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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.
fixed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of fix
2. adj. Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
fixed assets
I work fixed hours for a fixed salary.
Every religion has its own fixed ideas.
He looked at me with a fixed glare.
3. adj. Stationary.
4. adj. Attached; affixed.
5. adj. Chemically stable.
6. adj. Supplied with what one needs.
She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
7. adj. (legal) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.
8. adj. (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed
9. adj. Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
10. adj. (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
11. adj. Repaired
fix
1. n. A repair or corrective action.
That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.
2. n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!
3. n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
4. n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
5. n. A determination of location.
We have a fix on your position.
6. n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
7. v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
8. v. (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!".
9. v. To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.
A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it.
The Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet.
10. v. (transitive figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.
11. v. To mend, to repair.
That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
12. v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
She fixed dinner for the kids.
13. v. To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tam
A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.
14. v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.
15. v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
16. v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.
17. v. To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
18. v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.
19. v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
20. v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
seat
1. n. Something to be sat upon.
2. n. A place in which to sit.
There are two hundred seats in this classroom.
3. n. The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
He sat on the arm of the chair rather than the seat, which always annoyed his mother.
the seat of a saddle
4. n. A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
She pulled the seat from under the table to allow him to sit down.
5. n. The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
Instead of saying "sit down", she said "place your seat on this chair".
6. n. The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
The seat of these trousers is almost worn through.
7. n. (engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.
The seat of the valve had become corroded.
8. n. A location or site.
9. n. (figurative) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress.
10. n. The location of a governing body.
Washington D.C. is the seat of the U.S. government.
11. n. (certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
12. n. A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge.
13. n. The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated or resides; a site.
14. n. The starting point of a fire.
15. n. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
16. v. To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.
17. v. To provide with places to sit.
This classroom seats two hundred students.
The waiter seated us and asked what we would like to drink.
18. v. To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker.
19. v. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.
Only half the delegates from the state were seated at the convention because the state held its primary too early.
You have to be a member to be seated at the meeting. Guests are welcome to sit in the visitors section.
20. v. To assign the seats of.
to seat a church
21. v. To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
22. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
23. v. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
to seat a country
24. v. To put a seat or bottom in.
to seat a chair
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.
shelf
1. n. A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk etc., and used to support, store or display objects.
2. n. The capacity of such an object
a shelf of videos
3. n. A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.
4. n. A reef, shoal or sandbar.

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