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- stretch-English-Verb-5en hasExample "To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of \"brave\" considerably.".
- stretch-English-Verb-6en hasExample "The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble.".
- stretch-English-Verb-8en hasExample "His mustache stretched all the way to his sideburns.".
- stretch_ones_legs-English-Verb-1en hasExample "I needed to stretch my legs after spending all day sitting around in meetings.".
- stretch_out-English-Verb-1en hasExample "My cat likes stretching out in front of the fire.".
- stretch_out-English-Verb-2en hasExample "Stretch your arms out above your head.".
- strewth-English-Interjection-1en hasExample "Strewth! I guess I've been too trigger happy!".
- strict-English-Adjective-2en hasExample "strict fiber".
- strict-English-Adjective-4en hasExample "very strict in observing the Sabbath".
- strict-English-Adjective-5en hasExample "to understand words in a strict sense".
- strictement-French-Adverb-2en hasExample "Ca n'a strictement rien avoir avec toi. Tu t'occupes de tes fesses!".
- strictly-English-Adverb-1en hasExample "He adhered strictly to the diet his doctor prescribed.".
- strictly-English-Adverb-2en hasExample "That term refers strictly to smaller birds.".
- stricture-English-Noun-1en hasExample "For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.".
- stricture-English-Noun-4en hasExample "A man of stricture and firm abstinence. 213500 Shakespeare.".
- strid-Swedish-Adjective-1en hasExample "hugade spekulanter anmälde sig i en strid ström".
- strida-Swedish-Verb-2en hasExample "det strider mot sunda förnuftet".
- strident-English-Adjective-1en hasExample "The trumpet sounded strident against the string orchestra.".
- strident-English-Adjective-2en hasExample "The artist chose a strident mixture of colors.".
- stridor-English-Noun-1en hasExample "1891 But when the tilted plank let slide its freight into the sea, a second strange human murmur was heard, blended now with another inarticulate sound proceeding from certain larger sea-fowl, whose attention having been attracted by the peculiar commotion in the water resulting from the heavy sloped dive of the shotted hammock into the sea, flew screaming to the spot. So near the hull did they come, that the stridor or bony creak of their gaunt double-jointed pinions was audible. Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Chapter 28.".
- strife-ridden-English-Adjective-1en hasExample "transport was difficult in the strife-ridden province".
- strijd-Dutch-Noun-3en hasExample "Zo kondigde de ETA aan de gewapende strijd te staken als de Spaanse regering de soevereiniteit en het zelfbeschikkingsrecht van de Basken zou erkennen 294796 So the ETA announced that it would suspend its armed conflict if the Spanish government would recognize the sovereignty and the right to self-determination of the Basques.".
- strike-English-Verb-1en hasExample "Please strike the last sentence.".
- strike-English-Verb-2en hasExample "Strike the door sharply with your foot and see if it comes loose.".
- strike-English-Verb-3en hasExample "The bank robber struck on the 2nd and 5th of May.".
- strike-English-Verb-4en hasExample "Tragedy struck when his brother was killed in a bush fire.".
- strike-English-Verb-5en hasExample "The workers struck for a week before the new contract went through.".
- strike-English-Verb-6en hasExample "Golf has always struck me as a waste of time.".
- strike-English-Verb-7en hasExample "We will strike a medal in your honour".
- strike-English-Verb-9en hasExample "The clock struck one.".
- strike_through-English-Verb-1en hasExample "It is useful to strike through an incorrect text, leaving it legible, to demonstrate that it is an incorrect usage.".
- strike_while_the_iron_is_hot-English-Verb-2en hasExample "We should strike while the iron is hot and order some immediately, before they change the offer.".
- strike_zone-English-Noun-1en hasExample "That umpire often compresses the strike zone late in the game.".
- strikeout-English-Noun-1en hasExample "We've had one strikeout after the other on the Jones account.".
- strikeout-English-Noun-2en hasExample "The pitcher recorded seven strikeouts in the game.".
- striker-English-Noun-7en hasExample "Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try fish. 177758 Dampier.".
- striking-English-Adjective-1en hasExample "He looked quite striking in his new suit and tie.".
- strikingly-English-Adverb-1en hasExample "He entered strikingly, taking over the stage.".
- strikingly-English-Adverb-2en hasExample "He was strikingly deficient in good sense.".
- strikingly-English-Adverb-3en hasExample "Strikingly, he had bowed deeply to the Emperor.".
- strikken-Dutch-Verb-2en hasExample "Ik probeerde haar al langer te strikken.: I tried to get her to stay a bit longer.".
- string-English-Noun-4en hasExample "The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive".
- string-English-Noun-5en hasExample "a string of successes".
- string-English-Noun-9en hasExample "no strings attached".
- string-English-Verb-1en hasExample "You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.".
- string-English-Verb-2en hasExample "It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.".
- string_theory-English-Noun-1en hasExample "String theory denies the existence of a hypothetical eleventh dimension.".
- stringent-English-Adjective-1en hasExample "They have stringent quality requirements outlining what is acceptable.".
- stringer-English-Noun-5en hasExample "Line up the 1/2 template with the stringer (or draw a center line) 180574 Stephen Pirsch".
- stringer-English-Noun-7en hasExample "Janice pulled the bluegill out of the water and added it to her stringer.".
- stringify-English-Verb-1en hasExample "One way to find the first digit in a number is to stringify the number and take the first character of the resulting string.".
