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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
extension
1. n. The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length or breadth; an increase
2. n. The state of being extended
3. n. That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
4. n. A part of a building that has been extended from the original
5. n. (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
6. n. (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
7. n. (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
8. n. (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
9. n. (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
10. n. (telecommunication) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
11. n. (computing) A file extension.
Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.
12. n. (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
a browser extension
13. n. (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
14. n. (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
any
1. adv. To even the slightest extent, at all.
I will not remain here any longer.
If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways!
2. det. At least one; of at least one kind. One at all.
do you have any biscuits?; do you have any food?; I haven't got any money; it won't do you any good
3. det. No matter what kind.
choose any items you want; any person may apply
4. pron. Any thing(s) or person(s).
Any may apply.
space
1. n. Of time.:
2. n. (now rare, archaic) Free time; leisure, opportunity.
3. n. A specific (specified) period of time.
4. n. An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.
5. n. Unlimited or generalized physical extent.:
6. n. Distance between things.
7. n. Physical extent across two or three dimensions; area, volume (sometimes for or to do something).
8. n. Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of th
9. n. The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
10. n. The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.
11. n. A bounded or specific physical extent.:
12. n. A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries.
13. n. (music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines.
14. n. A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap.
15. n. (metal type) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one e
16. n. A gap; an empty place.
17. n. (geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
18. n. (mathematics) A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these me
Functional analysis is best approached through a sound knowledge of Hilbert space theory.
19. n. (figuratively) A marketplace for goods or services.
innovation in the browser space
20. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
21. v. To set some distance apart.
Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill.
The cities are evenly spaced.
22. v. To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
This paragraph seems badly spaced.
23. v. (transitive, science fiction) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.
The captain spaced the traitors.
24. v. (intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space.
passed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of pass
2. adj. That has passed beyond a certain point (chiefly in set collocations).
3. adj. That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.
pass
1. v. Physical movement.
2. v. (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
They passed from room to room.
3. v. To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
You will pass a house on your right.
4. v. (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make
The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.
John passed Suzie a note.
The torch was passed from hand to hand.
5. v. (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.
The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.
6. v. (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
7. v. (sport) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
8. v. # (transitive, football) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
9. v. # To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
10. v. # (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
11. v. (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
12. v. To put in circulation; to give currency to.
pass counterfeit money
13. v. (lbl, en, transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
pass a person into a theater or over a railroad
14. v. To change in state or status
15. v. (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
He passed from youth into old age.
16. v. (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.
17. v. (intransitive) To die.
His grandmother passed yesterday.
18. v. (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
He passed his examination.
He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
19. v. (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legis
Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.
The bill passed both houses of Congress.
The bill passed the Senate, but did not pass in the House.
20. v. (intransitive, legal) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son.
When the old king passed away with only a daughter as an heir, the throne passed to a woman for the first time in centuries.
21. v. To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal
He passed the bill through the committee.
22. v. (intransitive, legal) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
23. v. To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
24. v. (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
25. v. To move through time.
26. v. (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
Their vacation passed pleasantly.
27. v. (transitive, of time) To spend.
What will we do to pass the time?
28. v. To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
29. v. (intransitive) To continue.
30. v. (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
You're late, but I'll let it pass.
31. v. To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
She loved me for the dangers I had passed.
32. v. (intransitive) To happen.
It will soon come to pass.
33. v. To be accepted.
34. v. (intransitive) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
It isn't ideal, but it will pass.
35. v. (sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex or other group to which they would not otherwise regard one as belonging (or belonging
36. v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
37. v. (intransitive) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
38. v. To do or be better.
39. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
40. v. To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
41. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
42. n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
a mountain pass
43. n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
the passes of the Mississippi
44. n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over or along anything.
45. n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
46. n. An attempt.
My pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.
47. n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
48. n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
49. n. A sexual advance.
The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.
50. n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
51. n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
52. n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
53. n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass
54. n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.
