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get
1. v. (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.
Lance is going to get Mary a ring.
2. v. To receive.
I got a computer from my parents for my birthday.
You need to get permission to leave early.
He got a severe reprimand for that.
3. v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. (See usage notes.)
I've got a concert ticket for you.
4. v. (copulative) To become.
I'm getting hungry; how about you?
Don't get drunk tonight.
5. v. To cause to become; to bring about.
That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it.
I'll get this finished by lunchtime.
I can't get these boots off upright - (or on'upright,).
6. v. To fetch, bring, take.
Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?
I need to get this to the office.
7. v. To cause to do.
Somehow she got him to agree to it.
I can't get it to work.
8. v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards
The actors are getting into position.
When are we going to get to London?
I'm getting into a muddle.
We got behind the wall.
9. v. To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
to get a mile
10. v. To cause to come or go or move.
11. v. To cause to be in a certain status or position.
12. v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
We ought to get moving or we'll be late.
After lunch we got chatting.
13. v. To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
I normally get the 7:45 train.
I'll get the 9 a.m. flight to Boston.
14. v. To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
Can you get that call, please? I'm busy.
15. v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).
I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live!
The finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure.
16. v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny.
I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!
I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. She gets me.
17. v. (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
"You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot.".
18. v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
He got bitten by a dog.
19. v. To become ill with or catch (a disease).
I went on holiday and got malaria.
20. v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time.
21. v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
That question's really got me.
22. v. To find as an answer.
What did you get for question four?
23. v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
The cops finally got me.
I'm gonna get him for that.
24. v. To hear completely; catch.
Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?
25. v. To getter.
I put the getter into the container to get the gases.
26. v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
27. v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
to get a lesson; to get out one's Greek lesson
28. v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
Get her with her new hairdo.
29. v. (informal, mostly, imperative) Go away; get lost.
30. v. (euphemism) To kill.
They’re coming to get you, Barbara.
31. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
32. n. (dated) Offspring.
33. n. Lineage.
34. n. (sports) A difficult return or block of a shot.
35. n. Something gained.
36. n. (UK, regional) A git.
37. n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
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.
politicians
1. n. plural of politician
politician
1. n. One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.
Politicians should serve the country's interest.
2. n. Specifically, one who regards elected political office as a career.
Unlike the other candidates, I'm not a politician.
3. n. A politically active or interested person.
Only real politicians are interested in this issue.
4. n. A sly or ingratiating person.
There is a politician in every office.
catch
1. n. The act of seizing or capturing.
The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.
2. n. The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
The player made an impressive catch.
Nice catch!
3. n. The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
Good catch. I never would have remembered that.
4. n. The game of catching a ball.
The kids love to play catch.
5. n. A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
Did you see his latest catch?
He's a good catch.
6. n. Something which is captured or caught. (jump, quantity captured, s)
The fishermen took pictures of their catch.
The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish.
7. n. A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
She installed a sturdy catch to keep her cabinets closed tight.
8. n. A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
There was a catch in his voice when he spoke his father's name.
9. n. (sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
It sounds like a great idea, but what's the catch?
Be careful, that's a catch question.
10. n. A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
I bent over to see under the table and got a catch in my side.
11. n. A fragment of music or poetry.
12. n. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
13. n. (agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
14. n. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
15. n. (music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
16. n. (music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
17. n. (cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
18. n. (cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
19. n. (rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
20. n. (phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
21. n. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
22. n. A slight remembrance; a trace.
23. v. To capture, overtake.:
24. v. To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
I hope I catch a fish. He ran but we caught him at the exit. The police caught the robber at a nearby casino.
25. v. To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
26. v. (transitive figuratively, dated) To marry or enter into a similar relationship with.
27. v. To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
If he catches you on the chin, you'll be on the mat.
28. v. To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
If you leave now you might catch him. I would love to have dinner but I have to catch a plane.
29. v. To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
He was caught on video robbing the bank. He was caught in the act of stealing a biscuit.
30. v. To travel by means of.
catch the bus
31. v. (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
32. v. To seize hold of.:
33. v. (transitive, dated) To grab, seize, take hold of.
I caught her by the arm and turned her to face me.
34. v. To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
I have to stop for a moment and catch my breath. I caught some Z's on the train.
35. v. To grip or entangle.
My leg was caught in a tree-root.
36. v. (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
Be careful your dress doesn't catch on that knob. His voice caught when he came to his father's name.
