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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.
organization
1. n. The quality of being organized.
This painting shows little organization at first glance, but little by little the structure becomes clear.
2. n. The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
The organization of the book is as follows.
3. n. A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
In response to the crisis, the nations in the region formed an organization. If you want to be part of this organization, you have to follow its rules.
4. n. A group of people consciously cooperating.
Over time, the spontaneous movement had become an organization.
5. n. (baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.
He's been in the Dodgers' organization since 2003.
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.
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.
for
1. conj. (dated) Because.
2. prep. Towards.
The astronauts headed for the moon.
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to.
I have something for you.
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of.
We're having a birthday party for Janet.
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary.
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala.
5. prep. Supporting.
All those for the motion raise your hands.
6. prep. Because of.
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him.
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight.
She was the worse for drink.
7. prep. Over a period of time.
I've lived here for three years.
They fought for days over a silly pencil.
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space.
9. prep. On behalf of.
I will stand in for him.
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of.
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire.
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday.
He's going for his doctorate.
Do you want to go for coffee?
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers.
Can you go to the store for some eggs?
I'm saving up for a car.
Don't wait for an answer.
What did he ask you for?
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward.
Run for the hills!
He was headed for the door when he remembered.
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect.
Fair for its day.
She's spry for an old lady.
14. prep. Despite, in spite of.
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive.
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.)
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.)
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
At close of play, England were 305 for 3.
18. prep. To be, or as being.
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.)
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs).
collecting
1. n. A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
2. v. present participle of collect
collect
1. v. To gather together; amass.
Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.
2. v. To get; particularly, get from someone.
A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
3. v. To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
John Henry collects stamps.
I don't think he collects as much as hoards.
4. v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
5. v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
6. v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
The rain collected in puddles.
7. v. To infer; to conclude.
8. v. (transitive, of a vehicle or driver) To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.
9. adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
10. adv. With payment due from the recipient.
I had to call collect.
11. n. (sometimes capitalized)
12. n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.
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.
providing
1. v. present participle of provide
2. n. Something provided; a provision.
provide
1. v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.
2. v. To act to prepare for something.
3. v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
The contract provides that the work be well done.
I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday.
4. v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.
We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces.
5. v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
6. v. To make possible or attainable.
He provides us with an alternative option.
7. v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
8. v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
information
1. n. That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
2. n. Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
I need some more information about this issue.
3. n. The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
4. n. (legal) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a jud
5. n. (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
6. n. (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
7. n. (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
8. n. (computing) … the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
9. n. (Christianity) Divine inspiration.
10. n. A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
11. n. (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the (ll, en, bit, id=datum).
12. n. As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.
13. n. (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).
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.
news
1. n. New information of interest.
Is there any news about the storm?
That was not much news in the press release.
2. n. Information about current events disseminated via media.
Did you hear/read/see the latest news?
The news is that a new leader will be elected in one month.
3. n. (computing, internet) posts published on newsgroups
4. v. (transitive, archaic) To report; to make known.

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