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Ability: Definition and part of speech

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Ability

  1. n. The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; — in the plural, faculty, talent.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Abide: Definition and part of speech

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Abide

  1. v. t. To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for.
  2. v. i. To wait; to pause; to delay.
  3. v. i. To stay; to continue in a place; to have one’s abode; to dwell; to sojourn; — with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place.
  4. v. i. To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain.
  5. v. t. To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time.
  6. v. t. To endure; to sustain; to submit to.
  7. v. t. To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Abiogenesis: Definition and part of speech

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Abiogenesis

  1. n. The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; — called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.