Important Vocabulary to Improve your English-4

finance
When someone finances something such as a project or a purchase, they provide the money that is needed to pay for them.
= fund
Finance is also a noun.

Finance is the commercial or government activity of managing money, debt, credit, and investment.

You can refer to the amount of money that you have and how well it is organized as your finances.



grout
Grout is a thin mixture of sand, water, and cement or lime, which is used to fill in the spaces between tiles that are fixed to a wall.

If you grout the tiles on a wall, you use grout to fill in the spaces between the tiles.


gravel
Gravel consists of very small stones. It is often used to make paths.


crisp
Food that is crisp is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.

If food crisps or if you crisp it, it becomes pleasantly hard, for example because you have heated it at a high temperature.

Crisps are very thin slices of fried potato that are eaten cold as a snack.

Weather that is pleasantly fresh, cold, and dry can be described as crisp.

Crisp cloth or paper is clean and has no creases in it.



depict
To depict someone or something means to show or represent them in a work of art such as a drawing or painting.

To depict someone or something means to describe them or give an impression of them in writing.
= portray

hinge
hinge hinges hinging hinged
A hinge is a piece of metal, wood, or plastic that is used to join a door to its frame or to join two things together so that one of them can swing freely.
The top swung open on well-oiled hinges.

rear
The rear of something such as a building or vehicle is the back part of it.
Rear is also an adjective.

If you are at the rear of a moving line of people, you are the last person in it.
Your rear is the part of your body that you sit on. = behind
If you rear children, you look after them until they are old enough to look after themselves.
= bring up, raise
If you rear a young animal, you keep and look after it until it is old enough to be used for work or food, or until it can look after itself.

When a horse rears, it moves the front part of its body upwards, so that its front legs are high in the air and it is standing on its back legs.

If you say that something such as a building or mountain rears above you, you mean that is very tall and close to you.
= loom
If a person or vehicle is bringing up the rear, they are the last person or vehicle in a moving line of them.

If something unpleasant rears its head or rears its ugly head, it becomes visible or noticeable.


lad
A lad is a young man or boy.

Some men refer to their male friends or colleagues as the lads.


cockeyed
If you say that an idea or scheme is cockeyed, you mean that you think it is very unlikely to succeed.

If something is cockeyed, it looks wrong because it is not in a level or straight position.