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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.
office
1. n. (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
2. n. (Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
3. n. (particularly) Mass, label, en, particularly the introit sung at its beginning.
4. n. (Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
5. n. (Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.
6. n. (Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
In the Latin rite, all bishops, priests, and transitional deacons are obliged to recite the Divine Office daily.
7. n. (Protestant) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
8. n. (Christianity) Last rites.
9. n. A position of responsibility.
When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department.
10. n. Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
She held office as secretary of state until she left office to run for office.
11. n. (figuratively) An official or group of officials; label, en, figuratively a personification of officeholders.
12. n. A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role;(obsolete) moral duty.
13. n. (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
14. n. (archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
15. n. (particularly) A bodily function, label, en, particularly urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
16. n. (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
The secretary prevailed at the negotiations through the good offices of the Freedonian ambassador.
17. n. (figuratively) Inside information.
18. n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:
The office of the Secretary of State is cleaned when it is vacant.
19. n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
20. n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
21. n. (chiefly) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
22. n. (figuratively) The staff of such places.
The whole office was there... well, except you, of course.
23. n. (figuratively) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
He's from our public relations office.
24. n. (UK) A ministry or other department of government.
The secretary of state's British colleague heads the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
25. n. (Catholicism) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
26. n. A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
He worked as the receptionist at the Akron office.
27. n. (now in the dated) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly(euphemism) a house or estate's facilities for urina
28. n. (UK) clipping of, inquest of office, : an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property.
29. n. (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
30. n. (figuratively) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
31. n. (UK) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
32. n. (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
33. v. To provide (someone) with an office.
34. v. (intransitive) To have an office.
room
1. n. (now rare) Opportunity or scope (to do something).
2. n. Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
3. n. (archaic) A particular portion of space.
4. n. (figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
5. n. (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
6. n. (obsolete) Place; stead.
7. n. A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
8. n. With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.
Go to your room!
9. n. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
10. n. (always in the singular) The people in a room.
The room was on its feet.
11. n. (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
12. n. (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
13. n. (Internet) A forum or chat room.
Some users may not be able to access the AOL room.
14. n. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
15. n. Furniture sufficient to furnish a room.
16. v. (intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.
17. v. To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.
18. adj. (dialectal, or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.
19. adv. (dialectal, or obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
20. adv. (nautical) Off from the wind.
21. n. alt form, roum, , deep blue dye
where
1. conj. While on the contrary; although; whereas.
Where Susy has trouble coloring inside the lines, Johnny has already mastered shading.
2. conj. At or in which place or situation.
He is looking for a house where he can have a complete office.
I've forgotten where I was in this book, but it was probably around chapter four.
3. conj. To which place or situation.
The snowbirds travel where it is warm.
4. conj. Wherever.
Their job is to go where they are called.
5. conj. (legal) In a position, case, etc., in which.
Where no provision under this Act is applicable, the case shall be decided in accordance with the customary practices.
6. adv. (Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question): at what place; to what place; what place.
Where are you?
Where are you going?
He asked where I grew up.
7. adv. (With the preposition from)
Where did you come from?
8. adv. In what situation.
Where would we be without our parents?
9. adv. (relative) At which, on which.
That is the place where we first met.
10. pron. The place in which.
He lives within five miles of where he was born.
11. n. The place in which something happens.
A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
Finding the nymph asleep in secret where. — Spenser.
clerical
1. adj. Of or relating to clerks or their work.
2. adj. Of or relating to the clergy.
3. n. A member of the clergy.
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.
professional
1. n. A person who belongs to a profession
2. n. A person who earns their living from a specified activity
3. n. A reputation known by name
4. n. An expert.
5. adj. Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
6. adj. That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
7. adj. (by extension) Expert.
duties
1. n. plural of duty
duty
1. n. That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
We don't have a duty to keep you here.
2. n. The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task.
I’m on duty from 6 pm to 6 am.
3. n. A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.
customs duty; excise duty
4. n. (obsolete) One's due, something one is owed; a debt or fee.
5. n. (obsolete) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
6. n. The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94
are
1. v. second-person singular present of be
Mary, where are you going?
2. v. first-person plural present of be
We are not coming.
3. v. second-person plural present of be
Mary and John, are you listening?
4. v. third-person plural present of be
They are here somewhere.
5. v. (East Yorkshire, Midlands) present of be
6. n. (dialectal, or obsolete) grace, mercy
To bid God's are.
God's are is what children of God seech and seek.
7. n. (obsolete) honour, dignity
8. n. (rare) an accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
performed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of perform

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