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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.
tropical
1. adj. Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.
2. adj. From or similar to a hot humid climate, e.g. tropical fruit, tropical weather.
3. adj. (dated) Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes; metaphorical, figurative.
4. adj. (maths) Pertaining to tropical geometry.
5. n. A tropical plant.
plant
1. n. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
2. n. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloro
3. n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
4. n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
5. n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
6. n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before!
7. n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
8. n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
9. n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
10. n. Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
11. n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
12. n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
13. n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
14. n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
15. n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
16. v. To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
17. v. To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
18. v. To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one's feet on solid ground
19. v. To place in the ground.
20. v. To furnish or supply with plants.
to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
21. v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
22. v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
to plant a colony
23. v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
to plant Christianity among the heathen
24. v. To set up; to install; to instate.
ananas
1. n. (obsolete) Pineapple.
2. n. (obsolete) , a plant with edible fruit.
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Native
1. adj. Belonging to the native inhabitants of the Americas or Australia; in particular:
2. adj. (US, Canada) Indian: Native American or First Nation; of or relating to (North) American Indians.
3. adj. (Australia, New Zealand) Aboriginal; of or relating to Australian Aboriginal peoples, Aborigines.
4. n. An aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia; in particular:
5. n. (US, Canada) A Native American.
6. n. (Australia, New Zealand) An Aborigine.
7. adj. Belonging to one by birth.
This is my native land.
English is not my native language.
I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…
8. adj. Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
What are now called ‘Native Americans’ used to be called Indians.
The native peoples of Australia are called aborigines.
9. adj. alternative case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia).
10. adj. Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
a native inhabitant
native oysters or strawberries
Many native artists studied abroad.
11. adj. (biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by man.
The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple.
12. adj. (computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.
The native integer size is sixteen bits.
13. adj. (mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form; native aluminium, native salt.
14. adj. Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
15. adj. Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
native dust
16. adj. Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
17. n. A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
18. n. (in particular) A person of aboriginal stock, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. alternative case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant o
Some natives must have stolen our cattle.
19. n. A native speaker.
20. n. Ostrea edulis, a kind of oyster.
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
south
1. n. One of the four major compass points, specifically 180°, directed toward the South Pole, and conventionally downwards on a map, abbreviated as S.
2. adj. Toward the south; southward.
3. adj. (meteorology, of wind) from the south.
4. adj. Of or pertaining to the south; southern.
5. adj. Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by southbound traffic.
south highway 1
6. adv. Toward the south; southward.
7. adv. Downward.
8. adv. In an adverse direction or trend.
9. adv. (meteorology) Of wind, from the south.
10. v. To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.
11. v. (astronomy) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line.
The moon souths at nine.
america
having
1. v. present participle of have
2. n. Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
thirty
1. num. The cardinal number occurring after twenty-nine and before thirty-one, represented in Arabic numerals as 30.
2. n. (slang) A rack of thirty beers.
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.
more
1. det. comparative degree of many, : in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
More people are arriving.
There are more ways to do this than I can count.
2. det. comparative degree of much, : in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
I want more soup; I need more time
There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
3. adv. To a greater degree or extent.
He walks more in the morning these days.
4. adv. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
5. adv. Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.
6. adv. (now dialectal, or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18thc.)
I was more better at English than you.
7. adv. rather
He is more clever than wise.
8. n. An extra amount or extent.
9. n. (obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip.
10. n. (dialectal) a root; stock.
11. n. A plant.
12. v. To root up.
13. pron. a greater amount of people or things
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
spined
1. adj. (not comparable) Having spines, spiny.
2. adj. (comparable in combination usually figuratively) Having a certain type of spine (backbone).
He's just another linguini-spined politician.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
pointed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of point
2. adj. (comparable) Sharp, barbed; not dull.
The warrior brandished a pointed spear.
3. adj. (not comparable) In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.
The Siamese is a pointed breed of cat.
4. adj. (comparable, of a comment or inference) Directed negatively at a person or topic.
point
1. n. A discrete division of something.
2. n. An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
The Congress debated the finer points of the bill.
3. n. A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
There comes a point in a marathon when some people give up.
At this point in the meeting, I'd like to propose a new item for the agenda.
4. n. (archaic) Condition, state.
She was not feeling in good point.
5. n. A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
I made the point that we all had an interest to protect.
6. n. A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
The point is that we should stay together, whatever happens.
7. n. A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
Since the decision has already been made, I see little point in further discussion.
8. n. (obsolete) The smallest quantity of something; a jot, a whit.
9. n. (obsolete) A tiny amount of time; a moment.
10. n. A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
We should meet at a pre-arranged point.
11. n. (mathematics, science) A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position
12. n. A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
13. n. (music) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of p
14. n. (by extension) A note; a tune.
15. n. A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
Logic isn't my strong point.
16. n. Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
The stars showed as tiny points of yellow light.
17. n. (now only in phrases) A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
Possession is nine points of the law.
18. n. Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
19. n. (sports) A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
The one with the most points will win the game
20. n. (mathematics) A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
10.5 ("ten point five"; = ten and a half)
21. n. (economics) A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
22. n. (typography) a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
23. n. (UK) An electric power socket.
