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- each determiner, pronoun; adverb (they cost 2 dollars each)
Each means every single one of a group, taken one by one: each child got a pencil. - eager adjective (eager; more eager, most eager)
1) Wanting very much to do or have something; keen and excited. 2) Showing strong interest: «eager faces», «eager to please». - eagerly adverb (eagerly)
In a way that shows you really want to do or have something and are excited about it. - eagerness noun (uncountable)
1) A strong wish to do or have something, full of energy and interest. 2) Keenness; being impatient to start. - eagle noun (an eagle, eagles)
An eagle is a large, strong bird of prey with a hooked beak, sharp claws (talons) and excellent eyesight. - eaglet noun (an eaglet, eaglets)
1) A young eagle, still a baby or chick. 2) In Alice in Wonderland, the Eaglet is a young bird in the pool of tears and the Caucus-race… - ear noun (ear, ears)
One of the two parts on the sides of the head that you hear with. - earache noun (an earache, earaches; earache, often uncountable in British English)
1) Earache is a pain inside your ear. 2) Informally, giving someone earache means nagging or talking at them too much. - eardrum noun (an eardrum, eardrums)
1) A thin, tight piece of skin inside the ear that shakes (vibrates) when sound reaches it, so that we can hear. - earl noun (an earl, earls)
A British nobleman of high rank, below a marquess and above a viscount. - earlier adverb (earlier = comparative of early); adjective (an earlier time, the earlier one)
Earlier means at a time before now or before another time. - earliest adjective (early, earlier, earliest); adverb (early, earlier, earliest)
Earliest is the superlative of «early»: the first one in time, or the one that comes before all the others. - earlobe noun (an earlobe, earlobes); also ear lobe
1) An earlobe is the soft, round part at the bottom of the outside of your ear. - early adjective (early, earlier, earliest); adverb (early, earlier, earliest)
Before the usual or expected time: «The bus came early». - earmark verb (earmark, earmarks, earmarked, earmarking); noun (an earmark, earmarks)
To set money or something aside for a special purpose: The money is earmarked for a new playground. - earmarks noun (an earmark, earmarks); verb (earmark, earmarks, earmarked)
money in a budget set aside for a politician's favourite local projects, often criticised as waste. - earmuff noun (an earmuff, earmuffs — usually plural «earmuffs»)
A soft, warm cover for one ear; usually a pair of these joined by a band over the head, called earmuffs. - earn verb (earn, earns, earned, earning)
To earn means to get money because you did work. - earnestly adverb
1) In a serious and sincere way, really meaning what you say or do. 2) Trying hard and with great care. - earnestness noun (no plural)
1) Earnestness is being serious and sincere, meaning what you say and do. - earnings noun (earnings, plural)
The money a person gets for working: wages or salary. - earpiece noun (an earpiece, earpieces)
The part of a phone, headphones or other device that you hold to or put in your ear to hear sound. - earplug noun (an earplug, earplugs)
1) A small soft piece of foam, wax or rubber you put in your ear to keep out noise or water. - earring noun (an earring, earrings)
1) An earring is a piece of jewellery worn on the ear, usually through a small hole in the earlobe. - earth noun (Earth — the planet; earth — soil, the ground)
The planet we live on, the third planet from the Sun (often written Earth). - earthen adjective (no forms)
1) Earthen means made of baked clay or earth. - earthenware noun (no plural)
1) Earthenware is pots, dishes and jars made of baked clay, usually thick and not very shiny. - earthly adjective
1) Of this world and this life, not of heaven. 2) (informal, with no, any or why) At all; possible, as in «no earthly use» or «why on… - earthquake noun (an earthquake, earthquakes)
1) An earthquake is a sudden, violent shaking of the ground caused by movement of the rocks deep inside the Earth. - earthworm noun (an earthworm, earthworms)
1) A long, soft, pink-brown worm without legs that lives in soil and eats dead leaves and bits of plants. - earthy adjective (earthier, earthiest)
1) Earthy means made of or tasting of soil, dirt or the ground. 2) Earthy also means plain, rough and close to nature, not fancy. - earwax noun (earwax; uncountable)
Earwax is the soft yellow or brown waxy stuff that the body makes inside the ear canal. - earwig noun (an earwig, earwigs); verb (UK, informal: earwig, earwigs, earwigged, earwigging)
A small brown insect with a long body and a pair of pincers at its tail end. - ease noun (ease; uncountable); verb (ease, eases, eased, easing)
Ease means with no difficulty: doing something easily. - easily adverb (easily, more easily, most easily)
Easily means without difficulty: «She solved it easily». - east noun, adjective, adverb (east, East)
