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us
     1. pron. (personal) Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
     2. pron. (colloquial) Me.
           Give us a look at your paper.
           Give us your wallet!
     3. pron. (Northern England) Our.
           We'll have to throw us food out.
     4. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
           It's not good enough for us teachers.
     5. n. plural of u
historical
     1. adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
           July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.
           The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.
     2. adj.          (literature, art) About history; depicting persons or events from history.
     3. adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
     4. adj.          (literature, art) Set in the past.
     5. adj.          (uncommon) Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.
     6. adj.          (grammar) One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
     7. adj.          (obsolete, biology) (synonym of hereditary) or evolutionary.
     8. adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
           The Royal Historical Society
           The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
     9. adj.          Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.
     10. adj.          (uncommon) (synonym of historic): important or likely to be important to history and historians.
     11. adj. Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":
           historical-political
     12. n. A historical romance.
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.
Black
     1. adj. alternative case form of black (of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin)
     2. adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
     3. adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
     4. adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
     5. adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
           black drinking fountain; black hospital
     6. adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red
           I got two red queens, he got one of the black queens.
     7. adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
     8. adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
           He shot her a black look.
     9. adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
     10. adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
     11. adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk or creamer.
           Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.
     12. adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' ac
           The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass.
     13. adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white.
           Compare two Unicode symbols: , ☞ = "WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX"; , ☛ = BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX
     14. adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
           After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.
     15. adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
           5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.
     16. adj. (Ireland, now pejorative) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic
           Originally "the Black North" meant west Ulster
     17. adj. 1812, Edward Wakefield, "There is a district, comprehending Donegal, the interior of the county of Derry, and the western side of Tyrone, which is emphatically called by the people "the Black North,"
     18. adj. then Protestant east Ulster.1841 March 20 Catholic Herald (Bengal) Vol. 2 No. 1 p. 27 'Even in the "black North"—in " Protestant Ulster"—Catholicity is progessing at a rate that must strike terror in
     19. adj. Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it has one or more features that is black or dark, especially in comparison to another species with the same base name.
           black birch, black locust, black rhino
     20. n. The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
           (colour panel, 000)
     21. n. A black dye or pigment.
     22. n. A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
     23. n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
     24. n. (sometimes capitalised) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
     25. n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the) The black ball.
     26. n. (baseball) The edge of home plate
     27. n. (British) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
     28. n. (informal) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
     29. n. (in chess and similar games) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
           At this point black makes a disastrous move.
     30. n. Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
     31. n. (obsolete) A stain; a spot.
     32. v. To make black, to blacken.
     33. v. To apply blacking to something.
     34. v. (British) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
Slave
     1. n. obsolete form of Slav
     2. n. A person who is the property of another person and whose labor (and sometimes also whose life) is subject to the owner's volition.
     3. n. A person who is legally obliged by prior contract (oral or written) to work for another, with contractually limited rights to bargain; an indentured servant.
     4. n. A drudge; one who labours like a slave.
     5. n. One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders to something.
           a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
     6. n. An abject person; a wretch.
           Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd/ Mine innocent child? Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing.
     7. n. A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who (consensually) submits to (sexually and/or personally) serving one or more masters or mistresses.
     8. n. A person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts or services on a regular or continuing basis.
     9. n. (engineering) A device that is controlled by another device.
     10. v. (intransitive) To work hard.
           I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
     11. v. To enslave.
     12. v. To place a device under the control of another.
           to slave a hard disk
during
     1. prep. For all of a given time interval.
           I lived with my parents during the 1970s.
           The shop was one of the few able to stay open during the war.
     2. prep. At any time or period within a given time interval.
           I lived with my parents at several points during the 1980s.
           Many of the best examples were produced during the Restoration.
     3. v. present participle of dure
     dure
          1. v. (archaic, intransitive) To last, continue, endure.
          2. adj. (obsolete) hard; harsh; severe; rough
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.
American
     1. n. Originally, a native or inhabitant of the British North American colonies of European descent; now, a person born in, or a citizen or inhabitant of, the United States of America.
     2. n. An indigenous inhabitant of the Americas; a Native American or an American Indian (now chiefly with qualifying word).
