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colloquial
1. adj. (linguistics) Denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation, of common parlance; informal.
2. adj. Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty.
3. n. A colloquial word or phrase, colloquialism
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
particularly
1. adv. (focus) Especially, extremely.
The apéritifs were particularly stimulating.
2. adv. (degree) To a great extent.
3. adv. Specifically, uniquely or individually.
4. adv. In detail; with regard to particulars.
5. adv. (dated) In a particular manner; fussily.
boring
1. n. A pit or hole which has been bored.
2. n. Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
3. n. Any organism that bores into a hard surface
4. v. present participle of bore
5. adj. Causing boredom; unable to engage or hold the interest.
What a boring film that was! I almost fell asleep.
bore
1. v. To inspire boredom in somebody.
2. v. To make a hole through something.
3. v. (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
to bore for water or oil
An insect bores into a tree.
4. v. To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole
5. v. To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
to bore one's way through a crowd
6. v. (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
This timber does not bore well.
7. v. (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
8. v. (of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
9. v. (obsolete) To fool; to trick.
10. n. A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
the bore of a cannon
11. n. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
12. n. A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
13. n. A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
14. n. One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
15. n. Something that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome affair.
16. n. Calibre; importance.
17. n. A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.
18. v. simple past tense of bear
event
1. n. An occurrence; something that happens.
2. n. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
I went to an event in San Francisco last week.
Where will the event be held?
3. n. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
4. n. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
5. n. (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
6. n. (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a s
7. n. (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
IfX is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as 1,2,3,4,5,6. Examples of events could be:X = 1,X = 2, X \ge 5, X \not = 4, andX \isi
8. n. (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
9. n. (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.
10. v. (obsolete) To occur, take place.
11. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
12. v. (obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.
13. v. cln, en, basic words

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