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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.
narrative
1. adj. Telling a story.
2. adj. Overly talkative; garrulous.
3. adj. Of or relating to narration.
the narrative thrust of a film
4. n. The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
5. n. That which is narrated.
6. n. A representation of an event or story.
digression
1. n. An aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing.
The lectures included lengthy digressions on topics ranging from the professor's dog to the meaning of life.
2. n. (generally un) The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, (rhetoric) particularly for rhetorical effect.
make digression... by way of digression...
3. n. (obsolete) A deviancy, a sin or error, an act of straying from the path of righteousness or a general rule.
4. n. (now rare) A deviation, an act of straying from a path.
5. n. (astronomy, physics) An elongation, a deflection or deviation from a mean position or expected path.
especially
1. adv. (manner) In a special manner; specially.
2. adv. (focus) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal.
3. adv. (focus) Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something.
Invite them all, especially Molly.
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
discuss
1. v. To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
Let's sit down and discuss this rationally.
I don't wish to discuss this further. Let's talk about something else.
2. v. (transitive, obsolete) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
3. v. (obsolete, transitive) To break to pieces; to shatter.
4. v. (obsolete, transitive) To deal with, in eating or drinking.
5. v. (transitive, legal) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
6. v. (obsolete, transitive) To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.
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.
particular
1. adj. (also non-comparable)
2. adj. (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
3. adj. Specific; discrete; concrete.
I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.
We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith.
4. adj. Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.
5. adj. (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
6. adj. Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.
I didn't have any particular interest in the book.
He brought no particular news.
She was the particular belle of the party.
7. adj. (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.
He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.
Women are more particular about their appearance.
8. adj. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
a full and particular account of an accident
9. adj. (legal) Containing a part only; limited.
a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder
10. adj. (legal) Holding a particular estate.
a particular tenant
11. adj. (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise".
12. n. A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
13. n. (obsolete) A person's own individual case.
14. n. (now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)
Issue
1. n. A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia.
2. n. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:
3. n. (military) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
4. n. (now) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly label, en, now, _, rare in abnormal amounts.
The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.
5. n. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:
6. n. (medical) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
7. n. (now) Offspring: one's natural child or children.
He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.
8. n. (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.
9. n. (figuratively) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
10. n. (now) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents
11. n. (historical) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
12. n. (obsolete) The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
13. n. (rare) Any action or deed performed by a person.
14. n. (obsolete) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
15. n. (publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.
16. n. The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly(publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a w
The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane.
17. n. (finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.
The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.
18. n. The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
19. n. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:
20. n. (obsolete) A sewer.
21. n. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:
22. n. (obsolete) An exit from a room or building.
23. n. (now) A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.
24. n. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:
The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.
25. n. (historical) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
26. n. The production or distribution of something for general use.
Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.
27. n. The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
The uniform was standard prison issue.
28. n. (finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.
29. n. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
Please stand by. We are having technical issues.
30. n. (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.
31. n. (figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want.
32. n. (rare) A dispute between two alternatives, a dilemma.
33. n. (now) A psychological or emotional difficulty, label en now _ informal figurative _ and _ usually _ euphemistic any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... Imma just sayin', girl's got issues.
34. n. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:
35. n. (obsolete) The end of any action or process.
36. n. (obsolete) The end of any period of time.
37. n. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:
38. n. (now) The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.
39. n. (obsolete) The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.
40. n. (figurative) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
41. n. (figurative) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
42. n. (figuratively) All of something.
The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.
43. v. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
The water issued forth from the spring.
The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.
44. v. To rush out, to sally forth.
The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
45. v. To extend into, to open onto.
The road issues into the highway.
46. v. To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
47. v. (legal) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
48. v. To send out; to put into circulation.
The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.
49. v. To deliver for use.
The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.
50. v. To deliver by authority.
The court issued a writ of mandamus.

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