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shapes
     1. n. plural of shape
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of shape
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.
quadrilateral
     1. n. A polygon with four sides.
     2. n. An area defended by four fortresses supporting each other.
           The Venetian quadrilateral comprised Mantua, Peschiera, Verona, and Legnano.
     3. adj. having four sides.
with
     1. prep. Against.
           He picked a fight with the class bully.
     2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
           He went with his friends.
     3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
           She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
     4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
     5. prep. In support of.
           We are with you all the way.
     6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
           slain with robbers
     7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
           cut with a knife
     8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
     9. prep. Having, owning.
     10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
           Do you want to come with?
     11. adv. -->
     12. n. alternative form of withe
sides
     1. n. plural of side.
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of side
     side
          1. n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
                A square has four sides.
          2. n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
                A cube has six sides.
          3. n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
                Which side of the tray shall I put it on?  The patient was bleeding on the right side.
          4. n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
                Meet me on the north side of the monument.
          5. n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
                I generally sleep on my side.
          6. n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
                John wrote 15 sides for his essay!
          7. n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
                Look on the bright side.
          8. n. One set of competitors in a game.
                Which side has kick-off?
          9. n. (Australia) A sports team.
          10. n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
                In the second world war, the Italians were on the side of the Germans.
          11. n. (music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
          12. n. (sports) Sidespin; english
                He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball.
          13. n. (UK, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).
                I just want to see what's on the other side — James said there was a good film on tonight.
          14. n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
                Do you want a side of cole-slaw with that?
          15. n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
                his mother's side of the family
          16. n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher
          17. n. (slang) An unjustified air of self-importance.
          18. v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
                Which will you side with, good or evil?
          19. v. To lean on one side.
          20. v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
          21. v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
          22. v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
          23. v. To furnish with a siding.
                to side a house
          24. v. (transitive, cooking) To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
          25. adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
          26. adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
                a side issue; a side view or remark
          27. adj. (UK archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
          28. adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
          29. adv. (UK dialectal) Widely; wide; far.
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.
equal
     1. adj. (not comparable) The same in all respects.
           Equal conditions should produce equal results.
           All men are created equal.
     2. adj. (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
           All right angles are equal.
     3. adj. (obsolete) Fair, impartial.
     4. adj. (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
           This test is pretty tough, but I think I'm equal to it.
     5. adj. (obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
           an equal movement
     6. adj. (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
     7. v. (mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
           Two plus two equals four.
     8. v. To be equivalent to; to match
           David equaled the water level of the bottles, so they now both contain exactly 1 liter.
     9. v. (informal) To have as its consequence.
           Losing this deal equals losing your job.
           Might does not equal right.
     10. n. A person or thing of equal status to others.
           We're all equals here.
           This beer has no equal.
     11. n. (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.
length
     1. n. The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
     2. n. Duration.
     3. n. (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
     4. n. (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
     5. n. (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
     6. n. (figuratively) Total extent.
           the length of a book
     7. n. Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
           a length of rope
     8. v. (obsolete) To lengthen.
rhombus
     1. n. (zoology, now rare) Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in .
     2. n. (zoology, archaic) Snails, now in genus Conus or family Conidae.
     3. n. (geometry) A parallelogram having all sides of equal length.
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.
two
     1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••). Ordinal: second.
     2. num. Describing a set or group with two elements.
     3. n. The digit/figure 2.
           The number 2202 contains three twos.
     4. n. (US, informal) A two-dollar bill.
     5. n. A child aged two.
           This toy is suitable for the twos and threes.
     6. n. The playing cards featuring two pips.
acute
     1. adj. Brief, quick, short.
           Synonyms: fast, rapid
           It was an acute event.
     2. adj. High or shrill.
           an acute accent or tone
     3. adj. Intense, sensitive, sharp.
           Synonyms: keen, powerful, strong
           She had an acute sense of honour.  Eagles have very acute vision.
     4. adj. Urgent.
           Synonyms: emergent, pressing, sudden, urgent
           His need for medical attention was acute.
     5. adj. (botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
           Synonyms: obtuse
     6. adj. (geometry) Of an angle: less than 90 degrees.
     7. adj. (geometry) Of a triangle: having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
           Synonyms: acute-angled
     8. adj. (linguistics, chiefly historical) Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
     9. adj. (medicine) Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
           He dropped dead of an acute illness.
     10. adj. (medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
           The acute symptoms resolved promptly.
     11. adj. (orthography) After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent.
           The last letter of ‘café’ is ‘e’ acute.
     12. n. (medicine) A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.
     13. n. (linguistics, chiefly historical) An accent or tone higher than others.
     14. n. (orthography) An acute accent (´).
           The word ‘cafe’ often has an acute over the ‘e’.
     15. v. (transitive, phonetics) To give an acute sound to.
           He acutes his rising inflection too much.
     16. v. (transitive, archaic) To make acute; to sharpen, to whet.
and
     1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
     2. conj.          Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
     3. conj.          Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
     4. conj.          Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
     5. conj.          (obsolete) Yet; but.
     6. conj.          Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
     7. conj.          (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
     8. conj.          Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
     9. conj.          Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
     10. conj.          Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
     11. conj.          (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
     12. conj.          Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
     13. conj.          Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
     14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
     15. conj.          (now US dialect) If; provided that.
     16. conj.          (obsolete) As if, as though.
     17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
     18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
     19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
     20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
two
     1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••). Ordinal: second.
     2. num. Describing a set or group with two elements.
     3. n. The digit/figure 2.
           The number 2202 contains three twos.
     4. n. (US, informal) A two-dollar bill.
     5. n. A child aged two.
           This toy is suitable for the twos and threes.
     6. n. The playing cards featuring two pips.
obtuse
     1. adj. (now chiefly botany zoology) blunt Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
     2. adj.          (botany, zoology) Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
     3. adj.          (geometry, specifically, of an, angle) One that is larger than one and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
     4. adj.          (geometry, by ellipsis) obtuse-angled, Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
     5. adj. Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
     6. adj. Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
     7. adj. Indirect or circuitous.
     8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.
Angles
     1. n. plural of Angle
     2. n. plural of angle
     3. v. third-person singular present indicative of angle
     angle
          1. n. (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
                the angle between lines A and B
          2. n. (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, ce
                The angle between lines A and B is π/4 radians, or 45 degrees.
          3. n. A corner where two walls intersect.
                an angle of a building
          4. n. A change in direction.
                The horse took off at an angle.
          5. n. A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
          6. n. (media) The focus of a news story.
          7. n. (slang) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
          8. n. (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral
                His angle is that he gets a percentage, but mostly in trade.
          9. n. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
          10. n. (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
          11. v. (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
                The roof is angled at 15 degrees.
          12. v. (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
                The five ball angled off the nine ball but failed to reach the pocket.
          13. v. (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
                How do you want to angle this when we talk to the client?
          14. v. (transitive, cue sports) To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to objec
                
          15. v. (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
          16. v. (informal) (with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
                He must be angling for a pay rise.
          17. n. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
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