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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.
quite
     1. adv. To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.:
     2. adv.          With verbs, especially past participles.
     3. adv.          With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
     4. adv.          With predicative adjectives.
     5. adv.          With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
     6. adv.          Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
     7. adv.          With adverbs of manner.
     8. adv. In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.:
     9. adv.          Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)
     10. adv.          With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.
     11. adv.          Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative.
     12. adv.          Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable.
     13. adv.          Before a noun preceded by the definite article.
     14. adv.          (now rare) With prepositional or adverbial phrases.
     15. adv. To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.
     16. interj. (chiefly UK) Indicates agreement; "exactly so".
     17. n. (bullfighting) A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull.
young
     1. adj. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
           a lamb is a young sheep;  these picture books are for young readers
     2. adj. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
           the age of space travel is still young;   a young business
     3. adj. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
           How young is your dog?   Her grandmother turned 70 years young last month.
     4. adj. Junior (of two related people with the same name).
     5. adj. (of a decade of life) Early.
     6. adj. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
           My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.
     7. adj. Of or belonging to the early part of life.
           The cynical world soon shattered my young dreams.
     8. adj. (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
     9. n. People who are young; young people, collectively; youth.
           The young of today are well-educated.
     10. n. Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).
           The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.
           The lion's young are curious.
     11. n. (rare, possibly, nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.
     12. v. (informal, or demography) To become or seem to become younger.
     13. v. (informal, or demography) To cause to appear younger.
     14. v. (geology) To exhibit younging.
human
     1. adj. (notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
     2. adj. (comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being.
           To err is human; to forgive, divine.
     3. n. A human being, whether man, woman or child.
           Humans share common ancestors with other apes.
     4. v. (rare) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.
being
     1. v. present participle of be
     2. n. A living creature.
     3. n. The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
     4. n. (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
     5. n. (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
     6. n. (obsolete) An abode; a cottage.
     7. conj. (obsolete) Given that; since.
     be
          1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
          2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
                There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
          3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
                The cup is on the table.
          4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
                When will the meeting be?
          5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
                The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
                I have been to Spain many times.
                Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
          6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
                Knowledge is bliss.
                Hi, I’m Jim.
          7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
                3 times 5 is fifteen.
          8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
                François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
          9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
                The sky is blue.
          10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
                The sky is a deep blue today.
          11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
                The dog was drowned by the boy.
          12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
                The woman is walking.
                I shall be writing to you soon.
                We liked to chat while we were eating.
          13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
          14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
                I am to leave tomorrow.
                I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
          15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
                This building is three hundred years old.
                I am 75 kilograms.
                He’s about 6 feet tall.
          16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
                I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
          17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
                It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
                It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
                What time is it there? It’s night.
          18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
                It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
                It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
          19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
                It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
                Why is it so dark in here?
          20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
                "What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
                Why is he being nice to me?
typically
     1. adv. In a typical or common manner.
     2. adv. In an expected or customary manner.
two
     1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••). Ordinal: second.
     2. num. Describing a set or group with two elements.
     3. n. The digit/figure 2.
           The number 2202 contains three twos.
     4. n. (US, informal) A two-dollar bill.
     5. n. A child aged two.
           This toy is suitable for the twos and threes.
     6. n. The playing cards featuring two pips.
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
three
     1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
     2. num. Describing a set or group with three elements.
     3. n. The digit/figure 3.
     4. n. Anything measuring three units, as length.
           Put all the threes in a separate container.
     5. n. A person who is three years old.
           All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
     6. n. The playing card featuring three pips.
     7. n. (basketball) (abbreviation of three-pointer)
years
     1. n. plural of year.
     2. n. (colloquial, hyperbole) A very long time.
           It took years for the bus to come.
     year
          1. n. A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
                we moved to this town a year ago;  I quit smoking exactly one year ago
          2. n. (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution
                Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.
          3. n. A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by
                A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.
                I was born in the year 1950.
