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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.
military
1. adj. Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
Chelsea Manning was dishonorably discharged from all military duties.
2. adj. (North America) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).
If you join a military force, you may end up killing people.
3. adj. Relating to war.
4. adj. Relating to armies or ground forces.
5. n. Armed forces.
He spent six years in the military.
6. n. (US, with the) U.S. armed forces in general, including the Marine Corps.
It's not the job of the military to make policy.
an
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
4. conj. (archaic) If
5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
An it harm none, do what ye will.
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
explosive
1. adj. With the capability to, or likely to, explode.
2. adj. Having the character of an explosion.
explosive fire
3. adj. (figurative) Shocking; startling.
an explosive accusation
4. adj. (slang) Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.
He has an explosive personality.
5. n. Any explosive substance.
device
1. n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
There are a number of household devices in a kitchen such as a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, or an electric can opener.
2. n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
3. n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
4. n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
5. n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
6. n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge bor
7. n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
8. n. (legal) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
9. n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
10. n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
11. n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.
buried
1. adj. Placed in a grave at a burial.
2. adj. Concealed, hidden.
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of bury
bury
1. v. To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
2. v. To place in the ground.
bury a bone; bury the embers
3. v. (transitive, often, figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
she buried her face in the pillow; they buried us in paperwork
4. v. (transitive, figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
secrets kept buried; she buried her shame and put on a smiling face.
5. v. (transitive, figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
They buried their argument and shook hands.
6. v. (transitive, figuratively) To score a goal.
7. v. (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
8. n. (obsolete) A burrow.(R:COED2, page=190/687)
9. n. A borough; a manor
underground
1. adj. (not comparable) Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
There is an underground tunnel that takes you across the river.
2. adj. (anchor, hidden)Hidden, furtive, secretive.
These criminals operate through an underground network.
3. adj. Of music, art, etc, outside the mainstream.
4. adv. Below the ground.
The tunnel goes underground at this point.
5. adv. Secretly.
6. n. (chiefly British) An underground railway.
7. n. (with "the") A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
8. n. (with "the") A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.
9. v. To route electricity distribution cables underground
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
set
1. v. To put (something) down, to rest.
Set the tray there.
2. v. To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
I have set my heart on running the marathon.
3. v. To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
4. v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
to set a coach in the mud
5. v. To determine or settle.
to set the rent
6. v. To adjust.
I set the alarm at 6 a.m.
7. v. To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
8. v. To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
Please set the table for our guests.
9. v. To introduce or describe.
I’ll tell you what happened, but first let me set the scene.
10. v. To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
He says he will set his next film in France.
11. v. To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
This crossword was set by Araucaria.
12. v. To prepare (a stage or film set).
13. v. To fit (someone) up in a situation.
14. v. To arrange (type).
It was a complex page, but he set it quickly.
15. v. To devise and assign (work) to.
The teacher set her students the task of drawing a foot.
16. v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
17. v. (intransitive) To solidify.
The glue sets in four minutes.
18. v. To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
to set milk for cheese
19. v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
The moon sets at eight o'clock tonight.
20. v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
21. v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
22. v. (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
to set seed
23. v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
24. v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
He sets in that chair all day.
25. v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
26. v. (hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
The dog sets the bird.
Your dog sets well.
27. v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
28. v. To fit music to words.
29. v. To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
to set pear trees in an orchard
30. v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
31. v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
The current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.
32. v. To place or fix in a setting.
to set a precious stone in a border of metal
to set glass in a sash
33. v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
to set (that is, to hone) a razor
to set a saw
34. v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
to set the sails of a ship
35. v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
to set a psalm
36. v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
to set a broken bone
37. v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
38. v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
39. v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
40. v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
41. v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
to set a good example; to set lessons to be learned
42. v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
It sets him ill.
43. n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
nail set
44. n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
television set
45. n. (alt form, sett): a hole made and lived in by a badger.
46. n. (alt form, sett): pattern of threads and yarns.
47. n. (alt form, sett): piece of quarried stone.
48. n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
49. n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
50. n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
51. n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
the set of a spring
52. n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
53. n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
54. n. A young oyster when first attached.
55. n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
56. n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun)
57. n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
the set of a coat
58. n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
59. adj. Fixed in position.
60. adj. Rigid, solidified.
61. adj. Ready, prepared.
on your marks, get set, go!; on your marks, set, go!
62. adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
set on getting to his destination
63. adj. Prearranged.
a set menu
64. adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
off
1. adv. In a direction away from the speaker or object.
He drove off in a cloud of smoke.
2. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence.
Please switch off the light when you leave.
die off
3. adv. So as to be removed or separated.
He bit off more than he could chew.
Some branches were sawn off.
4. adj. Inoperative, disabled.
All the lights are off.
5. adj. Rancid, rotten.
This milk is off!
