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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.
trauma
1. n. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
2. n. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
3. n. An event that causes great distress.
had
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of have.
2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (with a past participle).
3. v. (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have.
4. adj. (obsolete) Available.
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
permanently
1. adv. In a permanent manner; lastingly.
2. adv. Forever.
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.
Her
1. pron. honoraltcaps, her
2. det. Belonging to her.
This is her book
3. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.
Give it to her (after preposition)
He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
He treated her for a cold (direct object)
4. n. (informal) A female person or animal.
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
mind
1. n. The ability for rational thought.
Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.
2. n. The ability to be aware of things.
There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.
3. n. The ability to remember things.
My mind just went blank.
4. n. The ability to focus the thoughts.
I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing.
5. n. Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
He was one of history’s greatest minds.
6. n. Judgment, opinion, or view.
He changed his mind after hearing the speech.
7. n. Desire, inclination, or intention.
She had a mind to go to Paris.
I have half a mind to do it myself.
8. n. A healthy mental state.
I, ______ being of sound mind and body, do herebynb...
You are losing your mind.
9. n. (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
The mind is a process of the brain.
10. n. Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
a month's or monthly mind; a year's mind
11. v. (now regional) To remember.
12. v. (now rare except in phrases) To attend to, concern oneself with, heed, be mindful of.
You should mind your own business.
13. v. (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
14. v. To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
Would you mind my bag for me?
15. v. (chiefly in the imperative) To make sure, to take care (that).
Mind you don't knock that glass over.
16. v. To be careful about.
17. v. (United Kingdom, Ireland) Take note; (used to point out an exception or caveat.)
I'm not very healthy—I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.
18. v. (obsolete) To have in mind; to intend.
19. v. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind.

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