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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.
person
1. n. An individual; usually a human being.
Each person is unique, both mentally and physically.
2. n. A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represent
3. n. (Christianity) Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.
4. n. (chiefly in science fiction) Any sentient or socially intelligent being.
5. n. (in a compound noun or noun phrase) Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.
6. n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
7. n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.
8. n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
9. n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is speaking. See grammatical person.
10. n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
12. v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.
Who
1. pron. honoraltcaps, who
2. pron. (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; (asks for the identity of someone). (used in a direct or indirect question)
Who is that? (direct question)
I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
3. pron. (interrogative) What is one's position; (asks whether someone deserves to say or do something).
I don't like what you did, but who am I to criticize you? I've done worse.
4. pron. (relative) The person or people that.
It was a nice man who helped us.
5. pron. (relative, archaic) Whoever, he who, they who.
6. n. A person under discussion; a question of which person.
skips
1. n. plural of skip
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of skip
skip
1. v. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
2. v. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
3. v. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
The rock will skip across the pond.
4. v. To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.
5. v. To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
My heart will skip a beat.
I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.
6. v. To place an item in a skip.
7. v. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.
8. v. (transitive, informal) To leave
to skip the country -
9. v. To leap lightly over.
to skip the rope
10. v. To jump rope.
The girls were skipping in the playground.
11. n. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
12. n. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
13. n. (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
14. n. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
15. n. (radio) skywave propagation
16. n. (Australia, New Zealand, British) A large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents (see also skep).
17. n. (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
18. n. (Scotland) A skep, or basket.
19. n. A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
20. n. (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
21. n. A beehive.
22. n. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
23. n. (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
24. n. (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
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.
fails
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of fail
2. n. plural of fail
fail
1. v. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
Throughout my life, I have always failed.
2. v. Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
The truck failed to start.
3. v. To neglect.
The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.
4. v. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.
After running five minutes, the engine failed.
5. v. To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
6. v. To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
I failed English last year.
I failed in English last year.
7. v. To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.
8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
9. v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
The crops failed last year.
10. v. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
11. v. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
12. v. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
A sick man fails.
13. v. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
14. v. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
15. v. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
16. n. (slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
The project was full of fail.
17. n. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)
18. n. (slang) A failure (something incapable of success)
19. n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
20. n. A failing grade in an academic examination.
21. adj. (slang) That is a failure.
22. n. A piece of turf cut from grassland.
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
attend
1. v. (archaic, transitive) To listen to (something or someone); to pay attention to; regard; heed.
2. v. (archaic, intransitive) To listen (to, unto).
3. v. (intransitive) To turn one's consideration (to); to deal with (a task, problem, concern etc.), to look after.
Secretaries attend to correspondence.
4. v. To wait upon as a servant etc.; to accompany to assist (someone).
Valets attend to their employer's wardrobe.
5. v. To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; to regularly go to (an event or place).
Children must attend primary school.
6. v. (intransitive, legal) To go to (a place) for some purpose (with at).
7. v. To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to.
a measure attended with ill effects
8. v. To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.
9. v. alternative form of atend ("to kindle").
class
1. n. A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
Often used to imply membership of a large class.
This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
2. n. (sociology) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
3. n. The division of society into classes.
Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
4. n. Admirable behavior; elegance.
Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
5. n. (education, and un) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
6. n. A series of classes covering a single subject.
I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
7. n. A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
8. n. A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
9. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
10. n. Best of its kind.
It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
11. n. (set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
The class of all sets is not a set.
Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
12. n. (military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
13. n. (object-oriented) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
an abstract base class
14. n. One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
15. v. To assign to a class; to classify.
I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
16. v. (intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
17. v. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
18. adj. (Irish, British, slang) great; fabulous

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