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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.
gathering
1. n. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.
2. n. A group of people or things.
A gathering of fruit.
3. n. (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.
4. n. A charitable contribution; a collection.
5. n. (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
6. v. present participle of gather
She enjoyed gathering wildflowers.
gather
1. v. To collect; normally separate things.
I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.
2. v. Especially, to harvest food.
We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.
3. v. To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.
4. v. (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
People gathered round as he began to tell his story.
5. v. (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
6. v. To bring parts of a whole closer.
She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.
7. v. (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.
8. v. (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.
If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.
9. v. (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of t
10. v. (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
to gather the slack of a rope
11. v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.
I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match.
12. v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.
13. v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
14. v. To gain; to win.
15. n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
16. n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
17. n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
18. n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
19. n. A gathering.
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.
assembly
1. n. A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
In order to change the bearing, you must first remove the gearbox assembly.
2. n. The act of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
instructions for assembly
assembly line
3. n. A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
school assembly
freedom of assembly
4. n. A legislative body.
the General Assembly of the United Nations
5. n. (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
6. n. (computing) (clipping of assembly language)
7. n. (computing) In Microsoft .NET, a building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library inform

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