                This Chinese year is the year of the Rooster.
          4. n. A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
                During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus.
          5. n. (sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
          6. n. A level or grade in school or college.
                Every second-year student must select an area of specialization.
                The exams in year 12 at high school are the most difficult.
          7. n. The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).
                Geneticists have created baker's yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years.
old
     1. adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
           an old abandoned building;  an old friend
     2. adj.          Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
                   a wrinkled old man
     3. adj.          Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life.
                   an old loaf of bread
     4. adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
           I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.
     5. adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
           How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child.
           My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old.
     6. adj. Of an earlier time.:
     7. adj.          Former, previous.
                   My new car is not as good as my old one.  a school reunion for Old Etonians
     8. adj.          That is no longer in existence.
                   The footpath follows the route of an old railway line.
     9. adj.          Obsolete; out-of-date.
                   That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way.
     10. adj.          Familiar.
                   When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho.
     11. adj. Tiresome.
           Your constant pestering is getting old.
     12. adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
     13. adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)
           We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV.  My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas.
     14. adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
     15. n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
           A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.
but
     1. prep. (obsolete, outside, Scotland) Outside of.
           Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there.
     2. prep. Apart from, except (for), excluding.
           Everyone but Father left early.
           I like everything but that.
           Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave.
     3. adv. Merely, only, just.
     4. adv. (Australian, conjunctive) Though, however.
           I'll have to go home early but.
     5. adv. Used as an intensifier.
           Nobody, but nobody, crosses me and gets away with it.
     6. conj. (following a negative clause or sentence) On the contrary, but rather (introducing a word or clause that contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence without the negation).
           I am not rich but (I am) poor;  not John but Peter went there.
     7. conj. However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (implies that the following clause is contrary to prior belief or contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence).
           She is very old but still attractive.
           You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not.
     8. conj. Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "ex
           I cannot but feel offended.
     9. conj. (archaic) Without its also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).
           It never rains but it pours.
     10. conj. (obsolete) Except with; unless with; without.
     11. conj. (obsolete) Only; solely; merely.
     12. conj. (obsolete) Until.
     13. n. An instance or example of using the word "but".
           It has to be done – no ifs or buts.
     14. n. (Scotland) The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
     15. n. A limit; a boundary.
     16. n. The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
     17. v. (archaic) Use the word "but".
           But me no buts.
can
     1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
           She can speak English, French, and German.   I can play football.   Can you remember your fifth birthday?
     2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
           You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework.   Can I use your pen?
     3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
           Can it be Friday already?
           Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.
           Animals can experience emotions.
     4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
           Can you hear that?.
           I can feel the baby moving inside me.
     5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
     6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
     7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
     8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
     9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.
           Shit or get off the can.
           Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
     10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
     11. n. (slang) Jail or prison.
           Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years.
     12. n. (slang) Headphones.
     13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup.
     14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
     15. n. A chimney pot.
     16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
           They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
     17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
           He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
     18. v. To shut up.
           Can your gob.
     19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
           The boss canned him for speaking out.
refer
     1. v. To direct the attention of.
           The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
     2. v. To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
           He referred the matter to the principal.
           to refer a patient to a psychiatrist
     3. v. To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
           He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
     4. v. (intransitive, construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
           To explain the problem, the teacher referred to an example in another textbook.
     5. v. (computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.
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
any
     1. adv. To even the slightest extent, at all.
           I will not remain here any longer.
           If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways!
     2. det. At least one; of at least one kind. One at all.
           do you have any biscuits?;  do you have any food?;  I haven't got any money;  it won't do you any good
     3. det. No matter what kind.
           choose any items you want;  any person may apply
     4. pron. Any thing(s) or person(s).
           Any may apply.
Child
     1. n. alternative case form of child often used when referring to God (Jesus) or another important child who is understood from context.
     2. n. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)
           Go easy on him: he is but a child.
     3. n. (obsolete) a female child, a girl.
