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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
could
     1. v. simple past tense of can
           Before I was blind, I could see very well.
     2. v. conditional of can
     3. v.          Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).
                    I think he could do it if he really wanted to.
                    I wish I could fly!
     4. v.          Used to politely ask for permission to do something.
                   Could I borrow your coat?
     5. v.          Used to politely ask for someone else to do something.
                   Could you proofread this email?
     6. v.          Used to show the possibility that something might happen.
                   We could rearrange the time if you like.
     7. v.          Used to suggest something.
                   You could try adding more salt to the soup.
     8. n. Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
     can
          1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
                She can speak English, French, and German.   I can play football.   Can you remember your fifth birthday?
          2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
                You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework.   Can I use your pen?
          3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
                Can it be Friday already?
                Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.
                Animals can experience emotions.
          4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
                Can you hear that?.
                I can feel the baby moving inside me.
          5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
          6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
          7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
          8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
          9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.
                Shit or get off the can.
                Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
          10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
          11. n. (slang) Jail or prison.
                Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years.
          12. n. (slang) Headphones.
          13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup.
          14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
          15. n. A chimney pot.
          16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
                They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
          17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
                He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
          18. v. To shut up.
                Can your gob.
          19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
                The boss canned him for speaking out.
hear
     1. v. (intransitive) To perceive sounds through the ear.
           I was deaf, and now I can hear.
     2. v. To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
           I heard a sound from outside the window.
     3. v. To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
     4. v. To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
           Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties.
     5. v. To receive information about; to come to learn of.
     6. v. (with from) To be contacted by.
     7. v. To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
           Your case will be heard at the end of the month.
     8. v. (transitive, informal) To sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of.
           You're tired of all the ads on TV? I hear ya.
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.
patter
     1. n. A soft repeated sound, as of rain falling, or feet walking on a hard surface.
           I could hear the patter of mice running about in the dark.
     2. v. To make irregularly repeated sounds of low-to-moderate magnitude and lower-than-average pitch.
           The bullets pattered into the log-cabin walls.
     3. v. To spatter; to sprinkle.
     4. n. Glib and rapid speech, such as from an auctioneer, or banter during a sports event.
     5. v. To speak in such a way – glibly and rapidly, such as from an auctioneer, or when bantering during a sports event.
     6. n. One who pats.
of
     1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
     2. prep.          (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
     3. prep.          (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
     4. prep.          From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
                    There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
     5. prep.          (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
                    What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
     6. prep. Expressing separation.
     7. prep.          (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
                    Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
     8. prep.          (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
                    He seemed devoid of human feelings.
     9. prep.          (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
     10. prep. Expressing origin.
     11. prep.          (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
                    The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
     12. prep.          (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
                    The invention was born of necessity.
     13. prep.          (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
                    It is said that she died of a broken heart.
     14. prep.          (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
                    I am tired of all this nonsense.
     15. prep. Expressing agency.
     16. prep.          (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
                    I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
     17. prep.          (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
                    The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
     18. prep.          (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
                    It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
     19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
     20. prep.          (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
                    Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
     21. prep.          (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
                    She wore a dress of silk.
     22. prep.          (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
                    What a lot of nonsense!
     23. prep.          (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
                   Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
     24. prep.          (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
                    I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
     25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
     26. prep.          (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
                    I'm always thinking of you.
     27. prep.          (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
                    He told us the story of his journey to India.
     28. prep.          (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
                    This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
     29. prep. Having partitive effect.
     30. prep.          (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
                    Most of these apples are rotten.
     31. prep.          (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
     32. prep.          (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
                    On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
     33. prep.          (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
                    He is a friend of mine.
     34. prep. Expressing possession.
     35. prep.          Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
                    He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
     36. prep.          Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
                    The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
     37. prep.          Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
                    Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
     38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
     39. prep.          (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
                    She had a profound distrust of the police.
     40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
     41. prep.          (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
                    My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
     42. prep.          (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
                    Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
     43. prep.          (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
                    We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
     44. prep.          (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
                    It's not that big of a deal.
     45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
     46. prep.          (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
                    Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
     47. prep.          (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
                    I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
     48. prep.          (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
                    After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
mice
     1. n. plural form of mouse
running
     1. adj. Moving or advancing at a run.
     2. adj.          Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
     3. adj. present, current
           running month
     4. adj. Flowing; easy; cursive.
           running handwriting
     5. adj. Continuous; keeping along step by step.
           a running explanation
     6. adj. (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
           a running vine
     7. adj. (medicine) Discharging pus.
           a running sore
     8. adj. (of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
           a running nose
     9. adv. (informal) consecutively; in a row
           Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.
     10. n. The action of the verb to run.
           His running of the business leaves something to be desired.
     11. n. The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason
           Running is good exercise.
     12. n. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
           the first running of a still
     13. n. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
     14. v. present participle of run
     run
          1. v. To move swiftly.
          2. v.          (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
                        Run, Sarah, run!
          3. v.          (intransitive) To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.
                        The horse ran the length of the track.  I have been running all over the building looking for him.  Sorry, I've got to run; my house is
          4. v.          To cause to move quickly; to make move lightly.
                        Every day I run my dog across the field and back.  I'll just run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet.  Run your fingers through my hair.
          5. v.          (transitive, or intransitive) To compete in a race.
                        The horse will run the Preakness next year.  I'm not ready to run a marathon.
          6. v.          (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
          7. v.          (intransitive, soccer) To carry a football down the field.
          8. v.          To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
                        The horse ran a great race.
          9. v.          (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
                        Whenever things get tough, she cuts and runs.  When he's broke, he runs to me for money.
