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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
don't
     1. v. do not (negative auxiliaryArnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, , Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513)
     2. v. (nonstandard) does not
     3. v. (African American Vernacular English) Used before an emphatic negative subject.
           Don’t nobody care.
     4. interj. Stop!, Don't touch that!
     5. n. Something that must not be done (1=usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
     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)
     not
          1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
                Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.
                Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
          2. adv. To no degree.
                That is not red; it's orange.
          3. conj. And not.
                I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
                He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
          4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
                I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not!
                Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not!
          5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function.
                You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip.
          6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not.
want
     1. v. To wish for or to desire (something).
           What do you want to eat?  I want you to leave.  I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.  I want to be an astronaut when I'm older.  I don't want him
     2. v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking or deficient; not to exist.
           There was something wanting in the play.
     3. v. To lack, not to have (something).
     4. v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
           That chair wants fixing.
     5. v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
     6. n. A desire, wish, longing.
     7. n. (often, followed by of) Lack, absence.
     8. n. Poverty.
     9. n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
     10. n. (mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
to
     1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
           I want to leave.
           He asked me what to do.
           I don’t know how to say it.
           I have places to go and people to see.
     2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
           "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
           If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
     3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
           I have to do laundry today.
     4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
           We are walking to the shop.
     5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
           He devoted himself to education.
           They drank to his health.
     6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
           His face was beaten to a pulp.
     7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
           similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
     8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
           With God to friend (with God as a friend);   with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe);   lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice);   t
     9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
           one to one = 1:1
           ten to one = 10:1.
           I have ten dollars to your four.
     10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
           Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
           Three to the power of two is nine.
           Three to the second is nine.
     11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
           I gave the book to him.
     12. prep. (time) Preceding.
           ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
     13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
           Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
           There's a lot of sense to what he says.
     14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
           Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
     15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
           Please push the door to.
     16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
     17. adv. misspelling of too
work
     1. n. (heading) Employment.
     2. n.          Labour, occupation, job.
                   My work involves a lot of travel.
     3. n.          The place where one is employed.
                   He hasn’t come home yet, he’s still at work.
     4. n.          One's employer
                   “I want to go to the R.E.M. reunion concert but I'm not sure if my work will let me off.”
     5. n. (heading) Effort.
     6. n.          Effort expended on a particular task.
                   Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
     7. n.          Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
                   We know what we must do. Let's go to work.
     8. n.          Something on which effort is expended.
                   There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.
     9. n.          (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
                   Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.
     10. n.          (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
     11. n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
           We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.
     12. n. Product; the result of effort.:
     13. n.          (often, in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
                   There's a lot of guesswork involved.
     14. n.          (often, in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
                   We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.
     15. n.          A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
                   It is a work of art.
                   the poetic works of Alexander Pope
     16. n.          A fortification.
                   William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.
     17. n. (slang) The staging of events to appear as real.
     18. n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
     19. n. The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
           Tell me you're using clean works at least.
     20. v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
           He’s working in a bar.
     21. v.          Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
                   I work in a national park
                   she works in the human resources department
                   he mostly works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry
     22. v.          Followed by as. Said of one's job title
                   I work as a cleaner.
     23. v.          Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
                   she works for Microsoft
                   he works for the president
     24. v.          Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
                   I work closely with my Canadian counterparts
                   you work with computers
                   she works with the homeless people from the suburbs
     25. v. To effect by gradual degrees.
           he worked his way through the crowd
           the dye worked its way through
           using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand
     26. v. To embroider with thread.
     27. v. To set into action.
           He worked the levers.
     28. v. To cause to ferment.
     29. v. (intransitive) To ferment.
     30. v. To exhaust, by working.
           The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.
     31. v. To shape, form, or improve a material.
           He used pliers to work the wire into shape.
     32. v. To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
           she works the night clubs
           the salesman works the Midwest
           this artist works mostly in acrylics
     33. v. To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
     34. v. To provoke or excite; to influence.
           The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.
     35. v. To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
           She knows how to work the system.
     36. v. To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
           I cannot work a miracle.
     37. v. To cause to work.
           He is working his servants hard.
