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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.
sailor
1. n. A person in the business of navigating ships or other vessels
2. n. someone knowledgeable in the practical management of ships
he's a talented sailor
3. n. A member of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
4. n. a person who sails sailing boats as a sport or recreation; see also yachtsman.
rushed
1. adj. Very busy.
I was so rushed today, I didn't have time to eat lunch.
2. adj. Done in haste; done quickly.
My rushed attempt at an essay received a predictably poor grade.
3. adj. Abounding or covered with rushes.
4. v. simple past tense and past participle of rush
rush
1. n. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
2. n. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
3. n. The merest trifle; a straw.
4. n. A sudden forward motion.
5. n. A surge.
A rush of business can be difficult to handle effectively for its unexpected volume.
6. n. General haste.
Many errors were made in the rush to finish.
7. n. A rapid, noisy flow.
a rush of water; a rush of footsteps
8. n. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
9. n. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
a rush on the quarterback
10. n. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.
the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line
11. n. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
The rollercoaster gave me a rush.
12. n. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
rush week
13. n. (US, dated college slang) A perfect recitation.
14. n. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
15. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
rush one's dinner; rush off an email response
16. v. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
17. v. (intransitive, football) To dribble rapidly.
18. v. (transitive, or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
19. v. To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
Don't rush your client or he may withdraw.
20. v. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
21. v. (military) To swiftly attack without warning.
22. v. (video games, slang) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units; to zerg.
23. v. (transitive, or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing or initiation in order to join a fraternity or sorority.
24. v. To transport or carry quickly.
The shuttle rushes passengers from the station to the airport.
25. v. (transitive, or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
26. v. (US, slang) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
27. adj. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.
a rush job
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
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.
flag
1. n. A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
2. n. An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
3. n. (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
4. n. (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
5. n. (construction) (abbreviation of flagstone:) a construction material used for paving, flooring, roofing or tiling
6. n. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
7. n. (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain option
8. n. (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
9. n. (British) An abbreviation for capture the flag.
10. n. (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itsel
11. n. (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) i
12. v. To furnish or deck out with flags.
13. v. To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
14. v. (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
Please flag down a taxi for me.
15. v. To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance
16. v. (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this.
Users of the Internet forum can flag others' posts as inappropriate.
17. v. (computing) To signal (an event).
The compiler flagged three errors.
18. v. (computing) To set a program variable to true.
Flag the debug option before running the program.
19. v. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
20. v. (sports) To penalize for an infraction.
The defender was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.
21. v. (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
His strength flagged toward the end of the race.
22. v. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
23. v. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
to flag the wings
24. v. To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
25. n. Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
26. n. (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
27. n. A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
28. n. (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
29. v. To pave with flagstones.
Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend.
30. n. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
31. n. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
32. n. The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
33. n. (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
hoist
1. v. To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).
2. v. (transitive, sport) To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory, often used figuratively.
3. v. (transitive, historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.
4. v. (intransitive) To be lifted up.
5. v. (transitive, comptheory) To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
6. n. A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.
7. n. The act of hoisting; a lift.
Give me a hoist over that wall.
8. n. The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff.
9. n. The vertical edge of a flag which is next to the staff.
10. n. The height of a fore-and-aft sail, next the mast or stay.
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
dip
1. n. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
There is a dip in the road ahead.
2. n. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
3. n. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
4. n. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
5. n. A dip stick.
6. n. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
I'm going for a dip before breakfast.
7. n. (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
8. n. A sauce for dipping.
This onion dip is just scrumptious.
9. n. (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
10. n. (archaic) A dipped candle.
11. n. (dance) a move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader
12. n. A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straighte
13. n. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
14. n. (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
15. n. The moist form of snuff tobacco.
16. v. To lower into a liquid.
Dip your biscuit into your tea.
17. v. (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
18. v. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
19. v. To lower a light's beam.
Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.
20. v. To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag bei
“The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.”
21. v. To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.
22. v. To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
23. v. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
24. v. To immerse for baptism.
25. v. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
26. v. (intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
27. v. To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water
28. v. (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
29. v. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
30. v. To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
31. v. (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
Strata of rock dip.
32. v. (transitive, dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
33. v. To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
34. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave.
He dipped out of the room so fast.
35. n. A foolish person.
36. n. (computer graphics) (initialism of device-independent pixel)
37. n. (informal) A diplomat.
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.
flag
1. n. A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
2. n. An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
3. n. (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
4. n. (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
5. n. (construction) (abbreviation of flagstone:) a construction material used for paving, flooring, roofing or tiling
6. n. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
7. n. (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain option
8. n. (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
9. n. (British) An abbreviation for capture the flag.
10. n. (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itsel
11. n. (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) i
12. v. To furnish or deck out with flags.
13. v. To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
14. v. (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
Please flag down a taxi for me.
15. v. To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance
16. v. (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this.
Users of the Internet forum can flag others' posts as inappropriate.
17. v. (computing) To signal (an event).
The compiler flagged three errors.
18. v. (computing) To set a program variable to true.
Flag the debug option before running the program.
19. v. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
20. v. (sports) To penalize for an infraction.
The defender was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.
21. v. (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
His strength flagged toward the end of the race.
22. v. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
23. v. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
to flag the wings
24. v. To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
25. n. Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
26. n. (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
27. n. A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
28. n. (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
29. v. To pave with flagstones.
Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend.
30. n. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
31. n. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
32. n. The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
33. n. (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
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.
return
1. v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter.
2. v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
To return to my story...
3. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
5. v. To place or put back something where it had been.
Please return your hands to your lap.
6. v. To give something back to its original holder or owner.
You should return the library book within one month.
7. v. To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
If the goods don't work, you can return them.
8. v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
9. v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
The player couldn't return the serve because it was so fast.
10. v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump.
11. v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
12. v. To say in reply; to respond.
to return an answer; to return thanks
13. v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
14. v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
This function returns the number of files in the directory.
15. v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
to return the lie
16. v. To report, or bring back and make known.
to return the result of an election
17. v. (by extension, UK) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
18. n. The act of returning.
I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.
19. n. A return ticket.
Do you want a one-way or a return?
20. n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before.
21. n. An answer.
a return to one's question
22. n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold
23. n. Gain or loss from an investment.
It yielded a return of 5%.
24. n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
Hand in your return by the end of the tax year.
25. n. (computing) A carriage return character.
26. n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
27. n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
28. n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
29. n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
30. n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
31. n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction
A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.

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