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no
1. 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.)
2. det. Hardly any.
We'll be finished in no time at all.
3. det. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
No smoking
There's no stopping her once she gets going.
4. det. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
My mother's no fool.
Working nine to five every day is no life.
5. 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.
6. part. Used to show disagreement or negation.
No, you are mistaken.
No, you may not watch television now.
7. part. Used to show agreement with a negative question.
"Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")
8. 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
9. n. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval.
10. 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".
11. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
12. n. Alternative form of No.
expert
1. adj. Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.
I am expert at making a simple situation complex.
My cousin is an expert pianist.
2. adj. Characteristic of an expert.
This problem requires expert knowledge.
3. n. A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.
We called in several experts on the subject, but they couldn't reach an agreement.
4. n. (chess) A player ranking just below master.
evidence
1. n. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
There is no evidence that anyone was here earlier.
We have enough cold hard evidence in that presentation which will make a world of pain for our parasitic friends at Antarctica.
2. n. (legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
3. n. One who bears witness.
4. n. A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.
5. v. To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
She was furious, as evidenced by her slamming the door.
has
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of have
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
any
1. adv. To even the slightest extent, at all.
I will not remain here any longer.
If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways!
2. det. At least one; of at least one kind. One at all.
do you have any biscuits?; do you have any food?; I haven't got any money; it won't do you any good
3. det. No matter what kind.
choose any items you want; any person may apply
4. pron. Any thing(s) or person(s).
Any may apply.
value
1. n. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world.
2. n. The degree of importance given to something.
The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
3. n. That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
He does not share his parents' values.
family values
4. n. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
5. n. (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
The value of a crotchet is twice that of a quaver.
6. n. (arts) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
7. n. (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
The exact value of pi cannot be represented in decimal notation.
8. n. Precise meaning; import.
the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
9. n. (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
The vein carries good values.
the values on the hanging walls
10. n. (obsolete) Esteem; regard.
11. n. (obsolete) Valour; (also spelled) valew.
12. v. To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.
13. v. To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
14. v. To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
Gold was valued highly among the Romans.
15. v. To hold dear.
I value these old photographs.
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.
court
1. n. An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
The girls were playing in the court.
2. n. (US, Australia) A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
3. n. (social) Royal society.
4. n. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.
The noblemen visited the queen in her court.
5. n. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state
The queen and her court traveled to the city to welcome back the soldiers.
6. n. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
7. n. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.
8. n. (law) The administration of law.
9. n. The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
Many famous criminals have been put on trial in this court.
10. n. The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, le
The court started proceedings at 11 o'clock.
11. n. A tribunal established for the administration of justice.
12. n. The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
13. n. The session of a judicial assembly.
The court is now in session.
14. n. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
15. n. (sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
The local sports club has six tennis courts and two squash courts.
The shuttlecock landed outside the court.
16. v. To seek to achieve or win.
He was courting big new accounts that previous salesman had not attempted.
17. v. To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
He courted controversy with his frank speeches.
18. v. To try to win a commitment to marry from.
19. v. To engage in behavior leading to mating.
The bird was courting by making an elaborate dance.
20. v. To attempt to attract.
21. v. To attempt to gain alliance with.
22. v. (intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
She's had a few beaus come courting.
23. v. (intransitive) To engage in courtship behavior.
In this season, you can see many animals courting.
24. v. To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
unless
1. conj. Except on a specified condition; if not.
I’m leaving unless I get a pay rise (AmE: raise).
2. conj. If not; used with counterfactual conditionals.
3. conj. Except if; used with hypothetical conditionals.
subjected
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of subject
subject
1. adj. Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
a country subject to extreme heat
Menu listings and prices are subject to change.
He's subject to sneezing fits.
2. adj. Conditional upon.
The local board sets local policy, subject to approval from the State Board.
3. adj. Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
4. adj. Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
5. n. (grammar) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
In the sentence ‘The mouse is eaten by the cat in the kitchen.’, ‘The mouse’ is the subject, ‘the cat’ being the agent.
6. n. An actor; one who takes action.
The subjects and objects of power.
7. n. The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
8. n. A particular area of study.
Her favorite subject is physics.
9. n. A citizen in a monarchy.
I am a British subject.
10. n. A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
11. n. (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
12. n. A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
13. n. (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
14. n. (logic) That of which something is stated.
15. n. (math) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
Making x the subject of xsup - 2 − 6x + 3y = 0, we have x = 3 ± √(9 − 3y).
16. v. (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
cross
1. n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.
2. n. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
3. n. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.
4. n. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
5. n. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
She made the cross after swearing.
6. n. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
She was wearing a cross on her necklace.
7. n. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
It's a cross I must bear.
8. n. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
A quick cross of the road.
9. n. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
10. n. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
11. n. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
12. n. (football) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
13. n. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
14. n. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
15. n. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
16. n. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
17. n. A line drawn across or through another line.
18. n. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
19. n. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
20. n. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
21. n. (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
22. adj. Transverse; lying across the main direction.
At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
23. adj. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
24. adj. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
25. adj. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.
Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me.
26. adj. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
cross interrogatories
cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other
27. prep. (archaic) across
She walked cross the mountains.
28. prep. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.
29. v. To make or form a cross.
30. v. To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
She frowned and crossed her arms.
31. v. To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
to cross the letter t
32. v. To mark with an X.
Cross the box which applies to you.
33. v. To write lines at right angles.W
34. v. (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
35. v. To move relatively.
36. v. To go from one side of (something) to the other.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
You need to cross the street at the lights.
37. v. (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.
38. v. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
39. v. (sports) Relative movement by a player or of players.
40. v. # (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
41. v. # (football) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
# He crossed the ball into the penalty area.
42. v. # (rugby) To score a try.
43. v. (social) To oppose.
44. v. To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
"You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain.
45. v. (transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off; to debar.
46. v. (legal) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
47. v. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.
48. v. To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
examination
1. n. The act of examining.
2. n. Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury.
3. n. A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks.
4. n. Interrogation.

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