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patents
     1. n. plural of patent
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of patent
pharmaceuticals
     1. n. plural of pharmaceutical
to
     1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
           I want to leave.
           He asked me what to do.
           I don’t know how to say it.
           I have places to go and people to see.
     2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
           "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
           If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
     3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
           I have to do laundry today.
     4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
           We are walking to the shop.
     5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
           He devoted himself to education.
           They drank to his health.
     6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
           His face was beaten to a pulp.
     7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
           similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
     8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
           With God to friend (with God as a friend);   with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe);   lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice);   t
     9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
           one to one = 1:1
           ten to one = 10:1.
           I have ten dollars to your four.
     10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
           Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
           Three to the power of two is nine.
           Three to the second is nine.
     11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
           I gave the book to him.
     12. prep. (time) Preceding.
           ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
     13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
           Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
           There's a lot of sense to what he says.
     14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
           Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
     15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
           Please push the door to.
     16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
     17. adv. misspelling of too
extend
     1. v. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
     2. v. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent.
     3. v. To cause to increase in extent.
     4. v. To cause to last for a longer period of time.
     5. v. To straighten (a limb).
     6. v. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
           to extend sympathy to the suffering
     7. v. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
     8. v. (legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
     9. v. (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
           The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal.
the
     1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
           I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
           The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
           The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
     2. art.          Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
                    The street that runs through my hometown.
     3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
           No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
           God save the Queen!
     4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
           That was the best apple pie ever.
     5. art.          Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
                    That apple pie was the best.
     6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
     7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
           Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
     8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
           No one in the whole country had seen it before.
           I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
     9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
           A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
     10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
           That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
     11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
           The hotter the better.
           The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
           The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
           It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
     12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
           It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
           It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
           I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
term
     1. n. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
           Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.
     2. n. That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
     3. n. (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
           A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
     4. n. A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
           "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
     5. n. Relations among people.
           We are on friendly terms with each other.
     6. n. Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
     7. n. Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
           He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison.
           near-term, mid-term and long-term goals
           the term allowed to a debtor to discharge his debt
     8. n. (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
     9. n. (archaic) A menstrual period.
     10. n. (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
           All the terms of this sum cancel out.
           One only term is odd nobr - in ( 12; 3; 4 ).
     11. n. (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
     12. n. (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
     13. n. (architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.
     14. n. (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
     15. v. To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
     16. adj. (medicine, colloquial) Born or delivered at term.
           term neonate
     17. n. (computing, informal) terminal (computer program that emulates a physical terminal)
     18. v. To terminate one's employment
     19. n. One whose employment has been terminated
of
     1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
     2. prep.          (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
     3. prep.          (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
     4. prep.          From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
                    There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
     5. prep.          (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
                    What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
     6. prep. Expressing separation.
     7. prep.          (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
                    Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
     8. prep.          (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
                    He seemed devoid of human feelings.
     9. prep.          (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
     10. prep. Expressing origin.
     11. prep.          (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
                    The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
     12. prep.          (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
                    The invention was born of necessity.
     13. prep.          (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
                    It is said that she died of a broken heart.
     14. prep.          (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
                    I am tired of all this nonsense.
     15. prep. Expressing agency.
     16. prep.          (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
                    I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
     17. prep.          (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
                    The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
     18. prep.          (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
                    It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
     19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
     20. prep.          (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
                    Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
     21. prep.          (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
                    She wore a dress of silk.
     22. prep.          (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
                    What a lot of nonsense!
     23. prep.          (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
                   Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
     24. prep.          (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
                    I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
     25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
     26. prep.          (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
                    I'm always thinking of you.
     27. prep.          (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
                    He told us the story of his journey to India.
     28. prep.          (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
                    This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
     29. prep. Having partitive effect.
     30. prep.          (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
                    Most of these apples are rotten.
     31. prep.          (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
     32. prep.          (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
                    On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
     33. prep.          (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
                    He is a friend of mine.
     34. prep. Expressing possession.
     35. prep.          Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
                    He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
     36. prep.          Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
                    The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
     37. prep.          Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
                    Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
     38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
     39. prep.          (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
                    She had a profound distrust of the police.
