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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.
Child
1. n. alternative case form of child often used when referring to God (Jesus) or another important child who is understood from context.
2. n. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)
Go easy on him: he is but a child.
3. n. (obsolete) a female child, a girl.
4. n. (with possessive) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
My youngest child is forty-three.
5. n. (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
6. n. (figuratively) A figurative offspring, particularly:
7. n. A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
The children of Israel.
He is a child of his times.
8. n. Anything derived from or caused by something.
Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war.
9. n. (computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.
tormented
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of torment
2. adj. Miserable or anguished, especially with anxiety or guilt.
3. adj. (US, colloquial) Damned; accursed.
torment
1. n. (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
2. n. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
3. n. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
He was bitter from the torments of the divorce system.
4. v. To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)
The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
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.
flies
1. n. plural of fly
2. n. (pluralonly) The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung.
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of fly
fly
1. n. (rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
The bullet barely grazed the wild fowl's fly.
2. n. (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
3. n. (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
4. n. Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
5. n. (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
6. n. (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
7. n. (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
8. n. (obsolete) A parasite.
9. n. (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys)
10. n. A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
11. v. (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
Birds of passage fly to warmer regions as it gets colder in winter. The Concorde flew from Paris to New York faster than any other passenger airplane. It takes about ele
12. v. (ambitransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
Fly, my lord! The enemy are upon us!
13. v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
Charles Lindbergh flew his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic ocean. Why don’t you go outside and fly kites, kids? The wind is just perfect. Birds fly
14. v. (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
Let's see if that idea flies. You know, I just don't think that's going to fly. Why don't you spend your time on something better?
15. v. (intransitive) To travel very fast, hasten.
16. v. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
a door flies open; a bomb flies apart
17. v. To hunt with a hawk.
18. v. To display a flag on a flagpole.
19. n. (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
20. n. An act of flying.
We had a quick half-hour fly back into the city.
21. n. (baseball) A fly ball.
22. n. (now historical) A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
23. n. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
24. n. A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
25. n. The free edge of a flag.
26. n. The horizontal length of a flag.
27. n. (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
28. n. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
29. n. (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
30. n. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
31. n. A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to b
32. n. (historical) A light horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation.
33. n. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
34. n. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
35. n. (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
36. n. (printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
37. n. (printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
38. n. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
39. n. (cotton manufacture) waste cotton
40. v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.
41. adj. (slang) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
42. adj. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance.
He's pretty fly.
43. adj. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
44. adj. (slang) Sneaky
fly
1. n. (rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
The bullet barely grazed the wild fowl's fly.
2. n. (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
3. n. (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
4. n. Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
5. n. (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
6. n. (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
7. n. (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
8. n. (obsolete) A parasite.
9. n. (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys)
10. n. A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
11. v. (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
Birds of passage fly to warmer regions as it gets colder in winter. The Concorde flew from Paris to New York faster than any other passenger airplane. It takes about ele
12. v. (ambitransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
Fly, my lord! The enemy are upon us!
13. v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
Charles Lindbergh flew his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic ocean. Why don’t you go outside and fly kites, kids? The wind is just perfect. Birds fly
14. v. (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
Let's see if that idea flies. You know, I just don't think that's going to fly. Why don't you spend your time on something better?
15. v. (intransitive) To travel very fast, hasten.
16. v. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
a door flies open; a bomb flies apart
17. v. To hunt with a hawk.
18. v. To display a flag on a flagpole.
19. n. (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
20. n. An act of flying.
We had a quick half-hour fly back into the city.
21. n. (baseball) A fly ball.
22. n. (now historical) A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
23. n. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
24. n. A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
25. n. The free edge of a flag.
26. n. The horizontal length of a flag.
27. n. (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
28. n. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
29. n. (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
30. n. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
31. n. A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to b
32. n. (historical) A light horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation.
33. n. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
34. n. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
35. n. (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
36. n. (printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
37. n. (printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
38. n. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
39. n. (cotton manufacture) waste cotton
40. v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.
41. adj. (slang) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
42. adj. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance.
He's pretty fly.
43. adj. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
44. adj. (slang) Sneaky
by
1. prep. Near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July.
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour.
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of.
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination.
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches.
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
He cheated by his own admission.
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
I watched as it passed by.
16. adv. In the vicinity, near.
There was a shepherd close by.
The shop is hard by the High Street.
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
I'll stop by on my way home from work.
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
18. adv. Aside, away.
