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her
1. det. Belonging to her.
This is her book
2. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.
Give it to her (after preposition)
He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
He treated her for a cold (direct object)
3. n. (informal) A female person or animal.
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
lawyers
1. n. plural of lawyer
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of lawyer
lawyer
1. n. A professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. conduct lawsuits and/or give legal advice.
2. n. By extension, a legal layman who argues points of law.
3. n. (colloquial, UK) The burbot
4. v. (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
5. v. (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
6. v. (intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
7. v. (informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.
You've been lawyered!
told
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of tell
tell
1. v. To count, reckon, or enumerate.
All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.
2. v. To narrate.
I want to tell a story; I want to tell you a story.
3. v. To convey by speech; to say.
Finally, someone told him the truth. He seems to like to tell lies.
4. v. To instruct or inform.
Please tell me how to do it.
5. v. To order; to direct, to say to someone.
Tell him to go away.
6. v. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance? No, there's no way to tell.
7. v. To reveal.
Time will tell what became of him.
8. v. (intransitive) To be revealed.
9. v. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.
10. v. To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
11. v. (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
I saw you steal those sweets! I'm going to tell!
12. v. (authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show
Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.
13. n. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogatio
14. n. (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
15. n. (internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
16. n. (archaeology) A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
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.
tribunal
1. n. An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
2. n. (Philippines, historical) A kind of village hall used to transact business, to quarter troops and travellers, and to confine prisoners.
that
1. conj. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
He told me that the book is a good read.
I believe that it is true. — She is convinced that he is British.
2. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
Be glad that you have enough to eat.
3. conj. (now uncommon) Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that.
4. conj. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect.
The noise was so loud that she woke up.
The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed.
5. conj. (archaic, or poetic) Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
6. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
Was John there? — Not that I saw.
How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw.
7. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.
8. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.
9. det. The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
That book is a good read. This one isn't.
That battle was in 1450.
That cat of yours is evil.
10. pron. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "t
He went home, and after that I never saw him again.
11. pron. The known (thing); (used to refer to something just said).
They're getting divorced. What do you think about that?
12. pron. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality; used together with a verb and pronoun to emphatically repeat a previous statement.
The water is so cold! — That it is.
13. pron. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; (representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition).
The CPR course that she took really came in handy.
The house that he lived in was old and dilapidated.
14. pron. (colloquial) (Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.)
the place that = where or to which I went last year
the last time that = when I went to Europe
15. adv. (degree) To a given extent or degree.
"The ribbon was that thin." "I disagree, I say it was not that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner...".
16. adv. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
I'm just not that sick.
I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult.
17. adv. (obsolete, outside, dialects) To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her.
18. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
She
1. pron. honoraltcaps, she
2. n. An ethnic group in southern China.
3. n. A language of the Hmong-Mien language family spoken by the She people.
4. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
I asked Mary, but she said that she didn’t know.
5. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat.
She could do forty knots in good weather.
She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
6. pron. (personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car.
She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.
7. pron. (personal, dated) A country.
She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
8. pron. (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
9. n. A female.
Pat is definitely a she.
still
1. adj. Not moving; calm.
Still waters run deep.
2. adj. Not effervescing; not sparkling.
still water; still wines
3. adj. Uttering no sound; silent.
4. adj. (not comparable) Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
5. adj. Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
6. adj. (obsolete) Constant; continual.
7. adv. Without motion.
They stood still until the guard was out of sight.
8. adv. (aspect) Up to a time, as in the preceding time.
Is it still raining? It was still raining five minutes ago.
We've seen most of the sights, but we are still to visit the museum.
9. adv. (degree) To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs.
Tom is tall; Dick is taller; Harry is still taller. ("still" and "taller" can easily swap places here)
10. adv. (conjunctive) Nevertheless.
I’m not hungry, but I’ll still manage to find room for dessert.
Yeah, but still...
11. adv. (archaic, poetic) Always; invariably; constantly; continuously.
12. adv. (extensive) Even, yet.
Some dogs howl, more yelp, still more bark.
13. n. A period of calm or silence.
the still of the night
14. n. (photography) A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
15. n. (slang) A resident of the Falkland Islands.
16. n. A steep hill or ascent.
17. n. a device for distilling liquids.
18. n. (catering) a large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.
19. n. (catering) the area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.
20. n. A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
21. v. to calm down, to quiet
to still the raging sea
22. v. (obsolete) To trickle, drip.
23. v. To cause to fall by drops.
24. v. To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
experienced
1. adj. Having experience and skill in a subject.
2. adj. Experient.
3. v. past participle of experience
experience
1. n. Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
It was an experience he would not soon forget.
2. n. An activity one has performed.
3. n. A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
4. n. The knowledge thus gathered.
5. v. To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.
frequent
1. adj. Done or occurring often; common.
