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he
     1. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.
     2. pron. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
           The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?
     3. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown.
     4. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
     5. n. (informal) A male.
           Alex totally is a he.
     6. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
assembled
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of assemble
     assemble
          1. v. To put together.
                He assembled the model ship.
          2. v. To gather as a group.
                The parents assembled in the school hall.
          3. v. (computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code
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.
model
     1. n. A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing.
           The beautiful model had her face on the cover of almost every fashion magazine imaginable.
     2. n. A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show.
     3. n. A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature.
           The boy played with a model of a World War II fighter plane.
     4. n. A simplified representation used to explain the workings of a real world system or event.
           The computer weather model did not correctly predict the path of the hurricane.
     5. n. A style, type, or design.
           He decided to buy the turbo engine model of the sports car.
           This year's model features four doors instead of two.
     6. n. The structural design of a complex system.
           The team developed a sound business model.
     7. n. A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
           He was a model of eloquence and virtue.
           British parliamentary democracy was seen as a model for other countries to follow.
     8. n. (logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
     9. n. (logic) An interpretation which makes a certain sentence true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that sentence.
     10. n. (manufacturing) An identifier of a product given by its manufacturer (also called model number).
     11. n. (medicine) An animal that is used to study a human disease or pathology.
     12. n. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
     13. n. (software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.
     14. adj. Worthy of being a model; exemplary.
     15. v. To display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model.
           She modelled the shoes for her friends to see.
     16. v. To use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model.
           They modelled the data with a computer to analyze the experiment’s results.
     17. v. To make a miniature model of.
           He takes great pride in his skill at modeling airplanes.
     18. v. To create from a substance such as clay.
           The sculptor modelled the clay into the form of a dolphin.
     19. v. (intransitive) To make a model or models.
     20. v. (intransitive) To be a model of any kind.
           The actress used to model before being discovered by Hollywood.
ship
     1. n. A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
     2. n. (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
     3. n. (archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
     4. n. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
     5. n. (cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.
     6. v. To send by water-borne transport.
     7. v. To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
           to ship freight by railroad
     8. v. To release a product to vendors; to launch.
           Our next issue ships early next year.
           The developers had to ship the game two weeks late.
     9. v. To engage to serve on board a vessel.
           to ship seamen
           I shipped on a man-of-war.
     10. v. (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
     11. v. (transitive, nautical) To put in its place.
           to ship the tiller or rudder
     12. v. To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
           We were shipping so much water I was sure we would capsize.
     13. v. To pass (from one person to another).
           Can you ship me the ketchup?
     14. v. (poker slang) To go all in.
     15. v. (sports) To trade or send a player to another team.
           Twins ship Delmon Young to Tigers.
     16. v. (rugby) To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
     17. n. (fandom) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional.
     18. v. (fandom) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, typically in fan fiction.
           I ship Kirk and Spock in “Star Trek”.
           I ship Peggy and Angie in “Marvel's Agent Carter”.
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