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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.
waste
1. n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
2. n. Excrement or urine.
The cage was littered with animal waste
3. n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
4. n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
5. n. A large tract of uncultivated land.
6. n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
7. n. A vast expanse of water.
8. n. A disused mine or part of one.
9. n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
That was a waste of time
Her life seemed a waste
10. n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
11. n. Gradual loss or decay.
12. n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
13. n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
14. n. (legal) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or charact
15. n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
16. adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
17. adj. Barren; desert.
18. adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
19. adj. Superfluous; needless.
20. adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
21. v. to devastate, destroy
22. v. To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.
23. v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
24. v. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
25. v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
26. v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
27. v. (legal) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
product
1. n. A commodity offered for sale.
That store offers a variety of products. We've got to sell a lot of product by the end of the month.
2. n. (cosmetics) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
Wash excess product out of your hair.
3. n. Anything that is produced; a result.
The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
4. n. The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production.
5. n. A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
Skill is the product of hours of practice. His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue.
6. n. (chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
This is a product of lime and nitric acid.
7. n. (arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
The product of 2 and 3 is 6. The product of 2, 3, and 4 is 24.
8. n. (mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of ty
9. n. Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
10. n. (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
I got some product here – you buying?
from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He left yesterday from Chicago.
Face away from the wall!
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
An umbrella protects from the sun.
He knows right from wrong.
working
1. n. (usually plural) Operation; action.
2. n. Method of operation.
3. n. (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
Be sure to check your working.
4. n. Fermentation.
5. n. (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
6. v. present participle of work
Leave him alone; he's working.
7. adj. That is or are functioning.
a working ventilator
8. adj. That suffices but requires additional work.
a working copy of the script
9. adj. In paid employment.
working mothers
10. adj. Of or relating to employment.
the working week
11. adj. Enough to allow one to use something.
a working knowledge of computers
work
1. n. (heading) Employment.
2. n. Labour, occupation, job.
My work involves a lot of travel.
3. n. The place where one is employed.
He hasn’t come home yet, he’s still at work.
4. n. One's employer
“I want to go to the R.E.M. reunion concert but I'm not sure if my work will let me off.”
5. n. (heading) Effort.
6. n. Effort expended on a particular task.
Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
7. n. Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
We know what we must do. Let's go to work.
8. n. Something on which effort is expended.
There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.
9. n. (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.
10. n. (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
11. n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.
12. n. Product; the result of effort.:
13. n. (often, in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
There's a lot of guesswork involved.
14. n. (often, in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.
15. n. A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
It is a work of art.
the poetic works of Alexander Pope
16. n. A fortification.
William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.
17. n. (slang) The staging of events to appear as real.
18. n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
19. n. The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
Tell me you're using clean works at least.
20. v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
He’s working in a bar.
21. v. Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
I work in a national park
she works in the human resources department
he mostly works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry
22. v. Followed by as. Said of one's job title
I work as a cleaner.
23. v. Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
she works for Microsoft
he works for the president
24. v. Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
I work closely with my Canadian counterparts
you work with computers
she works with the homeless people from the suburbs
25. v. To effect by gradual degrees.
he worked his way through the crowd
the dye worked its way through
using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand
26. v. To embroider with thread.
27. v. To set into action.
He worked the levers.
28. v. To cause to ferment.
29. v. (intransitive) To ferment.
30. v. To exhaust, by working.
The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.
31. v. To shape, form, or improve a material.
He used pliers to work the wire into shape.
32. v. To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
she works the night clubs
the salesman works the Midwest
this artist works mostly in acrylics
33. v. To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
34. v. To provoke or excite; to influence.
The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.
35. v. To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
She knows how to work the system.
36. v. To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
I cannot work a miracle.
37. v. To cause to work.
He is working his servants hard.
38. v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
he pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?; he looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work; my plan didn’t work
39. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
They worked on her to join the group.
40. v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
41. v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
His fingers worked with tension.
A ship works in a heavy sea.
42. v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
this dough does not work easily; the soft metal works well
43. v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
44. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
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12. n. alternative form of withe
metal
1. n. Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.:
2. n. Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and ha
3. n. Any material with similar physical properties, such as an alloy.
4. n. (astronomy) An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen
5. n. Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
6. n. (mining) The ore from which a metal is derived.
7. n. (obsolete) A mine from which ores are taken.
8. n. (tincture) A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent and or.
9. n. Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.
10. n. (music) A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, heavy metal, etc.) characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
11. n. (archaic) The substance that constitutes something or someone; matter; hence, character or temper; mettle.
12. n. The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
13. n. (obsolete) The rails of a railway.
14. n. (informal, travel, aviation) The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.
We have American Airlines tickets, but it's on British Airways metal.
15. adj. (music) Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
16. adj. Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
17. v. To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.

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