I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired.
There are frequent trains to the beach available.
I am a frequent visitor to that city.
2. adj. Occurring at short intervals.
3. adj. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
4. adj. (obsolete) Full; crowded; thronged.
5. adj. (obsolete) Often or commonly reported.
6. v. To visit often.
I used to frequent that restaurant.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
distressing
1. adj. Causing distress; upsetting.
The details of the ordeal can be distressing to some readers.
2. v. present participle of distress
distress
1. n. (Cause of) discomfort.
2. n. Serious danger.
3. n. (legal) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
4. n. (legal) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
5. v. To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
6. v. (legal) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
7. v. To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
a pair of distressed jeans
She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room.
flashbacks
1. n. plural of flashback
flashback
1. n. (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
2. n. (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma, especially one that recurs.
3. n. A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
4. n. The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
5. v. (intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.
Her
1. pron. honoraltcaps, her
2. det. Belonging to her.
This is her book
3. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.
Give it to her (after preposition)
He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
He treated her for a cold (direct object)
4. n. (informal) A female person or animal.
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
relationship
1. n. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
2. n. (mathematics) The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.
3. n. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
4. n. A romantic or sexual involvement.
Why are they being mean to her just because she wants a relationship with him?
5. n. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
I have a good working relationship with my boss.
6. n. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
11. adv. -->
12. n. alternative form of withe
Her
1. pron. honoraltcaps, her
2. det. Belonging to her.
This is her book
3. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.
Give it to her (after preposition)
He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
He treated her for a cold (direct object)
4. n. (informal) A female person or animal.
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
boyfriend
1. n. A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
2. n. A male friend.
had
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of have.
2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (with a past participle).
3. v. (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have.
4. adj. (obsolete) Available.
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
broken
1. v. past participle of break
2. adj. Fragmented, in separate pieces.
3. adj. (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
My arm is broken!
the ground was littered with broken bones
One recent morning the team had to replace a broken weather research station.
4. adj. (of skin) Split or ruptured.
A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken.
5. adj. (of a line) Dashed, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
6. adj. (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
7. adj. (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
Tomorrow: broken skies.
8. adj. (of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
broken promises of neutrality
broken vows
the broken covenant
9. adj. Non-functional; not functioning properly.
I think my doorbell is broken.
10. adj. (of an, electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
11. adj. (software, informal) Badly designed or implemented.
This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.
12. adj. (pejorative, of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being a non-native speaker.
13. adj. (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
Oh man! That is just broken!
14. adj. (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken.
15. adj. Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
16. adj. (of land) Uneven.
17. adj. (sports) Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
break
1. v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
If the vase falls to the floor, it might break.
In order to tend to the accident victim, he will break the window of the car.
2. v. (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
His ribs broke under the weight of the rocks piled on his chest.
She broke her neck.
He slipped on the ice and broke his leg.
3. v. To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
Can you break a hundred-dollar bill for me?
The wholesaler broke the container loads into palettes and boxes for local retailers.
4. v. To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
Her child's death broke Angela.
Interrogators have used many forms of torture to break prisoners of war.
The interrogator hoped to break her to get her testimony against her accomplices.
5. v. To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
You have to break an elephant before you can use it as an animal of burden.
6. v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
My heart is breaking.
7. v. To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
I've got to break this habit I have of biting my nails.
to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey
I had won four games in a row, but now you've broken my streak of luck.
8. v. To ruin financially.
The recession broke some small businesses.
9. v. To violate, to not adhere to.
When you go to Vancouver, promise me you won't break the law.
He broke his vows by cheating on his wife.
break one's word
Time travel would break the laws of physics.
10. v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, in terms of temperature.
Susan's fever broke at about 3 AM, and the doctor said the worst was over.
11. v. (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
The forecast says the hot weather will break by midweek.
12. v. (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to end.
We ran to find shelter before the storm broke.
Around midday the storm broke, and the afternoon was calm and sunny.
13. v. (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
Morning has broken.
The day broke crisp and clear.
14. v. (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
Changing the rules to let white have three extra queens would break chess.
I broke the RPG by training every member of my party to cast fireballs as well as use swords.
15. v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
On the hottest day of the year the refrigerator broke.
Did you two break the trolley by racing with it?
16. v. (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
Adding 64-bit support broke backward compatibility with earlier versions.
17. v. To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
break a seal
18. v. (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
19. v. (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination or the like.
20. v. To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
The cavalry were not able to break the British squares.
21. v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
22. v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
Let's break for lunch.
23. v. To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
He survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall.
24. v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
The newsman wanted to break a big story, something that would make him famous.
I don't know how to break this to you, but your cat is not coming back.
In the latest breaking news...
When news of their divorce broke, ...
25. v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
26. v. To change a steady state abruptly.
His coughing broke the silence.
His turning on the lights broke the enchantment.
