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after
1. adv. Behind; later in time; following.
They lived happily ever after.
I left the room, and the dog bounded after.
2. prep. Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
We had a few beers after the game.
The time is quarter after eight.
The Cold War began shortly after the Second World War.
3. prep. Behind.
He will leave a trail of destruction after him.
4. prep. In pursuit of, seeking.
He's after a job; run after him; inquire after her health.
5. prep. In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
We named him after his grandfather; a painting after Leonardo da Vinci.
6. prep. Next in importance or rank.
The princess is next in line to the throne after the prince.
7. prep. As a result of.
After your bad behaviour, you will be punished.
8. prep. In spite of.
After all that has happened, he is still my friend.
I can't believe that, after all our advice against gambling, you walked into that casino!
9. prep. (Irish usually preceded by a form of be followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity
I was after finishing my dinner when there was a knock on the door.
10. prep. (dated) According to an author or text.
11. prep. Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
to look after workmen; to enquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness
12. prep. (obsolete) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.
13. conj. Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
I went home after we had decided to call it a day.
14. adj. (dated) Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent
15. adj. (nautical, where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship.
The after gun is mounted aft.
The after gun is abaft the forward gun.
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.
war
1. n. Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.
The war was largely between Sunni and Shia militants.
2. n. A particular conflict of this kind.
3. n. By extension, any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.
You look like you've been through the wars.
4. n. (figuratively) A campaign against something.
The "war on drugs" is a campaign against the use of narcotic drugs.
The "war on terror" is a campaign against terrorist crime.
In the US, conservatives rail against the "war on Christmas".
5. n. (business) A bout of fierce competition in trade.
I reaped the benefit of the car dealerships' price war, getting my car for far less than it's worth.
The cellular phone companies were engaged in a freebie war, each offering various services thrown in when one purchased a plan.
6. n. (obsolete) Instruments of war.
7. n. (obsolete) Armed forces.
8. n. A particular card game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt.
9. v. (intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
10. v. To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
ended
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of end
2. adj. (in combination) Having (a specified kind or number of) ends.
end
1. n. The terminal point of something in space or time.
At the end of the road, turn left.
At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love.
2. n. (by extension) (euphemistic) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
Is there no end to this madness?
3. n. (by extension) Death, especially miserable.
He met a terrible end in the jungle.
I hope the end comes quickly.
4. n. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
Hold the string at both ends.
My father always sat at the end of the table.
5. n. Result.
6. n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
7. n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
The Pavillion End
8. n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
9. n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
10. n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
11. n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
odds and ends
12. n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
13. v. To finish, terminate.
Is this movie never going to end?
The lesson will end when the bell rings.
The referee blew the whistle to end the game.
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.
army
1. n. A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.
The army was sent in to quell the uprising.
2. n. Used absolutely for that entire branch of the armed forces.
The army received a bigger share of this year's budget increase than the navy or air force.
3. n. (often capitalized) Within a vast military, a very large tactical contingent (e.g. a number of divisions).
The Fourth Army suffered such losses that its remainders were merged into the Second Army, also deployed on the Western front.
4. n. The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.
The army opposed the legislature's involvement.
5. n. (figuratively) A large group of people working toward the same purpose.
It took an army of accountants to uncover the fraud.
6. n. (figuratively) A large group of social animals working toward the same purpose.
Our house is being attacked by an army of ants.
7. n. (figuratively) Any multitude.
On sunny days the beaches draw armies of tourists of all kinds.
Saw
1. n. (slang) A Bahamian.
2. n. A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
3. n. A musical saw.
4. n. A sawtooth wave.
5. v. To cut (something) with a saw.
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
6. v. (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
The fiddler sawed away at his instrument.
7. v. (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
The timber saws smoothly.
8. v. To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)
to saw shingles; to saw out a panel
9. n. (obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
10. n. (often old saw) A saying or proverb.
11. n. (obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief; by thy ~, in your opinion; commune ~, common opinion; common knowledge; on no ~, by no means.
12. n. (obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.
13. n. (obsolete) Dictate; command; decree.
14. v. simple past tense of see
15. interj. (slang) what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)
— Saw, dude?— Not much.
see
1. v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
2. v. To witness or observe by personal experience.
Now I've seen it all!
I have been blind since birth and I love to read Braille. When the books arrive in from the library, I can’t wait to see what stories they have s
I saw military service in Vietnam.
3. v. To form a mental picture of.
4. v. (figuratively) To understand.
Do you see what I mean?
