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Definition: Well |
WellAdjective1. In good health especially after having suffered illness or injury; "appears to be entirely well"; "the wound is nearly well"; "a well man"; "I think I'm well; at least I feel well". 2. Resulting favorably; "its a good thing that I wasn't there"; "it is good that you stayed"; "it is well that no one saw you"; "all's well that ends well". 3. Wise or advantageous and hence advisable; "it would be well to start early". Adverb1. (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard; "the children behaved well"; "a task well done"; "the party went well"; "he slept well"; "a well-argued thesis"; "a well-planned party"; (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well' as in "the baby can walk pretty good"). 2. Thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form; "The problem is well understood"; "she was well informed"; "shake well before using"; "in order to avoid food poisoning be sure the meat is well cooked"; "well-done beef", "well-satisfied customers"; "well-educated". 3. Indicating high probability; in all likelihood; "I might well do it"; "a mistake that could easily have ended in disaster"; "you may well need your umbrella"; "he could equally well be trying to deceive us". 4. (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) "a book well worth reading"; "was well aware of the difficulties ahead"; "suspected only too well what might be going on". 5. To a suitable or appropriate extent or degree; "the project was well underway"; "the fetus has well developed organs"; "his father was well pleased with his grades". 6. Favorably; with approval; "their neighbors spoke well of them"; "he thought well of the book". 7. To a great extent or degree; "I'm afraid the film was well over budget"; "painting the room white made it seem considerably (or substantially) larger"; "the house has fallen considerably in value"; "the price went up substantially". 8. With great or especially intimate knowledge; "we knew them well. 9. With prudence or propriety; "You would do well to say nothing more"; "could not well refuse". 10. : with skill or in a pleasing manner; "she dances well"; "he writes well". 11. : in a manner affording benefit or advantage; "she married well"; "The children were settled advantageously in Seattle". 12. : in financial comfort; "They live well"; "she has been able to live comfortably since her husband died". 13. : without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor; "took the joke well"; "took the tragic news well". Noun1. A deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine. 2. A cavity or vessel used to contain liquid. 3. An abundant source; "she was a well of information". 4. An open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway). 5. An enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps. Verb1. Come up, as of liquids: "Tears well in her eyes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "well" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Well (Heb. beer), to be distinguished from a fountain (Heb. 'ain). A "beer" was a deep shaft, bored far under the rocky surface by the art of man, which contained water which percolated through the strata in its sides. Such wells were those of Jacob and Beersheba, etc. (see Gen. 21:19, 25, 30, 31; 24:11; 26:15, 18-25, 32, etc.). In the Pentateuch this word beer, so rendered, occurs twenty-five times. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are employed in a well, foretells that you will succumb to adversity through your misapplied energies. You will let strange elements direct your course. To fall into a well, signifies that overwhelming despair will possess you. For one to cave in, promises that enemies' schemes will overthrow your own. To see an empty well, denotes you will be robbed of fortune if you allow strangers to share your confidence. To see one with a pump in it, shows you will have opportunities to advance your prospects. To dream of an artesian well, foretells that your splendid resources will gain you admittance into the realms of knowledge and pleasure. To draw water from a well, denotes the fulfilment of ardent desires. If the water is impure, there will be unpleasantness. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Environment | A bored, drilled, or driven shaft, or a dug hole whose depth is greater than the largest surface dimension and whose purpose is to reach underground water supplies or oil, or to store or bury fluids below ground. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A space formed by a local lowering of the deck, such as the space between the ends of two water ballast tanks, or between the end of a doublebottom and a bulkhead. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Test hole for exploring a possible structural trap. Source: European Union. (references) |
Hydrologic | An artificial excavation put down by any method for the purposes of withdrawing water from the underground aquifers. A bored, drilled, or driven shaft, or a dug hole whose depth is greater than the largest surface dimension and whose purpose is to reach underground water supplies or oil, or to store or bury fluids below ground. (water). (references) |
