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examining
1. v. present participle of examine
2. n. examination
examine
1. v. to observe or inspect carefully or critically
He examined the crime scene for clues.
She examined the hair sample under a microscope.
2. v. to check the health or condition of something or someone
The doctor examined the patient.
3. v. to determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination
4. v. to interrogate
The witness was examined under oath.
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.
tea
1. n. The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis.
Go to the supermarket and buy some tea.
2. n. The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.
Would you like some tea?
3. n. A variety of the tea plant.
Darjeeling is a tea from India.
4. n. By extension, any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants. Also, meat stock served hot as a drink, often as a stimulant or restorative.
camomile tea; mint tea; beef tea
5. n. (Australia, British, Canada, New Zealand, northern US) A cup of any one of these drinks, often with a small amount of milk or cream added and sweetened with sugar or honey.
6. n. (Southern US) A glass of iced tea, typically served with ice cubes and sometimes with a slice or wedge of lemon.
7. n. (UK) A light meal eaten mid-afternoon, typically with tea; afternoon tea.
8. n. (Commonwealth) The main evening meal, irrespective of whether tea is drunk with it.
The family were sitting round the table, having their tea.
9. n. (cricket) The break in play between the second and third sessions.
Australia were 490 for 7 at tea on the second day.
10. n. (slang) Marijuana.
11. n. (slang) Information, especially sensitive and/or juicy gossip. (Connected to the idea of sipping tea while listening to such information.)
spill the tea on that drama
12. v. To drink tea.
13. v. To take afternoon tea (the light meal).
14. n. A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea. It is now found in Chinese-language historical fiction.
leaves
1. n. plural of leaf
2. n. plural of leave
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of leave
leave
1. v. To have a consequence or remnant.
2. v. To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (somet
I left my car at home and took a bus to work. The ants did not leave so much as a crumb of bread. There's not much food left. We'd be
3. v. To cause, to result in.
The lightning left her dazzled for several minutes. Infantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life.
4. v. To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
Leave your hat in the hall. We should leave the legal matters to lawyers. I left my sewing and went to the window to watch the fallin
5. v. To depart; to separate from.
6. v. To let be or do without interference.
I left him to his reflections. I leave my hearers to judge.
7. v. To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
I left the country and I left my wife.
8. v. To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
I left the band.
9. v. (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
I think you'd better leave.
10. v. To transfer something.
11. v. To transfer possession of after death.
When my father died, he left me the house.
12. v. To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
I'll leave the car in the station so you can pick it up there.
13. v. To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
Can't we just leave this to the experts?
14. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
15. v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
16. n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
17. n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or onl
18. n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss.
19. n. (dated, or legal) Permission.
Might I beg leave to accompany you?
The applicant now seeks leave to appeal and, if leave be granted, to appeal against these sentences.
20. n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance.
21. v. To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
22. v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed.
23. v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.
leaf
1. n. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
2. n. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
3. n. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
gold leaf
4. n. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
5. n. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
6. n. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
7. n. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.
8. n. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
9. n. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
10. n. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
11. n. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
12. v. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
13. v. To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.
She
1. pron. honoraltcaps, she
2. n. An ethnic group in southern China.
3. n. A language of the Hmong-Mien language family spoken by the She people.
4. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
I asked Mary, but she said that she didn’t know.
5. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat.
She could do forty knots in good weather.
She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
6. pron. (personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car.
She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.
7. pron. (personal, dated) A country.
She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
8. pron. (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
9. n. A female.
Pat is definitely a she.
prognosticated
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of prognosticate
prognosticate
1. v. To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
Examining the tea-leaves, she prognosticated dark days ahead.
2. v. To presage, betoken.
The bluebells may prognosticate an early spring this year.
dark
1. adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
The room was too dark for reading.
2. adj. (of a source of light) Extinguished.
Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.
3. adj. Deprived of sight; blind.
4. adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
my sister's hair is darker than mine; her skin grew dark with a suntan
5. adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
6. adj. Not clear to the understanding; not easily through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
7. adj. (betting, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
8. adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
a dark villain; a dark deed
9. adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
the Great Depression was a dark time; the film was a dark psychological thriller
10. adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
11. adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form or a portion of either.
The ending of this book is rather dark.
12. n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
Dark surrounds us completely.
13. n. Ignorance.
We kept him in the dark.
The lawyer was left in the dark as to why the jury was dismissed.
14. n. Nightfall.
It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.
15. n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
days
1. n. plural of day
2. n. A particular time or period of vague extent.
Things were more relaxed in Grandpa's days.
3. n. Life.
That's how he ended his days.
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of day
5. adv. During the day.
She works days at the garage.
day
1. n. Any period of 24 hours.
I've been here for two days and a bit.
2. n. A period from midnight to the following midnight.
The day begins at midnight.
3. n. (astronomy) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).
A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.
4. n. The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
I worked two days last week.
5. n. Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.
day and night; I work at night and sleep during the day.
6. n. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
Every dog has its day.
7. n. A period of contention of a day or less.
The day belonged to the Allies.
8. n. (meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.
9. v. (rare, intransitive) To spend a day (in a place).
ahead
1. adv. In or to the front; in advance; onward.
The island was directly ahead.
2. adv. In the direction one is facing or moving.
Just ahead you can see the cliffs.
3. adv. In or for the future.
There may be tough times ahead.
You've got to think ahead so as not to be unprepared.
4. adv. At an earlier time.
He paid his rent ahead.
5. adv. Having progressed more.
In all of his classes Jack was ahead.

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