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happening
     1. v. present participle of happen
     2. adj. (slang) Busy, lively; vibrant, dynamic; fashionable.
           This is a happening place tonight!
     3. adj. (slang) Trendy, up-to-the-minute.
           He is a real happening guy.
     4. n. Something that happens.
     5. n. A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation.
     happen
          1. v. (intransitive) To occur or take place.
                Let me tell you how it happened.
          2. v. (transitive, archaic) To happen to; to befall.
          3. v. (intransitive or impersonal, with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
                Take an umbrella in case it happens to rain.
                Do you happen to have an umbrella?
                I happened to get wet.
          4. v. (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
          5. adv. (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.
every
     1. det. All of a group (considered individually), without exception.
           Every person in the room stood and cheered.
     2. det. Used with ordinal numbers to denote those items whose position is divisible by the corresponding cardinal number, or a portion of equal size to that set.
           Every third bead was red, and the rest were blue.  The sequence was thus red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue etc.
           Decimation originally meant the execution of every tenth soldier in a unit.
minute
     1. n. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
           You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
     2. n. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
           Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
     3. n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
           We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.
     4. n. (chiefly in the minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
           Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
     5. n. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
           If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes.
     6. n. A point in time; a moment.
     7. n. A nautical or a geographic mile.
     8. n. An old coin, a half farthing.
     9. n. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
     10. n. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
     11. n. (slang) A while or a long unspecified period of time
           Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
     12. v. Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
           I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
     13. v. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
     14. adj. Very small.
           They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
     15. adj. Very careful and exact, giving small details.
           The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.
continuing
     1. v. present participle of continue
     2. n. A continuation.
     continue
          1. v. To proceed with (qual, doing an activity); to prolong qual, an activity.
                Shall I continue speaking, or will you just interrupt me again?
                Do you want me to continue to unload these?
          2. v. To make last; to prolong.
          3. v. To retain (qual, someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
          4. v. (intransitive) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
          5. v. (intransitive) To resume.
                When will the concert continue?
          6. v. (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
                This meeting has been continued to the thirteenth of July.
          7. v. (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
          8. n. (video games) An option allowing a gamer to resume play after game over, when all life, lives have been lost.
          9. n. (programming) A statement which causes a loop to start executing the next iteration, skipping the statements following it.
unceasing
     1. adj. continuous; continuing indefinitely without stopping
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