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translation
1. n. The act of translating, in its various senses:
2. n. The conversion of text from one language to another.
3. n. (translation studies) The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language
4. n. The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.
5. n. (physics, mathematics) A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.
6. n. (mathematics) A relation between two mathematical figures such as a straight line where the coordinates of each point in one figure is a constant added
7. n. (genetics) The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.
8. n. (physics) A transfer of motion occurring within a gearbox.
9. n. The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
10. n. # (Christianity) An ascension to Heaven without death.
11. n. # (Christianity) A transfer of a bishop from one diocese to another.
12. n. # (Christianity) A transfer of a holy relic from one shrine to another.
13. n. # (medicine) A transfer of a disease from one body part to another.
14. n. The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.
studies
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of study
2. n. plural of study
3. n. (plural only) An academic field of study concerning the given subject.
My boyfriend is taking media studies.
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.
language
1. n. A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
The English language and the German language are related.
Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.
2. n. The ability to communicate using words.
the gift of language
3. n. The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field.
legal language; the language of chemistry
4. n. The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way.
body language; the language of the eyes
5. n. A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
6. n. (computing) A computer language; a machine language.
7. n. Manner of expression.
8. n. The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.
The language he used to talk to me was obscene.
9. n. Profanity.
10. v. (rare, now nonstandard, or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.
11. n. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
gap
1. n. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
He made a gap in the fence by kicking at a weak spot.
2. n. An opening allowing passage or entrance.
We can slip through that gap between the buildings.
3. n. An opening that implies a breach or defect.
There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.
4. n. A vacant space or time.
I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday.
5. n. A hiatus.
I'm taking a gap.
6. n. A mountain or hill pass.
The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains.
7. n. (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
At Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach.
8. n. (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
Jones doubled through the gap.
9. n. (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
10. n. (AU) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
11. n. (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
12. v. To notch, as a sword or knife.
13. v. To make an opening in; to breach.
14. v. To check the size of a gap.
I gapped all the spark plugs in my car, but then realized I had used the wrong manual and had made them too small.
15. n. (alt form, gup) (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan)
which
1. det. (interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied.
Which song made the charts?
2. det. (relative) The one or ones that.
Show me which one is bigger.
They couldn't decide which song to play.
3. det. (relative) The one or ones mentioned.
He once owned a painting of the house, which painting would later be stolen.
For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived.
I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one.
4. pron. (interrogative) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied).
Which is bigger?; Which is which?
5. pron. (relative) Who; whom; what (of those mentioned or implied).
He walked by a door with a sign, which read: PRIVATE OFFICE.
We've met some problems which are very difficult to handle.
He had to leave, which was very difficult.
No art can be properly understood apart from the culture of which it is a part.
6. pron. (relative, archaic) Used of people (now generally who, whom or that).
7. n. An occurrence of the word which.
occurs
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of occur
occur
1. v. (intransitive) To happen or take place.
The liftoff will occur in exactly twelve seconds.
2. v. (intransitive) To present or offer itself.
I will write if the opportunity occurs.
3. v. (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself.
4. v. (intransitive, sciences) To be present or found.
The chemical monofluoroacetate occurs in all parts of Dichapetalum cymosum, and is responsible for its toxic effects.
when
1. adv. (interrogative) Used to introduce questions about time.
When will they arrive?
2. adv. Used to introduce indirect questions about time.
Do you know when they arrived?
Do you know when they will arrive?
Do you know when they arrive?
3. adv. At an earlier and less prosperous time.
He's mister high and mighty now, but I remember him when.
4. adv. (indirect question) Used to refer to doubts about time.
5. adv. (relative) At which, on which, during which. Often omitted or replaced with that.
That was the day when the Twin Towers fell.
6. conj. At what time.
They were told when to sleep.
He doesn't know when to stop talking.
7. conj. At such time as.
I’m happiest when I’m working.
8. conj. At the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase.
It was raining when I came yesterday.
The show will begin when I get there.
The game is over when the referee says it is.
Be careful when crossing the street.
Pay attention when spoken to.
When (you are) angry, count to ten before speaking or acting.
That time when the dog stole the turkey from the table.
9. conj. Since; given the fact that.
I don't see the point of putting up Christmas decorations when I am the only person who is going to see them.
