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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.
moisture
1. n. A moderate degree of wetness.
2. n. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.
All my body’s moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. -William Shakespeare
3. n. (medicine) Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment.
warped
1. adj. Distorted by warping; twisted out of shape
2. adj. (figuratively) Of a person's mind, attitudes, etc, perverse, strange, aberrant or deviant.
a warped sense of humour
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of warp
warp
1. n. The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
2. n. The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
3. n. The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
4. n. A distortion:
5. n. A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
6. n. A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
7. n. (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
8. n. (figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
9. n. (nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
10. n. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
11. n. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
12. n. The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
13. n. (obsolete, outside, dialects) A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure: about four fish, though sometimes three or even two), oysters, etc.
a warp of fish
14. v. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally:
15. v. To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
The moisture warped the board badly.
to warp space and time
The trauma had permanently warped her mind.
16. v. (intransitive) To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
Over the years the post had warped and checked and needed to be replaced
17. v. To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
His perspective had warped after his extreme experiences.
18. v. (intransitive) To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
19. v. (ambitransitive, obsolete, ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
20. v. To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
21. v. (ambitransitive, rare, obsolete, figurative) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
22. v. (transitive, rare, obsolete, poetic) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
23. v. To move:
24. v. (transitive, nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship throug
25. v. (intransitive, nautical, of a ship) To move or be moved by this method.
26. v. (intransitive, rare, dated) To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.
27. v. To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
28. v. (ambitransitive, obsolete, outside, dialects, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
29. v. (ambitransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
30. v. (transitive, very, rare, obsolete) To throw.
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.
board
1. n. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
2. n. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
3. n. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.
4. n. (Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.)
5. n. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
We have to wait to hear back from the board.
6. n. Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
Room and board
7. n. (nautical) The side of a ship.
8. n. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
9. n. (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
10. n. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
11. n. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
to bind a book in boards
12. n. (video games) A level or stage having a particular layout.
13. n. (duplicate bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
14. v. To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
It is time to board the aircraft.
15. v. To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
to board one's horse at a livery stable
16. v. To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
17. v. (transitive, nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
18. v. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
19. v. (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
20. v. To cover with boards or boarding.
to board a house
21. v. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
22. v. To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
23. n. (basketball, informal) A rebound.
badly
1. adj. (Northern England) Ill, unwell.
He's never badly.
2. adv. In a bad manner.
3. adv. Very much; to a great degree.
I want it so badly.

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