Industry | The space, running the whole width of the machine, between the front and back combs. In this space, the positioning of warp and pattern threads is effected by the guide bars. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A hole or well drilled or bored principally by mechanical means in order to explore geological conditions and/or to tap oil deposits. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. A borehole or shaft sunk into the ground for the following purposes: obtaining water, oil, gas, or mineral solutions from an underground source; introducing water, gas, or chemical reagent solutions under pressure into an underground formation; or removing the leachate from such an operation. See also:borehole mining b. A slot in the front of a hydraulic dredge hull in which the digging ladder pivots c. A hollow cylinder of reinforced concrete, steel, timber, or masonry built in a hole as a support for a bridge or building d. Commonly used as a syn. for borehole or drill hole, esp. by individuals associated with the petroleum-drilling industry e. A wall around a tree trunk that protects it from fill f. An artificial excavation (pit, hole, tunnel), generally cylindrical in form and commonly walled in, sunk (drilled, dug, driven, bored, or jetted) into the ground to such a depth as to penetrate water-yielding rock or soil and to allow the water to flow or to be pumped to the surface; a water well, originally applied to natural springs or pools, esp. mineral spas. See also:artesian well; deep well. g. The crucible of a furnace or a cavity in the lower part of some furnaces to receive falling metal. h. The small dark nonreflecting area in the center of a fashioned stone, esp. in a colorless diamond cut too thick. i. A vertical opening through the hull of a ship in which drill pipe or mining machinery is lowered to the seafloor, rather than being loweredover the side of the ship. Also called: moonpool. (references) | |
Science | A shaft or hole into the Earth to tap an underground supply of water. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Good, Well. Many intelligent persons carelessly use the adjective good in the sense of the adverb well; as, "I feel good to-day." "Did you sleep good last night?" "Does this coat look good enough to wear on the street?" "I can do it as good as he can." The frequent indulgence in such errors dulls the sense of taste and weakens the power of discrimination. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A well is an artificial boring in the earth through which water can be obtained.Two classes may be distinguished: shallow or ordinary wells, sunk through a permeable stratum until an impermeable stratum is reached; or deep and artesian wells, the latter named from Artois in France, which are sunk through an impermeable stratum down into a water-bearing stratum which overlies an impermeable stratum.
Obviously ordinary wells can supply water very cheaply, but, since impurities readily reach them, there is great risk of contamination. The same does not apply to deep wells, such water being usually free from organic impurities. In ordinary wells, and in deep wells, the water requires pumping to the surface; in artesian wells, on the other hand, the water usually spouts up to a greater or less height above it.
See also: oil well
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Well."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
WELL | English | Whole Earth'Lectronic Link | Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: WellSynonyms: well(p) (adj), advantageously (adv), comfortably (adv), considerably (adv), easily (adv), good (adv), intimately (adv), substantially (adv), fountainhead (n), wellspring (n), swell (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: ill (adj), badly (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Approbation | Adverb: with credit, to admiration; well; with three times three. |
Assent | Adverb: yes, yea, ay, aye, true; good; well; very well, very true; well and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure, "thou hast said", you said it, you said a mouthful; truly, exactly, precisely, that's just it, indeed, certainly, you bet, certes, ex concesso; of course, unquestionably, assuredly, no doubt, doubtless; naturally, natch. |
Cause | Spring, fountain, well, font; fountainhead, spring head, wellhead; fons et origo, genesis; descent; (paternity); remote cause; influence. |
Depth | Hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater; gulf; bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell. |
Egress | Exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; (water in motion); effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape. |
Greatness | Greatly; Adjective: much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little; pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so, ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds; incalculably, infinitely. |
Gulf Lake | Lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well; standing water, dead water, sheet of water; fish pond, mill pond; ditch, dike, dyke, dam; reservoir. (store); alberca, barachois, hog wallow. |
Remedy | Hotel des Invalides; sanatorium, spa, pump room, well; hospice; Red Cross. |
River | Verb: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out. (egress). |
Store | Noun: stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow. |
Wealth | Adjective: wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, moneyed, monied, worth much; well to do, well off; warm; comfortable, well, well provided for. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, uh, I was asking Chris to the prom (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz) Well see, there's your problem (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Oh well, alright, let's all sell our souls and work for Satan because it's more convenient that way. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) Well don't ever do that again (I.Q.; writing credit: Andy Breckman and Michael Leeson.) Yeah. Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) | |