     4. n. (with possessive) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
           My youngest child is forty-three.
     5. n. (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
     6. n. (figuratively) A figurative offspring, particularly:
     7. n.          A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
                   The children of Israel.
                   He is a child of his times.
     8. n.          Anything derived from or caused by something.
                   Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war.
     9. n.          (computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
                   The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.
that
     1. conj. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
           He told me that the book is a good read.
           I believe that it is true. — She is convinced that he is British.
     2. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
           Be glad that you have enough to eat.
     3. conj. (now uncommon) Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that.
     4. conj. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect.
           The noise was so loud that she woke up.
           The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed.
     5. conj. (archaic, or poetic) Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
     6. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
           Was John there? — Not that I saw.
           How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw.
     7. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.
     8. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.
     9. det. The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
           That book is a good read. This one isn't.
           That battle was in 1450.
           That cat of yours is evil.
     10. pron. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "t
           He went home, and after that I never saw him again.
     11. pron. The known (thing); (used to refer to something just said).
           They're getting divorced. What do you think about that?
     12. pron. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality; used together with a verb and pronoun to emphatically repeat a previous statement.
           The water is so cold! — That it is.
     13. pron. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; (representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition).
           The CPR course that she took really came in handy.
           The house that he lived in was old and dilapidated.
     14. pron. (colloquial) (Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.)
           the place that = where or to which I went last year
           the last time that = when I went to Europe
     15. adv. (degree) To a given extent or degree.
           "The ribbon was that thin." "I disagree, I say it was not that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner...".
     16. adv. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
           I'm just not that sick.
           I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult.
     17. adv. (obsolete, outside, dialects) To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
           Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her.
     18. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
has
     1. v. third-person singular present indicative of have
     have
                Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
          1. v. To possess, own, hold.
                I have a house and a car.
                Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
          2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
                I have two sisters.
                I have a lot of work to do.
          3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
                I have breakfast at six o'clock.
                Can I have a look at that?
                I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
          4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
                What class do you have right now? I have English.
                Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
          5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
                I have already eaten today.
                I had already eaten.
          6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
                I have to go.
          7. v. To give birth to.
                The couple always wanted to have children.
                My wife is having the baby right now!
                My mother had me when she was 25.
          8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
                He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
          9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
                Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
          10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
                They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
          11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
                He had him arrested for trespassing.
                The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
          12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
                The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
                I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
          13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
                Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
          14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
                We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
                Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
                (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
          15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
                I could have him!
                I'm gonna have you!
          16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
                I have no German.
          17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
                Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
          18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
                He had a cold last week.
          19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
                We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
                He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
                I'm having the time of my life!
          20. v. To trick, to deceive.
                You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
          21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
                The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
                I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
          22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
                I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
          23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
                Thank you for having me!
          24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
                What do you have for problem two?
                I have two contacts on my scope.
          25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
                We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
          26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
          27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
          28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
                They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
started
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of start
     start
          1. n. The beginning of an activity.
                The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
          2. n. A sudden involuntary movement.
                He woke with a start.
          3. n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
          4. n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
                Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
          5. n. (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
          6. n. An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
                to get, or have, the start
          7. v. To begin, commence, initiate.
          8. v.          To set in motion.
                        to start a stream of water;   to start a rumour;   to start a business
          9. v.          To begin.
          10. v.          To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine.
                        to start the engine
          11. v.          To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
          12. v.          To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
          13. v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
                The rain started at 9:00.
          14. v. (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
                The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town.
                The blue line starts one foot away from the wall.
          15. v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
          16. v.          (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
          17. v.          (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
          18. v.          To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
                        The hounds started a fox.
          19. v.          To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
                        to start a bone;   the storm started the bolts in the vessel
          20. v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
          21. v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
          22. v. (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
                to start a water cask
          23. v. (intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation).
                Have you started yet?
          24. n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
          25. n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
          26. n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
          27. n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
walking
     1. v. present participle of walk
     2. adj. Incarnate as a human; living.
