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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.
preconceived
     1. adj. (of an opinion or notion) Conceived beforehand: formed ahead of time.
     2. v. simple past tense and past participle of preconceive
     preconceive
          1. v. To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.
opinion
     1. n. A subjective belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed about a topic, issue, person or thing.
           I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system.
           In my opinion, white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
           Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.
     2. n. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
     3. n. (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
     4. n. (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
     5. n. The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
     6. n. (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible
     7. v. (transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
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.
feeling
     1. adj. Emotionally sensitive.
           Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.
     2. adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
           He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
     3. n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
           The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.
     4. n. Emotion; impression.
           The house gave me a feeling of dread.
     5. n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
           You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
     6. n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
           Many people still have feelings for their first love.
     7. n. Intuition.
           He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
           I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
     8. n. An opinion, an attitude.
     9. v. present participle of feel
     feel
          1. v. To use the sense of touch.:
          2. v.          (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
                        You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast.
                        I felt cold and miserable all night.
          3. v.          To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
                        I felt my way through the darkened room.
                        I felt my way cautiously through the dangerous business maneuver.
          4. v.          (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
          5. v.          (intransitive) To search by sense of touch.
                        He felt for the light switch in the dark.
          6. v. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.:
          7. v.          To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
                        I can feel the sadness in his poems.
          8. v.          To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
                        I feel that we need to try harder.
          9. v.          (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.
                        He obviously feels strongly about it.
                        She felt even more upset when she heard the details.
          10. v.          (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
                        I feel for you and your plight.
          11. v. To be or become aware of.
          12. v. To experience the consequences of.
                Feel my wrath!
          13. v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
                It looks like wood, but it feels more like plastic.
                This is supposed to be a party, but it feels more like a funeral!
          14. v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
                I don't want you back here, ya feel me?
          15. n. A quality of an object experienced by touch.
                Bark has a rough feel.
          16. n. A vague mental impression.
                You should get a feel of the area before moving in.
          17. n. An act of fondling.
                She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.
          18. n. A vague understanding.
                I'm getting a feel for what you mean.
          19. n. An intuitive ability.
                She has a feel for music.
          20. n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.
                I know that feel.
          21. pron. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele
          22. adj. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele
          23. adv. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele
whether
     1. det. (obsolete) Which of two.
     2. pron. (obsolete) Which of two.
     3. conj. (obsolete) Introducing a direct interrogative question (often with correlative or) which indicates doubt between alternatives.
     4. conj. Used to introduce an indirect interrogative question that consists of multiple alternative possibilities (usually with correlative or).
           He chose the correct answer, but I don't know whether it was by luck or by skill.
     5. conj. Without a correlative, used to introduce a simple indirect question.
           Do you know whether he's coming?
     6. conj. Used to introduce a disjunctive adverbial clause which qualifies the main clause of the sentence (with correlative or).
           He's coming, whether you like it or not.
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.
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.
negative
     1. adj. Not positive or neutral.
     2. adj. (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
     3. adj. (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero
     4. adj. (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition.
     5. adj. Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
     6. adj. Often used pejoratively: pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
     7. adj. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
     8. adj. (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
           The nitro group is negative.
     9. adj. (New Age jargon, pejorative) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
     10. adj. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
     11. n. Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
     12. n. (law) A right of veto.
     13. n. (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
     14. n. (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
     15. n. (mathematics) A negative quantity.
     16. n. (weightlifting): A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
     17. n. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
     18. v. To refuse; to veto.
     19. v. To contradict.
     20. v. To disprove.
     21. v. To make ineffective; to neutralize.
     22. interj. (law, signalling) An elaborate synonym for no.
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