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from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He left yesterday from Chicago.
Face away from the wall!
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
An umbrella protects from the sun.
He knows right from wrong.
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.
objective
1. adj. Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
2. adj. Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices.
3. adj. Based on observed facts.
4. adj. (grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
5. adj. (linguistics, grammar) Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
6. n. A material object that physically exists.
7. n. A goal that is striven for.
8. n. (grammar) The objective case.
Synonyms: object case, objective case
9. n. (grammar) a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
10. n. The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.
viewpoint
1. n. The position from which something is observed or considered; an angle, outlook or point of view.
His
1. pron. honoraltcaps, his
2. det. Belonging to him.
3. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
4. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
5. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark.
Sejanus his Fall
6. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
The decision was his to live with.
7. pron. alternative spelling of His
8. n. plural of hi
argument
1. n. A fact or statement used to support a proposition;a reason.
2. n. A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
3. n. A process of reasoning.
4. n. (philosophy, logic) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
5. n. (mathematics) The independent variable of a function.
6. n. (mathematics) The phase of a complex number.
7. n. (programming) A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.
Parameters are like labeled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.
8. n. (programming) A parameter in a function definition; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
9. n. (linguistics) Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
10. n. (astronomy) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends.
The altitude is the argument of the refraction.
11. n. The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
12. n. Matter for question; business in hand.
13. v. To put forward as an argument; to argue.
was
1. v. first-person singular past of be.
2. v. third-person singular past of be.
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
far
1. adj. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) Distant.
A far land.
2. adj. Remote in space.
He went to a far country.
3. adj. Remote in time.
4. adj. Long.
It was a far adventure, full of danger.
5. adj. More remote or longer of two.
He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end.
6. adj. Extreme.
We are on the far right on this issue.
7. adj. Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
8. adj. (computing, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
far heap; far memory; far pointer
9. adv. Distant in space, time or degree.
My house is quite far from the beach. The plan is good, but it is far from being flawless.
10. adv. To or from a great distance, time, or degree.
You have all come far and you will go farther.
11. adv. (with a comparative) Very much.
He was far richer than we'd thought.
12. n. Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
13. n. (dialect) A litter of piglets; a farrow.
from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He left yesterday from Chicago.
Face away from the wall!
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
An umbrella protects from the sun.
He knows right from wrong.
rational
1. adj. Capable of reasoning.
Man is a rational creature.
2. adj. Logically sound; not contradictory or otherwise absurd.
His statements were quite rational.
3. adj. (of a person or personal characteristics) Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
rational conduct
4. adj. (mathematics, arithmetic, number theory, not comparable) Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers.
¾ is a rational number, but √2 is an irrational number.
5. adj. (mathematics, arithmetic, not comparable) Of an algebraic expression, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.
6. adj. (chemistry) Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; said of formulae.
7. adj. (physics) Expressing a physical object.
A rational table is physical, a written table is neither.
8. n. (mathematics) A rational number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.
The quotient of two rationals is again a rational.
9. n. (historical) The breastplate worn by Israelite high priests.
1609, Douay-Rheims Bible, Exodus 28:15
And thou shalt make the rational of judgment with embroidered work of divers colours, according to the workmanship of the ephod, of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine tw

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