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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.
fugitive
1. n. A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal his/her identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest o
2. adj. fleeing or running away
3. adj. transient, fleeting or ephemeral
4. adj. elusive or difficult to retain
surfaced
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of surface
2. adj. (mostly, in combination) Having a (particular kind of) surface.
surface
1. n. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
2. n. The outside hull of a tangible object.
3. n. (figurative) Outward or external appearance.
On the surface, the spy looked like a typical businessman.
4. n. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.
5. n. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
6. v. To provide something with a surface.
7. v. To apply a surface to something.
8. v. (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
9. v. To bring to the surface.
10. v. (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
11. v. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
12. v. To make information or facts known.
13. v. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
14. v. (intransitive) To appear or be found.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
small
1. adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
A small serving of ice cream.
A small group.
He made us all feel small.
2. adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
Remember when the children were small?
3. adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
4. adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
5. adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
a small space of time
6. adj. topics, en, Size
7. adv. In a small fashion.
8. adv. In or into small pieces.
9. adv. (obsolete) To a small extent.
10. n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
12. v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.
town
1. n. A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city.
This town is really dangerous because these youngsters have Beretta handguns.
2. n. Any more urbanized center than the place of reference.
I'll be in Yonkers, then I'm driving into town to see the Knicks at the Garden tonight.
3. n. (historical) A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.
4. n. The residents (as opposed to gown: the students, faculty, etc.) of a community which is the site of a university.
5. n. (colloquial) Used to refer to a town or similar entity under discussion.
Call me when you get to town.
6. n. (legal) A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.
7. n. (obsolete) An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor.
8. n. (obsolete) The whole of the land which constituted the domain.
9. n. (obsolete) A collection of houses enclosed by fences or walls.
10. n. (Scotland) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
fifty
1. num. The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
2. n. A fifty-dollar bill.
Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?
3. n. A fifty-pound note.
4. n. (cricket) A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.
miles
1. n. plural of mile
2. n. (informal) A great distance in space or time.
His final shot missed the bullseye by miles.
From the top of the hill you can see for miles.
No need to hurry. The deadline is miles away.
3. adv. much; a lot (used to emphasise a comparative)
Her new paintings are miles better than her older ones.
mile
1. n. The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
2. n. Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
3. n. Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
4. n. Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).
5. n. (informal) Any similarly large distance.
The shot missed by a mile.
6. n. (slang) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
The runners competed in the mile.
7. n. (slang) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
five miles over the speed limit
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.
here
1. adv. (location) In, on, or at this place.
2. adv. (location) To this place; used in place of the more dated hither.
Please come here.
3. adv. (abstract) In this context.
Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but here they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve.
4. adv. At this point in the argument or narration.
Here endeth the lesson.
5. n. (abstract) This place; this location.
An Alzheimer patient's here may in his mind be anywhere he called home in the time he presently re-lives.
6. adj. Filler after a noun or demonstrative pronoun, solely for emphasis.
John here is a rascal.
7. adj. Filler after a demonstrative pronoun but before the noun it modifies, solely for emphasis.
This here orange is too sour.
8. interj. (slang) (non-gloss, Used semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.)
Here, now I'm giving it to you.
9. interj. (UK, slang) Used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.
Here, I'm tired and I want a drink.
but
1. prep. (obsolete, outside, Scotland) Outside of.
Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there.
2. prep. Apart from, except (for), excluding.
Everyone but Father left early.
I like everything but that.
Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave.
3. adv. Merely, only, just.
4. adv. (Australian, conjunctive) Though, however.
I'll have to go home early but.
5. adv. Used as an intensifier.
Nobody, but nobody, crosses me and gets away with it.
6. conj. (following a negative clause or sentence) On the contrary, but rather (introducing a word or clause that contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence without the negation).
I am not rich but (I am) poor; not John but Peter went there.
7. conj. However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (implies that the following clause is contrary to prior belief or contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence).
She is very old but still attractive.
You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not.
8. conj. Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "ex
I cannot but feel offended.
9. conj. (archaic) Without its also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).
It never rains but it pours.
10. conj. (obsolete) Except with; unless with; without.
11. conj. (obsolete) Only; solely; merely.
12. conj. (obsolete) Until.
13. n. An instance or example of using the word "but".
It has to be done – no ifs or buts.
14. n. (Scotland) The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
15. n. A limit; a boundary.
16. n. The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
17. v. (archaic) Use the word "but".
But me no buts.
then
1. adv. (temporal location) At that time.
He was happy then.
2. adv. (temporal location) Soon afterward.
He fixed it, then left.
Turn left, then right, then right again, then keep going until you reach the service station.
3. adv. (sequence) Next in order; in addition.
There are three green ones, then a blue one.
4. adv. (conjunctive) In that case.
If it’s locked, then we’ll need the key.
Is it 12 o'clock already? Then it's time for me to leave.
You don't like potatoes? What do you want me to cook, then?
5. adv. (sequence) At the same time; on the other hand.
That’s a nice shirt, but then, so is the other one.
6. adv. (dialect) Used to contradict an assertion.
7. adj. Being so at that time.
8. n. That time
It will be finished before then.
disappeared
1. adj. (often of a political dissident) Caused to disappear.
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of disappear
disappear
1. v. (intransitive) To vanish.
2. v. To make vanish.
3. v. (intransitive) To go away; to become lost.
again
1. adv. Another time; once more.
2. adv. Over and above a factor of one.
3. adv. Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion.
Great, thanks again!
4. adv. Tell me again, say again; used in asking a question to which one may have already received an answer that one cannot remember.
What's that called again?
5. adv. I ask again, I say again; used in repeating a question or statement.
Again, I'm not criticizing, I just want to understand.
6. adv. Here too, here also, in this case as well; used in applying a previously made point to a new instance; sometimes preceded by "here".
Approach B is better than approach A in many respects, but again, there are difficulties in implementing it.
7. adv. (obsolete) Back in the reverse direction, or to an original starting point.
Bring us word again.
8. adv. Back (to a former place or state).
We need to bring the old customs to life again.
The South will rise again.
9. adv. (obsolete) In return, as a reciprocal action; back.
10. adv. (obsolete) In any other place.
11. adv. (obsolete) On the other hand.
12. adv. Moreover; besides; further.
13. prep. (obsolete or dialectal) Against.

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