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weightlifting
1. n. A form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
2. n. (sports) A sport in which competitors lift heavy weights in two events: the snatch and the clean and jerk.
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
exercise
1. n. Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
The teacher told us the next exercise is to write an essay.
2. n. Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
3. n. A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
4. n. The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
5. n. (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
6. v. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
to exercise troops or horses; to exercise one's brain with a puzzle
7. v. (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
I exercise at the gym every day.
8. v. To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
The tenant exercised its option to renew the tenancy.
She is going to exercise her right to vote.
9. v. (now often, in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
exercised with pain
10. v. (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.
by
1. prep. Near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July.
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour.
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of.
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination.
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches.
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
He cheated by his own admission.
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
I watched as it passed by.
16. adv. In the vicinity, near.
There was a shepherd close by.
The shop is hard by the High Street.
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
I'll stop by on my way home from work.
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
18. adv. Aside, away.
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
20. n. (card games) A pass
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye
bending
1. v. present participle of bend
2. n. A motion or action that bends.
a bending of the knees
3. n. An instance of something being adapted or distorted.
bendings of the rules
bend
1. v. To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.
Don’t bend your knees.
2. v. (intransitive) To become curved.
Look at the trees bending in the wind.
3. v. To cause to change direction.
4. v. (intransitive) To change direction.
The road bends to the right
5. v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
6. v. (intransitive usually with "down") To stoop.
He bent down to pick up the pieces.
7. v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
8. v. To force to submit.
They bent me to their will.
9. v. (intransitive) To submit.
I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.
10. v. To apply to a task or purpose.
He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.
11. v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
He bent to the goal of gaining market share.
12. v. To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
13. v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
Bend the sail to the yard.
14. v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.
15. v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
16. n. A curve.
There's a sharp bend in the road ahead.
17. n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
18. n. (in the medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.
19. n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged
20. n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
21. n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
22. n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
23. n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
24. n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
the midship bends
25. n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
deeply
1. adv. At depth, in a deep way.
2. adv. To a deep extent.
3. adv. Profoundly.
at
1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.
Caesar was at Rome; at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine; at Jim’s house
2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.)
at six o’clock; at closing time; at night.
3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).
He threw the ball at me. He shouted at her.
4. prep. Denotes a price.
3 apples at 2¢ (each) The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.
5. prep. Occupied in (activity).
men at work
6. prep. In a state of.
She is at sixes and sevens with him. They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff. The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.
7. prep. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
Sell at 90. Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders. I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost.
8. prep. Because of.
to laugh at a joke mad at their comments
9. prep. Indicates a means, method, or manner.
10. prep. Holding a given speed or rate.
It is growing at the rate of 3% a year. Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.
11. prep. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.
The twins were both bad at chemistry.
He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.
12. prep. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
13. n. The at sign (@).
14. n. (alt form, att) (Laos currency unit)
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.
knees
1. n. plural of knee
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of knee
knee
1. n. In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
Penny was wearing a miniskirt, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell.
2. n. In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
3. n. The part of a garment that covers the knee.
4. n. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
5. n. (archaic) An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy.
To make a knee.
6. n. Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line, "the knee of a graph", an inflection point.
7. n. A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.
8. v. (transitive, archaic) To kneel to.
9. v. To poke or strike with the knee.
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.
then
1. adv. (temporal location) At that time.
He was happy then.
2. adv. (temporal location) Soon afterward.
He fixed it, then left.
Turn left, then right, then right again, then keep going until you reach the service station.
3. adv. (sequence) Next in order; in addition.
There are three green ones, then a blue one.
4. adv. (conjunctive) In that case.
If it’s locked, then we’ll need the key.
Is it 12 o'clock already? Then it's time for me to leave.
You don't like potatoes? What do you want me to cook, then?
5. adv. (sequence) At the same time; on the other hand.
That’s a nice shirt, but then, so is the other one.
6. adv. (dialect) Used to contradict an assertion.
7. adj. Being so at that time.
8. n. That time
It will be finished before then.
rising
1. v. present participle of rise
2. n. Rebellion.
3. n. The act of something that rises.
the risings and fallings of a thermometer
4. n. (US, dated) A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.
salt rising; milk rising
5. adj. Going up.
6. prep. (US, slang) More than; exceeding; upwards of.
a horse rising six years of age
rise
1. v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
2. v. To move upwards.
We watched the balloon rise.
3. v. To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet.
4. v. To slope upward.
The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill.
5. v. (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
The sun was rising in the East.
6. v. To become erect; to assume an upright position.
to rise from a chair or from a fall
7. v. To leave one's bed; to get up.
8. v. (figurative) To be resurrected.
he rose from the grave; he is risen!
