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it
1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals.
Put it over there.
Take each day as it comes.
I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today.
2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender.
She took the baby and held it in her arms.
3. pron. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
It's me. John.
Is it her?
4. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)
It is nearly 10 o’clock.
It’s 10:45 read ten-forty-five.
It’s very cold today.
It’s lonely without you.
5. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms.
stick it out
live it up
rough it
6. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject i
It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing)
He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if)
7. pron. All or the end; something after which there is no more.
Are there more students in this class, or is this it?
That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.
8. pron. (chiefly pejorative, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male.
9. pron. (obsolete) (Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun): That which; what.
10. det. (obsolete) its
11. n. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
12. n. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…
13. n. (British) The game of tag.
Let's play it at breaktime.
14. n. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty.
15. n. (euphemism) Sexual activity.
caught them doing it
16. adj. (colloquial) Most fashionable.
stretches
1. n. plural of stretch
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of stretch
stretch
1. v. To lengthen by pulling.
I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke.
2. v. (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.
3. v. To pull tight.
First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum.
4. v. (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days.
5. v. (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably.
6. v. (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble.
7. v. (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack.
I always stretch my muscles before exercising.
8. v. (intransitive) To extend to a limit point
His mustache stretched all the way to his sideburns.
9. v. To increase.
10. v. (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
a man apt to stretch in his report of facts
11. v. (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
The ship stretched to the eastward.
12. n. An act of stretching.
I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang.
13. n. The ability to lengthen when pulled.
That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.
14. n. A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
It's a bit of a stretch to call Boris Karloff a comedian.
To say crossing the street was brave was quite a stretch.
15. n. A segment of a journey or route.
It was an easy trip except for the last stretch, which took forever.
It's a tough stretch of road in the winter, especially without chains.
16. n. A segment or length of material.
a stretch of cloth
17. n. (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
18. n. (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
19. n. (informal) (Term of address for a tall person.)
20. n. (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
21. n. A length of time.
He did a 7-year stretch in jail.
22. n. (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
There is a grand stretch in the evenings.
23. n. (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
24. n. (slang) A jail or prison term.
25. n. A stretch limousine.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
continues
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of continue
continue
1. v. To proceed with (qual, doing an activity); to prolong qual, an activity.
Shall I continue speaking, or will you just interrupt me again?
Do you want me to continue to unload these?
2. v. To make last; to prolong.
3. v. To retain (qual, someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
4. v. (intransitive) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
5. v. (intransitive) To resume.
When will the concert continue?
6. v. (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
This meeting has been continued to the thirteenth of July.
7. v. (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
8. n. (video games) An option allowing a gamer to resume play after game over, when all life, lives have been lost.
9. n. (programming) A statement which causes a loop to start executing the next iteration, skipping the statements following it.
its
1. det. Belonging to it.
2. pron. The one (or ones) belonging to it.
3. n. plural of it
purring
1. v. present participle of purr
2. n. A sound that purrs.
3. n. (sports) (synonym of shin-kicking)
purr
1. v. (intransitive) Of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented.
2. v. To say (something) in a throaty, seductive manner.
3. v. (intransitive) To make a vibrating throaty sound, as from pleasure.
He purred like a kitten when she massaged his neck.
4. v. (intransitive, of an engine) To make a low and consistent rumbling sound.
5. n. The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented.
6. n. A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person.
7. n. The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed
8. interj. Throat vibrating sound made by a cat.
writhing
1. adj. Bended in twisting struggle.
2. v. present participle of writhe
3. n. A twisting struggle.
writhe
1. v. To twist, to wring (something).
2. v. To contort (a part of the body).
3. v. (intransitive) To twist or contort the body; to be distorted.
4. v. To extort.
5. n. (rare) A contortion.
6. n. (knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot
routine
1. n. A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
2. n. A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
Connie was completely robotic and emotionless by age 12; her entire life had become one big routine.
3. n. A set piece of an entertainer's act.
stand-up comedy routine
4. n. (computing) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.
5. adj. According to established procedure.
6. adj. Regular; habitual.
7. adj. Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.

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