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done
     1. adj. (of food) Ready, fully cooked.
           As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.
     2. adj. Having completed or finished an activity.
           He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done.".
           They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived.
     3. adj. Being exhausted or fully spent.
           When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.
     4. adj. Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
           He is done, after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.
     5. adj. Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
           I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done!
           What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!
     6. v. past participle of do
           I have done my work.
     7. v. (African American Vernacular English, Southern American English, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect; have.
           I done did my best to raise y'all.
           I woke up and found out she done left.
     8. v. (obsolete) plural simple present form of do
     9. n. (colloquial, slang) (clipping of methadone)
           on the done
     do
          1. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker
          2. v.          (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
                        Do you go there often?
          3. v.          (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
                        I do not go there often.
                        Do not listen to him.
          4. v.          (auxiliary) A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
                        But I do go sometimes.
                        Do tell us.
                        It is important that he do come see me.
          5. v.          (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; not generally used with auxiliari
                        I play tennis; she does too.
                   #     They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
          6. v. To perform; to execute.
                All you ever do is surf the Internet. What will you do this afternoon?
          7. v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
          8. v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
                it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do;  this will do me, thanks.
          9. v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
                It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.
          10. v. To have (as an effect).
                The fresh air did him some good.
          11. v. (intransitive) To fare, perform (well or poorly).
                Our relationship isn't doing very well;  how do you do?
          12. v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
                What does Bob do? — He's a plumber.
          13. v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something)
                "Don't forget to do your report" means something quite different depending on whether you're a student or a programmer.
          14. v. To cook.
                I'll just do some eggs.
          15. v. To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
                Let’s do New York also.
          16. v. To treat in a certain way.
          17. v. To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
          18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
          19. v. (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
                I did five years for armed robbery.
          20. v. To impersonate or depict.
                They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.
          21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
          22. v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
          23. v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
                He got done for speeding.
                Teacher'll do you for that!
          24. v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)
          25. v. To cheat or swindle.
                That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!
          26. v. To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
                the novel has just been done into English;  I'm going to do this play into a movie
          27. v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
                Aren't you done yet?
          28. v. (dated) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
          29. v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
          30. v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
          31. v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
                Do they do haircuts there?
                Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
          32. v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
          33. v. To take drugs.
                I do cocaine.
          34. v. (transitive, in the form be doing somewhere) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
                What's that car doing in our swimming pool? -
          35. n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
                We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
          36. n. (informal) A hairdo.
                Nice do!
          37. n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
          38. n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
          39. n. (archaic) Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
          40. n. (obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
          41. n. (obsolete, UK, slang) An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
          42. n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
          43. adv. (rare) (abbreviation of ditto)
by
     1. prep. Near or next to.
           The mailbox is by the bus stop.
     2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
           Be back by ten o'clock!  We will send it by the first week of July.
     3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
           The matter was decided by the chairman.  The boat was swamped by the water.  He was protected by his body armour.
     4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
           There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
     5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of.
     6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
           I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
     7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination.
           The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
     8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
           I sorted the items by category.  By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
     9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
           Our stock is up by ten percent.
     10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
           We went through the book page by page.  We crawled forward by inches.
     11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
           He cheated by his own admission.
     12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
           By Jove! I think she's got it!  By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
     13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
           It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix.  The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot.  The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
     14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
           She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
     15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
           I watched as it passed by.
     16. adv. In the vicinity, near.
           There was a shepherd close by.
           The shop is hard by the High Street.
     17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
           I'll stop by on my way home from work.
           We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
     18. adv. Aside, away.
           The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
     19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
     20. n. (card games) A pass
     21. interj. alternative spelling of bye
three
     1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
     2. num. Describing a set or group with three elements.
     3. n. The digit/figure 3.
     4. n. Anything measuring three units, as length.
           Put all the threes in a separate container.
     5. n. A person who is three years old.
           All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
     6. n. The playing card featuring three pips.
     7. n. (basketball) (abbreviation of three-pointer)
parties
     1. n. plural of party
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of party
     party
          1. n. (legal) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
                The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee.
          2. n. A person.
          3. n.          (slang) A person; an individual.
                        He is a queer party.
          4. n.          With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.
                        I can't possibly be a party to that kind of reckless behaviour.
          5. n. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
          6. n.          (RPG, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group.
          7. n.          (video games) A group of characters controlled by the player.
          8. n. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
                The green party took 12% of the vote.
          9. n. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
                The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party.
          10. n. A social gathering.
          11. n.          A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
                        I'm throwing a huge party for my 21st birthday.
          12. n.          A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
                        We're expecting a large party from the London office.
          13. n.          A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
                        Tupperware party
                        lingerie party
          14. n. (obsolete) A part or division.
          15. v. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
                We partied until the early hours.
          16. v. (intransitive, slang) To take recreational drugs.
          17. v. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
          18. v. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).
                If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.
          19. adj. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
          20. adj. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
                an escutcheon party per pale
          21. adv. (obsolete) Partly.
     party
          1. n. (legal) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
                The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee.
          2. n. A person.
          3. n.          (slang) A person; an individual.
                        He is a queer party.
          4. n.          With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.
                        I can't possibly be a party to that kind of reckless behaviour.
          5. n. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
          6. n.          (RPG, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group.
          7. n.          (video games) A group of characters controlled by the player.
          8. n. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
                The green party took 12% of the vote.
          9. n. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
                The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party.
          10. n. A social gathering.
          11. n.          A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
                        I'm throwing a huge party for my 21st birthday.
          12. n.          A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
                        We're expecting a large party from the London office.
          13. n.          A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
                        Tupperware party
                        lingerie party
          14. n. (obsolete) A part or division.
          15. v. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
                We partied until the early hours.
          16. v. (intransitive, slang) To take recreational drugs.
          17. v. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
          18. v. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).
                If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.
          19. adj. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
          20. adj. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
                an escutcheon party per pale
          21. adv. (obsolete) Partly.
As
     1. n. plural of A
           She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As.
     2. adv. To such an extent or degree.
           You’re not as tall as I am.
           It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive.
     3. adv. In the manner or role specified.
           The kidnappers released him as agreed.
           The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues.
           He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend.
     4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as).
     5. conj. In the same way that; according to what.
           Do as I say!
           I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know.
           As you wish, my lord!
     6. conj. At the same instant that; when.
           As I came in, she flew.
     7. conj. At the same time that; while.
           He sleeps as the rain falls.
     8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that.
           As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy.
     9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since.
           As it’s too late, I quit.
     10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality.
           She's twice as strong as I was two years ago.
           It's not so complicated as I expected.
     11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’.
     12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though.
     13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that.
     14. conj. Expressing concession; though.
     15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than.
     16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case.
           You are not as tall as me.
           They're big as houses.
     17. prep. In the role of.
           What is your opinion as a parent?
     18. n. (unit of weight) A libra.
     19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value.
     20. n. plural of a
an
     1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
     2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
     3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
     4. conj. (archaic) If
     5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
           An it harm none, do what ye will.
     6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
     7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
     8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
           I was only going twenty miles an hour.
agreement
     1. n. An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
           to enter an agreement;  the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement;  he nodded his agreement.
     2. n. A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
           The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.
     3. n. (legal) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
     4. n. (linguistics, grammar) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
     5. n. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
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