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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).
returned
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of return
return
1. v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter.
2. v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
To return to my story...
3. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
5. v. To place or put back something where it had been.
Please return your hands to your lap.
6. v. To give something back to its original holder or owner.
You should return the library book within one month.
7. v. To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
If the goods don't work, you can return them.
8. v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
9. v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
The player couldn't return the serve because it was so fast.
10. v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump.
11. v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
12. v. To say in reply; to respond.
to return an answer; to return thanks
13. v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
14. v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
This function returns the number of files in the directory.
15. v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
to return the lie
16. v. To report, or bring back and make known.
to return the result of an election
17. v. (by extension, UK) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
18. n. The act of returning.
I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.
19. n. A return ticket.
Do you want a one-way or a return?
20. n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before.
21. n. An answer.
a return to one's question
22. n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold
23. n. Gain or loss from an investment.
It yielded a return of 5%.
24. n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
Hand in your return by the end of the tax year.
25. n. (computing) A carriage return character.
26. n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
27. n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
28. n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
29. n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
30. n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
31. n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction
A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He left yesterday from Chicago.
Face away from the wall!
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
An umbrella protects from the sun.
He knows right from wrong.
war
1. n. Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.
The war was largely between Sunni and Shia militants.
2. n. A particular conflict of this kind.
3. n. By extension, any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.
You look like you've been through the wars.
4. n. (figuratively) A campaign against something.
The "war on drugs" is a campaign against the use of narcotic drugs.
The "war on terror" is a campaign against terrorist crime.
In the US, conservatives rail against the "war on Christmas".
5. n. (business) A bout of fierce competition in trade.
I reaped the benefit of the car dealerships' price war, getting my car for far less than it's worth.
The cellular phone companies were engaged in a freebie war, each offering various services thrown in when one purchased a plan.
6. n. (obsolete) Instruments of war.
7. n. (obsolete) Armed forces.
8. n. A particular card game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt.
9. v. (intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
10. v. To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
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.
cripple
1. adj. (now rare, dated) Crippled.
2. n. (sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
He returned from war a cripple.
3. n. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
4. n. (dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) scrapple.
5. n. (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
6. v. to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired
The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
7. v. (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
8. v. to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.
9. v. (informal) slang: to nerf (used in gaming) something which is overpowered.

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