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I
1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
(audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio)
2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.
3. n. (metaphysics) The ego.
4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate.
5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case)
6. pron. nonstandard spelling of I
decided
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of decide
2. adj. determined; resolute
3. adj. clear; unmistakable
There was a decided ugliness to the patch of waste ground.
decide
1. v. To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
The election will be decided on foreign policies.
We must decide our next move.
Her last-minute goal decided the game.
2. v. (intransitive) To make a judgment, especially after deliberation.
You must decide between good and evil.
I have decided that it is healthier to walk to work.
3. v. To cause someone to come to a decision.
4. v. (obsolete) To cut off; to separate.
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
mulch
1. n. (agriculture, horticulture) Any material used to cover the top layer of soil to protect, insulate, or decorate it, or to discourage weeds or retain moisture.
An organic mulch is a mulch made of natural substances such as leaves or grass clippings.
2. n. (agriculture) A material used as mulch, as a decorative redwood bark mulch.
3. v. (agriculture) To apply mulch.
Mulch your vegetable garden to retain moisture and keep weeds down.
4. v. (agriculture) To turn into mulch.
I decided to mulch the grass clippings.
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.
grass
1. n. Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
2. n. Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
3. n. A lawn.
4. n. (slang) Marijuana.
5. n. (Britain, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
6. n. (physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
7. n. (slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
8. n. The season of fresh grass; spring.
9. n. (obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
10. n. (folk etymology) Asparagus.
11. v. To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
12. v. (transitive, or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
13. v. To cover with grass or with turf.
14. v. To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
15. v. To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
to grass a fish
clippings
1. n. plural of clipping
clipping
1. v. present participle of clip
2. n. A piece of something removed by clipping.
a clipping of hair
grass clippings
3. n. An article clipped from a newspaper.
4. n. (linguistics) A short form (of a word) created by removing syllables.
The word "ad" is a clipping of "advertisement".
5. n. (signal processing) The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level.
6. n. (computer graphics) The use of a mask to hide part of an object or image.
7. n. (American football) Falling, rolling, or throwing one's body on the back of an opponent's legs after approaching from behind.

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