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these
1. det. plural of this
2. det. Note: depending on the context, the word those may be used either in place of or interchangeably with these.
3. pron. plural of this
people
1. n. Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
Why do so many people commit suicide?
2. n. Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; a community.
3. n. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
4. n. One's colleagues or employees.
5. n. A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War.
6. n. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
7. n. plural of person.
8. v. To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
9. v. (intransitive) To become populous or populated.
10. v. To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
here
1. adv. (location) In, on, or at this place.
2. adv. (location) To this place; used in place of the more dated hither.
Please come here.
3. adv. (abstract) In this context.
Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but here they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve.
4. adv. At this point in the argument or narration.
Here endeth the lesson.
5. n. (abstract) This place; this location.
An Alzheimer patient's here may in his mind be anywhere he called home in the time he presently re-lives.
6. adj. Filler after a noun or demonstrative pronoun, solely for emphasis.
John here is a rascal.
7. adj. Filler after a demonstrative pronoun but before the noun it modifies, solely for emphasis.
This here orange is too sour.
8. interj. (slang) (non-gloss, Used semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.)
Here, now I'm giving it to you.
9. interj. (UK, slang) Used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.
Here, I'm tired and I want a drink.
are
1. v. second-person singular present of be
Mary, where are you going?
2. v. first-person plural present of be
We are not coming.
3. v. second-person plural present of be
Mary and John, are you listening?
4. v. third-person plural present of be
They are here somewhere.
5. v. (East Yorkshire, Midlands) present of be
6. n. (dialectal, or obsolete) grace, mercy
To bid God's are.
God's are is what children of God seech and seek.
7. n. (obsolete) honour, dignity
8. n. (rare) an accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
spreading
1. v. present participle of spread
2. n. The act by which something is spread.
spread
1. v. To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
He spread his newspaper on the table.
2. v. To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
I spread my arms wide and welcomed him home.
3. v. To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
I spread the rice grains evenly over the floor.
4. v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
5. v. To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
The missionaries quickly spread their new message across the country.
6. v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
I dropped my glass; the water spread quickly over the tiled floor.
7. v. To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
She liked to spread butter on her toast while it was still hot.
8. v. To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
He always spreads his toast with peanut butter and strawberry jam.
9. v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
to spread a table
10. v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
11. n. The act of spreading.
12. n. Something that has been spread.
13. n. (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
14. n. An expanse of land.
15. n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
16. n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
17. n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
18. n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
19. n. (prison slang) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
Synonyms: swole
20. n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
21. n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
22. n. A numerical difference.
23. n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
24. n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
25. n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
26. n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
27. n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
28. n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
29. n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
30. n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
31. n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
inflammatory
1. adj. Tending to inflame or provoke somebody.
Sam posted an inflammatory comment to the newsgroup.
2. adj. Causing or caused by inflammation.
3. n. Any material that causes inflammation
rumors
1. n. plural of rumor
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of rumor
rumor
1. n. (US) A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth.
There's a rumor going round that he's going to get married.
2. n. (US) Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims.
They say he used to be a thief, but that's just rumor.
3. v. (transitive usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip.
John is rumored to be next in line for a promotion.

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