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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.
tangled
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of tangle
tangle
1. v. (intransitive) to become mixed together or intertwined
Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.
2. v. (intransitive) to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
Don't tangle with someone three times your size.
He tangled with the law.
3. v. to mix together or intertwine
4. v. to catch and hold; to ensnare.
5. n. A tangled twisted mass.
6. n. A complicated or confused state or condition.
I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere.
7. n. An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
8. n. (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
9. n. A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
10. n. Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
11. n. (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and ot
twisted
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of twist
2. adj. Contorted.
3. adj. Wound spirally.
4. adj. Mentally disturbed or unsound.
The murders were committed by a twisted sociopath.
twist
1. n. A twisting force.
2. n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
3. n. The form given in twisting.
4. n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
5. n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
6. n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
7. n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
8. n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
9. n. (authorship) An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
10. n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Wikipedia:Twist (dance)
11. n. A rotation of the body when diving.
12. n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
13. n. (obsolete) A twig.
14. n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
15. n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
16. n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
Damascus twist
17. n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
18. n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
19. n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
a twist toward fanaticism
20. v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
21. v. To join together by twining one part around another.
22. v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
23. v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
24. v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
25. v. To turn a knob etc.
26. v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
27. v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
28. v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
29. v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
30. v. To cause to rotate.
31. v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
32. v. To coax.
33. v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
Mass
1. n. (Roman Catholic Church) The principal liturgical service of the Church, including a scripture service and a eucharistic service, which includes the consecration and oblation (offering) of the host and
2. n. A similar ceremony offered by a number of Christian churches.
3. n. (music) A musical composition set to portions of the Mass.
4. n. (physical) Matter, material.
5. n. A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, u
6. n. (obsolete) Precious metal, especially gold or silver.
7. n. (physics) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter. It is m
8. n. (pharmacy) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.
9. n. (medicine) A palpable or visible abnormal globular structure; a tumor.
10. n. (bodybuilding) Excess body weight, especially in the form of muscle hypertrophy.
11. n. (proscribed) (synonym of weight)
12. n. A large quantity; a sum.
13. n. (quantity) Large in number.
14. n. Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
15. n. The principal part; the main body.
16. n. A large body of individuals, especially persons.
The mass of spectators didn't see the infraction on the field.
A mass of ships converged on the beaches of Dunkirk.
17. n. (in the plural) The lower classes of persons.
The masses are revolting.
18. v. To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.
19. v. (intransitive) To have a certain mass.
I mass 70 kilograms
20. adj. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
There is evidence of mass extinctions in the distant past.
21. adj. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
Mass unemployment resulted from the financial collapse.
22. n. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
23. n. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
24. n. (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
25. n. A musical setting of parts of the mass.
26. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.

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