jpdb beta

1. yes; yeah; uh huh

2. hum; hmmm; well; erm; huh?

3. oof

1. but; however; though; nevertheless; still; yet; even so; also; as well

2. even

3. however; no matter how; even if; even though

4. ... or something

5. either ... or ...; neither ... nor ...

6. pseudo-; quack; in-name-only

7. for lack of anything better to do

1. to do; to carry out; to perform

2. to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)

3. to serve as; to act as; to work as

4. to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)

5. to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as

6. to decide on; to choose

7. to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.)

8. to be (in a state, condition, etc.)

9. to be worth; to cost

10. to pass (of time); to elapse

11. to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B

12. to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B

13. to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B

14. to feel A about B

15. verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")

16. creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")

17. to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

1. to become; to get; to grow; to turn; to reach; to attain

2. to result in; to turn out; to end up; to prove (to be)

3. to consist of; to be composed of; to be made up of

4. to be completed; to be realized; to succeed; to be attained; to be accomplished

5. to change (into); to turn (into); to transform

6. to come (to do); to begin (to do); to grow (to do)

7. to come to; to amount to; to add up to; to make

8. to play (the part of); to act as

9. to be used for; to be useful for; to serve as

10. to be promoted

11. to do ...

1. (for something) to have occurred; to have done (something)

2. (for something) to happen on occasion

1. the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...