55. n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
56. n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
57. n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
58. n. (cookery) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
59. n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
A pass would have seen her win the game, but instead she gave a wrong answer and lost a point, putting her in second place.
60. n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.
61. n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
Anyone want to trade passes?
over
1. adj. Discontinued; ended or concluded.
The show is over.
2. adv. Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
Let's talk over the project at tomorrow's meeting.
Let me think that over.
I'm going to look over our department's expenses.
3. adv. To an excessive degree; overly.
4. adv. From an upright position to being horizontal.
He tipped the bottle over, and the water came gushing out.
That building just fell over!
He bent over to touch his toes.
5. adv. Horizontally; left to right or right to left.
Slide the toilet-paper dispenser's door over when one roll is empty in order to reveal the other.
I moved over to make room for him to sit down.
6. adv. From one position or state to another.
Please pass that over to me.
He came over to our way of thinking on the new project.
Come over and play!
I'll bring over a pizza.
7. adv. Overnight (throughout the night).
We stayed over at Grandma's.
Can I sleep over?
8. adv. (US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again.
I lost my paper and I had to do the entire assignment over.
9. adv. (procedure word, military) a procedure word meaning that a station is finished transmitting and is expecting a response.
Bravo Six, this is Bravo Six Four. Stand by for ten mike report one dash three, over.
Bravo Six Four, this is Bravo Six Actual. Send your traffic, over.
10. n. (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled.
11. n. Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.
12. prep. Physical positioning.
13. prep. On top of; above; higher than; further up.
Hold the sign up over your head. climb up the ladder and look over the roof
14. prep. Across or spanning.
There is a bridge over the river.
15. prep. In such a way as to cover.
drape the fabric over the table; there is a roof over the house
16. prep. From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.
The dog jumped over the fence.
I'll go over the fence first and then help you.
Let's walk over the hill to get there.
17. prep. By comparison.
18. prep. More than; to a greater degree.
I prefer the purple over the pink.
19. prep. Beyond; past; exceeding; too much or too far.
I think I’m over my limit for calories for today.
20. prep. (in certain collocations) As compared to.
Sales are down this quarter over last.
21. prep. Indicating relative status, authority, or power
The owner's son lorded over the experienced managers.
The prince ruled over a portion of the kingdom.
22. prep. (mathematics) Divided by.
four over two equals two over one
23. prep. (poker) (Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.)
9♦9♠9♣6♥6♠ = nines over sixes
24. prep. Finished with; done with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two.
We got over the engineering problems and the prototype works great.
I am over my cold and feel great again.
I know the referee made a bad call, but you have to get over it your annoyance with the referee's decision.
She is finally over the distress of losing her job.
He is finally over his distress over the loss of the relationship with his ex-girlfriend.
25. prep. While using, especially while consuming.
26. prep. Concerning or regarding.
The two boys had a fight over whose girlfriend was the best.
27. prep. Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding.
We triumphed over difficulties.
The bill was passed over the veto.
It was a fine victory over their opponents.
28. interj. In radio communications: end of sentence, ready to receive reply.
How do you receive? Over!
29. n. (rare, dialectal, or obsolete) A shore, riverbank.
The sea's over.
distance
1. n. The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
The distance to Petersborough is thirty miles.
From Moscow, the distance is relatively short to Saint Petersburg, relatively long to Novosibirsk, but even greater to Vladivostok.
2. n. Length or interval of time.
3. n. (informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
We're narrowing the distance between the two versions of the bill. The distance between the lowest and next gear on my bicycle is annoying.
4. n. Remoteness of place; a remote place.
5. n. Remoteness in succession or relation.
the distance between a descendant and his ancestor
6. n. A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
7. n. (figuratively) The entire amount of progress to an objective.
He had promised to perform this task, but did not go the distance.
8. n. (figuratively) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
The friendship did not survive the row: they kept each other at a distance.
9. n. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
10. n. The space measured back from the winning-post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in the final heat.
11. v. To move away (from) someone or something.
He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.
12. v. To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.

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