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dated
1. adj. Marked with a date.
The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922.
2. adj. Outdated.
"Omnibus" is a dated term for a bus.
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of date
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
bruise
1. v. To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
2. v. To damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way.
3. v. (intransitive) Of fruit, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
Bananas bruise easily.
4. v. (intransitive) To become bruised.
I bruise easily.
5. v. (intransitive) To fight with the fists; to box.
6. n. (medicine) A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
7. n. A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
flatten
1. v. To make something flat or flatter.
As there was a lot of damage, we chose the heavy roller to flatten the pitch.
Mary would flatten the dough before rolling it into pretzels.
2. v. (reflexive) To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
3. v. To knock down or lay low.
The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger.
4. v. (intransitive) To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
Prices have flattened out.
5. v. (intransitive) To be knocked down or laid low.
6. v. (music) To lower by a semitone.
7. v. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
8. v. (programming, transitive) To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.
9. v. (computer graphics, transitive) To combine (separate layers) into a single image.
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
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.
fall
1. n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
2. n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
3. n. (chiefly North America, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.
4. n. A loss of greatness or status.
the fall of Rome
5. n. That which falls or cascades.
6. n. (sport) A crucial event or circumstance.
7. n. (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
8. n. (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
9. n. (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
10. n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
11. n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
He set up his rival to take the fall.
12. n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
Have the goodness to secure the falls of the mizzen halyards.
13. n. See falls
14. n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
15. n. A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
16. v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
17. v. To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground.
18. v. To come down, to drop or descend.
The rain fell at dawn.
19. v. To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
He fell to the floor and begged for mercy.
20. v. To be brought to the ground.
21. v. To be moved downwards.
22. v. (obsolete) To let fall; to drop.
23. v. (obsolete) To sink; to depress.
to fall the voice
24. v. (US) To fell; to cut down.
to fall a tree
25. v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
26. v. (copulative) To become.
She has fallen ill. The children fell asleep in the back of the car. When did you first fall in love?
27. v. To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); said of an instance of a recurring event such as a holiday or date.
Thanksgiving always falls on a Thursday. Last year, Commencement fell on June 3.
28. v. (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD.
29. v. (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War.
30. v. (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal.
31. v. (followed by a determining word or phrase) To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by words follow
Our senator fell into disrepute because of the banking scandal.
32. v. (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
And so it falls to me to make this important decision. The estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
33. v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
34. v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
to fall lambs
35. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
36. v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
37. v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
to fall into error; to fall into difficulties
38. v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
39. v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
40. v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
After arguing, they fell to blows.
41. v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
An unguarded expression fell from his lips.
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
squash
1. n. A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
2. n. (British) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
3. n. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
4. n. (obsolete) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
5. n. (obsolete, pejorative) Something unripe or soft.
6. n. (obsolete) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
7. n. (slang) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
8. v. To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
9. v. (transitive, intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car.
10. v. To suppress; to force into submission.
11. n. (botany) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
12. n. Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, (vern, great winter squash), vern, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
13. n. (syn.), cushaw squash.
14. n. Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, (vern, China squash).
15. n. Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
16. n. (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
17. n. Lagenaria siceraria (syn.), calabash, long-neck squash.
18. n. (culinary) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
We ate squash and green beans.
19. n. (obsolete) Muskrat.

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