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| do the dishes |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To wash up dirty crockery (plates and dishes) and cutlery (knives, forks, and spoons). |
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| I make my children do the dishes if they are impolite during dinner. |
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| Analysis |
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| do |
| 1. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker |
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| 2. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be. |
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| Do you go there often? |
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| 3. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods. |
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| I do not go there often. |
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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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| dishes |
| 1. n. plural of dish |
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| 2. n. (pluralonly) Dishwashing |
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| After dinner they had to do the dishes. |
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| 3. v. third-person singular present indicative of dish |
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| dish |
| 1. n. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. |
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| 2. n. The contents of such a vessel. |
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| a dish of stew |
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| 3. n. (metonym) A specific type of prepared food. |
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| a vegetable dish |
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