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both
1. det. Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items.
"Did you want this one or that one?" — "Give me both.".
Both children are such dolls.
2. det. Each of the two kinds; one and the other kind; referring to several individuals or items which are divided into two groups.
3. conj. Including both of (used with and).
Both you and I are students.
4. conj. (obsolete) Including all of (used with and).
players
1. n. plural of player
player
1. n. One that plays
2. n. One who plays any game or sport.
3. n. (theater) An actor in a dramatic play.
4. n. (music) One who plays on a musical instrument.
5. n. (gaming, video games) A gamer; a gamester.
6. n. (gambling) A gambler.
7. n. (historical) A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
8. n. (electronics) An electronic device that plays audio and/or video media, such as CD player.
9. n. (computing) A software application that plays audio and/or video media, such as media player.
10. n. One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
11. n. A significant participant.
He thought he could become a player, at least at the state level.
12. n. (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
flopped
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of flop
flop
1. v. (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.
2. v. To cause to drop heavily.
The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.
3. v. (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.
4. v. (sports) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year.
While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.
5. v. (intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
The brim of a hat flops.
6. v. (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
Both players flopped sets! Cards dealt on the flop: Q95. Player A's hole cards: 55 (making three of a kind: 555). Player B's hole cards: QQ (making three of a kind: QQQ).
7. v. (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
8. n. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
9. n. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
10. n. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
11. n. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
12. adv. Right, squarely, flat-out.
13. adv. With a flopping sound.
14. n. (computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
15. n. (computing) (abbreviation of floating-point operation).
sets
1. n. plural of set
2. n. (informal) Set theory.
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of set
set
1. v. To put (something) down, to rest.
Set the tray there.
2. v. To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
I have set my heart on running the marathon.
3. v. To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
4. v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
to set a coach in the mud
5. v. To determine or settle.
to set the rent
6. v. To adjust.
I set the alarm at 6 a.m.
7. v. To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
8. v. To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
Please set the table for our guests.
9. v. To introduce or describe.
I’ll tell you what happened, but first let me set the scene.
10. v. To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
He says he will set his next film in France.
11. v. To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
This crossword was set by Araucaria.
12. v. To prepare (a stage or film set).
13. v. To fit (someone) up in a situation.
14. v. To arrange (type).
It was a complex page, but he set it quickly.
15. v. To devise and assign (work) to.
The teacher set her students the task of drawing a foot.
16. v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
17. v. (intransitive) To solidify.
The glue sets in four minutes.
18. v. To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
to set milk for cheese
19. v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
The moon sets at eight o'clock tonight.
20. v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
21. v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
22. v. (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
to set seed
23. v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
24. v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
He sets in that chair all day.
25. v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
26. v. (hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
The dog sets the bird.
Your dog sets well.
27. v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
28. v. To fit music to words.
29. v. To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
to set pear trees in an orchard
30. v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
31. v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
The current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.
32. v. To place or fix in a setting.
to set a precious stone in a border of metal
to set glass in a sash
33. v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
to set (that is, to hone) a razor
to set a saw
34. v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
to set the sails of a ship
35. v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
to set a psalm
36. v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
to set a broken bone
37. v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
38. v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
39. v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
40. v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
41. v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
to set a good example; to set lessons to be learned
42. v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
It sets him ill.
43. n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
nail set
44. n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
television set
45. n. (alt form, sett): a hole made and lived in by a badger.
46. n. (alt form, sett): pattern of threads and yarns.
47. n. (alt form, sett): piece of quarried stone.
48. n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
49. n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
50. n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
51. n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
the set of a spring
52. n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
53. n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
54. n. A young oyster when first attached.
55. n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
56. n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun)
57. n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
the set of a coat
58. n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
59. adj. Fixed in position.
60. adj. Rigid, solidified.
61. adj. Ready, prepared.
on your marks, get set, go!; on your marks, set, go!
62. adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
set on getting to his destination
63. adj. Prearranged.
a set menu
64. adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
cards
1. n. plural of card
2. n. card games
He's a fan of cards.
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of card
card
1. n. A playing card.
2. n. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
He played cards with his friends.
3. n. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
He accused them of playing the race card.
4. n. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
5. n. (obsolete) A map or chart.
6. n. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
7. n. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
What’s on the card for tonight?
8. n. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
9. n. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.
10. n. A greeting card.
She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.
11. n. A business card.
The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.
12. n. (television) Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrativ
13. n. A test card.
14. n. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
to put a card in the newspapers
15. n. (dated) A printed programme.
16. n. (dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
17. n. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
18. n. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
19. n. An indicator card.
20. v. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.
21. v. (dated) To play cards.
22. n. (dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
23. n. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
24. n. (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare th
25. n. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
26. n. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
27. v. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
28. v. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
29. v. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
to card a horse
30. v. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
31. v. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
32. n. (abbreviation of cardinal) (songbird)
dealt
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of deal
deal
1. n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king.
2. n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
3. v. To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.
4. v. To administer or give out, as in small portions.
5. v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
I was dealt four aces.
