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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.
drug
1. n. (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.
The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased.
2. n. A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
3. n. Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted.
4. n. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
5. v. To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged.
6. v. To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.
7. v. (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
8. v. (dialect) simple past tense and past participle of drag
You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.
9. n. (obsolete) A drudge.
drag
1. n. Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.
When designing cars, manufacturers have to take drag into consideration.
2. n. (foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
3. n. A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
4. n. (informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
5. n. (slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
Travelling to work in the rush hour is a real drag.
6. n. (slang) A type of horse-drawn carriage.
7. n. (slang) Street, as in 'main drag'.
8. n. The scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents.
to run a drag
9. n. (snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
10. n. A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
11. n. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
a stone drag
12. n. (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
13. n. (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
14. n. (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle w
15. n. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
16. n. A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
17. n. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
18. n. witch house music
19. n. The last position in a line of hikers.
20. n. (aviation, aerodynamics) The act of suppressing wind flow to slow an aircraft in flight, as by use of flaps when landing.
21. v. multiple images
22. v. , direction=vertical
23. v. , width=230
24. v. , image1=Tamil fishermen dragging boat.jpg
25. v. , caption1=Tamil fishermen dragging their boat.
26. v. , image2=Seining for wild fish.jpg
27. v. , caption2=Fishing by dragging a river.
28. v. To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
29. v. (intransitive) To move slowly.
Time seems to drag when you’re waiting for a bus.
30. v. To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
31. v. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
32. v. To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
33. v. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
34. v. (computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.
Drag the file into the window to open it.
35. v. (chiefly of a vehicle) To inadvertently rub or scrape on a surface.
The car was so low to the ground that its muffler was dragging on a speed bump.
36. v. (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
37. v. To fish with a dragnet.
38. v. To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
39. v. To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
40. v. (figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
41. v. (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
You just drag him 'cause he's got more money than you.
42. n. (slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
He performed in drag.
43. n. (slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
corporate drag
44. v. To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
hormone
1. n. (physiology) Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
2. n. (pharmacology) A synthetic compound with the same activity.
3. n. Any similar substance in plants.
4. v. (transitive, colloquial) To treat with hormones.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
other
1. adj. See other (determiner) below
2. adj. second.
I get paid every other week.
3. adj. Alien.
4. adj. Different.
5. adj. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
6. n. An other one, more often rendered as another.
I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.
7. n. The other one; the second of two.
One boat is not better than the other.
8. det. Not the one or ones previously referred to.
Other people would do it differently.
9. adv. Apart from; in the phrase "other than".
Other than that, I'm fine.
10. adv. (obsolete) Otherwise.
It shall none other be. — Chaucer.
If you think other. — Shakespeare.
11. v. To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
12. v. To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
substance
1. n. Physical matter; material.
2. n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
3. n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
Some textile fabrics have little substance.
4. n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
a man of substance
5. n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
6. n. Drugs (illegal narcotics)
substance abuse
7. n. (theology) Hypostasis.
8. v. (rare, transitive) To give substance to; to make real or substantial.
derived
1. adj. (systematics) Of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species.
2. adj. (comparable, archaic, taxonomy) Possessing features believed to be more advanced or improved than those other organisms.
3. adj. product of derivation
The French language is derived from Latin.
4. v. simple past tense and past participle of derive
derive
1. v. To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
2. v. (transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
3. v. (transitive, linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
4. v. (transitive, chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
5. v. (intransitive) To originate or stem (from).
6. v. To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.
from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He left yesterday from Chicago.
Face away from the wall!
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
An umbrella protects from the sun.
He knows right from wrong.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
related
1. adj. Standing in relation or connection.
Electric and magnetic forces are closely related.
2. adj. Being a relative of.
Everyone is related to their parents.
3. adj. Narrated; told.
4. adj. (uncomparable, music) (synonym of relative).
5. adj. (mathematics) Fulfilling a relation.
6. adj. (uncomparable, in combination) Having a relationship with the thing named
Gun-related crime.
7. v. simple past tense and past participle of relate
relate
1. v. To tell in a descriptive way.
2. v. To give an association.
3. v. To make a connection or correlation between one thing and another.
4. v. (intransitive) To have a connection.
I find it difficult to relate to others because I'm extremely introverted.
5. v. (intransitive) To interact.
6. v. (intransitive) To respond through reaction.
7. v. (intransitive, with to) To identify with; to understand.
8. v. (obsolete) To bring back; to restore.
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
opium
1. n. A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
2. n. Anything that numbs or stupefies.

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