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sometimes
     1. adv. On certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always.
           Sometimes I sit and think, but mostly I just sit.
     2. adv. (obsolete) On a certain occasion in the past; once.
     3. adj. (obsolete) Former; sometime.
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
lie
     1. v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
           The book lies on the table;  the snow lies on the roof;  he lies in his coffin
     2. v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
     3. v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
           to lie waste;  to lie fallow; to lie open;  to lie hidden;  to lie grieving;  to lie under one's displeasure;  to lie at the mercy of the waves
           The paper does not lie smooth on the wall.
     4. v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
     5. v. Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
     6. v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
     7. v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
     8. v. (legal) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
     9. n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
     10. n. (disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
     11. n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
     12. v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
           When Pinocchio lies, his nose grows.
           If you are found to have lied in court, you could face a penalty.
           While a principle-based approach might claim that lying is always morally wrong, the casuist would argue that, depending upon the details of the case, lying might or might not be illegal or une
     13. v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
           Photographs often lie.
           Hips don't lie.
     14. v. (intransitive) To succeed or excel at lying; lie successfully; show one's expertise or mastery in the art of lying.
           Wow, that boy can really lie!
     15. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
           Sorry, I haven't seen your keys anywhere...wait, I lied! They're right there on the coffee table.
     16. n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
           I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.
     17. n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth
     18. n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.
awake
     1. adj. (predicative only)
     2. adj. Not asleep; conscious.
     3. adj. (figurative, by extension) Alert, aware.
           They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.
     4. v. (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
     5. v. To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
     6. v. to excite or to stir up something latent.
     7. v. (transitive, figurative) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
     8. v. (intransitive, figurative) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
at
     1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.
           Caesar was at Rome;  at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine;  at Jim’s house
     2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.)
           at six o’clock;  at closing time;  at night.
     3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).
           He threw the ball at me.  He shouted at her.
     4. prep. Denotes a price.
           3 apples at 2¢ (each)   The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.
     5. prep. Occupied in (activity).
           men at work
     6. prep. In a state of.
           She is at sixes and sevens with him.  They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff.  The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.
     7. prep. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
           Sell at 90.  Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders.  I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost.
     8. prep. Because of.
           to laugh at a joke   mad at their comments
     9. prep. Indicates a means, method, or manner.
     10. prep. Holding a given speed or rate.
           It is growing at the rate of 3% a year.  Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.
     11. prep. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.
           The twins were both bad at chemistry.
           He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.
     12. prep. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
     13. n. The at sign (@).
     14. n. (alt form, att) (Laos currency unit)
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.
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.
try
     1. v. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
           I tried to rollerblade, but I couldn’t.
           I'll come to dinner soon. I'm trying to beat this level first.
     2. v. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
     3. v.          To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.
     4. v.          (one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out.
                   to try out the wild corn from the good
     5. v.          (nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil
     6. v.          To extract wax from a honeycomb
     7. v. To test, to work out.
     8. v.          To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
                   I tried mixing more white paint to get a lighter shade.
     9. v.          To put to test.
                   I shall try my skills on this.
     10. v.          (specifically) To test someone's patience.
                   You are trying my patience.
                   Don't fucking try me.
     11. v.          To taste, sample, etc.
                   Try this—you’ll love it.
     12. v.          To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
                   to try weights or measures by a standard;  to try a person's opinions
     13. v.          (legal) To put on trial.
                   He was tried and executed.
     14. v. To experiment, to strive.
     15. v.          To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
     16. v.          To work on something.
                   You are trying too hard.
     17. v.          (obsolete) To do; to fare.
                   How do you try! (i.e., how do you do?)
     18. v.          To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
                   to try rival claims by a duel;  to try conclusions
     19. v.          (euphemism, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
     20. v. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
     21. v. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
           The light tries his eyes.
           Repeated failures try one's patience.
     22. v. (slang) To want
           I am really not trying to hear you talk about my mama like that.
     23. n. An attempt.
           I gave unicycling a try but I couldn’t do it.
     24. n. An act of tasting or sampling.
           I gave sushi a try but I didn’t like it.
     25. n. (rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
           Today I scored my first try.
     26. n. (dialect) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
     27. n. (American football) a field goal or extra point
     28. adj. (obsolete) Fine, excellent.
to
     1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
           I want to leave.
           He asked me what to do.
           I don’t know how to say it.
           I have places to go and people to see.
     2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
           "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
           If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
     3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
           I have to do laundry today.
     4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
           We are walking to the shop.
     5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
           He devoted himself to education.
           They drank to his health.
     6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
           His face was beaten to a pulp.
     7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
           similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
     8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
           With God to friend (with God as a friend);   with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe);   lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice);   t
     9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
           one to one = 1:1
           ten to one = 10:1.
           I have ten dollars to your four.
     10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
           Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
           Three to the power of two is nine.
           Three to the second is nine.
     11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
           I gave the book to him.
     12. prep. (time) Preceding.
           ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
     13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
           Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
           There's a lot of sense to what he says.
     14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
           Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
     15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
           Please push the door to.
     16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
     17. adv. misspelling of too
commune
     1. n. A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
     2. n. A local political division in many European countries.
     3. n. (obsolete) The commonalty; the common people.
     4. n. (obsolete) communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends
     5. v. To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
     6. v. (intransitive, followed by with) To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
           He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.
     7. v. (Christianity, intransitive) To receive the communion.
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
it
     1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals.
           Put it over there.
           Take each day as it comes.
           I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today.
     2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender.
           She took the baby and held it in her arms.
     3. pron. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
           It's me. John.
           Is it her?
     4. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)
           It is nearly 10 o’clock.
           It’s 10:45 read ten-forty-five.
           It’s very cold today.
           It’s lonely without you.
     5. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms.
           stick it out
           live it up
           rough it
     6. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject i
           It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
           I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
           It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing)
           He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
           It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if)
     7. pron. All or the end; something after which there is no more.
           Are there more students in this class, or is this it?
           That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.
     8. pron. (chiefly pejorative, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male.
     9. pron. (obsolete) (Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun): That which; what.
     10. det. (obsolete) its
     11. n. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
     12. n. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
           In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…
     13. n. (British) The game of tag.
           Let's play it at breaktime.
     14. n. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty.
     15. n. (euphemism) Sexual activity.
           caught them doing it
     16. adj. (colloquial) Most fashionable.
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