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any
1. adv. To even the slightest extent, at all.
I will not remain here any longer.
If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways!
2. det. At least one; of at least one kind. One at all.
do you have any biscuits?; do you have any food?; I haven't got any money; it won't do you any good
3. det. No matter what kind.
choose any items you want; any person may apply
4. pron. Any thing(s) or person(s).
Any may apply.
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
various
1. det. More than one (of an indeterminate set of things).
Various books have been taken.
There are various ways to fix the problem.
You have broken various of the rules.
2. adj. Having a broad range (of different elements).
The reasons are various.
3. adj. (dated) That varies or differs from others; variant; different.
a various reading of a Biblical text
devices
1. n. plural of device
device
1. n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
There are a number of household devices in a kitchen such as a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, or an electric can opener.
2. n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
3. n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
4. n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
5. n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
6. n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge bor
7. n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
8. n. (legal) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
9. n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
10. n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
11. n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.
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).
removing
1. v. present participle of remove
2. n. removal
remove
1. v. To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
He removed the marbles from the bag.
2. v. (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
3. v. To murder.
4. v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
5. v. To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
6. v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
7. v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
8. v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
The President removed many postmasters.
9. n. The act of removing something.
10. n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
11. n. (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
12. n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
13. n. Distance in time or space; interval.
14. n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
15. n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
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.
stalk
1. n. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp
2. n. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
3. n. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
4. n. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
5. n. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
6. n. zoology
7. n. A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
8. n. The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
9. n. The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
10. n. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
11. v. To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
12. v. To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.Wp
My ex-girlfriend is stalking me.
13. v. (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
14. v. (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
15. n. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
16. n. A hunt (of a wild animal).
17. v. (intransitive) To walk haughtily.
from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He left yesterday from Chicago.
Face away from the wall!
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
An umbrella protects from the sun.
He knows right from wrong.
plants
1. n. plural of plant
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of plant
plant
1. n. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
2. n. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloro
3. n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
4. n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
5. n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
6. n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before!
7. n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
8. n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
9. n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
10. n. Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
11. n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
12. n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
13. n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
14. n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
15. n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
16. v. To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
17. v. To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
18. v. To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one's feet on solid ground
19. v. To place in the ground.
20. v. To furnish or supply with plants.
to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
21. v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
22. v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
to plant a colony
23. v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
to plant Christianity among the heathen
24. v. To set up; to install; to instate.
during
1. prep. For all of a given time interval.
I lived with my parents during the 1970s.
The shop was one of the few able to stay open during the war.
2. prep. At any time or period within a given time interval.
I lived with my parents at several points during the 1980s.
Many of the best examples were produced during the Restoration.
3. v. present participle of dure
dure
1. v. (archaic, intransitive) To last, continue, endure.
2. adj. (obsolete) hard; harsh; severe; rough
harvesting
1. v. present participle of harvest
2. n. (agriculture) The gathering of a mature crop; a harvest.
harvest
1. n. (UK dialectal) The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
Harvest is usually very damp and rainy.
2. n. The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
3. n. The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
4. n. The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous.
5. n. (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
6. n. (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
7. v. To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
8. v. (intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest
Harvesting is a stressing, thirsty occupation
9. v. To win, achieve a gain.
The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21

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