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poetry
1. n. The class of literature comprising poems.
2. n. Composition in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns.
3. n. A poet's literary production.
4. n. An artistic quality that appeals to or stirs the imagination, in any medium.
That 'Swan Lake' choreography is poetry in motion, fitting the musical poetry of Tchaikovski's divine score well beyond the literary inspiration.
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.
comic
1. adj. Funny; amusing; comical.
2. adj. Relating to comedy.
comic genius
a comic stereotype
3. n. A comedian.
4. n. A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
5. n. (British) A children's newspaper.
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.
humorous
1. adj. Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him.
2. adj. Showing humor; witty, jocular.
3. adj. (obsolete) Damp or watery.
4. adj. (obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.
verse
1. n. A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse.
2. n. Poetic form in general.
The restrictions of verse have been steadily relaxed over time.
3. n. One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
Note the shift in tone between the first verse and the second.
4. n. A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
5. v. (obsolete) To compose verses.
6. v. To tell in verse, or poetry.
7. v. to educate about, to teach about.
He versed us in the finer points of category theory.
8. v. (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, especially in a video game.
Verse him, G!
usually
1. adv. Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.
Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work.
2. adv. Under normal conditions.
irregular
1. adj. Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.
2. adj. Of a surface, rough.
3. adj. Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity.
4. adj. (geometry, of a polygon) Not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal.
5. adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other).
6. n. A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and, often, does not follow regular army tactics.
7. n. One who does not regularly attend a venue.
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.
measure
1. n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
2. n. (obsolete) Moderation, temperance.
3. n. A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
4. n. An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
a measure of salt
5. n. The act or result of measuring.
6. n. (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
7. n. A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
Honesty is the true measure of a man.
8. n. Any of various standard units of capacity.
The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.
9. n. A unit of measurement.
10. n. The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
11. n. (now rare) The act or process of measuring.
12. n. A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
13. n. (mathematics, now rare) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor.
the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
14. n. (geology) A bed or stratum.
coal measures; lead measures
15. n. (mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, proba
16. n. Metrical rhythm.
17. n. (now archaic) A melody.
18. n. (now archaic) A dance.
19. n. (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
a poem in iambic measure
20. n. (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a com
21. n. A course of action.
22. n. (in plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
23. n. A piece of legislation.
24. v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
We measured the temperature with a thermometer. You should measure the angle with a spirit level.
25. v. To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
The window measured two square feet.
26. v. To estimate the unit size of something.
I measure that at 10 centimetres.
27. v. To judge, value, or appraise.
28. v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
29. v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
30. v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
31. v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

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