📖 W — The English dictionary · page 12

wedged — Everyday, meaning 1: Wedged means stuck tightly in a narrow space.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To have wedged something means to have pushed it tightly into a space, or to have held something open or shut with a wedge.↗ Example: The ball was wedged between two branches.↗ · Dad wedged the door open with a rubber stop.↗ · My foot got wedged under the seat.↗ · I sat wedged between my two big brothers.↗ · The window was wedged shut.↗ · A book was wedged under the table leg to stop it wobbling.↗ · He landed on his head with his leg in the air, his gun being wedged between two paving-stones.↗

wedlock — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, old) Wedlock is the state of being married.↗ Example: They were joined in wedlock at the village church.↗ · The old story ends with the prince and princess in happy wedlock.↗ · In the past, being born out of wedlock was thought shameful; today it is ordinary.↗ · The law book talks about wedlock and property.↗ · Fifty years of wedlock made them very close.↗ · And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring upon thee the blood of fury and jealousy.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.38, JPS 1917)↗

wednesday — Everyday, meaning 1: Wednesday is the day of the week after Tuesday and before Thursday.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is in the middle of the school week.↗ Example: On Wednesday she ran 3 km.↗ · He sold 15 books on Wednesday and twice as many on Thursday.↗ · The library is open on Wednesdays.↗ · How many in all from Monday to Wednesday?↗ · We have art every Wednesday afternoon.↗ · Wednesday is the third day of the school week.↗ · My piano lesson moved to Wednesday.↗ · The bins are collected on Wednesday morning.↗ · On Wednesday surely thou didst call.↗

wee — Everyday, meaning 1: In Scotland, Ireland and Northern England, "wee" means small or little.↗ e.g. "a wee bit".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Informal and childish word for urine or for going to the toilet to pass urine.↗ Example: I need a wee before we leave.↗ · Wash your hands after you go for a wee.↗ · Would you like a wee bit more cake?↗ · The wee lamb stayed close to its mother.↗ · Wait a wee while.↗ · The puppy did a wee on the carpet.↗

weed — Everyday, meaning 1: A weed is a wild plant growing where it is not wanted.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To weed is to pull weeds out of a garden.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (slang) Weed is a slang word for cannabis, an illegal drug.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, UK) A weed is a thin, weak person.↗ Example: We pulled weeds from the vegetable patch.↗ · Dandelions are common weeds.↗ · Grandma weeds the garden every Sunday.↗ · Weed out the bad apples.↗ · Weed is an illegal drug (slang).↗ · He's a bit of a weed (UK, informal).↗ · So saying, she quickly collected a bundle of sea-weed, and, blowing it three times, she said:↗

weedkiller — Everyday, meaning 1: Weedkiller is a chemical that kills weeds, the unwanted wild plants growing in gardens, paths and fields.↗ Example: Grandpa sprayed weedkiller on the path.↗ · Keep the weedkiller locked in the shed.↗ · Weedkiller is poisonous, so never touch it.↗ · Some gardeners pull up weeds instead of using weedkiller.↗ · Keep pets off the grass after the weedkiller is sprayed.↗ · The bottle of weedkiller had a warning sign on it.↗

weeds — Everyday, meaning 1: Weeds are wild plants that grow where people do not want them, such as in gardens, lawns or fields, and take light, water and space from the plants people want.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Weeds» is the he/she form of the verb «weed»: «she weeds the garden» means she pulls out the weeds.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Water weeds or seaweeds are plants that grow in water.↗ Example: The garden is full of weeds.↗ · We pulled up the weeds from the vegetable patch.↗ · Dandelions are weeds, but bees love them.↗ · Weeds grew between the paving stones.↗ · Grandpa weeds his garden every Saturday.↗ · The pond is choked with weeds.↗ · Weeds take water from the plants we want.↗ · It was in a corner that he lay, among weeds and nettles.↗ · Although there is an exuberance of weeds, we will find, nevertheless, many germs of truisms, which are of the greatest importance.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley.↗ (Writings JOB.31.40, JPS 1917)↗ · The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; the deep was round about me; the weeds were wrapped about my head.↗ (Prophets JON.2.6, JPS 1917)↗

