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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.
document
1. n. An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.
2. n. Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
3. n. (computing) A file that contains text.
4. n. (obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
5. n. (obsolete) An example for instruction or warning.
6. v. To record in documents.
He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.
7. v. To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
authorizing
1. v. present participle of authorize
authorize
1. v. To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something).
The General Assembly authorized the Council to take up the matter.
2. v. To permit (something), to sanction or consent to (something).
The judge authorized the wiretapping.
such
1. det. (demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
I’ve never seen such clouds in the sky before. Such is life.
2. det. (particularly used in formal documents) Any.
the above address or at such other address as may notify
3. det. Used as an intensifier; roughly equivalent to very much of.
The party was such a bore.
4. det. (obsolete) A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.
5. pron. A person, a thing, people or things like the one or ones already mentioned.
6. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is similar to something else.
an
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
4. conj. (archaic) If
5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
An it harm none, do what ye will.
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
action
1. n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
2. n. A way of motion or functioning.
Knead bread with a rocking action.
3. n. Fast-paced activity.
a movie full of exciting action
4. n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
a rifle action
5. n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.Marshall Cavendish Corporat
6. n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
She gave him some action.
7. n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
8. n. (military) Combat.
He saw some action in the Korean War.
9. n. (legal) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
10. n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that
11. n. (physics) The product of energy and time.
12. n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
13. n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
14. n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
15. n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.
16. interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
The director yelled ‘Action!’ before the camera started rolling.
17. v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
18. v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

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