Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word WELL

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Definitions of WELL

1. In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
2. In good health.
3. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
4. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
5. A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
6. The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
7. A well drink.
8. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
9. (manner) Completely, fully.
10. (degree) To a significant degree.
11. (degree, British, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
12. (hypercorrect) Good, content.
13. (uncommon) Prudent; good; well-advised.
14. (archaic, nowchieflyBermuda) Good to eat; tasty, delicious.
15. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
16. An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
17. An exclamation of indignance.
18. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
19. Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
20. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting
21. Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
22. (figurative) A source of supply.
23. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
24. (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
25. (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
26. (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
27. (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
28. (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
29. (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
30. (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
31. (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
32. (GUI) The region of an interface that contains tabs.
33. (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
34. (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface.

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