     3. n. An inhabitant of the Americas. More often this is specified as either North American, Central American or South American.
           Every American's origin is, historically speaking, by immigration, if scientific speculation that points to a human origin in Africa and a migration to the New World from Eurasia turns out to b
     4. n. (US printing rare dated) A size of type smaller than German, 1-point type.
     5. adj. Of or pertaining to the Americas. More often this is specified with a qualifier, such as "North American", "Central American", "South American", etc.
     6. adj. Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people or its culture.
           Thanksgiving is an American tradition.
           He married an American woman in order to get an American passport.
     7. adj. (finance) (of an option, not comparable) Can be exercised on any date between the issue date and the expiry date.
civil
     1. adj. (uncomparable) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.
           She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people.
     2. adj. (comparable) Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner.
           It was very civil of him to stop the argument.
     3. adj. (legal) Relating to private relations among citizens, as opposed to criminal matters.
           a civil case
     4. adj. (theology) Naturally good, as opposed to good through regeneration.
war
     1. n. Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.
           The war was largely between Sunni and Shia militants.
     2. n. A particular conflict of this kind.
     3. n. By extension, any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.
           You look like you've been through the wars.
     4. n.          (figuratively) A campaign against something.
                    The "war on drugs" is a campaign against the use of narcotic drugs.
                    The "war on terror" is a campaign against terrorist crime.
                    In the US, conservatives rail against the "war on Christmas".
     5. n.          (business) A bout of fierce competition in trade.
                    I reaped the benefit of the car dealerships' price war, getting my car for far less than it's worth.
                    The cellular phone companies were engaged in a freebie war, each offering various services thrown in when one purchased a plan.
     6. n. (obsolete) Instruments of war.
     7. n. (obsolete) Armed forces.
     8. n. A particular card game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt.
     9. v. (intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
     10. v. To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
Who
     1. pron. honoraltcaps, who
     2. pron. (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; (asks for the identity of someone). (used in a direct or indirect question)
           Who is that? (direct question)
           I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
     3. pron. (interrogative) What is one's position; (asks whether someone deserves to say or do something).
           I don't like what you did, but who am I to criticize you? I've done worse.
     4. pron. (relative) The person or people that.
           It was a nice man who helped us.
     5. pron. (relative, archaic) Whoever, he who, they who.
     6. n. A person under discussion; a question of which person.
had
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of have.
     2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (with a past participle).
     3. v. (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have.
     4. adj. (obsolete) Available.
     have
                Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
          1. v. To possess, own, hold.
                I have a house and a car.
                Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
          2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
                I have two sisters.
                I have a lot of work to do.
          3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
                I have breakfast at six o'clock.
                Can I have a look at that?
                I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
          4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
                What class do you have right now? I have English.
                Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
          5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
                I have already eaten today.
                I had already eaten.
          6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
                I have to go.
          7. v. To give birth to.
                The couple always wanted to have children.
                My wife is having the baby right now!
                My mother had me when she was 25.
          8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
                He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
          9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
                Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
          10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
                They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
          11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
                He had him arrested for trespassing.
                The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
          12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
                The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
                I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
          13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
                Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
          14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
                We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
                Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
                (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
          15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
                I could have him!
                I'm gonna have you!
          16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
                I have no German.
          17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
                Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
          18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
                He had a cold last week.
          19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
                We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
                He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
                I'm having the time of my life!
          20. v. To trick, to deceive.
                You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
          21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
                The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
                I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
          22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
                I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
          23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
                Thank you for having me!
          24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
                What do you have for problem two?
                I have two contacts on my scope.
          25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
                We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
          26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
          27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
          28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
                They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
escaped
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of escape
     2. adj. Having escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.
           People are being warned not to approach the escaped prisoner.
     escape
          1. v. (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
                The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
                The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.
          2. v. To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
                He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
                The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire.
          3. v. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
                Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
          4. v. To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
                The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
          5. v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, of
                When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.
                Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.
          6. v. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
          7. n. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
                The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
          8. n. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
          9. n. (computing) escape key
          10. n. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
                You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
          11. n. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
          12. n. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
          13. n. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
          14. n. (obsolete) A sally.
          15. n. (architecture) An apophyge.