     40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
     41. prep.          (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
                    My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
     42. prep.          (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
                    Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
     43. prep.          (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
                    We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
     44. prep.          (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
                    It's not that big of a deal.
     45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
     46. prep.          (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
                    Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
     47. prep.          (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
                    I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
     48. prep.          (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
                    After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
a
     1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
           There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
     2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
           I've seen it happen a hundred times.
     3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
           We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
     4. art. The same; one.
           We are of a mind on matters of morals.
     5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
           A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
           He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
     6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
     7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
           The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
     8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
           Stand a tiptoe.
     9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
           Torn a pieces.
     10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
           I brush my teeth twice a day.
     11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
     12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
           A God’s name.
     13. prep. To do with status; In.
           King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
             To set the people a worke.
     14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
           1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
             The times, they are a-changin'.
     15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
           1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
             Jacob, when he was a dying
     16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
     17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
           I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
     18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
     19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
     20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
           The name of John a Gaunt.
     21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
     22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
patent
     1. n. A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter
     2. n. A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent.
     3. n. License; formal permission.
     4. n. Patent leather: a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for shoes and accessories.
     5. v. To successfully register an invention with a government agency; to secure a letter patent.
     6. adj. (biology) Open, unobstructed, expanded.
           That is a patent ductus arteriosus.
     7. adj. Explicit and obvious.
           Those claims are patent nonsense.
     8. adj. (of flour) That is fine, and consists mostly of the inner part of the endosperm.
     9. adj. Open; unconcealed; conspicuous.
     10. adj. Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege.
           letters patent
     11. adj. Protected by a legal patent.
           a patent right; patent medicines
beyond
     1. prep. On the far side of.
           No swimming beyond this point.
     2. prep. Later than; after.
     3. prep. Greater than; so as to exceed or surpass.
           Your staff went beyond my expectations in refunding my parking ticket.
     4. prep. In addition to.
     5. prep. Past, or out of reach of.
           You won't last beyond my first punch.
           The patient was beyond medical help.
     6. adv. Farther along or away.
     7. adv. In addition; more.
     8. adv. (informal) extremely, more than
     9. n. The unknown.
     10. n. The hereafter.
     11. n. Something that is far beyond.
the
     1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
           I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
           The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
           The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
     2. art.          Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
                    The street that runs through my hometown.
     3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
           No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
           God save the Queen!
     4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
           That was the best apple pie ever.
     5. art.          Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
                    That apple pie was the best.
     6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
     7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
           Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
     8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
           No one in the whole country had seen it before.
           I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
     9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
           A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
     10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
           That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
     11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
           The hotter the better.
           The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
           The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
           It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
     12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
           It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
           It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
           I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
normal
     1. adj. according to norms or rules
           Organize the data into third normal form.
     2. adj. healthy; not sick or ill
           John is feeling normal again.
     3. adj. (education, of a school) teaching teachers how to teach (to certain norms)
           My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School.
     4. adj. (chemistry) of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution
     5. adj. (organic chemistry) describing a straight chain isomer of an aliphatic hydrocarbon, or an aliphatic compound in which a substituent is in the 1- position of such a hydrocarbon
     6. adj. (physics, of a mode in an oscillating system) in which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (see normal mode)
     7. adj. (rail transport, of points) in the default position, set for the most frequently used route
     8. adj. (geometry) perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface
     9. adj. (mathematics) adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
     10. adj.          (of a real number) whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution
     11. adj.          (algebra, of a subgroup) with cosets which form a group
     12. adj.          (algebra, of a field extension of a field K) which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K
     13. adj.          (probability theory, statistics, of a distribution) which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution
     14. adj.          (probability theory, statistics, of a random variable, etc.) which has a normal distribution; which is associated with random variable that has a norma
     15. adj.          (complex analysis, of a family of continuous functions) which is pre-compact
     16. adj.          (set theory, of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals) which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topol
     17. adj.          (linear algebra, of a matrix) which commutes with its conjugate transpose
     18. adj.          (functional analysis, of a Hilbert space operator) which commutes with its adjoint
     19. adj.          (category theory) being (as a morphism) or containing (as a category) only normal epimorphism(s) or monomorphism(s), that is, those which are the kerne
     20. adj.          (topology, of a topology) in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods
     21. n. (geometry) a line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
     22. n. (slang) a person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
     23. n. the usual state.
