✳ painter (noun)
Sounds:
- /ˈpeɪntə/ (UK)
- /ˈpeɪntɚ/ (US)
Forms:
- painters (plural)
painter (noun) senses:
1. An artist who paints pictures.
2. A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
3. (obsolete) A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
...
Sounds:
- /ˈpeɪntə/ (UK)
- /ˈpeɪntɚ/ (US)
Forms:
- painters (plural)
painter (noun) senses:
1. An artist who paints pictures.
2. A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
3. (obsolete) A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
...
🗣 Conversation 🗣
sasha asked taylor not to smoke so taylor rolled a cigarette in front of sasha's eyes.
- (Taylor) I hate Sasha for giving me orders
- What did she do this time?
- She told me not to smoke as if I were a kid
- That's unreasonable. So what was your response?
- I intentionally rolled a cigarette in front of her to show her that I cannot be controlled
- Nice act
sasha asked taylor not to smoke so taylor rolled a cigarette in front of sasha's eyes.
- (Taylor) I hate Sasha for giving me orders
- What did she do this time?
- She told me not to smoke as if I were a kid
- That's unreasonable. So what was your response?
- I intentionally rolled a cigarette in front of her to show her that I cannot be controlled
- Nice act
🌜 Future Simple 🌛
Tomorrow, I will surprise my partner with a romantic candlelit dinner.
Tomorrow, I will surprise my partner with a romantic candlelit dinner.
💡 Example 💡 automaton
automaton (noun): Nick had heard her play through the very beginning of it a dozen times, until he was screaming at her in his head to go on. Well, now she did, watching her own hands busying up and down the keyboard as if they were astonishing automata that she had wound up and set in motion, in perfect synchrony, to produce this silvery flow of sound.
Ask @wikt_en_bot for 'automaton'
automaton (noun): Nick had heard her play through the very beginning of it a dozen times, until he was screaming at her in his head to go on. Well, now she did, watching her own hands busying up and down the keyboard as if they were astonishing automata that she had wound up and set in motion, in perfect synchrony, to produce this silvery flow of sound.
Ask @wikt_en_bot for 'automaton'
✳ PM (noun)
Sounds:
- /ˌpiː ˈɛm/
Forms:
- PMs (plural)
PM (noun) senses:
1. Initialism of post meridiem. (The second half of the day, from noon (12:00:00) to (just before) midnight (23:59:59))
2. Initialism of post mortem.
3. Initialism of prime minister.
...
Sounds:
- /ˌpiː ˈɛm/
Forms:
- PMs (plural)
PM (noun) senses:
1. Initialism of post meridiem. (The second half of the day, from noon (12:00:00) to (just before) midnight (23:59:59))
2. Initialism of post mortem.
3. Initialism of prime minister.
...
✳ PM (verb)
Forms:
- PMs (present, singular, third-person)
- PMing (participle, present)
- PMed (participle, past)
- PMed (past)
PM (verb) senses:
1. To project manage.
2. (Internet, transitive) To send a private message to (a participant in a chat room, etc.).
Forms:
- PMs (present, singular, third-person)
- PMing (participle, present)
- PMed (participle, past)
- PMed (past)
PM (verb) senses:
1. To project manage.
2. (Internet, transitive) To send a private message to (a participant in a chat room, etc.).
🌜 Future Continuous 🌛
The engineers will be constructing a state-of-the-art stadium.
The engineers will be constructing a state-of-the-art stadium.
💡 Example 💡 writhings
writhings (noun): The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks […]
Ask @wikt_en_bot for 'writhings'
writhings (noun): The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks […]
Ask @wikt_en_bot for 'writhings'
🌜 Future Simple 🌛
Quantum computing will become commercially available in the near future.
Quantum computing will become commercially available in the near future.
✳ smell (noun)
Sounds:
- /smɛl/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
Forms:
- smells (plural)
smell (noun) senses:
1. A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
2. (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
3. A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
Sounds:
- /smɛl/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
Forms:
- smells (plural)
smell (noun) senses:
1. A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
2. (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
3. A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
✳ smell (verb)
Forms:
- smells (present, singular, third-person)
- smelling (participle, present)
- smelled (participle, past)
- smelled (past)
- smelt (participle, past)
- smelt (past)
smell (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
2. (intransitive, copulative) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
3. (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
...
Forms:
- smells (present, singular, third-person)
- smelling (participle, present)
- smelled (participle, past)
- smelled (past)
- smelt (participle, past)
- smelt (past)
smell (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
2. (intransitive, copulative) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
3. (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
...