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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.
long
1. adj. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below).
It's a long way from the Earth to the Moon.
2. adj. Having great duration.
The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.
3. adj. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
4. adj. (UK, dialect) Not short; tall.
5. adj. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value.
I'm long in DuPont; I have a long position in DuPont.
6. adj. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
7. adj. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out).
No! That forehand is longnb....
8. adj. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
9. adv. Over a great distance in space.
He threw the ball long.
10. adv. For a particular duration.
How long is it until the next bus arrives?
11. adv. For a long duration.
Will this interview take long?
Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.
12. n. (linguistics) A long vowel.
13. n. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.
14. n. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
Every uptick made the longs cheer.
15. n. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
16. v. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
17. v. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)
She longed for him to come back.
18. adj. (archaic) On account of, because of.
19. v. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
20. n. longitude
French
1. n. A Romance language spoken primarily in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec, Valle d'Aosta and many former French colonies.
2. n. (collective in the plural) People of France, collectively.
The French and the English have often been at war.
3. n. (informal) Vulgar language.
Pardon my French.
4. adj. Of or relating to France.
the French border with Italy
5. adj. Of or relating to the people or culture of France.
French customs
6. adj. Of or relating to the French language.
French verbs
7. adj. (prostitute's slang) Oral sex, usually meaning fellatio, sometimes cunnilingus. Oxford English Dictionary (subscription required). Retrieved: 2015-10-06.
8. v. alternative case form of french
9. v. To prepare food by cutting it into strips.
10. v. To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth.
11. v. (intransitive) To kiss in this manner.
12. v. (cuisine) To French trim; to stylishly expose bone by removing the fat and meat covering it (as done to a rack of lamb or bone-in rib-eye steak).
bread
1. n. A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
2. n. Any variety of bread.
3. n. (slang) Money.
4. n. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
5. v. to coat with breadcrumbs
6. n. (obsolete, or UK dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.
7. v. (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.
8. v. To form in meshes; net.
9. n. A piece of embroidery; a braid.
roll
1. v. To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
To roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
2. v. (intransitive) To turn over and over.
The child will roll on the floor.
3. v. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
4. v. To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
To roll a sheet of paper; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
5. v. To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
To roll up the map for shipping.
6. v. (intransitive) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
The cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
7. v. To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
This river will roll its waters to the ocean.
8. v. To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
To roll forth someone's praises; to roll out sentences.
9. v. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails.
10. v. (intransitive) To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
The pastry rolls well.
11. v. To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
12. v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
I want to get there early; let's roll.
13. v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
OK guys, we're only down by two points. Let's roll!
14. v. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
15. v. (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the
16. v. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
17. v. (US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
I was going to kick his ass, but he wasn't worth getting all worked up over; I don't roll like that.
18. v. (dice, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
19. v. (dice, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
If you roll doubles, you get an extra turn.
With two dice, you're more likely to roll seven than ten.
20. v. (RPG) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
I'm gonna go and roll a new shaman tonight.
21. v. (computing) To generate a random number.
22. v. (nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.
23. v. (in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
24. v. To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
25. v. (transitive, slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
The feds rolled him by giving him a free pass for most of what he'd done.
26. v. (intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.
He rolled on those guys after being in jail two days.
27. v. (slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
28. v. (intransitive, of a camera) To film.
The cameras are rolling.
29. v. (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
30. v. To have a rolling aspect.
the hills rolled on
31. v. (figurative, intransitive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
The years roll on.
32. v. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
33. v. (figurative, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone
34. v. (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.
35. v. To utter with an alveolar trill.
Many languages roll their r's.
36. v. (transitive, US) To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
The kids rolled the principal's house and yard.
37. v. To create a customized version of something.
38. n. The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
the roll of a ball
Look at the roll of the waves.
a roll of parchment
39. n. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
40. n. That which rolls; a roller.
41. n. A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
42. n. One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
to pass rails through the rolls
43. n. That which is rolled up.
a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
44. n. A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
45. n. Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
46. n. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon
47. n. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
48. n. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
49. n. (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate r
50. n. (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
51. n. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
Hear the roll of cannon.
Hear the roll of thunder.
52. n. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
53. n. (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
54. n. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
55. n. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
Calculate the roll of that aircraft.
56. n. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
Make your roll.
Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.
57. n. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
He is on a roll tonight.
58. n. A training match for a fighting dog.

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