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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).
could
1. v. simple past tense of can
Before I was blind, I could see very well.
2. v. conditional of can
3. v. Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).
I think he could do it if he really wanted to.
I wish I could fly!
4. v. Used to politely ask for permission to do something.
Could I borrow your coat?
5. v. Used to politely ask for someone else to do something.
Could you proofread this email?
6. v. Used to show the possibility that something might happen.
We could rearrange the time if you like.
7. v. Used to suggest something.
You could try adding more salt to the soup.
8. n. Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
can
1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
She can speak English, French, and German. I can play football. Can you remember your fifth birthday?
2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework. Can I use your pen?
3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
Can it be Friday already?
Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.
Animals can experience emotions.
4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
Can you hear that?.
I can feel the baby moving inside me.
5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.
Shit or get off the can.
Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
11. n. (slang) Jail or prison.
Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years.
12. n. (slang) Headphones.
13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup.
14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
15. n. A chimney pot.
16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
18. v. To shut up.
Can your gob.
19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
The boss canned him for speaking out.
not
1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.
Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
2. adv. To no degree.
That is not red; it's orange.
3. conj. And not.
I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not!
Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not!
5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function.
You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip.
6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not.
moot
1. adj. (current in UK, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
2. adj. (North America, chiefly legal) Being an exercise of thought; academic.
Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day (1903) Moot Points: Friendly Disputes on Art and Industry Between Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day
3. adj. (North America) Having no practical impact or relevance.
That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.
4. n. A moot court.
5. n. A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
6. n. (Scouting) A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
7. n. (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
8. n. (historical) An assembly (usually for decision making in a locality).
9. n. (shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
10. v. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
11. v. To discuss or debate.
12. v. (US) To make or declare irrelevant.
13. v. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
14. v. (regional, obsolete) To talk or speak.
'Tis no boot to moot again of it.
15. v. (Scotland, Northern England) To say, utter, also insinuate.
He could not moot the words.
16. n. (Scotland, Northern England) A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
Na, I haven't heard a moot of it.
Haven't you heard the moot, mate? There are going to be layoffs. They are going to shit-can the lot of us.
17. n. (Scotland, Northern England, rural) Talk.
No, there's no moot of it on the streets.
There's some moot of charges, but nothing concrete yet.
18. n. (Australia) Vagina.
19. n. (West Country) The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
20. v. (West Country) To take root and begin to grow.
21. v. (West Country) To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with the snout.
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.
words
1. n. plural of word
Words have a longer life than deeds. — Pindar (translated)
2. n. Angry debate or conversation; argument.
After she found out the truth, she had words with him, to tell him how she felt.
3. n. Lines in a script for a performance.
You better get your words memorised before rehearsal next Saturday.
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of word
word
1. n. The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
2. n. The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
3. n. The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
4. n. A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
5. n. Something like such a unit of language:
6. n. A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning
7. n. (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
8. n. (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine (on many 16-bit machines, 16 bits or two bytes).
9. n. (computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator.
10. n. (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
11. n. The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action.
12. n. (now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
13. n. (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
mum's the word
14. n. (obsolete) A proverb or motto.
15. n. News; tidings (used without an article).
Have you had any word from John yet?
16. n. An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
He sent word that we should strike camp before winter.
Don't fire till I give the word
Their mother's word was law.
17. n. A promise; an oath or guarantee.
I give you my word that I will be there on time.
18. n. A brief discussion or conversation.
Can I have a word with you?
19. n. (in the plural) See words.
There had been words between him and the secretary about the outcome of the meeting.
20. n. (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
Her parents had lived in Botswana, spreading the word among the tribespeople.
21. n. (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
22. v. To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
I’m not sure how to word this letter to the council.
23. v. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter with words, to cajole.
24. v. To ply or overpower with words.
25. v. (transitive, rare) To conjure with a word.
26. v. (intransitive, archaic) To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.
27. interj. (slang) Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond.".
"Yo, that movie was epic!" / "Word?" ("You speak the truth?") / "Word." ("I speak the truth.")
28. interj. (slang) An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.
29. v. alternative form of worth (to become).

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