weedy — Everyday, meaning 1: Weedy means full of weeds: a weedy garden.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Informally (especially British), weedy means thin and weak-looking.↗ Example: The old garden was weedy and wild.↗ · Frogs hid in the weedy pond.↗ · We cleared the weedy flower bed.↗ · In the story, the weedy boy turned out to be very brave.↗ · The lawn had become weedy over the summer.↗ · It's unkind to call anyone weedy.↗

week — Everyday, meaning 1: A week is seven days, from Monday to Sunday or Sunday to Saturday.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The week can mean the school or work days, Monday to Friday.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (casual) «A week Tuesday» (UK) means a week after next Tuesday; «weekend» is Saturday and Sunday; «midweek» is around Wednesday.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (casual) «Weeks» can mean a long time, not counted: «I haven't seen him for weeks».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (formal) Exams and notices say «weekly», «per week», «per week, inclusive of weekends», «a period of seven days», «fortnightly» (every two weeks) and «per annum» (per year).↗ Example: How many pages does Anna read in a week?↗ · Ben swims 3 times a week.↗ · Two weeks have how many days?↗ · A week is 7 days.↗ · We go to the library every week.↗ · Half-term is a week long.↗ · My tooth came out last week.↗ · see ya next wk, bring the 10 bucks↗ · What a crap week, I lost my bus pass twice.↗ · Dad's off for a fortnight, that's 14 days.↗ · A pupil is remunerated 5 dollars weekly.↗ Compute the amount received over a period of four weeks.↗ · I haven't seen my cousin for weeks.↗ · And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week; and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife.↗ (Torah GEN.29.28, JPS 1917)↗ · even unto the morrow after the seventh week shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall present a new meal-offering unto the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.23.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year.↗ (Torah EXO.34.22, JPS 1917)↗ · In those days I Daniel was mourning three whole weeks.↗ (Writings DAN.10.2, JPS 1917)↗ · I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.↗ (Writings DAN.10.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, who have weeks upon weeks! but it bringeth iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.↗ (Prophets EZK.21.28, JPS 1917)↗

weekday — Everyday, meaning 1: Any day of the week except Saturday and Sunday.↗ e.g. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Happening on those days: a weekday timetable.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (weekdays, adverb) On weekdays, most weekdays: the shop opens at nine weekdays (mostly US).↗ Example: I go to school on weekdays.↗ · The bus comes every 15 minutes on weekdays.↗ · On weekday mornings we eat breakfast quickly.↗ · There are 5 weekdays in a week and 2 weekend days.↗ · If I read 20 pages each weekday, I read 100 pages in a week.↗ · The pool is quieter on a weekday.↗ · (US) The library is open 9 to 5 weekdays.↗

weekend — Everyday, meaning 1: The weekend is Saturday and Sunday, the days at the end of the week when most children do not go to school and many adults do not work.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A weekend can be a short holiday or trip over those days.↗ Example: What did you do at the weekend?↗ · On the weekend we went to the beach.↗ · We have football practice every weekend.↗ · It's a long weekend, so there's no school on Monday.↗ · I finished my book over the weekend.↗ · Grandpa visits us every other weekend.↗ · There are 2 weekend days and 5 school days in a week.↗ · We went camping for the weekend.↗

weekly — Everyday, meaning 1: Weekly means happening or done once every week.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Weekly means for one week: weekly pocket money.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A weekly is a newspaper or magazine that comes out once a week.↗ Example: We have a weekly spelling test.↗ · My weekly pocket money is 5 dollars.↗ · The bins are collected weekly.↗ · Gran buys a weekly magazine.↗ · Mum does the weekly shop on Saturdays.↗ · If she saves 3 pounds weekly, she saves 12 pounds in 4 weeks.↗ · The club meets twice weekly.↗ · The weekly newsletter came home in my bag.↗

