(~es, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is an area of ground that is marked out and used for playing a game such as football, cricket, or hockey. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use field )
There was a swimming-pool, cricket ~es, playing fields...
Their conduct both on and off the ~ was excellent.
N-COUNT: oft n N
2.
If you ~ something somewhere, you throw it with quite a lot of force, usually aiming it carefully.
Simon ~ed the empty bottle into the lake.
VERB: V n prep
3.
To ~ somewhere means to fall forwards suddenly and with a lot of force.
The movement took him by surprise, and he ~ed forward...
I was ~ed into the water and swam ashore.
VERB: V adv, be V-ed prep/adv
4.
If someone is ~ed into a new situation, they are suddenly forced into it.
They were being ~ed into a new adventure...
This could ~ the government into confrontation with the work-force.
VERB: be V-ed prep, V n prep
5.
In the game of baseball or rounders, when you ~ the ball, you throw it to the batter for them to hit it.
We passed long, hot afternoons ~ing a baseball.
VERB: V n
~ing
His ~ing was a legend among major league hitters.
N-UNCOUNT
6.
The ~ of a sound is how high or low it is.
He raised his voice to an even higher ~.
N-UNCOUNT
see also perfect ~
7.
If a sound is ~ed at a particular level, it is produced at the level indicated.
His cry is ~ed at a level that makes it impossible to ignore...
Her voice was well ~ed and brisk.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed prep/adv, V-ed
see also high-~ed , low-~ed
8.
If something is ~ed at a particular level or degree of difficulty, it is set at that level.
I think the material is ~ed at too high a level for our purposes...
The government has ~ed High Street interest rates at a new level.
VERB: be V-ed prep, V n prep
9.
If something such as a feeling or a situation rises to a high ~, it rises to a high level.
Tension has reached such a ~ that the armed forces say soldiers may have to use their weapons to defend themselves against local people.
N-SING: usu with supp
see also fever ~
10.
If you ~ your tent, or ~ camp, you put up your tent in a place where you are going to stay.
He had ~ed his tent in the yard...
At dusk we ~ed camp in the middle of nowhere.
VERB: V n, V n
11.
If a boat ~es, it moves violently up and down with the movement of the waves when the sea is rough.
The ship is ~ing and rolling in what looks like about fifteen foot seas.
VERB: V
12.
see also ~ed
13.
If someone makes a ~ for something, they try to persuade people to do or buy it.
The President speaks in New York today, making another ~ for his economic program...
PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR for n
see also sales ~