turn-off
something that causes someone to lose interest
The thousand most frequent English words — the core of every conversation. Frequency-ranked from corpus data; definitions adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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something that causes someone to lose interest
A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••).
Cheap or of poor quality
The name of the Latin script letter U/u.
Beneath; below; at or to the bottom of, or the area covered or surmounted by.
To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
Joined into a single entity.
An institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research, and the conferral of academic degrees across undergraduate, graduate, and often professional levels.
Up to the time of (something happening); pending.
Likely to succeed and become well-known
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
A higher-register or more formal alternative to on in most, though not all, prepositional uses.
Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.)
The act of using.
In used to.
use; utilization
Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.
A shape resembling the letter.
The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
More than one (of an indeterminate set of things).
A specific form or variation of something.
To a great extent or degree.
A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.)
Transient visual content or media, processed with technology, especially electronic.
Visual perception. — The act of seeing or looking at something.
To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
A formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.
watt
To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
Wished for; desired; sought.
Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
A portable or wearable timepiece.
The act of one who watches.
A distance.
Two or more people including or consisting of the speaker(s)/writer(s). — Excluding the person(s) being addressed. (This is the exclusive we.)
A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web that are typically accessible from the same base URL and reside on the same server.
Any period of seven consecutive days.
The downwards force an object experiences due to gravity.
Clearly observed or noticed
The direction opposite to that of the earth's rotation, specifically 270°.
Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
Which, especially which of an open-ended set of possibilities.
At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
In, at or to what place.
Introduces a simple indirect question (without a correlative).
What, of those mentioned or implied.
An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.
Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
Entire, undivided.
Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.
For what cause, reason, or purpose. — Introducing a complete question.
Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall.
A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
Against.
In the inner part, spatially; physically inside.