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actually
1. adv. (modal) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.
Actually, I had nothing to do with that incident.
2. adv. (obsolete) Actively.
Neither actually (...) nor passively. — Fuller.
I
1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
(audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio)
2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.
3. n. (metaphysics) The ego.
4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate.
5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case)
6. pron. nonstandard spelling of I
shovel
1. n. A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which
2. n. (US) A spade.
3. v. To move materials with a shovel.
The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.
I don't mind shoveling, but using a pickaxe hurts my back terribly.
4. v. (transitive, figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion.
Already late for work, I shovelled breakfast into my mouth as fast as possible.
chicken
1. n. A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.
2. n. The meat from this bird eaten as food.
3. n. (slang) A coward.
4. n. (slang) A young or inexperienced person.
5. n. (Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
6. n. The game of dare.
7. n. A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid col
Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.
8. n. A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
9. adj. (informal) Cowardly.
Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.
10. v. (intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.
11. n. (UK dialectal or obsolete) plural of chick
shit
1. n. (colloquial, vulgar) Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
2. n. (colloquial, vulgar, in the definite) (the shits) diarrhea.
He had the shits for three days.
3. n. (colloquial, vulgar) An instance of defecation.
Can't a guy take a shit in peace?
4. n. (vulgar, colloquial) Rubbish; worthless matter.
Throw that shit out!
5. n. (vulgar, colloquial) Stuff, things.
I want your shit out of my garage by tomorrow.
Fuck it. I don't feel like doing this shit.
6. n. (colloquial, vulgar, definite) (the shit) The best of its kind.
These grapes are the shit!
7. n. (vulgar, colloquial) Nonsense; bullshit.
Everything he says is a load of shit.
8. n. (vulgar, colloquial) A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
Her son has been a real shit to her.
9. n. (vulgar, colloquial) (in negations) Anything.
We don’t have shit to live on. = We don’t have anything to live on.
John can't sing for shit. = John can't sing for anything. = John can't sing at all.
You ain't shit. = You're nothing; you aren't worth anything.
10. n. (vulgar, colloquial) A problem or difficult situation.
I'm in some serious shit.
Some shit went down at the nightclub last night.
11. n. (vulgar, colloquial) A strong rebuke.
I gave him shit for being three hours late twice in one week.
12. n. (vulgar, colloquial) any recreational drug, usually cannabis.
13. adj. (vulgar, colloquial) Of poor quality; worthless.
What a shit film that was!
14. adj. (vulgar, colloquial) Nasty; despicable.
That was a shit thing to do to him.
15. adv. (vulgar, colloquial, sometimes by extension) Resembling the color of feces.
The ground is shit brown here.
16. v. (intransitive, vulgar, colloquial) To defecate.
17. v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial) To excrete (something) through the anus.
18. v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial) To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
Twelve hundred dollars!? Are you shitting me!?
19. v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial, Australia) To annoy.
That ad shits me to tears.
20. interj. (vulgar) Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.
Shit! I think that I forgot to pack my sleeping bag last night!
Holy shit!
Oh, shit!
21. interj. (vulgar) To show displeasure or surprise.
"Oh, shit. I left my worksheet at home," she said to the language arts teacher, which got her in trouble.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
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.
poultry
1. n. Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs).
2. n. The meat from a domestic fowl.
shed
1. v. (transitive, obsolete, UK, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
To shed something in two.
To shed the sheep from the lambs.
A metal comb shed her golden hair.
We are shed with each other by an enormous distance.
2. v. To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.
You must shed your fear of the unknown before you can proceed.
When we found the snake, it was in the process of shedding its skin.
3. v. (transitive, archaic) To pour; to make flow.
4. v. To allow to flow or fall.
I didn't shed many tears when he left me.
A tarpaulin sheds water.
5. v. To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.
Can you shed any light on this problem?
6. v. (obsolete, transitive) To pour forth, give off, impart.
7. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To fall in drops; to pour.
8. v. To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
9. v. (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
10. n. (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
11. n. (obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.
12. n. (obsolete) A parting in the hair.
13. n. (obsolete) The top of the head.
14. n. (obsolete) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
15. n. A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
a wagon shed; a wood shed; a garden shed
16. n. A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
17. n. (UK, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
18. n. (UK, rail transportation) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.

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