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always
1. adv. At all times; throughout all time
God is always the same.
2. adv. Constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals (opposed to sometimes or occasionally).
In this street, the shops always close during lunchtime.
3. adv. (informal) In any event.
I thought I could always go back to work.
speak
1. v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
I was so surprised I couldn't speak.
You're speaking too fast.
2. v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
It's been ages since we've spoken.
3. v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
He spoke of it in his diary.
Speak to me only with your eyes.
Actions speak louder than words.
4. v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
This evening I shall speak on the topic of correct English usage.
5. v. To be able to communicate in a language.
He speaks Mandarin fluently.
6. v. To utter.
I was so surprised that I couldn't speak a word.
7. v. To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
8. v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
Sorry, I don't speak idiot.
So you can program in C. But do you speak C++?
9. v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
10. v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
11. n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
Corporate speak; IT speak.
12. n. Speach, conversation.
13. n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.
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
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
positive
1. adj. Not negative or neutral.
2. adj. (legal) Formally laid down.
3. adj. Stated definitively and without qualification.
4. adj. Fully assured in opinion.
5. adj. (mathematics) Of number, greater than zero.
6. adj. Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
7. adj. Overconfident, dogmatic.
8. adj. (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
9. adj. (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
10. adj. (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
11. adj. Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute.
12. adj. Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
13. adj. Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
14. adj. (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
15. adj. Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
16. adj. Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
17. adj. Optimistic.
18. adj. (chemistry) electropositive
19. adj. (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
20. adj. (slang) HIV positive.
21. adj. (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
22. n. A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
23. n. A favourable point or characteristic.
24. n. Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
25. n. (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
26. n. (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
27. n. (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
28. n. The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
29. n. A positive result of a test.
predicate
1. n. (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject or the object of the sentence.
In "The dog barked very loudly", the subject is "the dog" and the predicate is "barked very loudly".
2. n. (logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predic
A nullary predicate is a proposition.
A predicate is either valid, satisfiable, or unsatisfiable.
3. n. (computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.
4. adj. (grammar) Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
5. adj. Predicated, stated.
6. adj. (law) Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.
7. v. To proclaim, to announce or assert publicly.
8. v. (transitive, logic) To state, assert as an attribute or quality of something.
9. v. To suppose, assume; to infer.
10. v. (transitive, originally US) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
11. v. To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.

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