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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.
bluebells
1. n. plural of bluebell
2. n. Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
bluebell
1. n. Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
2. n. In genus
3. n. # common bluebell
4. n. # Spanish bluebell
5. n. # Italian bluebell
6. n. In other genera
7. n. # genus Muscari, the grape hyacinth)
8. n. # (usually plural) Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica)
9. n. # Scottish bluebell (harebell)
10. n. # Australian royal bluebell
11. n. # Texas bluebell
12. n. # desert bluebell or (vern, California bluebell)
may
1. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be strong; to have power (over).
2. v. (obsolete, auxiliary) To be able; can.
3. v. (intransitive, poetic) To be able to go.
4. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests.
you may smoke outside; may I sit there?
5. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) Expressing a present possibility; possibly.
he may be lying; Schrödinger's cat may or may not be in the box
6. v. (subjunctive present, defective) Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect).
may you win; may the weather be sunny
7. v. Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark.
8. n. The hawthorn bush or its blossoms.
9. v. (poetic, intransitive) To gather may, or flowers in general.
10. v. (poetic, intransitive) To celebrate May Day.
11. n. (archaic) A maiden.
prognosticate
1. v. To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
Examining the tea-leaves, she prognosticated dark days ahead.
2. v. To presage, betoken.
The bluebells may prognosticate an early spring this year.
an
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
4. conj. (archaic) If
5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
An it harm none, do what ye will.
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
early
1. adj. At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
at eleven, we went for an early lunch; she began reading at an early age; his mother suffered an early death
2. adj. Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
You're early today! I don't usually see you before nine o'clock.
The early guests sipped their punch and avoided each other's eyes.
3. adj. Near the start or beginning.
The play "Two Gentlemen of Verona" is one of Shakespeare's early works.
Early results showed their winning 245 out of 300 seats in parliament. The main opponent locked up only 31 seats.
4. adj. Having begun to occur; in its early stages.
early cancer
5. adv. At a time before expected; sooner than usual.
We finished the project an hour sooner than scheduled, so we left early.
6. adv. Soon; in good time; seasonably.
7. n. (informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day.
spring
1. v. To jump or leap.
He sprang up from his seat.
2. v. To pass over by leaping.
to spring over a fence (in this sense, the verb spring must be accompanied by the preposition 'over'.)
3. v. To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.
4. v. (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
5. v. (Australia, slang) To suddenly catch someone doing something illegal or against the rules.
6. v. To come into being, often quickly or sharply.
Trees are already springing up in the plantation.
7. v. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
8. v. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.
to spring a pheasant
9. v. (nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.
to spring a mast or a yard
10. v. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; often with in, out, etc.
to spring in a slat or a bar
11. v. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
12. v. To move suddenly when pressure is released.
A bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
13. v. (intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.
A piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
14. v. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its seed, a stream from its source, etc.; often followed by up, forth, or out.
15. v. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
16. v. (obsolete) To grow; to prosper.
17. v. (architecture, masonry, transitive) To build (an arch).
They sprung an arch over the lintel.
18. v. (transitive, archaic) To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).
19. n. A leap; a bound; a jump.
20. n. Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants spring from the ground and trees come into blossom, following winter and preceding summer.
Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.
I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.
You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable.
21. n. Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September, October and November in the southern.
22. n. The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March 21 in the northern hemisphere to the moment of the summer solstice, approximately June 21. (See (pedialite
23. n. Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter of a lunar month, or around the times of the new or full moon.
24. n. A place where water or oil emerges from the ground.
This water is bottled from the spring of the river.
25. n. The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched, etc.
the spring of a bow
26. n. Elastic power or force.
27. n. A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent, compressed or stretched.
We jumped so hard the bed springs broke.
28. n. (slang) An erection of the penis.
29. n. The source of an action or of a supply.
30. n. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
31. n. That which springs, or is originated, from a source.
32. n. A race; lineage.
33. n. A youth; a springald.
34. n. A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.
35. n. (obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
36. n. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
37. n. (nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa, to stop the vessel from surging.
You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.
38. n. (nautical) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel
39. n. (nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
this
1. det. The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
This classroom is where I learned to read and write.
2. det. The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone just mentioned).
They give the appearance of knowing what they're doing. It's this appearance that lets them get away with so much.
3. det. The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone about to be mentioned).
When asked what he wanted for his birthday, he gave this reply: “…”
4. det. A known (thing) (used in first mentioning a person or thing that the speaker does not think is known to the audience). Compare with "a certain ...".
I met this woman the other day who's allergic to wheat. I didn't even know that was possible!
There's just this nervous mannerism that Bob has with his hands, and it drives me crazy.
5. det. (Of a unit of time) which is current.
It snowed this week.
6. adv. To the degree or extent indicated.
I need this much water.
We've already come this far, we can't turn back now.
7. pron. The thing, item, etc. being indicated.
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars(...) — Sh
8. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is here; one of these.
9. interj. (Internet slang) Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material.
year
1. n. A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
we moved to this town a year ago; I quit smoking exactly one year ago
2. n. (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution
Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.
3. n. A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by
A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.
I was born in the year 1950.
This Chinese year is the year of the Rooster.
4. n. A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus.
5. n. (sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
6. n. A level or grade in school or college.
Every second-year student must select an area of specialization.
The exams in year 12 at high school are the most difficult.
7. n. The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).
Geneticists have created baker's yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years.

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