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nothing
1. pron. Not any thing; no thing.
2. pron. An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.
3. n. Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.
- What happened to your face?- It's nothing.
4. n. A trivial remark (especially in the term sweet nothings).
5. n. A nobody (insignificant person).
You're nothing to me now!
6. adv. (archaic) Not at all; in no way.
should
1. v. (auxiliary) Be obliged to; have an obligation to; indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate or that the speaker has some strong advice but has no
What do I think? What should I do?
You should never drink and drive.
You should always wear a seat belt.
2. v. (auxiliary) ought to; speaker's opinion, or advice that an action is correct, beneficial, or desirable.
You should brush your teeth every day.
I should exercise more often, but I'm too lazy.
3. v. (auxiliary) Will be likely to (become or do something); indicates a degree of possibility or probability that the subject of the sentence is likely to execute the sentence predicate.
When you press this button, the pilot flame should ignite.
You should be warm enough with that coat.
4. v. (auxiliary, subjunctive) Used as a variant of the present subjunctive.
If I should be late, go without me.
Should you need extra blankets, you will find them in the closet.
5. v. (auxiliary) simple past tense of shall
I told him that I should be busy tomorrow.
6. v. (auxiliary, formal, literary) A variant of would when used with first person subjects.
I should imagine that everything is fine right now.
I should be lucky if I were you.
7. n. A statement of what ought to be the case as opposed to what is the case.
shall
1. v. (modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural.
I shall sing in the choir tomorrow.
I hope that we shall win the game.
2. v. Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural.
(determination): You shall go to the ball!
(obligation): Citizens shall provide proof of identity.
3. v. Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action.
Shall I help you with that?
Shall we go out later?
Let us examine that, shall we?
4. v. (obsolete) To owe.
detract
1. v. (intransitive) To take away; to withdraw or remove.
2. v. To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry.
from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He left yesterday from Chicago.
Face away from the wall!
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
An umbrella protects from the sun.
He knows right from wrong.
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.
smooth
1. adj. Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
2. adj. Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
We hope for a smooth transition to the new system.
3. adj. Bland; glib.
4. adj. Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.
5. adj. (of a person) Suave; sophisticated.
6. adj. (of an action) Natural; unconstrained.
7. adj. (of a motion) Unbroken.
8. adj. (chiefly of water) Placid, calm.
9. adj. (of an edge) Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
10. adj. (of food or drink) Not grainy; having an even texture.
11. adj. (of a beverage) Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
12. adj. (mathematics, of a function) Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.
13. adj. (math, of a number) That factors completely into small prime numbers.
14. adj. (linguistics, classical studies, of a vowel) Lacking marked aspiration.
15. adj. (of muscles, medicine) Involuntary and non-striated.
16. adv. Smoothly.
17. n. Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.
18. n. A smoothing action.
19. n. A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
20. n. A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
21. n. (statistics) The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
22. v. To make smooth or even.
23. v. To make straightforward.
24. v. (statistics, image processing, digital audio) To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
25. v. (West Country) To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.
Can I smooth your cat? -
flow
1. n. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
2. n. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
3. n. (math) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.
4. n. The rising movement of the tide.
5. n. Smoothness or continuity.
The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.
6. n. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficient flow.
Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.
7. n. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
8. n. The emission of blood during menstruation.
Tampons can be small or large, slender or thick. From “slender” to “super”, you can pick the size that matches your flow.
9. n. (Scotland) A morass or marsh.
10. n. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
The production on his new mixtape is mediocre but his flow is on point.
11. v. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
Tears flow from the eyes.
12. v. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
Wealth flows from industry and economy.
13. v. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.
14. v. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
15. v. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
a flowing mantle; flowing locks
16. v. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
17. v. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
18. v. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
19. v. To cover with varnish.
20. v. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
scenes
1. n. plural of scene
scene
1. n. The location of an event that attracts attention.
the scene of the crime
2. n. (theater) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage.
They stood in the centre of the scene.
3. n. The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a
to paint scenes
to change the scenes
behind the scenes
4. n. So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently
The play is divided into three acts, and in total twenty-five scenes.
The most moving scene is the final one, where he realizes he has wasted his whole life.
There were some very erotic scenes in the movie, although it was not classified as pornography.
5. n. The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of o
6. n. An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.
He assessed the scene to check for any danger, and agreed it was safe.
7. n. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
8. n. An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often, an artificial or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display
The headmistress told the students not to cause a scene.
They saw an angry scene outside the pub.
The crazy lady made a scene in the grocery store.
9. n. An element of fiction writing.
10. n. A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.
She got into the emo scene at an early age.
11. v. To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.

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