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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.
dense
1. adj. Having relatively high density.
2. adj. Compact; crowded together.
3. adj. Thick; difficult to penetrate.
4. adj. Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
5. adj. Obscure, or difficult to understand.
6. adj. (mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia article on dense sets for mathematical definition.
7. adj. (of a person) Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.(anchor, ADJ7)
8. n. A thicket.
fog
1. n. A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
2. n. A mist or film clouding a surface.
3. n. A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
He did so many drugs, he was still in a fog three months after going through detox.
4. n. (photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
5. n. (computer graphics) Distance fog.
6. v. (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
7. v. (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
The mirror fogged every time he showered.
8. v. (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
9. v. To cover with or as if with fog.
10. v. To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
11. v. To obscure in condensation or water.
12. v. To make confusing or obscure.
13. v. (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
14. v. To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
15. n. A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
16. n. (dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season; foggage.
17. n. (Scotland) Moss.
18. v. To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
19. v. (intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
bathed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of bathe
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of bath
bath
1. n. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
2. n. A building or area where bathing occurs.
3. n. The act of bathing.
4. n. A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air
5. v. To wash a person or animal in a bath
6. n. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23(nbsp)L or 6 gallons).
bathe
1. v. (intransitive) To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
2. v. (intransitive) To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim.
3. v. To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath.
We bathe our baby before going to bed; other parents do it in the morning if they have time.
4. v. To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid.
She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical.
The nurse bathed his wound with a sponge.
The incoming tides bathed the coral reef.
5. v. (figuratively, transitive and intransitive) To cover or surround.
The room was bathed in moonlight.
A dense fog bathed the city streets.
6. v. (intransitive) To sunbathe.
The women bathed in the sun.
7. n. (UK, colloquial) The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath.
I'm going to have a midnight bathe tonight.
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.
city
1. n. A large settlement, bigger than a town.
São Paulo is one of the largest cities in South America.
2. n. (UK) A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.
3. n. (Australia) The central business district; downtown.
I'm going into the city today to do some shopping.
streets
1. n. plural of street
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of street
street
1. n. A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
Walk down the street.
2. n. A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
3. n. The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
4. n. The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
5. n. (slang) Street talk or slang.
6. n. (figuratively) A great distance.
He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
7. n. (poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
8. n. Illicit, contraband, especially of a drug
I got some pot cheap on the street.
9. n. (attributive) Living in the streets.
Street cat.
Street urchin.
10. n. (urban toponymy) By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.
11. adj. (slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
12. v. To build or equip with streets.
13. v. To eject; to throw onto the streets.
14. v. (sports) To heavily defeat.
15. v. To go on sale.
16. v. (Japanese Mormonism) To proselytize in public.

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