6. adj. (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
7. adj. Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
sales are off this quarter
8. adj. Circumstanced (as in well off, better off, poorly off).
9. adj. Started on the way.
off to see the wizard
And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.
10. adj. Far; off to the side.
the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse
11. adj. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
He took an off day for fishing. an off year in politics; the off season
12. adj. (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.
— I'll have the chicken please.
— Sorry, chicken's off today.
13. adj. Right-hand (in relation to the side of a horse or a vehicle).
14. prep. Used to indicate movement away from a position on
I took it off the table.
Come off the roof!
15. prep. (colloquial) Out of the possession of.
He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him.
16. prep. Away from or not on.
He's off the computer, but he's still on the phone.
Keep off the grass.
17. prep. Disconnected or subtracted from.
We've been off the grid for three days now.
He took 20% off the list price.
18. prep. Distant from.
We're just off the main road.
The island is 23 miles off the cape.
19. prep. No longer wanting or taking.
He's been off his feed since Tuesday.
He's off his meds again.
20. prep. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering(topics, en, Engineering).
Tantalum bar 6 off 3/8" Dia × 12" — Atom, Great Britain Atomic Energy Authority, 1972
samples submitted … 12 off Thermistors type 1K3A531 … — BSI test report for shock and vibration testing, 2000
I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off.
21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
He got in the way so I had him offed.
22. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) To switch off.
Can you off the light?
23. n. (rare) Beginning; starting point.
He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.
remotely
1. adv. At a distance, far away.
2. adv. Not much; scarcely; hardly.
I'm not remotely in love with you.
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
destroy
1. v. To damage beyond use or repair.
The earthquake destroyed several apartment complexes.
2. v. (intransitive) To cause destruction.
Hooligans destroy unprovoked.
3. v. To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate.
4. v. To put down or euthanize.
Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.
5. v. To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
Her divorce destroyed her; she had a nervous breakdown and was severely depressed for more than a year.
6. v. (colloquial, transitive) To defeat soundly.
7. v. (computing, transitive) To remove data.
The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.
8. v. (US, colloquial slang) To sing a song poorly.
fortifications
1. n. plural of fortification
fortification
1. n. The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places to strengthen defence against an enemy.
2. n. That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.
3. n. An increase in effectiveness, as by adding ingredients.
4. n. A jagged pattern sometimes seen during an attack of migraine.
troops
1. n. plural of troop
2. n. military personnel in uniform
There were 10,000 troops in Iraq.
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of troop
troop
1. n. (collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
2. n. (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
3. n. A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
4. n. Soldiers, military forces (usually "troops").
5. n. (nonstandard) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
6. n. (Scouting) A basic unit of girl or boy scouts, consisting of 6 to 10 youngsters.
7. n. (collective) A group of baboons.
8. n. A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
9. n. (mycology) Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.
10. v. To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
11. v. To march on; to go forward in haste.
12. v. To move or march as if in a crowd.
The children trooped into the room.
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.
cavalry
1. n. (military) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
2. n. (military) An individual unit of the cavalry arm of service.
3. n. (military) The branch of the military transported by fast light vehicles, also known as mechanized cavalry.
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.
land
1. n. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
Most insects live on land.
2. n. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
3. n. A country or region.
They come from a faraway land.
4. n. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. n. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes
6. n. A general country, state, or territory.
He moved from his home to settle in a faraway land.
7. n. (often, in combination) realm, domain.
I'm going to Disneyland.
Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
8. n. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
9. n. (Irish English, colloquial) A fright.
He got an awful land when the police arrived.
10. n. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
11. n. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
12. n. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
13. n. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
14. n. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
15. n. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
16. n. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
17. v. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
The plane is about to land.
18. v. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
19. v. (intransitive) To come into rest.
20. v. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
21. v. To bring to land.
It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
Use the net to land the fish.
22. v. To acquire; to secure.
23. v. To deliver.
24. adj. Of or relating to land.
25. adj. Residing or growing on land.
26. n. lant; urine
torpedo
1. n. (military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
2. n. A fish having wings that generate electric current, a kind of electric ray.
3. n. (regional) A submarine sandwich.
4. n. (archaic, military) A naval mine.
5. n. (obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground and set off remotely, to destroy fortifications, troops, or cavalry; a land torpedo.
6. n. (slang) A professional gunman or assassin.
7. n. (rail transport, US) A small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
8. n. A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
9. n. An automobile with a torpedo body.
10. n. (slang) a woman's shoe with a pointed toe
11. n. (slang) a large breast; breast with a large nipple
12. n. (slang) a marijuana cigarette
13. n. a thick marijuana cigarette
14. n. a cigarette containing marijuana and crack cocaine
15. v. To send a torpedo, usually from a submarine, that explodes below the waterline of the target ship.
16. v. To sink a ship with one of more torpedoes.
17. v. To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a stealthy, powerful attack.

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