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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
un
     1. n. (dialectal) One.
good
     1. adj. of people
     2. adj.          Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
                   good intentions
     3. adj.          Competent or talented.
                   a good swimmer
     4. adj.          Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit.
                   Can you lend me fifty dollars? You know I'm good for it.
     5. adj.          (US) Satisfied or at ease
                   Would you like a glass of water? — I'm good.
                   Are you good? — Yeah, I'm fine.
     6. adj. of capabilities
     7. adj.          Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
                   it’s a good watch;  the flashlight batteries are still good
     8. adj.          Effective.
                   a good worker
     9. adj.          (obsolete) Real; actual; serious.
                   in good sooth
     10. adj. of properties and qualities
     11. adj.          (of food)
     12. adj.         # Edible; not stale or rotten.
              #     The bread is still good.
     13. adj.         # Having a particularly pleasant taste.
              #     The food was very good.
     14. adj.         # Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
              #     Eat a good dinner so you will be ready for the big game tomorrow.
     15. adj.          Healthful.
                   carrots are good for you;  walking is good for you
     16. adj.          Pleasant; enjoyable.
                   the music, dancing, and food were very good;  we had a good time
     17. adj.          Favourable.
                   a good omen;  good weather
     18. adj.          Beneficial; worthwhile.
                   a good job
     19. adj.          Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
     20. adj. (colloquial, when with and) Very, extremely.
           The soup is good and hot.
     21. adj. Holy (especially when capitalized).
           Good Friday
     22. adj. of quantities
     23. adj.          Reasonable in amount.
                   all in good time
     24. adj.          Large in amount or size.
                   a good while longer;  a good number of seeds;  A good part of his day was spent shopping.  It will be a good while longer until he
     25. adj.          Full; entire; at least as much as.
                   This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb.  The car was a good ten miles away.
     26. interj. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
           Good! I can leave now.
     27. adv. (nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
     28. n. The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
     29. n. A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
     30. n. The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
           The best is the enemy of the good.
     31. n. (usually in plural) An item of merchandise.
     32. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
     33. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make good; turn to good; improve.
     34. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make improvements or repairs.
     35. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To benefit; gain.
     36. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
     37. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
     38. v. (reflexive, now chiefly dialectal) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
     39. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
form
     1. n. To do with shape.:
     2. n.          The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
     3. n.          A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
     4. n.          (dated) A long bench with no back.
     5. n.          (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
     6. n.          (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
     7. n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
     8. n.          An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
     9. n.          Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
     10. n.          Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
                   a republican form of government
     11. n.          Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
                   a matter of mere form
     12. n.          (archaic) A class or rank in society.
     13. n.          (UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
     14. n.          (education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
     15. n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
           To apply for the position, complete the application form.
     16. n. Level of performance.
           The team's form has been poor this year.
           The orchestra was on top form this evening.
     17. n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
           participial forms;  verb forms
     18. n. The den or home of a hare.
     19. n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
     20. n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
     21. n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
     22. n. (geometry) A quantic.
     23. n. (sports) A specific way of performing a movement.
     24. v. To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
           When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.
     25. v. To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
           Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.
     26. v. (intransitive) To take shape.
           When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.
     27. v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
           The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.
           Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.
     28. v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
           By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.
     29. v. To constitute, to compose, to make up.
           Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.
     30. v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
           Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.
     31. v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
     32. v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead pero
style
     1. n. A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
     2. n. Flair; grace; fashionable skill.
           As a dancer, he has a lot of style.
     3. n. (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
     4. n. A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
     5. n. A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
           the style of Majesty
     6. n. (nonstandard) A stylus.
     7. n. (obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
     8. n. A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
     9. n. A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
     10. n. A long, slender, bristle-like process.
           the anal styles of insects
     11. n. The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
     12. n. (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.
           applying styles to text in a wordprocessor
           Cascading Style Sheets
     13. v. To create or give a style, fashion or image to.
     14. v. To call or give a name or title to.
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