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hypothetically
     1. adv. In a hypothetical way; as a hypothesis.
           He offered the proposition hypothetically.
     2. adv. Used to introduce a proposition to discussion without commitment to its truth
           Hypothetically, what would you say if I proposed marriage to you?
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
come
     1. v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
           She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes...
     2. v.          To move towards the speaker.
                   I called the dog, but she wouldn't come.
                   Stop dawdling and come here!
     3. v.          To move towards the listener.
                   Hold on, I'll come in a second.
                   You should ask the doctor to come to your house.
     4. v.          To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.
                   No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit.
                   Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year.
     5. v.          (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.
                   King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.
                   He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him.
     6. v.          To move towards an unstated agent.
                   The butler should come when called.
     7. v. (intransitive) To arrive.
     8. v. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
           The pain in his leg comes and goes.
     9. v. (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
           Which letter comes before Y?   Winter comes after autumn.
     10. v. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
           He came after a few minutes.
     11. v. (copulative figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
           They came very close to leaving on time.   His test scores came close to perfect.
           One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.
     12. v. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
           He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.
     13. v. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be.
           He was a dream come true.
     14. v. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
           He's as tough as they come.   Our milkshakes come in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavours.
     15. v. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
           You can't come any tricks here.
     16. v. (intransitive) Happen.
           This kind of accident comes when you are careless.
     17. v. (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
     18. v.          To have a certain social background.
     19. v.          To be or have been a resident or native.
                   Where did you come from?
     20. v.          To have been brought up by or employed by.
                   She comes from a good family.
                   He comes from a disreputable legal firm.
     21. v.          To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
                   The river comes from Bear Lake.
                   Where does this road come from?
     22. v. (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
     23. n. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
     24. n. (vulgar, slang) Semen
     25. n. (vulgar, slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
     26. prep. Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time.
           Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests.
           Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.
     27. interj. An exclamation to express annoyance.
           Come come! Stop crying.  Come now! You must eat it.
     28. interj. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
           Come come! You can do it.  Come now! It won't bite you.
     29. n. (typography) alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.
back
     1. adj. (not comparable) Near the rear.
           Go in the back door of the house.
     2. adj. (not comparable) Not current.
           I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine.
     3. adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area.
           They took a back road.
     4. adj. (not comparable) In arrear; overdue.
           They still owe three months' back rent.
     5. adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating backward.
           back action
     6. adj. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
           The vowel of smallcaps - lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England.
     7. adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
           He gave back the money.   He needs his money back.   He was on vacation, but now he’s back.   The office fell into chaos when you left, but now order is back.
     8. adv. Away from the front or from an edge.
           Sit all the way back in your chair.
           Step back from the curb.
     9. adv. In a manner that impedes.
           Fear held him back.
     10. adv. In a reciprocal manner.
           If you hurt me, I'll hurt you back.
     11. adv. Earlier, ago.
           many years back
     12. n. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
           Could you please scratch my back?
     13. n.          The spine and associated tissues.
                   I hurt my back lifting those crates.
     14. n.          (slang) Large and attractive buttocks.
     15. n.          (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
                   I still need to finish the back of your dress.
     16. n.          The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
                   Can you fix the back of this chair?
     17. n.          (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
     18. n. That which is farthest away from the front.
           He sat in the back of the room.
     19. n.          The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
                   Turn the book over and look at the back.
     20. n.         # The edge of a book which is bound.
              #     The titles are printed on the backs of the books.
     21. n.         # (printing) The inside margin of a page.
     22. n.         # The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
              #     Tap it with the back of your knife.
     23. n.          The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
                   I hung the clothes on the back of the door.
     24. n.          Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
                   We'll meet out in the back of the library.
     25. n.          The part of something that goes last.
                   The car was near the back of the train.
     26. n.          (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
                   The backs were lined up in an I formation.
     27. n. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
           The small boat raced over the backs of the waves.
     28. n. A support or resource in reserve.
     29. n. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
           The ship's back broke in the pounding surf.
     30. n. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
     31. n. (slang) Effort, usually physical.
           Put some back into it!
     32. n. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
           Could I get a martini with a water back?
     33. n. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
     34. v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
           the train backed into the station;  the horse refuses to back
     35. v. To support.
           I back you all the way;  which horse are you backing in this race?
     36. v. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
     37. v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
     38. v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
     39. v. (of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
     40. v. To push or force backwards.
           to back oxen
           The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet.
     41. v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
     42. v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
     43. v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
           to back books
     44. v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
     45. v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
           to back a letter;  to back a note or legal document
     46. v. (legal, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
     47. v. To row backward with (oars).
           to back the oars
     48. n. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
     49. n. A ferryboat.