37. v. (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
Push it in until it catches. The engine finally caught and roared to life.
38. v. To have something be held back or impeded.
I caught my heel on the threshold.
39. v. (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
He caught at the railing as he fell.
40. v. Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
The fire spread slowly until it caught the eaves of the barn.
41. v. (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
42. v. (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
The seeds caught and grew.
43. v. (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
44. v. (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
When the program catches an exception, this is recorded in the log file.
45. v. To intercept.:
46. v. To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
I will throw you the ball, and you catch it. Watch me catch this raisin in my mouth.
47. v. (transitive, now rare) To seize (an opportunity) when it occurs.
48. v. (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
Townsend hit 29 before he was caught by Wilson.
49. v. (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
He caught the last three innings.
50. v. To receive (by being in the way).:
51. v. To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
You're going to catch a beating if they find out.
52. v. To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
The sunlight caught the leaves and the trees turned to gold. Her hair was caught by the light breeze.
53. v. To be infected by (an illness).
Everyone seems to be catching the flu this week.
54. v. (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
55. v. (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
The bucket catches water from the downspout. The trees caught quickly in the dry wind.
56. v. To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
She finally caught the mood of the occasion.
57. v. To be hit by something.
He caught a bullet in the back of the head last year.
58. v. (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
59. v. (intransitive,) To get pregnant.
Well, if you didn't catch this time, we'll have more fun trying again until you do.
60. v. To take in with one's senses or intellect.:
61. v. To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
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.
government
1. n. The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
2. n. (grammar, linguistics) The relationship between a word and its dependents
3. n. A group of people who hold a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in a given territory.
4. n. The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
5. n. The management or control of a system.
6. n. The tenure of a chief of state.
lying
1. v. present participle of lie (to rest in a horizontal position id=to rest.
2. n. The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
3. v. present participle of lie (to intentionally give false information) id=false.
4. n. An act of telling a lie or falsehood.
lie
1. v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
The book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin
2. v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
3. v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hidden; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves
The paper does not lie smooth on the wall.
4. v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
5. v. Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
6. v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
7. v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
8. v. (legal) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
9. n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
10. n. (disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
11. n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
12. v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
When Pinocchio lies, his nose grows.
If you are found to have lied in court, you could face a penalty.
While a principle-based approach might claim that lying is always morally wrong, the casuist would argue that, depending upon the details of the case, lying might or might not be illegal or une
13. v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
Photographs often lie.
Hips don't lie.
14. v. (intransitive) To succeed or excel at lying; lie successfully; show one's expertise or mastery in the art of lying.
Wow, that boy can really lie!
15. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
Sorry, I haven't seen your keys anywhere...wait, I lied! They're right there on the coffee table.
16. n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.
17. n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth
18. n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.
denigrate
1. v. To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
2. v. To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
You have no right to denigrate people and things that you have no personal experience with.
3. v. (rare) To blacken.
mock
1. n. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
2. n. Mockery, the act of mocking.
3. n. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.
He got a B in his History mock, but improved to an A in the exam.
4. n. (software engineering) A mockup or prototype.
5. v. To mimic, to simulate.
6. v. To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.
7. v. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
8. v. (software engineering, transitive) To create a mockup or prototype of.
What's the best way to mock a database layer?
9. adj. Imitation, not genuine; fake.
mock turtle soup
mock leather
kill
1. v. To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.
2. v. To render inoperative.
He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
3. v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease or render void; to terminate.
The editor decided to kill the story.
The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.
My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.
4. v. (transitive figuratively, hyperbole) To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate.
That night, she was dressed to kill.
That joke always kills me.
5. v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.
It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries.
6. v. To use up or to waste.
I'm just doing this to kill time.
He told the bartender, pointing at the bottle of scotch he planned to consume, "Leave it, I'm going to kill the bottle.".
7. v. (transitive figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
Between the two of us, we killed the rest of the case of beer.
Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate anymore.
8. v. (transitive figuratively, hyperbole) To overpower, overwhelm or defeat.
The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.
9. v. To force a company out of business.
10. v. (intransitive, informal, hyperbolic) To produce intense pain.
You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill.
11. v. (figuratively, informal hyperbole transitive) To punish severely.
My parents are going to kill me!
12. v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
13. v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
14. v. (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
15. v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
16. v. (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
17. n. The act of killing.
The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
18. n. Specifically, the death blow.
The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
19. n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
20. n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
21. n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
The channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.
Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
22. n. A kiln.

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