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able
     1. adj. (obsolete, passive) Easy to use.
     2. adj. (obsolete, passive) Suitable; competent.
     3. adj. (obsolete, dialectal, passive) Liable to.
     4. adj. Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.
     5. adj. Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.
           I’ll see you as soon as I’m able.
           With that obstacle removed, I am now able to proceed with my plan.
           I’m only able to visit you when I have other work here.
           That cliff is able to be climbed.
     6. adj. (obsolete, dialectal) Having the physical strength; robust; healthy.
           After the past week of forced marches, only half the men are fully able.
     7. adj. (obsolete) Rich; well-to-do.
           He was born to an able family.
     8. adj. Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.
           The chairman was also an able sailor.
     9. adj. (law) Legally qualified or competent.
           He is able to practice law in six states.
     10. adj. (nautical) Capable of performing all the requisite duties; as an able seaman.
     11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To make ready.
     12. v. (transitive, obsolete) To make capable; to enable.
     13. v. (transitive, obsolete) To dress.
     14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To give power to; to reinforce; to confirm.
     15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To vouch for; to guarantee.
     16. n. (lbl, en, military) The letter "A" in Navy Phonetic Alphabet.
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
pay
     1. v. To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
           he paid him to clean the place up
           he paid her off the books and in kind where possible
     2. v. To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
           she offered to pay the bill
           he has paid his debt to society
     3. v. To be profitable for.
           It didn't pay him to keep the store open any more.
     4. v. To give (something else than money).
           to pay attention
     5. v. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
           crime doesn’t pay
           it will pay to wait
     6. v. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
           He was allowed to go as soon as he paid.
     7. v. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
           He paid for his fun in the sun with a terrible sunburn.
     8. n. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
           Many employers have rules designed to keep employees from comparing their pays.
     9. adj. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
           pay toilet
     10. adj. Pertaining to or requiring payment.
     11. v. (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
all
     1. adv. (degree) intensifier.
           It suddenly went all quiet.
           She was all, “Whatever.”
     2. adv. (poetic) Entirely.
     3. adv. Apiece; each.
           The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
     4. adv. (degree) So much.
           Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
     5. adv. (obsolete, poetic) even; just
     6. det. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or un).
           All contestants must register at the scorer’s table.  All flesh is originally grass.  All my friends like classical music.
     7. det. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
           The store is open all day and all night. (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
           I’ve been working on this all year. (= from the beginning of the year until now.)
     8. det. (obsolete) Any.
     9. det. Only; alone; nothing but.
           He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice.
     10. pron. Everything.
           some gave all they had;  she knows all and sees all;  Those who think they know it all are annoying to those of us who do.
     11. pron. Everyone.
           A good time was had by all.
     12. n. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of.
           She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.
     13. n. The totality of one's possessions.
     14. conj. (obsolete) although
     15. adj. (dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead.
           The butter is all.
debts
     1. n. plural of debt
     debt
          1. n. An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
          2. n. The state or condition of owing something to another.
                I am in your debt.
          3. n. Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
          4. n. (legal) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
As
     1. n. plural of A
           She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As.
     2. adv. To such an extent or degree.
           You’re not as tall as I am.
           It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive.
     3. adv. In the manner or role specified.
           The kidnappers released him as agreed.
           The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues.
           He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend.
     4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as).
     5. conj. In the same way that; according to what.
           Do as I say!
           I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know.
           As you wish, my lord!
     6. conj. At the same instant that; when.
           As I came in, she flew.
     7. conj. At the same time that; while.
           He sleeps as the rain falls.
     8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that.
           As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy.
     9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since.
           As it’s too late, I quit.
     10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality.
           She's twice as strong as I was two years ago.
           It's not so complicated as I expected.
     11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’.
     12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though.
     13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that.
     14. conj. Expressing concession; though.
     15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than.
     16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case.
           You are not as tall as me.
           They're big as houses.
     17. prep. In the role of.
           What is your opinion as a parent?