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
life
     1. n. The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and liv
           Having experienced both, the vampire decided that he preferred (un)death to life.  He gave up on life.
     2. n.          (biology) The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the proper
     3. n. The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc.
     4. n. Lifeforms, generally or collectively.
           It's life, but not as we know it.   She discovered plant life on the planet.   The rover discovered signs of life on the alien world.
     5. n. A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)
           Many lives were lost during the war.   Her quick thinking saved many dogs' lives.
     6. n. Existence
           Man's life on this planet has been marked by continual conflict.   the eternal life of the soul
     7. n.          A worthwhile existence.
                   He gets up early in the morning, works all day long — even on weekends — and hardly sees his family. That's no life!  His life was ruined by
     8. n.          A particular aspect of existence.
                    He struggled to balance his family life, social life and work life.   sex life, political life
     9. n.          (informal) Social life.
                   Get a life.
     10. n.          Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.
                    She's my love, my life.   Running the bakery is her life.
     11. n. A period of time during which something has existence.
     12. n.          The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.
                   This light bulb is designed to have a life of 2,000 hours.
     13. n.          The span of time during which an object operates.
     14. n.          The period of time during which an object is recognizable.
                   The life of this milk carton may be thousands of years in this landfill.
     15. n.          A particular phase or period of existence.
     16. n.          A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches
     17. n.         # (colloquial) A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole).
     18. n. Animation; spirit; vivacity.
     19. n.          The most lively component or participant.
     20. n. A biography.
           His life of the founder is finished, except for the title.
     21. n. Nature, reality, and the forms that exist it.
     22. n. An opportunity for existence.
     23. n.          (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
                   Scoring 1000 points is rewarded with an extra life.
     24. n.          (baseball, softball) A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of an misplay by a member of the fielding team.
     25. n. (insurance) The life insurance industry.
           I work in life.
     26. n. A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract).
after
     1. adv. Behind; later in time; following.
           They lived happily ever after.
           I left the room, and the dog bounded after.
     2. prep. Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
           We had a few beers after the game.
           The time is quarter after eight.
           The Cold War began shortly after the Second World War.
     3. prep. Behind.
           He will leave a trail of destruction after him.
     4. prep. In pursuit of, seeking.
           He's after a job; run after him; inquire after her health.
     5. prep. In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
           We named him after his grandfather; a painting after Leonardo da Vinci.
     6. prep. Next in importance or rank.
           The princess is next in line to the throne after the prince.
     7. prep. As a result of.
           After your bad behaviour, you will be punished.
     8. prep. In spite of.
           After all that has happened, he is still my friend.
           I can't believe that, after all our advice against gambling, you walked into that casino!
     9. prep. (Irish usually preceded by a form of be followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity
           I was after finishing my dinner when there was a knock on the door.
     10. prep. (dated) According to an author or text.
     11. prep. Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
           to look after workmen; to enquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness
     12. prep. (obsolete) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.
     13. conj. Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
           I went home after we had decided to call it a day.
     14. adj. (dated) Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent
     15. adj. (nautical, where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship.
           The after gun is mounted aft.
           The after gun is abaft the forward gun.
having
     1. v. present participle of have
     2. n. Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
     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.
died
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of die
     die
          1. v. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
          2. v.          followed by of; general use:
                         He died of embarrassment.
          3. v.          followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine(topics, en, Medicine) or the sciencestopics, en, Sciences:
                         He died from heart failure.
          4. v.          followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:
                         He died for the one he loved.
          5. v.          (now rare) followed by with as an indication of direct cause:
          6. v.          (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:
                         She died with dignity.
          7. v. To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
                He died a hero's death.
                They died a thousand deaths.
          8. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
                I'm dying for a packet of crisps.
                I'm dying for a piss.
          9. v. (intransitive) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
                The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
          10. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
                He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
          11. v. (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
                If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
          12. v. (figurative, intransitive, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
                When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.
          13. v. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
                My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
          14. v. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
          15. v. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
          16. v. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
          17. v. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
                to die to pleasure or to sin
          18. v. (intransitive, video games) To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition.
                I can't believe I just died to a squirrel!
          19. v. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
          20. v. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
          21. v. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
                Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
          22. n. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
          23. n. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
          24. n. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
          25. n. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
          26. n. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
          27. n. (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
          28. n. Any small cubical or square body.
          29. n. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
          30. n. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
          31. n. (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
          32. v. topics, en, Death, Dice games
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