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card
1. n. A playing card.
2. n. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
He played cards with his friends.
3. n. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
He accused them of playing the race card.
4. n. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
5. n. (obsolete) A map or chart.
6. n. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
7. n. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
What’s on the card for tonight?
8. n. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
9. n. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.
10. n. A greeting card.
She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.
11. n. A business card.
The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.
12. n. (television) Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrativ
13. n. A test card.
14. n. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
to put a card in the newspapers
15. n. (dated) A printed programme.
16. n. (dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
17. n. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
18. n. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
19. n. An indicator card.
20. v. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.
21. v. (dated) To play cards.
22. n. (dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
23. n. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
24. n. (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare th
25. n. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
26. n. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
27. v. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
28. v. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
29. v. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
to card a horse
30. v. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
31. v. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
32. n. (abbreviation of cardinal) (songbird)
games
1. n. plural of game
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of game
mostly
1. adv. Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole.
They're mostly good people, although they have made a few mistakes.
2. adv. (obsolete) To the greatest extent; most.
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.
solitaire
1. n. A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit.
2. n. A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts.
3. n. (chiefly US) Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called patience in the rest of the world.
4. n. An extinct bird related to the dodo, , Rodrigues solitaire, that lived on the island of Rodrigues.
5. n. An extinct bird formerly believed to be related to the dodo, more precisely Réunion solitaire, , now preferably (vern, Réunion ibis),.
6. n. One of several American species of bird in the genus Myadestes in the thrush family.
7. n. A gem set on its own.
8. n. (obsolete) A black neck ribbon worn with a bag wig in the 18th century.
9. adj. living or being alone; solitary
card
1. n. A playing card.
2. n. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
He played cards with his friends.
3. n. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
He accused them of playing the race card.
4. n. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
5. n. (obsolete) A map or chart.
6. n. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
7. n. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
What’s on the card for tonight?
8. n. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
9. n. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.
10. n. A greeting card.
She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.
11. n. A business card.
The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.
12. n. (television) Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrativ
13. n. A test card.
14. n. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
to put a card in the newspapers
15. n. (dated) A printed programme.
16. n. (dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
17. n. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
18. n. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
19. n. An indicator card.
20. v. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.
21. v. (dated) To play cards.
22. n. (dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
23. n. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
24. n. (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare th
25. n. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
26. n. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
27. v. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
28. v. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
29. v. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
to card a horse
30. v. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
31. v. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
32. n. (abbreviation of cardinal) (songbird)
games
1. n. plural of game
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of game
game
1. n. A playful or competitive activity.
2. n. A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
Being a child is all fun and games.
3. n. An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
Games in the classroom can make learning fun.
4. n. A particular instance of playing a game; match.
Sally won the game.
They can turn the game around in the second half.
5. n. That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
6. n. The number of points necessary to win a game.
In short whist, five points are game.
7. n. (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
8. n. The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
Some of the games in the closet we have on the computer as well.
9. n. One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
Study can help your game of chess.
Hit the gym if you want to toughen up your game.
10. n. (obsolete) An amorous dalliance.
11. n. A video game.
12. n. (informal, nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.
He's in the securities game somehow.
13. n. (figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.
14. n. (military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
15. n. Wild animals hunted for food.
The forest has plenty of game.
16. n. (informal, used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.
17. n. (slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
18. n. A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?
19. adj. (colloquial) Willing to participate.
20. adj. (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
21. adj. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
22. adj. Injured, lame (of a limb).
23. v. (intransitive) To gamble.
24. v. (intransitive) To play video games.
25. v. To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.
26. v. (transitive, slang) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
but
1. prep. (obsolete, outside, Scotland) Outside of.
Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there.
2. prep. Apart from, except (for), excluding.
Everyone but Father left early.
I like everything but that.
Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave.
3. adv. Merely, only, just.
4. adv. (Australian, conjunctive) Though, however.
I'll have to go home early but.
5. adv. Used as an intensifier.
Nobody, but nobody, crosses me and gets away with it.
6. conj. (following a negative clause or sentence) On the contrary, but rather (introducing a word or clause that contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence without the negation).
I am not rich but (I am) poor; not John but Peter went there.
7. conj. However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (implies that the following clause is contrary to prior belief or contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence).
She is very old but still attractive.
You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not.
8. conj. Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "ex
I cannot but feel offended.
9. conj. (archaic) Without its also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).
It never rains but it pours.
10. conj. (obsolete) Except with; unless with; without.
11. conj. (obsolete) Only; solely; merely.
