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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.
an
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
4. conj. (archaic) If
5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
An it harm none, do what ye will.
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
initial
1. adj. Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.
Our initial admiration for their efficiency gave way to disgust about their methods.
The initial stages of a syndrome may differ vastly from the final symptoms.
2. adj. Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.
The initial letter of names is usually printed with a capital letter.
3. n. The first letter of a word or a name.
4. n. In plural, the first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit.
You can get your initials printed at the top.
5. n. (typesetting, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
6. n. (phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
7. v. To sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.
Please initial each page and sign the contract in full at the bottom.
stage
1. n. A phase.
He is in the recovery stage of his illness.
Completion of an identifiable stage of maintenance such as removing an aircraft engine for repair or storage.
2. n. (theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
The band returned to the stage to play an encore.
3. n. A floor or storey of a house.
4. n. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
5. n. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
6. n. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies.
7. n. (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
8. n. (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road.
a stage of ten miles
9. n. (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter
10. n. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
He placed the slide on the stage.
11. n. (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?
12. n. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
13. n. (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
14. v. To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice".
15. v. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
The salesman’s demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.
16. v. (Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out.
17. v. To place in position to prepare for use.
We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag.
to stage data to be written at a later time
beginning
1. n. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states
2. n. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
3. n. That which begins or originates something; the first cause.
4. n. The initial portion of some extended thing.
The author describes the main character's youth at the beginning of the story.
That house is at the beginning of the street.
5. v. present participle of begin
He is beginning to read a new book.
6. adj. (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
in the beginning paragraph of the chapter
in the beginning section of the course
begin
1. v. To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
I began playing the piano at the age of five. Now that everyone is here, we should begin the presentation.
2. v. (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation
The program begins at 9 o'clock on the dot. I rushed to get to class on time, but the lesson had already begun. -
3. v. (intransitive) To come into existence.
4. n. (nonstandard) Beginning; start.
starting
1. v. present participle of start
2. n. The act of something that starts.
constant startings and stoppings
start
1. n. The beginning of an activity.
The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
2. n. A sudden involuntary movement.
He woke with a start.
3. n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
4. n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
5. n. (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
6. n. An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
to get, or have, the start
7. v. To begin, commence, initiate.
8. v. To set in motion.
to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business
9. v. To begin.
10. v. To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine.
to start the engine
11. v. To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
12. v. To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
13. v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
The rain started at 9:00.
14. v. (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town.
The blue line starts one foot away from the wall.
15. v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
16. v. (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
17. v. (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
18. v. To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
The hounds started a fox.
19. v. To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel
20. v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
21. v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
22. v. (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
to start a water cask
23. v. (intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation).
Have you started yet?
24. n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
25. n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
26. n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
27. n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
coming
1. v. present participle of come
2. n. The act of arriving; an arrival
3. adj. Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.
We expect great things from you this coming year.
She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition.
4. adj. Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.
Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing.
5. adj. (obsolete) Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
come
1. v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes...
2. v. To move towards the speaker.
I called the dog, but she wouldn't come.
Stop dawdling and come here!
3. v. To move towards the listener.
Hold on, I'll come in a second.
You should ask the doctor to come to your house.
4. v. To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.
No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit.
Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year.
5. v. (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.
King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.
He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him.
6. v. To move towards an unstated agent.
The butler should come when called.
7. v. (intransitive) To arrive.
8. v. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
The pain in his leg comes and goes.
9. v. (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn.
10. v. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
He came after a few minutes.
11. v. (copulative figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
They came very close to leaving on time. His test scores came close to perfect.
One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.
12. v. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.
13. v. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be.
He was a dream come true.
14. v. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
He's as tough as they come. Our milkshakes come in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavours.
15. v. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
You can't come any tricks here.
16. v. (intransitive) Happen.
This kind of accident comes when you are careless.
17. v. (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
18. v. To have a certain social background.
19. v. To be or have been a resident or native.
Where did you come from?
20. v. To have been brought up by or employed by.
She comes from a good family.
He comes from a disreputable legal firm.
21. v. To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
The river comes from Bear Lake.
Where does this road come from?
22. v. (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
23. n. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
24. n. (vulgar, slang) Semen
25. n. (vulgar, slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
26. prep. Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time.
Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests.
Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.
27. interj. An exclamation to express annoyance.
Come come! Stop crying. Come now! You must eat it.
28. interj. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
Come come! You can do it. Come now! It won't bite you.
29. n. (typography) alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.
into
1. prep. Going inside (of).
Mary danced into the house.
2. prep. Going to a geographic region.
We left the house and walked into the street.
The plane flew into the open air.
3. prep. Against, especially with force or violence.
The car crashed into the tree; I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall
4. prep. Producing, becoming; (indicates transition into another form or substance).
I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale. Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
5. prep. After the start of.
About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
6. prep. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
She's really into Shakespeare right now; I'm so into you!
7. prep. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself.
8. prep. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.(R:OED Online)
Five into three is fifteen.
9. prep. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
Three into two won't go.
24 goes into 48 how many times?
10. prep. Investigating the subject (of).
Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees.
existence
1. n. The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
In order to destroy evil, we must first acknowledge its existence.
2. n. Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)

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