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
20. n. (card games) A pass
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye
pulling
1. v. present participle of pull
2. n. The act by which something is pulled.
pull
1. n. An act of pulling (applying force)
He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out.
2. n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source
The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant.
iron fillings drawn by the pull of a magnet
She took a pull on her cigarette.
3. n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope
a zipper pull
4. n. (slang) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
In weights the favourite had the pull.
5. n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star)
6. n. (Internet) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
7. n. A journey made by rowing
8. n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
a wrestling pull
9. n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
10. n. (slang) The act of drinking.
to take a pull at a mug of beer
11. n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
12. n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
13. v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
When I give the signal, pull the rope.
You're going to have to pull harder to get that cork out of the bottle.
14. v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
to pull fruit from a tree; to pull flax; to pull a finch
15. v. To attract or net; to pull in.
16. v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
17. v. (ambitransitive, UK, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
I pulled at the club last night.
He's pulled that bird over there.
18. v. To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
Each day, they pulled the old bread and set out fresh loaves.
19. v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
He regularly pulls 12-hour days, sometimes 14.
You'll be sent home if you pull another stunt like that.
20. v. To retrieve or generate for use.
I'll have to pull a part number for that.
21. v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
22. v. (intransitive) To row.
23. v. To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
24. v. (video games, ambitransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
25. v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
26. v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
The favourite was pulled.
27. v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.
28. v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
29. v. (UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
Let's stop at Finnigan's. The barman pulls a good pint.
30. v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
31. interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
their
1. det. Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural).
they will meet tomorrow at their convenience; this is probably their cat
2. det. Belonging to someone (one person, singular).
3. adv. misspelling of there
4. contraction. misspelling of they’re
wings
1. n. plural of wing
2. n. A type of scuba harness with an attached buoyancy compensation device: see wikipedia:Backplate and wing
3. n. A flip (hairstyle)
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of wing
wing
1. n. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
2. n. (slang) Human arm.
3. n. (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
4. n. One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
5. n. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
6. n. (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
7. n. (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
8. n. A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
9. n. Passage by flying; flight.
to take wing
10. n. Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
11. n. A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
the west wing of the hospital
the wings of a corkscrew
12. n. Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
13. n. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
14. n. A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
15. n. An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
16. n. (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
17. n. (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
18. n. (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
19. n. (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
20. n. (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
21. n. (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
22. n. (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
23. n. (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
24. n. (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
25. n. (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
26. n. A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
27. n. On the Enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype
Tom's a 4 on the Enneagram, with a 3 wing.
28. v. To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
29. v. (intransitive) To fly.
30. v. (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
31. v. To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
32. v. To throw.
off
1. adv. In a direction away from the speaker or object.
He drove off in a cloud of smoke.
2. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence.
Please switch off the light when you leave.
die off
3. adv. So as to be removed or separated.
He bit off more than he could chew.
Some branches were sawn off.
4. adj. Inoperative, disabled.
All the lights are off.
5. adj. Rancid, rotten.
This milk is off!
6. adj. (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
7. adj. Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
sales are off this quarter
8. adj. Circumstanced (as in well off, better off, poorly off).
9. adj. Started on the way.
off to see the wizard
And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.
10. adj. Far; off to the side.
the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse
11. adj. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
He took an off day for fishing. an off year in politics; the off season
12. adj. (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.
— I'll have the chicken please.
— Sorry, chicken's off today.
13. adj. Right-hand (in relation to the side of a horse or a vehicle).
14. prep. Used to indicate movement away from a position on
I took it off the table.
Come off the roof!
15. prep. (colloquial) Out of the possession of.
He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him.
16. prep. Away from or not on.
He's off the computer, but he's still on the phone.
Keep off the grass.
17. prep. Disconnected or subtracted from.
We've been off the grid for three days now.
He took 20% off the list price.
18. prep. Distant from.
We're just off the main road.
The island is 23 miles off the cape.
19. prep. No longer wanting or taking.
He's been off his feed since Tuesday.
He's off his meds again.
20. prep. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering(topics, en, Engineering).
Tantalum bar 6 off 3/8" Dia × 12" — Atom, Great Britain Atomic Energy Authority, 1972
samples submitted … 12 off Thermistors type 1K3A531 … — BSI test report for shock and vibration testing, 2000
I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off.
21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
He got in the way so I had him offed.
22. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) To switch off.
Can you off the light?
23. n. (rare) Beginning; starting point.
He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.

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