With the mood broken, what we had been doing seemed pretty silly.
27. v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
Things began breaking bad for him when his parents died.
The arrest was standard, when suddenly the suspect broke ugly.
28. v. (intransitive) Of a male voice, to become deeper at puberty.
29. v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down; to crack.
His voice breaks when he gets emotional.
30. v. To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
He broke the men's 100-meter record.
I can't believe she broke 3 under par!
The policeman broke sixty on a residential street in his hurry to catch the thief.
31. v. (sports):
32. v. (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
He needs to break serve to win the match.
33. v. (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
Is it your or my turn to break?
34. v. (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
35. v. (transitive military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
36. v. To end (a connection), to disconnect.
The referee ordered the boxers to break the clinch.
The referee broke the boxers' clinch.
I couldn't hear a thing he was saying, so I broke the connection and called him back.
37. v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
38. v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack
39. v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
40. v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
41. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
42. v. To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
to break flax
43. v. To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
44. v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
to break into a run or gallop
45. v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
down
1. n. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
We went for a walk over the downs.
The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England.
2. n. (usually plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
3. n. (mostly) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
4. n. (American football) Any of the four chances for a team to successfully move the ball for the yards needed to keep possession of the ball.
first down, second down, etc.
5. adv. (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
The cat jumped down from the table.
6. adv. (comparable) At a lower and/or further along or away place or position along a set path.
His place is farther down the road.
The company was well down the path to bankruptcy.
7. adv. South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
I went down to Miami for a conference.
8. adv. (Ireland) Away from the city (even if the location is to the North).
He went down to Cavan.
down on the farm
down country
9. adv. (sport) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
10. adv. Into a state of non-operation.
The computer has been shut down.
They closed the shop down.
11. adv. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
Smith was sent down to the minors to work on his batting.
After the incident, Kelly went down to Second Lieutenant.
12. adv. (anchor, Adv_rail)(rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
13. adv. (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
Down, boy! (such as to direct a dog to stand on four legs from two, or to sit from standing on four legs.)
14. adv. (academia) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
He's gone back down to Newcastle for Christmas.
15. adv. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
16. adv. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence.
17. adv. From less to greater detail.
18. adv. (intensifier) Used with verbs to add emphasis to the action of the verb.
They tamped (down) the asphalt to get a better bond.
19. adv. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, rather than being of indefinite duration.
He boiled the mixture./He boiled down the mixture.
He sat waiting./He sat down and waited.
20. prep. From the higher end to the lower of.
The ball rolled down the hill.
21. prep. From one end to another of.
The bus went down the street.
They walked down the beach holding hands.
22. adj. (informal) sad, unhappy, Depressed, feeling low.
23. adj. Sick or ill.
He is down with the flu.
24. adj. At a lower level than before.
The stock market is down.
Prices are down.
25. adj. Having a lower score than an opponent.
They are down by 3-0 with just 5 minutes to play.
He was down by a bishop and a pawn after 15 moves.
At 5-1 down, she produced a great comeback to win the set on a tiebreak.
26. adj. (baseball, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
Two down and one to go in the bottom of the ninth.
27. adj. (colloquial) With "on", negative about, hostile to
Ever since Nixon, I've been down on Republicans.
28. adj. (not comparable, North America, slang) Comfortable with, accepting of.
He's chill enough; he'd probably be totally down with it.
Are you down to hang out at the mall, Jamal?
As long as you're down with helping me pick a phone, Tyrone.
29. adj. (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
The system is down.
30. adj. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
Two down and three to go. (Two tasks completed and three more still to be done.)
Ten minutes down and nothing's happened yet.
31. adj. (not comparable military, police slang) Wounded and unable to move normally; killed.
We have an officer down outside the suspect's house.
There are three soldiers down and one walking wounded.
32. adj. (not comparable military, aviation slang) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
We have a chopper down near the river.
33. adj. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
It's two weeks until opening night and our lines are still not down yet.
34. adj. (obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
35. v. To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
He downed an ale and ordered another.
36. v. To cause to come down; to knock down or subdue.
The storm downed several old trees along the highway.
37. v. (transitive, pocket billiards) To put a ball in a pocket; to pot a ball.
He downed two balls on the break.
38. v. (transitive, American football) To bring a play to an end by touching the ball to the ground or while it is on the ground.
He downed it at the seven-yard line.
39. v. To write off; to make fun of.
40. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go down; to descend.
41. n. A negative aspect; a downer.
I love almost everything about my job. The only down is that I can't take Saturdays off.
42. n. (dated) A grudge (on someone).
43. n. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
44. n. (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
I bet after the third down, the kicker will replace the quarterback on the field.
45. n. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
I haven't solved 12 or 13 across, but I've got most of the downs.
46. n. A downstairs room of a two-story house.
She lives in a two-up two-down.
