗ Example: Never drink from an unlabelled bottle.↗ · The jars in the cupboard were unlabelled.↗ · You lose marks for an unlabelled graph.↗ · Label the unlabelled parts of the flower.↗ · An unlabelled box arrived at the door.↗ · Alice checked the bottle was not marked poison.↗

unlace — Everyday, meaning 1: To undo the laces of something, such as shoes, boots or a corset.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To loosen or open something by pulling out its laces.↗ Example: Unlace your football boots before you take them off.↗ · She unlaced her skates and rubbed her cold feet.↗ · The soldier sat down and unlaced his heavy boots.↗ · My little brother can lace his shoes but not unlace the knots.↗ · Toad unlaced his gaiters in front of the fire.↗ · Unlacing wet boots is hard when your fingers are cold.↗

unlaced — Everyday, meaning 1: Unlaced means with the laces undone or taken out.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As a verb, to unlace something is to undo its laces.↗ Example: Your shoes are unlaced — tie them before you fall!↗ · He unlaced his boots and rubbed his feet.↗ · She ran out with her trainers unlaced.↗ · The skater unlaced her skates.↗ · Toad unlaced his heavy boots by the fire.↗ · An unlaced boot slipped off in the mud.↗ · They unlaced her bodice, combed her hair, washed her with water and wine, but all in vain; the child was dead and remained dead.↗

unlatched — Everyday, meaning 1: To unlatch is to lift the catch or latch of a door or gate so that it opens.↗ Example: She unlatched the gate and ran into the field.↗ · The door was unlatched, so we just walked in.↗ · He unlatched the box and looked inside.↗

unlawful — Everyday, meaning 1: Not allowed by law; against the law; illegal.↗ Example: It is unlawful to sell alcohol to children.↗ · The judge said the arrest was unlawful.↗ · Unlawful entry means going into a building without the right to.↗ · The court called the sacking unlawful.↗ · Dumping rubbish in the river is unlawful.↗ · He was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon.↗

unlawfully — Everyday, meaning 1: Unlawfully means in a way that is against the law.↗ Example: The man was arrested for unlawfully entering the building.↗ · The court said the workers had been unlawfully dismissed.↗ · Taking someone's bike without asking is acting unlawfully.↗ · The prisoner claimed he was held unlawfully.↗ · The land had been taken unlawfully many years ago.↗ · The company unlawfully dumped waste in the river.↗ · The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy, and have oppressed the stranger unlawfully.↗ (Prophets EZK.22.29, JPS 1917)↗

unleavened — Everyday, meaning 1: Unleavened bread is bread made without yeast or any other rising agent, so it stays flat and hard.↗ Example: The travellers ate flat, unleavened cakes made from flour and water.↗ · Unleavened bread does not rise in the oven.↗ · In the old story the family baked unleavened flatbread.↗ · The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep.↗ (Torah EXO.34.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.'↗ (Torah EXO.12.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.↗ (Torah EXO.13.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.↗ (Writings 2CH.30.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.↗ (Writings 2CH.35.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And they did eat of the produce of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes and parched corn, in the selfsame day.↗ (Prophets JOS.5.11, JPS 1917)↗

unlike — Everyday, meaning 1: Different from; not the same as.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not typical of someone: it's unlike her to be late.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) Unlike: having different denominators or signs.↗ Example: Unlike my brother, I love vegetables.↗ · It's unlike Sam to forget his homework.↗ · Unlike cats, dogs love to swim.↗ · To add unlike fractions, find a common denominator.↗ · 3x and 2y are unlike terms.↗ · Unlike a square, a rectangle can have sides of different lengths.↗ · A whole new world stretched out before him, quite unlike the one he had left.↗ · Surely I am brutish, unlike a man, and have not the understanding of a man; (Writings PRO.30.2, JPS 1917)↗ · According as many were appalled at thee — so marred was his visage unlike that of a man, and his form unlike that of the sons of men — (Prophets ISA.52.14, JPS 1917)↗