Lyrics | Wish me love a wishing well (Wishing Well (A Tone Poem); performing artist: Terence Trent D'arby) If I'm alive and well, will you be there holding my hand (Kryptonite; performing artist: 3 Doors Down) Oh I'ma wish you well (Where My Girls At; performing artist: 702) Well, before you do anything rash, baby, listen to this (Everybody Plays the Fool; performing artist: Aaron Neville) Well you took me (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC) | |
Clever | Principles have no real force except when one is well fed. (references; author: Mark Twain) Dig a well before you are thirsty. (references; author: Chinese Proverb) Exceptionally Well Qualified: Made no major blunders yet. (references; author: unknown) If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush. (references; author: unknown) A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | The swan swam over the sea. Swim, swan, swim. The swan swam back again. Well swum, swan. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Well Spent Life (1971) The Blues Is Alive and Well and Living in Chicago (1970) All's Well That Ends Well (1968) The Shallow Well Project (1966) Well Worn Daffy (1965) | |
Song Titles | Wishing Well (performing artist: Terence Trent D'arby) A Well Respected Man (performing artist: The Kinks) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shown on mammogram is a small cancerous lesion as well as calcific deposits in veins. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Pictured is a family scene, with a mother reading a story to several children. She is seated in a rocking chair and they are surrounding her on the floor in a family room setting. These people are part of a Mormon family. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate, well below the national average. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Note the fusion of the former scales of which the protective shell is composed, as well as the small, hair-like projections emerging from pores within this mantle. Credit: CDC. |  | The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots, and can appear on both the palms of the hands as well as on the plantar surface (bottom) of the feet. Credit: CDC. |
 | Glowing gaseous streamers of red, white, and blue — as well as green and pink — illuminate the ... Credit: NASA. |  | Automatic tide gauge mounted on float well Gauge installed by party off of SURVEYOR West coast of Baranof Island. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Putting the nipple on a float well Tides party of Gerald B. Mills Photo #2 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Aerial photo of eroding marsh and oil from recent well blowout. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Dixon Bay well site - seen of a blow out and oil spill as seen from the air. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Aircraft unloading in the distance - spring melt well under way. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "Japanese well" by Samy Yang Commentary: "This is a Japanese well. I wanted to capture the water falling from the spout, but my camera didn't catch it very nicely. Oh well. I still like it. ." | "Flag at Rest" by phong Commentary: "A shot I took of The Washingtom Monument that turned out pretty well." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | Well begun is half done. |
Benjamin Franklin | Love well, whip well. |
Chinese Proverb | Dig a well before you are thirsty. |
Dante Alighieri | He listens well who takes notes. |
Edmund Hillary | Well, we knocked the bastard off! |
Freidank | New brooms sweep well. |
Plato | A well begun is half ended. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Necessity does everything well. |
Thomas Carlyle | The actual well seen is ideal. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or bailiffs only such as know the law of the realm and mean to observe it well. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | After considering it well on all sides, I can find but two. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress. (reference) |
US Bill of Rights | 1795 | Amendment II. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and well established, to decide it. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The founders of these systems see, indeed, the class antagonisms, as well as the action of the decomposing elements, in the prevailing form of society. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Second.The right of association for all lawful purposes by the employed as well as by the employers. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Already we use together a large number of islands; more may well be entrusted to our joint care in the near future. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
United Nations | 1948 | Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Today, in contrast, many Negroes have achieved outstanding success in the arts and sciences as well as in the business and professional world. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Had you witnessed my behaviour there, I can hardly suppose you would ever have thought well of me again |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | We knew pretty well that we were helping ourselves, before we met here, I believe |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Well, said Reg, "it’s been an interesting time recently, or rather, a dull time |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | If the imaginative faculty refused to act at such an hour, it might well be deemed a hopeless case |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | We are unlearning certain things, and we do well, provided that while unlearning one thing we are learning another |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | O, well now, we got a good breath of ozone round the Head today |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | But flowers work almost as well. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Fare you well. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This trial was well performed. (references) | |
