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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.
title
1. n. A prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification. See also :
2. n. (legal) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title
3. n. In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
4. n. A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
5. n. The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.
I know the singer's name, but not the title of the song.
6. n. A publication.
The retailer carries thousands of titles.
Buyers of the new video game console can choose from three bundled titles.
7. n. A section or division of a subject, as of a law or a book.
8. n. (mostly, in the plural) A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.
The titles scrolled by too quickly to read.
9. n. (bookbinding) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
10. n. The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.
11. n. A division of an act of law
Title II of the USA PATRIOT Act
12. n. (sports) The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.
13. v. To assign a title to; to entitle.
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.
brief
1. adj. Of short duration; happening quickly.
Her reign was brief but spectacular.
2. adj. Concise; taking few words.
His speech of acceptance was brief but moving.
3. adj. Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short.
Her skirt was extremely brief but doubtless cool.
4. adj. (obsolete) Rife; common; prevalent.
5. n. (legal) A writ summoning one to answer to any action.
6. n. (legal) An answer to any action.
7. n. (legal) A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.
8. n. (by extension, figurative) A position of interest or advocacy.
9. n. (legal) An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court.
10. n. (English law) The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who tries the case.
11. n. A short news story or report.
12. n. (usually plural) undershorts briefs.
I wear boxers under trousers but for sports I usually wear a brief.
13. n. (obsolete) A summary, précis or epitome; an abridgement or abstract.
14. n. (historical) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
15. n. (slang) A ticket of any type.The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
16. v. To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power.
The U.S. president was briefed on the military coup and its implications on African stability.
17. v. (transitive, legal) To write a legal argument and submit it to a court.
18. adv. (obsolete, poetic) Briefly.
19. adv. (obsolete, poetic) Soon; quickly.
explanation
1. n. The act or process of explaining.
The explanation was long and drawn-out.
2. n. Something that explains, makes understandable.
An explanation for the UFO sightings was easily found.
3. n. A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.
attached
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of attach
2. adj. Connected; joined.
3. adj. Fond of (used with to).
I'm very attached to my pets.
4. adj. In a romantic or sexual relationship.
As far as I know, he isn't attached, so I'm going to invite him out on a date.
I'm not ready to get attached, as I want to continue sleeping around.
5. adj. (botany, mycology) Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.
In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.
6. adj. Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.
attach
1. v. To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.
2. v. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
3. v. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
Dower will attach.
4. v. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to.
attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
5. v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
6. v. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
7. v. (obsolete, legal) To arrest, seize.
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
an
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
4. conj. (archaic) If
5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
An it harm none, do what ye will.
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
illustration
1. n. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
2. n. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
3. n. A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
4. n. A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)"an illustration ... is a computer projection of future premiums, cash values and death benefits based on the current dividend
cartoon
1. n. (comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
2. n. (comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
3. n. (arts) An artist's preliminary sketch.
4. n. (animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
5. n. A diagram in a scientific concept.
6. v. (arts, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.
7. v. (arts) To make a preliminary sketch.
user
1. n. One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.
2. n. A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
3. n. (computing) A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
4. n. (pejorative) An exploiter, an abuser (a person who "uses" people, that is treats and regards people unfairly, selfishly and/or unethically).
5. n. (legal) (dated) In land law, meaning either 1. or 2. above or use. Usually in singular form to mean use wherever there is assiduous re-use of precedents and aloof textbooks verbatim. Modern law, guard
interface
1. n. The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.
2. n. (chemistry, physics) A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
If water and oil are mixed together, they tend to separate, and at equilibrium they are in different strata with an oil-water interface in between.
The surface of a lake is a water-air interface.
3. n. (computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.
4. n. (computing) The connection between a user and a machine.
The options are selected via the user interface.
5. n. (computing, object-oriented) The connection between parts of software.
This interface is implemented by several Java classes.
Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin, as an interface contains only method signatures, while a trait includes also the full method definitions; on the other side mixins include
6. n. (computing, object-oriented) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
The Audio and Video classes both implement the IPlayable interface.
7. n. (biochemistry) The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).
8. v. To construct an interface for, to connect through an interface.
9. v. (intransitive) To be an interface, to be into an interface.
element
1. n. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
Letters are the elements of written language.
2. n. (chemistry) Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms
3. n. One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
4. n. (legal) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
5. n. (set theory) One of the objects in a set.
6. n. Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
7. n. A small part of the whole.
an element of doubt; an element of the picture
8. n. (plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
exposed to the elements
9. n. A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to.
to be in one's element
10. n. (Christianity, usually plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
11. n. A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
You sometimes find the hooligan element at football matches.
12. n. A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
The element in this electric kettle can heat the water in under a minute.
13. n. (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching pair of tags.
14. v. (obsolete) To compound of elements.
15. v. (obsolete) To constitute and be the elements of.
etc
1. adv. alternative form of etc.

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