v (transitive, literally) To hold (something) out; to extend (something) forward. ; v (figuratively) To offer, present (a hope, possibility, opportunity etc.) ; v (idiomatic, often with for) To wait, or refuse in hopes of getting something better (from a negotiation, etc.) ; v (idiomatic) To survive, endure. ; v (idiomatic, usually with on) To withhold something. ; v (transitive) To set aside something or save it for later. ; n Alternative spelling of holdout. [One who refuses to give consent to an agreement in the hope of an improved offer; one who holds out; one who clings to a cause that has been mostly abandoned.]

v (transitive) To give or supply; to make or create (implies trying or striving). ; v (transitive) To extend forward (a body part or something held). ; v (transitive) To advance, offer, propose (often verbally). ; v (transitive, obsolete) To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place. ; v (transitive) To emit, send out, give off (light, odour, etc.). ; v (transitive, intransitive) To grow, shoot, bud, or germinate. ; v (transitive, intransitive) (of a ship) To leave (a port or haven).

v (obsolete, transitive) To hold out; to stretch forth. ; v (phenomenology) To consciously experience in anticipation; to experience protention.

n A grasp or grip. ; n An act or instance of holding. ; n A place where animals are held for safety ; n An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with. ; n Something reserved or kept. ; n Power over someone or something. ; n The ability to persist. ; n The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair. ; n (wrestling, self-defense) A position or grip used to control the opponent. ; n (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time ; n (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold. ; n (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold. ; n (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken. ; n The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet. ; n A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin. ; n (video games, dated) A pause facility. ; n The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy. ; n (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team. ; n (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern. ; n (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).

n A proposal that has been made. ; n Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered. ; n (law) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation. ; n A surname.

v (transitive) To put forward; to offer for discussion or debate.

v (transitive) To state; describe; give an account of. ; v (transitive) To present for consideration; to propose. ; v (intransitive) To begin a journey or expedition. ; v (intransitive) To start.

n An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender. ; n (obsolete) An attempt, an essay. ; n A surname.

v (intransitive, informal) To wait or delay. ; v (transitive) To impede; detain. ; v (idiomatic) To detain by threatening, usually with a weapon, in order to commit robbery. ; v (transitive) To support or lift. ; v (figurative) To highlight, as if lifting up for display. ; v (idiomatic) To fulfil or complete one's part of an agreement. ; v (intransitive) To persist. ; v (idiomatic) To withstand; to stand up to; to survive. ; v To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground. ; v (idiomatic) To maintain composure despite hardship. ; v (of a work) To continue to be seen as favorable, to avoid seeming dated.

v (transitive) To set forth; present to view; display.

v (transitive) To place in a high location. ; v (transitive) To hang; to mount. ; v (transitive) To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down. ; v (transitive, idiomatic, used with "to") To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something). ; v (transitive, idiomatic) To store away. ; v (transitive, idiomatic) To house; to shelter; to take in. ; v (reflexive, archaic) To stop at a hotel or a tavern for entertainment. ; v (transitive, idiomatic) To present, especially in "put up a fight". ; v (transitive) To endure; to put up with; to tolerate. ; v (transitive) To provide funds in advance. ; v (transitive) To build a structure. ; v (transitive) To make available; to offer. ; v (hunting, transitive) To cause (wild game) to break cover. ; v (transitive, food and drink, idiomatic) To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and storing in a bottle, jar or can. ; v (US, Canada, transitive, sports, idiomatic) To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard.. ; v (transitive, printing, historical) To set (matter) in capital letters; to switch text from lowercase to capital letters. ; v (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To compliment or respect (someone); to number (someone) among some greats. ; v (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To kill (someone). ; v Synonym of frame up (“falsely pin a crime on”) ; v (UK, slang, archaic, transitive) To inspect or plan out with a view to robbery. ; adj Alternative form of put-up [(of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests. [from 19th c.]]

v (idiomatic, transitive) To propose for consideration. ; v (idiomatic, transitive) To change the time in a time zone to a later time.

n (nautical) The forward or front part of the hold of a ship.

