(corcho) bornizo

Phonetic: "/əbˈteɪnd/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.

Definition: To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached.

Definition: To prevail, be victorious; to succeed.

Definition: To hold; to keep, possess or occupy.

Definition: To exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force.

Phonetic: "/fɹɒm/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Used to indicate source or provenance.

Example: I got a letter from my brother.

Definition: Originating at (a year, time, etc.)

Example: This manuscript is from the 1980s.

Definition: Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.

Example: Face away from the wall!

Definition: Indicating removal or separation.

Example: After twenty minutes, remove the cake from the oven.

Definition: Indicating exclusion.

Example: A parasol protects from the sun.

Definition: Indicating differentiation.

Example: He knows right from wrong.

Definition: Produced with or out of (a substance or material).

Example: It's made from pure gold.

Definition: Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.

Example: Too many people die from breast cancer.

Phonetic: "/ði/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

Example: It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

Definition: With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.

Example: I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

Phonetic: "/fɪrst/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The person or thing in the first position.

Example: He was the first to complete the course.

Definition: The first gear of an engine.

Definition: Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.

Example: This is a first. For once he has nothing to say.

Definition: First base

Example: There was a close play at first.

Definition: A first-class honours degree.

Definition: A first-edition copy of some publication.

Definition: A fraction of an integer ending in one.

Example: one forty-first of the estate

Phonetic: "/fɪrst/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.

Example: I was the first runner to reach the finish line, and won the race.

Definition: Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.

Example: Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.

Phonetic: "/fɪrst/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: Before anything else; firstly.

Example: Clean the sink first, before you even think of starting to cook.

Definition: For the first time;

Example: I first witnessed a death when I was nine years old.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

Example: Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.

Definition: (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.

Example: Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.

Definition: To perform a striptease.

Example: In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.

Definition: To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.

Example: The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.

Definition: To remove cargo from (a container).

Definition: To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.

Example: Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.

Definition: To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.

Definition: To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.

Definition: To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)

Definition: To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).

Definition: To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.

Definition: To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.

Definition: To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.

Definition: To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.

Definition: To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).

Definition: To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

Definition: To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

Definition: To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

Definition: To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".

Definition: To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The act of one who strips.

Definition: A physical separation process where one or more components are removed from a liquid stream by a vapor stream