How to pronounce “well”

Meaning

• [Adverb]
• (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
• (manner) Completely, fully.
• (degree) To a significant degree.
• (degree, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
• In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
• [Adjective]
• In good health.
• Good, content.
• (uncommon) Prudent; good; well-advised.
• (archaic, now chiefly Bermuda) Good to eat; tasty, delicious.
• [Interjection]
• Used as a discourse marker.
• An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and in a lowering intonation).
• An exclamation of indignance.
• (Ireland) Used as a greeting, short for "Are you well?"
• Used as a question to demand an answer from someone.
• [Noun]
• A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
• A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
• A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
• (figurative) A source of supply.
• (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
• (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
• (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.
• (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
• (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
• (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
• The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
• (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
• A well drink.
• (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
• (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
• (graphical user interface) The region of an interface that contains tabs.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
• (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface.

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