Brook - English meaning

verb

Accept or act in accordance with (a rule, decision, or recommendation).

Usage examples:

I said i would abide by their decision

verb

If you can't abide someone or something, you dislike them very much

Usage examples:

I can't abide her., he abided in the wilderness for forty days.

verb

To live or stay somewhere

Usage examples:

He abided in the wilderness for forty days.

verb

Consent to receive or undertake (something offered).

Usage examples:

He accepted a pen as a present

verb

To agree to take something

Usage examples:

Do you accept credit cards?, she was in mumbai to accept an award for her latest novel., i offered …

verb

To say yes to an offer or invitation

Usage examples:

We've offered her the job, but i don't know whether she'll accept it., i've just accepted an invita…

verb

Let (someone) have or do something.

Usage examples:

The dissident was allowed to leave the country

verb

To let someone do something or let something happen; permit

Usage examples:

You’re not allowed to talk during the exam., are you allowed in the building on weekends?, video li…

verb

To make it possible for someone to do something, or to not prevent something from happening

Usage examples:

Allow sb/sth to do sth the website allows consumers to compare the prices of all energy and telepho…

verb

Carry the weight of; support.

Usage examples:

The bees form large colonies and need the thick branches of tall trees to bear the weight of their …

noun

A large, heavy mammal that walks on the soles of its feet, having thick fur and a very short tail. bears are related to the dog family but most species are omnivorous.

Usage examples:

Recent dna analysis indicates that giant pandas are more closely related to bears and red pandas ar…

noun

Be pregnant with

noun

A stream.

Usage examples:

But £160,000 is needed for the final phase, a pumping station to discharge water from the beck into…

noun

A gesture requesting attention, such as a nod or wave.

Usage examples:

And when niall, who stood on the sideline for 40 minutes, finally got the beck, he didn't disappoin…

noun

A small river

noun

A branch of a river forming a backwater or stagnant pool, made by water flowing from the main stream during a flood.

Usage examples:

The water level in the billabong was high, too high for fishing, said the old ladies.

noun

In australia, a low area of ground that was part of a river in the past and that only fills up with water from the river during a flood.

noun

A small stream, especially one that flows intermittently or seasonally.

Usage examples:

One of the many good touches in this book is its linguistic bent, as in the explanation of tilth an…

noun

A limit or boundary.

Usage examples:

In works such as these, the paint-splattered canvases, which suggest the wilder bourns of abstract …

noun

A limit or boundary (= edge)

Usage examples:

These matters are beyond the bourne of our understanding., she was about to depart for some unknown…

verb

(of a fire) produce flames and heat while consuming a material such as coal or wood.

Usage examples:

A fire burned and crackled cheerfully in the grate

noun

An injury caused by exposure to heat or flame.

Usage examples:

He was treated in hospital for burns to his hands

noun

A small stream.

Usage examples:

There is a burn running through the flower beds

noun

A person's face or facial expression.

Usage examples:

His impenetrable eyes and inscrutable countenance give little away

verb

Admit as acceptable or possible.

Usage examples:

He was reluctant to countenance the use of force

noun

The appearance or expression of someone’s face

Usage examples:

[ c ] her countenance masked her feelings., this school will not countenance lateness.

noun

A narrow, sheltered waterway, especially an inlet in a shoreline or channel in a marsh.

Usage examples:

A sandy beach in a sheltered creek

adjective

Relating to or denoting the creek or their language.

Usage examples:

In 1814, a creek faction, the red sticks, rose against settlers in the south but was crushed by gen…

noun

A small river or stream

verb

Suffer (something painful or difficult) patiently.

Usage examples:

It seemed impossible that anyone could endure such pain

verb

Undergo or be subjected to

verb

To experience and bear something difficult, painful, or unpleasant

Usage examples:

[ t ] we had to endure a nine-hour delay at the airport.

noun

The paired respiratory organ of fish and some amphibians, by which oxygen is extracted from water flowing over surfaces within or attached to the walls of the pharynx.

Usage examples:

Some others, like the siamese fighting fish, are capable of breathing air in addition to extracting…

verb

Gut or clean (a fish).

Usage examples:

Immediately after this, gut and gill all fish you wish to eat.

noun

A unit of liquid measure, equal to a quarter of a pint.

Usage examples:

The sets of weights were once the work tools of the county's pound police where they were used to m…

verb

Cut with rough or heavy blows.

Usage examples:

Hack off the branches and let them fall to the ground

noun

A rough cut, blow, or stroke.

Usage examples:

He was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him

verb

Ride a horse for pleasure or exercise.