47. n. Down payment.
48. n. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
49. n. (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
50. n. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
51. n. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
52. v. To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
She
1. pron. honoraltcaps, she
2. n. An ethnic group in southern China.
3. n. A language of the Hmong-Mien language family spoken by the She people.
4. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
I asked Mary, but she said that she didn’t know.
5. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat.
She could do forty knots in good weather.
She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
6. pron. (personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car.
She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.
7. pron. (personal, dated) A country.
She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
8. pron. (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
9. n. A female.
Pat is definitely a she.
had
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of have.
2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (with a past participle).
3. v. (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have.
4. adj. (obsolete) Available.
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
lost
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of lose
2. adj. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.
The children were soon lost in the forest.
3. adj. In an unknown location; unable to be found.
Deep beneath the ocean, the Titanic was lost to the world.
4. adj. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.
an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd
5. adj. Parted with; no longer held or possessed.
a lost limb; lost honour
6. adj. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.
a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit
7. adj. Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.
a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul
8. adj. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.
lost to shame; lost to all sense of honour
9. adj. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things.
to be lost in thought
lose
1. v. To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons.
If you lose that ten-pound note, you'll be sorry.
He lost his hearing in the explosion.
She lost her position when the company was taken over.
2. v. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
I lost my way in the forest.
3. v. To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
Johnny lost a tooth, but kept it for the tooth fairy.
He lost his spleen in a car wreck.
4. v. To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc).
We lost the football match.
5. v. To shed (weight).
I’ve lost five pounds this week.
6. v. To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
The policeman lost the robber he was chasing.
Mission control lost the satellite as its signal died down.
7. v. To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
We managed to lose our pursuers in the forest.
8. v. To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
She lost all her sons in the war.
9. v. To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
10. v. (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
When we get into the building, please lose the hat.
11. v. Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
My watch loses five minutes a week.
It's already 5:30? My watch must have lost a few minutes.
12. v. To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
13. v. To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
I lost a part of what he said.
14. v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to part with; to deprive of.
15. n. (obsolete) Fame, renown; praise.
social
1. n. A festive gathering to foster introductions.
They organized a social at the dance club to get people to know each other.
2. n. (Canadian Prairies) A dance held to raise money for a couple to be married.
3. n. (UK, colloquial) (with definite article) Abbreviation of social security, referring to the UK state welfare system, or of related terms such as Social Security Office or Social Security Benefit.
Fred hated going down to the social to sign on.
4. n. (US, colloquial) (abbreviation of social security number)
What's your social?
5. n. (dated, Ireland) A dinner dance event, usually held annually by a company or sporting club.
6. n. (Canada) (clipping of social studies)
7. adj. Being extroverted or outgoing.
James is a very social guy; he knows lots of people.
8. adj. Of or relating to society.
Teresa feels uncomfortable in certain social situations.
Unemployment is a social problem.
9. adj. (Internet) Relating to social media or social networks.
social gaming
10. adj. (rare) Relating to a nation's allies (compare the Social War)
11. adj. (botany, zoology) Cooperating or growing in groups.
a social insect
contact
1. n. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
2. n. The establishment of communication (with).
I haven't been in contact with her for years.
3. n. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
Touch the contact to ground and read the number again.
4. n. Someone with whom one is in communication.
The salesperson had a whole binder full of contacts for potential clients.
5. n. (informal) A contact lens.
6. n. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
7. n. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
I bought myself a new contact ball last week
8. n. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
9. v. To touch; to come into physical contact with.
The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
10. v. To establish communication with something or someone
I am trying to contact my sister.
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
11. adv. -->
12. n. alternative form of withe
Her
1. pron. honoraltcaps, her
2. det. Belonging to her.
This is her book
3. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.
Give it to her (after preposition)
He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
He treated her for a cold (direct object)
4. n. (informal) A female person or animal.
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
Friends
1. n. plural of Friend
2. n. plural of friend
3. n. Participants in a two-way friendship relationship.
I tried to be a friend to Jane but we never really made friends. She was never a friend to me.
Jane and I made friends right away.
We became friends in the war and remain friends to this day.
We were friends with some girls from the other school and stayed friends with them.
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of friend
friend
1. n. A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college. Trust is important between friends. I used to find it hard to make friends when I was shy.
2. n. A boyfriend or girlfriend.
3. n. An associate who provides assistance.
The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend. The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.
4. n. A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted
a friend of a friend; I added him as a friend on Facebook, but I hardly know him.
5. n. A person who backs or supports something.
I’m not a friend of cheap wine.
6. n. (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
Wiktionary is your friend.
7. n. (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
You’d better watch it, friend.
8. n. (object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
9. n. (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
10. n. (obsolete) A paramour of either sex.
11. n. (Scotland, obsolete) A relative.
12. v. (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
13. v. To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.

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