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boiling
1. v. present participle of boil
2. n. The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.
3. n. An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance.
4. adj. That boils or boil.
boiling kettle boiling oil
5. adj. (informal, hyperbole) Of a thing: extremely hot or active.
The radiator is boiling – I’m going to turn it down a bit.
6. adj. (informal, hyperbole) Of a person: feeling uncomfortably hot.
I’m boiling – can’t we open a window?
7. adj. (informal, hyperbole) Of the weather: very hot.
It’s boiling out today!
8. adv. (of adjectives associated with heat) Extremely
He was boiling mad.
boil
1. n. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
2. n. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil.
3. n. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
4. n. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
5. v. To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
Boil some water in a pan.
6. v. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
Boil the eggs for two minutes.
Is the rice boiling yet?
7. v. (intransitive) Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
8. v. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.
It’s boiling outside!
9. v. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.
I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?
10. v. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
to boil sugar or salt
11. v. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
12. v. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
the boiling waves of the sea
13. v. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
His blood boils with anger.
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.
here
1. adv. (location) In, on, or at this place.
2. adv. (location) To this place; used in place of the more dated hither.
Please come here.
3. adv. (abstract) In this context.
Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but here they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve.
4. adv. At this point in the argument or narration.
Here endeth the lesson.
5. n. (abstract) This place; this location.
An Alzheimer patient's here may in his mind be anywhere he called home in the time he presently re-lives.
6. adj. Filler after a noun or demonstrative pronoun, solely for emphasis.
John here is a rascal.
7. adj. Filler after a demonstrative pronoun but before the noun it modifies, solely for emphasis.
This here orange is too sour.
8. interj. (slang) (non-gloss, Used semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.)
Here, now I'm giving it to you.
9. interj. (UK, slang) Used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.
Here, I'm tired and I want a drink.
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could
1. v. simple past tense of can
Before I was blind, I could see very well.
2. v. conditional of can
3. v. Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).
I think he could do it if he really wanted to.
I wish I could fly!
4. v. Used to politely ask for permission to do something.
Could I borrow your coat?
5. v. Used to politely ask for someone else to do something.
Could you proofread this email?
6. v. Used to show the possibility that something might happen.
We could rearrange the time if you like.
7. v. Used to suggest something.
You could try adding more salt to the soup.
8. n. Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
can
1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
She can speak English, French, and German. I can play football. Can you remember your fifth birthday?
2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework. Can I use your pen?
3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
Can it be Friday already?
Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.
Animals can experience emotions.
4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
Can you hear that?.
I can feel the baby moving inside me.
5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.
Shit or get off the can.
Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
11. n. (slang) Jail or prison.
Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years.
12. n. (slang) Headphones.
13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup.
14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
15. n. A chimney pot.
16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
18. v. To shut up.
Can your gob.
19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
The boss canned him for speaking out.
you
1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
Both of you should get ready now.
You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to.
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis.
You idiot!
9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal.
open
1. adj. (not comparable) Not closed; accessible; unimpeded.
Turn left after the second open door.
It was as if his body had gone to sleep standing up and with his eyes open.
2. adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
an open hand; an open flower; an open prospect
3. adj. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
Banks are not open on bank holidays.
4. adj. (comparable) Receptive.
I am open to new ideas.
5. adj. (not comparable) Public
He published an open letter to the governor on a full page of the New York Times.
6. adj. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
The man is an open book.
7. adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
8. adj. (mathematics, topology, of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets ofX, that defines a topological space onX.
9. adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
10. adj. (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same file open.
11. adj. (business) Not fulfilled.
I've got open orders for as many containers of red durum as you can get me.
12. adj. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
an open question
to keep an offer or opportunity open
13. adj. (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
14. adj. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
an open winter
15. adj. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
16. adj. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
17. adj. (phonetics, of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
18. adj. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
19. adj. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
20. v. To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
Turn the doorknob to open the door.
21. v. To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.
He opened a path through the undergrowth.
22. v. To bring up, broach.
I don't want to open that subject.
23. v. To enter upon, begin.
to open a discussion
to open fire upon an enemy
to open trade, or correspondence
to open a case in court, or a meeting
24. v. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
to open a closed fist
to open matted cotton by separating the fibres
to open a map, book, or scroll
25. v. To make accessible to customers or clients.
I will open the shop an hour early tomorrow.
26. v. To start (a campaign).
Vermont will open elk hunting season next week.
27. v. (intransitive) To become open.
The door opened all by itself.
28. v. (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
The shop opens at 9:00.
29. v. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
30. v. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
After the first two players fold, Julie opens for $5.
31. v. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
Jeff opens his hand revealing a straight flush.
32. v. (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
33. v. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
34. n. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
35. n. (electronics) A wire that is broken midway.
The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
36. n. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!
Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket.
37. n. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open.
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.
window
1. n. An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
2. n. An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window.
3. n. (architecture) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
4. n. A period of time when something is available.
launch window; window of opportunity; You have a two-hour window of clear weather to finish working on the lawn.
5. n. (graphical user interface) A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously
6. n. A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
7. n. (medicine) The time between first infection and detectability.
8. v. To furnish with windows.
9. v. To place at or in a window.

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