Usage examples:

The two riders hacked along the trail through the woods

verb

Officially allow (someone) to do something.

Usage examples:

The law permits councils to monitor any factory emitting smoke

noun

An official document giving someone authorization to do something.

Usage examples:

He is only in britain on a work permit

noun

A deep-bodied fish of the jack family, found in warm waters of the western atlantic and caribbean and caught for food and sport.

Usage examples:

He told me that there were snook and tarpon (as i already knew) and there were large bonefish and p…

phrasal verb

To accept or continue to accept an unpleasant situation or experience, or someone who behaves unpleasantly

Usage examples:

I can put up with the house being messy, but i hate it if it's not clean., he's so moody - i don't …

phrasal verb

To be willing to accept someone or something that is unpleasant or not desirable

Usage examples:

I don’t know why she puts up with him.

noun

A small stream.

Usage examples:

The rill was a parched ravine now, as though some convulsion of the earth had bled the region dry o…

verb

Flow in a small stream; trickle.

Usage examples:

The spring water rilled over our cold hands

noun

A fissure or narrow channel on the moon's surface.

noun

A small stream of water or another liquid.

Usage examples:

Sweat ran in rivulets down his back

noun

A small stream.

Usage examples:

The spring-fed runlet at her feet glistened like antique glass in its frame of scrub-willow.

noun

A gutter.

Usage examples:

Muddy lanes with runnels for effluent

noun

A small stream

Usage examples:

The broken path that led up the mountainside had become a runnel., the water is crystal clear, the …

verb

Have or maintain an upright position, supported by one's feet.

Usage examples:

Lionel stood in the doorway

noun

An attitude towards a particular issue; a position taken in an argument.

Usage examples:

The party's tough stand on immigration

verb

Be standing; be upright

noun

A thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut off a tree.

Usage examples:

Hayes picked up a fallen stick and twirled it idly between his fingers.

verb

Push a sharp or pointed object into or through (something).

Usage examples:

He stuck his fork into the sausage

verb

A long thin implement resembling a length of wood

noun

The internal organ in which the major part of the digestion of food occurs, being (in humans and many mammals) a pear-shaped enlargement of the alimentary canal linking the oesophagus to the small intestine.

Usage examples:

Severe stomach pains

verb

Consume (food or drink) without feeling or being sick.

Usage examples:

If you cannot stomach orange juice, try apple juice

noun

An organ in the body where food is digested

Usage examples:

I used to watch the tv news all the time, but i no longer have the stomach for it., vernon was simp…

noun

A small, narrow river.

Usage examples:

A perfect trout stream

verb

(of liquid, air, gas, etc.) run or flow in a continuous current in a specified direction.

Usage examples:

She sat with tears streaming down her face

noun

A small river that flows on or below the surface of the ground

Usage examples:

Rivers are wider, deeper, and longer than streams., the faucet leaked in a steady stream., an endle…

noun

A small stream.

Usage examples:

The rivulet becomes a streamlet, and the desert silence is suddenly broken by the silver music of w…

verb

Experience or be subjected to (something bad or unpleasant).

Usage examples:

He suffered intense pain

verb

To experience or show the effects of something bad

Usage examples:

[ t ] about 50,000 bicyclists suffer serious head injuries each year., [ t ] block’s own farm has s…

verb

Cause or allow (something, especially food or drink) to pass down the throat.

Usage examples:

She swallowed a mouthful slowly

noun

An act of swallowing something, especially food or drink.

Usage examples:

He downed his drink in one swallow

noun

A migratory swift-flying songbird with a forked tail and long pointed wings, feeding on insects in flight.

Usage examples:

The central aim of our study was to demonstrate that both natural and sexual selection have been im…

noun

A pin, typically one of a pair, fitted to the gunwale of a rowing boat and on which an oar pivots.

Usage examples:

He relates the importance of the thole, which secures the oar to the boat, and notes that towing wa…

verb

Endure (something) without complaint or resistance; tolerate.

Usage examples:

If there's one thing i can't thole it's a lie

verb

Allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) without interference.

Usage examples:

A regime unwilling to tolerate dissent

verb

To bear something unpleasant or annoying, or to keep going despite difficulties

Usage examples:

Athletes often have to tolerate a lot of pain., they don’t have the best service, but i tolerate it…

verb

Remain undamaged or unaffected by; resist.

Usage examples:

The structure had been designed to withstand winds of more than 100 mph

verb

To receive without being changed or damaged by something powerful; bear

Usage examples:

The building has to be strong enough to withstand severe winds and storms., coaches have to be toug…