n. a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element

n. operating system company

v. spend or use time; "I may be an hour"

v. exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor"

v. have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?"

v. have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

v. occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"

v. be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"

v. be priced at; "These shoes cost $100"

v. have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"

v. form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army"

v. occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"

v. be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!"

v. represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"

adv. "There was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift"

adj. afloat on the surface of a body of water; "after the storm the boats were adrift"

adj. aimlessly drifting

v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

v. persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days"

v. satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?"

v. duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse"

v. be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by ours"

v. be co-ordinated; "These activities coordinate well"

v. make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"

v. give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property; "Many senators were named in connection with the scandal"; "The almanac identifies the auspicious months"

v. represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"

v. have as a meaning; "`multi-' denotes `many' "

v. express or state indirectly

v. suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic

v. mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?"

v. convey or express a meaning; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?"

adj. having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation"

adj. (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

adj. of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"

adj. dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"

adj. lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"

adj. devoid of intelligence

adj. lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"

adj. traveling by boat or ship

adj. supported by water; "waterborne craft"

adj. marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another; "desultory thoughts"; "the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties"

v. be different; "These two tests differ in only one respect"

adj. serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal