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tending
     1. n. Action of the verb to tend.
     2. v. present participle of tend
     tend
          1. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn.
          2. v. (legal, Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
          3. v. (followed by a to infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain characteristic.
                They tend to go out on Saturdays.
                It tends to snow here in winter.
          4. v. (with to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.)
                We need to tend to the garden, which has become a mess.
          5. v. To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
                Shepherds tend their flocks.
          6. v. To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
          7. v. (obsolete) To await; to expect.
          8. v. (obsolete) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
          9. v. (transitive, nautical) To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling the cable when swinging.
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
upset
     1. adj. (of a person) Angry, distressed or unhappy.
           He was upset when she refused his friendship.
           My children often get upset with their classmates.
     2. adj. (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
           His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.
     3. n. Disturbance or disruption.
           My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.
     4. n. (sports) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
     5. n. (automobile insurance) An overturn.
           "collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
     6. n. An upset stomach.
     7. n. (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
     8. v. To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
           I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
     9. v. To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
           Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
           The fatty meat upset his stomach.
     10. v. To tip or overturn (something).
     11. v. To defeat unexpectedly.
           Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
     12. v. (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
           The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
     13. v. (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
     14. v. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
     15. v. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
the
     1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
           I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
           The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
           The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
     2. art.          Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
                    The street that runs through my hometown.
     3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
           No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
           God save the Queen!
     4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
           That was the best apple pie ever.
     5. art.          Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
                    That apple pie was the best.
     6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
     7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
           Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
     8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
           No one in the whole country had seen it before.
           I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
     9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
           A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
     10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
           That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
     11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
           The hotter the better.
           The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
           The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
           It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
     12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
           It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
           It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
           I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
mind
     1. n. The ability for rational thought.
           Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.
     2. n. The ability to be aware of things.
           There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.
     3. n. The ability to remember things.
           My mind just went blank.
     4. n. The ability to focus the thoughts.
           I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing.
     5. n. Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
           He was one of history’s greatest minds.
     6. n. Judgment, opinion, or view.
           He changed his mind after hearing the speech.
     7. n. Desire, inclination, or intention.
           She had a mind to go to Paris.
           I have half a mind to do it myself.
     8. n. A healthy mental state.
           I, ______ being of sound mind and body, do herebynb...
           You are losing your mind.
     9. n. (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
           The mind is a process of the brain.
     10. n. Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
           a month's or monthly mind; a year's mind
     11. v. (now regional) To remember.
     12. v. (now rare except in phrases) To attend to, concern oneself with, heed, be mindful of.
           You should mind your own business.
     13. v. (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
           I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
     14. v. To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
           Would you mind my bag for me?
     15. v. (chiefly in the imperative) To make sure, to take care (that).
           Mind you don't knock that glass over.
     16. v. To be careful about.
     17. v. (United Kingdom, Ireland) Take note; (used to point out an exception or caveat.)
           I'm not very healthy—I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.
     18. v. (obsolete) To have in mind; to intend.
     19. v. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind.
or
     1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
           In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
           He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
     2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
     3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
     4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
           It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
     5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
           The country Myanmar, or Burma
     6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
     7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
     8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
     9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
     10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
     11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
senses
     1. n. plural of sense
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of sense
     sense
          1. n. Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
          2. n. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
                a sense of security
          3. n. Sound practical or moral judgment.
                It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
          4. n. The meaning, reason, or value of something.
                You don’t make any sense.
                the true sense of words or phrases
          5. n. A natural appreciation or ability.
                A keen musical sense
          6. n. (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
          7. n. (semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
          8. n. (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
          9. n. (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
          10. n. (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
          11. v. To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
          12. v. To instinctively be aware.
                She immediately sensed her disdain.
          13. v. To comprehend.
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