24. n. (navigation, nautical) A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
Ship ahoy, three points off the starboard bow!
25. n. (UK) A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
26. n. A sharp extremity.
27. n. The sharp tip of an object.
Cut the skin with the point of the knife.
28. n. Any projecting extremity of an object.
29. n. An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
His cowboy belt was studded with points.
30. n. (backgammon) Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
31. n. A peninsula or promontory.
32. n. The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
33. n. Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
34. n. (nautical) The difference between two points of the compass.
to fall off a point
35. n. Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
36. n. (railroads, UK, in the plural) A railroad switch.
37. n. (usually in the plural) An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
The point color of that cat was a deep, rich sable.
38. n. A tine or snag of an antler.
39. n. (fencing) A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
tierce point
40. n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
41. n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
42. n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
43. n. Lace worked by the needle.
point de Venise; Brussels point
44. n. (US, slang) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
45. n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
The dog came to a point.
46. n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
47. n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
48. n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
49. n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
50. n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
51. n. (cricket) A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
52. n. (lacrosse, ice hockey) The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
53. n. (baseball) The position of the pitcher and catcher.
54. n. (hunting) A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
55. v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
It's rude to point at other people.
56. v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
The arrow of a compass points north
The skis were pointing uphill.
The arrow on the map points towards the entrance
57. v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
58. v. To direct toward an object; to aim.
to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort
59. v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
to point a dart, a pencil, or (figuratively) a moral
60. v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
61. v. (ambitransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
62. v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
63. v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
64. v. To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
If he asks for food, point him toward the refrigerator.
65. v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
66. v. To mark with diacritics.
67. v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
to point a composition
68. v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
69. v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
70. v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
Bear off a little, we're pointing.
leaves
1. n. plural of leaf
2. n. plural of leave
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of leave
leave
1. v. To have a consequence or remnant.
2. v. To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (somet
I left my car at home and took a bus to work. The ants did not leave so much as a crumb of bread. There's not much food left. We'd be
3. v. To cause, to result in.
The lightning left her dazzled for several minutes. Infantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life.
4. v. To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
Leave your hat in the hall. We should leave the legal matters to lawyers. I left my sewing and went to the window to watch the fallin
5. v. To depart; to separate from.
6. v. To let be or do without interference.
I left him to his reflections. I leave my hearers to judge.
7. v. To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
I left the country and I left my wife.
8. v. To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
I left the band.
9. v. (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
I think you'd better leave.
10. v. To transfer something.
11. v. To transfer possession of after death.
When my father died, he left me the house.
12. v. To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
I'll leave the car in the station so you can pick it up there.
13. v. To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
Can't we just leave this to the experts?
14. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
15. v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
16. n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
17. n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or onl
18. n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss.
19. n. (dated, or legal) Permission.
Might I beg leave to accompany you?
The applicant now seeks leave to appeal and, if leave be granted, to appeal against these sentences.
20. n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance.
21. v. To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
22. v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed.
23. v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.
leaf
1. n. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
2. n. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
3. n. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
gold leaf
4. n. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
5. n. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
6. n. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
7. n. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.
8. n. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
9. n. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
10. n. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
11. n. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
12. v. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
13. v. To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.
surrounding
1. v. present participle of surround
2. n. An outlying area; area in proximity to something
3. n. An environment
4. adj. which surrounds something
surround
1. v. To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
2. v. To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
3. v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
to surround the world
4. n. (British) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.
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.
thick
1. adj. Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
2. adj. Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
I want some planks that are two inches thick.
3. adj. Heavy in build; thickset.
He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.
4. adj. Densely crowded or packed.
We walked through thick undergrowth.
5. adj. Having a viscous consistency.
My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about.
6. adj. Abounding in number.
The room was thick with reporters.
7. adj. Impenetrable to sight.
We drove through thick fog.
8. adj. Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent.
9. adj. (informal) Stupid.
He was as thick as two short planks.
10. adj. (informal) Friendly or intimate.
They were as thick as thieves.
11. adj. Deep, intense, or profound.
Thick darkness.
12. adj. (dated) troublesome; unreasonable
13. adj. (slang) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
14. adj. topics, en, Size
15. adv. In a thick manner.
Snow lay thick on the ground.
16. adv. Thickly.
Bread should be sliced thick to make toast.
17. adv. Frequently; in great numbers.
The arrows flew thick and fast around us.
18. n. The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
19. n. A thicket.
20. n. (slang) A stupid person; a fool.
21. v. (archaic, transitive) To thicken.
The nightmare Life-in-death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold. — Coleridge.
stem
1. n. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
2. n. A branch of a family.
3. n. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
4. n. (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
5. n. A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
the stem of an apple or a cherry
6. n. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
7. n. (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions deri
8. n. (slang) A person's leg.
9. n. (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
10. n. (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
11. n. (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
12. n. Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork
13. n. (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
14. n. (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
15. n. (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism
16. v. To remove the stem from.
to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves
17. v. To be caused or derived; to originate.
The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.
18. v. To descend in a family line.
19. v. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
20. v. (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
21. v. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
22. v. To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
to stem a tide
23. v. (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
24. n. alternative form of steem
25. n. alternative form of STEM

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