           His workload is now back to normal.
           Heavy workload is the new normal.
legal
     1. adj. Relating to the law or to lawyers.
           legal profession
     2. adj. Having its basis in the law.
           legal precedent
     3. adj. Being allowed or prescribed by law.
           legal motion
     4. adj. (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
     5. n. (informal) The legal department of a company.
           Legal wants this in writing.
     6. n. (US, Canada) Paper in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm).
     7. n. A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc.
limit
     1. n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
           There are several existing limits to executive power.
           Two drinks is my limit tonight.
     2. n. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence
           The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
     3. n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
           Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
     4. n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
     5. n. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
     6. n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
           the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
     7. n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
     8. n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
     9. n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
     10. n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
     11. n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
     12. adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
     13. v. To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
           We need to limit the power of the executive.
           I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
     14. v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
           The sequence limits on the point a.
     15. v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
           a limiting friar
usually
     1. adv. Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.
           Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work.
     2. adv. Under normal conditions.
through
     1. prep. From one side of an opening to the other.
           I went through the window.
     2. prep. Entering, then later leaving.
           I drove through the town at top speed without looking left or right.
     3. prep. Surrounded by (while moving).
           We slogged through the mud for hours before turning back and giving up.
     4. prep. By means of.
           This team believes in winning through intimidation.
     5. prep. (North America) To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values.
           from 1945 through 1991;  the numbers 1 through 9;  your membership is active through March 15, 2013
     6. adj. Passing from one side of something to the other.
           Interstate highways form a nationwide system of through roads.
     7. adj. Finished; complete.
           They were through with laying the subroof by noon.
     8. adj. Valueless; without a future.
           After being implicated in the scandal, he was through as an executive in financial services.
     9. adj. No longer interested.
           She was through with him.
     10. adj. Proceeding from origin to destination without delay due to change of equipment.
           The through flight through Memphis was the fastest.
     11. adj. (association football) In possession of the ball beyond the last line of defence but not necessarily the goalkeeper; through on goal.
     12. adv. From one side to the other by way of the interior.
           The arrow went straight through.
     13. adv. From one end to the other.
           Others slept; he worked straight through.
           She read the letter through.
     14. adv. To the end.
           He said he would see it through.
     15. adv. Completely.
           Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through.
     16. adv. Out into the open.
           The American army broke through at St. Lo.
     17. n. A large slab of stone laid in a dry-stone wall from one side to the other; a perpend.
     18. n. (obsolete) A coffin, sarcophagus or tomb of stone; a large slab of stone laid on a tomb.
repeated
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of repeat
     2. adj. Having been said or done again.
     repeat
          1. v. To do or say again (and again).
                The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.
          2. v. (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
          3. v. To echo the words of (a person).
          4. v. (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
          5. v. (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
          6. v. (legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
          7. v. (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insuffici
                Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.
                Use "say again" instead of repeat on the radio. Repeat will bring in artillery fire.
          8. n. An iteration; a repetition.
                We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
          9. n. A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
          10. n. (genetics, biochemistry) A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
          11. n. (music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.
small
     1. adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
           A small serving of ice cream.
           A small group.
           He made us all feel small.
     2. adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
           Remember when the children were small?
     3. adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
     4. adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
     5. adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
           a small space of time
     6. adj. topics, en, Size
     7. adv. In a small fashion.
     8. adv. In or into small pieces.
     9. adv. (obsolete) To a small extent.
     10. n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
     11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
     12. v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.
modifications
     1. n. plural of modification
     modification
          1. n. the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified
          2. n. an alteration or adjustment to something
          3. n. a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring
          4. n. (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language
          5. n. (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in I'm)
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