     38. v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
           he pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?;  he looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work;  my plan didn’t work
     39. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
           They worked on her to join the group.
     40. v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
     41. v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
           His fingers worked with tension.
           A ship works in a heavy sea.
     42. v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
           this dough does not work easily;  the soft metal works well
     43. v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
     44. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.
for
     1. conj. (dated) Because.
     2. prep. Towards.
           The astronauts headed for the moon.
     3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to.
           I have something for you.
     4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of.
           We're having a birthday party for Janet.
           The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary.
           The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala.
     5. prep. Supporting.
           All those for the motion raise your hands.
     6. prep. Because of.
           He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him.
           (UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight.
           She was the worse for drink.
     7. prep. Over a period of time.
           I've lived here for three years.
           They fought for days over a silly pencil.
     8. prep. Throughout an extent of space.
     9. prep. On behalf of.
           I will stand in for him.
     10. prep. Instead of, or in place of.
     11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire.
           I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday.
           He's going for his doctorate.
           Do you want to go for coffee?
           People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers.
           Can you go to the store for some eggs?
           I'm saving up for a car.
           Don't wait for an answer.
           What did he ask you for?
     12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward.
           Run for the hills!
           He was headed for the door when he remembered.
     13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect.
           Fair for its day.
           She's spry for an old lady.
     14. prep. Despite, in spite of.
     15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive.
           For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.)
           All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.)
     16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
           In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day
     17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
           At close of play, England were 305 for 3.
     18. prep. To be, or as being.
     19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.)
     20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs).
some
     1. pron. A certain number, at least one.
           Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder.
     2. pron. An indefinite quantity.
           Can I have some of them?
     3. pron. An indefinite amount, a part.
           please give me some of the cake;  everyone is wrong some of the time
     4. det. A certain proportion of, at least one.
           Some people like camping.
     5. det. An unspecified quantity or number of.
           Would you like some grapes?
     6. det. An unspecified amount of (something un).
           Would you like some water?
           After some persuasion, he finally agreed.
     7. det. A certain, an unspecified or unknown.
           I've just met some guy who said he knew you.
           The sequence S converges to zero for some initial value v.
     8. det. A considerable quantity or number of; approximately.
           He had edited the paper for some years.
     9. det. (informal) A remarkable.
           He is some acrobat!
     10. adv. Of a measurement: approximately, roughly
           I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos.
           Some 30,000 spectators witnessed the feat.
           Some 4,000 acres of land were flooded.
magazine
     1. n. A non-academic periodical publication, generally consisting of sheets of paper folded in half and stapled at the fold.
     2. n. An ammunition storehouse.
     3. n. A chamber in a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
     4. n. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
     5. n. (dated) A country or district especially rich in natural products.
     6. n. (dated) A city viewed as a marketing center.
     7. n. (dated) A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
As
     1. n. plural of A
           She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As.
     2. adv. To such an extent or degree.
           You’re not as tall as I am.
           It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive.
     3. adv. In the manner or role specified.
           The kidnappers released him as agreed.
           The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues.
           He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend.
     4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as).
     5. conj. In the same way that; according to what.
           Do as I say!
           I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know.
           As you wish, my lord!
     6. conj. At the same instant that; when.
           As I came in, she flew.
     7. conj. At the same time that; while.
           He sleeps as the rain falls.
     8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that.
           As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy.
     9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since.
           As it’s too late, I quit.
     10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality.
           She's twice as strong as I was two years ago.
           It's not so complicated as I expected.
     11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’.
     12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though.
     13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that.
     14. conj. Expressing concession; though.
     15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than.
     16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case.
           You are not as tall as me.
           They're big as houses.
     17. prep. In the role of.
           What is your opinion as a parent?
     18. n. (unit of weight) A libra.
     19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value.
     20. n. plural of a
layout
     1. n. A structured arrangement of items within certain limits.
     2. n. A plan for such arrangement.
     3. n. The act of laying out something.
     4. n. (publishing) The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information to fit within certain constraints.
     5. n. (engineering) A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.
     6. n. (electronics) A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.
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