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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.
worked
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of work
     2. adj. Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.
     3. adj. Wrought.
     4. adj.          Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.
     5. adj.          Decorated or embellished; embroidered.
     6. adj. Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required.
     work
          1. n. (heading) Employment.
          2. n.          Labour, occupation, job.
                        My work involves a lot of travel.
          3. n.          The place where one is employed.
                        He hasn’t come home yet, he’s still at work.
          4. n.          One's employer
                        “I want to go to the R.E.M. reunion concert but I'm not sure if my work will let me off.”
          5. n. (heading) Effort.
          6. n.          Effort expended on a particular task.
                        Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
          7. n.          Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
                        We know what we must do. Let's go to work.
          8. n.          Something on which effort is expended.
                        There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.
          9. n.          (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
                        Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.
          10. n.          (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
          11. n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
                We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.
          12. n. Product; the result of effort.:
          13. n.          (often, in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
                        There's a lot of guesswork involved.
          14. n.          (often, in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
                        We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.
          15. n.          A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
                        It is a work of art.
                        the poetic works of Alexander Pope
          16. n.          A fortification.
                        William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.
          17. n. (slang) The staging of events to appear as real.
          18. n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
          19. n. The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
                Tell me you're using clean works at least.
          20. v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
                He’s working in a bar.
          21. v.          Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
                        I work in a national park
                        she works in the human resources department
                        he mostly works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry
          22. v.          Followed by as. Said of one's job title
                        I work as a cleaner.
          23. v.          Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
                        she works for Microsoft
                        he works for the president
          24. v.          Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
                        I work closely with my Canadian counterparts
                        you work with computers
                        she works with the homeless people from the suburbs
          25. v. To effect by gradual degrees.
                he worked his way through the crowd
                the dye worked its way through
                using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand
          26. v. To embroider with thread.
          27. v. To set into action.
                He worked the levers.
          28. v. To cause to ferment.
          29. v. (intransitive) To ferment.
          30. v. To exhaust, by working.
                The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.
          31. v. To shape, form, or improve a material.
                He used pliers to work the wire into shape.
          32. v. To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
                she works the night clubs
                the salesman works the Midwest
                this artist works mostly in acrylics
          33. v. To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
          34. v. To provoke or excite; to influence.
                The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.
          35. v. To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
                She knows how to work the system.
          36. v. To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
                I cannot work a miracle.
          37. v. To cause to work.
                He is working his servants hard.
          38. v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
                he pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?;  he looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work;  my plan didn’t work
          39. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
                They worked on her to join the group.
          40. v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
          41. v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
                His fingers worked with tension.
                A ship works in a heavy sea.
          42. v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
                this dough does not work easily;  the soft metal works well
          43. v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
          44. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.
all
     1. adv. (degree) intensifier.
           It suddenly went all quiet.
           She was all, “Whatever.”
     2. adv. (poetic) Entirely.
     3. adv. Apiece; each.
           The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
     4. adv. (degree) So much.
           Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
     5. adv. (obsolete, poetic) even; just
     6. det. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or un).
           All contestants must register at the scorer’s table.  All flesh is originally grass.  All my friends like classical music.
     7. det. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
           The store is open all day and all night. (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
           I’ve been working on this all year. (= from the beginning of the year until now.)
     8. det. (obsolete) Any.
     9. det. Only; alone; nothing but.
           He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice.
     10. pron. Everything.
           some gave all they had;  she knows all and sees all;  Those who think they know it all are annoying to those of us who do.
     11. pron. Everyone.
           A good time was had by all.
     12. n. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of.
           She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.
     13. n. The totality of one's possessions.
     14. conj. (obsolete) although
     15. adj. (dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead.
           The butter is all.
night
     1. n. The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
           How do you sleep at night when you attack your kids like that!?
     2. n. An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
           a night on the town
     3. n. A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a hotel or other accommodation.
           We stayed at the Hilton for five nights.
     4. n. Nightfall.
           from noon till night
     5. n. Darkness.
           The cat disappeared into the night.
     6. n. A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
           (color panel, 002266)
     7. n. (sports) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
     8. interj. short for, good night
           Night all! Thanks for a great evening!
     9. v. To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.
assembling
     1. v. present participle of assemble
           She worked all night assembling the bicycle, but she succeeded.
     2. n. A gathering or assembly.
     assemble
          1. v. To put together.
                He assembled the model ship.
          2. v. To gather as a group.
                The parents assembled in the school hall.
          3. v. (computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code
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.
bicycle
     1. n. A vehicle that has two wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider’s feet upon pedals.
     2. n. A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs.
     3. n. The best possible hand in lowball.
     4. n. (UK, AU, NZ) A motorbike.
     5. v. To travel or exercise using a bicycle.
but
     1. prep. (obsolete, outside, Scotland) Outside of.
           Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there.
     2. prep. Apart from, except (for), excluding.
           Everyone but Father left early.
           I like everything but that.
           Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave.
     3. adv. Merely, only, just.
     4. adv. (Australian, conjunctive) Though, however.
           I'll have to go home early but.
     5. adv. Used as an intensifier.
           Nobody, but nobody, crosses me and gets away with it.
     6. conj. (following a negative clause or sentence) On the contrary, but rather (introducing a word or clause that contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence without the negation).
           I am not rich but (I am) poor;  not John but Peter went there.
     7. conj. However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (implies that the following clause is contrary to prior belief or contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence).
           She is very old but still attractive.
           You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not.
     8. conj. Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "ex
           I cannot but feel offended.
     9. conj. (archaic) Without its also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).
           It never rains but it pours.
     10. conj. (obsolete) Except with; unless with; without.
     11. conj. (obsolete) Only; solely; merely.
     12. conj. (obsolete) Until.
     13. n. An instance or example of using the word "but".
           It has to be done – no ifs or buts.
     14. n. (Scotland) The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
     15. n. A limit; a boundary.
     16. n. The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
     17. v. (archaic) Use the word "but".
           But me no buts.
She
     1. pron. honoraltcaps, she
     2. n. An ethnic group in southern China.
     3. n. A language of the Hmong-Mien language family spoken by the She people.
     4. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
           I asked Mary, but she said that she didn’t know.
     5. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat.
           She could do forty knots in good weather.
           She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
     6. 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.
     7. pron. (personal, dated) A country.
           She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
     8. 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).
     9. n. A female.
           Pat is definitely a she.
succeeded
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of succeed
     succeed
          1. v. To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.
                The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.
                Autumn succeeds summer.
          2. v. To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful.
                The persecution of any righteous practice has never succeeded in the face of history; in fact, it can expedite the collapse of the persecutory regime.
          3. v. (obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
                So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, I am king.
          4. v. To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
          5. v. To support; to prosper; to promote.
          6. v. To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with
          7. v.          To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
          8. v. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
          9. v. To go under cover.
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