The cards were shuffled, and the croupier dealt.
6. v. (baseball) To pitch.
The whole crowd waited for him to deal a real humdinger.
7. v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
8. v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
9. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
10. v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
She deals in gold.
11. v. To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs.
12. v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
13. v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
I can't deal with this.
I don't think he wants to go. — Yeah, well, we're going anyway, and he can deal.
14. n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing out.
15. n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
I didn’t have a good deal all evening.
I believe it's your deal.
16. n. A particular instance of buying or selling; a transaction
We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight.
17. n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
18. n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement
He made a deal with the devil.
19. n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
What's the deal?
20. n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork.
21. n. Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
22. n. A plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
23. n. (archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
24. adj. Made of deal.
A plain deal table
on
1. adj. In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
2. adj. Performing according to schedule.
Are we still on for tonight?
Is the show still on?
3. adj. (chiefly UK, informal, usually negative) Acceptable, appropriate.
You can't do that; it's just not on.
4. adj. (informal) Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
"Five bucks says the Cavs win tonight." ―"You're on!".
Mike just threw coffee onto Paul's lap. It's on now.
5. adj. (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
6. adj. (euphemistic) Menstruating.
7. adv. To an operating state.
turn the television on
8. adv. Along, forwards (continuing an action).
drive on, rock on
9. adv. In continuation, at length.
and so on.
He rambled on and on.
10. adv. (not US) Later.
Ten years on, nothing had changed in the village.
11. prep. Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
on the table; on the couch
The parrot was sitting on Jim's shoulder.
12. prep. At or near; adjacent to.
Soon we'll pass a statue on the left.
The fleet is on the American coast.
Croton-on-Hudson, Rostov-on-Don, Southend-on-Sea
13. prep. Covering.
He wore old shoes on his feet.
14. prep. At the date of.
Born on the 4th of July.
15. prep. Some time during the day of.
I'll see you on Monday. The bus leaves on Friday. Can I see you on a different day? On Sunday I'm busy.
16. prep. Dealing with the subject of, about, or concerning something.
A book on history. The World Summit on the Information Society.
17. prep. Touching; hanging from.
The fruit ripened on the trees. The painting hangs on the wall.
18. prep. (informal) In the possession of.
I haven't got any money on me.
19. prep. Because of, or due to.
To arrest someone on suspicion of bribery. To contact someone on a hunch.
20. prep. Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
On Jack's entry, William got up to leave.
On the addition of ammonia, a chemical reaction begins.
21. prep. Paid for by.
The drinks are on me tonight, boys. The meal is on the house. I paid for the airfare and meals for my family, but the hotel room was on the company.
22. prep. Used to indicate a means or medium.
I saw it on television. Can't you see I'm on the phone?
23. prep. Indicating a means of subsistence.
They lived on ten dollars a week. The dog survived three weeks on rainwater.
24. prep. Away or occupied with (e.g. a scheduled activity).
He's on his lunch break. on vacation; on holiday
25. prep. Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
to play on a violin or piano
Her words made a lasting impression on my mind.
26. prep. Regularly taking (a drug).
You've been on these antidepressants far too long. He's acting so strangely, I think he must be on something.
27. prep. Under the influence of (a drug).
He's acting crazy because he's on crack right now.
28. prep. (mathematics) Having identical domain and codomain.
a function on
29. prep. (mathematics) HavingV^n as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
an operator on
30. prep. (mathematics) Generated by.
the free group on four letters
31. prep. Supported by (the specified part of itself).
A table can't stand on two legs. After resting on his elbows, he stood on his toes, then walked on his heels.
32. prep. At a given time after the start of something; at.
33. prep. In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
heaps on heaps of food
mischief on mischief; loss on loss
34. prep. (obsolete, regional) of
35. prep. Indicating dependence or reliance; with confidence in.
I depended on them for assistance.
He will promise on certain conditions.
Do you ever bet on horses?
36. prep. Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
Have pity or compassion on him.
37. prep. (obsolete) At the peril of, or for the safety of.
38. prep. In the service of; connected with; of the number of.
He is on a newspaper; I am on the committee.
39. prep. By virtue of; with the pledge of.
He affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honour.
40. prep. To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
On us be all the blame.
A curse on him!
Please don't tell on her and get her in trouble.
He turned on her and has been her enemy ever since.
He went all honest on me, making me listen to his confession.
41. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) to switch on
Can you on the light?
42. prep. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Without.
43. n. In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun.
Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun".
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.
flop
1. v. (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work.
2. v. To cause to drop heavily.
The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.
3. v. (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.
4. v. (sports) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year.
While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.
5. v. (intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
The brim of a hat flops.
6. v. (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
Both players flopped sets! Cards dealt on the flop: Q95. Player A's hole cards: 55 (making three of a kind: 555). Player B's hole cards: QQ (making three of a kind: QQQ).
7. v. (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
8. n. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
9. n. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
10. n. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
11. n. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
12. adv. Right, squarely, flat-out.
13. adv. With a flopping sound.
14. n. (computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
15. n. (computing) (abbreviation of floating-point operation).
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