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chiefly
     1. adv. (focus) Especially or primarily; above all.
     2. adv. (focus) Mainly or principally; almost entirely.
     3. adj. of, or relating to a chief
Us
     1. n. plural of U
     2. pron. (personal) Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
     3. pron. (colloquial) Me.
           Give us a look at your paper.
           Give us your wallet!
     4. pron. (Northern England) Our.
           We'll have to throw us food out.
     5. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
           It's not good enough for us teachers.
     6. n. plural of u
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.
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crossing
     1. n. An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross
     2. n. A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
     3. n. The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
     4. n. A voyage across a body of water
     5. n. (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it
     6. n. Movement into a crossed position.
     7. n. (graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges.
     8. n. A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque
     9. adj. (rare) Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction.
     10. v. present participle of cross
     cross
          1. n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
                Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.
          2. n. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
          3. n. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
                Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.
          4. n. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
          5. n. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
                She made the cross after swearing.
          6. n. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
                She was wearing a cross on her necklace.
          7. n. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
                It's a cross I must bear.
          8. n. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
                A quick cross of the road.
          9. n. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
          10. n. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
          11. n. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
          12. n. (football) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
          13. n. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
          14. n. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
          15. n. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
          16. n. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
          17. n. A line drawn across or through another line.
          18. n. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
          19. n. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
          20. n. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
          21. n. (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
          22. adj. Transverse; lying across the main direction.
                At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
          23. adj. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
                His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
          24. adj. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
          25. adj. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
                She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.
                Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me.
          26. adj. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
                cross interrogatories
                cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other
          27. prep. (archaic) across
                She walked cross the mountains.
          28. prep. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
                The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.
          29. v. To make or form a cross.
          30. v.          To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
                        She frowned and crossed her arms.
          31. v.          To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
                        to cross the letter t
          32. v.          To mark with an X.
                        Cross the box which applies to you.
          33. v.          To write lines at right angles.W
          34. v.          (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
          35. v. To move relatively.
          36. v.          To go from one side of (something) to the other.
                        Why did the chicken cross the road?
                        You need to cross the street at the lights.
          37. v.          (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
                        Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.
          38. v.          To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
          39. v.          (sports) Relative movement by a player or of players.
          40. v.         # (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
          41. v.         # (football) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
                   #     He crossed the ball into the penalty area.
          42. v.         # (rugby) To score a try.
          43. v. (social) To oppose.
          44. v.          To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
                        "You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain.
          45. v.          (transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off; to debar.
          46. v.          (legal) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
          47. v. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
                They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.
          48. v. To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
States
     1. n. plural of State
     2. n. plural of state
     3. v. third-person singular present indicative of state
     state
          1. n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
                a state of being;   a state of emergency
          2. n.          (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
          3. n.          (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
                        In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.
          4. n.          (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
                        The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.
          5. n.          (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
                        A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.
          6. n.          (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
          7. n.          (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating
          8. n. High social standing or circumstance.
          9. n.          Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
                        The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.
          10. n.          Rank; condition; quality.
          11. n.          Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
          12. n.          A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
          13. n.          (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
          14. n.          (obsolete) Estate, possession.
          15. n. A polity.
          16. n.          Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
          17. n.          A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States or Germany; (by extension, informal, US) any provi
          18. n.          (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.
          19. n.          (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
          20. n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
          21. v. To declare to be a fact.
                He stated that he was willing to help.
          22. v. To make known.
                State your intentions.
          23. adj. (obsolete) stately
usually
     1. adv. Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.
           Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work.
     2. adv. Under normal conditions.
Provincial
     1. adj. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.
     2. adj. Of or pertaining to a province.
           a provincial government
           a provincial dialect
     3. adj. Constituting a province.
     4. adj. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
     5. adj. Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
     6. adj. narrow; illiberal.
     7. adj. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
           a provincial synod
     8. adj. Limited in outlook; narrow.
     9. n. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
     10. n. (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
     11. n. A country bumpkin.
State
     1. n. A current governing polity.
     2. n. (often with definite article) The current governing polity under which the speaker lives.
     3. n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
           a state of being;   a state of emergency
     4. n.          (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
     5. n.          (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
                   In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.
     6. n.          (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
                   The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.
     7. n.          (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
                   A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.
     8. n.          (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
     9. n.          (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating
     10. n. High social standing or circumstance.
     11. n.          Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
                   The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.
     12. n.          Rank; condition; quality.
     13. n.          Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
     14. n.          A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
     15. n.          (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
     16. n.          (obsolete) Estate, possession.
     17. n. A polity.
     18. n.          Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
     19. n.          A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States or Germany; (by extension, informal, US) any provi
     20. n.          (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.
     21. n.          (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
     22. n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
     23. v. To declare to be a fact.
           He stated that he was willing to help.
     24. v. To make known.
           State your intentions.
     25. adj. (obsolete) stately
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.
E
     1. n. (street slang) The illicit drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form.
     2. n. (especially, in LGBT contexts) The hormone estrogen/estradiol. (Contrast T, testosterone.)
     3. n. The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade.
     4. n. (abbreviation of episode) (installment of a series)
           The pilot episode is S01E01.
     5. Number. en-number, upper=E, lower=e
     6. n. (mathematics) the base of the natural logarithm, 2.718281828459045…
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