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bishop
1. n. (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or no
2. n. (religion, obsolete) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
3. n. (obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
4. n. (obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of (m, la, episcopus), supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
5. n. The chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
6. n. (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
7. n. Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
8. n. (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
9. n. (alcoholic beverages‎) A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
10. n. (US, archaic) A bustle.
11. n. (dialectal) A children's smock or pinafore.
12. v. (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
13. v. (by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses).
14. v. (Christianity) To make a bishop.
15. v. (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
16. v. (dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
17. v. (by extension, of horses) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
18. v. (colloquial) To murder by drowning.
smith
1. n. A craftsperson who works metal into desired forms using a hammer and other tools, sometimes heating the metal to make it more workable, especially a blacksmith.
2. n. (by extension) One who makes anything.
3. n. (archaic) An artist.
4. v. To forge, to form, usually on an anvil; by heating and pounding.
episcopate
1. n. Bishops seen as a group.
The American Roman Catholic episcopate regularly meets together.
2. n. The tenure in office of a bishop.
Bishop Smith's episcopate ran for more than 30 years.
3. n. (rare) A bishop's jurisdiction, the extent of his diocese.
4. v. (intransitive) To act as a bishop.
ran
1. v. simple past tense of rin
2. v. simple past tense of run
3. v. (nonstandard, dialectal) past participle of run
4. n. (nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
5. n. (obsolete) Open robbery.
run
1. v. To move swiftly.
2. v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
Run, Sarah, run!
3. v. (intransitive) To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.
The horse ran the length of the track. I have been running all over the building looking for him. Sorry, I've got to run; my house is
4. v. To cause to move quickly; to make move lightly.
Every day I run my dog across the field and back. I'll just run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet. Run your fingers through my hair.
5. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To compete in a race.
The horse will run the Preakness next year. I'm not ready to run a marathon.
6. v. (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
7. v. (intransitive, soccer) To carry a football down the field.
8. v. To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
The horse ran a great race.
9. v. (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
Whenever things get tough, she cuts and runs. When he's broke, he runs to me for money.
10. v. (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
11. v. (fluids) To flow.
12. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
There's a strange story running around the neighborhood. The flu is running through my daughter's kindergarten.
13. v. (intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.
The river runs through the forest. There's blood running down your leg.
14. v. (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
Your nose is running. Why is the hose still running? My cup runneth over.
15. v. To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.
You'll have to run the water a while before it gets hot. Run the tap until the water gets hot.
16. v. (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
17. v. (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
He discovered during washing that the red rug ran on his white sheet, staining it pink.
18. v. To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
to run bullets
19. v. (figurative, transitive) To go through without stopping, usually illegally.
run a red light or stop sign; run a blockade
20. v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
21. v. (social) To carry out an activity.
22. v. To control or manage, be in charge of.
My uncle ran a corner store for forty years. She runs the fundraising. My parents think they run my life. He is running an expe
23. v. (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
I have decided to run for governor of California. We're trying to find somebody to run against him next year.
24. v. To make run in a race or an election.
He ran his best horse in the Derby. The Green Party is running twenty candidates in this election.
25. v. To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
to run through life; to run in a circle
26. v. (intransitive) To be presented in one of the media.
The story will run on the 6-o'clock news. The latest Robin Williams movie is running at the Silver City theatre. Her picture ran on t
27. v. To print or broadcast in the media.
run a story; run an ad
28. v. To transport someone or something.
Could you run me over to the store? Please run this report upstairs to director's office.
29. v. To smuggle illegal goods.
to run guns; to run rum
30. v. (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again.
31. v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
32. v. (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
The border runs for 3000 miles. The leash runs along a wire. The grain of the wood runs to the right on this table. It ran in q
33. v. (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
The sale will run for ten days. The contract runs through 2008. The meeting ran late. The book runs 655 pages. The speech
34. v. To make something extend in space.
I need to run this wire along the wall.
35. v. (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
My car stopped running. That computer runs twenty-four hours a day. Buses don't run here on Sunday.
36. v. To make a machine operate.
It's full. You can run the dishwasher now. Don't run the engine so fast.
37. v. To execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program.
They ran twenty blood tests on me and they still don't know what's wrong. Our coach had us running plays for the whole practice. I will run the sample. Don't run that software
38. v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
to run from one subject to another
39. v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
Our supplies are running low. They frequently overspent and soon ran into debt.
40. v. To cost a large amount of money.
Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars. Laptops run about a thousand dollars apiece.
41. v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
My stocking is running.
42. v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
43. v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot
44. v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
45. v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
to run a line
46. v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
to run the risk of losing one's life
47. v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
48. v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
49. v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
50. v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
Every three or four hands he would run the table.
51. v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
52. v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
53. v. To have growth or development.
Boys and girls run up rapidly.
54. v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
55. v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
Certain covenants run with the land.
56. v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
57. v. (video games) To speedrun.
58. v. past participle of rin
59. n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
I just got back from my morning run.
60. n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
I need to make a run to the store.
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).
more
1. det. comparative degree of many, : in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
More people are arriving.
There are more ways to do this than I can count.
2. det. comparative degree of much, : in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
I want more soup; I need more time
There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
3. adv. To a greater degree or extent.
He walks more in the morning these days.
4. adv. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
5. adv. Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.
6. adv. (now dialectal, or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18thc.)
I was more better at English than you.
7. adv. rather
He is more clever than wise.
8. n. An extra amount or extent.
9. n. (obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip.
10. n. (dialectal) a root; stock.
11. n. A plant.
12. v. To root up.
13. pron. a greater amount of people or things
than
1. conj. (obsolete, outside, dialects, usually used with for) Because; for.
2. conj. Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
she's taller than I am; she found his advice more witty than helpful; we have less work today than we had yesterday; it's bigger than I thought it was
3. prep. introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two
Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.
4. adv. (now chiefly dialectal) At that time; then.
30
1. Symbol. en-symbol
2. Symbol. (telecommunications) end of message.
years
1. n. plural of year.
2. n. (colloquial, hyperbole) A very long time.
It took years for the bus to come.
year
1. n. A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
we moved to this town a year ago; I quit smoking exactly one year ago
2. n. (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution
Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.
3. n. A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by
A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.
I was born in the year 1950.
This Chinese year is the year of the Rooster.
4. n. A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus.
5. n. (sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
6. n. A level or grade in school or college.
Every second-year student must select an area of specialization.
The exams in year 12 at high school are the most difficult.
7. n. The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).
Geneticists have created baker's yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years.

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