v (intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance. ; v To engage in make-believe. ; v (transitive) To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.). ; v (intransitive with 'to', formal, originally transitive) To lay claim (to an ability, status, advantage, etc.). ; v (transitive, obsolete) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden. ; v (transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt. ; v (transitive, obsolete) To hold before one; to extend.

v (intransitive) To increase in extent. ; v (intransitive) To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space. ; v (transitive) To cause to increase in extent. ; v (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time. ; v (transitive) To straighten (a limb). ; v (transitive) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply. ; v To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions. ; v (UK, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. ; v (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class. ; v (intransitive, US, military) To reenlist for a further period.

v (transitive) To cause to stay together. ; v (figuratively, idiomatic) Synonym of hold it together: to cope with adversity. ; v (intransitive) To stay together.

v (transitive) To suggest a plan, course of action, etc. ; v (intransitive, sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage. ; v (transitive) To intend. ; v (obsolete) To talk; to converse. ; v (obsolete) To set forth.

v To put or carry (something) forward. ; v To help or assist (a person, project etc.); to promote. ; v To propose, suggest (an opinion, theory etc.). ; v (intransitive) To set off, set forth; to start.

v To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate. ; v To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling ; v To support by approval or encouragement; to vindicate; to confirm (something which has been questioned)

v To share or subscribe to (a belief, etc.). ; v To adhere strongly to (a conviction, story, etc.). ; v To compel (someone) to remain faithful to (a commitment, moral standard, etc.).

v (transitive) To value highly; to care about greatly.

v Alternative form of lay hold of [(transitive) To seize; catch; apprehend.]

v (rare, nonstandard, transitive) To put forth; propose; bring forth; produce. ; n That which is put forth; a forthputting; product.

v (idiomatic) To call up for consideration. ; v To make something happen earlier than originally planned.

n The act of standing. ; n A defensive position or effort. ; n A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition. ; n A period of performance in a given location or venue. ; n A device to hold something upright or aloft. ; n The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box. ; n (historical) An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange. ; n A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs. ; n (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit. ; n A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game. ; n A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand. ; n A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait. ; n (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc. ; n (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural) ; n (cricket) A partnership. ; n (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms. ; n (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing. ; n (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment. ; n A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree. ; n A location or position where one may stand. ; n (advertising) An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper. ; n (US, Scotland, dated) A container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask. ; n (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch. ; n (US, historical) Short for tavern stand (“a roadside inn”). [(US, historical) A roadside inn.]

v (transitive) To possess, own. ; v (transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal. ; v (transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature. ; v (transitive) Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. ; v (transitive) To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink). ; v (transitive) To undertake or perform (an action or activity). ; v (transitive) To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in. ; v (transitive) To experience, go through, undergo. ; v (transitive) To be afflicted with, suffer from. ; v (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect. ; v Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.) ; v (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to. ; v (transitive) To give birth to. ; v (informal, usually passive) To obtain. ; v (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with. ; v (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner. ; v (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation. ; v (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be. ; v (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.) ; v (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being. ; v (British, slang, transitive) To defeat in a fight; take. ; v (British, slang, transitive) To inflict punishment or retribution on. ; v (dated outside Ireland, transitive) To be able to speak (a language). ; v (transitive) To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of. ; v (informal, often passive, transitive) To trick, to deceive. ; v (transitive, in the negative, often in continuous tenses) To allow; to tolerate. ; v (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by. ; v (transitive) To host someone; to take in as a guest. ; v (transitive) To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation. ; v (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case. ; v (transitive, birdwatching) To make an observation of (a bird species). ; v (transitive) To capture or actively hold someone's attention or interest. ; v (transitive) To grasp the meaning of; comprehend.

v (transitive, idiomatic) to give (thanks, praise) to God ; v (transitive, idiomatic) to sacrifice ; v (transitive, idiomatic) to present

v To produce, bear as fruit. ; v To give birth. ; v To create, generate, bring into existence. ; v To adduce, bring forward.

v (idiomatic, transitive) To restrain; to check. ; v (idiomatic, transitive) To continue, to hold and to manage well; to keep; maintain; support.

n Obsolete form of proffer. [An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.] ; v Obsolete form of proffer. [(transitive, reflexive) To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of.]