           Elizabeth knows so many words that they call her the walking dictionary.
           Phil's mother is a walking miracle after surviving that accident.
     3. adj. Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
     4. adj. Characterized by or suitable for walking.
           a walking tour
           good walking shoes
     5. n. (gerund of walk).
     walk
          1. v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times
                To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.
          2. v. (intransitive, colloquial, legal) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
                If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.
          3. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
                If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.
          4. v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believ
          5. v. To travel (a distance) by walking.
                I walk two miles to school every day.  The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.
          6. v. To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
                I walk the dog every morning.  Will you walk me home?
          7. v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
          8. v. To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
                I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.
          9. v. To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
          10. v. To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
                I walked the streets aimlessly.   Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.
          11. v. (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
          12. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
                If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.
          13. v. To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
          14. v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
          15. v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
          16. v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
          17. v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
          18. v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
          19. n. A trip made by walking.
                I take a walk every morning
          20. n. A distance walked.
                It’s a long walk from my house to the library
          21. n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
          22. n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
                The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year
          23. n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
          24. n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
          25. n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
                The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone
          26. n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
          27. n. (Caribbean, Guyana, Belize) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.Lise Winer (ed.), Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008, p.(n
          28. n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
          29. n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
          30. n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
          31. n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
          32. n. (finance) A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).
up
     1. adv. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
           I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.
     2. adv. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state Thoroughly, completely.
           I will mix up the puzzle pieces.
           Tear up the contract.
           He really messed up.
           Please type up our monthly report.
     3. adv. To or from one's possession or consideration.
           I picked up some milk on the way home.
           The committee will take up your request.
           She had to give up her driver's license after the accident.
     4. adv. North.
           I will go up to New York to visit my family this weekend.
     5. adv. To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
           Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets.
           Turn it up, I can barely hear it.
           Listen to your voice go up at the end of a question.
           Cheer up, the weekend's almost here.
     6. adv. (rail transport) Traditional term for the direction leading to the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
     7. adv. (sailing) Against the wind or current.
     8. adv. (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
     9. adv. (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
           The bowler pitched the ball up.
     10. adv. (hospitality, US) Without additional ice.
           Would you like that drink up or on ice?
     11. adv. (academia) Towards Cambridge or Oxford.
           She's going up to read Classics this September.
     12. adv. To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
           I was up to my chin in water.
           A stranger came up and asked me for directions.
     13. adv. To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite.
           Drink up. The pub is closing.
           Can you sum up your research?
           The comet burned up in the atmosphere.
           I need to sew up the hole in this shirt.
     14. adv. Aside, so as not to be in use.
           to lay up riches; put up your weapons
     15. prep. Toward the top of.
           The cat went up the tree.   They walk up the steps.
     16. prep. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
           The information made its way up the chain of command to the general.   I felt something crawling up my arm.
     17. prep. Further along (in any direction).
           Go up the street until you see the sign.
     18. prep. From south to north of
     19. prep. From the mouth towards the source (of a river or waterway).
     20. prep. (vulgar slang) Of a man: having sex with.
           Phwoar, look at that bird. I'd love to be up her.
     21. prep. (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more remote from a central location).
     22. adj. Awake.
           I can’t believe it’s 3 a.m. and you’re still up.
     23. adj. Finished, to an end
           Time is up!
     24. adj. In a good mood.
           I’m feeling up today.
     25. adj. Willing; ready.
           If you are up for a trip, let’s go.
     26. adj. Next in a sequence.
           Smith is up to bat.
     27. adj. Happening; new.
           What is up with that project at headquarters?
     28. adj. Facing upwards; facing toward the top.
           Put the notebook face up on the table.
           Take a break and put your feet up.
     29. adj. Larger; greater in quantity.
           Sales are up from last quarter.
     30. adj. Ahead; leading; winning.
           The home team were up by two goals at half-time.
