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someone
1. pron. Some person.
Can someone help me, please?
2. n. A partially specified but unnamed person.
Do you need a gift for that special someone?
3. n. an important person
He thinks he has become someone.
Who
1. pron. honoraltcaps, who
2. pron. (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; (asks for the identity of someone). (used in a direct or indirect question)
Who is that? (direct question)
I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
3. pron. (interrogative) What is one's position; (asks whether someone deserves to say or do something).
I don't like what you did, but who am I to criticize you? I've done worse.
4. pron. (relative) The person or people that.
It was a nice man who helped us.
5. pron. (relative, archaic) Whoever, he who, they who.
6. n. A person under discussion; a question of which person.
hides
1. n. plural of hide
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of hide
hide
1. v. To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
He hides his magazines under the bed.
The politicians were accused of keeping information hidden from the public.
2. v. (intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.
3. n. The skin of an animal.
4. n. (obsolete, or derogatory) The human skin.
5. n. (informal usually US) One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
6. n. (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.
7. n. A covered structure to which a pet animal can retreat, as is recommended for snakes.
8. v. To beat with a whip made from hide.
9. n. (now historical) A unit of land and tax assessment of varying size, originally as intended to support one household with dependents.
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.
buys
1. n. plural of buy
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of buy
buy
1. v. To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods
I'm going to buy my father something nice for his birthday.
2. v. To obtain by some sacrifice.
I've bought material comfort by foregoing my dreams.
3. v. To bribe.
He tried to buy me with gifts, but I wouldn't give up my beliefs.
4. v. To be equivalent to in value.
The dollar doesn't buy as much as it used to.
5. v. (transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe
I'm not going to buy your stupid excuses anymore!
6. v. (intransitive) To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a meal)
She buys for Federated.
Let's go out for dinner. I'm buying.
7. v. (poker slang) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
Smith tried to buy the pot on the river with a huge bluff
8. n. Something which is bought; a purchase.
At only $30, the second-hand kitchen table was a great buy.
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.
sells
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of sell
2. n. plural of sell
sell
1. v. (transitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
I'll sell you all three for a hundred dollars.
Sorry, I'm not prepared to sell.
2. v. To be sold.
This old stock will never sell.
The corn sold for a good price.
3. v. To promote a product or service.
4. v. To promote a particular viewpoint.
My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.
5. v. (slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
6. v. (professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
7. n. An act of selling.
This is going to be a tough sell.
8. n. An easy task.
9. n. (colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity.
10. n. (obsolete) A seat or stool.
11. n. (archaic) A saddle.
12. n. (regional, obsolete) A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).
He picked up the sell from the straw-strewn barn-floor, snelly sneaked up behind her and sleekly slung it around her swire while scryingː "dee, dee ye fooking quhoreǃ".
stolen
1. v. past participle of steal
2. adj. That has been stolen.
steal
1. v. To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
Three irreplaceable paintings were stolen from the gallery.
2. v. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
They stole my idea for a biodegradable, disposable garbage de-odorizer.
3. v. To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
He stole glances at the pretty woman across the street.
4. v. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
He stole the car for two thousand less than its book value.
5. v. To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
6. v. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
He stole across the room, trying not to wake her.
7. v. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
8. v. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
9. v. (sports) To dispossess
10. v. (humorous, transitive) To acquire; to get
Hold on, I need to steal a phone from the office. I'll be back real quick.
11. n. The act of stealing.
12. n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
At this price, this car is a steal.
13. n. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
14. n. (baseball) A stolen base.
15. n. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
16. n. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.
goods
1. n. plural of good
2. n. (business, economics) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.
3. n. (informal, often preceded by the) Something authentic, important, or revealing.
4. n. (transport) freight (not passengers)
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
criminal
1. adj. Against the law; forbidden by law.
2. adj. Guilty of breaking the law.
3. adj. Of or relating to crime or penal law.
His long criminal record suggests that he is a dangerous man.
4. adj. (figuratively) Abhorrent or very undesirable.
Printing such asinine opinions is criminal!
5. n. A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.
middleman
1. n. An intermediary, agent between two (or more) parties.
2. n. An intermediate dealer between the manufacturer and the retailer or customer.
3. n. (Ireland, historical) One who rents land in large tracts, and lets it in small portions to the peasantry.
4. v. To act as a middleman or intermediary.
for
1. conj. (dated) Because.
2. prep. Towards.
The astronauts headed for the moon.
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to.
I have something for you.
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of.
We're having a birthday party for Janet.
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary.
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala.
5. prep. Supporting.
All those for the motion raise your hands.
6. prep. Because of.
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him.
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight.
She was the worse for drink.
7. prep. Over a period of time.
I've lived here for three years.
They fought for days over a silly pencil.
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space.
9. prep. On behalf of.
I will stand in for him.
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of.
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire.
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday.
He's going for his doctorate.
Do you want to go for coffee?
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers.
Can you go to the store for some eggs?
I'm saving up for a car.
Don't wait for an answer.
What did he ask you for?
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward.
Run for the hills!
He was headed for the door when he remembered.
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect.
Fair for its day.
She's spry for an old lady.
14. prep. Despite, in spite of.
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive.
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.)
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.)
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
At close of play, England were 305 for 3.
18. prep. To be, or as being.
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.)
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs).
transactions
1. n. plural of transaction
transaction
1. n. The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
2. n. A deal or business agreement.
3. n. An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.
4. n. (finance) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
5. n. (computing) An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).
6. n. (especially in plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
stolen
1. v. past participle of steal
2. adj. That has been stolen.
steal
1. v. To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
Three irreplaceable paintings were stolen from the gallery.
2. v. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
They stole my idea for a biodegradable, disposable garbage de-odorizer.
3. v. To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
He stole glances at the pretty woman across the street.
4. v. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
He stole the car for two thousand less than its book value.
5. v. To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
6. v. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
He stole across the room, trying not to wake her.
7. v. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
8. v. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
9. v. (sports) To dispossess
10. v. (humorous, transitive) To acquire; to get
Hold on, I need to steal a phone from the office. I'll be back real quick.
11. n. The act of stealing.
12. n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
At this price, this car is a steal.
13. n. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
14. n. (baseball) A stolen base.
15. n. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
16. n. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.
goods
1. n. plural of good
2. n. (business, economics) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.
3. n. (informal, often preceded by the) Something authentic, important, or revealing.
4. n. (transport) freight (not passengers)

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