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my
1. det. First-person singular possessive determiner. See.
2. det. Belonging to me.
I can't find my book.
3. det. Associated with me.
My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable.
Don't you know my name?
I recognised him because he had attended my school.
4. det. Related to me.
My parents won't let me go out tonight.
5. det. In the possession of me.
I have to take my books back to the library soon.
6. interj. Used to express surprise, shock or amazement.
My, what big teeth you have!
five
1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six. This many dots: (•••••).
2. num. Describing a group or set with five elements.
3. n. The digit/figure 5.
He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
4. n. (US) A five-dollar bill.
Can anyone here change a five?
5. n. Anything measuring five units, as length.
All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
6. n. A person who is five years old.
The fives and sixes will have snack first, then the older kids.
7. n. Five o'clock.
See you at five.
8. n. A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
Take five, soldier.
9. n. (basketball) A basketball team, club or lineup.
favorite
1. adj. (tcx, US)
2. adj. Preferred; liked more than any other
That is my favorite flavor of ice cream. I'd eat it daily if I could.
3. n. (tcx, US)
4. n. Preferred one, one with special favor
The teacher's favorite always went first.
5. n. Expected or most probable to win.
He's the favorite, he'll probably be elected.
6. n. (internet) A bookmark in a web browser.
7. v. alternative form of favor
8. v. (Internet) To bookmark.
9. v. (Internet) To add to one's list of favorites on a website that allows users to compile such lists.
places
1. n. plural of place
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of place
place
1. n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
2. n. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
3. n. A group of houses.
They live at Westminster Place.
4. n. An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
5. n. Any area of the earth: a region.
He is going back to his native place on vacation.
6. n. The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places.
7. n. The area where one lives: one's home, formerly(chiefly) country estates and farms.
Do you want to come over to my place later?
8. n. An area of the skin.
9. n. (euphemism) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
10. n. (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
11. n. A location or position in space.
12. n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
13. n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
14. n. (obsolete) A topic.
15. n. A frame of mind.
I'm in a strange place at the moment.
16. n. (chess) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
17. n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
18. n. A role or purpose; a station.
It is really not my place to say what is right and wrong in this case.
19. n. The position of a contestant in a competition.
We thought we would win but only ended up in fourth place.
20. n. (horse-racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
to win a bet on a horse for place
21. n. The position as a member of a sports team.
He lost his place in the national team.
22. n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
23. n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
three decimal places; the hundreds place
24. n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
That's what I said in the first place!
25. n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
26. v. To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
He placed the glass on the table.
27. v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
The Cowboys placed third in the league.
28. v. (intransitive, racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars.
29. v. To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
I've seen him before, but I can't quite place where.
30. v. (transitive, in the passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
Run Ragged was placed fourth in the race.
31. v. To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
32. v. To arrange for or to make (a bet).
I placed ten dollars on the Lakers beating the Bulls.
33. v. To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
They phoned hoping to place her in the management team.
34. v. (sports) To place-kick (a goal).
are
1. v. second-person singular present of be
Mary, where are you going?
2. v. first-person plural present of be
We are not coming.
3. v. second-person plural present of be
Mary and John, are you listening?
4. v. third-person plural present of be
They are here somewhere.
5. v. (East Yorkshire, Midlands) present of be
6. n. (dialectal, or obsolete) grace, mercy
To bid God's are.
God's are is what children of God seech and seek.
7. n. (obsolete) honour, dignity
8. n. (rare) an accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
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.
No
1. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
2. n. Alternative form of No.
3. n. Alternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama.
4. det. Not any.
no one
There is no water left.
No hot dogs were sold yesterday.
No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.
There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.)
5. det. Hardly any.
We'll be finished in no time at all.
6. det. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
No smoking
There's no stopping her once she gets going.
7. det. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
My mother's no fool.
Working nine to five every day is no life.
8. adv. (now only used with comparatives, except in Scotland) Not, not at all.
It is a different kind of torture, but no less gruesome.
I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.
9. part. Used to show disagreement or negation.
No, you are mistaken.
No, you may not watch television now.
10. part. Used to show agreement with a negative question.
"Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")
11. part. (colloquial) As if to say, "No, don’t doubt this!", or to deny an imagined contradictory statement, used to show intense agreement
No, totally.
No, yeah, that's exactly right.
"Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!".
No, yeah
12. n. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval.
13. n. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.
The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".
14. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
15. n. Alternative form of No.
particular
1. adj. (also non-comparable)
2. adj. (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
3. adj. Specific; discrete; concrete.
I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.
We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith.
4. adj. Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.
5. adj. (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
6. adj. Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.
I didn't have any particular interest in the book.
He brought no particular news.
She was the particular belle of the party.
7. adj. (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.
He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.
Women are more particular about their appearance.
8. adj. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
a full and particular account of an accident
9. adj. (legal) Containing a part only; limited.
a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder
10. adj. (legal) Holding a particular estate.
a particular tenant
11. adj. (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise".
12. n. A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
13. n. (obsolete) A person's own individual case.
14. n. (now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)
order
1. n. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
2. n. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
3. n. The state of being well arranged.
The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
4. n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
to preserve order in a community or an assembly
5. n. A command.
6. n. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
7. n. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles
St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.
8. n. An association of knights
the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
9. n. any group of people with common interests.
10. n. A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
11. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.
12. n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
the higher or lower orders of society
talent of a high order
13. n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.
to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry
14. n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic featu
15. n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
16. n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter.
17. n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
18. n. (set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.
19. n. (group theory, of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the id
20. n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
21. n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
22. n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
23. n. (algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
A quadratic polynomial,a x^2 + b x +c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2.
24. v. To set in some sort of order.
25. v. To arrange, set in proper order.
26. v. To issue a command to.
to order troops to advance
He ordered me to leave.
27. v. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
to order groceries
28. v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
new
1. adj. Recently made, or created.
This is a new scratch on my car! The band just released a new album.
2. adj. Additional; recently discovered.
We turned up some new evidence from the old files.
3. adj. Current or later, as opposed to former.
My new car is much better than my previous one, even though it is older. We had been in our new house for five years by then.
4. adj. Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing.
New Bond Street is an extension of Bond Street.
5. adj. In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used.
Are you going to buy a new car or a second-hand one?
6. adj. Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
That shirt is dirty. Go and put on a new one. I feel like a new person after a good night's sleep. After the accident, I saw the world with new eyes.
7. adj. Newborn.
My sister has a new baby, and our mother is excited to finally have a grandchild.
8. adj. Of recent origin; having taken place recently.
I can't see you for a while; the pain is still too new. Did you see the new King Lear at the theatre?
9. adj. Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
The idea was new to me. I need to meet new people.
10. adj. Recently arrived or appeared.
Have you met the new guy in town? He is the new kid at school.
11. adj. Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.
Don't worry that you're new at this job; you'll get better with time. I'm new at this business.
12. adj. (of a period of time) Next; about to begin or recently begun.
We expect to grow at 10% annually in the new decade.
13. adj. (vegetables) The first of the season.
14. adv. Newly (especially in composition).
new-born, new-formed, new-found, new-mown
15. adv. As new; from scratch.
They are scraping the site clean to build new.
16. n. Things that are new.
Out with the old, in with the new.
17. n. (Australia) A kind of light beer.
18. n. See also news.
19. v. (obsolete) To make new; to recreate; to renew.
york
1. v. (cricket) to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way.
2. v. (slang) To vomit.
chicago
paris
san
1. n. A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ) that came after pi and before qoppa.
2. n. (dated, informal) A sanatorium.
francisco
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.
london

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