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straying
1. v. present participle of stray
2. n. The act of one who strays; deviation or sin - often sexual infidelity.
stray
1. n. Any domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.
2. n. (figuratively) One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically.
3. n. The act of wandering or going astray.
4. n. (historical) An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e. "the stray".
5. v. (intransitive) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
6. v. (intransitive) To wander from one's limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
7. v. (intransitive, figurative) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
8. v. To cause to stray.
9. adj. Having gone astray; strayed; wandering
The alley is full of stray cats rummaging through the garbage. -
10. adj. In the wrong place; misplaced.
a stray comma
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.
proper
1. adj. Suitable.:
2. adj. Suited or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable.
the proper time to plant potatoes
3. adj. Following the established standards of behavior or manners; correct or decorous.
a very proper young lady
4. adj. Possessed, related.:
5. adj. (grammar) Used to designate a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are usually written with an initial capital letter.
6. adj. Pertaining exclusively to a specific thing or person; particular.
7. adj. (usually postpositive) In the strict sense; within the strict definition or core (of a specified place, taxonomic order, idea, etc).
8. adj. (archaic) Belonging to oneself or itself; own.
9. adj. (heraldry) Portrayed in natural or usual coloration, as opposed to conventional tinctures.
10. adj. (mathematics) Being strictly part of some other (not necessarily explicitly mentioned, but of definitional importance) thing, and not being the thing i
proper subset — proper ideal -
11. adj. (mathematics, physics) Eigen-; designating a function or value which is an eigenfunction or eigenvalue.
12. adj. Accurate, strictly applied.:
13. adj. Excellent, of high quality; such as the specific person or thing should ideally be. (Now often merged with later senses.)
Now that was a proper breakfast.
14. adj. (now regional) Attractive, elegant.
15. adj. (often postpositive) In the very strictest sense of the word.
16. adj. (now colloquial) Utter, complete.
When I realized I was wearing my shirt inside out, I felt a proper fool.
17. adv. (colloquial) properly; thoroughly; completely
18. adv. (nonstandard, colloquial) properly
course
1. n. A sequence of events.
The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.
2. n. A normal or customary sequence.
3. n. A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
4. n. Any ordered process or sequence or steps.
5. n. A learning program, as in a school.
I need to take a French course.
6. n. (especially in medicine) A treatment plan.
7. n. A stage of a meal.
We offer seafood as the first course.
8. n. The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
9. n. A path that something or someone moves along.
His illness ran its course.
10. n. The itinerary of a race.
The cross-country course passes the canal.
11. n. A racecourse.
12. n. The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
13. n. (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
14. n. (golf) A golf course.
15. n. (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south.
16. n. (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.
17. n. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.
18. n. (in the courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
19. n. A row or file of objects.
20. n. (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.
21. n. (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
22. n. (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
23. n. (music) One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to played together.
24. v. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
The oil coursed through the engine.
Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
25. v. To run through or over.
26. v. To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
27. v. To cause to chase after or pursue game.
to course greyhounds after deer
28. adv. (colloquial) alternative form of of course
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.
standard
1. adj. Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
2. adj. (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
3. adj. Having recognized excellence or authority.
standard works in history; standard authors
4. adj. Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
5. adj. (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
6. adj. As normally supplied (not optional).
7. adj. (linguistics) Conforming to the standard variety.
8. n. A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
9. n. A level of quality or attainment.
10. n. Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
11. n. A musical work of established popularity.
12. n. A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
13. n. The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
14. n. A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
15. n. (India) Grade level in primary education.
I am in fifth standard.
16. n. A vertical pole with something at its apex.
17. n. An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
18. n. The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
19. n. One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
20. n. Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
21. n. A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
22. n. The sheth of a plough.
23. n. A manual transmission vehicle.
24. n. (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
25. n. (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
26. n. A large drinking cup.
27. n. (sociolinguistics) standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language(Cite book, author=Jack Croft Richards, author2=Richard W. Schmidt, title=Longman Dictionary of Lang
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.
outside
1. n. The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
2. n. The external appearance of something.
3. n. The space beyond some limit or boundary.
4. n. The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
It may last a week at the outside.
5. n. (dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger riding on the outside of a coach or carriage.
6. adj. Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
The outside surface looks good.
7. adj. Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
8. adj. (baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
The first pitch is ... just a bit outside.
9. adj. Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc.
an outside estimate
10. adv. Outdoors.
I slept outside last night.
11. adv. To the outdoors or outside.
I am going outside.
12. prep. On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building).
13. prep. Near, but not in.
14. prep. (usually with “of”) Except, apart from.
Outside of winning the lottery, the only way to succeed is through many years of hard work.
established
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of establish
2. adj. Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.
3. adj. Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
4. adj. (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.
establish
1. v. To make stable or firm; to confirm.
2. v. To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
3. v. To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
4. v. To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.
limits
1. n. plural of limit
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of limit
limit
1. n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
There are several existing limits to executive power.
Two drinks is my limit tonight.
2. n. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence
The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
3. n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
4. n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
5. n. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
6. n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
7. n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
8. n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
9. n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
10. n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
11. n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
12. adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
13. v. To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
We need to limit the power of the executive.
I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
14. v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
The sequence limits on the point a.
15. v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
a limiting friar

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