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| 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. | |
| rainy |
| 1. adj. Pouring with rain; wet; showery | |
| Due to the rainy weather, we decided not to play in the park. | |
| It's a very rainy day, so let's stay indoors. | |
| season |
| 1. n. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter | |
| 2. n. A part of a year when something particular happens | |
| mating season | |
| the rainy season | |
| the football season | |
| 3. n. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning. | |
| 4. n. (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played. | |
| 5. n. (North America, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of e | |
| The third season of “Friends” aired from 1996 to 1997. | |
| 6. n. (archaic) An extended, undefined period of time. | |
| 7. v. To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt. | |
| 8. v. To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure | |
| to season oneself to a climate | |
| 9. v. Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices | |
| The timber needs to be seasoned. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance | |
| The wood has seasoned in the sun. | |
| 12. v. (obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate. | |
