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evening
1. n. The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
2. n. The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.
3. n. (figuratively) A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
It was the evening of the Roman Empire.
4. n. A party or gathering held in the evening.
5. v. present participle of even
6. v. present participle of evene
even
1. adj. Flat and level.
Clear out those rocks. The surface must be even.
2. adj. Without great variation.
Despite her fear, she spoke in an even voice.
3. adj. Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
The distribution of food must be even.
4. adj. (not comparable, of an integer) Divisible by two.
Four, fourteen and forty are even numbers.
5. adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
6. adj. On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed.
7. adj. (colloquial) On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
You biffed me back at the barn, and I biffed you here—so now we're even.
8. adj. parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
9. adj. (obsolete) Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
10. adj. (obsolete) Associate; fellow; of the same condition.
11. v. To make flat and level.
We need to even this playing field; the west goal is too low.
12. v. (transitive, obsolete) To equal.
13. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be equal.
Thrice nine evens twenty seven.
14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits.
15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To set right; to complete.
16. v. (transitive, obsolete) To act up to; to keep pace with.
17. adv. (archaic) Exactly, just, fully.
I fulfilled my instructions even as I had promised.
You are leaving tonight? — Even so.
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
18. adv. In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.
Did you even make it through the front door?
That was before I was even born.
19. adv. Emphasizing a comparative.
I was strong before, but now I am even stronger.
20. adv. Signalling a correction of one's previous utterance; rather, that is.
My favorite actor is Jack Nicklaus. Jack Nicholson, even.
21. adv. also
22. n. (mathematics) An even number.
So let's see. There are two evens here and three odds.
23. n. (archaic, or poetic) Evening.
cloud
1. n. (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
2. n. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
3. n. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
4. n. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
5. n. (figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
6. n. A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
7. n. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.
8. n. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
The comic-book character's thoughts appeared in a cloud above his head.
9. n. (computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
10. n. (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
11. n. (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
12. n. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
13. v. (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
The glass clouds when you breathe on it.
14. v. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
The sky is clouded.
15. v. To make obscure.
All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.
16. v. To make less acute or perceptive.
Your emotions are clouding your judgement.
The tears began to well up and cloud my vision.
17. v. To make gloomy or sullen.
18. v. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
19. v. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours.
to cloud yarn
20. v. (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
humid
1. adj. Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery
humid earth
1667 - John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)
Evening cloud, or humid bow.
bow
1. n. A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
2. n. A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
3. n. A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
4. n. A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
5. n. A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
6. n. Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
7. n. The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
8. n. Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
9. n. (nautical) A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
10. n. (saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
11. n. The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
12. v. To play music on (a stringed instrument) using a bow.
The musician bowed his violin expertly.
13. v. (intransitive) To become bent or curved.
The shelf bowed under the weight of the books.
14. v. To make something bend or curve.
15. v. (transitive, figurative) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
16. v. (intransitive) To premiere.
Cronenberg’s "Cosmopolis" bows in Cannes this week.
17. v. (intransitive) To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
That singer always bows towards her audience for some reason.
18. v. (transitive, and intransitive) To debut.
19. v. (intransitive) To defer (to something).
I bow to your better judgement in the matter.
20. v. To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
21. n. A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
He made a polite bow as he entered the room.
22. n. (nautical) The front of a boat or ship.
23. n. (rowing) The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.

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