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science
1. n. A particular discipline or branch of learning, especially one dealing with measurable or systematic principles rather than intuition or natural ability.
Of course in my opinion Social Studies is more of a science than an art.
2. n. Specifically the natural sciences.
My favorite subjects at school are science, mathematics, and history.
3. n. (archaic) Knowledge gained through study or practice; mastery of a particular discipline or area.
4. n. (now only theology) The fact of knowing something; knowledge or understanding of a truth.
5. n. The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline.
6. n. Knowledge derived from scientific disciplines, scientific method, or any systematic effort.
7. n. The scientific community.
8. v. (transitive, dated) To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
9. v. (transitive, colloquial, humorous) To use science to solve a problem.
fiction
1. n. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
I am a great reader of fiction.
2. n. A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction.
3. n. (legal) A legal fiction.
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
remove
1. v. To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
He removed the marbles from the bag.
2. v. (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
3. v. To murder.
4. v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
5. v. To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
6. v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
7. v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
8. v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
The President removed many postmasters.
9. n. The act of removing something.
10. n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
11. n. (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
12. n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
13. n. Distance in time or space; interval.
14. n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
15. n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
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.
clone
1. n. A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
2. n. A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.
3. n. A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
4. v. To create a clone of.
The scientists were able to clone a sheep.
We cloned the database to perform some testing.
from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He left yesterday from Chicago.
Face away from the wall!
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
An umbrella protects from the sun.
He knows right from wrong.
its
1. det. Belonging to it.
2. pron. The one (or ones) belonging to it.
3. n. plural of it
chamber
1. n. A room or set of rooms, particularly:
2. n. The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
3. n. A bedroom.
4. n. The private office of a judge.
5. n. The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
6. n. (UK) A single law office in a building housing several.
7. n. (dated) Rooms in a lodging house.
8. n. (obsolete) (clipping of chamber pot): a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers.
9. n. (figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
10. n. Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber
11. n. (firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.
12. n. (firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
13. n. (historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
14. v. To enclose in a room.
She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
15. v. To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
16. v. To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
17. v. To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
The rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.
18. v. In martial arts, to prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.
19. v. (obsolete) To be lascivious.
vat
1. n. A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
2. n. A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
3. n. (Roman Catholic) A vessel for holding holy water.
4. n. (dated) A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 stan
5. v. To put into a vat.
6. v. To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.
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.
artificial
1. adj. Man-made; of artifice.
The flowers were artificial, and he thought them rather tacky.
2. adj. False, misleading.
Her manner was somewhat artificial.
3. adj. Unnatural.
womb
1. n. (anatomy) In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
2. n. (obsolete) The abdomen or stomach.
3. n. (obsolete) The stomach of a person or creature.
4. n. (figuratively) A place where something is made or formed.
5. n. Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
6. v. (obsolete) To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.

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