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not
     1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
           Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.
           Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
     2. adv. To no degree.
           That is not red; it's orange.
     3. conj. And not.
           I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
           He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
     4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
           I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not!
           Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not!
     5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function.
           You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip.
     6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not.
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
respond
     1. v. (transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
           to respond to a question or an argument
     2. v. (intransitive) To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response
     3. v. To correspond with; to suit.
     4. v. To satisfy; to answer.
           The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.
     5. n. A response.
     6. n. A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
     7. n. (architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.
feels
     1. n. plural of feel
     2. n. (colloquial) Feelings, emotions
     3. v. third-person singular present indicative of feel
     4. adj. (colloquial) (synonym of emotional)
     feel
          1. v. To use the sense of touch.:
          2. v.          (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
                        You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast.
                        I felt cold and miserable all night.
          3. v.          To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
                        I felt my way through the darkened room.
                        I felt my way cautiously through the dangerous business maneuver.
          4. v.          (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
          5. v.          (intransitive) To search by sense of touch.
                        He felt for the light switch in the dark.
          6. v. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.:
          7. v.          To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
                        I can feel the sadness in his poems.
          8. v.          To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
                        I feel that we need to try harder.
          9. v.          (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.
                        He obviously feels strongly about it.
                        She felt even more upset when she heard the details.
          10. v.          (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
                        I feel for you and your plight.
          11. v. To be or become aware of.
          12. v. To experience the consequences of.
                Feel my wrath!
          13. v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
                It looks like wood, but it feels more like plastic.
                This is supposed to be a party, but it feels more like a funeral!
          14. v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
                I don't want you back here, ya feel me?
          15. n. A quality of an object experienced by touch.
                Bark has a rough feel.
          16. n. A vague mental impression.
                You should get a feel of the area before moving in.
          17. n. An act of fondling.
                She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.
          18. n. A vague understanding.
                I'm getting a feel for what you mean.
          19. n. An intuitive ability.
                She has a feel for music.
          20. n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.
                I know that feel.
          21. pron. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele
          22. adj. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele
          23. adv. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele
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.
bit
     1. n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
           A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.
     2. n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
     3. n. (dated, British) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean, and a fourpenny piece, or groat, in the British West Indies.)
           a threepenny bit
     4. n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
     5. n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first came into use, the Spanish 8 reales coin was widely used as a dollar equivalent, and thus the 1 re
           A quarter is two bits.
     6. n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
     7. n. A small amount of something.
           There were bits of paper all over the floor.   Does your leg still hurt? / Just a bit now.   I've done my bit; I expect you to do yours.
     8. n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
           I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first.   He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out.
     9. n. A portion of something.
           I'd like a big bit of cake, please.
     10. n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
           Am I bored? Not a bit of it!
     11. n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
     12. n. (anchor, An excerpt of material) An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
           His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show.
     13. n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
     14. n. The cutting iron of a plane.
     15. adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
           That's a bit too sweet.
     16. v. To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
     17. v. simple past tense of bite
           Your dog bit me!
     18. v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past of bite, bitten
           I have been bit by your dog!
     19. adj. (colloquial) bitten.
           Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him.
     20. adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten.
     21. n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
     22. n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
     23. n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
           status bits on IRC; permission bits in a file system
     24. n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
     25. n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
     bite
          1. v. To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
                As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
          2. v. To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
          3. v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
                That dog is about to bite!
          4. v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
                If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.
          5. v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
                I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.
          6. v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
                For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.
          7. v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
                Are the fish biting today?
          8. v. (intransitive, metaphor) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
                I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?
          9. v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
                These mosquitoes are really biting today!
          10. v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
                It bites like pepper or mustard.
          11. v. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
                Pepper bites the mouth.
          12. v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
          13. v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
                The anchor bites.
          14. v. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
                The anchor bites the ground.
          15. v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
                This music really bites.
          16. v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
                You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.
          17. v. (intransitive, AAVE, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
                He always be biting my moves.
          18. n. The act of biting.
          19. n. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
                That snake bite really hurts!
          20. n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
                After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.
          21. n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
                There were only a few bites left on the plate.
          22. n. (slang) Something unpleasant.
                That's really a bite!
          23. n. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
                That song is a bite of my song!
          24. n. A small meal or snack.
                I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.
          25. n. (figuratively) aggression
          26. n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
          27. n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
          28. n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
          29. n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
churlish
     1. adj. Of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic.
     2. adj. Rude, surly, ungracious.
     3. adj. Stingy or grudging.
     4. adj. (of soil) Difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable
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