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
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.
been
     1. v. past participle of be
     2. v. (obsolete) plural present of be
     3. v. (Southern US) of be
     4. n. (UK dialectal) plural of bee
     be
          1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
          2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
                There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
          3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
                The cup is on the table.
          4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
                When will the meeting be?
          5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
                The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
                I have been to Spain many times.
                Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
          6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
                Knowledge is bliss.
                Hi, I’m Jim.
          7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
                3 times 5 is fifteen.
          8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
                François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
          9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
                The sky is blue.
          10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
                The sky is a deep blue today.
          11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
                The dog was drowned by the boy.
          12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
                The woman is walking.
                I shall be writing to you soon.
                We liked to chat while we were eating.
          13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
          14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
                I am to leave tomorrow.
                I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
          15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
                This building is three hundred years old.
                I am 75 kilograms.
                He’s about 6 feet tall.
          16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
                I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
          17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
                It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
                It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
                What time is it there? It’s night.
          18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
                It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
                It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
          19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
                It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
                Why is it so dark in here?
          20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
                "What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
                Why is he being nice to me?
captured
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of capture
     capture
          1. n. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
          2. n. The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
                the capture of a lover's heart
          3. n. Something that has been captured; a captive.
          4. n. The recording or storage of something for later playback.
                video capture
          5. n. (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
          6. v. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
                to capture an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal
          7. v. To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
                She captured the sounds of a subway station on tape.
                She captured the details of the fresco in a series of photographs.
          8. v. To reproduce convincingly.
                His film adaptation captured the spirit of the original work.
                In her latest masterpiece, she captured the essence of Venice.
          9. v. To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
                My pawn was captured.
                He captured his opponent’s queen on the 15th move.
by
     1. prep. Near or next to.
           The mailbox is by the bus stop.
     2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
           Be back by ten o'clock!  We will send it by the first week of July.
     3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
           The matter was decided by the chairman.  The boat was swamped by the water.  He was protected by his body armour.
     4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
           There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
     5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of.
     6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
           I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
     7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination.
           The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
     8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
           I sorted the items by category.  By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
     9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
           Our stock is up by ten percent.
     10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
           We went through the book page by page.  We crawled forward by inches.
     11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
           He cheated by his own admission.
     12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
           By Jove! I think she's got it!  By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
     13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
           It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix.  The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot.  The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
     14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
           She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
     15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
           I watched as it passed by.
     16. adv. In the vicinity, near.
           There was a shepherd close by.
           The shop is hard by the High Street.
     17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
           I'll stop by on my way home from work.
           We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
     18. adv. Aside, away.
           The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
     19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
     20. n. (card games) A pass
     21. interj. alternative spelling of bye
Union
     1. n. The 0-10-2 locomotive wheel arrangement. Derived from the name of the only U.S. company to use that configuration.
     2. n. The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
     3. n. The state of being united or joined.
     4. n. That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
     5. n. A trade union; a workers' union.
     6. n. An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
     7. n. A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
     8. n. (set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
     9. n. The act or state of marriage.
     10. n. (archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
     11. n. (programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
     12. n. (now rare, archaic) A large, high-quality pearl.
     13. n. (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
     14. v. To combine sets using the union operation.
forces
     1. n. plural of force
     2. n. (military) troops (plural only).
     3. n. (music) the orchestral instrumentation (and voices) used in a musical production (nearly always used in plural form only).
     4. v. third-person singular present indicative of force
     force
          1. n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
                the force of an appeal, an argument, or a contract
          2. n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
          3. n. Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
          4. n. (physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body which is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
          5. n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
          6. n. A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
                police force
          7. n. The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
                show of force
          8. n. A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
          9. n. (legal) Legal validity.
                The law will come into force in January.
          10. n. (legal) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
          11. n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
          12. n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas.
          13. v. To violate (a woman); to rape.
          14. v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
          15. v. To compel (someone or something) to do something.
          16. v. To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
          17. v. To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
          18. v. To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
                The comedian's jokes weren't funny, but I forced a laugh now and then.
          19. v. To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
                To force a lock.
          20. v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
          21. v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
                Jones forced the runner at second by stepping on the bag.
          22. v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
          23. v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
          24. v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
          25. v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
          26. n. (Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
          27. v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.
Dictionary entries from Wiktionary