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reader
1. n. A person who reads a publication.
2. n. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
3. n. A proofreader.
4. n. A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits
5. n. (chiefly British) A university lecturer below a professor.
6. n. Any device that reads something.
a card reader, a microfilm reader
7. n. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
8. n. An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
9. n. A literary anthology.
10. n. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
11. n. A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
digest
1. v. To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
to digest laws
2. v. To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blo
3. v. To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
4. v. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
5. v. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
6. v. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.
7. v. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
8. v. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
9. v. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
10. v. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)
11. n. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
12. n. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
Comyn's Digest
the United States Digest
13. n. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
Reader's Digest is published monthly.
The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.
14. n. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.
Is
1. n. plural of I
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of be
He is a doctor. He retired some time ago.
Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him.
3. n. plural of i
remember to dot your is
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?
published
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of publish
publish
1. v. To issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale.
The Times published the investigative piece about the governor both in print and online.
Most of the sketches Faulkner published in 1925 appeared in the Sunday magazine section of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
The State combined public information strategies and published billboards, pamphlets, and newsletter articles under the campaign theme, Give 'Em the Boot.
2. v. To announce to the public.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services published a press release on May 22, 2013.
The Bolshevik government published an announcement of the tsar's death
No newspaper published the victim's name.
3. v. To issue the work of (an author).
Grove Press published many avant-garde authors.
4. v. (Internet, transitive) To disseminate (a message) publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
5. v. (intransitive) To issue a medium (e.g. publication).
Major city papers still publish daily.
6. v. (intransitive) To have one's work accepted for a publication.
She needs to publish in order to get tenure.
7. v. (intransitive, of content) To be made available in a printed publication or other medium.
The article first published online, then in print the next day.
8. v. (Internet, intransitive) To convert data of a Web page to HTML in a local directory and copy it to the Web site on a remote system.
monthly
1. adj. Occurring every month.
2. adv. every month.
3. n. A publication that is published once a month.
4. n. (euphemistic) The menstrual period.

Dictionary entries from Wiktionary