- strings_attached-English-Noun-1en hasExample "They were advertising free television sets, but there were a lot of strings attached.".
- stringy-English-Adjective-1en hasExample "The meat was quite stringy.".
- strip-mine-English-Verb-1en hasExample "The decision to strip-mine was opposed by environmentalists.".
- strip_away-English-Verb-1en hasExample "If you strip away the hype, you find that he is just an ordinary person trying to make a living, like everyone else.".
- striper-English-Noun-1en hasExample "We rented a line striper for the parking lot.".
- striper-English-Noun-2en hasExample "I caught a striper today.".
- stripped-down-English-Adjective-1en hasExample "It was the stripped-down version that they bought.".
- strive-English-Verb-1en hasExample "He strove to excel.".
- stroboscopically-English-Adverb-1en hasExample "a stroboscopically-illuminated target".
- stroke_of_work-English-Noun-1en hasExample "I fear I am going to fail my exams because I have not done a stroke of work this semester.".
- stroming-Dutch-Noun-2en hasExample "De in de mantel veroorzaakt de bewegingen van de platen en vulkanisme aan het aardoppervlak.354345 354346 The flow in the mantle causes the movements of the plates and volcanism on the Earth's surface.".
- strong-English-Adjective-10en hasExample "a strong position".
- strong-English-Adjective-11en hasExample "You’re working with troubled youth in your off time? That’s strong!".
- strong-English-Adjective-12en hasExample "The enemy's army force was five thousand strong.".
- strong-English-Adjective-3en hasExample "The man was nearly drowned after a strong undercurrent swept him out to sea.".
- strong-English-Adjective-4en hasExample "He is strong in the face of adversity.".
- strong-English-Adjective-6en hasExample "a strong smell".
- strong-English-Adjective-8en hasExample "a strong drink".
- strong-English-Adjective-9en hasExample "a strong verb".
- strong_point-English-Noun-1en hasExample "\"I told you Winston,\" he said, \"that metaphysics is not your strong point. The word you are trying to think of is solipsism.\" - 1984, George Orwell".
- strong_suit-English-Noun-1en hasExample "That area isn't my strong suit, but I can give it a shot.".
- stronghold-English-Noun-2en hasExample "The last stronghold of the Cornish language.".
- strongish-English-Adjective-1en hasExample "a cup of strongish coffee".
- strongly-English-Adverb-1en hasExample "In the third race, Renowned Blaze finished strongly to show, paying six dollars.".
- strongly-English-Adverb-2en hasExample "His reply was strongly suggestive of a forthcoming challenge to the governor.".
- stront-Dutch-Noun-1en hasExample "er is stront aan de knikker".
- stroom-Dutch-Noun-4en hasExample "Antwerpen, stad aan de stroom 424185 Antwerp, city on the river Scheldt".
- strop-English-Verb-2en hasExample "One should strop the razor before each shave.".
- stround-MiddleEnglish-Noun-1en hasExample "And palmeres for to seken strange stroundesTo ferne halwes, kouthe in sondry londes. -- Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, ll. 14-15".
- struck_off-English-Verb-3en hasExample "The doctor was struck off for professional misconduct.".
- structura-Latin-Noun-1en hasExample "in structurā saxorum rudium.".
- structurally-English-Adverb-1en hasExample "After the hurricane the building was structurally sound but aesthetically displeasing.".
- structurant-French-Adjective-1en hasExample "Le projet de Marc Barani parvient à mettre à profit ces contraintes, faisant jouer à chaque élément un rôle structurant, et lui donnant en retour des passages et des liens qui les laissaient en l'état de divorce latent. (Le Monde)".
- structure-English-Noun-1en hasExample "The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items.".
- structure-English-Noun-2en hasExample "He studied the structure of her face.".
- structure-English-Noun-4en hasExample "For some, the structure of school life was oppressive.".
- structure-English-Noun-5en hasExample "This structure contains both date and timezone information.".
- structure-English-Noun-6en hasExample "There's lots of structure to be fished along the west shore of the lake; the impoundment submerged a town there when it was built.".
- structure-English-Noun-7en hasExample "The South African leader went off to consult with the structures.".
- structure-French-Noun-1en hasExample "Le plain-chant est la paraphrase aérienne et mouvante de l'immobile structure des cathédrales. (Huysmans, En route, 1895)".
- structurer-French-Verb-1en hasExample "Il y a une certaine attitude corporelle, un mode spécifique de tension dynamique qui est nécessaire pour structurer l'image; l'homme comme totalité dynamique et vivante doit se mettre en forme lui-même pour tracer une figure dans son champ visuel. (Merleau-Ponty, Phénoménol. perception, 1945)".
- struggle-English-Verb-1en hasExample "During the centuries, the people of Ireland struggled constantly to assert their right to govern themselves.".
- strumpet-English-Noun-3en hasExample "Usage note - often used as bit of strumpet, piece of strumpet.".
- strumpet-English-Noun-4en hasExample "Usage note - derogatory.".
- strung-out-English-Adjective-1en hasExample "He ranted about conspiracies while he was strung-out, that he couldn't remember when he sobered.".
- strung-out-English-Adjective-2en hasExample "After the storm the armada was strung-out over the ocean, unable to cover each other in battle.".
- stryk-Swedish-Noun-1en hasExample "ge någon stryk".
- stryka-Swedish-Verb-2en hasExample "han strök katten, men gav hunden stryk".
- stryka-Swedish-Verb-3en hasExample "jag har strukit dörren tre gånger".