What is the meaning of ABOUT. Phrases containing ABOUT
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talking about
Verb. To mess about, to waste time, often to the annoyance of someone else.
To go about is to change the course of a sailboat by tacking. Ready about, or boutship, is the order to prepare for tacking.
What are you on about? That's something you may well hear when visiting the UK. It means what are you talking about?
To chastise, beat, thrash. "When I got home he set about me with a strap."Â
v urinate: Give me a minute, Dave – I’ve got to go and see a man about a dog.
something is back to front ‘It’s all arse about
Verb. To hurry about, hinting at frantic haste. E.g."I've been tear-arsing about from one meeting to the next and without a break all day."
v fool around; mess about: Where the heckÂ’s Bob? / I think heÂ’s in the garage cocking about with that ridiculous jet-powered go-kart that he bought on eBay.
What are you on about? That's something you may well hear when visiting the UK. It means what are you talking about?
About done is British slang for finished.About done is British slang for slightly drunk, tipsy.
About right is British slang for slightly drunk, tipsy.
Verb. 1. To mess about, to waste time. 2. To waste someone's time, to annoy someone.
Verb. To idle away time, to mess around. E.g."We spent all day Sunday just noncing about."
Verb. To waste time, to idle away time. E.g."My son needs to find himself a job, he's been sodding about playing computer games for the last 6 months and sleeping 15 hours a day."
(entered pretty much verbatim) You have to emphasize the 'bout' of 'about' in this sentence. It is said with a heavily sarcastic tone, and its meaning is very difficult to explain since there is absolutely no equivalent in standard English. It means something like 'Shame on (you)', or 'That's (their) loss!'. Say for example I make an effort to apply to do a course, and they turn me down but don't explain why. I go and complain to my mum. She says 'Huh, pity about them!'. Or say my friend Johnny has some nice sweets. I say 'How Johnny man giz a sweetie, he says 'Na! Gaan n get yarown man!', I say 'Pity about ye!'.
Verb. To waste time, to mess about. E.g."Stop titting around and get on with your work."
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To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about.
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Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland, about 1879.
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A circle either of leaves or flowers about a stem at the same node; a whorl.
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A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack.
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Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time.
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To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
v. i.
To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.
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Any one of numerous species of club-shaped, compound Alcyonaria belonging to Veretillum and allied genera, of the tribe Pennatulacea. The whole colony can move about as if it were a simple animal.
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A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
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A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about.
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To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
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A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor.
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One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man.
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A sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of August, marked thus [/] in almanacs.
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One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
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In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.
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Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the violet is the type. It contains about twenty genera and two hundred and fifty species.
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A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.
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A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liege, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively.
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A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs.
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