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most
1. det. superlative degree of much.
The teams competed to see who could collect the most money.
2. det. superlative degree of many: the comparatively largest number of (ngd, construed with the definite article)
The team with the most points wins.
3. det. superlative degree of many: the majority of; more than half of (ngd, construed without the definite article)
Most bakers and dairy farmers have to get up early.
Winning was not important for most participants.
4. adv. Forms the superlative of many adjectives.
This is the most important example.
Correctness is most important.
5. adv. To a great extent or degree; highly; very.
This is a most unusual specimen.
6. adv. (informal, chiefly US) Almost.
7. adv. superlative form of many: most many
8. adv. superlative form of much: most much
9. pron. The greater part of a group, especially a group of people.
Most want the best for their children.
The peach was juicier and more flavourful than most.
10. n. The greatest amount.
The most I can offer for the house is $150,000.
11. n. The greater part.
Most of the penguins were friendly and curious.
Most of the rice was spoiled.
12. n. A record-setting amount.
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.
faced
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of face
2. adj. (in combination) Having a specified type or number of face.
3. adj. (slang) drunk
the first time I got faced
face
1. n. (anatomy) The front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
The monkey has a pretty face.
2. n. One's facial expression.
Why the sad face?
3. n. The public image; outward appearance.
The face of this company. He managed to show a bold face despite his embarrassment.
4. n. The frontal aspect of something.
The face of the cliff loomed above them.
5. n. (figurative) Presence; sight; front.
to fly in the face of danger; to speak before the face of God
6. n. The directed force of something.
They turned to boat into the face of the storm.
7. n. Good reputation; standing in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
8. n. Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
9. n. The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face
10. n. (geometry) Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron. More generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
11. n. Any surface; especially a front or outer one.
Put a big sign on each face of the building that can be seen from the road. They climbed the north face of the mountain. She wanted to wipe him off the face of the earth.
12. n. The numbered dial of a clock or watch, the clock face.
13. n. (slang) The mouth.
Shut your face! He's always stuffing his face with chips.
14. n. (slang) Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
I'll be out in a sec. Just let me put on my face.
15. n. (slang) Short for baby face. A headlining wrestler whose in-ring persona is embodying heroic or virtuous traits.
The fans cheered on the face as he made his comeback.
16. n. (cricket) The front surface of a bat.
17. n. (golf) The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
18. n. (cards) The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).
19. n. (heraldiccharge) The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
20. n. (typography) A typeface.
21. n. Mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
22. n. (computing) An interface.
23. n. The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
24. v. (transitive, of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
Face the sun.
25. v. (transitive, of an object) To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
Turn the chair so it faces the table.
26. v. To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
27. v. To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.
I'm going to have to face this sooner or later.
28. v. (intransitive) To have the front in a certain direction.
The bunkers faced north and east, toward Germany.
29. v. To have as an opponent.
30. v. (intransitive, cricket) To be the batsman on strike.
31. v. (obsolete) To confront impudently; to bully.
32. v. To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
a building faced with marble
33. v. To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress
34. v. To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
35. v. (engineering) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from t
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
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12. n. alternative form of withe
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
decision
1. n. The act of deciding.
2. n. A choice or judgement.
It is the decision of the court that movies are protected as free speech.
It's a tough decision, but I'll take vanilla.
3. n. Firmness of conviction.
After agonizing deliberations, they finally proceeded with decision.
4. n. (chiefly combat sports) A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.
He has won twice by knockout, once by decision.
5. n. (baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
6. v. (boxing) To defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout
Will
1. n. (American football) A weak-side linebacker.
2. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
Do what you will.
3. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
4. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
5. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive).
6. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
7. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
8. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason.
9. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will.
10. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
Most creatures have a will to live.
11. n. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
12. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.
13. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
14. v. (archaic) To wish, desire.
15. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
16. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
All the fans were willing their team to win the game.
17. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.
choose
1. v. To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.
2. v. To elect.
He was chosen as president in 1990.
3. v. To decide to act in a certain way.
I chose to walk to work today.
4. v. To wish; to desire; to prefer.
Choose truth, and find beauty. Choose love, and embrace change. ― Justin Deschamps
5. conj. (mathematics) The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
The number of distinct subsets of size k from a set of size n is\tbinom nk or "n choose k".
6. n. (dialectal, or obsolete) The act of choosing; selection.
7. n. (dialectal, or obsolete) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
8. n. (dialectal, or obsolete) Scope for choice.
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.
most
1. det. superlative degree of much.
The teams competed to see who could collect the most money.
2. det. superlative degree of many: the comparatively largest number of (ngd, construed with the definite article)
The team with the most points wins.
3. det. superlative degree of many: the majority of; more than half of (ngd, construed without the definite article)
Most bakers and dairy farmers have to get up early.
Winning was not important for most participants.
4. adv. Forms the superlative of many adjectives.
This is the most important example.
Correctness is most important.
5. adv. To a great extent or degree; highly; very.
This is a most unusual specimen.
6. adv. (informal, chiefly US) Almost.
7. adv. superlative form of many: most many
8. adv. superlative form of much: most much
9. pron. The greater part of a group, especially a group of people.
Most want the best for their children.
The peach was juicier and more flavourful than most.
10. n. The greatest amount.
The most I can offer for the house is $150,000.
11. n. The greater part.
Most of the penguins were friendly and curious.
Most of the rice was spoiled.
12. n. A record-setting amount.
expedient
1. adj. Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.
Most people, faced with a decision, will choose the most expedient option.
2. adj. Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.
3. adj. Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
4. adj. (obsolete) Quick; rapid; expeditious.
5. n. A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
option
1. n. One of a set of choices that can be made.
2. n. The freedom or right to choose.
3. n. (finance, legal) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such
4. v. To purchase an option on something.
The new novel was optioned by the film studio, but they'll probably never decide to make a movie from it.
5. v. (computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.

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