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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.
long
1. adj. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below).
It's a long way from the Earth to the Moon.
2. adj. Having great duration.
The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.
3. adj. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
4. adj. (UK, dialect) Not short; tall.
5. adj. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value.
I'm long in DuPont; I have a long position in DuPont.
6. adj. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
7. adj. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out).
No! That forehand is longnb....
8. adj. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
9. adv. Over a great distance in space.
He threw the ball long.
10. adv. For a particular duration.
How long is it until the next bus arrives?
11. adv. For a long duration.
Will this interview take long?
Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.
12. n. (linguistics) A long vowel.
13. n. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.
14. n. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
Every uptick made the longs cheer.
15. n. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
16. v. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
17. v. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)
She longed for him to come back.
18. adj. (archaic) On account of, because of.
19. v. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
20. n. longitude
narrow
1. adj. Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
a narrow hallway
2. adj. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
3. adj. (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
a narrow interpretation
4. adj. Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
a narrow mind
narrow views
5. adj. Having a small margin or degree.
a narrow escape
The Republicans won by a narrow majority.
6. adj. (dated) Limited as to means; straitened
narrow circumstances
7. adj. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
8. adj. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
9. adj. (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
10. v. To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
We need to narrow the search.
11. v. (intransitive) To get narrower.
The road narrows.
12. v. (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.
She wagged her finger in his face, and her eyes narrowed.
13. v. (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
14. n. (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
the Narrows of New York harbor
piece
1. n. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
I’d like another piece of pie.
2. n. A single item belonging to a class of similar items
a piece of machinery
a piece of software
A useful piece of advice
3. n. (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; by extension, a similar counter etc. in other games.
4. n. A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
a sixpenny piece
5. n. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
She played two beautiful pieces on the piano.
6. n. (military) An artillery gun.
7. n. (US, colloquial) A gun.
He's packin' a piece!
8. n. (US, Canada colloquial short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
The announcer is wearing a new piece.
9. n. (Scotland, Ireland, UK, US, dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
10. n. (US, colloquial vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail
I got a piece at lunchtime.
11. n. (US, colloquial mildly vulgar short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
Ugh, my new computer is such a piece. I'm taking it back to the store tomorrow.
12. n. (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
13. n. (baseball) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with got, and never used in the plura
he got a piece of that one; she got a piece of the ball...and it's going foul.
14. n. (dated, sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person.
15. n. (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
16. n. (US) A pacifier.
17. n. (colloquial) A distance.
a far piece
located a fair piece away from their camp
a fair piece off
18. v. (transitive usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
These clues allowed us to piece together the solution to the mystery.
19. v. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
to piece a garment
20. v. (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
cut
1. adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
2. adj. Reduced.
The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
3. adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
My favourite song had been cut from the show.
4. adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
5. adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
6. adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
7. adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation
8. adj. (Australia, NZ, slang) Emotionally hurt.
9. adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
10. adj. Removed from a team roster.
11. adj. (NZ) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
12. n. An opening resulting from cutting.
Look at this cut on my finger!
13. n. The act of cutting.
He made a fine cut with his sword.
14. n. The result of cutting.
a smooth or clear cut
15. n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
a cut for a railroad
16. n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distinguished from a navigable river
17. n. A share or portion.
The lawyer took a cut of the profits.
18. n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
19. n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
20. n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
21. n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entert
22. n. (theatre) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.
23. n. (cinema) A particular version or edit of a film.
24. n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.
25. n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
I like the cut of that suit.
26. n. A slab, especially of meat.
That’s our finest cut of meat.
27. n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
28. n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
29. n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
30. n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
31. n. A haircut.
32. n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
33. n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
34. n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
a book illustrated with fine cuts
35. n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
36. n. (slang) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
37. n. A skein of yarn.
38. n. (slang) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.
39. n. (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
40. n. (bodybuilding) A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
41. v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
42. v. To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
43. v. To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
Would you please cut the cake?
44. v. To form or shape by cutting.
I have three diamonds to cut today.
45. v. (slang) To wound with a knife.
46. v. (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.
47. v. To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
48. v. To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
Sarcasm cuts to the quick.
49. v. To castrate or geld.
to cut a horse
50. v. To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
51. v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
52. v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
53. v. To separate from prior association; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
Travis was cut from the team.