5. v. To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
They're blind to the damage they do, but someday they'll see.
6. v. (social) To meet, to visit.
7. v. To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
to go to see a friend
8. v. To date frequently.
I've been seeing her for two months
9. v. To be the setting or time of.
The 20th century saw humanity's first space exploration.
10. v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
I'll see you hang for this! I saw that they didn't make any more trouble.
11. v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
I'll see your twenty dollars and raise you ten.
12. v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
The oracle saw the destruction of the city.
13. v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
I'll come over later and see if I can fix your computer.
14. v. (used in the imperative) (Used to emphasise a proposition.)
You see, Johnny, your Dad isn't your real dad.
15. v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
Step 4: In the system, check out the laptop to the student (see: "Logging Resources" in the Tutor Manual).
This article is about the insect. For the English rock band, see.
For a complete proof of the Poincaré conjecture, see Appendix C.
16. interj. Directing the audience to pay attention to the following
See here, fellas, there's no need for all this rucus!
17. interj. Introducing an explanation
See, in order to win the full prize we would have to come up with a scheme to land a rover on the Moon.
18. n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
19. n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric
20. n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
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.
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slash
1. n. A slashing action or motion, particularly:
2. n. A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.
A slash of his blade just missed my ear.
3. n. (cricket) A wild swinging strike of the bat.
4. n. (ice hockey, lacrosse) A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
5. n. Any similar wide striking motion.
He took a wild slash at the ball but the captain saved the team's skin by hacking it clear and setting up the team for a strike on the goal.
6. n. (figuratively) A sharp reduction.
After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget.
7. n. A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly:
8. n. A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.
He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.
9. n. (botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
10. n. Something resembling such a mark, particularly:
11. n. (fashion) A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in
12. n. (US, & Canada) A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
13. n. (originally US, typography) The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes (often proscribed) inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing
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14. n. (vulgar, slang) Female genitalia.
15. n. (US, & Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
Slash generated during logging may constitute a fire hazard.
16. n. (clipping of slash fiction): fan fiction focused upon "shipping", or pairing, characters.
17. v. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:
18. v. To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
They slashed at him with their swords, but only managed to nick one of his fingers.
She hacked and slashed her way across the jungle.
19. v. To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
20. v. (ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
21. v. (figuratively) To reduce sharply.
Competition forced them to slash prices.
Profits are only up right now because they slashed overhead, but employee morale and product quality have collapsed too.
22. v. (fashion) To create slashes in a garment.
23. v. (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.
24. v. To strike violently and randomly, particularly:
25. v. (cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.
26. v. To move quickly and violently.
27. v. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
28. v. (US, & Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture uncommon) through grazing.
The province's traditional slash-and-burn agriculture was only sustainable with a much smaller population.
29. v. (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
30. adv. Used to note the sound or action of a slash.
31. conj. (US, & Canada) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
Saul Hudson is a famous musician/songwriter.
Read: Saul Hudson is a famous musician-slash-songwriter.
32. conj. (US, & Canada) Used to list alternatives.
Alternatives can be marked by the slash/stroke/solidus punctuation mark, a tall, right-slanting oblique line.
Read: Alternatives can be marked by the slash-slash-stroke-slash-solidus punctuation mark, a tall, right-slanting oblique line.
33. n. (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.
34. n. (vulgar, British, slang) A piss: an act of urination.
Where's the gents? I need to take a slash.
35. v. (slang) To piss, to urinate.
36. n. (US) A swampy area; a swamp.
37. n. (UK) alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.
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.
their
1. det. Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural).
they will meet tomorrow at their convenience; this is probably their cat
2. det. Belonging to someone (one person, singular).
3. adv. misspelling of there
4. contraction. misspelling of they’re
operating
1. adj. In operation; that operates.
Don't touch the operating machinery.
2. v. present participle of operate
operate
1. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
2. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.
3. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
4. v. (medicine, transitive, or intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation
5. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
6. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
7. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.
to operate a machine
budget
1. n. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame.
2. n. An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
3. n. (obsolete) A wallet, purse or bag.
4. n. (obsolete) A compact collection of things.
5. n. (obsolete, military) A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.
6. adj. Of or relating to a budget.
7. adj. Appropriate to a restricted budget.
We flew on a budget airline.
8. v. (intransitive) To construct or draw up a budget.
Budgeting is even harder in times of recession
9. v. To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
The PM’s pet projects are budgeted rather generously
10. v. To plan for the use of in a budget.
The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from warf facilities to the protocollary opening.

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