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which
     1. det. (interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied.
           Which song made the charts?
     2. det. (relative) The one or ones that.
           Show me which one is bigger.
           They couldn't decide which song to play.
     3. det. (relative) The one or ones mentioned.
           He once owned a painting of the house, which painting would later be stolen.
           For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived.
           I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one.
     4. pron. (interrogative) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied).
           Which is bigger?;  Which is which?
     5. pron. (relative) Who; whom; what (of those mentioned or implied).
           He walked by a door with a sign, which read: PRIVATE OFFICE.
           We've met some problems which are very difficult to handle.
           He had to leave, which was very difficult.
           No art can be properly understood apart from the culture of which it is a part.
     6. pron. (relative, archaic) Used of people (now generally who, whom or that).
     7. n. An occurrence of the word which.
side
     1. n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
           A square has four sides.
     2. n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
           A cube has six sides.
     3. n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
           Which side of the tray shall I put it on?  The patient was bleeding on the right side.
     4. n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
           Meet me on the north side of the monument.
     5. n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
           I generally sleep on my side.
     6. n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
           John wrote 15 sides for his essay!
     7. n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
           Look on the bright side.
     8. n. One set of competitors in a game.
           Which side has kick-off?
     9. n. (Australia) A sports team.
     10. n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
           In the second world war, the Italians were on the side of the Germans.
     11. n. (music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
     12. n. (sports) Sidespin; english
           He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball.
     13. n. (UK, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).
           I just want to see what's on the other side — James said there was a good film on tonight.
     14. n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
           Do you want a side of cole-slaw with that?
     15. n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
           his mother's side of the family
     16. n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher
     17. n. (slang) An unjustified air of self-importance.
     18. v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
           Which will you side with, good or evil?
     19. v. To lean on one side.
     20. v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
     21. v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
     22. v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
     23. v. To furnish with a siding.
           to side a house
     24. v. (transitive, cooking) To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
     25. adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
     26. adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
           a side issue; a side view or remark
     27. adj. (UK archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
     28. adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
     29. adv. (UK dialectal) Widely; wide; far.
has
     1. v. third-person singular present indicative of have
     have
                Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
          1. v. To possess, own, hold.
                I have a house and a car.
                Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
          2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
                I have two sisters.
                I have a lot of work to do.
          3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
                I have breakfast at six o'clock.
                Can I have a look at that?
                I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
          4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
                What class do you have right now? I have English.
                Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
          5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
                I have already eaten today.
                I had already eaten.
          6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
                I have to go.
          7. v. To give birth to.
                The couple always wanted to have children.
                My wife is having the baby right now!
                My mother had me when she was 25.
          8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
                He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
          9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
                Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
          10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
                They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
          11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
                He had him arrested for trespassing.
                The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
          12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
                The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
                I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
          13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
                Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
          14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
                We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
                Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
                (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
          15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
                I could have him!
                I'm gonna have you!
          16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
                I have no German.
          17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
                Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
          18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
                He had a cold last week.
          19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
                We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
                He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
                I'm having the time of my life!
          20. v. To trick, to deceive.
                You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
          21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
                The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
                I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
          22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
                I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
          23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
                Thank you for having me!
          24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
                What do you have for problem two?
                I have two contacts on my scope.
          25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
                We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
          26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
          27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
          28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
                They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
kick
     1. v. To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
           Did you kick your brother?
     2. v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
           He enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching the kickline kick.
     3. v. To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
           Kick the ball into the goal.
     4. v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
     5. v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
           He was kicked by ChanServ for flooding.
     6. v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
           I still smoke, but they keep telling me to kick the habit.
     7. v. To move or push suddenly and violently.
           He was kicked sideways by the force of the blast.
     8. v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
     9. v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
     10. v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
           Contador kicks again to try to rid himself of Rasmussen.
     11. n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
           A kick to the knee.
     12. n. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
           The ballerina did a high kick and a leap.
     13. n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
           I finally saw the show. What a kick!
           I think I sprained something on my latest exercise kick.
     14. n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
     15. n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed causes a video game character to kick.
     16. n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
           The car had a nasty kick the whole way.
           The pool ball took a wild kick, up off the table.
     17. n. Piquancy.
     18. n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
     19. n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
     20. n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
           a long kick up the field.
     21. n. A recoil of a gun.
     22. n. (informal) Pocket.
     23. n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
     24. v. To die.
off
     1. adv. In a direction away from the speaker or object.
           He drove off in a cloud of smoke.
     2. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence.
           Please switch off the light when you leave.
           die off
     3. adv. So as to be removed or separated.
           He bit off more than he could chew.
           Some branches were sawn off.
     4. adj. Inoperative, disabled.
           All the lights are off.
     5. adj. Rancid, rotten.
           This milk is off!
     6. adj. (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
     7. adj. Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
           sales are off this quarter
     8. adj. Circumstanced (as in well off, better off, poorly off).
     9. adj. Started on the way.
           off to see the wizard
           And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.
     10. adj. Far; off to the side.
           the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse
     11. adj. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
           He took an off day for fishing.  an off year in politics; the off season
     12. adj. (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.
           — I'll have the chicken please.
           — Sorry, chicken's off today.
     13. adj. Right-hand (in relation to the side of a horse or a vehicle).
     14. prep. Used to indicate movement away from a position on
           I took it off the table.
           Come off the roof!
     15. prep. (colloquial) Out of the possession of.
           He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him.
     16. prep. Away from or not on.
           He's off the computer, but he's still on the phone.
           Keep off the grass.
     17. prep. Disconnected or subtracted from.
           We've been off the grid for three days now.
           He took 20% off the list price.
     18. prep. Distant from.
           We're just off the main road.
           The island is 23 miles off the cape.
     19. prep. No longer wanting or taking.
           He's been off his feed since Tuesday.
           He's off his meds again.
     20. prep. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering(topics, en, Engineering).
           Tantalum bar 6 off 3/8" Dia × 12" — Atom, Great Britain Atomic Energy Authority, 1972
           samples submitted … 12 off Thermistors type 1K3A531 … — BSI test report for shock and vibration testing, 2000
           I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off.
     21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
           He got in the way so I had him offed.
     22. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) To switch off.
           Can you off the light?
     23. n. (rare) Beginning; starting point.
           He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.
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