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obsolete
1. adj. (of words, equipment, etc.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often by preference for something newer, which replaces the subject).
It is speculated that, within a few years, the Internet's speedy delivery of news worldwide will make newspapers obsolete.
2. adj. (biology) Imperfectly developed; not very distinct.
3. v. (transitive, US) To cause to become obsolete.
This software component has been obsoleted.
We are in the process of obsoleting this product.
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.
plant
1. n. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
2. n. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloro
3. n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
4. n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
5. n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
6. n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before!
7. n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
8. n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
9. n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
10. n. Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
11. n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
12. n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
13. n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
14. n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
15. n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
16. v. To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
17. v. To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
18. v. To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one's feet on solid ground
19. v. To place in the ground.
20. v. To furnish or supply with plants.
to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
21. v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
22. v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
to plant a colony
23. v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
to plant Christianity among the heathen
24. v. To set up; to install; to instate.
allheal
1. n. Any of several plants supposed to have broad healing powers.
2. n. Prunella vulgaris, a species in the mint family.
3. n. Stachys, a genus of plants in the mint family, heal-all, self-heal, woundwort, betony, lamb's ears, hedgenettle.
4. n. , a species in the valerian family.
believed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of believe
believe
1. v. To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)
If you believe the numbers, you'll agree we need change.
I believe there are faeries.
2. v. To accept that someone is telling the truth.
Why did I ever believe you?
3. v. (intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
After that night in the church, I believed.
4. v. To consider likely
I believe it might rain tomorrow. (Here, the speaker merely accepts the accuracy of the conditional.)
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
cure
1. n. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
2. n. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
3. n. A solution to a problem.
4. n. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
5. n. A process of solidification or gelling.
6. n. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
7. n. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
8. n. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
9. n. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.
10. v. To restore to health.
Unaided nature cured him.
11. v. To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
Unaided nature cured his ailments.
12. v. To cause to be rid of (a defect).
Experience will cure him of his naïveté.
13. v. To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
The smoke and heat cures the meat.
14. v. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
15. v. (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.
16. v. (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
The parts were curing in the autoclave.
17. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
18. v. (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
all
1. adv. (degree) intensifier.
It suddenly went all quiet.
She was all, “Whatever.”
2. adv. (poetic) Entirely.
3. adv. Apiece; each.
The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
4. adv. (degree) So much.
Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
5. adv. (obsolete, poetic) even; just
6. det. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or un).
All contestants must register at the scorer’s table. All flesh is originally grass. All my friends like classical music.
7. det. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
The store is open all day and all night. (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
I’ve been working on this all year. (= from the beginning of the year until now.)
8. det. (obsolete) Any.
9. det. Only; alone; nothing but.
He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice.
10. pron. Everything.
some gave all they had; she knows all and sees all; Those who think they know it all are annoying to those of us who do.
11. pron. Everyone.
A good time was had by all.
12. n. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of.
She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.
13. n. The totality of one's possessions.
14. conj. (obsolete) although
15. adj. (dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead.
The butter is all.
ills
1. n. plural of ill
ill
1. adj. (obsolete) Evil; wicked (of people).
2. adj. (archaic) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
3. adj. Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
He suffered from ill treatment.
4. adj. Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
ill manners; ill will
5. adj. Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.
6. adj. Having an urge to vomit.
Seeing those pictures made me ill.
7. adj. (hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
8. adj. (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
That band was ill.
9. adv. Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.
10. n. (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.
11. n. Harm or injury.
I wouldn't want you to do me ill.
12. n. Evil; moral wrongfulness.
13. n. A physical ailment; an illness.
I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.
14. n. (US, slang) PCP, phencyclidine.

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