     18. n. (unit of weight) A libra.
     19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value.
     20. n. plural of a
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).
become
     1. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
     2. v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
           What became of him after he was let go?
           It hath becomen so that many a man had to sterve.
     3. v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
           She became a doctor when she was 25.
           The weather will become cold after the sun goes down.
     4. v. To be proper for; to beseem.
     5. v. Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).
           That dress really becomes you.
due
     1. adj. Owed or owing.
           He is due four weeks of back pay.
           The amount due is just three quid.
           The due bills total nearly seven thousand dollars.
           He can wait for the amount due him.
     2. adj. Appropriate.
           With all due respect, you're wrong about that.
     3. adj. Scheduled; expected.
           Rain is due this afternoon.
           The train is due in five minutes.
           When is your baby due?
     4. adj. Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
           The baby is just about due.
     5. adj. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
           The dangerously low water table is due to rapidly growing pumping.
     6. adj. On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass
           The town is 5 miles due North of the bridge.
     7. adv. (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly.
           The river runs due north for about a mile.
     8. n. Deserved acknowledgment.
           Give him his due — he is a good actor.
     9. n. (in plural dues) A membership fee.
     10. n. That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
     11. n. Right; just title or claim.
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.
having
     1. v. present participle of have
     2. n. Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
     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.
No
     1. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
     2. n. Alternative form of No.
     3. n. Alternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama.
     4. det. Not any.
           no one
           There is no water left.
           No hot dogs were sold yesterday.
           No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.
           There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.)
     5. det. Hardly any.
           We'll be finished in no time at all.
     6. det. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
           No smoking
           There's no stopping her once she gets going.
     7. det. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
           My mother's no fool.
           Working nine to five every day is no life.
     8. adv. (now only used with comparatives, except in Scotland) Not, not at all.
           It is a different kind of torture, but no less gruesome.
           I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.
     9. part. Used to show disagreement or negation.
           No, you are mistaken.
           No, you may not watch television now.
     10. part. Used to show agreement with a negative question.
           "Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")
     11. part. (colloquial) As if to say, "No, don’t doubt this!", or to deny an imagined contradictory statement, used to show intense agreement
           No, totally.
           No, yeah, that's exactly right.
           "Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!".
           No, yeah
     12. n. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval.
     13. n. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.
           The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".
     14. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
     15. n. Alternative form of No.
more
     1. det. comparative degree of many, : in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
           More people are arriving.
           There are more ways to do this than I can count.
     2. det. comparative degree of much, : in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
           I want more soup;  I need more time
           There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
     3. adv. To a greater degree or extent.
           He walks more in the morning these days.
     4. adv. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
     5. adv. Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
           You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.
     6. adv. (now dialectal, or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18thc.)
           I was more better at English than you.
     7. adv. rather
           He is more clever than wise.
     8. n. An extra amount or extent.
     9. n. (obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip.
     10. n. (dialectal) a root; stock.
     11. n. A plant.
     12. v. To root up.
     13. pron. a greater amount of people or things
liabilities
     1. n. plural of liability
     2. n. (finance) An amount of money in a company that is owed to someone and has to be paid in the future, such as tax, debt, interest, and mortgage payments.
than
     1. conj. (obsolete, outside, dialects, usually used with for) Because; for.
     2. conj. Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
           she's taller than I am;  she found his advice more witty than helpful;  we have less work today than we had yesterday;  it's bigger than I thought it was
     3. prep. introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two
           Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.
     4. adv. (now chiefly dialectal) At that time; then.
assets
     1. n. plural of asset
     2. n. (finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.
           His assets are much greater than his liabilities.
     3. n. (legal) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
     4. n. Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.
     asset
          1. n. Something or someone of any value; any portion of one's property or effects so considered.
                These shares are a valuable asset.
          2. n. (software) Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.
          3. n. (espionage) intelligence asset
          4. n. (slang) private parts; a woman's breasts or buttocks, or a man's genitalia.
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