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pathology
1. n. (medicine) The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
2. n. (clinical medicine) The medical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services (e.g., cytology, histology) to clinicians.
The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype.
3. n. Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
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.
condition
1. n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
2. n. A requirement, term or requisite.
Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability. What other planets might have the right conditions for life? The union had a dispute over sick time and other
3. n. (legal) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
4. n. The health status of a medical patient.
My aunt couldn't walk up the stairs in her condition.
5. n. The state or quality.
National reports on the condition of public education are dismal. The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.
6. n. A particular state of being.
Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system. Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery. Security is defined as the condition of not being threat
7. n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
A man of his condition has no place to make request.
8. v. To subject to the process of acclimation.
I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
9. v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
10. v. To place conditions or limitations upon.
11. v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
12. v. To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
13. v. To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
14. v. To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
15. v. (US, colleges transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study
16. v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
having
1. v. present participle of have
2. n. Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
stale
1. adj. (alcohol, obsolete) Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong.
2. adj. No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
3. adj. No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed, dated.
4. adj. No longer nubile or suitable for marriage, in reference to people; past one's prime.
5. adj. (agriculture, obsolete) Fallow, in reference to land.
6. adj. (legal) Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
a stale affidavit
a stale demand
7. adj. Taking a long time to change
8. adj. Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
9. adj. (finance) Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
10. adj. (computing) Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.
The bug was found to be caused by stale data in the cache.
11. n. (colloquial) Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
12. v. (of alcohol, obsolete, transitive) To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer).
13. v. To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
14. v. (intransitive) To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
15. v. (alcohol, intransitive) To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
16. n. A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.)
17. n. (dialectal) The posts and rungs composing a ladder.
18. n. (botany, obsolete) The stem of a plant.
19. n. The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc.
20. v. (transitive, obsolete) To make a ladder by joining rungs ("stales") between the posts.
21. n. (military, obsolete) A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line.
22. n. (chess, uncommon) A stalemate; a stalemated game.
23. n. (military, obsolete) An ambush.
24. n. (obsolete) A band of armed men or hunters.
25. n. (Scottish military, obsolete) The main force of an army.
26. adj. (chess, obsolete) At a standstill; stalemated.
27. v. (chess, uncommon, transitive) To stalemate.
28. v. (chess, obsolete, intransitive) To be stalemated.
29. n. (livestock, obsolete) Urine, especially used of horses and cattle.
30. v. (livestock, obsolete, intransitive) To urinate, especially used of horses and cattle.
31. n. (falconry, hunting, obsolete) A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap.
32. n. (obsolete) Any lure, particularly in reference to people used as live bait.
33. n. (crime, obsolete) An accomplice of a thief or criminal acting as bait.
34. n. (obsolete) a partner whose beloved abandons or torments him in favor of another.
35. n. (obsolete) A patsy, a pawn, someone used under some false pretext to forward another's (usu. sinister) designs; a stalking horse.
36. n. (crime, obsolete) A prostitute of the lowest sort; any wanton woman.
37. n. (hunting, obsolete) Any decoy, either stuffed or manufactured.
38. v. (rare, obsolete, transitive) To serve as a decoy, to lure.
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.
foul
1. adj. Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
This cloth is too foul to use as a duster.
His foul hands got dirt all over the kitchen.
The air was so foul nobody could breathe.
A ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles
A well is foul with polluted water.
2. adj. (i, of words or a way of speaking) obscene, vulgar or abusive.
The rascal spewed forth a series of foul words.
His foul language causes many people to believe he is uneducated.
3. adj. Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
He has a foul set of friends.
4. adj. Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
This foul food is making me retch.
There was a foul smell coming from the toilet.
5. adj. (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
6. adj. (i, of the weather) Unpleasant, stormy or rainy.
Some foul weather is brewing.
7. adj. Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
Foul play is not suspected.
8. adj. (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
We've got a foul anchor.
a rope could get foul while paying it out.
9. adj. (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
Jones hit foul ball after foul ball.
10. v. To make dirty.
to foul the face or hands with mire
She's fouled her diaper.
11. v. To besmirch.
He's fouled his reputation.
12. v. To clog or obstruct.
The hair has fouled the drain.
13. v. (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
The kelp has fouled the prop.
14. v. (transitive, basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
Smith fouled him hard.
15. v. (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
Jones fouled the ball off the facing of the upper deck.
16. v. (intransitive) To become clogged.
The drain fouled.
17. v. (intransitive) To become entangled.
The prop fouled on the kelp.
18. v. (intransitive, basketball) To commit a foul.
Smith fouled within the first minute of the quarter.
19. v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
Jones fouled for strike one.
20. n. (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact o
21. n. (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
22. n. (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
Jones hit a foul up over the screen.
smelling
1. v. present participle of smell
2. v. Used in adjectival compounds.
foul-smelling (having a foul smell)
sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)
3. n. The act by which something is smelled.
smell
1. n. A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
I love the smell of fresh bread.
2. n. (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
3. v. To sense a smell or smells.
I can smell fresh bread.
Smell the milk and tell me whether it's gone off.
4. v. (intransitive) To have a particular smell, whether good or bad; if descriptive, followed by "like" or "of".
The roses smell lovely.
Her feet smell of cheese.
The drunkard smelt like a brewery.
5. v. (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
Ew, this stuff smells.
6. v. (intransitive, figurative) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
A report smells of calumny.
7. v. (obsolete) To exercise sagacity.
8. v. To detect or perceive; often with out.
9. v. (obsolete) To give heed to.
breath
1. n. The act or process of breathing.
I could hear the breath of the runner behind me.
The child's breath came quickly and unevenly.
2. n. A single act of breathing in or out.
I took a deep breath and started the test.
3. n. Air expelled from the lungs.
I could feel the runner's breath on my shoulder.
4. n. A rest or pause.
Let's stop for a breath when we get to the top of the hill.
5. n. A small amount of something, such as wind, or common sense.
Even with all the windows open, there is hardly a breath of air in here.
If she had a breath of common sense, she would never have spoken to the man in the first place.
6. n. (obsolete) Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.
7. n. (obsolete) Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.

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