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rummaging
1. v. present participle of rummage
2. n. The act of one who rummages.
rummage
1. v. (transitive, nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
2. v. (transitive, nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
After the long voyage, the customs officers rummaged the ship.
3. v. To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
She rummaged her purse in search of the keys.
The burglars rummaged the entire house for cash and jewellery.
4. v. (intransitive) To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
She rummaged in the drawers trying to find the missing sock.
5. n. (obsolete) Commotion; disturbance.
6. n. A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
7. n. An unorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
8. n. (nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; formerly written romage.
around
1. prep. Defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing.
I planted a row of lillies around the statue. The jackals began to gather around someone or something.
2. prep. Following the perimeter of a specified area and returning to the starting point.
We walked around the football field. She went around the track fifty times.
3. prep. Following a path which curves near an object, with the object on the inside of the curve.
The road took a brief detour around the large rock formation, then went straight on.
4. prep. (of distance, time) Near; in the vicinity of.
I left my keys somewhere around here. I left the house around 10 this morning. There isn't another house here for miles around. I'll see you around the neighbourhood, etc.
5. prep. At various places in.
The pages from the notebook were scattered around the room. Those teenagers like to hang around the mall.
6. adj. (informal, with the verb "to be") Alive; existing.
The record store on Main Street? Yes, it's still around.
"How is old Bob? I heard that his health is failing." "Oh, he's still around. He's feeling better now.".
7. adv. Generally.
8. adv. From place to place.
There are rumors going around that the company is bankrupt.
She went around the office and got everyone to sign the card.
Look around and see what you find.
We moved the furniture around in the living room.
9. adv. From one state or condition to an opposite or very different one; with a metaphorical change in direction; bringing about awareness or agreement.
The team wasn't doing well, but the new coach really turned things around.
He used to stay up late but his new girlfriend changed that around.
The patient was unconscious but the doctor brought him around quickly. (see bring around, come around)
I didn't think he would ever like the new design, but eventually we brought him around. (see bring around, come around)
10. adv. (with turn, spin etc.) Partially or completely rotated, including to face in the opposite direction.
Turn around at the end of this street.
She spun around a few times.
11. adv. Used with verbs to indicate repeated or continuous action, or in numerous locations or with numerous people
Stop kidding around. I'm serious.
I asked around, and no-one really liked it.
Shopping around can get you a better deal.
When are you going to stop whoring around, find a nice girl, and give us grandchildren?
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.
boxes
1. n. plural of box
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of box
box
1. n. Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
2. n. A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
3. n. A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
a box of books
4. n. A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
5. n. A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
post box post office box
6. n. # A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements.
7. n. A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre or other building.
8. n. The driver's seat on a horse-drawn coach.
9. n. A small rectangular shelter; a booth.
sentry-box
10. n. (short for, horsebox, , container for transporting horses)
11. n. (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
I’m really in a box now.
12. n. (euphemistic) A coffin.
13. n. (slang) Preceded by the: television.
14. n. (slang) The vagina.
15. n. (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
a UNIX box
16. n. (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
17. n. (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
18. n. (fencing) A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body
19. n. (dated) A small country house.
20. n. Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
21. n. A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
Place a tick in the box.
This text would stand out better if we put it in a coloured box.
22. n. (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
23. n. (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
24. n. (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
25. n. (lacrosse, informal) (short for, box lacrosse, , indoor form of lacrosse)
26. n. (soccer) The penalty area.
27. v. To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
28. v. Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
29. v. To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
30. v. (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
31. v. (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
32. v. (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
33. v. (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
34. v. (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
35. n. Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Buxus, especially the common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
36. n. The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
37. n. (musical instrument, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
38. n. (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, the box scrub, (vern, Brisbane box), vern, brush box, pink box, or vern, Queensland box,).
39. n. A blow with the fist.
40. v. To strike with the fists; to punch.
box someone’s ears
Leave this place before I box you!
41. v. (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
42. v. (intransitive, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
43. n. (dated) A Mediterranean food fish of the genus , which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.
I
1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
(audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio)
2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.
3. n. (metaphysics) The ego.
4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate.
5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case)
6. pron. nonstandard spelling of I
stumbled
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of stumble
stumble
1. n. A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
2. n. An error or blunder.
3. n. A clumsy walk.
4. v. (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
He stumbled over a rock.
5. v. (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.
6. v. To cause to stumble or trip.
7. v. (transitive, figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
8. v. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, or against.
upon
1. prep. Physically above and in contact with.
Place the book upon the table.
2. prep. Physically directly supported by.
The crew set sail upon the sea.
She balanced upon one foot.
3. prep. Being followed by another so as to form a series.
hours upon hours, years upon years, mile upon mile of desert
4. prep. At (a prescribed point in time).
The contract was rendered void upon his death.
5. prep. On.
6. adv. Being the target of an action.
He was set upon by the agitated dogs
an
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
4. conj. (archaic) If
5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
An it harm none, do what ye will.
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
old
1. adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
an old abandoned building; an old friend
2. adj. Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
a wrinkled old man
3. adj. Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life.
an old loaf of bread
4. adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.
5. adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child.
My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old.
6. adj. Of an earlier time.:
7. adj. Former, previous.
My new car is not as good as my old one. a school reunion for Old Etonians
8. adj. That is no longer in existence.
The footpath follows the route of an old railway line.
9. adj. Obsolete; out-of-date.
That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way.
10. adj. Familiar.
When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho.
11. adj. Tiresome.
Your constant pestering is getting old.
12. adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
13. adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)
We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV. My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas.
14. adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
15. n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.
family
1. n. A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
Our family lives in town.
2. n. An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
3. n. A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
crime family, Mafia family
This is my fraternity family at the university.
Our company is one big happy family.
4. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.
5. n. Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.
6. n. (music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
the brass family; the violin family
7. n. (linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
the Indo-European language family; the Afro-Asiatic language family
8. n. Used attributively.
The dog was kept as a family pet.
For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic.
9. adj. Suitable for children and adults.
It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.
Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.
10. adj. Conservative, traditional.
The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
11. adj. (slang) Homosexual.
I knew he was family when I first met him.
photo
1. n. Photograph.
2. v. To take a photograph of.

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