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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. | |
Angel |
1. n. alternative case form of angel. | |
2. n. An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes. | |
3. n. (Abrahamic tradition) One of the lowest order of angels, below virtues. | |
4. n. A person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness. | |
You made me breakfast in bed, you little angel. | |
5. n. (military slang) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet. | |
Climb to angels sixty. (“ascend to 60,000 feet”) | |
6. n. An affluent individual who provides capital for a startup, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity. | |
7. n. (obsolete) Attendant spirit; genius; demon. | |
8. n. (historical) An ancient gold coin of England, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings. | |
9. n. (colloquial, dated) An unidentified flying object detected by air traffic control radar. | |
10. n. An angel investor. | |
11. v. (transitive, slang) To support by donating money. | |
12. n. (informal) A person who has Angelman syndrome. | |
shark |
1. n. A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head. | |
2. v. (rare) To fish for sharks. | |
3. n. Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion. | |
4. n. (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer; an ambulance chaser. | |
5. n. (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business. | |
6. n. (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player). | |
7. n. (sports) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others. | |
8. v. (obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud. | |
9. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle. | |
10. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To live by shifts and stratagems. | |
11. v. (obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly. | |
genus |
1. n. (taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank | |
All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia. | |
Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle. | |
There are only two genera and species of seadragons. | |
2. n. A group with common attributes. | |
3. n. (topology, graph theory, algebraic geometry) A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph. | |
4. n. (semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept. | |