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historical
1. adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.
The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.
2. adj. (literature, art) About history; depicting persons or events from history.
3. adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
4. adj. (literature, art) Set in the past.
5. adj. (uncommon) Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.
6. adj. (grammar) One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
7. adj. (obsolete, biology) (synonym of hereditary) or evolutionary.
8. adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
The Royal Historical Society
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
9. adj. Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.
10. adj. (uncommon) (synonym of historic): important or likely to be important to history and historians.
11. adj. Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":
historical-political
12. n. A historical romance.
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.
landvogt
1. n. (historical) A reeve in the Holy Roman Empire with responsibility for a particular territory.
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.
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.
medieval
1. adj. Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
2. adj. Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception:
3. adj. Archaic.
4. adj. Brutal.
5. n. Someone living in the Middle Ages.
6. n. A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).
German
1. n. A native or inhabitant of Germany; a person of German citizenship or nationality.
2. n. A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is the most populous ethnic group in Germany; a person of German descent.
3. n. (historical) A member of a Germanic tribe.
Rome was sacked by Germans and the Western Roman Empire collapsed.
4. n. A German wine.
5. n. (US printing rare dated) A size of type between American and Saxon, 1½-point type.
6. n. An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg and a small part of Belgium.
German has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.
7. adj. Of or relating to the nation of Germany.
8. adj. Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent.
Her German husband has blond hair.
9. adj. Of, in or relating to the German language.
We take German classes twice a week.
Because the instructions were German, Yves couldn't read them.
10. adj. (obsolete except in set terms) Having the same mother and father; a full (brother or sister).
brother-german
11. adj. (obsolete except in set terms) Being born to one’s blood aunt or uncle, a first (cousin).
cousin-german
12. adj. (obsolete) Closely related, akin.
13. n. (obsolete) A near relative.
14. n. An elaborate round dance, often with a waltz movement.
15. n. A social party at which the german is danced.
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

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