     31. adj. Standing.
           Get up and give her your seat.
     32. adj. On a higher level.
           The new ground is up.
     33. adj. Available; made public.
           The new notices are up as of last Tuesday.
     34. adj. (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
           AAKK = aces up
           QQ33 = queens up
     35. adj. Well-informed; current.
           I’m not up on the latest news. What’s going on?
     36. adj. (computing) Functional; working.
           Is the server back up?
     37. adj. (anchor, Adj_railway)(of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
           The London train is on the up line.
     38. adj. Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.
     39. adj. (bar tending) Chilled and strained into a stemmed glass.
           A Cosmopolitan is typically served up.
     40. adj. (slang) Erect.
     41. adj. (of the Sun or Moon) Above the horizon, in the sky (i.e. during daytime or night-time)
     42. adj. (slang) well-known; renowned
     43. n. The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
           Up is a good way to go.
     44. n. A positive thing.
           I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home.
     45. n. An upstairs room of a two story house.
           She lives in a two-up two-down.
     46. v. (transitive, colloquial) To increase or raise.
           If we up the volume, we'll be able to make out the details.
           We upped anchor and sailed away.
     47. v. (transitive, colloquial) To promote.
           It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President.
     48. v. (intransitive) To act suddenly, usually with another verb.
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
about
     1. prep. In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
     2. prep. Near; not far from; approximately; regarding time, size, quantity.
     3. prep. On the point or verge of.
           the show is about to start;  I am not about to admit to your crime
     4. prep. On one's person; nearby the person.
     5. prep. Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
     6. prep. Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.
     7. prep. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.
           He knew more about what was occurring than anyone.
     8. prep. (figurative) In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in possession of; in control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.
           He has his wits about him.
     9. prep. In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
     10. adv. Not distant; approximate.
     11. adv.          On all sides; around.
     12. adv.          Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
     13. adv.          Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
                   about as cold;  about as high
     14. adv.          Near; in the vicinity.
     15. adv. In succession; one after another; in the course of events.
     16. adv. On the move; active; astir.
     17. adv. To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
           to face about;  to turn oneself about
     18. adv.          (nautical) To the opposite tack.
     19. adv. (obsolete) Preparing; planning.
     20. adv. (archaic) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference.
           a mile about, and a third of a mile across
     21. adv. (chiefly North America, colloquial) Going to; on the verge of; intending to.
     22. adj. Moving around; astir.
           out and about;  up and about
           After my bout with Guillan-Barre Syndrome, it took me 6 months to be up and about again.
     23. adj. In existence; being in evidence; apparent
four
     1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
           There are four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.
     2. num. Describing a set or group with four elements.
     3. n. The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
     4. n. Anything measuring four units, as length.
           Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.
     5. n. A person who is four years old.
           I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
     6. n. (cricket) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounc
     7. n. (basketball) A power forward.
     8. n. (rowing) Quadruple sculls.
     9. n. (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
years
     1. n. plural of year.
     2. n. (colloquial, hyperbole) A very long time.
           It took years for the bus to come.
     year
          1. n. A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
                we moved to this town a year ago;  I quit smoking exactly one year ago
          2. n. (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution
                Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.
          3. n. A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by
                A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.
                I was born in the year 1950.
                This Chinese year is the year of the Rooster.
          4. n. A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
                During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus.
          5. n. (sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
          6. n. A level or grade in school or college.
                Every second-year student must select an area of specialization.
                The exams in year 12 at high school are the most difficult.
          7. n. The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).
                Geneticists have created baker's yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years.
old
     1. adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
           an old abandoned building;  an old friend
     2. adj.          Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
                   a wrinkled old man
     3. adj.          Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life.
                   an old loaf of bread
     4. adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
           I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.
     5. adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
           How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child.
           My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old.
     6. adj. Of an earlier time.:
     7. adj.          Former, previous.
                   My new car is not as good as my old one.  a school reunion for Old Etonians
     8. adj.          That is no longer in existence.
