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today
     1. adv. On the current day or date.
           I want this done today.
           Today, my brother went to the shops.
     2. adv. In the current era; nowadays.
           In the 1500s, people had to do things by hand, but today we have electric can openers.
     3. n. A current day or date.
           Today is the day we'll fix this once and for all.
     4. n. (US, meteorology) From 6am to 6pm on the current day.
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
mistakenly
     1. adv. wrongly, erroneously
           I mistakenly assumed that the shop was still there.
     2. adv. by accident, by mistake, in error (without intention to do so)
           Today I mistakenly took your packed lunch to work.
took
     1. v. simple past tense of take
     2. v. (obsolete, dialectal) past participle of take
     take
          1. v. To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
                They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.
                I'll take that plate off the table.
          2. v.          To seize or capture.
                        take the guards prisoner
                        take prisoners
                        After a bloody battle, they were able to take the city.
          3. v.          To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
                        took ten catfish in one afternoon
          4. v.          (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
          5. v.          To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
                        Billy took her pencil.
          6. v.          To exact.
                        take a toll
                        take revenge
          7. v.          To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
                        took the next two tricks
                        took Smith's rook
          8. v. To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
                took third place
                took bribes
                The camera takes 35mm film.
          9. v.          To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
                        The store doesn't take checks.
                        She wouldn't take any money for her help.
                        Do you take credit?
                        The vending machine only takes bills, it doesn't take coins.
          10. v.          To accept and follow (advice, etc).
                        take my advice
          11. v.          To receive into some relationship.
                        take a wife
                        The school only takes new students in the fall.
                        The therapist wouldn't take him as a client.
          12. v.          (transitive, intransitive, legal) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
          13. v. To remove.
                take two eggs from the carton
          14. v.          To remove or end by death; to kill.
                        The earthquake took many lives.
                        The plague took rich and poor alike.
                        Cancer took her life.
                        He took his life last night.
          15. v.          To subtract.
                        take one from three and you are left with two
          16. v. To have sex with.
          17. v. To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
                Don't try to take that guy. He's bigger than you.
                The woman guarding us looks like a professional, but I can take her!
          18. v. To grasp or grip.
                He took her hand in his.
          19. v. To select or choose; to pick.
                Take whichever bag you like.
                She took the best men with her and left the rest to garrison the city.
                I'll take the blue plates.
                I'll take two sugars in my coffee, please.
          20. v. To adopt (select) as one's own.
                She took his side in every argument.
                take a stand on the important issues
          21. v. To carry or lead (something or someone).
                She took her sword with her everywhere she went.
                I'll take the plate with me.
          22. v.          (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
                        The next bus will take you to Metz.
                        I took him for a ride
                        I took him down to London.
          23. v.          (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
                        These stairs take you down to the basement.
                        Stone Street took us right past the store.
          24. v.          To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
                        She took the steps two or three at a time/
                        He took the curve / corner too fast.
                        The pony took every hedge and fence in its path.
          25. v.          To escort or conduct (a person).
                        He took her to lunch at the new restaurant, took her to the movies, and then took her home.
          26. v.          (reflexive) To go.
          27. v. To use as a means of transportation.
                take the ferry
                I took a plane.
                He took the bus to London, and then took a train to Manchester.
                He's 96 but he still takes the stairs.
          28. v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
          29. v. To obtain for use by payment or lease.
                She took a condo at the beach for the summer.
                He took a full-page ad in the Times.
          30. v.          To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
                        They took two magazines.
                        I used to take The Sunday Times.
          31. v. To consume.
          32. v.          To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
                        take two of these and call me in the morning
                        take the blue pill
                        I take aspirin every day to thin my blood.
          33. v.          To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
                        The general took dinner at seven o'clock.
          34. v. To experience, undergo, or endure.
          35. v.          To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
                        take sun-baths
                        take a shower
                        She made the decision to take chemotherapy.
          36. v.          To experience or feel.
                        She takes pride in her work.
Your
     1. pron. honoraltcaps, your
     2. det. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
           Let's meet tomorrow at your convenience.
           Is this your cat?
     3. det. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
     4. det. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
           Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.
           Your Show of Shows
           Your World with Neil Cavuto
           Not Your Average Travel Guide
     5. det. (Ireland) That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)
           Your man just bought a new car.
           Have you seen what your one over there is doing?
     6. contraction. misspelling of you're
packed
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of pack
     2. adj. Put into a package.
           packed lunch
     3. adj. Filled with a large number or large quantity of something.
           packed with goodness
     4. adj. (colloquial) Filled to capacity with people.
           The bus was packed and I couldn't get on.
     pack
          1. n. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale
                The horses carried the packs across the plain.
          2. n. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
          3. n. a multitude.
                a pack of lies
                a pack of complaints
          4. n. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
          5. n. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game
                We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
          6. n. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
          7. n. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
          8. n. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
                a pack of thieves or knaves
          9. n. A group of Cub Scouts.
          10. n. A shook of cask staves.
          11. n. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
          12. n. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
                The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
          13. n. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
          14. n. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
          15. n. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
          16. n. (rugby) The team on the field.
          17. v. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
          18. v.          To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close orde
                        to pack goods in a box;  to pack fish
          19. v.          To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow a
                        to pack a trunk;  the play, or the audience, packs the theater
          20. v.          To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
                        The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.
          21. v.          To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air
                        to pack a joint;  to pack the piston of a steam engine;  pack someone's arm with ice.
          22. v.          (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
          23. v.          (intransitive) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact
                        the goods pack conveniently;  wet snow packs well
          24. v.          (intransitive) To gather in flocks or schools.
                        the grouse or the perch begin to pack
          25. v.          (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
          26. v. (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
          27. v.          (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
          28. v.          To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.
                        to pack a jury
          29. v.          To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
          30. v.          (intransitive) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
          31. v. To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
                to pack a horse
          32. v. To move, send or carry.
          33. v.          To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack
                        to pack a boy off to school
          34. v.          (transitive, US, Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).
          35. v.          (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
          36. v.          (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
          37. v. (transitive, sports) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
          38. v. (intransitive, LGBT slang) To wear a prosthetic penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.
lunch
     1. n. A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
     2. n. (cricket) A break in play between the first and second sessions.
     3. n. (Minnesota, US) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
           After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.
     4. v. (intransitive) To eat lunch.
           I like to lunch in Italian restaurants.
     5. v. To treat to lunch.
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.
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