          10. v.          (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
          11. v. (fluids) To flow.
          12. v.          (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
                        There's a strange story running around the neighborhood.  The flu is running through my daughter's kindergarten.
          13. v.          (intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.
                        The river runs through the forest.  There's blood running down your leg.
          14. v.          (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
                        Your nose is running.  Why is the hose still running?  My cup runneth over.
          15. v.          To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.
                        You'll have to run the water a while before it gets hot.  Run the tap until the water gets hot.
          16. v.          (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
          17. v.          (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
                        He discovered during washing that the red rug ran on his white sheet, staining it pink.
          18. v.          To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
                        to run bullets
          19. v.          (figurative, transitive) To go through without stopping, usually illegally.
                        run a red light or stop sign;  run a blockade
          20. v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
          21. v. (social) To carry out an activity.
          22. v.          To control or manage, be in charge of.
                        My uncle ran a corner store for forty years.  She runs the fundraising.  My parents think they run my life.  He is running an expe
          23. v.          (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
                        I have decided to run for governor of California.  We're trying to find somebody to run against him next year.
          24. v.          To make run in a race or an election.
                        He ran his best horse in the Derby.  The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election.
          25. v.          To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
                        to run through life;  to run in a circle
          26. v.          (intransitive) To be presented in one of the media.
                        The story will run on the 6-o'clock news.  The latest Robin Williams movie is running at the Silver City theatre.  Her picture ran on t
          27. v.          To print or broadcast in the media.
                        run a story;  run an ad
          28. v.          To transport someone or something.
                        Could you run me over to the store?  Please run this report upstairs to director's office.
          29. v.          To smuggle illegal goods.
                        to run guns;  to run rum
          30. v.          (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
                        Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again.
          31. v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
          32. v.          (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
                        The border runs for 3000 miles.  The leash runs along a wire.  The grain of the wood runs to the right on this table.  It ran in q
          33. v.          (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
                        The sale will run for ten days.  The contract runs through 2008.  The meeting ran late.  The book runs 655 pages.  The speech
          34. v.          To make something extend in space.
                        I need to run this wire along the wall.
          35. v.          (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
                        My car stopped running.  That computer runs twenty-four hours a day.  Buses don't run here on Sunday.
          36. v.          To make a machine operate.
                        It's full. You can run the dishwasher now.  Don't run the engine so fast.
          37. v. To execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program.
                They ran twenty blood tests on me and they still don't know what's wrong.  Our coach had us running plays for the whole practice.  I will run the sample.  Don't run that software
          38. v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
                to run from one subject to another
          39. v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
                Our supplies are running low.  They frequently overspent and soon ran into debt.
          40. v. To cost a large amount of money.
                Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.  Laptops run about a thousand dollars apiece.
          41. v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
                My stocking is running.
          42. v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
          43. v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
                to run a sword into or through the body;  to run a nail into one's foot
          44. v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
          45. v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
                to run a line
          46. v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
                to run the risk of losing one's life
          47. v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
          48. v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
          49. v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
          50. v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
                Every three or four hands he would run the table.
          51. v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
          52. v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
          53. v. To have growth or development.
                Boys and girls run up rapidly.
          54. v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
          55. v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
                Certain covenants run with the land.
          56. v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
          57. v. (video games) To speedrun.
          58. v. past participle of rin
          59. n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
                I just got back from my morning run.
          60. n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
                I need to make a run to the store.
about
     1. prep. In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
     2. prep. Near; not far from; approximately; regarding time, size, quantity.
     3. prep. On the point or verge of.
           the show is about to start;  I am not about to admit to your crime
     4. prep. On one's person; nearby the person.
     5. prep. Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
     6. prep. Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.
     7. prep. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.
           He knew more about what was occurring than anyone.
     8. prep. (figurative) In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in possession of; in control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.
           He has his wits about him.
     9. prep. In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
     10. adv. Not distant; approximate.
     11. adv.          On all sides; around.
     12. adv.          Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
     13. adv.          Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
                   about as cold;  about as high
     14. adv.          Near; in the vicinity.
     15. adv. In succession; one after another; in the course of events.
     16. adv. On the move; active; astir.
     17. adv. To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
           to face about;  to turn oneself about
     18. adv.          (nautical) To the opposite tack.
     19. adv. (obsolete) Preparing; planning.
     20. adv. (archaic) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference.
           a mile about, and a third of a mile across
     21. adv. (chiefly North America, colloquial) Going to; on the verge of; intending to.
     22. adj. Moving around; astir.
           out and about;  up and about
           After my bout with Guillan-Barre Syndrome, it took me 6 months to be up and about again.
     23. adj. In existence; being in evidence; apparent
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.
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.
dark
     1. adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
           The room was too dark for reading.
     2. adj.          (of a source of light) Extinguished.
                   Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.
     3. adj.          Deprived of sight; blind.
     4. adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
           my sister's hair is darker than mine;  her skin grew dark with a suntan
     5. adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
     6. adj.          Not clear to the understanding; not easily through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
     7. adj.          (betting, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
     8. adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
           a dark villain;  a dark deed
     9. adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
           the Great Depression was a dark time;  the film was a dark psychological thriller
     10. adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
     11. adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form or a portion of either.
           The ending of this book is rather dark.
     12. n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
           Dark surrounds us completely.
     13. n. Ignorance.
           We kept him in the dark.
           The lawyer was left in the dark as to why the jury was dismissed.
     14. n. Nightfall.
           It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.
     15. n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
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