9. v. (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
The committee rose after agreeing to the report.
10. v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
11. v. To attain a higher status.
12. v. Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
13. v. To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
14. v. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
to rise a tone or semitone
15. v. To begin; to develop.
16. v. To develop.
17. v. To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
Has that dough risen yet?
18. v. (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
19. v. To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
a noise rose on the air; odour rises from the flower
20. v. To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
21. v. To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
22. v. To go up; to ascend; to climb.
to rise a hill
23. v. To cause to go up or ascend.
to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water
to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it
24. v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
25. v. To come; to offer itself.
26. v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
27. n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
The rise of the tide.
There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.
Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.
28. n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
The rise of the working class.
The rise of the printing press.
The rise of the feminists.
29. n. (chiefly UK) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
30. n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.
31. n. (Ireland) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six.
32. n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
33. n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
34. n. (informal) An angry reaction.
I knew that would get a rise out of him.
35. n. alternative form of rice (twig)
while
1. n. An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.
He lectured for quite a long while.
2. conj. During the same time that.
He was sleeping while I was singing.
3. conj. Although.
This case, while interesting, is a bit frustrating.
4. conj. (Northern England, Scotland) Until.
I'll wait while you've finished painting.
5. conj. As long as.
While you're at school you may live at home.
6. prep. (Northern England, Scotland) Until.
7. v. To pass (time) idly.
8. v. To loiter.
bearing
1. v. present participle of bear
2. adj. (in combination) That bears (some specified thing).
a gift-bearing visitor
3. adj. Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
That's a bearing wall.
4. n. A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
5. n. (navigation, nautical) The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.
6. n. Relevance; a relationship or connection.
That has no bearing on this issue.
7. n. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
She walks with a confident, self-assured bearing.
8. n. (in the plural) Direction or relative position.
9. n. (architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
A lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
10. n. (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
11. n. (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.
The beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
12. n. (heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
bear
1. n. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae.
2. n. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
3. n. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
4. n. (slang) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
5. n. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
6. n. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
7. n. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
8. n. (cartomancy) The fifteenth Lenormand card.
9. v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
to bear a railroad stock
to bear the market
10. adj. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall.
The great bear market starting in 1929 scared a whole generation of investors.
11. v. To support or sustain; to hold up.
This stone bears most of the weight.
12. v. To carry something.
13. v. To be equipped with (something).
the right to bear arms
14. v. To wear or display.
The shield bore a red cross.
15. v. (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
The jury could see he was bearing false witness.
16. v. To put up with something.
I would never move to Texas—I can't bear heat.
Please bear with me as I try to find the book you need.
17. v. To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).
In Troy she becomes Paris’ wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy.
18. v. To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
19. v. (intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
The harbour bears north by northeast.
By my readings, we're bearing due south, so we should turn about ten degrees east.
Great Falls bears north of Bozeman.
We are bearing toward the north side of the island.
20. v. (intransitive) To veer slightly in one direction (left or right, usually at a fork in the road)
21. v. (intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
22. v. (intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
23. v. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
24. v. (intransitive military, usually with on or upon) Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
25. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
to bring arguments to bear
How does this bear on the question?
26. v. To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
27. v. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
28. v. To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
29. v. To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
30. v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
31. v. To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
32. v. To carry on, or maintain; to have.
33. v. To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
34. v. (reflexive, transitive) To behave or conduct (oneself).
35. v. To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
36. n. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
That window can be a bear to open.
37. n. alternative spelling of bere barley.
weight
1. n. The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
2. n. An object used to make something heavier.
3. n. A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
4. n. Importance or influence.
5. n. (weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
He's working out with weights.
6. n. (physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
7. n. (physics, proscribed) (synonym of mass) (in general circumstances)
8. n. (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
9. n. (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
10. n. (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
11. n. (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
12. n. (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
13. n. (visual art) The illusion of mass.
14. n. (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
15. n. Pressure; burden.
the weight of care or business
16. n. The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
17. n. (slang) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
He was pushing weight.
18. v. To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
19. v. (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
20. v. To load, burden or oppress someone.
21. v. (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
22. v. To bias something; to slant.
23. v. (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
24. v. (transitive, sport) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
across
1. prep. To, toward or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
We rowed across the river.
Fortunately, there was a bridge across the river.
He came across the street to meet me.
2. prep. On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
That store is across the street.
3. prep. (Southern US, AAVE) across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).
4. prep. From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).
The meteor streaked across the sky.
He walked across the room.
Could you slide that across the table to me, please?
5. prep. At or near the far end of (a space).
6. prep. Spanning.
This poetry speaks across the centuries.
7. prep. Throughout.
All across the country, voters were communicating their representatives.
