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do
1. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker
2. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
Do you go there often?
3. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
I do not go there often.
Do not listen to him.
4. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
But I do go sometimes.
Do tell us.
It is important that he do come see me.
5. v. (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; not generally used with auxiliari
I play tennis; she does too.
# They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
6. v. To perform; to execute.
All you ever do is surf the Internet. What will you do this afternoon?
7. v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
8. v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do; this will do me, thanks.
9. v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.
10. v. To have (as an effect).
The fresh air did him some good.
11. v. (intransitive) To fare, perform (well or poorly).
Our relationship isn't doing very well; how do you do?
12. v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
What does Bob do? — He's a plumber.
13. v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something)
"Don't forget to do your report" means something quite different depending on whether you're a student or a programmer.
14. v. To cook.
I'll just do some eggs.
15. v. To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
Let’s do New York also.
16. v. To treat in a certain way.
17. v. To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
19. v. (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
I did five years for armed robbery.
20. v. To impersonate or depict.
They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.
21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
22. v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
23. v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
He got done for speeding.
Teacher'll do you for that!
24. v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)
25. v. To cheat or swindle.
That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!
26. v. To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
the novel has just been done into English; I'm going to do this play into a movie
27. v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
Aren't you done yet?
28. v. (dated) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
29. v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
30. v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
31. v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
Do they do haircuts there?
Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
32. v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
33. v. To take drugs.
I do cocaine.
34. v. (transitive, in the form be doing somewhere) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
What's that car doing in our swimming pool? -
35. n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
36. n. (informal) A hairdo.
Nice do!
37. n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
38. n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
39. n. (archaic) Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
40. n. (obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
41. n. (obsolete, UK, slang) An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
42. n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
43. adv. (rare) (abbreviation of ditto)
you
1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
Both of you should get ready now.
You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to.
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis.
You idiot!
9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal.
whittle
1. n. A knife; especially, a pocket knife, sheath knife, or clasp knife.
2. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To cut or shape wood with a knife.
3. v. To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).
4. v. (transitive, figurative) To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.
5. n. (archaic) A coarse greyish double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.
6. n. (archaic) A whittle shawl; a kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one.
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.
Sticks
1. n. plural of Stick
2. n. plural of stick
3. n. (slang) rural terrain, especially a woody area; any rural region.
We had to drive way out into the sticks to visit that customer.
4. n. (slang) crutches
5. v. third-person singular present indicative of stick
stick
1. n. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.
2. n. A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
I found several good sticks in the brush heap.
What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.
3. n. (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.
4. n. A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.
5. n. A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.
6. n. (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
7. n. (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
8. n. (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.
9. n. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.
The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.
Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!
10. n. (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick.
11. n. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
12. n. A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
(US) My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.
13. n. (archaic) A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
14. n. (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves
15. n. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
16. n. (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (th
I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn’t.
17. n. # (US, colloquial) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
# I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't.
18. n. (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to
19. n. (aviation) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
20. n. (computing) A memory stick.
21. n. (dated, metal typesetting) A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
22. n. (jazz, slang) The clarinet. (more often called the liquorice stick)
23. n. (sports) A stick-like item:
Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules.
24. n. (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
25. n. (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.
26. n. (US, slang) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.
27. n. # The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
# He shoots a mean stick of pool.
28. n. (sports) Ability; specifically:
29. n. (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
30. n. (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
31. n. (baseball) General hitting ability.
32. n. (hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
33. n. (slang) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
34. n. A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.
35. n. (magic) An assistant planted in the audience.
36. n. A stiff, stupidly obstinate person.
37. n. (military aviation, from joystick) A fighter pilot.
38. n. (military, South Africa) A small group of (infantry) soldiers.
39. n. Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
40. n. A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to
41. n. (slang) Corporal punishment; beatings.
42. n. (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
He really gave that digging some stick. = he threw himself into the task of digging
She really gave that bully some stick. = she berated him (this sense melts into the previous sense, "punishment")
Give it some stick!
43. n. (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
44. n. A measure.
45. n. (obsolete) An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
46. n. (archaic, rare) A quantity of eels, usually 25.
47. v. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
48. v. (transitive, printing, slang) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
to stick type
49. n. (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
50. n. (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
51. n. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
52. v. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
The tape will not stick if it melts.
53. v. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
The lever sticks if you push it too far up.
54. v. To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
55. v. (intransitive) To persist.
His old nickname stuck.
56. v. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
57. v. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
Just stick to your strategy, and you will win.
58. v. (dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
59. v. (dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
60. v. (dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
61. v. To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
Stick the label on the jar.
62. v. To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
Stick your bag over there and come with me.
63. v. To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it.
to stick a needle into one's finger
64. v. (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
65. v. To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
to stick an apple on a fork
66. v. (transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
67. v. (transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.
Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.
68. v. (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
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.
any
1. adv. To even the slightest extent, at all.
I will not remain here any longer.
If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways!
2. det. At least one; of at least one kind. One at all.
do you have any biscuits?; do you have any food?; I haven't got any money; it won't do you any good
3. det. No matter what kind.
choose any items you want; any person may apply
4. pron. Any thing(s) or person(s).
Any may apply.
interesting
1. adj. Arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone.
2. adj. (euphemistic) strange or unusual, in a negative sense.
The stew had an interesting flavor.
3. v. present participle of interest
interest
1. n. (finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.
Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
2. n. A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
3. n. Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
4. n. An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
When scientists and doctors write articles and when politicians run for office, they are required in many countries to declare any existing conflicts of interest.
I have business interests in South Africa.
5. n. Something or someone one is interested in.
Lexicography is one of my interests.
Victorian furniture is an interest of mine.
The main character's romantic interest will be played by a non-professional actor.
6. n. (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
7. n. (usually plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
the iron interest; the cotton interest
8. v. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
Action films don't really interest me.
9. v. (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
10. v. (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
shapes
1. n. plural of shape
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of shape
shape
1. n. The status or condition of something
The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
2. n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
We exercise to keep in good physical shape.
3. n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
He cut a square shape out of the cake.
What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
4. n. Form; formation.
5. n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
6. n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
7. n. (cookery, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
8. n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
9. v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
Earth was shapen by God for God's folk.
10. v. To give something a shape and definition.
Shape the dough into a pretzel. For my art project, I plan to shape my clay lump into a bowl.
11. v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
12. v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
13. v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
14. v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

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