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sometimes
1. adv. On certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always.
Sometimes I sit and think, but mostly I just sit.
2. adv. (obsolete) On a certain occasion in the past; once.
3. adj. (obsolete) Former; sometime.
derogatory
1. adj. (usually with to) Tending to derogate, or lessen in value of someone; expressing derogation; detracting
2. adj. (legal, of a clause in a testament) Being or pertaining to a derogatory clause.
3. n. A trade-line on a credit report that includes negative credit history.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
large
1. adj. Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
Russia is a large country. The fruit-fly has large eyes for its body size. He has a large collection of stamps.
2. adj. (obsolete) Abundant; ample.
3. adj. (archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
4. adj. (obsolete) Free; unencumbered.
5. adj. (obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
6. adj. (nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.
7. adj. topics, en, Size
8. n. (music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
9. n. (obsolete) Liberality, generosity.
10. n. (slang) A thousand dollars/pounds.
Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large.
11. n. A large serving of something.
One small coffee and two larges, please.
12. adv. (nautical) Before the wind.
cumbersome
1. adj. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious
2. adj. Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.
Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
3. adj. Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.
A slaves' work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.
truck
1. n. A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
2. n. The ball on top of a flagpole.
3. n. (nautical) On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency pl
4. n. (US, Australia) A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; (British) a lorry.
Mexican open-bed trucks haul most of the fresh produce that comes into the United States from Mexico.
5. n. Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, including delivery vans, pickups, and other motorized vehicles (including passenger autos) fitted with a bed designed to carry goods.
6. n. A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow.
7. n. A small wagon or cart, of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books.
8. n. A pantechnicon (removal van).
9. n. (rail transport) A flatbed railway car; a flatcar.
10. n. A pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with cu
11. n. The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
12. n. (theater) A platform with wheels or casters.
13. n. Dirt or other messiness.
14. v. (intransitive) To drive a truck: Generally a truck driver's slang.
15. v. To convey by truck.
Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.
16. v. (intransitive, US, slang) To travel or live contentedly.
Keep on trucking!
17. v. (intransitive, US, Canada, slang) To persist, to endure.
Keep on trucking!
18. v. (intransitive, film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
19. v. (transitive, slang) To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
20. v. (transitive, slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.
21. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
22. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
23. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To deceive; cheat; defraud.
24. v. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
25. v. To trade, exchange; barter.
26. v. (intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
27. v. (intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
28. n. (obsolete, often used in plural sense) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
29. n. (historical) The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts
30. n. (US) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
31. n. (usually with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
32. adj. Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.
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.
lorry
1. n. (road transport, Britain) A motor vehicle for transporting goods; a truck.
Synonyms: hauler, rig, tractor trailer, truck, q4=US
2. n. (dated) A barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.
3. n. (dated) A small cart or wagon used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish.
4. n. (obsolete) A large, low, horse-drawn, four-wheeled wagon without sides; also, a similar wagon modified for use on railways.
5. v. (transitive, also, figuratively) To transport by, or as if by, lorry.
especially
1. adv. (manner) In a special manner; specially.
2. adv. (focus) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal.
3. adv. (focus) Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something.
Invite them all, especially Molly.
an
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
4. conj. (archaic) If
5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
An it harm none, do what ye will.
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
artic
1. n. (informal) Short form of articulated lorry.
2. n. (informal) Short form of articulated bus.
3. n. misspelling of arctic

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