no es tan fiero el león como lo pintan

Phonetic: "/ˈdɛvəl/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: An evil creature.

Definition: (with article) The chief devil; Satan.

Definition: A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.

Definition: The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.

Example: The devil in me wants to let him suffer.

Definition: A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.

Example: Those two kids are devils in a toy store.

Definition: A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.

Example: That math problem was a devil.

Definition: (with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.

Example: She is having a devil of a time fixing it.

Definition: A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.

Definition: A dust devil.

Definition: (Christian Science) An evil or erring entity.

Definition: (in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.

Example: devil strip

Definition: A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.

Definition: A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.

Definition: A Tasmanian devil.

Definition: An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.

Phonetic: "/ˈdɛvəl/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.

Definition: To annoy or bother.

Definition: To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.

Definition: To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy:

Phonetic: "/nɒt/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A unary operation on logical values that changes true to false, and false to true.

Phonetic: "/nɒt/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: Negates the meaning of the modified verb.

Example: Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.

Definition: To no degree.

Example: It's not you, it's me.

Definition: (understatement, litotes) Used to modify superlatives to indicate the opposite or near opposite, often in a form of understatement.

Example: It was not my favorite movie of all time.

Phonetic: "/nɒt/"

Part Of Speech: conjunction

Definition: And not.

Example: He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.

Phonetic: "/nɒt/"

Part Of Speech: interjection

Definition: (1990s) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.

Example: I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not!

Phonetic: "/səʊ/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: True, accurate.

Example: That is so.  You are responsible for this, is that not so?

Definition: In that state or manner; with that attribute. A proadjective that replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.

Definition: Homosexual.

Example: Is he so?

Phonetic: "/səʊ/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: To the (explicitly stated) extent that.

Example: It was so hot outside that all the plants died.  He was so good, they hired him on the spot.

Definition: To the (implied) extent.

Example: I need a piece of cloth so long. [= this long]

Definition: In a particular manner.

Example: Place the napkin on the table just so. If that's what you mean, then say so; (or do so).

Definition: In the same manner or to the same extent as aforementioned; also.

Example: Just as you have the right to your free speech, so I have the right to mine.  Many people say she's the world's greatest athlete, but I don't think so.  "I can count backwards from one hundred." "So can I."

Definition: With as To such an extent or degree; as.

Example: so far as;  so long as;  so much as

Phonetic: "/səʊ/"

Part Of Speech: conjunction

Definition: In order that.

Example: Eat your broccoli so you can have dessert.

Definition: With the result that; for that reason; therefore.

Example: He ate too much cake, so he fell ill.

Definition: Provided that; on condition that, as long as.

Phonetic: "/səʊ/"

Part Of Speech: interjection

Definition: Used after a pause for thought to introduce a new topic, question or story.

Example: So, let's go home.

Definition: Short for so what.

Example: "You park your car in front of my house every morning." — "So?"

Definition: Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question.

Example: So how does this story end?

Definition: Used to introduce a rhetorical question.

Example: We'd like to visit but I don't know if we can afford a hotel. —So who's staying in a hotel? Stay with us.

Definition: Be as you are; stand still; used especially to cows; also used by sailors.

Phonetic: "/blak/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.

Definition: A black dye or pigment.

Definition: A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.

Definition: (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.

Definition: (sometimes capitalised) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.

Definition: Blackness, the condition of having dark skin.

Definition: The black ball.

Definition: The edge of home plate.

Definition: A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.

Definition: Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).

Definition: (in chess and similar games) The person playing with the black set of pieces.

Example: At this point black makes a disastrous move.

Definition: Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.

Definition: A stain; a spot.

Definition: A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.

Definition: Marijuana.

Phonetic: "/blak/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To make black; to blacken.

Definition: To apply blacking to (something).

Definition: To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

Phonetic: "/blak/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.

Definition: (of a place, etc) Without light.

Definition: (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

Definition: Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.

Example: black drinking fountain; black hospital

Definition: (of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red

Example: I was dealt two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.

Definition: Bad; evil; ill-omened.

Definition: Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.

Example: He shot her a black look.

Definition: (of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.

Definition: Overcrowded.

Definition: (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk or creamer.

Example: Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.

Definition: Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).

Definition: Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white.

Definition: Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.

Example: After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.

Definition: Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.

Example: 5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.

Definition: Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.

Definition: Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic

Definition: Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.

Definition: Foul; dirty.

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: To such an extent or degree; to the same extent or degree.

Example: It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive.

Definition: Considered to be, in relation to something else; in the relation (specified).

Example: 1865, The Act of Suicide as Distinct from the Crime of Self-Murder: A Sermon

Definition: For example; for instance. (Compare such as.)

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case.

Example: They're big as houses.

Definition: In the role of.

Example: He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend.

Part Of Speech: conjunction

Definition: In the (same) way or manner that; to the (same) degree that.

Example: As you wish, my lord!

Definition: At the time that; during the time when:

Definition: Being that, considering that, because, since.

Example: As it’s too late, I quit.

Definition: Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive, or with the verb elided): as though, as if.

Definition: Functioning as a relative conjunction, and sometimes like a relative pronoun: that, which, who. (See usage notes.)

Example: He had the same problem as she did getting the lock open.

Definition: (possibly obsolete) Than.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".

Definition: The player attempting to catch the others in this game.

Definition: A male.

Example: Is your cat a he or a she?

Part Of Speech: pronoun

Definition: (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.

Definition: (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.

Example: The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?

Definition: (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown.

Definition: A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships.

Phonetic: "/ˈpeɪntɪd/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To apply paint to.

Definition: To apply in the manner that paint is applied.

Definition: To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.

Definition: To create (an image) with paints.

Example: to paint a portrait or a landscape

Definition: To practise the art of painting pictures.

Example: I've been painting since I was a young child.

Definition: To draw an element in a graphical user interface.

Definition: To depict or portray.

Example: She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.

Definition: To color one's face by way of beautifying it.

Definition: To direct a radar beam toward.

Example: "We'll paint the target for the flyboys," the JTAC said.

Phonetic: "/ˈpeɪntɪd/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Coated with paint.

Definition: Depicted in paint.

Definition: Colorful, as if painted

Example: The painted desert, painted turtle

Definition: Wearing makeup

Example: A painted lady