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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.
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many
     1. det. An indefinite large number of.
           many people enjoy playing chess;  there are many different ways to cook a meal
     2. pron. A collective mass of people.
           Democracy must balance the rights of the few against the will of the many
           A great many do not understand this.
     3. pron. An indefinite large number of people or things.
           Many are called, but few are chosen.
     4. n. A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.
     5. n. A considerable number.
people
     1. n. Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
           Why do so many people commit suicide?
     2. n. Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; a community.
     3. n. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
     4. n. One's colleagues or employees.
     5. n. A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
           My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War.
     6. n. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
     7. n. plural of person.
     8. v. To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
     9. v. (intransitive) To become populous or populated.
     10. v. To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
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.
fences
     1. n. plural of fence
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of fence
     fence
          1. n. A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.
          2. n. Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
          3. n.          The place whence such a middleman operates.
          4. n. Skill in oral debate.
          5. n. (obsolete) The art or practice of fencing.
          6. n. A guard or guide on machinery.
          7. n. (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
          8. n. (computing, programming) A memory barrier.
          9. v. To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
          10. v. To defend or guard.
          11. v. To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
          12. v. (intransitive, sports) To engage in (the sport) fencing.
          13. v. (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
around
     1. prep. Defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing.
           I planted a row of lillies around the statue.  The jackals began to gather around someone or something.
     2. prep. Following the perimeter of a specified area and returning to the starting point.
           We walked around the football field.  She went around the track fifty times.
     3. prep. Following a path which curves near an object, with the object on the inside of the curve.
           The road took a brief detour around the large rock formation, then went straight on.
     4. prep. (of distance, time) Near; in the vicinity of.
           I left my keys somewhere around here.  I left the house around 10 this morning.  There isn't another house here for miles around.  I'll see you around the neighbourhood, etc.
     5. prep. At various places in.
           The pages from the notebook were scattered around the room.  Those teenagers like to hang around the mall.
     6. adj. (informal, with the verb "to be") Alive; existing.
           The record store on Main Street? Yes, it's still around.
           "How is old Bob? I heard that his health is failing."  "Oh, he's still around. He's feeling better now.".
     7. adv. Generally.
     8. adv. From place to place.
           There are rumors going around that the company is bankrupt.
           She went around the office and got everyone to sign the card.
           Look around and see what you find.
           We moved the furniture around in the living room.
     9. adv. From one state or condition to an opposite or very different one; with a metaphorical change in direction; bringing about awareness or agreement.
           The team wasn't doing well, but the new coach really turned things around.
           He used to stay up late but his new girlfriend changed that around.
           The patient was unconscious but the doctor brought him around quickly. (see bring around, come around)
           I didn't think he would ever like the new design, but eventually we brought him around. (see bring around, come around)
     10. adv. (with turn, spin etc.) Partially or completely rotated, including to face in the opposite direction.
           Turn around at the end of this street.
           She spun around a few times.
     11. adv. Used with verbs to indicate repeated or continuous action, or in numerous locations or with numerous people
           Stop kidding around. I'm serious.
           I asked around, and no-one really liked it.
           Shopping around can get you a better deal.
           When are you going to stop whoring around, find a nice girl, and give us grandchildren?
their
     1. det. Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural).
           they will meet tomorrow at their convenience;  this is probably their cat
     2. det. Belonging to someone (one person, singular).
     3. adv. misspelling of there
     4. contraction. misspelling of they’re
Homes
     1. n. plural of Home
     2. n. plural of home
     3. n. (slang) alternative spelling of holmes
     4. v. third-person singular present indicative of home
     home
          1. n. A dwelling.:
          2. n.          One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one
          3. n.          The place where a person was raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
          4. n.          The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
          5. n.          A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
                        It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home
          6. n.          A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
                        a home for outcasts
                        a home for the blind
                        a veterans' home
          7. n.          (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
          8. n. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
          9. n. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
                the home of the pine
          10. n. A focus point.:
          11. n.          (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
                        The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.
          12. n.          (baseball) Home plate.
          13. n.          (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
          14. n.          (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
          15. n. (lbl, en, computers) clipping of home directory
          16. v. (always with "in on", transitive) To seek or aim for something.
                The missile was able to home in on the target.
          17. adj. Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
          18. adj. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
          19. adv. to home
          20. adv.          to one's place of residence or one's customary or official location
                         go home, come home, carry home
          21. adv.          to one's place of birth
          22. adv.          to the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length
                         to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home
          23. adv.          (internet) to the home page
                         Click here to go home.
          24. adv. in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home
                Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home.
          25. adv. close; closely; to the center; deep
          26. adv. (soccer) into the goal
          27. adv. (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
                Sails sheeted home.
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