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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.
truck
1. n. A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
2. n. The ball on top of a flagpole.
3. n. (nautical) On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency pl
4. n. (US, Australia) A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; (British) a lorry.
Mexican open-bed trucks haul most of the fresh produce that comes into the United States from Mexico.
5. n. Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, including delivery vans, pickups, and other motorized vehicles (including passenger autos) fitted with a bed designed to carry goods.
6. n. A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow.
7. n. A small wagon or cart, of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books.
8. n. A pantechnicon (removal van).
9. n. (rail transport) A flatbed railway car; a flatcar.
10. n. A pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with cu
11. n. The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
12. n. (theater) A platform with wheels or casters.
13. n. Dirt or other messiness.
14. v. (intransitive) To drive a truck: Generally a truck driver's slang.
15. v. To convey by truck.
Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.
16. v. (intransitive, US, slang) To travel or live contentedly.
Keep on trucking!
17. v. (intransitive, US, Canada, slang) To persist, to endure.
Keep on trucking!
18. v. (intransitive, film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
19. v. (transitive, slang) To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
20. v. (transitive, slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.
21. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
22. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
23. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To deceive; cheat; defraud.
24. v. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
25. v. To trade, exchange; barter.
26. v. (intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
27. v. (intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
28. n. (obsolete, often used in plural sense) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
29. n. (historical) The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts
30. n. (US) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
31. n. (usually with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
32. adj. Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.
driver
1. n. One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
2. n. Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
3. n. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
4. n. A person who drives some other vehicle.
5. n. (computing) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
6. n. (golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
7. n. (nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
8. n. A mallet.
9. n. A tamping iron.
10. n. A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
11. n. A screwdriver.
drove
1. n. A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
2. n. (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
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3. n. (collective) A group of hares.
4. n. A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven.
5. n. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
6. n. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
7. n. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
8. v. simple past tense of drive
9. v. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
10. v. To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
drive
1. n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
2. n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
3. n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
4. n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
5. n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use.
Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
6. n. A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
It was a long drive.
7. n. A driveway.
The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.
8. n. A type of public roadway.
Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.
9. n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
10. n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
11. n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
12. n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.
13. n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
14. n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
15. n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
16. n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
17. n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
18. n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
a whist drive; a beetle drive
19. n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
20. n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
21. v. To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
to drive sheep out of a field
22. v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
23. v. To cause animals to flee out of.
24. v. To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
You drive nails into wood with a hammer.
25. v. To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
The pistons drive the crankshaft.
26. v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
drive a car
27. v. To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
What drives a person to run a marathon?
28. v. To compel (to do something).
Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.
29. v. To cause to become.
This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity. You are driving me crazy!
30. v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
31. v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
I drive to work every day.
32. v. To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
My wife drove me to the airport.
33. v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
34. v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
35. v. To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
36. v. To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
37. v. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
38. v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
39. v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
40. v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
41. v. To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
interstate
1. adj. (chiefly US, and Australia) Of, or relating to two or more states.
2. adv. (chiefly US, and Australia) Crossing states (usually provincial state, but also e.g. multinational sense).
The truck driver drove interstate to unload.
3. n. (US) A freeway that is part of the Interstate Highway System.
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
unload
1. v. To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).
to unload a ship; to unload a camel
2. v. To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
to unload bales of hay from a truck
3. v. (intransitive) To deposit one's load or cargo.
4. v. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To give vent to or express.
5. v. (transitive, computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
6. v. To discharge, pour, or expel.
7. v. To get rid of or dispose of.
to unload unprofitable stocks
8. v. To deliver forcefully.
9. v. To draw the charge from.
to unload a gun

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