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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.
piping
1. v. present participle of pipe
2. n. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
3. n. The sound of musical pipes.
4. n. An act of making music or noise with pipes.
5. n. A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
the piping of a house
6. n. (sewing) An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
7. n. (cooking) Icing extruded from a piping bag.
8. n. (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
9. n. (botany) propagation by cuttings
10. adj. High-pitched.
His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.
pipe
1. n. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
2. n. (musical instrument) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
3. n. (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
4. n. The key or sound of the voice.
5. n. A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
6. n. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
7. n. A rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
8. n. # (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
# A burst pipe flooded my bathroom.
9. n. A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
10. n. (slang) A man's penis.
11. n. Meanings relating to a container.
12. n. A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine.
13. n. The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
14. n. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
15. n. Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; pi
16. n. A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
17. n. (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
18. n. (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
19. n. (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
20. n. (Australia, colloquial, now historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled
21. n. Meanings relating to computing.
22. n. (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
23. n. (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.
24. n. (computing, typography) The character (unsupported, pipe).
25. n. Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
26. n. (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
27. n. (Canada, US, colloquial, now historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
28. v. To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
29. v. (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
30. v. (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
31. v. (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
32. v. To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
33. v. To install or configure with pipes.
34. v. To dab moisture away from.
35. v. (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
36. v. (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character ((unsupported, pipe)) at the command line.
37. v. (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
to pipe flowers on to a cupcake
38. v. (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
39. v. (transitive, slang) To see.
Synonyms: Thesaurus:see
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.
whistling
1. v. present participle of whistle
2. n. A shrill, breathy sound; a whistle.
whistle
1. n. A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
2. n. An act of whistling.
3. n. A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
4. n. Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
the whistle of the wind in the trees
5. n. (Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
6. n. (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
7. v. To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.
Never whistle at a funeral.
She was whistling a happy tune.
8. v. To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.
The stream train whistled as it passed by.
9. v. (intransitive) To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
A bullet whistled past.
10. v. To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
sound
1. adj. Healthy.
He was safe and sound.
In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work.
2. adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
3. adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
4. adj. (UK, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
"How are you?" - "I'm sound.".
That's a sound track you're playing.
See that man over there? He's sound. You should get to know him.
5. adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
Her sleep was sound.
6. adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
a sound beating
7. adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
a sound title to land
8. adv. Soundly.
9. interj. (UK, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
- I found my jacket.- Sound.
10. n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him. Nobody made a sound.
11. n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
12. n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc
13. n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
14. n. earshot, Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
Stay within the sound of my voice.
15. v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
When the horn sounds, take cover.
16. v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
He sounded good when we last spoke.
That story sounds like a pack of lies!
17. v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
19. v. (intransitive, legal, often, with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.
20. v. To cause to produce a sound.
Sound the alarm!
He sounds the instrument.
21. v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.
22. n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
Puget Sound; Owen Sound
23. n. The air bladder of a fish.
Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
24. n. A cuttlefish.
25. v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.
26. v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.
27. v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.
28. v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra
29. n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
30. n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.
caused
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of cause
cause
1. n. (often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
They identified a burst pipe as the cause of the flooding.
2. n. (especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.
There is no cause for alarm.
The end of the war was a cause for celebration.
3. n. A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
4. n. (obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
5. n. (obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
6. n. (legal) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
7. v. To set off an event or action.
The lightning caused thunder.
8. v. To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
His dogged determination caused the fundraising to be successful.
9. v. To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
by
1. prep. Near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July.
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour.
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of.
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination.
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches.
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
He cheated by his own admission.
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
I watched as it passed by.
16. adv. In the vicinity, near.
There was a shepherd close by.
The shop is hard by the High Street.
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
I'll stop by on my way home from work.
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
18. adv. Aside, away.
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
20. n. (card games) A pass
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye
difficult
1. adj. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.
2. adj. (often of a, person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.
3. adj. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
4. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
respiration
1. n. The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
2. n. An act of breathing; a breath.
3. n. Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment.
4. n. The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.

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