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botany
1. n. The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve the whole plant.
2. n. The plant life of a geographical area.
the botany of Greenland
3. n. The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
4. n. A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place.
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
seed
1. n. A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.
If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
2. n. (botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
3. n. An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.
The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
4. n. Semen.
A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.
5. n. A precursor.
the seed of an idea; which idea was the seed (idea)?
6. n. The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.
7. n. The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.
8. n. The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
The rookie was a surprising top seed.
9. n. Initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number)
If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.
10. n. Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community.
11. n. (now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
the seed of Abraham
12. n. Race; generation; birth.
13. v. To plant or sow an area with seeds.
I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
14. v. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
15. v. To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.
The programmer seeded fresh, uncorrupted data into the database before running unit tests.
16. v. (sports) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
17. v. (internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through BitTorrent.
18. v. To be able to compete (especially in a quarter-final/semi-final/final).
The tennis player seeded into the quarters.
19. v. To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
20. v. (dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of see
pollen
1. n. Fine powder in general, fine flour (16th century usage documented by the OED; no longer common.)
2. n. A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Technically a collective term for pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. (This specific usage dating from mid 18th cent
3. v. (transitive, poetic) To cover with, or as if with, pollen.
spores
1. n. plural of spore
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of spore
not
1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.
Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
2. adv. To no degree.
That is not red; it's orange.
3. conj. And not.
I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not!
Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not!
5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function.
You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip.
6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not.
viable
1. adj. Able to live on its own (as for a newborn).
2. adj. Able to be done, possible.
3. adj. (biology) Able to live and develop.
4. n. (biology) An organism that is able to live and develop.
for
1. conj. (dated) Because.
2. prep. Towards.
The astronauts headed for the moon.
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to.
I have something for you.
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of.
We're having a birthday party for Janet.
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary.
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala.
5. prep. Supporting.
All those for the motion raise your hands.
6. prep. Because of.
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him.
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight.
She was the worse for drink.
7. prep. Over a period of time.
I've lived here for three years.
They fought for days over a silly pencil.
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space.
9. prep. On behalf of.
I will stand in for him.
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of.
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire.
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday.
He's going for his doctorate.
Do you want to go for coffee?
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers.
Can you go to the store for some eggs?
I'm saving up for a car.
Don't wait for an answer.
What did he ask you for?
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward.
Run for the hills!
He was headed for the door when he remembered.
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect.
Fair for its day.
She's spry for an old lady.
14. prep. Despite, in spite of.
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive.
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.)
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.)
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
At close of play, England were 305 for 3.
18. prep. To be, or as being.
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.)
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs).
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.
extended
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of extend
2. adj. Longer in length or extension; elongated.
3. adj. Stretched out or pulled out; expanded.
4. adj. Lasting longer; protracted.
5. adj. Having a large scope or range; extensive.
6. adj. (of a typeface) Wider than usual.
extend
1. v. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
2. v. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent.
3. v. To cause to increase in extent.
4. v. To cause to last for a longer period of time.
5. v. To straighten (a limb).
6. v. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
to extend sympathy to the suffering
7. v. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
8. v. (legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
9. v. (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal.
period
1. n. A length of time.
There was a period of confusion following the announcement.
You'll be on probation for a six-month period.
2. n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
Food rationing continued in the post-war period.
3. n. (now chiefly North America) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
4. n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
5. n. Female menstruation.
When she is on her period, she prefers not to go swimming.
6. n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
This is one of the last paintings Picasso created during his Blue Period.
7. n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
I have math class in second period.
8. n. (chiefly North America) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.
9. n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
10. n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
11. n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
12. n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
13. n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
14. n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see.
15. n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
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21. n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
22. n. (math) The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.
23. n. (archaic) End point, conclusion.
a period car
a period TV commercial
24. adj. Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.
25. interj. (chiefly North America) That's final; that's the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence).
I know you don't want to go to the dentist but your teeth need to be checked, period!
26. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
27. v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.
damaged
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of damage
2. adj. Suffered a damage.
damage
1. n. Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
2. n. (slang) Cost or expense.
"What's the damage?" he asked the waiter.
3. v. To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
Cold temperatures, heavy rain, falling rocks, strong winds and glacier movement can damage the equipment.
4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To undergo damage.
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
drying
1. v. present participle of dry
2. n. The act of drying.
3. n. A method of food preservation by removing water.
dry
1. adj. Free from or lacking moisture.
This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
2. adj. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (Petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
This well is as dry as that cow.
3. adj. (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
4. adj. (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
5. adj. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.
6. adj. (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.
7. adj. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
8. adj. (wine & other alcoholic beverages) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.
9. adj. (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
Steven Wright has a deadpan delivery, Norm Macdonald has a dry sense of humor, and Oscar Wilde had a dry wit.
10. adj. Lacking interest, boring.
A dry lecture may require the professor to bring a watergun in order to keep the students' attention.
11. adj. (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
12. adj. (science, somewhat pejorative) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
13. adj. (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects.
14. adj. Without a usual complement or consummation; impotently. (attn, en, improve this)
never dry fire a bow; dry humping her girlfriend; making a dry run
15. n. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
16. n. (especially, Australia, with "the") The dry season.
17. n. (Australia) An area of waterless country.
18. n. (UK, politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, contrasted with wet.
19. v. (intransitive) To lose moisture.
The clothes dried on the line.
20. v. To remove moisture from.
Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
21. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be thirsty.
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.
freezing
1. adj. (literally) Suffering or causing frost
2. adj. (by extension, chiefly hyperbole) Very cold
3. n. (physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
4. n. (medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
5. v. present participle of freeze
freeze
1. v. (intransitive) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
2. v. To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
Don't freeze meat twice.
3. v. (intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.
4. v. (intransitive, informal) To be affected by extreme cold.
It's freezing in here!
Don't go outside wearing just a t-shirt; you'll freeze!
5. v. (intransitive) (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
Since the last update, the program freezes / freezes up after a few minutes of use.
6. v. (intransitive) (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
Despite all of the rehearsals, I froze up as soon as I got on stage.
7. v. To cause someone to become motionless.
8. v. (figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
Over time, he froze towards her, and ceased to react to her friendly advances.
9. v. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
10. v. To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
The court froze the criminal's bank account.
11. n. A period of intensely cold weather.
12. n. A halt of a regular operation.
13. n. (computer) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
14. n. (curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
15. n. (specifically, in finance) A block on pay rises.
16. n. obsolete form of frieze

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