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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.
weekly
1. adv. Once every week.
She visits her mother weekly.
2. adv. Every week.
3. adj. Of or relating to a week.
4. adj. Happening once a week, or every week.
He's going for his weekly check-up at the hospital.
5. n. A publication that is published once a week.
email
1. n. A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network.
He sent me his details via email.
The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
2. n. A message sent via an email system.
He sent me an email last week to that effect.
I am searching through my old emails.
3. n. A quantity of email messages.
I am searching through my old email.
My inbox used to allow only 50 MB of email at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
4. n. (informal) An email address.
What's your email?
Don't send personal messages to my work email.
5. v. To send an email or emails to.
She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.
6. v. (intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.
Most teenagers spend twenty-six hours a day emailing and surfing the Web.
7. v. (transitive, may take two objects) To send via email.
I'll email you the link.
He emailed the file out to everyone.
8. n. (obsolete, circa 13th century) a raised or embossed image pressed into metal, such as a seal pressed into a foil and attached to a document
9. n. A type of dark ink
digest
1. v. To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
to digest laws
2. v. To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blo
3. v. To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
4. v. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
5. v. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
6. v. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.
7. v. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
8. v. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
9. v. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
10. v. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)
11. n. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
12. n. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
Comyn's Digest
the United States Digest
13. n. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
Reader's Digest is published monthly.
The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.
14. n. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.
contains
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of contain
contain
1. v. To hold inside.
2. v. To include as a part.
3. v. To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself!
4. v. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements.
If that subgraph contains the vertex in question then it must be spanning.
5. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
all
1. adv. (degree) intensifier.
It suddenly went all quiet.
She was all, “Whatever.”
2. adv. (poetic) Entirely.
3. adv. Apiece; each.
The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
4. adv. (degree) So much.
Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
5. adv. (obsolete, poetic) even; just
6. det. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or un).
All contestants must register at the scorer’s table. All flesh is originally grass. All my friends like classical music.
7. det. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
The store is open all day and all night. (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
I’ve been working on this all year. (= from the beginning of the year until now.)
8. det. (obsolete) Any.
9. det. Only; alone; nothing but.
He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice.
10. pron. Everything.
some gave all they had; she knows all and sees all; Those who think they know it all are annoying to those of us who do.
11. pron. Everyone.
A good time was had by all.
12. n. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of.
She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.
13. n. The totality of one's possessions.
14. conj. (obsolete) although
15. adj. (dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead.
The butter is all.
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.
messages
1. n. plural of message
2. n. (Ireland, Scotland, and Northern England) Shopping, groceries, errands.
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of message
message
1. n. A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
We've just received an urgent message from the President.
2. n. An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.
The main message of the novel is that time heals all wounds.
3. n. (Ireland) An errand.
4. v. To send a message to; to transmit a message to, e.g. as text via a cell phone.
Just message me for directions.
I messaged her about the concert.
5. v. To send (something) as a message; usually refers to electronic messaging.
She messaged me the information yesterday.
Please message the final report by fax.
6. v. (intransitive) To send a message or messages; to be capable of sending messages.
We've implemented a new messaging service.
The runaway computer program was messaging non-stop.
7. v. (obsolete) To bear as a message.
exchanged
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of exchange
exchange
1. n. An act of exchanging or trading.
All in all, it was an even exchange.
an exchange of cattle for grain
2. n. A place for conducting trading.
The stock exchange is open for trading.
3. n. A telephone exchange.
4. n. (telephony, US) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes).
The 555 exchange is reserved for use by the phone company, which is why it's often used in films.
NPA-NXX-1234 is standard format, where NPA is the area code and NXX is the exchange.
5. n. A conversation.
After an exchange with the manager, we were no wiser.
6. n. (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another
7. n. (usually with "the") The loss of a relatively minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook
8. n. (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
9. n. (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
10. n. (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
11. v. To trade or barter.
I'll gladly exchange my place for yours.
12. v. To replace with, as a substitute.
I'd like to exchange this shirt for one in a larger size.
Since his arrest, the mob boss has exchanged a mansion for a jail cell.
during
1. prep. For all of a given time interval.
I lived with my parents during the 1970s.
The shop was one of the few able to stay open during the war.
2. prep. At any time or period within a given time interval.
I lived with my parents at several points during the 1980s.
Many of the best examples were produced during the Restoration.
3. v. present participle of dure
dure
1. v. (archaic, intransitive) To last, continue, endure.
2. adj. (obsolete) hard; harsh; severe; rough
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.
past
1. n. The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past
2. n. (grammar) The past tense.
3. adj. Having already happened; in the past; finished.
past glories
4. adj. (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
5. adj. Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
during the past year
6. adj. (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
past tense
7. adv. in a direction that passes
I watched him walk past
Ignore them, we'll play past them.
Please don't drive past the fruit stand, I want to stop there.
8. prep. Beyond in place, quantity or time.
the room past mine
count past twenty
past midnight
9. prep. Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).
week
1. n. Any period of seven consecutive days.
2. n. A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
3. n. A period of five days beginning with Monday.
4. n. A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.
A 4-day week consists of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
5. n. Seven days after (sometimes before) a specified date.
I'll see you Thursday week.

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