                   The footpath follows the route of an old railway line.
     9. adj.          Obsolete; out-of-date.
                   That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way.
     10. adj.          Familiar.
                   When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho.
     11. adj. Tiresome.
           Your constant pestering is getting old.
     12. adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
     13. adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)
           We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV.  My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas.
     14. adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
     15. n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
           A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.
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.
at
     1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.
           Caesar was at Rome;  at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine;  at Jim’s house
     2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.)
           at six o’clock;  at closing time;  at night.
     3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).
           He threw the ball at me.  He shouted at her.
     4. prep. Denotes a price.
           3 apples at 2¢ (each)   The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.
     5. prep. Occupied in (activity).
           men at work
     6. prep. In a state of.
           She is at sixes and sevens with him.  They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff.  The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.
     7. prep. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
           Sell at 90.  Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders.  I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost.
     8. prep. Because of.
           to laugh at a joke   mad at their comments
     9. prep. Indicates a means, method, or manner.
     10. prep. Holding a given speed or rate.
           It is growing at the rate of 3% a year.  Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.
     11. prep. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.
           The twins were both bad at chemistry.
           He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.
     12. prep. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
     13. n. The at sign (@).
     14. n. (alt form, att) (Laos currency unit)
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.
time
     1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
           Time stops for nobody.   the ebb and flow of time
     2. n.          (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
                   Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.
     3. n.          (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
                   Time slows down when you approach the speed of light.
     4. n.          (physics, reductionistic definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
                   An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.
     5. n. A duration of time.
     6. n.          A quantity of availability of duration.
                   More time is needed to complete the project.   You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute.   Are you finish
     7. n.          A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
                   a long time;  Record the individual times for the processes in each batch.   Only your best time is compared with the other compet
     8. n.          (slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
                   The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time.   He is not living at home because he is doing time.
     9. n.          An experience.
                   We had a wonderful time at the party.
     10. n.          An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
                   Roman times;  the time of the dinosaurs
     11. n.          (with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
                   In my time, we respected our elders.
     12. n.          (only in singular, sports) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
     13. n. An instant of time.
     14. n.          How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
                   Excuse me, have you got the time?   What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock?   A computer keeps time using a clock battery
     15. n.          A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
                   it’s time for bed;  it’s time to sleep;  we must wait for the right time;  it's time we were going
     16. n.          A numerical indication of a particular moment.
                   at what times do the trains arrive?;  these times were erroneously converted between zones
     17. n.          An instance or occurrence.
                   When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember.
                   see you another time;  that’s three times he’s made the same mistake
                   Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that!
     18. n.          (of pubs) Closing time.
                   Last call: it's almost time.
     19. n.          The hour of childbirth.
     20. n.          (as someone's time) The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
                    It was his time.
     21. n. The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
           Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time.
     22. n. Ratio of comparison.
           your car runs three times faster than mine;  that is four times as heavy as this
     23. n. (grammar, dated) Tense.
           the time of a verb
     24. n. (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
           common or triple time;   the musician keeps good time.
     25. v. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
           I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.
     26. v. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
           The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
           The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
     27. v. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
     28. v. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
     29. v. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
     30. v. To measure, as in music or harmony.
     31. interj. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
they
     1. pron. (the third-person plural) A group of people, animals, plants or objects previously mentioned.
           Fred and Jane? They just arrived.   Dogs may bark if they want to be fed.   Plants wilt if they are not watered.
           I have a car and a truck, but they are both broken.
     2. pron. (the third-person singular, sometimes proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender, but not if previously named and identified as male or female.
     3. pron. (indefinite pronoun, vague meaning) People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker.
           They say it’s a good place to live.
           They didn’t have computers in the old days.
           They should do something about this.
           They have a lot of snow in winter.
     4. det. (now Southern England dialect, or nonstandard) The, those.
     5. det. (US dialects including AAVE) Their.
