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poker
     1. n. A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning log, logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
     2. n. One who poke, pokes.
     3. n. A kind of duck, the pochard.
     4. n. Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more round, rounds of deal, dealing or revealing the cards, the player, players in sequence make tactical bet, bets or drop out, the bets f
     5. n. (poker) All the four cards of the same rank.
     6. n. (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
transitive
     1. adj. Making a transit or passage.
     2. adj. Affected by transference of signification.
     3. adj. (grammar, of a verb) Taking an object or objects.
           The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticeda problem".
     4. adj. (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x is related to y and y is related to z, then x is necessarily related to z.
           "Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.
     5. adj. (algebra, of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
     6. adj. (graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
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
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.
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.
hand
     1. n. The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
           Her hands are really strong.
     2. n. That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.:
     3. n.          A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
     4. n.          An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
     5. n. In linear measurement::
     6. n.          (chiefly in measuring the height of horses) Four inches, a hand's breadth.
     7. n.          (obsolete) Three inches.
     8. n. A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
     9. n. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
     10. n. An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful.
           an old hand at speaking;  large farms need many farm hands
     11. n. An instance of helping.
           Bob gave Alice a hand to move the furniture.
     12. n. Handwriting; style of penmanship.
           a good hand
     13. n. A person's autograph or signature.
           Given under my Hand and Seal of the State this 1st Day of January, 2010.
     14. n. Personal possession; ownership.
     15. n. (usually in the hands) Management, domain, control.
           in safe hands;  in good hands;  He lost his job when the factory changed hands.  With the business back in the founder's hands, there is new hope for the company.  With John
     16. n. That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.:
     17. n.          (card games) The set of cards held by a player.
     18. n.         # A round of a card game.
     19. n.          (tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
     20. n.          (collective) The collective noun for a bunch of bananas.
     21. n. Applause.
           Give him a hand.
     22. n. (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
     23. n. (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
     24. n. A whole rhizome of ginger.
     25. n. The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
           This fabric has a smooth, soft hand.
     26. n. (archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
     27. n. (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
           to buy at first hand (from the producer, or when new);  to buy at second hand (when no longer in the producer’s hand, or when not new);  It's not a rumor. I heard it at first hand.
     28. n. (obsolete) Rate; price.
     29. v. To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
           He handed them the letter.   She handed responsibility over to her deputy.
     30. v. To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
           to hand a lady into a carriage
     31. v. (transitive, obsolete) To manage.
     32. v. (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
     33. v. (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
     34. v. (transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
     35. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.
using
     1. v. present participle of use
     2. n. use; utilization
     use
          1. n. The act of using.
                the use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations;  there is no use for your invention
          2. n. (followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
                What's the use of a law that nobody follows?
          3. n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
                This tool has many uses.
          4. n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
                I have no further use for these textbooks.
          5. n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
          6. n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
          7. n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
          8. n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
                the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.
          9. n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
          10. v. To utilize or employ.
          11. v.          To employ; to apply; to utilize.
                        Use this knife to slice the bread.
                        We can use this mathematical formula to solve the problem.
          12. v.          (transitive, often with up) To expend; to consume by employing.
                        I used the money they allotted me.
                        We should use up most of the fuel.
                        She used all the time allotted to complete the test.
          13. v.          To exploit.
                        You never cared about me; you just used me!
          14. v.          To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly.
                         He uses cocaine. I have never used drugs.
          15. v.          (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
                        Richard began experimenting with cocaine last year; now he uses almost every day.
          16. v.          (transitive, with auxiliary "could") To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand.
                        I could use a drink. My car could use a new coat of paint.
          17. v. To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Note: This usage uses the nounal pronunciation of the word rather than the typically verbal one.)
                soldiers who are used to hardships and danger (still common)
                to use the soldiers to hardships and danger (now rare)
          18. v.          (reflexive, obsolete, with "to") To become accustomed, to accustom oneself.
          19. v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do.
          20. v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually employ; to be wont to employ.
          21. v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
                I used to get things done.
          22. v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
                to use an animal cruelly
          23. v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.
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.
community
     1. n. A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition.
     2. n. A residential or religious collective; a commune.
     3. n. (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
     4. n. (Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
     5. n. The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
     6. n. (obsolete) Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
           a community of goods
     7. n. (obsolete) Common character; likeness.
     8. n. (obsolete) Commonness; frequency.
cards
     1. n. plural of card
     2. n. card games
           He's a fan of cards.
     3. v. third-person singular present indicative of card
     card
          1. n. A playing card.
          2. n. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
                He played cards with his friends.
          3. n. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
                The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
                He accused them of playing the race card.
          4. n. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
          5. n. (obsolete) A map or chart.
          6. n. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
          7. n. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
                What’s on the card for tonight?
          8. n. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
          9. n. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
                He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.
          10. n. A greeting card.
                She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.
          11. n. A business card.
                The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.
          12. n. (television) Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrativ
          13. n. A test card.
          14. n. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
                to put a card in the newspapers
          15. n. (dated) A printed programme.
          16. n. (dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
                This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
          17. n. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
          18. n. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
          19. n. An indicator card.
          20. v. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
                They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
                I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.
          21. v. (dated) To play cards.
          22. n. (dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
          23. n. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
          24. n. (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare th
          25. n. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
          26. n. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
          27. v. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
          28. v. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
          29. v. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
                to card a horse
          30. v. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
          31. v. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
          32. n. (abbreviation of cardinal) (songbird)
dealt
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of deal
     deal
          1. n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
                We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king.
          2. n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
          3. v. To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
                The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.
