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| 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. | |
| web |
| The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web. | |
| 1. n. Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web. | |
| 2. n. Specifically, the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web). | |
| Let me search the web for that. | |
| 3. n. (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing. | |
| He caught the ball in the web. | |
| 4. n. A latticed or woven structure. | |
| The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood. | |
| 5. n. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member. | |
| 6. n. (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail. Profile of flat-bottomed and bullhead railway rail showing the web | |
| 7. n. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals. | |
| 8. n. The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. | |
| 9. n. (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing. | |
| 10. n. (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper. | |
| 11. n. (dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage. | |
| 12. n. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead. | |
| 13. n. The blade of a sword. | |
| 14. n. The blade of a saw. | |
| 15. n. The thin, sharp part of a colter. | |
| 16. n. The bit of a key. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To construct or form a web. | |
| 18. v. To cover with a web or network. | |
| 19. v. To ensnare or entangle. | |
| 20. v. To provide with a web. | |
| 21. v. (transitive, obsolete) To weave. | |
| burrfish |
| 1. n. , a fish of the family Diodontidae distinguished from the porcupinefish by the shorter and blunter spines covering the somewhat spherical body. | |
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| 1. adj. (chemistry) That has a torsion angle between 0° and 90°. | |
