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abounding
1. adj. Ample, plenty, abundant.
abounding food
an abounding stream
2. v. present participle of abound
3. n. An abundance.
abound
1. v. (intransitive) To be full to overflowing.
2. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be wealthy.
3. v. (intransitive) To be highly productive.
4. v. (intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers; to be plentiful.
Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.
5. v. (intransitive) To revel in.
6. v. (intransitive) To be copiously supplied
The wilderness abounds in traps.
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
11. adv. -->
12. n. alternative form of withe
circumstances
1. n. plural of circumstance
detailing
1. v. present participle of detail
2. n. gerund of detail
3. n. Ornamentation on something that has been constructed.
a dress with elaborate neck detailings
detail
1. n. Something small enough to escape casual notice.
Note this fine detail in the lower left corner.
We missed several important details in the contract.
2. n. A profusion of details.
This etching is full of fine detail.
3. n. The small things that can escape casual notice.
4. n. Something considered trivial enough to ignore.
I don't concern myself with the details of accounting.
5. n. A person's name, address and other personal information.
The arresting officer asked the suspect for his details.
6. n. (military, law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.
7. n. A part distinct from the whole.
8. n. A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
9. v. to explain in detail
I'll detail the exact procedure to you later.
10. v. to clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) ((IPAchar, ˈdi(ː)teɪɫ))
We need to have the minivan detailed.
11. v. (transitive, military) to assign to a particular task
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.
exhibiting
1. v. present participle of exhibit
exhibit
1. v. To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
He wanted to exhibit his baseball cards.
2. v. To demonstrate.
The players exhibited great skill.
3. v. (transitive, legal) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.
I now exhibit this bloody hammer.
4. v. (intransitive) To put on a public display.
Will you be exhibiting this year?
5. v. (medicine) To administer as a remedy.
to exhibit calomel
6. n. An instance of exhibiting.
7. n. That which is exhibited.
8. n. A public showing; an exhibition.
The museum's new exhibit is drawing quite a crowd.
9. n. (legal) An article formally introduced as evidence in a court.
Exhibit A is this photograph of the corpse.
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.
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.
circumstances
1. n. plural of circumstance
minute
1. n. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
2. n. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
3. n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.
4. n. (chiefly in the minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
5. n. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes.
6. n. A point in time; a moment.
7. n. A nautical or a geographic mile.
8. n. An old coin, a half farthing.
9. n. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
10. n. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
11. n. (slang) A while or a long unspecified period of time
Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
12. v. Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
13. v. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
14. adj. Very small.
They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
15. adj. Very careful and exact, giving small details.
The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.
particular
1. adj. (also non-comparable)
2. adj. (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
3. adj. Specific; discrete; concrete.
I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.
We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith.
4. adj. Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.
5. adj. (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
6. adj. Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.
I didn't have any particular interest in the book.
He brought no particular news.
She was the particular belle of the party.
7. adj. (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.
He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.
Women are more particular about their appearance.
8. adj. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
a full and particular account of an accident
9. adj. (legal) Containing a part only; limited.
a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder
10. adj. (legal) Holding a particular estate.
a particular tenant
11. adj. (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise".
12. n. A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
13. n. (obsolete) A person's own individual case.
14. n. (now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)

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