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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.
traffic
     1. n. Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
           The traffic is slow during rush hour.
     2. n. Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
     3. n. Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
     4. n. Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
     5. n. Commodities of the market.
     6. v. (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods
     7. v. (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
     8. v. To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
cone
     1. n. (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
     2. n. (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
     3. n. (topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
     4. n. Anything shaped like a cone.The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1998
     5. n. The fruit of a conifer.
     6. n. An ice cream cone.
     7. n. A traffic cone
     8. n. A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
     9. n. Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
     10. n. (slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
     11. n. (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
     12. n. (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
     13. n. (slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
     14. n. (category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it.
     15. n. A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
     16. n. A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
     17. v. (pottery) To fashion into the shape of a cone.
     18. v. (frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones
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