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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
interest
1. n. (finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.
Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
2. n. A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
3. n. Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
4. n. An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
When scientists and doctors write articles and when politicians run for office, they are required in many countries to declare any existing conflicts of interest.
I have business interests in South Africa.
5. n. Something or someone one is interested in.
Lexicography is one of my interests.
Victorian furniture is an interest of mine.
The main character's romantic interest will be played by a non-professional actor.
6. n. (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
7. n. (usually plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
the iron interest; the cotton interest
8. v. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
Action films don't really interest me.
9. v. (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
10. v. (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
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.
scatological
1. adj. (formal) Relating to the research area of scatology, the particulate study of biological excrement, feces or dung.
The scientist could read the dinosaur dung to see what it had eaten. He was an expert in scatological studies.
2. adj. Relating to scatology, the use of obscenities.
His interest in scatological reading gained him very few friends.
reading
1. v. present participle of read
2. n. The process of interpreting written language.
3. n. The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
4. n. A value indicated by a measuring device.
a speedometer reading.
5. n. A meeting where written material is read aloud.
a poetry reading.
6. n. An interpretation.
a reading of the current situation.
7. n. Something to read; reading material.
8. n. The extent of what one has read.
He's a man of good reading.
9. n. (legislature) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
10. n. a piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience: readings from the Bible
read
1. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
have you read this book?; he doesn’t like to read
2. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
He read us a passage from his new book.
All right, class, who wants to read next?
3. v. To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.
I can read his feelings in his face.
4. v. To consist of certain text.
On the door hung a sign that reads "No admittance".
The passage reads differently in the earlier manuscripts.
5. v. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
Arabic reads right to left.
That sentence reads strangely.
6. v. To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
7. v. (informal usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
8. v. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
Do you read me?
9. v. (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
I am reading theology at university.
10. v. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
to read a hard disk; to read a port; to read the keyboard
11. v. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
12. v. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
13. v. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
14. v. (transitive, transgender) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.
15. v. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
16. v. past tense of read
17. v. past participle of read
18. n. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
19. n. (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
His thrillers are always a gripping read.
20. n. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of read, reading, calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult.
gained
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of gain
gain
1. prep. (obsolete) Against.
2. adj. (obsolete) Straight, direct; near; short.
the gainest way
3. adj. (obsolete) Suitable; convenient; ready.
4. adj. (dialectal) Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
5. adj. (dialectal) Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
6. adv. (obsolete) Straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.
7. adv. (dialectal) Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.
8. adv. (dialectal) Tolerably; fairly.
gain quiet (= fairly/pretty quiet)
9. n. The act of gaining; acquisition.
10. n. What is gained.
11. n. (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
12. v. To acquire possession of.
Looks like you've gained a new friend.
13. v. (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
The sick man gains daily.
14. v. (transitive, dated) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.
to gain a battle; to gain a case at law
15. v. To increase.
16. v. (intransitive) To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
I'm gaining (on you).
gain ground
17. v. To reach.
to gain the top of a mountain
18. v. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
19. v. (intransitive) To put on weight.
I've been gaining.
20. v. (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
21. n. (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
Him
1. pron. honoraltcaps, him
2. pron. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
3. pron. With dative effect or as an indirect object.
4. pron. Following a preposition.
5. pron. With accusative effect or as a direct object.
6. pron. (now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself.
7. pron. With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.
8. pron. alternative case form of Him
9. n. (informal) A male person.
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
very
1. adj. True, real, actual.
The fierce hatred of a very woman. The very blood and bone of our grammar. He tried his very best.
2. adj. The same; identical.
He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met. That's the very tool that I need.
3. adj. With limiting effect: mere.
4. adv. To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
You’re drinking very slowly.
That dress is very you.
5. adv. True, truly.
6. adv. (with superlatives) (ngd, Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.)
He was the very best runner there.
few
1. det. (preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
I was expecting lots of people at the party, but very few (=almost none) turned up. Quite a few of them (=many of them) were pleasantly surprised. I don't know how
2. det. (used alone) Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
There are few people who understand quantum theory. Many are called, but few are chosen.
3. det. (meteorology of clouds) (US?) Obscuring one eighth to two eighths of the sky.
Tonight: A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness overnight.
NOAA definition of the term "few clouds": An official sky cover classification for aviation weather observations, descriptive of a sky cover of 1/8 to 2/8. This is applied only when obscuring p
4. det. (meteorology of rainfall with regard to a location) (US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.
5. pron. Few people, few things.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
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.

Dictionary entries from Wiktionary