weep — Everyday, meaning 1: To cry, letting tears fall, usually because you are sad.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of a wound or surface) To let out a slow drip of liquid.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Bible, literature) To cry in grief; «Jesus wept» is the shortest verse in many English Bibles.↗ Example: The princess began to weep when she lost her ring.↗ · She wept for joy when her dad came home from the army.↗ · The old man wept at his wife's funeral.↗ · In the Bible, Jesus wept when his friend Lazarus died.↗ · The cut on my knee was weeping a little.↗ · It's enough to make you weep — the whole homework got deleted!↗ · Then he would sigh and weep.↗ · And Joseph made haste; for his heart yearned toward his brother; and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.↗ (Torah GEN.43.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And Sarah died in Kiriatharba — the same is Hebron — in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.↗ (Torah GEN.23.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.↗ (Prophets ISA.33.7, JPS 1917)↗ · If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together; (Writings JOB.31.38, JPS 1917)↗ · Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all; at Beth-le-aphrah roll thyself in the dust.↗ (Prophets MIC.1.10, JPS 1917)↗

weeper — Everyday, meaning 1: A weeper is a person who weeps, who cries easily or often.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A weeper can be a sad film or story that makes people cry (informal; also «weepie»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In history, weepers were people paid to cry at funerals, or small statues of mourners on old tombs.↗ Example: My little brother is a weeper at sad films.↗ · That film was a real weeper.↗ · The old tomb had carved weepers around it.↗ · Don't be ashamed of being a weeper — crying is natural.↗ · Hired weepers walked behind the coffin long ago.↗ · The weeper dried her eyes with a hanky.↗

weeping — Everyday, meaning 1: Crying with tears.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: adjective Describes a tree whose branches hang down towards the ground, like a weeping willow.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: adjective Describes a wound or sore that lets out liquid.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: noun The sound or act of crying.↗ Example: The boy was weeping because his kite was lost.↗ · A weeping willow hangs over the duck pond.↗ · We heard weeping from the next room.↗ · The nurse cleaned the weeping cut and put a plaster on.↗ · The weeping cherry in our garden has pink flowers in spring.↗ · In the Bible story there was weeping when the people heard the news.↗ · I think she was actually weeping.↗ · Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they trouble me with their weeping, saying: Give us flesh, that we may eat.↗ (Torah NUM.11.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.↗ (Torah DEU.34.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And Moses heard the people weeping, family by family, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.↗ (Torah NUM.11.10, JPS 1917)↗ · For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, (Writings PSA.102.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim.↗ (Prophets 2SA.3.16, JPS 1917)↗ · My face is reddened with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; (Writings JOB.16.16, JPS 1917)↗

weepy — Everyday, meaning 1: Ready to cry, or crying easily, often because you are tired or sad.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Of a film, book or song: sad and likely to make people cry.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun, informal) A sad film or story that makes people cry.↗ Example: The baby gets weepy when she needs a nap.↗ · I felt a bit weepy on the last day of school.↗ · That film is such a weepy; bring tissues!↗ · Mum always cries at weepy films.↗ · The song is quite weepy, but beautiful.↗ · Grandad went weepy when he saw the old photos.↗ · ‘“What is the good of telling me that?” he asked, in a weepy voice; “you know I cannot even walk as far as that palm.”↗

weevil — Everyday, meaning 1: A small beetle with a long snout, which often eats and damages crops, flour, rice, grain and nuts.↗ Example: There were weevils in the old bag of flour.↗ · The weevil has a long nose called a snout.↗ · Weevils can damage a whole crop of grain.↗ · Sailors on old ships ate biscuits full of weevils.↗ · Keep rice in a sealed jar so weevils can't get in.↗ · The boll weevil damaged cotton farms in the USA.↗