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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.
three
     1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
     2. num. Describing a set or group with three elements.
     3. n. The digit/figure 3.
     4. n. Anything measuring three units, as length.
           Put all the threes in a separate container.
     5. n. A person who is three years old.
           All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
     6. n. The playing card featuring three pips.
     7. n. (basketball) (abbreviation of three-pointer)
parts
     1. n. plural of part
     2. n. (plural only) Intellectual ability or learning.
           He was a man of great parts but little virtue.
     3. n. (plural only, usually with “these”, colloquial) Vicinity, region.
     4. n. (plural only, euphemistic) The genitals, short for private parts.
     5. v. third-person singular present indicative of part
     part
          1. n. A portion; a component.
          2. n.          A fraction of a whole.
                        Gaul is divided into three parts.
          3. n.          A distinct element of something larger.
                        The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.
          4. n.          A group inside a larger group.
          5. n.          Share, especially of a profit.
                        I want my part of the bounty.
          6. n.          A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
                        The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
          7. n.          3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
          8. n.          A section of a document.
                        Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
          9. n.          A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
          10. n.          (math, dated) A factor.
                        3 is a part of 12.
          11. n.          (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
          12. n. Duty; responsibility.
                to do one’s part
          13. n.          Position or role (especially in a play).
                        We all have a part to play.
          14. n.          (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
                        The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging.
          15. n.          Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
          16. n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
                The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
          17. n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
          18. n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
          19. v. (intransitive) To leave someone's company; (rare, poetic, literary) to go way; to die; to get rid of something, stop using it.
          20. v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
          21. v. To divide in two.
                to part the curtains
          22. v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
                A rope parts.  His hair parts in the middle.
          23. v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
          24. v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
          25. v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
          26. v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
          27. v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
                to part gold from silver
          28. v. (transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit.
          29. v. (transitive, internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
          30. adj. Fractional; partial.
                Fred was part owner of the car.
          31. adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.
                Part finished
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