To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.
With adverbs of manner.
With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.
Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable.
Before a noun preceded by the definite article.
Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative.
With verbs, especially past participles.
With predicative adjectives.
With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)
Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
Indicates agreement; exactly so.
A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull.
To a significant degree.
In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
Completely, fully.
Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
Prudent; good; well-advised.
In good health.
Good, content.
An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
An exclamation of indignance.
Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
Used as a greeting
Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
To have something seep out of the surface.
To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
A source of supply.
The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
A well drink.
A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
The cockpit of a sailboat.
The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.