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please
1. v. To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
Her presentation pleased the executives.
I'm pleased to see you've been behaving yourself.
2. v. (intransitive, ergative) To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
Just do as you please.
3. adv. Used to make a polite request.
Please, pass the bread.
Would you please sign this form?
Could you tell me the time, please?
May I take your order, please?
4. adv. Used as an affirmative to an offer.
—May I help you? —Please.
5. adv. An expression of annoyance or impatience.
Oh, please, do we have to hear that again?
6. adv. (Cincinnati) Said as a request to repeat information.
return
1. v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter.
2. v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
To return to my story...
3. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
5. v. To place or put back something where it had been.
Please return your hands to your lap.
6. v. To give something back to its original holder or owner.
You should return the library book within one month.
7. v. To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
If the goods don't work, you can return them.
8. v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
9. v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
The player couldn't return the serve because it was so fast.
10. v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump.
11. v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
12. v. To say in reply; to respond.
to return an answer; to return thanks
13. v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
14. v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
This function returns the number of files in the directory.
15. v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
to return the lie
16. v. To report, or bring back and make known.
to return the result of an election
17. v. (by extension, UK) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
18. n. The act of returning.
I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.
19. n. A return ticket.
Do you want a one-way or a return?
20. n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before.
21. n. An answer.
a return to one's question
22. n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold
23. n. Gain or loss from an investment.
It yielded a return of 5%.
24. n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
Hand in your return by the end of the tax year.
25. n. (computing) A carriage return character.
26. n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
27. n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
28. n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
29. n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
30. n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
31. n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction
A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
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.
shopping
1. v. present participle of shop
2. n. The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.
On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.
3. n. Recently bought goods.
I carried three heavy bags of shopping up the stairs.
4. n. An area's combination of stores and other infrastructure and products available for people who want to shop.
Boston has good shopping.
shop
1. n. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
2. n. A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
3. n. A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
4. n. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
5. n. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
6. n. An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
a barber shop
7. n. An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
This is where I do my weekly shop.
8. n. (figurative) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
9. v. (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
I went shopping early before the Christmas rush.
He’s shopping for clothes.
10. v. To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).
Shop our new arrivals.
11. v. (transitive, slang) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
He shopped his mates in to the police.
12. v. (transitive, slang) To imprison.
13. v. (transitive, internet slang) To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
14. interj. (dated) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant
carts
1. n. plural of cart
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of cart
cart
1. n. A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
The grocer delivered his goods by cart.
2. n. A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
3. n. (Internet) A shopping cart.
4. v. To carry goods.
I've been carting these things around all day.
5. v. To carry or convey in a cart.
6. v. To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.
7. v. (transitive, obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
8. n. (video games, informal) A cartridge for a video game system.
My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.
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
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.
corral
1. n. An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
2. n. An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
Please return the shopping carts to the corral.
3. n. A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks.
4. v. To capture or round up.
The lawyer frantically tried to corral his notes as his briefcase fell open.
Between us, we managed to corral the puppy in the kitchen.
5. v. To place inside of a corral.
After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner.
6. v. To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night.

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