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she
1. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
I asked Mary, but she said that she didn’t know.
2. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat.
She could do forty knots in good weather.
She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
3. pron. (personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car.
She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.
4. pron. (personal, dated) A country.
She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
5. pron. (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
6. n. A female.
Pat is definitely a she.
clutched
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of clutch
clutch
1. v. To seize, as though with claws.
to clutch power
2. v. To grip or grasp tightly.
She clutched her purse tightly and walked nervously into the building.
3. n. The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
4. n. (by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
5. n. A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car.
6. n. The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission.
7. n. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
8. n. A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
9. n. (US) An important or critical situation.
10. adj. (US, Canada) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
11. n. A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
12. n. A group or bunch (of people or things).
13. v. To hatch.
Her
1. pron. honoraltcaps, her
2. det. Belonging to her.
This is her book
3. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.
Give it to her (after preposition)
He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
He treated her for a cold (direct object)
4. n. (informal) A female person or animal.
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
purse
1. n. A small bag for carrying money.
2. n. (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
3. n. A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
4. n. (historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
5. v. To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
6. v. To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
7. v. To put into a purse.
8. v. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.
tightly
1. adv. In a tight manner.
tightly clenched fingers
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
walked
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of walk
walk
1. v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times
To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.
2. v. (intransitive, colloquial, legal) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.
3. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.
4. v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believ
5. v. To travel (a distance) by walking.
I walk two miles to school every day. The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.
6. v. To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
I walk the dog every morning. Will you walk me home?
7. v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
8. v. To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.
9. v. To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
10. v. To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
I walked the streets aimlessly. Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.
11. v. (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
12. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.
13. v. To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
14. v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
15. v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
16. v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
17. v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
18. v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
19. n. A trip made by walking.
I take a walk every morning
20. n. A distance walked.
It’s a long walk from my house to the library
21. n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
22. n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year
23. n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
24. n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
25. n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone
26. n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
27. n. (Caribbean, Guyana, Belize) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.Lise Winer (ed.), Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008, p.(n
28. n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
29. n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
30. n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
31. n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
32. n. (finance) A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).
nervously
1. adv. In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.
He paced nervously as he waited for the important phone call.
into
1. prep. Going inside (of).
Mary danced into the house.
2. prep. Going to a geographic region.
We left the house and walked into the street.
The plane flew into the open air.
3. prep. Against, especially with force or violence.
The car crashed into the tree; I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall
4. prep. Producing, becoming; (indicates transition into another form or substance).
I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale. Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
5. prep. After the start of.
About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
6. prep. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
She's really into Shakespeare right now; I'm so into you!
7. prep. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself.
8. prep. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.(R:OED Online)
Five into three is fifteen.
9. prep. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
Three into two won't go.
24 goes into 48 how many times?
10. prep. Investigating the subject (of).
Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees.
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.
building
1. n. The act or process by which something is built; construction.
The building of the bridge will be completed in a couple of weeks.
2. n. A closed structure with walls and a roof.
My sister lives in that apartment building.
3. v. present participle of build
build
1. v. To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
2. v. To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
3. v. To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
4. v. To establish a basis for (something).
5. v. (intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
6. v. (intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
7. v. (transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
8. v. (intransitive, computing, of source code) To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
This code won't build any more. Have you made any changes?
9. n. The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body.
Rugby players are of sturdy build.
10. n. (computing) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
The computer company has introduced a new prototype build to beta testers.
11. n. (video games, slang) Any structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, created by the player.
I made a build that looked like the Parthenon in that game.

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