These children did well initially. (references) | ||
The cause of BPH is not well understood. (references) | ||
Business | U.S. imports have done well in this sector. (references) | |
Footwear networks are well developed in Poland. (references) | ||
Lingerie networks are well developed in Poland. (references) | ||
Children | Ghana | Shrine priests generally are male, but may be female as well. (references) |
United Kingdom | The law bans corporal punishment in state schools as well as private schools and nursery schools. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | The penalty for pedophilia is not less than 5 years and up to 20 years as well as an unspecified fine. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Togo | Advertisers reportedly often were intimidated as well. (references) |
United Kingdom | Viewpoints critical of the Government are well represented. (references) | |
Spain | Asylum requests may be made from outside, as well as within, the country. (references) | |
Discrimination | India | The traditional caste system as well as differences of ethnicity, religion, and language deeply divide society. (references) |
South Africa | Legal recourse is available to those who believe that they have been discriminated against; however, entrenched attitudes and practices, as well as limited resources, limit the practical effect of these protections. (references) | |
India | Despite laws designed to prevent discrimination, other legislation as well as social and cultural practices have a profound discriminatory impact, and discrimination against women, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, and national, racial, and ethnic minorities is a problem. (references) | |
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | That process is now well under way. (references) |
Australia | Australian movies also are well known. (references) | |
Switzerland | Collecting societies are well established. (references) | |
Human Rights | China | Many are not well versed in the law. (references) |
Uganda | It assists military defendants as well as civilians. (references) | |
Jamaica | The defendant's right to counsel is well established. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Colombia | In August 2000, a technical working group including the Ministries of Interior and Environment, as well as an advisor to the U'wa, had reported that the Government and Occidental Petroleum were complying with all applicable regulations. (references) |
Russia | People such as the Buryats in Siberia; the Tatar and Bashkiri in the Urals; the people of the North, including the Enver, Tafarli, and Chukchi; and others work actively to preserve and defend their cultures, as well as the economic resources of their regions. (references) | |
Colombia | Ministry representatives are located in all regions of the country with indigenous populations and work with other governmental human rights organizations, as well as with NGO human rights groups and civil rights organizations, to promote indigenous interests and investigate violations of indigenous rights. (references) | |
Minorities | Cambodia | Ethnic Chinese citizens are well accepted in society. (references) |
Seychelles | Creoles are well integrated into society, business, and politics. (references) | |
Thailand | The Sino-Thai population is well integrated and does not face discrimination. (references) | |
Political Economy | Haiti | Most parties are not well structured. (references) |
SPAIN | Spain's economy continues to perform well. (references) | |
OMAN | Omani nationals tend to be well protected. (references) | |
Political Rights | Monaco | He may choose to consult it on other matters as well. (references) |
South Africa | Women hold 9 of 27 ministerial positions, as well as 6 of 13 deputy ministerial slots. (references) | |
Ukraine | Jews are well represented among the political elite and hold several parliamentary seats. (references) | |
Trade | Spain | Spanish banks are well capitalized. (references) |
Korea | This may cost a bit more, but may be well worth it. (references) | |
Switzerland | Many well known cartels, as a result, have disappeared. (references) | |
Travel | Hong Kong | Visiting Americans generally fit in well. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Supermarkets are well stocked with Western products. (references) | |
Nigeria | Some hotels require a deposit to cover meals as well. (references) | |
Women | Bhutan | Marriages may be arranged by the marriage partners themselves as well as by their parents. (references) |
Cuba | Approximately 40 percent of all women work, and they are well represented in many professions. (references) | |
Russia | Job advertisements often specify sex and age groups, and sometimes physical appearance as well. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Korea | Military conscripts routinely are used for this purpose as well. (references) |
Vietnam | It is uncertain how well the Government enforces these provisions. (references) | |
