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biology
1. n. The study of all life or living matter.
2. n. The living organisms of a particular region.
3. n. The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
the biology of the whale
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.
small
1. adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
A small serving of ice cream.
A small group.
He made us all feel small.
2. adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
Remember when the children were small?
3. adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
4. adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
5. adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
a small space of time
6. adj. topics, en, Size
7. adv. In a small fashion.
8. adv. In or into small pieces.
9. adv. (obsolete) To a small extent.
10. n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
12. v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.
degenerate
1. adj. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
2. adj. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
3. adj. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.
4. adj. (mathematics) A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.
5. adj. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
6. n. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral person.
In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy.
7. v. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.
8. v. To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
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.
imperfectly
1. adv. In an imperfect manner or degree; not fully or completely.
developed
1. adj. (said of a country) Not primitive; not third world.
2. adj. Mature.
3. adj. Containing man-made structures such as roads, sewers, electric lines, buildings, and so on.
4. adj. Having useful or necessary infrastructure.
5. adj. Advanced, fully formed.
6. v. simple past tense and past participle of develop
develop
1. v. (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
Let's see how things develop and then make our decision.
2. v. To progress through a sequence of stages.
Isabel developed from a tropical depression to a tropical storm to a hurricane. An embryo develops into a fetus and then into an infant.
3. v. To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
4. v. To create.
I need to develop a plan for the next three weeks.
5. v. To bring out images latent in photographic film.
Please develop this roll of film.
6. v. To acquire something usually over a period of time.
I have been in England enough to develop a British accent.
You will develop calluses if you play the cello.
She developed bad eating habits.
7. v. (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
I need to develop my white-square bishop.
8. v. (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
9. v. (math) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
part
1. n. A portion; a component.
2. n. A fraction of a whole.
Gaul is divided into three parts.
3. n. A distinct element of something larger.
The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.
4. n. A group inside a larger group.
5. n. Share, especially of a profit.
I want my part of the bounty.
6. n. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
7. n. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
8. n. A section of a document.
Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
9. n. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
10. n. (math, dated) A factor.
3 is a part of 12.
11. n. (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
12. n. Duty; responsibility.
to do one’s part
13. n. Position or role (especially in a play).
We all have a part to play.
14. n. (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging.
15. n. Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
16. n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
17. n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
18. n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
19. v. (intransitive) To leave someone's company; (rare, poetic, literary) to go way; to die; to get rid of something, stop using it.
20. v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
21. v. To divide in two.
to part the curtains
22. v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
A rope parts. His hair parts in the middle.
23. v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
24. v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
25. v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
26. v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
27. v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
to part gold from silver
28. v. (transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit.
29. v. (transitive, internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
30. adj. Fractional; partial.
Fred was part owner of the car.
31. adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.
Part finished
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.
organ
1. n. A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
2. n. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
3. n. (musical instruments) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
4. n. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
5. n. A species of cactus.
6. n. (slang) The penis.
7. v. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
which
1. det. (interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied.
Which song made the charts?
2. det. (relative) The one or ones that.
Show me which one is bigger.
They couldn't decide which song to play.
3. det. (relative) The one or ones mentioned.
He once owned a painting of the house, which painting would later be stolen.
For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived.
I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one.
4. pron. (interrogative) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied).
Which is bigger?; Which is which?
5. pron. (relative) Who; whom; what (of those mentioned or implied).
He walked by a door with a sign, which read: PRIVATE OFFICE.
We've met some problems which are very difficult to handle.
He had to leave, which was very difficult.
No art can be properly understood apart from the culture of which it is a part.
6. pron. (relative, archaic) Used of people (now generally who, whom or that).
7. n. An occurrence of the word which.
has
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of have
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.
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?
more
1. det. comparative degree of many, : in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
More people are arriving.
There are more ways to do this than I can count.
2. det. comparative degree of much, : in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
I want more soup; I need more time
There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
3. adv. To a greater degree or extent.
He walks more in the morning these days.
4. adv. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
5. adv. Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.
6. adv. (now dialectal, or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18thc.)
I was more better at English than you.
7. adv. rather
He is more clever than wise.
8. n. An extra amount or extent.
9. n. (obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip.
10. n. (dialectal) a root; stock.
11. n. A plant.
12. v. To root up.
13. pron. a greater amount of people or things
fully
1. adv. In a full manner; without lack or defect.
He fully met his responsibilities.
2. adv. In a full degree; to a full extent.
He is fully capable of meeting his responsibilities.
3. adv. As a minimum; at least.
developed
1. adj. (said of a country) Not primitive; not third world.
2. adj. Mature.
3. adj. Containing man-made structures such as roads, sewers, electric lines, buildings, and so on.
4. adj. Having useful or necessary infrastructure.
5. adj. Advanced, fully formed.
6. v. simple past tense and past participle of develop
develop
1. v. (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
Let's see how things develop and then make our decision.
2. v. To progress through a sequence of stages.
Isabel developed from a tropical depression to a tropical storm to a hurricane. An embryo develops into a fetus and then into an infant.
3. v. To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
4. v. To create.
I need to develop a plan for the next three weeks.
5. v. To bring out images latent in photographic film.
Please develop this roll of film.
6. v. To acquire something usually over a period of time.
I have been in England enough to develop a British accent.
You will develop calluses if you play the cello.
She developed bad eating habits.
7. v. (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
I need to develop my white-square bishop.
8. v. (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
9. v. (math) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
some
1. pron. A certain number, at least one.
Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder.
2. pron. An indefinite quantity.
Can I have some of them?
3. pron. An indefinite amount, a part.
please give me some of the cake; everyone is wrong some of the time
4. det. A certain proportion of, at least one.
Some people like camping.
5. det. An unspecified quantity or number of.
Would you like some grapes?
6. det. An unspecified amount of (something un).
Would you like some water?
After some persuasion, he finally agreed.
7. det. A certain, an unspecified or unknown.
I've just met some guy who said he knew you.
The sequence S converges to zero for some initial value v.
8. det. A considerable quantity or number of; approximately.
He had edited the paper for some years.
9. det. (informal) A remarkable.
He is some acrobat!
10. adv. Of a measurement: approximately, roughly
I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos.
Some 30,000 spectators witnessed the feat.
Some 4,000 acres of land were flooded.
past
1. n. The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past
2. n. (grammar) The past tense.
3. adj. Having already happened; in the past; finished.
past glories
4. adj. (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
5. adj. Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
during the past year
6. adj. (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
past tense
7. adv. in a direction that passes
I watched him walk past
Ignore them, we'll play past them.
Please don't drive past the fruit stand, I want to stop there.
8. prep. Beyond in place, quantity or time.
the room past mine
count past twenty
past midnight
9. prep. Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).
generation
1. n. The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.
2. n. The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
3. n. (now US regional) Race, family; breed.
4. n. A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
Ye shall remain there in Babylon many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3
All generations and ages of the Christian church - Richard Hooker
5. n. (obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring.
6. n. The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
7. n. A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
8. n. (geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a
the generation of a line or curve
9. n. A specific age range in which each person in that range can relate culturally to one another.
Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
10. n. A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.

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