v (transitive) To stand against; stand in front of so as to bar the way; block; oppose; withstand. ; v (transitive, UK dialectal) To understand; comprehend.

v Alternative form of lay hold of [(transitive) To seize; catch; apprehend.]

v To purport that (someone) is an example of (something, usually positive).

n The current moment or period of time. ; n (grammar) The present tense. ; n A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions. ; n (military) The position of a soldier in presenting arms. ; n (colloquial, euphemistic, endearing) poo; feces

v (transitive) To convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build. ; v (transitive) To trace back.

v (transitive) To treat (someone or something) as more important than (someone or something else). ; v (transitive) To display a proposal or idea to (someone) to be considered.

v (transitive) To lead forth; lead forward; lead before.

v To utter; to pronounce. ; v To deliver.

v (transitive) To persist in. ; v (transitive) To constrain (a person) to continue doing (a task).

v (intransitive, idiomatic) To keep to a conviction, practice, etc., unwaveringly. [with to ‘something’]

v (transitive) To explain something, or give exact details, usually in writing. ; v (intransitive) To go out, leave. ; v (intransitive) To start an activity with the intention of finishing it. ; v (UK, transitive) To position, to put in a position ; v (transitive, obsolete, printing) To arrange the necessary type into a printing press in preparation to run it.

v (transitive) To present or make available to; offer, especially prospectively. ; v (intransitive) To arrive without warning, but not suddenly.

n A product. ; n The quantity of something produced. ; n (agriculture) Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land. ; n (forestry, fishery) The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem. ; n (chemistry) The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction. ; n (hydrology) The volume of water escaping from a spring. ; n The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent. ; n (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment. ; n (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond. ; n (engineering, material science) yield strength of a material. ; n (programming) The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute. ; n (obsolete) Payment; tribute.

v (transitive) ; v To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon. ; v To contemplate (someone or something). ; v (intransitive) To look.

v To continue being true or valid; to hold true. ; v To remain effective, fast, or secure.

v (idiomatic) To manage to keep something. ; v Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, onto.

v (transitive) To aim a weapon at a target. ; v (transitive, idiomatic) To apply; to employ something to achieve an intended effect.

v (transitive) To present (food or drink) to those who will consume it; to serve. ; v (transitive, idiomatic) To provide; deliver; inflict; impose. ; v (transitive, sports) To pitch, throw, serve, or kick a ball to an opponent so that it is easily hit or intercepted.

v (transitive) To tell forth; publish abroad.

v To apply or make use of (someone or something); to employ, to use. ; v (specifically, obsolete) To apply (money) for some purpose; to expend, to spend. ; v To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord. ; v (archaic) ; v To place or put (someone or something) somewhere or in a certain situation; to dispose of. ; v To deposit (something) for safekeeping; to lay up (something) in store; to stow. ; v (also reflexive) To provide (someone or oneself) with accommodation; to find quarters for (someone or oneself); to lodge, to quarter. ; v (obsolete) ; v (reflexive) To behave or conduct (oneself); to acquit. ; v (also reflexive) To give (someone or oneself) in marriage.

v (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting. ; v (transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another. ; v (transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend. ; v (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey using force ; v (transitive) To lead or guide. ; v (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store. ; v (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over. ; v (transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly ; v (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there. ; v (transitive) To have, hold, possess or maintain (something). ; v (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel. ; v (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss. ; v (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding. ; v (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession. ; v (intransitive, cricket) For the ball, having been hit in the air, to reach a fielder without touching the ground (whether or not the fielder catches it). ; v (transitive) To have on one’s person. ; v To be pregnant (with). ; v To have propulsive power; to propel. ; v To hold the head; said of a horse. ; v (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare. ; v To bear or uphold successfully, especially through conflict, for example a leader or principle ; v To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win. ; v (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture. ; v To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit ; v (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct. ; v To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another. ; v (intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed. ; v (gaming) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success. ; v (Southern US) To physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting) ; v (Canada, US) To bear a firearm, such as a gun.

v (intransitive, idiomatic) To remain in a particular place or status; to survive or maintain; to resist.