12. conj. (obsolete) Until.
13. n. An instance or example of using the word "but".
It has to be done – no ifs or buts.
14. n. (Scotland) The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
15. n. A limit; a boundary.
16. n. The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
17. v. (archaic) Use the word "but".
But me no buts.
also
1. adv. (conjunctive, focus) In addition; besides; as well; further; too.
They had porridge for breakfast, and also toast.
2. adv. (obsolete) To the same degree or extent; so, as.
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.
other
1. adj. See other (determiner) below
2. adj. second.
I get paid every other week.
3. adj. Alien.
4. adj. Different.
5. adj. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
6. n. An other one, more often rendered as another.
I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.
7. n. The other one; the second of two.
One boat is not better than the other.
8. det. Not the one or ones previously referred to.
Other people would do it differently.
9. adv. Apart from; in the phrase "other than".
Other than that, I'm fine.
10. adv. (obsolete) Otherwise.
It shall none other be. — Chaucer.
If you think other. — Shakespeare.
11. v. To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
12. v. To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
card
1. n. A playing card.
2. n. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
He played cards with his friends.
3. n. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
He accused them of playing the race card.
4. n. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
5. n. (obsolete) A map or chart.
6. n. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
7. n. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
What’s on the card for tonight?
8. n. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
9. n. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.
10. n. A greeting card.
She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.
11. n. A business card.
The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.
12. n. (television) Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrativ
13. n. A test card.
14. n. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
to put a card in the newspapers
15. n. (dated) A printed programme.
16. n. (dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
17. n. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
18. n. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
19. n. An indicator card.
20. v. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.
21. v. (dated) To play cards.
22. n. (dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
23. n. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
24. n. (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare th
25. n. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
26. n. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
27. v. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
28. v. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
29. v. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
to card a horse
30. v. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
31. v. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
32. n. (abbreviation of cardinal) (songbird)
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
board
1. n. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
2. n. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
3. n. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.
4. n. (Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.)
5. n. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
We have to wait to hear back from the board.
6. n. Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
Room and board
7. n. (nautical) The side of a ship.
8. n. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
9. n. (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
10. n. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
11. n. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
to bind a book in boards
12. n. (video games) A level or stage having a particular layout.
13. n. (duplicate bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
14. v. To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
It is time to board the aircraft.
15. v. To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
to board one's horse at a livery stable
16. v. To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
17. v. (transitive, nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
18. v. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
19. v. (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
20. v. To cover with boards or boarding.
to board a house
21. v. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
22. v. To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
23. n. (basketball, informal) A rebound.
games
1. n. plural of game
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of game
game
1. n. A playful or competitive activity.
2. n. A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
Being a child is all fun and games.
3. n. An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
Games in the classroom can make learning fun.
4. n. A particular instance of playing a game; match.
Sally won the game.
They can turn the game around in the second half.
5. n. That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
6. n. The number of points necessary to win a game.
In short whist, five points are game.
7. n. (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
8. n. The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
Some of the games in the closet we have on the computer as well.
9. n. One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
Study can help your game of chess.
Hit the gym if you want to toughen up your game.
10. n. (obsolete) An amorous dalliance.
11. n. A video game.
12. n. (informal, nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.
He's in the securities game somehow.
13. n. (figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.
14. n. (military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
15. n. Wild animals hunted for food.
The forest has plenty of game.
16. n. (informal, used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.
17. n. (slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
18. n. A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?
19. adj. (colloquial) Willing to participate.
20. adj. (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
21. adj. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
22. adj. Injured, lame (of a limb).
23. v. (intransitive) To gamble.
24. v. (intransitive) To play video games.
25. v. To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.
26. v. (transitive, slang) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
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.
main
1. adj. Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
2. adj. Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
Synonyms: largest
main timbers main branch of a river main body of an army
3. adj. Of force, strength, etc.: full, sheer, undivided.
4. adj. (dialectal) Big; angry.
5. adj. (nautical) Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
6. adj. (obsolete) Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.
7. adv. (Britain, dialectal) Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.
8. v. (short for, mainline, , to inject (a drug) directly into a vein)
9. v. (transitive, gaming) To mainly play a specific character, or side, during a game.
He mains the same character as me in that game.
What race do you main and what is your favourite race to beat?
10. v. (obsolete) Of a road: to convert into a main or primary road.
11. n. That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
12. n. (video gaming) The primary character that one plays in a video game in which one can play more than one character.
My WoW main has reached level cap and I’m on my way getting my first alt there as well.
13. n. A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main.