54. v. To abridge a piece of printed or written work.
55. v. To reduce, especially intentionally.
They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.
56. v. To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.
57. v. To ignore as a social snub.
After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.
58. v. (intransitive, cinema, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
After the actors read their lines, the director yelled, "Cut!".
59. v. (intransitive, cinema) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.
60. v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
61. v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.
62. v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.
63. v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
This road cuts right through downtown.
64. v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
65. v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.
66. v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
If you cut then I'll deal.
67. v. (transitive, slang) To write.
cut orders; cut a check
68. v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
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.
torn
1. v. past participle of tear (rip, rend, speed).
tear
1. v. To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
He tore his coat on the nail.
2. v. To injure as if by pulling apart.
He has a torn ligament.
He tore some muscles in a weight-lifting accident.
3. v. To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
He was torn by conflicting emotions.
4. v. To make (an opening) with force or energy.
A piece of debris tore a tiny straight channel through the satellite.
His boss will tear him a new one when he finds out.
The artillery tore a gap in the line.
5. v. (transitive, often, with off, or out) To remove by tearing.
Tear the coupon out of the newspaper.
6. v. (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish
The slums were torn down to make way for the new development.
7. v. (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
My dress has torn.
8. v. (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
The tornado lingered, tearing through town, leaving nothing upright.
He tore into the backlog of complaints.
9. v. (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
The chain shot tore into the approaching line of infantry.
10. n. A hole or break caused by tearing.
A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.
11. n. (slang) A rampage.
to go on a tear
12. n. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
There were big tears rolling down Lisa's cheeks.
Ryan wiped the tear from the paper he was crying on.
13. n. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
14. n. (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
15. n. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
16. v. (intransitive) To produce tears.
Her eyes began to tear in the harsh wind.
off
1. adv. In a direction away from the speaker or object.
He drove off in a cloud of smoke.
2. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence.
Please switch off the light when you leave.
die off
3. adv. So as to be removed or separated.
He bit off more than he could chew.
Some branches were sawn off.
4. adj. Inoperative, disabled.
All the lights are off.
5. adj. Rancid, rotten.
This milk is off!
6. adj. (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
7. adj. Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
sales are off this quarter
8. adj. Circumstanced (as in well off, better off, poorly off).
9. adj. Started on the way.
off to see the wizard
And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.
10. adj. Far; off to the side.
the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse
11. adj. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
He took an off day for fishing. an off year in politics; the off season
12. adj. (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.
— I'll have the chicken please.
— Sorry, chicken's off today.
13. adj. Right-hand (in relation to the side of a horse or a vehicle).
14. prep. Used to indicate movement away from a position on
I took it off the table.
Come off the roof!
15. prep. (colloquial) Out of the possession of.
He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him.
16. prep. Away from or not on.
He's off the computer, but he's still on the phone.
Keep off the grass.
17. prep. Disconnected or subtracted from.
We've been off the grid for three days now.
He took 20% off the list price.
18. prep. Distant from.
We're just off the main road.
The island is 23 miles off the cape.
19. prep. No longer wanting or taking.
He's been off his feed since Tuesday.
He's off his meds again.
20. prep. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering(topics, en, Engineering).
Tantalum bar 6 off 3/8" Dia × 12" — Atom, Great Britain Atomic Energy Authority, 1972
samples submitted … 12 off Thermistors type 1K3A531 … — BSI test report for shock and vibration testing, 2000
I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off.
21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
He got in the way so I had him offed.
22. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) To switch off.
Can you off the light?
23. n. (rare) Beginning; starting point.
He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the 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.
strip
1. n. Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
You use strips of paper in papier mache. He welded together some pieces of strip.
2. n. A comic strip.
3. n. A landing strip.
4. n. A strip steak.
5. n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
6. n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
7. n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
8. n. Striptease.
9. n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
10. n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
11. v. To remove or take away.
Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
12. v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
13. v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
14. v. To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
15. v. To remove cargo from (a container).
16. v. To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
The thread is stripped.
The screw is stripped.
17. v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
18. v. To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
19. v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
20. v. To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
21. v. To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
22. v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
23. v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
24. v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
25. v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
26. v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
27. v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
28. v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
29. adj. (of games) Involving the removal of clothes.

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