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always
1. adv. At all times; throughout all time
God is always the same.
2. adv. Constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals (opposed to sometimes or occasionally).
In this street, the shops always close during lunchtime.
3. adv. (informal) In any event.
I thought I could always go back to work.
grammatically
1. adv. in a grammatical manner
2. adv. concerning grammar
feminine
1. adj. Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
2. adj. Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
3. adj. Belonging to females; typically used by females.
Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
4. adj. Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
5. adj. (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
6. n. That which is feminine.
7. n. (rare, possibly obsolete) A woman.
8. n. (grammar) The feminine gender.
9. n. (grammar) A word of the feminine gender.
Even
1. n. An ethnic Even: a member of an indigenous people living in the Siberia and the Russian Far East.
2. adj. Flat and level.
Clear out those rocks. The surface must be even.
3. adj. Without great variation.
Despite her fear, she spoke in an even voice.
4. adj. Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
The distribution of food must be even.
5. adj. (not comparable, of an integer) Divisible by two.
Four, fourteen and forty are even numbers.
6. adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
7. adj. On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed.
8. adj. (colloquial) On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
You biffed me back at the barn, and I biffed you here—so now we're even.
9. adj. parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
10. adj. (obsolete) Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
11. adj. (obsolete) Associate; fellow; of the same condition.
12. v. To make flat and level.
We need to even this playing field; the west goal is too low.
13. v. (transitive, obsolete) To equal.
14. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be equal.
Thrice nine evens twenty seven.
15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits.
16. v. (transitive, obsolete) To set right; to complete.
17. v. (transitive, obsolete) To act up to; to keep pace with.
18. adv. (archaic) Exactly, just, fully.
I fulfilled my instructions even as I had promised.
You are leaving tonight? — Even so.
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
19. adv. In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.
Did you even make it through the front door?
That was before I was even born.
20. adv. Emphasizing a comparative.
I was strong before, but now I am even stronger.
21. adv. Signalling a correction of one's previous utterance; rather, that is.
My favorite actor is Jack Nicklaus. Jack Nicholson, even.
22. adv. also
23. n. (mathematics) An even number.
So let's see. There are two evens here and three odds.
24. n. (archaic, or poetic) Evening.
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.
referring
1. v. present participle of refer
2. n. The act by which somebody or something is referred; a reference.
refer
1. v. To direct the attention of.
The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
2. v. To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
He referred the matter to the principal.
to refer a patient to a psychiatrist
3. v. To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
4. v. (intransitive, construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
To explain the problem, the teacher referred to an example in another textbook.
5. v. (computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.
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
male
1. adj. Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
male writers, the leading male and female singers, a male bird feeding a seed to a female, in bee colonies, all drones are male, intersex male patients
2. adj. Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine), (m.)
stereotypically male interests, an insect with typically male coloration
3. adj. Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
the male chromosome; like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones
4. adj. (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
5. adj. (figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.
6. n. One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
7. n. (sometimes offensive) A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
8. n. An animal of the sex that has testes.
9. n. A plant of the masculine sex.
Foxes
1. n. plural of Fox
2. n. plural of fox
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of fox
fox
1. n. A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
2. n. Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the
3. n. The fur of a fox.
4. n. A fox terrier.
5. n. The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, , so called from its yellow color.
6. n. A cunning person.
7. n. (slang) A physically attractive man or woman.
8. n. (nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
9. n. (mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
10. n. (cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.
11. n. (obsolete) A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
12. v. To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
13. v. To confuse or baffle (someone).
This crossword puzzle has completely foxed me.
14. v. (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
15. v. (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity.
The pages of the book show distinct foxing.
16. v. To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
17. v. (intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
18. v. To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
19. v. To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.

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