East is the direction where the sun comes up in the morning. - easterly adjective; adverb; noun (an easterly, easterlies)
1) Towards the east or in the east: an easterly direction. 2) (of wind) Blowing from the east. 3) (noun) A wind that comes from the east. - eastern adjective (eastern; easternmost)
Eastern means in, from or towards the east: eastern Canada, the eastern sky. - eastward adverb (eastward or eastwards); adjective (eastward)
1) (adverb) Towards the east: The ship sailed eastward. 2) (adjective) Going or facing towards the east: the eastward road. - easy adjective (easy, easier, easiest); adverb (easily; also easy in phrases like «take it easy»)
Easy means not difficult, simple to do or understand. - eat verb (eat, eats, ate, eaten, eating)
To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it. - eater noun (an eater, eaters)
A person or animal that eats, often described by how or what it eats: «a fussy eater», «a big eater». - eaves noun, plural (eaves)
1) The lower edges of a roof that stick out beyond the walls of a house. - ebb verb (ebb, ebbs, ebbed, ebbing); noun (an ebb)
To ebb is to flow back out, as the sea goes away from the shore. - ebbing verb form of ebb (ebb, ebbs, ebbed, ebbing); adjective (the ebbing tide)
1) Ebbing means going back out, getting less. 2) An ebbing tide is a sea going out from the shore. - ebony noun (plural ebonies); adjective
1) Ebony is a very hard, dark black wood. 2) Ebony means very black, like the wood. - eccentric adjective (eccentric; more eccentric); noun (an eccentric, eccentrics)
An eccentric person behaves in an unusual, strange but usually harmless way. - ecclesiastic noun; adjective
1) An ecclesiastic is a person in the church, such as a priest or monk. 2) Ecclesiastic means to do with the church (formal). - ecclesiastical adjective (ecclesiastical) — formal
1) Connected with the Christian church or its clergy (priests, ministers, bishops): «ecclesiastical buildings», «ecclesiastical law». - ecg noun (an ECG, ECGs) — abbreviation
Short for electrocardiogram: a medical test that records the electrical signals of the heart as a wavy line. - echidna noun (an echidna, echidnas)
An echidna is a small spiny animal from Australia and New Guinea that eats ants and termites with a long sticky tongue. - echo noun (an echo, echoes); verb (echo, echoes, echoed, echoing)
An echo is a sound you hear again because it bounces back off a hard surface, like a cliff, a wall or the inside of a cave. - echolocation noun (echolocation, uncountable)
Echolocation is a way some animals find things by making sounds and listening for the echoes that bounce back. - eclipse noun (an eclipse, eclipses); verb (eclipse, eclipses, eclipsed, eclipsing)
A solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and blocks the Sun's light. - ecological adjective (ecological); adverb ecologically; noun ecology
Ecological means to do with ecology, the study of how living things live together and depend on each other and on their surroundings. - economic adjective
To do with money, trade, jobs and business in a country or area: economic growth. - economical adjective (economical; more economical, most economical)
Using money, fuel, time or materials carefully without waste. - economically adverb (economically)
Economically means in a way that is about money, trade, jobs and business. - economics noun (economics — uncountable, takes a singular verb)
The study of how people, businesses and countries make, buy, sell and use money, goods and services. - economise verb (economise, economises, economised, economising); US economize
To economise is to spend less money or use less of something so that you save. - economist noun (an economist, economists)
1) A person who studies or is an expert in economics — how money, jobs, prices and trade work. - economy noun (an economy, economies; also uncountable)
The system of how money, work, goods and services are made, bought and sold in a country or area. - ecosystem noun (an ecosystem, ecosystems)
1) An ecosystem is all the living things in one place — plants, animals, fungi and tiny germs — together with the non-living things around… - ecstasy noun (plural ecstasies)
1) Ecstasy is a very great feeling of joy or delight. 2) Ecstasy is a deep trance, when a person is lost in holy or religious thought. - ecumenism noun (ecumenism, uncountable)
The movement or effort to bring different Christian churches together, so they understand each other, pray together and work together. - eczema noun (eczema, uncountable)
Eczema is a common skin condition that makes patches of skin dry, red, cracked and very itchy. - ed noun (abbreviation: Ed., ed., eds.); also a name (Ed); verb ending -ed
«Ed» is short for education: «PE» is physical education, «sex ed» means sex education, «special ed» special education (informal, US). - eddy noun (plural eddies); verb (eddy, eddies, eddied, eddying)
1) An eddy is a small whirlpool, where water goes round and round against the main flow. 2) To eddy is to swirl round in circles. - edelweiss noun (an edelweiss, edelweiss)
