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performed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of perform
perform
1. v. To do something; to execute.
The scientists performed several experiments.
It took him only twenty minutes to perform the task.
2. v. To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
She will perform in the play.
The magician performed badly – none of his tricks worked.
The string quartet performed three pieces by Haydn.
by
1. prep. Near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July.
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour.
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of.
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination.
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches.
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
He cheated by his own admission.
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
I watched as it passed by.
16. adv. In the vicinity, near.
There was a shepherd close by.
The shop is hard by the High Street.
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
I'll stop by on my way home from work.
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
18. adv. Aside, away.
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
20. n. (card games) A pass
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye
whites
1. n. plural of white
2. n. Clothing or linens, especially laundry, that is white
3. n. The uniform of a chef
4. n. (cricket) cricket whites
5. n. leukorrhea
6. v. third-person singular present indicative of white
white
1. adj. Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
Write in black ink on white paper.
2. adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians, people of European descent with light-coloured skin.
3. adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
white drinking fountain; white hospital
4. adj. Relatively light or pale in colour.
white wine; white grapes
5. adj. Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
6. adj. (of a person, or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
7. adj. (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
8. adj. (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
The white pieces in this set are in fact made of light green glass.
9. adj. Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
10. adj. Honourable, fair; decent.
11. adj. Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
12. adj. (archaic) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
13. adj. (obsolete) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
14. adj. (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
15. adj. (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
16. adj. (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
17. adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black.
Compare two Unicode symbols: , ☞ = "WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX"; , ☛ = BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX
18. adj. Characterised by the presence of snow.
a white Christmas or white Easter
19. n. The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
20. n. A person of European descent with light-coloured skin.
21. n. The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
22. n. (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
23. n. Any butterfly of the Pieris genus.
24. n. (sports) The cue ball in cue games.
25. n. White wine.
26. n. (slang) Cocaine
27. n. (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
28. n. The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
29. n. A white pigment.
Venice white
30. n. Anything that is of the color white.
31. n. The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
32. v. To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
Caucasians
1. n. plural of Caucasian
2. n. plural of caucasian
Blue
1. n. A letterman at Oxford or Cambridge.
2. n. (historical) A member of the Royal Horse Guards (which merged with the 1st Dragoons in 1969)
3. n. synonym of British Blue, , a breed of cat
4. adj. Of the colour blue.
the deep blue sea
5. adj. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
6. adj. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
The candle burns blue.
7. adj. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
8. adj. (politics, in particular, in the US) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
I live in a blue constituency. Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.
9. adj. (AU, politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout
10. adj. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
11. adj. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
12. adj. (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
13. adj. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
blue and sour religionists; blue laws
14. adj. (archaic, of women) literary; bluestockinged.
15. adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.
16. adj. (entertainment) Risque or obscene
His material is too blue for prime-time
17. n. The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and
(color panel, blue, 0028E9)
18. n. A blue dye or pigment.
19. n. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
20. n. Blue clothing
The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
21. n. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
22. n. (slang) A member of law enforcement
23. n. The sky, literally or figuratively.
The ball came out of the blue and cracked his windshield.
His request for leave came out of the blue.
24. n. The ocean; deep waters.
25. n. Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
26. n. A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
27. n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
28. n. Any of the butterflies of the subfamily in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
29. n. A bluefish.
30. n. (Australia, colloquial) An argument.
31. n. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
32. n. (British) A type of firecracker.
33. n. (archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
34. n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
35. v. To make or become blue.
36. v. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
37. v. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid)
38. v. (transitive, slang) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
39. adj. (entertainment, informal) Pornographic or profane.
The air was blue with oaths.
a blue movie
eyed
1. adj. Having eyes.
2. adj. Having eye-like spots.
The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.
3. adj. (in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.
4. v. simple past tense and past participle of eye
eye
1. n. An organ through which animals see.
Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
2. n. The visual sense.
The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
3. n. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.
4. n. Attention, notice.
That dress caught her eye.
5. n. The ability to notice what others might miss.
He has an eye for talent.
6. n. A meaningful stare or look.
She was giving him the eye at the bar. When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.
7. n. A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
8. n. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
9. n. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
10. n. The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other such storm.
11. n. A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
12. n. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
13. n. A reproductive bud in a potato.
14. n. (informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
15. n. A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc. — e.g. at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; through a crank; at the end of a rope; or
16. n. That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
17. n. Tinge; shade of colour.
18. n. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
19. n. (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
20. n. (typography) The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
21. n. (game of go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
22. v. To observe carefully.
After eyeing the document for an hour she decided not to sign it.
They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
23. v. To view something narrowly, as a document or a phrase in a document.
24. v. To look at someone or something as if with the intent to do something with that person or thing.
25. v. (obsolete) To appear; to look.
26. n. A brood.
an eye of pheasants
jazz
1. n. (music genre) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue n
2. n. Energy, excitement, excitability.
3. n. The substance or makeup of a thing.
What jazz were you referring to earlier?
What is all this jazz lying around?
4. n. Unspecified thing(s).
I'm just going down to the shops and jazz.
5. n. (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
That show was the jazz!
This risotto is simply the jazz.
6. n. Nonsense.
Stop talking jazz.
7. v. To destroy.
You’ve gone and jazzed it now!
8. v. To play (jazz music).
9. v. To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
10. v. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
11. v. To complicate.
Don’t jazz it too much!
12. v. (intransitive, US slang) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
13. v. (intransitive) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
14. v. To distract/pester.
Stop jazzing me!

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