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you
1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
Both of you should get ready now.
You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to.
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis.
You idiot!
9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal.
can't
1. v. Cannot (negative auxiliaryArnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, , Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513); is unable to; does not have the ability to.
I can’t quite get it to work.
2. v. Is forbidden to; is not permitted to.
You can’t enter the hall without a ticket.
3. v. Often with be: is logically impossible.
The butler can’t be the murderer because he was in London that evening.
can
1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
She can speak English, French, and German. I can play football. Can you remember your fifth birthday?
2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework. Can I use your pen?
3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
Can it be Friday already?
Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.
Animals can experience emotions.
4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
Can you hear that?.
I can feel the baby moving inside me.
5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.
Shit or get off the can.
Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
11. n. (slang) Jail or prison.
Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years.
12. n. (slang) Headphones.
13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup.
14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
15. n. A chimney pot.
16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
18. v. To shut up.
Can your gob.
19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
The boss canned him for speaking out.
not
1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.
Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
2. adv. To no degree.
That is not red; it's orange.
3. conj. And not.
I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not!
Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not!
5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function.
You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip.
6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not.
prostrate
1. adj. Lying flat, face-down.
2. adj. Emotionally devastated.
3. adj. Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
He was prostrate from the extreme heat.
4. adj. (botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
5. v. (often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.
6. v. To throw oneself down in submission (also figurative).
7. v. To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower.
Yourself
1. pron. honoraltcaps, yourself
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun) Your own self (singular).
Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.
3. pron. You (singular); used emphatically, especially to indicate exclusiveness of the referent's participation in the predicate, i.e., that no one else is involved.
You yourself know that what you wrote was wrong.
After a good night's sleep you'll feel like yourself again.
before
1. prep. Earlier than (in time).
I want this done before Monday.
2. prep. In front of in space.
He stood before me.
We sat before the fire to warm ourselves.
3. prep. In the presence of.
He performed before the troops in North Africa.
He spoke before a joint session of Congress.
4. prep. Under consideration, judgment, authority of (someone).
The case laid before the panel aroused nothing but ridicule.
5. prep. In store for, in the future of (someone).
6. prep. In front of, according to a formal system of ordering items.
In alphabetical order, "cat" comes before "dog", "canine" before feline".
7. prep. At a higher or greater position than, in a ranking.
An entrepreneur puts market share and profit before quality, an amateur intrinsic qualities before economical considerations.
8. adv. At an earlier time.
I've never done this before.
9. adv. In advance.
10. adv. At the front end.
11. conj. in advance of the time when
12. conj. (informal) rather or sooner than
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
king
1. n. A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.
Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.
2. n. A powerful or majorly influential person.
Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
3. n. Something that has a preeminent position.
In times of financial panic, cash is king.
4. n. A component of certain games.
5. n. (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest
6. n. (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
7. n. A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking
8. n. (slang) A king skin.
Oi mate, have you got kings?
9. n. A male dragonfly; a drake.
10. n. A king-sized bed.
11. v. To crown king, to make (a person) king.
12. v. To rule over as king.
13. v. To perform the duties of a king.
14. v. To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
15. v. To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
16. v. To dress and perform as a drag king.
17. n. alternative form of qinges (Chinese musical instrument)
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
demonstrate
1. v. To show how to use (something).
Can you demonstrate the new tools for us?
2. v. To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
3. v. (intransitive) To participate in or organize a demonstration.
Those people outside are demonstrating against the election results.
4. v. To show, display, or present.
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
loyalty
1. n. The state of being loyal; fidelity.
2. n. Faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation.
respect
1. n. an attitude of consideration or high regard
He is an intellectual giant, and I have great respect for him.
we do respect people for their dignity and worth.
2. n. good opinion, honor, or admiration
3. n. (always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.
The mourners paid their last respects to the deceased poet.
4. n. a particular aspect, feature or detail of something
This year's model is superior to last year's in several respects.
5. n. Good will; favor
6. v. To have respect for.
She is an intellectual giant, and I respect her greatly.
7. v. To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.
I respect your right to hold that belief, although I think it is nonsense.
8. v. To abide by an agreement.
They failed to respect the treaty they had signed, and invaded.
9. v. To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.
10. v. (transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with.
11. v. (obsolete) To regard; to consider; to deem.
12. v. (obsolete) To look toward; to face.
13. interj. (Jamaica) hello, hi
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
admiration
1. n. A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful
admiration of a war hero
They looked at the landscape in admiration.
2. n. (obsolete) Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject).
3. n. (obsolete) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise.

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