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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).
drove
1. n. A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
2. n. (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
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3. n. (collective) A group of hares.
4. n. A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven.
5. n. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
6. n. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
7. n. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
8. v. simple past tense of drive
9. v. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
10. v. To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
drive
1. n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
2. n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
3. n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
4. n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
5. n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use.
Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
6. n. A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
It was a long drive.
7. n. A driveway.
The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.
8. n. A type of public roadway.
Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.
9. n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
10. n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
11. n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
12. n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.
13. n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
14. n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
15. n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
16. n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
17. n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
18. n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
a whist drive; a beetle drive
19. n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
20. n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
21. v. To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
to drive sheep out of a field
22. v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
23. v. To cause animals to flee out of.
24. v. To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
You drive nails into wood with a hammer.
25. v. To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
The pistons drive the crankshaft.
26. v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
drive a car
27. v. To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
What drives a person to run a marathon?
28. v. To compel (to do something).
Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.
29. v. To cause to become.
This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity. You are driving me crazy!
30. v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
31. v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
I drive to work every day.
32. v. To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
My wife drove me to the airport.
33. v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
34. v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
35. v. To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
36. v. To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
37. v. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
38. v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
39. v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
40. v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
41. v. To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
off
1. adv. In a direction away from the speaker or object.
He drove off in a cloud of smoke.
2. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence.
Please switch off the light when you leave.
die off
3. adv. So as to be removed or separated.
He bit off more than he could chew.
Some branches were sawn off.
4. adj. Inoperative, disabled.
All the lights are off.
5. adj. Rancid, rotten.
This milk is off!
6. adj. (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
7. adj. Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
sales are off this quarter
8. adj. Circumstanced (as in well off, better off, poorly off).
9. adj. Started on the way.
off to see the wizard
And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.
10. adj. Far; off to the side.
the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse
11. adj. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
He took an off day for fishing. an off year in politics; the off season
12. adj. (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.
— I'll have the chicken please.
— Sorry, chicken's off today.
13. adj. Right-hand (in relation to the side of a horse or a vehicle).
14. prep. Used to indicate movement away from a position on
I took it off the table.
Come off the roof!
15. prep. (colloquial) Out of the possession of.
He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him.
16. prep. Away from or not on.
He's off the computer, but he's still on the phone.
Keep off the grass.
17. prep. Disconnected or subtracted from.
We've been off the grid for three days now.
He took 20% off the list price.
18. prep. Distant from.
We're just off the main road.
The island is 23 miles off the cape.
19. prep. No longer wanting or taking.
He's been off his feed since Tuesday.
He's off his meds again.
20. prep. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering(topics, en, Engineering).
Tantalum bar 6 off 3/8" Dia × 12" — Atom, Great Britain Atomic Energy Authority, 1972
samples submitted … 12 off Thermistors type 1K3A531 … — BSI test report for shock and vibration testing, 2000
I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off.
21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
He got in the way so I had him offed.
22. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) To switch off.
Can you off the light?
23. n. (rare) Beginning; starting point.
He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.
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.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
cloud
1. n. (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
2. n. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
3. n. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
4. n. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
5. n. (figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
6. n. A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
7. n. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.
8. n. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
The comic-book character's thoughts appeared in a cloud above his head.
9. n. (computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
10. n. (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
11. n. (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
12. n. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
13. v. (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
The glass clouds when you breathe on it.
14. v. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
The sky is clouded.
15. v. To make obscure.
All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.
16. v. To make less acute or perceptive.
Your emotions are clouding your judgement.
The tears began to well up and cloud my vision.
17. v. To make gloomy or sullen.
18. v. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
19. v. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours.
to cloud yarn
20. v. (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
smoke
1. n. The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
2. n. (colloquial) A cigarette.
Can I bum a smoke off you?; I need to go buy some smokes.
3. n. (colloquial) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
Hey, you got some smoke?
4. n. (colloquial, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
I'm going out for a smoke.
5. n. (figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
6. n. (figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
The smoke of controversy.
7. n. A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
(color panel, D6E2E2)
8. n. (military) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke
9. n. (baseball, slang) A fastball.
10. v. To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
He's smoking his pipe.
11. v. (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
Do you smoke?
12. v. (intransitive) To give off smoke.
My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.
13. v. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.
14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
15. v. (slang) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.
16. v. (US, Canada NZ slang) To beat someone at something.
We smoked them at rugby.
17. v. (US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
He got smoked by the mob.
18. v. (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
19. v. (slang) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
20. v. To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
21. v. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
22. v. To suffer severely; to be punished.
23. v. (transitive, US military slang) To punish for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
24. adj. Of the colour known as smoke.
25. adj. Made of or with smoke.

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