1) A small white woolly-looking flower that grows high in the Alps and other mountains of Europe; it is a famous symbol of Switzerland and… - eden proper noun (Eden, the Garden of Eden); noun (an Eden — a paradise)
1) (Bible) The Garden of Eden was the beautiful garden where, in Genesis, God put the first people, Adam and Eve, before they disobeyed by… - edge noun (edge, edges); verb (edge, edges, edged — to move slowly or to make a border)
An edge is the outside line or end of something, like the edge of a table or a cliff. - edgewise adverb
Edgewise means with the edge facing forward, sideways on. - edgy adjective (edgy, edgier, edgiest)
1) Nervous, tense and easily annoyed. 2) (informal) Bold, new and a bit shocking, especially in art, music, fashion or comedy. - edible adjective (edible)
1) Edible means safe and good to eat. 2) Edible can describe something made to be eaten that usually is not, like edible glitter. - edict noun (an edict, edicts)
1) An official order or rule given by a king, emperor, government or other ruler. 2) (informal) Any strict order from someone in charge. - edifice noun (an edifice, edifices)
An edifice is a large, grand or impressive building. - edit verb (edit, edits, edited, editing); noun (an edit, edits)
To edit writing is to check it and change it to make it better, by fixing mistakes and improving words. - edited verb (past form of edit: edited); adjective (edited)
Edited is the past form of «edit»: someone checked and changed a piece of writing, a photo or a film to make it better. - edition noun (an edition, editions)
An edition is one version of a book, newspaper or magazine printed at one time, like a first edition. - editor noun (an editor, editors)
An editor is a person who checks, corrects and improves writing before it is published. - editorial noun (an editorial, editorials); adjective (editorial)
An editorial is an article in a newspaper or magazine that gives the opinion of the editors, not just the news. - edmontosaurus noun (an Edmontosaurus, Edmontosauruses; also Edmontosaurus as the genus name)
1) A large plant-eating duck-billed dinosaur (a hadrosaur) that lived in North America near the end of the age of dinosaurs, about 68 to… - edo noun (a name: Edo)
Edo is the old name of the city of Tokyo in Japan, before 1868. - educate verb (educate, educates, educated, educating)
To teach someone over a long time, especially at school, college or university. - educated adjective (educated, more educated); verb form (past of «educate»: educated)
Educated describes a person who has learned a lot, especially at school, college or university. - education noun (education; an education)
Education is the teaching and learning that happens at school, college and university. - educational adjective
1) Educational means teaching you something or helping you learn. 2) Connected with schools and teaching, as in «educational system». - educator noun (an educator, educators)
A person whose job is to teach or educate people, like a teacher, tutor or lecturer. - edwardian adjective (Edwardian); noun (an Edwardian, Edwardians)
1) Belonging to the time when Edward VII was king of the United Kingdom, from 1901 to 1910 (often stretched to 1914, before the First… - ee interjection (UK dialect «ee», Northern England); Scots «ee» = eye (plural «een»); company name (EE); letters «ee» in spelling — a fragment
«Ee!» is a cry of surprise or feeling, like «oh!»: «Ee, it's cold!»; also «ee by gum». - eeg noun (an EEG, EEGs) — abbreviation
Short for electroencephalogram: a medical test that records the electrical activity of the brain as wavy lines. - eel noun (an eel, eels)
1) An eel is a long, thin fish that looks like a snake and has slippery skin. - eerie adjective (eerie, eerier, eeriest); adverb eerily
Eerie means strange and frightening in a quiet, mysterious way, making you feel uneasy. - eff verb (eff, effs, effed, effing — euphemism); noun (the letter F)
«Eff» is a polite way of saying a very rude swear word starting with F without saying it fully. - effect noun (an effect, effects); verb (effect, effects, effected, effecting — formal: to make happen)
An effect is a change or result caused by something. - effective adjective (effective, more effective, most effective)
Something effective works well and gives the result you want. - effectively adverb (effectively)
Effectively means in a way that works well and gets the result you want. - effectiveness noun (effectiveness — uncountable); adjective effective
Effectiveness is how well something works or does the job it is meant to do. - effects noun, plural of «effect» (an effect, effects)
Changes or results that happen because of something. - effervescence noun (effervescence, uncountable)
1) The bubbles of gas that rise in a liquid, as in fizzy drinks or when a tablet dissolves. 2) Lively, cheerful and excited behaviour.
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