14. n. (informal) (short for, main course, , the principal dish of a meal)
I had scampi and chips for my main and a slice of cheesecake for dessert.
15. n. (now poetic) The high seas.
16. n. (now archaic, US dialectal) The mainland.
17. n. (nautical) (short for, mainsail)
18. n. (obsolete, except in might and main) Force, power, strength, violent effort.
19. n. (obsolete, gaming) A hand or match in a game of dice.
20. n. (obsolete, gaming) The largest throw in a match at dice; in the game of hazard, a number from one to nine called out by a person before the dice are thrown.
21. n. (obsolete, gaming) A stake played for at dice.
22. n. (obsolete, gaming, sports) A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.
23. n. A banker's shovel for coins.
24. n. (obsolete, rare) A basket for gathering grapes.
area
1. n. (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
2. n. A particular geographic region.
3. n. Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
The photo is a little dark in that area.
4. n. The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
The plans are a bit vague in that area.
5. n. (British) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.
6. n. (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
7. n. (slang) Genitals.
where
1. conj. While on the contrary; although; whereas.
Where Susy has trouble coloring inside the lines, Johnny has already mastered shading.
2. conj. At or in which place or situation.
He is looking for a house where he can have a complete office.
I've forgotten where I was in this book, but it was probably around chapter four.
3. conj. To which place or situation.
The snowbirds travel where it is warm.
4. conj. Wherever.
Their job is to go where they are called.
5. conj. (legal) In a position, case, etc., in which.
Where no provision under this Act is applicable, the case shall be decided in accordance with the customary practices.
6. adv. (Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question): at what place; to what place; what place.
Where are you?
Where are you going?
He asked where I grew up.
7. adv. (With the preposition from)
Where did you come from?
8. adv. In what situation.
Where would we be without our parents?
9. adv. (relative) At which, on which.
That is the place where we first met.
10. pron. The place in which.
He lives within five miles of where he was born.
11. n. The place in which something happens.
A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
Finding the nymph asleep in secret where. — Spenser.
random
1. n. A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
2. n. (obsolete) Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.
3. n. (obsolete) The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.
4. n. (figuratively, colloquial) An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.
The party was boring. It was full of randoms.
5. n. (mining) The direction of a rake-vein.
6. adj. Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
The flip of a fair coin is purely random.
The newspaper conducted a random sample of five hundred American teenagers.
The results of the field survey look random by several different measures.
7. adj. (mathematics) Of or relating to probability distribution.
A toss of loaded dice is still random, though biased.
8. adj. (computing) Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
Therand function generates a random number from a seed.
9. adj. (somewhat colloquial) Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason.
A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference.
10. adj. (somewhat colloquial) Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause or reason.
That was a completely random comment.
The teacher's bartending story was interesting, but random.
The narrative takes a random course.
11. adj. (colloquial) Characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.
You're so random!
cards
1. n. plural of card
2. n. card games
He's a fan of cards.
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of card
card
1. n. A playing card.
2. n. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
He played cards with his friends.
3. n. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
He accused them of playing the race card.
4. n. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
5. n. (obsolete) A map or chart.
6. n. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
7. n. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
What’s on the card for tonight?
8. n. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
9. n. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.
10. n. A greeting card.
She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.
11. n. A business card.
The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.
12. n. (television) Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrativ
13. n. A test card.
14. n. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
to put a card in the newspapers
15. n. (dated) A printed programme.
16. n. (dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
17. n. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
18. n. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
19. n. An indicator card.
20. v. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.
21. v. (dated) To play cards.
22. n. (dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
23. n. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
24. n. (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare th
25. n. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
26. n. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
27. v. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
28. v. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
29. v. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
to card a horse
30. v. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
31. v. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
32. n. (abbreviation of cardinal) (songbird)
can
1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
She can speak English, French, and German. I can play football. Can you remember your fifth birthday?
2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework. Can I use your pen?
3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
Can it be Friday already?
Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.
Animals can experience emotions.
4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
Can you hear that?.
I can feel the baby moving inside me.
5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.
Shit or get off the can.
Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
11. n. (slang) Jail or prison.
Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years.
12. n. (slang) Headphones.
13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup.
14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
15. n. A chimney pot.
16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
18. v. To shut up.
Can your gob.
19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
The boss canned him for speaking out.
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?
arranged
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of arrange
arrange
1. v. To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
2. v. (transitive, intransitive) To plan; to prepare in advance.
to arrange to meet; to arrange for supper
3. v. (music, transitive, intransitive) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.

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