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exceptional
1. adj. Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
What an exceptional flower!
2. adj. Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
The quality of the beer was exceptional.
3. adj. (geometry) Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
an exceptional curve; an exceptional divisor
4. n. An exception, or something having an exceptional value
conspicuous
1. adj. Obvious or easy to notice.
He was conspicuous by his absence.
2. adj. Noticeable or attracting attention, especially if unattractive.
He had a conspicuous lump on his forehead.
outstanding
1. v. present participle of outstand
2. adj. prominent or noticeable; standing out from others
3. adj. exceptionally good; distinguished from others by its superiority
4. adj. projecting outwards
5. adj. unresolved; not settled or finished
6. adj. owed as a debt
outstand
1. v. To resist effectually; withstand; sustain without yielding.
2. v. To surpass in standing; stand or remain beyond; outstay.
3. v. (intransitive) To project outward from the main body; stand out prominently; be prominent.
4. v. (intransitive) To stand out to sea.
5. v. (intransitive) To remain over; remain untouched, unimpaired, unsettled, uncollected, unpaid, or otherwise undetermined.
outstanding contracts
most
1. det. superlative degree of much.
The teams competed to see who could collect the most money.
2. det. superlative degree of many: the comparatively largest number of (ngd, construed with the definite article)
The team with the most points wins.
3. det. superlative degree of many: the majority of; more than half of (ngd, construed without the definite article)
Most bakers and dairy farmers have to get up early.
Winning was not important for most participants.
4. adv. Forms the superlative of many adjectives.
This is the most important example.
Correctness is most important.
5. adv. To a great extent or degree; highly; very.
This is a most unusual specimen.
6. adv. (informal, chiefly US) Almost.
7. adv. superlative form of many: most many
8. adv. superlative form of much: most much
9. pron. The greater part of a group, especially a group of people.
Most want the best for their children.
The peach was juicier and more flavourful than most.
10. n. The greatest amount.
The most I can offer for the house is $150,000.
11. n. The greater part.
Most of the penguins were friendly and curious.
Most of the rice was spoiled.
12. n. A record-setting amount.
usually
1. adv. Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.
Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work.
2. adv. Under normal conditions.
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.
negative
1. adj. Not positive or neutral.
2. adj. (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
3. adj. (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero
4. adj. (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition.
5. adj. Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
6. adj. Often used pejoratively: pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
7. adj. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
8. adj. (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
The nitro group is negative.
9. adj. (New Age jargon, pejorative) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
10. adj. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
11. n. Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
12. n. (law) A right of veto.
13. n. (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
14. n. (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
15. n. (mathematics) A negative quantity.
16. n. (weightlifting): A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
17. n. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
18. v. To refuse; to veto.
19. v. To contradict.
20. v. To disprove.
21. v. To make ineffective; to neutralize.
22. interj. (law, signalling) An elaborate synonym for no.
fashion
1. n. A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
2. n. Popular trends.
Check out the latest in fashion.
3. n. A style or manner in which something is done.
4. n. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
5. n. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
men of fashion
6. v. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
7. v. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
8. v. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
9. v. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

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