adv At, near or towards the front of something. ; adv (nautical) At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel). ; adv In the direction in which someone or something is facing. ; adv In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards. ; adv So that front and back are in the usual orientation. ; adv In the usual order or sequence. ; adv Into the future. ; adv To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.

v (transitive) To bring before; bring beforehand.

v to explain or state something clearly and understandably. ; v to convey or communicate.

v (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, up. To put or post up by sticking. ; v (transitive, idiomatic) To rob at gunpoint. ; v (intransitive, idiomatic) To be prominent; to point upwards. ; v (intransitive, with for) To speak or act in defence (of). ; v (intransitive, with to) To defy, to confront, to stand up to. ; v (intransitive, with to) To maintain a commitment (as, to a proposition or role)

v (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. ; v To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone). ; v To make a present or gift of. ; v To pledge. ; v To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford. ; v To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in (the specified person, or the target, audience, etc). ; v (slang, transitive) To give off (a certain vibe or appearance). (Compare giving.) ; v To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something). ; v To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.). ; v To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to. ; v To provide or administer (a medication) ; v (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast. ; v (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). ; v (intransitive) To yield or collapse under pressure or force. ; v (intransitive) To lead (onto or into). ; v (transitive, dated) To provide a view of. ; v To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield. ; v To cause; to make; used with the infinitive. ; v To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate. ; v To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede. ; v To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. ; v To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.). ; v (dated or religion) To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow. ; v (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself). ; v (obsolete) To become soft or moist. ; v (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep. ; v (obsolete) To have a misgiving.

n (countable) Any place of shelter. ; n (countable, nautical) A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading. ; n (countable, glassworking) A mixing box for materials. ; n (obsolete, countable) A house of the zodiac, or the mansion of a heavenly body. ; n (obsolete, uncountable) Shelter, refuge. ; n A surname, variant of Harbour. ; n A census-designated place in Curry County, Oregon, United States.

n (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration. ; n (countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered. ; n (informal) A suggestion of sexual intercourse (made to someone with whom one is not sexually involved). ; n (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered. ; n (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate. ; n (grammar) A complete sentence. ; n (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and is connected by a copula. ; n (countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false. ; n (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem. ; n A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; a creed. ; n (poetic) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it. ; n Misspelling of preposition. [(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.]

v (transitive) To speak or act in defence (of); to defend or protect.

v (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide. ; v (intransitive, copulative) To continue to have a particular quality. ; v (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady. ; v (transitive) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time. ; v (transitive) To stop or delay something. ; v To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder. ; v To restrain; withhold; check; stop. ; v To cause to cease; to put an end to. ; v To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back. ; v (transitive) To hold the attention of. ; v (transitive, obsolete) To bear up under; to endure; to hold out against; to resist. ; v (transitive, obsolete) To wait for; await. ; v (transitive, obsolete) To remain for the purpose of; to stay to take part in or be present at (a meal, ceremony etc.). ; v (intransitive, obsolete) To rest; depend; rely. ; v (intransitive, obsolete) To stop; come to a stand or standstill. ; v (intransitive, archaic) To come to an end; cease. ; v (intransitive, archaic) To dwell; linger; tarry; wait. ; v (intransitive, dated) To make a stand; to stand firm. ; v (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power. ; v (intransitive, obsolete) To wait; rest in patience or expectation. ; v (intransitive, obsolete, used with on or upon) To wait as an attendant; give ceremonious or submissive attendance. ; v (intransitive, Scotland, South Africa, India, Southern US, African-American Vernacular, Singapore, colloquial) To live; reside. ; v To brace or support with a stay or stays ; v (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays. ; v (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack. ; v (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.

v (intransitive) To happen or take place. ; v (intransitive) To present or offer itself. ; v (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself. ; v (intransitive, sciences) To be present or found.

v (followed by of) To grasp, seize. ; v (intransitive) To take root, become established.

n A forward move; improvement or progression. ; n An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement. ; n An addition to the price; rise in price or value. ; n (often in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.

v Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present. ; v (transitive) To care for (someone requiring attention); specifically, of a doctor, nurse, etc.: to provide professional care to (someone). ; v (transitive) To wait on (someone or their instructions) as an attendant, servant, etc.; also (specifically of a gentleman-in-waiting or lady-in-waiting to a member of royalty), to accompany (someone) in order to assist or wait upon them; to escort. ; v (transitive) To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; also, to regularly go to (an event or place). ; v (transitive) To take action with respect to (someone, or something such as a concern, problem, or task); to deal with, to handle. ; v (transitive) Of a (chiefly immaterial) thing: to be consequent to or present with (someone or something); to accompany. ; v (transitive, archaic or obsolete) To look after (someone or something); to tend. ; v (intransitive) Followed by to: to look after someone or something. ; v (intransitive) To be ready to wait upon someone or their instructions as an attendant, servant, etc.; also (followed by on or upon), to accompany someone in order to assist or wait upon them. ; v (intransitive) Followed by at: to go to and be present at a place for some purpose; also (obsolete), followed by on: to be present at and take part in an event. ; v (intransitive) Followed by to: to take action with respect to someone or something; to deal with. ; v (intransitive) Followed by on or upon: of a (chiefly immaterial) thing: to be consequent on or present with. ; v Senses relating to directing one's attention. ; v (transitive, archaic) To listen to (something or someone). ; v (transitive, obsolete) To give consideration to (someone or something); to heed, to pay attention, to regard. ; v (intransitive) Often followed by to, upon, or with: to give consideration; to pay attention. ; v (intransitive, archaic) Followed by to or unto: to listen. ; v (archaic or obsolete) Senses relating to waiting for something. ; v (transitive) To look out or wait for (someone, or something such as a decision or event); to await. ; v (transitive) To expect or look forward to (someone or something). ; v (transitive, figurative) Of a thing: to be in store or lie in wait for (someone or something); to await. ; v (intransitive) To remain and wait; to abide. ; v (intransitive, rare) Followed by for: to expect or look forward. ; v (intransitive, figurative) Followed by for: of a thing: to be in store or lie in wait. ; v (obsolete) To intend (something).

v (transitive) To stand by or near; stand around. ; v (transitive) To beset; stand around in hostility; harass. ; v (transitive) To surround; encompass. ; v (transitive) To serve; be of service to; be ready to serve or aid.

v Alternative form of forstand [(transitive) To stand against; stand in front of so as to bar the way; block; oppose; withstand.]

v (with (that + indicative) or intransitive, with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically. ; v (sometimes with (that + subjunctive) or intransitive, with on or upon) To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it. ; v (obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).

v (transitive) To take, receive, or adopt beforehand; assume. ; v (transitive) To take or choose before another (option); prefer.

v (transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere. ; v (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute. ; v (transitive) To occasion or bring about. ; v (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody. ; v To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide. ; v To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch. ; v (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.

v (transitive) To grant as a possession; to bestow. ; v (intransitive) To talk together, to consult, discuss; to collogue. ; v (obsolete) To compare. ; v (obsolete, transitive) To bring together; to collect, gather. ; v (obsolete) To contribute; to conduce.

v (intransitive) To be in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight. ; v (intransitive) To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend. ; v (intransitive) To be in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue. ; v (intransitive) To believe (something is reasonable) and argue (for it); to advocate. ; v contend with: To try to cope with a difficulty or problem.

v (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment. ; v (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give (something). ; v (transitive, figuratively) To supply (somebody) with something.

v (idiomatic, intransitive) To wait in expectation of some event; to be ready. ; v (idiomatic, transitive) To remain loyal or faithful to. ; v (idiomatic, transitive) To support; to continue to support despite things being bad. ; v (intransitive) To do nothing. To be inactive in a situation.

v (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. ; v (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something). ; v (ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm. ; v (transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity. ; v (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.). ; v (transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach. ; v (transitive, now rare) To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).

n The act of spreading. ; n Something that has been spread. ; n (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading. ; n An expanse of land. ; n A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch. ; n A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread). ; n A large meal, especially one laid out on a table. ; n (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams. ; n (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships. ; n (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food. ; n An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page. ; n Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc. ; n A numerical difference. ; n (statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average. ; n (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices. ; n (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity. ; n (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity. ; n (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity. ; n (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies. ; n (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price. ; n (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items. ; n (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points. ; n The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone. ; n Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper. ; n (gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match. ; n (debating slang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).

