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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.
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.
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.
Who
     1. pron. honoraltcaps, who
     2. pron. (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; (asks for the identity of someone). (used in a direct or indirect question)
           Who is that? (direct question)
           I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
     3. pron. (interrogative) What is one's position; (asks whether someone deserves to say or do something).
           I don't like what you did, but who am I to criticize you? I've done worse.
     4. pron. (relative) The person or people that.
           It was a nice man who helped us.
     5. pron. (relative, archaic) Whoever, he who, they who.
     6. n. A person under discussion; a question of which person.
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).
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.
not
     1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
           Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.
           Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
     2. adv. To no degree.
           That is not red; it's orange.
     3. conj. And not.
           I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
           He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
     4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
           I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not!
           Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not!
     5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function.
           You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip.
     6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not.
fully
     1. adv. In a full manner; without lack or defect.
           He fully met his responsibilities.
     2. adv. In a full degree; to a full extent.
           He is fully capable of meeting his responsibilities.
     3. adv. As a minimum; at least.
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
it
     1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals.
           Put it over there.
           Take each day as it comes.
           I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today.
     2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender.
           She took the baby and held it in her arms.
     3. pron. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
           It's me. John.
           Is it her?
     4. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)
           It is nearly 10 o’clock.
           It’s 10:45 read ten-forty-five.
           It’s very cold today.
           It’s lonely without you.
     5. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms.
           stick it out
           live it up
           rough it
     6. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject i
           It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
           I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
           It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing)
           He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
           It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if)
     7. pron. All or the end; something after which there is no more.
           Are there more students in this class, or is this it?
           That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.
     8. pron. (chiefly pejorative, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male.
     9. pron. (obsolete) (Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun): That which; what.
     10. det. (obsolete) its
     11. n. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
     12. n. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
           In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…
     13. n. (British) The game of tag.
           Let's play it at breaktime.
     14. n. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty.
     15. n. (euphemism) Sexual activity.
           caught them doing it
     16. adj. (colloquial) Most fashionable.
typically
     1. adv. In a typical or common manner.
     2. adv. In an expected or customary manner.
between
     1. prep. In the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree. (See Usage notes below.)
           John stood between Amy and Mary.  Let's meet between two and three.
           I want to buy one that costs somewhere between forty and fifty dollars.
     2. prep. Done together or reciprocally.
           conversation between friends
     3. prep. Shared in confidence.
           Between you and me, I think the boss is crazy.  Let's keep this between ourselves.
     4. prep. In transit from (one to the other, or connecting places).
           He's between jobs right now.  The shuttle runs between the town and the airport.
     5. prep. Combined (by effort or ownership).
           Between us all, we shall succeed.  We've only got £5 between us.
           Between the leaky taps and the peeling wallpaper, there isn't much about this house to appeal to a buyer.
     6. prep. One of (representing a choice).
           You must choose between him and me.
           Some colour-blind people can't distinguish between red and green.
     7. n. A kind of needle, shorter than a sharp, with a small rounded eye, used for making fine stitches on heavy fabrics.
one
     1. num. (cardinal) The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
           In some religions, there is only one god.
           In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.
           One person, one vote.
     2. num. (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
     3. num. (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
     4. num. (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
     5. pron. (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
           The big one looks good.  I want the green one.  A good driver is one who drives carefully.
     6. pron. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
           She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the other.
     7. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).
           One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed.  One shouldn’t be too quick to judge.
     8. pron. (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing.
           "driver", noun: one who drives.
     9. n. The digit or figure 1.
     10. n. (mathematics) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
     11. n. (US) A one-dollar bill.
     12. n. (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
     13. n. A joke or amusing anecdote.
     14. n. (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
     15. n. (Internet slang) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
           A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!
             Someone help me; I'm always losing!
           B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!
             Why don't you just go away loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     16. adj. Of a period of time, being particular.
           One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries.
     17. adj. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
           My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other.".
     18. adj. Sole, only.
           He is the one man who can help you.
     19. adj. Whole, entire.
           Body and soul are not separate; they are one.
     20. adj. In agreement.
           We are one on the importance of learning.
     21. adj. The same.
           The two types look very different, but are one species.
     22. adj. Being a preeminent example.
           He is one hell of a guy.
     23. adj. Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".
           The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”.
     24. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.
and
     1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
     2. conj.          Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
     3. conj.          Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
     4. conj.          Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
     5. conj.          (obsolete) Yet; but.
     6. conj.          Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
     7. conj.          (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
     8. conj.          Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
     9. conj.          Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
     10. conj.          Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
     11. conj.          (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
     12. conj.          Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
     13. conj.          Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
     14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
     15. conj.          (now US dialect) If; provided that.
     16. conj.          (obsolete) As if, as though.
     17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
     18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
     19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
     20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
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.
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