All English words - page 691

Meanings of Busyness:

noun

The state or condition of having a great deal to do.

Usage examples:

It's easy to get caught up in the busyness of life

Meanings of Busywork:

noun

Work that keeps a person busy but has little value in itself.

Usage examples:

The provision of aid became an excuse for doing nothing, a kind of busywork that governments undert…

Meanings of But:

conjunction

Used to introduce a phrase or clause contrasting with what has already been mentioned.

Usage examples:

He stumbled but didn't fall

preposition

Except; apart from; other than.

Usage examples:

We were never anything but poor

adverb

No more than; only.

Usage examples:

He is but a shadow of his former self

noun

An argument against something; an objection.

Usage examples:

No buts —just get out of here

Meanings of But for:

collocation

Without someone or something

Usage examples:

But for you, i would be completely alone in the world., these banks would have failed but for large…

Meanings of Butane:

noun

A flammable hydrocarbon gas of the alkane series, present in petroleum and natural gas. it is used in bottled form as a fuel.

Usage examples:

The remaining butane and methane are recycled and reused to fuel the process.

Meanings of Butanes:

noun

A flammable hydrocarbon gas of the alkane series, present in petroleum and natural gas. it is used in bottled form as a fuel.

Usage examples:

The remaining butane and methane are recycled and reused to fuel the process.

Meanings of Butanol:

noun

Each of two isomeric liquid alcohols used as solvents; butyl alcohol.

Usage examples:

Recent work in our laboratory has explored the clustering behaviour of organic polar solvents such …

Meanings of Butanone:

noun

A liquid ketone used as an industrial solvent; also called methyl ethyl ketone.

Meanings of Butch:

adjective

Having an appearance or other qualities of a type traditionally seen as masculine.

Usage examples:

A butch woman in a baseball cap

noun

A lesbian whose appearance and behaviour are seen as traditionally masculine.

Usage examples:

Also masculine females and feminine males - including butches and gay males considered to be ‘effem…

Meanings of Butcher:

noun

A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.

Usage examples:

Markets often have butchers or cooked meat shops that specialize in the head and trotters, that is,…

verb

Slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food.

Usage examples:

A ban on butchering downer cows - animals that stagger, can't walk, or exhibit other signs of bse-w…

adjective

Having an appearance or other qualities of a type traditionally seen as masculine.

Usage examples:

A butch woman in a baseball cap

Meanings of Butcheress:

noun

A female butcher; (occasionally also) a butcher's wife or daughter.

Meanings of Butchering:

verb

Slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food.

Usage examples:

A ban on butchering downer cows - animals that stagger, can't walk, or exhibit other signs of bse-w…

noun

A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.

Usage examples:

Markets often have butchers or cooked meat shops that specialize in the head and trotters, that is,…

Meanings of Butcherliness:

noun

The quality of being butcherly.

Meanings of Butcherly:

adjective

Inflicting or involving brutal slaughter or injury; barbarous; bloody; (of a blow or stroke) rough, violent; hacking.

Meanings of Butcherous:

adjective

Inflicting or involving brutal slaughter or injury; murderous; barbarous; bloody.

Meanings of Butchers:

noun

A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.

Usage examples:

Markets often have butchers or cooked meat shops that specialize in the head and trotters, that is,…

verb

Slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food.

Usage examples:

A ban on butchering downer cows - animals that stagger, can't walk, or exhibit other signs of bse-w…

Meanings of Butchery:

noun

The work of slaughtering animals and preparing them for sale as meat.

Usage examples:

If women were in the encampment they would be segregated and would prepare the meal, although slaug…

Meanings of Butches:

noun

A lesbian whose appearance and behaviour are seen as traditionally masculine.

Usage examples:

Also masculine females and feminine males - including butches and gay males considered to be ‘effem…

adjective

Having an appearance or other qualities of a type traditionally seen as masculine.

Usage examples:

Butch men and feisty women

Meanings of Bute:

noun

Another term for phenylbutazone.

Meanings of Butea:

noun

Any of various trees or climbing plants of the genus butea (family fabaceae (leguminosae)) of southern and south-eastern asia, especially b. monosperma (also called dhak, palas, and flame of the forest).

Meanings of Butene:

noun

Each of four isomeric gaseous alkenes, having the general formula c₄ h₈, which are used as reagents in chemical synthesis, especially in the production of polymers; also called butylene.

Meanings of Butenyl:

noun

Each of three isomeric radicals or groups derived from butene and having the general formula —c₄ h₇. chiefly attributive or as a formative element in chemical names.

Meanings of Buteonine:

adjective

Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of the genus buteo of buzzards and broad-winged hawks; of or relating to a subfamily buteoninae in which they are often placed.

Meanings of Butine:

noun

Originally, each of four isomeric unsaturated hydrocarbons with chemical formula c₄ h₆; (in later use specifically) either of the two isomers which are alkynes, used in chemical synthesis.

Meanings of Butle:

verb

Work as a butler.

Usage examples:

There is no one today worth buttling for