v (transitive, formal) To wait for. ; v (transitive) To expect. ; v (transitive) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for. ; v (transitive, intransitive) To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon. ; v (intransitive) To watch, observe. ; v (intransitive) To wait; to stay in waiting.

n A promise made in advance ; v (transitive) To promise beforehand or in advance

v (transitive) To lift; to raise. ; v (transitive) To pick up. ; v (transitive) To remove (a ground or floor surface, including the bed of a road or the track of a railway). ; v (transitive) To absorb (a liquid), to soak up. ; v (transitive, sewing) To shorten (a garment), especially by hemming. ; v (transitive) To tighten or wind in (a rope, slack, etc.) ; v (transitive) To occupy; to consume (space or time). ; v (transitive) To take, to assume (one’s appointed or intended place). ; v (transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something). ; v (transitive) To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis. ; v (transitive) To begin functioning in (a role or position), to assume (an office). ; v (transitive) To address or discuss (an issue). ; v (transitive) To accept, to adopt (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.). ; v (transitive, with 'on') To accept (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.) from. ; v (transitive) To join in (saying something). ; v (ambitransitive) To resume, to return to something that was interrupted. ; v (transitive) To implement, to employ, to put into use. ; v (transitive, Canada) To review the solutions to a test or other assessment with a class. ; v (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To begin occupying and working (a plot of uncultivated land), to break in. ; v (transitive, chiefly British) To pay off, to clear (a debt, loan, mortgage, etc.). ; v (transitive, archaic) To arrest (a person). ; v (transitive) To reprove or reproach (a person). ; v (transitive) To begin to support or patronize, to sponsor (a person), to adopt as protégé. ; n Alternative form of take-up [The act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in.]

v (transitive) To appear publicly in front of someone superior. ; v (transitive) to be of greater importance (than) ; v (transitive) to be judged, decided or discussed by authority. ; v (transitive) To precede.

v (transitive) To expend or contribute money to an expense or purchase. ; v (transitive) To arrange (physically) in a certain way, so as to spread or space apart; to display (e.g. merchandise or a collection). ; v (transitive) To explain; to interpret. ; v (transitive) To arrange; to design; to concoct; to think up. ; v To prepare a body for burial. ; v (transitive, colloquial, US) To render (someone) unconscious; to knock out; to cause to fall to the floor; to kill. ; v (transitive, colloquial) To scold or berate. ; v (intransitive, US, colloquial, proscribed) To lie in the sunshine.

n Position ahead of or in front of; forward position. ; v (transitive) To position at the front.

v (transitive) To teach or instruct beforehand.

n An instance of exhibiting. ; n That which is exhibited. ; n A public showing; an exhibition. ; n (law) An article formally introduced as evidence in a court.

v (intransitive) To move forward and into view, to emerge, to appear. ; v (intransitive) To volunteer to provide something.

v (transitive) To require a person to explain or to accept responsibility for his or her actions; to blame or punish someone for what has occurred.

v (nautical) To sail close to the wind. ; v (idiomatic, intransitive) To endure hardship cheerfully or without complaining. ; v (idiomatic, transitive) To support; to keep from falling or sinking.

v To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant. ; v (colloquial) To wait for (a person). ; v (colloquial) To wait for (a thing, or an event to take place). ; v To be in store for (someone). ; v (archaic) To visit (someone) as a courtesy, on business or for ceremony. ; v (archaic) To occur as a consequence of (something), to result from (something). ; v (archaic) To carry out or perform (a duty, function, etc.). ; v (falconry, of a hawk) To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung. ; v (colloquial, US, archaic) To court (someone). ; v (archaic) To obey and pay attention to (someone); to follow (a leader); to attend to (someone); to be subject to (someone).

v (transitive) To cause to happen.

v (transitive, idiomatic) To manage to execute; to perform successfully, all the way to the end. ; v To persist or continue

v (transitive) To serve as a warning or omen of. ; v (transitive) To signify; to denote.

