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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.
once
1. adv. (frequency) One and only one time.
I have only once eaten pizza.
2. adv. (temporal location) Formerly; during some period in the past.
He was once the most handsome man around. I once had a bicycle just like that one.
Wang notes that flowers have rooted and grow in the area once covered with ice.
3. adv. (mathematics) Multiplied by one: indicating that a number is multiplied by one.
Once three is three.
4. adv. As soon as.
5. adv. (obsolete) At a future time.
6. conj. As soon as; when; after.
We'll get a move on once we find the damn car keys!
Once you have obtained the elven bow, return to the troll bridge and trade it for the sleeping potion.
Once he is married, he will be able to claim the inheritance.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
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.
age
1. n. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
2. n. The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
3. n. One of the stages of life.
the age of infancy
4. n. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
the age of consent; the age of discretion
5. n. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
the golden age; the age of Pericles
6. n. A great period in the history of the Earth.
the Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age; the Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic epoch
7. n. A period of one hundred years; a century.
8. n. The people who live during a particular period.
9. n. A generation.
There are three ages living in her house.
10. n. (hyperbole) A long time.
It’s been an age since we last saw you.
11. n. (geology) A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts.
12. n. (poker) The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
13. n. That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
What is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
14. n. Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
to come of age; she is now of age
15. n. An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
16. v. To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
Grief ages us.
17. v. (transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
Money's a little tight right now, let's age our bills for a week or so.
18. v. (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.
19. v. (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
He grew fat as he aged.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
century
1. n. A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (infor
2. n. A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen)
3. n. A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
4. n. A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
5. n. (cricket) A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
6. n. (sports) A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
7. n. (US, informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.

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