8. prep. So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle.
Lay the top stick across the bottom one.
She had straps fastened across the conduit every six feet.
9. prep. In possession of full, up-to-date information about; abreast of.
As a newspaper reporter, you should be across all these issues.
10. adv. From one side to the other.
she helped the blind man across; the river is half a mile across
11. adv. On the other side.
If we sail off at noon, when will we be across?
12. adv. In a particular direction.
He leaned across for a book.
13. adv. (crosswords) Horizontally.
I got stuck on 4 across.
14. n. (crosswords, often in combination) A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue.
I solved all of the acrosses, but then got stuck on 3 down.
1 Bygone hangout for 64-Acrosses
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.
shoulders
1. n. plural of shoulder
2. n. (anatomy) The two shoulders and the upper portion of the back.
3. n. Capacity for bearing a task or blame.
The responsibility for the job was placed on his shoulders.
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of shoulder
shoulder
1. n. The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket.
2. n. The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
The parrot was sitting on Steve's shoulder.
3. n. (anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
4. n. A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
5. n. The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
6. n. Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
7. n. (topography) A shelf between two levels.
8. n. A part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency; a hard shoulder.
He stopped the car on the shoulder of the highway to change the flat tire.
9. n. The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
10. n. A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
11. n. The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
12. n. An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timbe
13. n. (printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
14. n. (of an object) The portion between the neck and the body.
15. n. (music) The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
16. n. The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
17. n. (firearms) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
18. n. (figurative) That which supports or sustains; support.
19. n. The part of a key between the cuts and the bow.
20. v. To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
21. v. To put (something) on one's shoulders.
22. v. To place (something) against one's shoulders.
23. v. (transitive, figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
24. v. (transitive, figuratively) To accept responsibility for.
shoulder the blame
25. v. To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
26. v. (intransitive) To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
27. v. To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.
28. v. (intransitive) To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.
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.
upper
1. adj. At a higher level, rank or position.
2. adj. Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.
3. adj. (geology, of strata or geological time periods) younger, more recent
4. adj. (education) Of or pertaining to a secondary school.
5. n. That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.
As the restless sleeper here, I'll take the lower berth. You take the upper.
6. n. (shoemaking) The piece of leather, etc., that forms the top part of a shoe above the sole.
7. n. A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.
8. n. (footwear) The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.
back
1. adj. (not comparable) Near the rear.
Go in the back door of the house.
2. adj. (not comparable) Not current.
I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine.
3. adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area.
They took a back road.
4. adj. (not comparable) In arrear; overdue.
They still owe three months' back rent.
5. adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating backward.
back action
6. adj. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
The vowel of smallcaps - lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England.
7. adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
He gave back the money. He needs his money back. He was on vacation, but now he’s back. The office fell into chaos when you left, but now order is back.
8. adv. Away from the front or from an edge.
Sit all the way back in your chair.
Step back from the curb.
9. adv. In a manner that impedes.
Fear held him back.
10. adv. In a reciprocal manner.
If you hurt me, I'll hurt you back.
11. adv. Earlier, ago.
many years back
12. n. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
Could you please scratch my back?
13. n. The spine and associated tissues.
I hurt my back lifting those crates.
14. n. (slang) Large and attractive buttocks.
15. n. (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
I still need to finish the back of your dress.
16. n. The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
Can you fix the back of this chair?
17. n. (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
18. n. That which is farthest away from the front.
He sat in the back of the room.
19. n. The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
Turn the book over and look at the back.
20. n. # The edge of a book which is bound.
# The titles are printed on the backs of the books.
21. n. # (printing) The inside margin of a page.
22. n. # The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
# Tap it with the back of your knife.
23. n. The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
I hung the clothes on the back of the door.
24. n. Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
We'll meet out in the back of the library.
25. n. The part of something that goes last.
The car was near the back of the train.
26. n. (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
The backs were lined up in an I formation.
27. n. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
The small boat raced over the backs of the waves.
28. n. A support or resource in reserve.
29. n. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
The ship's back broke in the pounding surf.
30. n. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
31. n. (slang) Effort, usually physical.
Put some back into it!
32. n. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
Could I get a martini with a water back?
33. n. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
34. v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
the train backed into the station; the horse refuses to back
35. v. To support.
I back you all the way; which horse are you backing in this race?
36. v. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
37. v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
38. v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
39. v. (of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
40. v. To push or force backwards.
to back oxen
The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet.
41. v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
42. v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
43. v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
to back books
44. v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
45. v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
to back a letter; to back a note or legal document
46. v. (legal, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
47. v. To row backward with (oars).
to back the oars
48. n. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
49. n. A ferryboat.

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