v To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; (usually after an expression of ability, as could, able, difficult) to be able or rich enough; to spare. ; v (obsolete) To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting or expending, with profit, or without too great a loss. ; v (rare) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue. ; v To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.

v (transitive, idiomatic) To persist or continue. ; v (intransitive, idiomatic) To persist in talking about a subject to the annoyance of the listener. ; v (transitive, idiomatic) To cause or allow to remain in an existing position. ; v (transitive, idiomatic) To cause or allow to remain in the on or open position.

v (transitive) ; v Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop. ; v (education) To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to keep back. ; v Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain. ; v (medicine) To hold back (tissue or a substance, especially urine) in the body or a body organ. ; v To hold (something) secure; to prevent (something) from becoming detached or separated. ; v To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back. ; v To keep (something) in the mind; to recall, to remember. ; v To keep (something) in place or use, instead of removing or abolishing it; to preserve. ; v To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily. ; v (chiefly law) To employ (someone, especially a lawyer) by paying a retainer (“fee one pays to reserve another person's time for services”); specifically, to engage (a barrister) by making an initial payment to secure their services if needed. ; v To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also, (chiefly historical) to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower. ; v (reflexive) To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself). ; v (archaic) To keep (someone) in custody; to prevent (someone) from leaving. ; v (Christianity) To declare (a sin) not forgiven. ; v (intransitive) ; v To keep in control or possession; to continue having. ; v To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory. ; v (medicine) Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance. ; v (obsolete) ; v To refrain from doing something. ; v To be a dependent or follower to someone. ; v (rare) To continue, to remain.

n The act of stretching or extending; extension. ; n The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown. ; n The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. ; n Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope. ; n (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch. ; n (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow. ; n (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled. ; n (nautical) The distance traversed between tacks. ; n (nautical) A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land. ; n A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?) ; n An extended portion or area of land or water. ; n (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage. ; n The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon. ; n A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5666). ; n A former township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada, now part of the township of Scugog. ; n (obsolete or dialect) Alternative form of retch. [An unsuccessful effort to vomit.] ; n (mahjong, pachinko) Alternative form of riichi [(mahjong) A scoring condition and 1000-point bet made by declaring the hand to be ready, waiting for one more tile to win.] ; n Acronym of Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals.

n The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly: ; n (military, obsolete) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie. ; n (medicine) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts. ; n Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly: ; n (medicine, now rare) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue. ; n (now usually historical or law) Offspring: one's natural child or children. ; n (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants. ; n (figuratively, obsolete) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor. ; n (now rare) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties. ; n (historical or rare law) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves. ; n (obsolete) The entrails of a slaughtered animal. ; n (rare and obsolete) Any action or deed performed by a person. ; n (obsolete) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God. ; n (publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication. ; n The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs. ; n (figuratively, originally World War I military slang, usually with definite article) The entire set of something; all of something. ; n (finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company. ; n The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period. ; n The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly: ; n (obsolete) A sewer. ; n The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly: ; n (obsolete) An exit from a room or building. ; n (now rare) A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water. ; n The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly: ; n (historical medicine) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object. ; n The production or distribution of something for general use. ; n The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group. ; n (finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities. ; n Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly: ; n (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court. ; n (figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided. ; n (rare and obsolete) A difficult choice between two alternatives, a dilemma. ; n (US, originally psychology, usually in the plural) A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty. ; n The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly: ; n (obsolete) The end of any action or process. ; n (obsolete) The end of any period of time. ; n The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly: ; n (now rare) The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement. ; n (obsolete) The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion. ; n (figurative, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion. ; n (figurative, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition. ; n (derogatory) A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia.

v (transitive) To place or set (something) before; to prefix.

v (transitive) To set out the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length ; v (intransitive, with on or upon) To make a statement, especially at length.

v (transitive) To insert something (or oneself) between other things. ; v (transitive) To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment. ; v (transitive) To offer (one's help or services). ; v (intransitive) To be inserted between parts or things; to come between. ; v (intransitive) To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.

v (transitive) To support with, or as if with, a prop. ; v (transitive, idiomatic) To be at the bottom of (a league).