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at the same time |
1. prep. Simultaneously. |
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2. prep. On the other hand (introducing an opposing viewpoint). |
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at |
1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place. |
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Caesar was at Rome; at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine; at Jim’s house |
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2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.) |
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at six o’clock; at closing time; at night. |
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3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner). |
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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 |
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I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) |
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The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) |
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The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. |
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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. |
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same |
1. adj. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical. |
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Are you the same person who phoned me yesterday? |
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I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force. |
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Even if the twins are identical, they are still not the same person, unlike Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens. |
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Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went. |
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time |
1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past. |
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Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time |
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2. n. (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension. |
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Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time. |
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3. n. (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy. |
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