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we
1. pron. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.)
2. pron. (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.)
3. pron. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sen
4. pron. (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.
How are we all tonight?
5. pron. (personal, generally considered patronising) A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care.
How are we feeling this morning?
6. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different.
must
1. v. (modal auxiliary, defective) To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
If it has rained all day, it must be very wet outside.
You picked one of two, and it wasn't the first: it must have been the second.
2. v. (modal auxiliary, defective) To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in
You must arrive in class on time. — the requirement is an imperative
This door handle must be rotated fully. — the requirement is a directive
Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. (Bible, Acts 9:6)
3. v. (modal auxiliary, defective) said about something that is very likely, probable, or certain to be true
The children must be asleep by now.
4. n. Something that is mandatory or required.
If you'll be out all day, a map is a must.
5. n. The property of being stale or musty.
6. n. Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
7. n. Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually grapes.
8. v. To make musty.
9. v. (intransitive) To become musty.
10. n. A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness (also spelled musth).
11. n. An elephant in this sexual and aggressive state.
fatten
1. v. (intransitive) To become fatter.
He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.
2. v. To cause to be fatter.
We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.
3. v. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich.
to fatten land
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.
turkey
1. n. Either of two species of bird in the genus Meleagris with fan-shaped tails and wattled necks.
2. n. The meat or flesh of this bird eaten as food
All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.
3. n. (colloquial) A failure.
That film was a turkey.
4. n. (slang) A foolish or inept person.
The turkey cut in front of me and then berated me for running into him.
5. n. (bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
6. n. (obsolete) The guinea fowl (Numida meleagris).
7. n. (medical slang) A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
8. n. (dated, slang) A large travel bag; a suitcase; a pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
time
1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time
2. n. (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.
3. n. (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
Time slows down when you approach the speed of light.
4. n. (physics, reductionistic definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.
5. n. A duration of time.
6. n. A quantity of availability of duration.
More time is needed to complete the project. You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute. Are you finish
7. n. A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
a long time; Record the individual times for the processes in each batch. Only your best time is compared with the other compet
8. n. (slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time. He is not living at home because he is doing time.
9. n. An experience.
We had a wonderful time at the party.
10. n. An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
Roman times; the time of the dinosaurs
11. n. (with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
In my time, we respected our elders.
12. n. (only in singular, sports) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
13. n. An instant of time.
14. n. How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
Excuse me, have you got the time? What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock? A computer keeps time using a clock battery
15. n. A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
it’s time for bed; it’s time to sleep; we must wait for the right time; it's time we were going
16. n. A numerical indication of a particular moment.
at what times do the trains arrive?; these times were erroneously converted between zones
17. n. An instance or occurrence.
When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember.
see you another time; that’s three times he’s made the same mistake
Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that!
18. n. (of pubs) Closing time.
Last call: it's almost time.
19. n. The hour of childbirth.
20. n. (as someone's time) The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
It was his time.
21. n. The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time.
22. n. Ratio of comparison.
your car runs three times faster than mine; that is four times as heavy as this
23. n. (grammar, dated) Tense.
the time of a verb
24. n. (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.
25. v. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.
26. v. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
27. v. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
28. v. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
29. v. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
30. v. To measure, as in music or harmony.
31. interj. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
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).
thanksgiving
1. n. an expression of gratitude.
2. n. a short prayer said at meals; grace, a benediction.
3. n. A public celebration in acknowledgement of divine favour.

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