10. pron. (interrogative) What time; which time.
Since when do I need your permission?
11. n. The time at which something happens.
A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
12. interj. That's enough, a command to stop adding something, especially an ingredient of food or drink.
there
1. adv. (location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here).
2. adv. (figuratively) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place.
He did not stop there, but continued his speech.
They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there.
3. adv. (location) To or into that place; thither.
4. adv. (obsolete) Where, there where, in which place.
5. adv. In existence or in this world; see pronoun section below.
6. interj. Used to offer encouragement or sympathy.
There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right.
7. interj. Used to express victory or completion.
There! That knot should hold.
8. n. That place.
9. n. That status; that position.
You get it ready; I'll take it from there.
10. pron. Used as an expletive subject of be in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied.
There are two apples on the table. =Two apples are on the table.
There is no way to do it. =No way to do it exists.
Is there an answer? =Does an answer exist?
No, there isn't. =No, one doesn't exist.
11. pron. Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence.
If x is a positive number, then there exists =there is a positive number y less than x.
There remain several problems with this approach. =Several problems remain with this approach.
Once upon a time, in a now-forgotten kingdom, there lived a woodsman with his wife. =There was a woodsman, who lived with his wife.
There arose a great wind out of the east. =There was now a great wind, arising in the east.
12. pron. Used with other verbs, when raised.
There seems to be some difficulty with the papers. =It seems that there is some difficulty with the papers.
I expected there to be a simpler solution. =I expected that there would be a simpler solution.
There are beginning to be complications. =It's beginning to be the case that there are complications.
13. pron. (in combination with certain prepositions, no longer productive) That.
therefor, thereat, thereunder
14. pron. (colloquial) Used to replace an unknown name, principally in greetings and farewells
Hi there, young fellow.
15. contraction. misspelling of they’re
16. det. misspelling of their
Is
1. n. plural of I
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of be
He is a doctor. He retired some time ago.
Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him.
3. n. plural of i
remember to dot your is
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
No
1. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
2. n. Alternative form of No.
3. n. Alternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama.
4. det. Not any.
no one
There is no water left.
No hot dogs were sold yesterday.
No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.
There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.)
5. det. Hardly any.
We'll be finished in no time at all.
6. det. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
No smoking
There's no stopping her once she gets going.
7. det. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
My mother's no fool.
Working nine to five every day is no life.
8. adv. (now only used with comparatives, except in Scotland) Not, not at all.
It is a different kind of torture, but no less gruesome.
I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.
9. part. Used to show disagreement or negation.
No, you are mistaken.
No, you may not watch television now.
10. part. Used to show agreement with a negative question.
"Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")
11. part. (colloquial) As if to say, "No, don’t doubt this!", or to deny an imagined contradictory statement, used to show intense agreement
No, totally.
No, yeah, that's exactly right.
"Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!".
No, yeah
12. n. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval.
13. n. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.
The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".
14. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
15. n. Alternative form of No.
direct
1. adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
2. adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
the most direct route between two buildings
3. adj. Straightforward; sincere.
4. adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
5. adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
a descendant in the direct line
6. adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.
7. adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.
direct nomination; direct legislation
8. adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
9. adv. Directly.
10. v. To manage, control, steer.
to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army
11. v. To aim (something) at (something else).
They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.
He directed his question to the room in general.
12. v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
He directed me to the left-hand road.
13. v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
She directed them to leave immediately.
14. v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.
to direct a letter
translation
1. n. The act of translating, in its various senses:
2. n. The conversion of text from one language to another.
3. n. (translation studies) The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language
4. n. The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.
5. n. (physics, mathematics) A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.
6. n. (mathematics) A relation between two mathematical figures such as a straight line where the coordinates of each point in one figure is a constant added
7. n. (genetics) The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.
8. n. (physics) A transfer of motion occurring within a gearbox.
9. n. The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
10. n. # (Christianity) An ascension to Heaven without death.
11. n. # (Christianity) A transfer of a bishop from one diocese to another.
12. n. # (Christianity) A transfer of a holy relic from one shrine to another.
13. n. # (medicine) A transfer of a disease from one body part to another.
14. n. The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.
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.
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.
target
1. n. A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
Take careful aim at the target.
2. n. A goal or objective.
