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his
1. det. Belonging to him.
2. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
3. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
4. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark.
Sejanus his Fall
5. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
The decision was his to live with.
6. pron. alternative spelling of His
7. n. plural of hi
departure
1. n. The act of departing or something that has departed.
The departure was scheduled for noon.
2. n. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
3. n. (euphemism) A death.
4. n. (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.
5. n. (surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.
The area is computed by latitudes and departures.
6. n. (legal) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
7. n. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
was
1. v. first-person singular past of be.
2. v. third-person singular past of be.
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
generally
1. adv. Popularly or widely.
It is generally known that the Earth is round.
2. adv. As a rule; usually.
I generally have a walk in the afternoon.
3. adv. Without reference to specific details.
Generally speaking …
4. adv. (obsolete) Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.
assumed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of assume
2. adj. Used in a manner intended to deceive; pretended; simulated.
3. adj. Supposed or presumed.
assume
1. v. to authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof
We assume that, as her parents were dentists, she knows quite a bit about dentistry.
2. v. to take on a position, duty or form
Mr. Jones will assume the position of a lifeguard until a proper replacement is found.
3. v. to adopt a feigned quality or manner
4. v. to receive, adopt
5. v. to adopt an idea or cause
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
result
1. v. To proceed, spring up or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.
2. v. (intransitive, follwed by "in") To have as a consequence; to lead to; to bring about
This measure will result in good or in evil.
3. v. (legal) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.
4. v. (obsolete) To leap back; to rebound.
5. n. That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect.
the result of a course of action; the result of a mathematical operation
6. n. The fruit, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
7. n. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
8. n. (obsolete) A flying back; resilience.
9. n. (sports) The final score in a game.
10. n. (by extension) A positive or favourable outcome for someone.
11. interj. (UK) An exclamation of joy following a favorable outcome.
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.
concerns
1. n. plural of concern
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of concern
concern
1. n. That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone. The adposition before the matter of interest is usually over, about or for.
Mark’s health was of great concern to Connie.
Most people in Australia have no concern for the recent events in London.
Judy's eyes filled with concern as she listened to the news report.
2. n. The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
3. n. A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
The employees’ attitude is really hurting the concern.
4. n. (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
5. v. To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
6. v. To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
A good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.
7. v. To make somebody worried.
I’m concerned that she’s becoming an alcoholic.
within
1. prep. Indicates spatial enclosure or containment.
within his hearing; within her studio
2. prep. Indicates figurative inclusion within the scope of.
within five seconds of breaking the record; within an inch of falling overboard
3. prep. Before the specified duration ends.
Leave here within three days.
4. adv. In or into the interior; inside.
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.
merged
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of merge
2. adj. joined by merging
merge
1. v. To combine into a whole.
Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.
2. v. (intransitive) To combine into a whole.
The two companies merged.
3. v. To blend gradually into something else.
The lanes of traffic merged.
4. n. The joining together of multiple sources.
There are often accidents at that traffic merge.
The merge of the two documents failed.
group
1. n. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group
A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.
2. n. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
3. n. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
4. n. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
Did you see the new jazz group?
5. n. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
6. n. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
7. n. (chemistry) A functional group.
Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.
8. n. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
9. n. (military) An air force formation.
10. n. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
11. n. (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
12. n. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
13. n. (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
14. n. (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
15. n. (business) A commercial organization.
16. v. To put together to form a group.
group the dogs by hair colour
17. v. (intransitive) To come together to form a group.
about
1. prep. In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
2. prep. Near; not far from; approximately; regarding time, size, quantity.
3. prep. On the point or verge of.
the show is about to start; I am not about to admit to your crime
4. prep. On one's person; nearby the person.
5. prep. Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
6. prep. Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.
7. prep. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.
He knew more about what was occurring than anyone.
8. prep. (figurative) In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in possession of; in control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.
He has his wits about him.
9. prep. In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
10. adv. Not distant; approximate.
11. adv. On all sides; around.
12. adv. Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
13. adv. Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
about as cold; about as high
14. adv. Near; in the vicinity.
15. adv. In succession; one after another; in the course of events.
16. adv. On the move; active; astir.
17. adv. To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
to face about; to turn oneself about
18. adv. (nautical) To the opposite tack.
19. adv. (obsolete) Preparing; planning.
20. adv. (archaic) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference.
a mile about, and a third of a mile across
21. adv. (chiefly North America, colloquial) Going to; on the verge of; intending to.
22. adj. Moving around; astir.
out and about; up and about
After my bout with Guillan-Barre Syndrome, it took me 6 months to be up and about again.
23. adj. In existence; being in evidence; apparent
His
1. pron. honoraltcaps, his
2. det. Belonging to him.
3. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
4. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
5. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark.
Sejanus his Fall
6. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
The decision was his to live with.
7. pron. alternative spelling of His
8. n. plural of hi
desire
1. v. To want; to wish for earnestly.
I desire to speak with you.
2. v. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
3. v. To want emotionally or sexually.
She has desired him since they first met.
4. v. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
5. v. To require; to demand; to claim.
6. v. To miss; to regret.
7. n. Someone or something wished for.
It is my desire to speak with you.
You’re my heart’s desire.
8. n. Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
His desire for her kept him awake at night.
9. n. Motivation.
10. n. The feeling of desire.
Too much desire can seriously affect one’s judgment.
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
continually
1. adv. In a continual manner; non-stop.
2. adv. In regular or repeated succession; very often.
expand
1. v. To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
You can expand this compact umbrella to cover a large table.
2. v. To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
A flower expands its leaves.
3. v. To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
4. v. (transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
Use the binomial theorem to expand (x+1)4 to x4 + 4x3 + 6x2 + 4x + 1.
5. v. (transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value
6. v. (intransitive) To change from a smaller form/size to a larger one.
Many materials expand when heated.
This compact umbrella expands to cover a large table.
7. v. (intransitive) To increase in extent, number, volume or scope.
8. v. (intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
He expanded on his plans for the business.
9. v. (intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic.

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