     6. pron. (US dialectal) There (especially as an expletive subject of be).
have
           Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
     1. v. To possess, own, hold.
           I have a house and a car.
           Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
     2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
           I have two sisters.
           I have a lot of work to do.
     3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
           I have breakfast at six o'clock.
           Can I have a look at that?
           I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
     4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
           What class do you have right now? I have English.
           Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
     5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
           I have already eaten today.
           I had already eaten.
     6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
           I have to go.
     7. v. To give birth to.
           The couple always wanted to have children.
           My wife is having the baby right now!
           My mother had me when she was 25.
     8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
           He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
     9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
           Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
     10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
           They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
     11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
           He had him arrested for trespassing.
           The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
     12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
           The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
           I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
     13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
           Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
     14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
           We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
           Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
           (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
     15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
           I could have him!
           I'm gonna have you!
     16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
           I have no German.
     17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
           Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
     18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
           He had a cold last week.
     19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
           We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
           He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
           I'm having the time of my life!
     20. v. To trick, to deceive.
           You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
     21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
           The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
           I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
     22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
           I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
     23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
           Thank you for having me!
     24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
           What do you have for problem two?
           I have two contacts on my scope.
     25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
           We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
     26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
     27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
     28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
           They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
mastered
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of master
     master
          1. n. Someone who has control over something or someone.
          2. n. The owner of an animal or slave.
          3. n. (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
          4. n. (dated) The head of a household.
          5. n. Someone who employs others.
          6. n. An expert at something.
                Mark Twain was a master of fiction.
          7. n. A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
          8. n. (dated) A schoolmaster.
          9. n. A skilled artist.
          10. n. (dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
          11. n. A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
                She has a master in psychology.
          12. n. A person holding such a degree.
                He is a master of marine biology.
          13. n. The original of a document or of a recording.
                The band couldn't find the master, so they re-recorded their tracks.
          14. n. (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
          15. n. (legal) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
                The case was tried by a master, who concluded that the plaintiffs were the equitable owners of the property....
          16. n. (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
                a master wheel
                a master database
          17. n. (freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
          18. n. (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
          19. adj. Masterful.
          20. adj. Main, principal or predominant.
          21. adj. Highly skilled.
                master batsman
          22. adj. Original.
                master copy
          23. v. (intransitive) To be a master.
          24. v. To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
          25. v. To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
                It took her years to master the art of needlecraft.
          26. v. (transitive, obsolete) To own; to posses.
          27. v. (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
          28. v. (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
                He mastered in English at the state college.
          29. n. (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
                a two-master
walking
     1. v. present participle of walk
     2. adj. Incarnate as a human; living.
           Elizabeth knows so many words that they call her the walking dictionary.
           Phil's mother is a walking miracle after surviving that accident.
     3. adj. Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
     4. adj. Characterized by or suitable for walking.
           a walking tour
           good walking shoes
     5. n. (gerund of walk).
     walk
          1. v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times
                To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.
          2. v. (intransitive, colloquial, legal) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
                If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.
          3. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
                If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.
          4. v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believ
          5. v. To travel (a distance) by walking.
                I walk two miles to school every day.  The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.
          6. v. To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
                I walk the dog every morning.  Will you walk me home?
          7. v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
          8. v. To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
                I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.
          9. v. To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
          10. v. To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
                I walked the streets aimlessly.   Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.
          11. v. (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
          12. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
                If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.
          13. v. To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
          14. v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
          15. v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
          16. v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
          17. v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
          18. v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
          19. n. A trip made by walking.
                I take a walk every morning
          20. n. A distance walked.
                It’s a long walk from my house to the library
          21. n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
          22. n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
                The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year
          23. n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
          24. n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
          25. n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
                The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone
          26. n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
          27. n. (Caribbean, Guyana, Belize) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.Lise Winer (ed.), Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008, p.(n
          28. n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
          29. n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
          30. n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
          31. n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
          32. n. (finance) A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).
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