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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.
open
1. adj. (not comparable) Not closed; accessible; unimpeded.
Turn left after the second open door.
It was as if his body had gone to sleep standing up and with his eyes open.
2. adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
an open hand; an open flower; an open prospect
3. adj. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
Banks are not open on bank holidays.
4. adj. (comparable) Receptive.
I am open to new ideas.
5. adj. (not comparable) Public
He published an open letter to the governor on a full page of the New York Times.
6. adj. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
The man is an open book.
7. adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
8. adj. (mathematics, topology, of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets ofX, that defines a topological space onX.
9. adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
10. adj. (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same file open.
11. adj. (business) Not fulfilled.
I've got open orders for as many containers of red durum as you can get me.
12. adj. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
an open question
to keep an offer or opportunity open
13. adj. (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
14. adj. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
an open winter
15. adj. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
16. adj. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
17. adj. (phonetics, of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
18. adj. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
19. adj. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
20. v. To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
Turn the doorknob to open the door.
21. v. To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.
He opened a path through the undergrowth.
22. v. To bring up, broach.
I don't want to open that subject.
23. v. To enter upon, begin.
to open a discussion
to open fire upon an enemy
to open trade, or correspondence
to open a case in court, or a meeting
24. v. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
to open a closed fist
to open matted cotton by separating the fibres
to open a map, book, or scroll
25. v. To make accessible to customers or clients.
I will open the shop an hour early tomorrow.
26. v. To start (a campaign).
Vermont will open elk hunting season next week.
27. v. (intransitive) To become open.
The door opened all by itself.
28. v. (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
The shop opens at 9:00.
29. v. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
30. v. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
After the first two players fold, Julie opens for $5.
31. v. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
Jeff opens his hand revealing a straight flush.
32. v. (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
33. v. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
34. n. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
35. n. (electronics) A wire that is broken midway.
The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
36. n. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!
Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket.
37. n. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open.
seated
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of seat
2. adj. sitting
3. adj. of a woman's skirt, stretched out and baggy over the wearer's buttocks from much sitting while wearing the skirt
seat
1. n. Something to be sat upon.
2. n. A place in which to sit.
There are two hundred seats in this classroom.
3. n. The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
He sat on the arm of the chair rather than the seat, which always annoyed his mother.
the seat of a saddle
4. n. A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
She pulled the seat from under the table to allow him to sit down.
5. n. The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
Instead of saying "sit down", she said "place your seat on this chair".
6. n. The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
The seat of these trousers is almost worn through.
7. n. (engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.
The seat of the valve had become corroded.
8. n. A location or site.
9. n. (figurative) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress.
10. n. The location of a governing body.
Washington D.C. is the seat of the U.S. government.
11. n. (certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
12. n. A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge.
13. n. The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated or resides; a site.
14. n. The starting point of a fire.
15. n. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
16. v. To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.
17. v. To provide with places to sit.
This classroom seats two hundred students.
The waiter seated us and asked what we would like to drink.
18. v. To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker.
19. v. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.
Only half the delegates from the state were seated at the convention because the state held its primary too early.
You have to be a member to be seated at the meeting. Guests are welcome to sit in the visitors section.
20. v. To assign the seats of.
to seat a church
21. v. To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
22. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
23. v. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
to seat a country
24. v. To put a seat or bottom in.
to seat a chair
motor
1. n. A machine or device that converts any form of energy into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.
2. n. (colloquial) A motor car, or automobile.
Nice motor!
3. n. (figuratively) A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force.
4. n. Any protein capable of converting chemical energy into mechanical work.
5. n. (Christianity, archaic, poetic) The controller or prime mover of the universe; God.
6. n. (prison slang) The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
7. adj. (biology) relating to the ability to move
She has excellent motor skills.
8. adj. Relating to motor cars
Motor insurance is expensive for youngsters.
9. v. (dated) To make a journey by motor vehicle; to drive.
On Saturday we motored down to Plymouth.
10. v. (informal) To move at a brisk pace.
Sales were slow at first, but now things are really motoring.
11. v. (slang) To leave.
I gotta motor.
powered
1. adj. (of a device) Self-powered, such as by an electric motor or an internal engine; not requiring external power, such as from a person or a horse.
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of power
power
1. n. (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control.
2. n. Ability to affect or influence.
3. n. Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
4. n. (metonymy) (chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
5. n. (metonymy) An influential nation, company, or other such body.
6. n. (physical) Effectiveness.
7. n. Physical force or strength.
He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.
8. n. Electricity or a supply of electricity.
After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days.
9. n. A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
10. n. A rate to magnify an optical image by a lens or mirror.
We need a microscope with higher power.
11. n. Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
the mechanical powers
12. n. mathematics
13. n. A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion):x^n, read as "x to the power ofn" or the like, is called a power and denotes the produc
14. n. (set theory) Cardinality.
15. n. (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
16. n. (biblical, in plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
17. v. To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
This CD player is powered by batteries.
18. v. To hit or kick something forcefully.
19. v. To enable or provide the impetus for.
20. adj. (Singapore, colloquial) Impressive.
vehicle
1. n. A conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals.
2. n. A medium for expression of talent or views.
3. n. A liquid content (e.g. oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint. (FM 55-501).
4. n. (pharmaceuticals) The main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug.
5. n. An entity to achieve an end.
6. n. (Buddhism) A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.
7. n. (Hinduism) An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits
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
two
1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••). Ordinal: second.
2. num. Describing a set or group with two elements.
3. n. The digit/figure 2.
The number 2202 contains three twos.
4. n. (US, informal) A two-dollar bill.
5. n. A child aged two.
This toy is suitable for the twos and threes.
6. n. The playing cards featuring two pips.
wheels
1. n. plural of wheel
2. n. (by meronymy) An automobile or other vehicle; a set of wheels
* Like my new wheels?
* rolling 18 wheels
3. n. (bodybuilding, slang) Well-developed thigh muscles.
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of wheel
wheel
1. n. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
2. n. (informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
3. n. (nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
4. n. A spinning wheel.
5. n. A potter's wheel.
6. n. (heraldry) This device used as a heraldic charge, usually with six spokes.
7. n. A wheel-like device used as an instrument of torture or punishment.
8. n. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
9. n. (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
10. n. (automotive) A wheelrim.
11. n. A round portion of cheese.
12. n. A Catherine wheel firework.
13. n. (obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
14. n. A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
15. n. (computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.
16. v. (intransitive, or transitive) To roll along on wheels.
Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
17. v. To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
18. v. (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
19. v. To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
20. v. (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
The vulture wheeled above us.
21. v. To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.

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