          4. v. To administer or give out, as in small portions.
          5. v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
                I was dealt four aces.
                The cards were shuffled, and the croupier dealt.
          6. v. (baseball) To pitch.
                The whole crowd waited for him to deal a real humdinger.
          7. v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
          8. v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
          9. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
          10. v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
                She deals in gold.
          11. v. To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
                This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs.
          12. v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
          13. v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
                I can't deal with this.
                I don't think he wants to go. — Yeah, well, we're going anyway, and he can deal.
          14. n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing out.
          15. n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
                I didn’t have a good deal all evening.
                I believe it's your deal.
          16. n. A particular instance of buying or selling; a transaction
                We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight.
          17. n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
          18. n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement
                He made a deal with the devil.
          19. n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
                What's the deal?
          20. n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
                The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork.
          21. n. Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
          22. n. A plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
          23. n. (archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
          24. adj. Made of deal.
                A plain deal table
on
     1. adj. In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
     2. adj. Performing according to schedule.
           Are we still on for tonight?
           Is the show still on?
     3. adj. (chiefly UK, informal, usually negative) Acceptable, appropriate.
           You can't do that; it's just not on.
     4. adj. (informal) Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
           "Five bucks says the Cavs win tonight." ―"You're on!".
           Mike just threw coffee onto Paul's lap. It's on now.
     5. adj. (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
     6. adj. (euphemistic) Menstruating.
     7. adv. To an operating state.
           turn the television on
     8. adv. Along, forwards (continuing an action).
           drive on, rock on
     9. adv. In continuation, at length.
           and so on.
           He rambled on and on.
     10. adv. (not US) Later.
           Ten years on, nothing had changed in the village.
     11. prep. Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
           on the table;  on the couch
           The parrot was sitting on Jim's shoulder.
     12. prep. At or near; adjacent to.
           Soon we'll pass a statue on the left.
           The fleet is on the American coast.
           Croton-on-Hudson, Rostov-on-Don, Southend-on-Sea
     13. prep. Covering.
           He wore old shoes on his feet.
     14. prep. At the date of.
           Born on the 4th of July.
     15. prep. Some time during the day of.
           I'll see you on Monday.   The bus leaves on Friday.   Can I see you on a different day? On Sunday I'm busy.
     16. prep. Dealing with the subject of, about, or concerning something.
           A book on history.   The World Summit on the Information Society.
     17. prep. Touching; hanging from.
           The fruit ripened on the trees.   The painting hangs on the wall.
     18. prep. (informal) In the possession of.
           I haven't got any money on me.
     19. prep. Because of, or due to.
           To arrest someone on suspicion of bribery.   To contact someone on a hunch.
     20. prep. Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
           On Jack's entry, William got up to leave.
           On the addition of ammonia, a chemical reaction begins.
     21. prep. Paid for by.
           The drinks are on me tonight, boys.   The meal is on the house.   I paid for the airfare and meals for my family, but the hotel room was on the company.
     22. prep. Used to indicate a means or medium.
           I saw it on television.   Can't you see I'm on the phone?
     23. prep. Indicating a means of subsistence.
           They lived on ten dollars a week.   The dog survived three weeks on rainwater.
     24. prep. Away or occupied with (e.g. a scheduled activity).
           He's on his lunch break.   on vacation;  on holiday
     25. prep. Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
           to play on a violin or piano
           Her words made a lasting impression on my mind.
     26. prep. Regularly taking (a drug).
           You've been on these antidepressants far too long.   He's acting so strangely, I think he must be on something.
     27. prep. Under the influence of (a drug).
           He's acting crazy because he's on crack right now.
     28. prep. (mathematics) Having identical domain and codomain.
           a function on
     29. prep. (mathematics) HavingV^n as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
           an operator on
     30. prep. (mathematics) Generated by.
           the free group on four letters
     31. prep. Supported by (the specified part of itself).
           A table can't stand on two legs.   After resting on his elbows, he stood on his toes, then walked on his heels.
     32. prep. At a given time after the start of something; at.
     33. prep. In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
           heaps on heaps of food
           mischief on mischief; loss on loss
     34. prep. (obsolete, regional) of
     35. prep. Indicating dependence or reliance; with confidence in.
           I depended on them for assistance.
           He will promise on certain conditions.
           Do you ever bet on horses?
     36. prep. Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
           Have pity or compassion on him.
     37. prep. (obsolete) At the peril of, or for the safety of.
     38. prep. In the service of; connected with; of the number of.
           He is on a newspaper; I am on the committee.
     39. prep. By virtue of; with the pledge of.
           He affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honour.
     40. prep. To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
           On us be all the blame.
           A curse on him!
           Please don't tell on her and get her in trouble.
           He turned on her and has been her enemy ever since.
           He went all honest on me, making me listen to his confession.
     41. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) to switch on
           Can you on the light?
     42. prep. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Without.
     43. n. In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun.
           Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun".
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.
flop
     1. v. (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
           He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.
     2. v. To cause to drop heavily.
           The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.
     3. v. (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
           The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.
     4. v. (sports) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
           It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year.
           While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.
     5. v. (intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
           The brim of a hat flops.
     6. v. (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
           Both players flopped sets! Cards dealt on the flop: Q95. Player A's hole cards: 55 (making three of a kind: 555). Player B's hole cards: QQ (making three of a kind: QQQ).
     7. v. (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
     8. n. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
     9. n. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
     10. n. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
     11. n. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
     12. adv. Right, squarely, flat-out.
     13. adv. With a flopping sound.
     14. n. (computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
     15. n. (computing) (abbreviation of floating-point operation).
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