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check
     1. n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
     2. n. An inspection or examination.
           I don't know if she will be there, but it's worth a check.
     3. n. A control; a limit or stop.
           checks and balances
           The castle moat should hold the enemy in check.
     4. n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: sc=Latinx, ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
           Place a check by the things you have done.
     5. n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
           I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a check for the amount.
     6. n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
           I summoned the waiter, paid the check, and hurried to leave.
     7. n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
           The hockey player gave a good hard check to obtain the puck.
     8. n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
     9. n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
     10. n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
           a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad
     11. n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
     12. n. A small chink or crack.
     13. v. To inspect; to examine.
           Check the oil in your car once a month.
           Check whether this page has a watermark.
     14. v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
     15. v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or veri
           Check the items on the list that interest you.
           Check off the items that you've checked (inspected).
           Check the correct answer to each question.
     16. v. To control, limit, or halt.
           Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation.
     17. v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
           Check your data against known values.
     18. v. To leave in safekeeping.
           Check your hat and coat at the door.
     19. v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
           Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight.
     20. v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
           He checked the ball and then proceeded to perform a perfect layup.
           That basket doesn't count—you forgot to check!
     21. v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
           The hockey player checked the defenceman to obtain the puck.
     22. v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
           Tom didn't think he could win, so he checked.
     23. v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
     24. v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
     25. v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
     26. v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
     27. v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
           The sun checks timber.
     28. v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
     29. v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
     30. v. To act as a curb or restraint.
     31. v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
     32. n. (textiles usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
           The tablecloth had red and white checks.
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.
seasoning
     1. n. (cooking) Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as a condiment, herb or spice.
     2. n. (figurative, by extension) Anything added to increase enjoyment.
     3. n. A coat of burnt soot inside a cooking vessel, which has formed over repeated use, and which renders the surface non sticking.
     4. n. (archaic) An alcoholic intoxication.
           Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”
     5. v. present participle of season
     season
          1. n. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter
          2. n. A part of a year when something particular happens
                mating season
                the rainy season
                the football season
          3. n. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
          4. n. (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
          5. n. (North America, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of e
                The third season of “Friends” aired from 1996 to 1997.
          6. n. (archaic) An extended, undefined period of time.
          7. v. To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
          8. v. To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure
                to season oneself to a climate
          9. v. Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices
                The timber needs to be seasoned.
          10. v. (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
          11. v. (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance
                The wood has seasoned in the sun.
          12. v. (obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.
salt
     1. n. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
     2. n. (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
     3. n. (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
     4. n. (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
     5. n. (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
     6. n. A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
     7. n. (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
     8. n. (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
           Attic salt
     9. n. (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
     10. n. (figurative) Skepticism and common sense.
           Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.
     11. n. (Internet slang) Indignation; outrage; arguing.
           There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
     12. adj. Salty; salted.
           salt beef;  salt tears
     13. adj. Saline.
           a salt marsh;  salt grass
     14. adj. Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
           a salt mine
           The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
     15. adj. (figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
     16. adj. (figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
     17. v. To add salt to.
           to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
     18. v. (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
           The brine begins to salt.
     19. v. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
     20. v. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
     21. v.          (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
     22. v.          (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.
     23. v. To include colorful language in.
     24. v. (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
to
     1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
           I want to leave.
           He asked me what to do.
           I don’t know how to say it.
           I have places to go and people to see.
     2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
           "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
           If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
     3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
           I have to do laundry today.
     4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
           We are walking to the shop.
     5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
           He devoted himself to education.
           They drank to his health.
     6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
           His face was beaten to a pulp.
     7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
           similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
     8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
           With God to friend (with God as a friend);   with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe);   lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice);   t
     9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
           one to one = 1:1
           ten to one = 10:1.
           I have ten dollars to your four.
     10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
           Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
           Three to the power of two is nine.
           Three to the second is nine.
     11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
           I gave the book to him.
     12. prep. (time) Preceding.
           ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
     13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
           Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
           There's a lot of sense to what he says.
     14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
           Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
     15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
           Please push the door to.
     16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
     17. adv. misspelling of too
taste
     1. n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals.
     2. n. A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
           Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.
     3. n. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
           I have developed a taste for fine wine.
     4. n. (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
     5. n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
     6. v. To sample the flavor of something orally.
     7. v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
           The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.
     8. v. To experience.
           I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
           They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
     9. v. To take sparingly.
     10. v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
     11. v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.
then
     1. adv. (temporal location) At that time.
           He was happy then.
     2. adv. (temporal location) Soon afterward.
           He fixed it, then left.
           Turn left, then right, then right again, then keep going until you reach the service station.
     3. adv. (sequence) Next in order; in addition.
           There are three green ones, then a blue one.
     4. adv. (conjunctive) In that case.
           If it’s locked, then we’ll need the key.
           Is it 12 o'clock already? Then it's time for me to leave.
           You don't like potatoes? What do you want me to cook, then?
     5. adv. (sequence) At the same time; on the other hand.
           That’s a nice shirt, but then, so is the other one.
     6. adv. (dialect) Used to contradict an assertion.
     7. adj. Being so at that time.
     8. n. That time
           It will be finished before then.
add
     1. v. To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate.
     2. v. To sum up; to put together mentally.
           to add numbers
     3. v. To combine elements of (something) into one quantity.
           to add a column of numbers
     4. v. To give by way of increased possession (to someone); to bestow (on).
     5. v. To append (e,g, a statement); to say further information.
     6. v. (intransitive) To make an addition; to augment; to increase.
           It adds to our anxiety.
     7. v. (intransitive, mathematics) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.
           He adds rapidly.
     8. n. (computer science) An act or instance of adding.
     9. n. (video games) An additional enemy that joined the fight after the primary target.
           After engaging the boss for one minute, two adds will arrive from the back and must be dealt with.
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.
herbs
     1. n. plural of herb
     herb
          1. n. Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
          2. n. A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.
                If any medicinal herbs used by witches were supposedly evil, then how come people from at least the past benefited from the healing properties of such herbs?
          3. n. (slang) Marijuana.
          4. n. (botany) A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season
          5. n. (obsolete) Grass; herbage.
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