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separate
1. adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
2. adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
3. v. To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
Separate the articles from the headings.
4. v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
5. v. To cause (things or people) to be separate.
If the kids get too noisy, separate them for a few minutes.
6. v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.
7. v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
8. n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
isolated
1. adj. Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
2. adj. (chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
3. adj. (meteorology, of precipitation) affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of a forecast zone.
4. adj. (medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.
5. v. simple past tense and past participle of isolate
isolate
1. v. To set apart or cut off from others.
2. v. To place in quarantine or isolation.
3. v. (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
4. v. To insulate, or make free of external influence.
5. v. (transitive, microbiology) To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.
6. v. To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.
7. n. Something that has been isolated.
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.
surroundings
1. n. plural of surrounding
2. n. The area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity; the environment or ambiance.
3. n. (physics) All parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.
having
1. v. present participle of have
2. n. Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
little
1. adj. Small in size.
This is a little table.
2. adj. Insignificant, trivial.
It's of little importance.
3. adj. (offensive) (Used to belittle a person.)
Listen up, you little shit.
4. adj. Very young.
Did he tell you any embarrassing stories about when she was little?
That's the biggest little boy I've ever seen.
5. adj. (of a sibling) Younger.
This is my little sister.
6. adj. Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
7. adj. Small in amount or number, having few members.
little money; little herd
8. adj. Short in duration; brief.
I feel better after my little sleep.
9. adj. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
10. adv. Not much.
This is a little known fact. She spoke little and listened less.
11. adv. Not at all.
I was speaking ill of Fred; little did I know that he was right behind me, listening in.
12. det. Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of).
There is little water left.
We had very little to do.
13. pron. Not much; not a large amount.
Little is known about his early life.
14. n. (BDSM, slang) The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
interaction
1. n. The situation or occurrence in which two or more objects or events act upon one another to produce a new effect; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence.
Be aware of interactions between different medications.
2. n. A conversation or exchange between people.
I enjoyed the interaction with a bunch of like-minded people.
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
11. adv. -->
12. n. alternative form of withe
external
1. adj. Outside of something; on the exterior.
This building has some external pipework.
2. adj. Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.
3. adj. Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations.
external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom
4. adj. (anatomy) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.
5. adj. Provided by something or someone outside of the entity (object, group, company etc.) considered.
6. n. (programming) In the C programming language, a variable that is defined in the source code but whose value comes from some external source.
parties
1. n. plural of party
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of party
party
1. n. (legal) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee.
2. n. A person.
3. n. (slang) A person; an individual.
He is a queer party.
4. n. With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.
I can't possibly be a party to that kind of reckless behaviour.
5. n. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
6. n. (RPG, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group.
7. n. (video games) A group of characters controlled by the player.
8. n. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
The green party took 12% of the vote.
9. n. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party.
10. n. A social gathering.
11. n. A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
I'm throwing a huge party for my 21st birthday.
12. n. A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
We're expecting a large party from the London office.
13. n. A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
Tupperware party
lingerie party
14. n. (obsolete) A part or division.
15. v. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
We partied until the early hours.
16. v. (intransitive, slang) To take recreational drugs.
17. v. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
18. v. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).
If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.
19. adj. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
20. adj. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
an escutcheon party per pale
21. adv. (obsolete) Partly.
party
1. n. (legal) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee.
2. n. A person.
3. n. (slang) A person; an individual.
He is a queer party.
4. n. With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.
I can't possibly be a party to that kind of reckless behaviour.
5. n. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
6. n. (RPG, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group.
7. n. (video games) A group of characters controlled by the player.
8. n. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
The green party took 12% of the vote.
9. n. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party.
10. n. A social gathering.
11. n. A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
I'm throwing a huge party for my 21st birthday.
12. n. A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
We're expecting a large party from the London office.
13. n. A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
Tupperware party
lingerie party
14. n. (obsolete) A part or division.
15. v. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
We partied until the early hours.
16. v. (intransitive, slang) To take recreational drugs.
17. v. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
18. v. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).
If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.
19. adj. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
20. adj. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
an escutcheon party per pale
21. adv. (obsolete) Partly.
Provincial
1. adj. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.
2. adj. Of or pertaining to a province.
a provincial government
a provincial dialect
3. adj. Constituting a province.
4. adj. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
5. adj. Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
6. adj. narrow; illiberal.
7. adj. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
a provincial synod
8. adj. Limited in outlook; narrow.
9. n. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
10. n. (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
11. n. A country bumpkin.

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