Botswana | Formal sector jobs almost always pay well above minimum wage levels. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given. Who is that, father? A mendicant, child, Haggard, morose, and unaffable -- wild! See how he glares through the bars of his cell! With Citizen Mendicant all is not well. Why did they put him there, father? Because Obeying his belly he struck at the laws. His belly? Oh, well, he was starving, my boy -- A state in which, doubtless, there's little of joy. No bite had he eaten for days, and his cry Was "Bread!" ever "Bread!" What's the matter with pie? With little to wear, he had nothing to sell; To beg was unlawful -- improper as well. Why didn't he work? He would even have done that, But men said: "Get out!" and the State remarked: "Scat!" I mention these incidents merely to show That the vengeance he took was uncommonly low. Revenge, at the best, is the act of a Siou, But for trifles -- Pray what did bad Mendicant do? Stole two loaves of bread to replenish his lack And tuck out the belly that clung to his back. Is that all father dear? There's little to tell: They sent him to jail, and they'll send him to -- well, The company's better than here we can boast, And there's -- Bread for the needy, dear father? Um -- toast. Atka Mip |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | We must learn from Enron as well. |
Erin Runnion | Right, right. Well, you know, I didn't want cameras in the courtroom because this case isn't just murder. |
Jim Jeffords | It's gone very well. I was very well received and nothing but praise and the book sales are going rapidly. |
Julie Andrews | My. Well, a lot of people have passed on. And Dudley, I think, is one of the saddest of them all. What a waste. |
Liza Minnelli | Sure, I was nervous. But I feel so good, I feel so well, you know, and so centered. And I know what I do and I know who I am. |
Naomi Campbell | I believe more for me as a character and I go inside myself. It's really a lot to do with the mind as well, I think. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Yeah, well, I like to encourage young performers who wouldn't maybe have a venue without our show, yeah. |
Rush Limbaugh | If you solve the security problem, you'll solve the economic problem as well. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Contemplating the internal situation as well as the external relations of the United States, we discover equal cause for contentment and satisfaction. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | At home, fellow-citizens, you best know whether we have done well or ill. |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | Laws are to govern all alike--those opposed as well as those who favor them. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Inflation results from psychological as well as economic conditions. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Chairman, both of our countries have great unfinished tasks and I know that your people as well as those of the United States can ask for nothing better than to pursue them free from the fear of war. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We all face sickness someday, and some more often than we wish, and old age as well. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | SDI funding is money wisely appropriated and money well spent. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Our budget fully funds today's benefits and it asssures that future benefits will be funded as well. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I've done pretty well with this speech, but I can't say that. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Well" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 82.40% of the time. "Well" is used about 116,480 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 82.4% | 95,978 | 94 |
| Interjection | 15.27% | 17,790 | 520 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.56% | 1,812 | 4,669 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.75% | 877 | 8,104 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 116,480 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "well" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Well | Last name | 1,000 | 13,882 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "well". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Beer | N/A | Biblical | A well |
| Beera | N/A | Biblical | A well |
| Beerelim | N/A | Biblical | The well of Elim |
| Beeri | N/A | Biblical | My well |
| Beer-lahai-roi | N/A | Biblical | The well of him that liveth and seeth me |
| Beersheba | N/A | Biblical | The well of an oath |
| Beersheba | N/A | Biblical | The seventh well |
| Bera | N/A | Biblical | A well |
| Berachiah | N/A | Biblical | Speaking well of the Lord |
| Berothath | N/A | Biblical | Of a well |
| En-haddah | N/A | Biblical | Well of gladness |
| En-hazor | N/A | Biblical | The grass of the well |
| En-rimmon | N/A | Biblical | Well of weight |
| En-rogel | N/A | Biblical | The well of searching |
| Haradah | N/A | Biblical | Well of great fear |
| Jeberechiah | N/A | Biblical | Speaking well of |
| Jedidah | N/A | Biblical | Well beloved |
| Shimon | N/A | Biblical | Providing well |
| Trophimus | N/A | Biblical | Well brought up |
| Trophimus | N/A | Biblical | Well educated |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | Trican Well Service Ltd | USA | Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "well": a stuff that wears well ♦ a well man ♦ a well ordered life ♦ a well set girl ♦ a well watered region ♦ abandoned well ♦ absorbing well ♦ acquit oneself well ♦ air well ♦ alive and well ♦ all are well ♦ all is well ♦ all is well that ends well ♦ all's well ♦ all's well that ends well ♦ artesian flowing well ♦ artesian well ♦ as well ♦ as well as ♦ as well as can be expected ♦ as well as that ♦ augur well ♦ augur well for ♦ be doing well ♦ be well ♦ be well disposed towards ♦ be well equipped for smth. ♦ be well equipped to do ♦ be well grounded in arithmetic ♦ be well heeled ♦ |