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an
     1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
     2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
     3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
     4. conj. (archaic) If
     5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
           An it harm none, do what ye will.
     6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
     7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
     8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
           I was only going twenty miles an hour.
order
     1. n. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
     2. n. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
     3. n. The state of being well arranged.
           The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
     4. n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
           to preserve order in a community or an assembly
     5. n. A command.
     6. n. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
     7. n. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles
           St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.
     8. n. An association of knights
           the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
     9. n. any group of people with common interests.
     10. n. A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
     11. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
           Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.
     12. n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
           the higher or lower orders of society
           talent of a high order
     13. n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.
           to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry
     14. n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic featu
     15. n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
     16. n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
           a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter.
     17. n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
     18. n. (set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.
     19. n. (group theory, of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the id
     20. n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
     21. n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
     22. n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
     23. n. (algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
           A quadratic polynomial,a x^2 + b x +c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2.
     24. v. To set in some sort of order.
     25. v. To arrange, set in proper order.
     26. v. To issue a command to.
           to order troops to advance
           He ordered me to leave.
     27. v. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
           to order groceries
     28. v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
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.
request
     1. v. to express the need or desire for
     2. v. to ask somebody to do something
     3. n. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
     4. n. A formal message requesting something.
     5. n. condition, Condition of being sought after.
     6. n. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
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.
instruction
     1. n. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
           Students receive instruction in the arts and sciences.
           Instruction will be provided on how to handle difficult customers.
     2. n. An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
     3. n. An order or command.
     4. n. (computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
     5. n. A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.
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