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he
1. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.
2. pron. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?
3. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown.
4. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
5. n. (informal) A male.
Alex totally is a he.
6. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
nibbled
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of nibble
nibble
1. n. A small, quick bite taken with the front teeth.
2. n. (in the nibbles) Small snacks such as crisps/potato chips or nuts, often eaten to accompany drinks.
3. v. To eat with small, quick bites.
The rabbit nibbled the lettuce.
The rabbit nibbled at the lettuce.
4. v. To bite lightly.
He nibbled at my neck and made me shiver.
5. v. (figurative) To consume gradually.
6. v. To find fault; to cavil.
7. n. (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bits.http://foldoc.org/nibble
at
1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.
Caesar was at Rome; at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine; at Jim’s house
2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.)
at six o’clock; at closing time; at night.
3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).
He threw the ball at me. He shouted at her.
4. prep. Denotes a price.
3 apples at 2¢ (each) The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.
5. prep. Occupied in (activity).
men at work
6. prep. In a state of.
She is at sixes and sevens with him. They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff. The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.
7. prep. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
Sell at 90. Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders. I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost.
8. prep. Because of.
to laugh at a joke mad at their comments
9. prep. Indicates a means, method, or manner.
10. prep. Holding a given speed or rate.
It is growing at the rate of 3% a year. Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.
11. prep. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.
The twins were both bad at chemistry.
He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.
12. prep. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
13. n. The at sign (@).
14. n. (alt form, att) (Laos currency unit)
My
1. n. megayear
2. pron. alternative case form of my often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.
3. det. First-person singular possessive determiner. See.
4. det. Belonging to me.
I can't find my book.
5. det. Associated with me.
My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable.
Don't you know my name?
I recognised him because he had attended my school.
6. det. Related to me.
My parents won't let me go out tonight.
7. det. In the possession of me.
I have to take my books back to the library soon.
8. interj. Used to express surprise, shock or amazement.
My, what big teeth you have!
neck
1. n. (anatomy) The part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
2. n. The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
3. n. The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
4. n. The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
5. n. (botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
6. n. (music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
7. n. A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
8. n. (engineering) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
a neck forming the journal of a shaft
9. n. The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
10. n. (architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.
11. n. (firearms) The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
12. n. (informal, MLE, slang) A falsehood; a lie.
13. v. To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate
Go neck yourself.
14. v. (chiefly US) To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.
15. v. To drink rapidly.
16. v. To decrease in diameter.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
made
1. n. (UK dialectal, or obsolete) A grub or maggot.
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of make
mak
1. v. (Wearside, dialectal) to make
make
1. v. To create.
2. v. To build, construct, or produce.
We made a bird feeder for our yard.
I'll make a man out of him yet.
3. v. To write or compose.
I made a poem for her wedding.
He made a will.
4. v. To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
make war
They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men.
5. v. (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
God made earth and heaven.
6. v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
To make like a deer caught in the headlights.
They made nice together, as if their fight never happened.
He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands.
7. v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
8. v. To constitute.
They make a cute couple.
This makes the third infraction.
One swallow does not a summer make.
9. v. 1995, Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work, p.46:
10. v. To add up to, have a sum of.
Two and four make six.
11. v. (intransitive, construed with of typically interrogative) To interpret.
I don’t know what to make of it.
12. v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
This company is what made you.
She married into wealth and so has it made.
13. v. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
The citizens made their objections clear.
This might make you a bit woozy.
Did I make myself heard?
Scotch will make you a man.
14. v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
15. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
You're making her cry.
I was made to feel like a criminal.
16. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
The teacher made the student study.
Don’t let them make you suffer.
17. v. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.
18. v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
19. v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
20. v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.
21. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
They made westward over the snowy mountains.
Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!
They made away from the fire toward the river.
22. v. To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
23. v. To move at (a speed).
The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas.
This baby can make 220 miles an hour.
24. v. To appoint; to name.
25. v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
26. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
27. v. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
They hope to make a bigger profit.
He didn't make the choir after his voice changed.
She made ten points in that game.
28. v. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
29. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
30. v. To enact; to establish.
31. v. To develop into; to prove to be.
She'll make a fine president.
32. v. To form or formulate in the mind.
make plans
made a questionable decision
33. v. To perform a feat.
make a leap
make a pass
make a u-turn
34. v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.
35. v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
36. v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
37. v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
38. v. (transitive, euphemism) To take the virginity of.
39. v. To have sexual intercourse with.
40. n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
What make of car do you drive?
41. n. How a thing is made; construction.
42. n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
The camera was of German make.
43. n. Quantity produced, especially of materials.
44. n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
45. n. A person's character or disposition.
46. n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
47. n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
48. n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
49. n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
50. n. (slang) Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
51. n. (slang) A promotion.
52. n. A home-made project
53. n. (basketball) A made basket.
54. n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
55. n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.
myek
1. v. (Geordie, dialectal) To make.
Will ye myek is a stotty for me bait pet?
Me
1. n. en-abbr
2. n. (chemistry) (abbreviation of methyl)
3. pron. alternative case form of me often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.
4. pron. As the direct object of a verb.
Can you hear me?
5. pron. (obsolete) Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.
6. pron. As the object of a preposition.
Come with me.
7. pron. As the indirect object of a verb.
He gave me this.
8. pron. (US, colloquial) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
9. pron. (colloquial) As the complement of the copula (“be” or “is”).
It wasn't me.
10. pron. (Australia, British, New Zealand, colloquial) My; preceding a noun, marking ownership.
11. pron. (colloquial, with "and") As the subject of a verb.
Me and my friends played a game.
12. pron. (nonstandard, not with "and") As the subject of a verb.
13. det. (UK regional, Ireland) alternative form of my
shiver
1. v. To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air.
2. v. (nautical, transitive) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
3. n. The act of shivering.
A shiver went up my spine.
4. n. (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.Wp
5. n. A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
6. n. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A thin slice; a shive.
7. n. (geology) A variety of blue slate.
8. n. (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
9. n. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
10. n. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A spindle.
11. v. To break into splinters or fragments.

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