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regional
1. adj. Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.
2. adj. Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.
3. adj. Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.
4. adj. (Australia) Of a state or other geographic area, those parts which are not metropolitan, but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns.
5. n. An entity or event with scope limited to a single region.
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.
border
1. n. The outer edge of something.
the borders of the garden
2. n. A decorative strip around the edge of something.
There's a nice frilly border around the picture frame.
a solid border around a table of figures
3. n. A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
4. n. The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
The border between Canada and USA is the longest in the world.
5. n. (British) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of danc
6. v. To put a border on something.
7. v. To form a border around; to bound.
8. v. To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
Denmark borders Germany to the south.
9. v. (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
10. v. (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
edge
1. n. The boundary line of a surface.
2. n. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
3. n. An advantage.
I have the edge on him.
4. n. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
5. n. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
The cup is right on the edge of the table.
He is standing on the edge of a precipice.
6. n. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
7. n. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
in the edge of evening
8. n. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
9. n. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
10. n. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
11. v. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
He edged the book across the table.
12. v. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
He edged away from her.
13. v. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
14. v. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
15. v. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
16. v. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
17. v. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
18. v. (figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
19. v. (intransitive) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
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.
rim
1. n. An edge around something, especially when circular.
2. n. (automotive, cycling) wheelrim
3. v. To form a rim on.
4. v. To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.
Palm trees rim the beach.
A walking path rims the island.
5. v. (transitive, or intransitive, of a ball) To roll around a rim.
The golf ball rimmed the cup.
The basketball rimmed in and out.
6. n. (UK dialectal) A membrane.
7. n. (UK dialectal or obsolete) The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.
8. v. (slang) To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act.

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