They have a target to finish the project by November.
3. n. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
4. n. (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
5. n. (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
6. n. (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
He made a good target.
7. n. (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
8. n. (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
9. n. (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
10. n. (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
11. n. (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
Do you charge by source or target?
12. n. A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
13. n. (dated) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
14. n. (Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant.
15. n. (Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter.
16. v. To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
17. v. (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.
The advertising campaign targeted older women.
18. v. (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.
This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors.
language
1. n. A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
The English language and the German language are related.
Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.
2. n. The ability to communicate using words.
the gift of language
3. n. The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field.
legal language; the language of chemistry
4. n. The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way.
body language; the language of the eyes
5. n. A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
6. n. (computing) A computer language; a machine language.
7. n. Manner of expression.
8. n. The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.
The language he used to talk to me was obscene.
9. n. Profanity.
10. v. (rare, now nonstandard, or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.
11. n. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
for
1. conj. (dated) Because.
2. prep. Towards.
The astronauts headed for the moon.
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to.
I have something for you.
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of.
We're having a birthday party for Janet.
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary.
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala.
5. prep. Supporting.
All those for the motion raise your hands.
6. prep. Because of.
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him.
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight.
She was the worse for drink.
7. prep. Over a period of time.
I've lived here for three years.
They fought for days over a silly pencil.
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space.
9. prep. On behalf of.
I will stand in for him.
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of.
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire.
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday.
He's going for his doctorate.
Do you want to go for coffee?
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers.
Can you go to the store for some eggs?
I'm saving up for a car.
Don't wait for an answer.
What did he ask you for?
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward.
Run for the hills!
He was headed for the door when he remembered.
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect.
Fair for its day.
She's spry for an old lady.
14. prep. Despite, in spite of.
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive.
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.)
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.)
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
At close of play, England were 305 for 3.
18. prep. To be, or as being.
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.)
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs).
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.
lexical
1. adj. (linguistics) Concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language.
2. adj. (linguistics) Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary.
3. adj. (linguistics) Denoting a content word as opposed to a function word.
a lexical verb
term
1. n. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.
2. n. That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
3. n. (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
4. n. A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
"Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
5. n. Relations among people.
We are on friendly terms with each other.
6. n. Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
7. n. Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison.
near-term, mid-term and long-term goals
the term allowed to a debtor to discharge his debt
8. n. (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
9. n. (archaic) A menstrual period.
10. n. (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
All the terms of this sum cancel out.
One only term is odd nobr - in ( 12; 3; 4 ).
11. n. (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
12. n. (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
13. n. (architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.
14. n. (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
15. v. To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
16. adj. (medicine, colloquial) Born or delivered at term.
term neonate
17. n. (computing, informal) terminal (computer program that emulates a physical terminal)
18. v. To terminate one's employment
19. n. One whose employment has been terminated
found
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of find
2. n. (obsolete) Food and lodging; board.
3. v. To start (an institution or organization).
4. v. To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
5. v. To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
6. n. A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.
find
1. v. To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
2. v. To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
I found my car keys. They were under the couch.
3. v. To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
Water is found to be a compound substance.
4. v. To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
to find leisure; to find means
5. v. To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
Looks like he found a new vehicle for himself!
6. v. To point out.
He kept finding faults with my work.
7. v. To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
I find your argument unsatisfactory.
8. v. To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person
9. v. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.
to find food for workmen
10. v. (transitive, archaic) To provide for
He finds his nephew in money.
11. v. (intransitive, legal) To determine or judge.
The jury finds for the defendant.
12. v. (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
13. n. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
14. n. The act of finding.
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.
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.
source
1. n. The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.
2. n. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.
3. n. A reporter's informant.
4. n. (computing) Source code.
5. n. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
6. v. (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
7. v. To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.
language
1. n. A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
The English language and the German language are related.
Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.
2. n. The ability to communicate using words.
the gift of language
3. n. The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field.
legal language; the language of chemistry
4. n. The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way.
body language; the language of the eyes
5. n. A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
6. n. (computing) A computer language; a machine language.
7. n. Manner of expression.
8. n. The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.
The language he used to talk to me was obscene.
9. n. Profanity.
10. v. (rare, now nonstandard, or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.
11. n. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.

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