| a |
| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
| I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
| We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
| 4. art. The same; one. | |
| We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
| 5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
| A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
| He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
| 6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
| 7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
| The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
| 8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
| Stand a tiptoe. | |
| 9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
| Torn a pieces. | |
| 10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
| I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
| 11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
| A God’s name. | |
| 13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
| King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
| To set the people a worke. | |
| 14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
| 1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
| The times, they are a-changin'. | |
| 15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
| 1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
| Jacob, when he was a dying | |
| 16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
| 17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
| I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
| 18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
| 19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
| 20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
| The name of John a Gaunt. | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| 22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| government |
| 1. n. The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization. | |
| 2. n. (grammar, linguistics) The relationship between a word and its dependents | |
| 3. n. A group of people who hold a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in a given territory. | |
| 4. n. The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power. | |
| 5. n. The management or control of a system. | |
| 6. n. The tenure of a chief of state. | |
| with |
| 1. prep. Against. | |
| He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
| 2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
| He went with his friends. | |
| 3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
| She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
| 4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
| 5. prep. In support of. | |
| We are with you all the way. | |
| 6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by. | |
| slain with robbers | |
| 7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
| cut with a knife | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
| 9. prep. Having, owning. | |
| 10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
| Do you want to come with? | |
| 11. adv. --> | |
| 12. n. alternative form of withe | |
| three |
| 1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••). | |
| 2. num. Describing a set or group with three elements. | |
| 3. n. The digit/figure 3. | |
| 4. n. Anything measuring three units, as length. | |
| Put all the threes in a separate container. | |
| 5. n. A person who is three years old. | |
| All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives. | |
| 6. n. The playing card featuring three pips. | |
| 7. n. (basketball) (abbreviation of three-pointer) | |
| discrete |
| 1. adj. Separate; distinct; individual; non-continuous. | |
| a government with three discrete divisions | |
| 2. adj. That can be perceived individually and not as connected to, or part of something else. | |
| 3. adj. (electrical engineering) Having separate electronic components, such as individual resistors and inductors — the opposite of integrated circuitry. | |
| 4. adj. (audio engineering) Having separate and independent channels of audio, as opposed to multiplexed stereo or quadraphonic, or other multi-channel sound. | |
| 5. adj. (topology) Having each singleton subset open: said of a topological space or a topology. | |
| 6. adj. disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause | |
| "I resign my life, but not my honour" is a discrete proposition. | |
| divisions |
| 1. n. plural of division | |
| division |
| 1. n. The act or process of dividing anything. | |
| 2. n. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division. | |
| 3. n. (arithmetic) The process of dividing a number by another. | |
| 4. n. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process. | |
| I've got ten divisions to do for my homework. | |
| 5. n. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades. | |
| 6. n. A section of a large company. | |
| 7. n. (taxonomy) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank. | |
| Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta. | |
| 8. n. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument. | |
| 9. n. (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote. | |
| The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords. | |
| 10. n. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones. | |
| 11. n. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied. | |
| 12. n. (legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt. | |
| 13. n. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code | |
| 14. n. (Eton College) A lesson; a class. | |
