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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.
lawyer
1. n. A professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. conduct lawsuits and/or give legal advice.
2. n. By extension, a legal layman who argues points of law.
3. n. (colloquial, UK) The burbot
4. v. (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
5. v. (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
6. v. (intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
7. v. (informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.
You've been lawyered!
frantically
1. adv. In a frantic way.
tried
1. adj. Tested, hence, proven to be firm or reliable.
2. adj. (law) Put on trial, taken before a lawcourt.
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of try
try
1. v. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
I tried to rollerblade, but I couldn’t.
I'll come to dinner soon. I'm trying to beat this level first.
2. v. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
3. v. To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.
4. v. (one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out.
to try out the wild corn from the good
5. v. (nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil
6. v. To extract wax from a honeycomb
7. v. To test, to work out.
8. v. To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
I tried mixing more white paint to get a lighter shade.
9. v. To put to test.
I shall try my skills on this.
10. v. (specifically) To test someone's patience.
You are trying my patience.
Don't fucking try me.
11. v. To taste, sample, etc.
Try this—you’ll love it.
12. v. To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a person's opinions
13. v. (legal) To put on trial.
He was tried and executed.
14. v. To experiment, to strive.
15. v. To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
16. v. To work on something.
You are trying too hard.
17. v. (obsolete) To do; to fare.
How do you try! (i.e., how do you do?)
18. v. To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions
19. v. (euphemism, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
20. v. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
21. v. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
The light tries his eyes.
Repeated failures try one's patience.
22. v. (slang) To want
I am really not trying to hear you talk about my mama like that.
23. n. An attempt.
I gave unicycling a try but I couldn’t do it.
24. n. An act of tasting or sampling.
I gave sushi a try but I didn’t like it.
25. n. (rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
Today I scored my first try.
26. n. (dialect) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
27. n. (American football) a field goal or extra point
28. adj. (obsolete) Fine, excellent.
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
corral
1. n. An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
2. n. An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
Please return the shopping carts to the corral.
3. n. A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks.
4. v. To capture or round up.
The lawyer frantically tried to corral his notes as his briefcase fell open.
Between us, we managed to corral the puppy in the kitchen.
5. v. To place inside of a corral.
After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner.
6. v. To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night.
His
1. pron. honoraltcaps, his
2. det. Belonging to him.
3. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
4. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
5. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark.
Sejanus his Fall
6. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
The decision was his to live with.
7. pron. alternative spelling of His
8. n. plural of hi
notes
1. n. plural of note
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of note
note
1. n. A symbol or annotation.:
2. n. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
3. n. A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
4. n. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observ
5. n. A written or printed communication or commitment.:
6. n. A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
I left him a note to remind him to take out the trash.
7. n. A short informal letter; a billet.
8. n. A diplomatic missive or written communication.
9. n. (finance) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment
a promissory note
a note of hand
a negotiable note
10. n. (obsolete) A list of items or of charges; an account.
11. n. A piece of paper money; a banknote.
I didn't have any coins to pay with, so I used a note.
12. n. (extension) A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.
13. n. (music, heading) A sound.
14. n. A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
15. n. A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
16. n. (extension) A key of the piano or organ.
17. n. Observation; notice; heed.
18. n. Reputation; distinction.
a poet of note
19. n. (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
20. n. (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.
21. v. To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
If you look to the left, you can note the old cathedral.
22. v. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
We noted his speech.
23. v. To denote; to designate.
The modular multiplicative inverse of x may be noted x-1.
24. v. To annotate.
25. v. To set down in musical characters.
26. v. To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
27. n. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
28. n. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the
As
1. n. plural of A
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As.
2. adv. To such an extent or degree.
You’re not as tall as I am.
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive.
3. adv. In the manner or role specified.
The kidnappers released him as agreed.
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues.
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend.
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as).
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what.
Do as I say!
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know.
As you wish, my lord!
6. conj. At the same instant that; when.
As I came in, she flew.
7. conj. At the same time that; while.
He sleeps as the rain falls.
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that.
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy.
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since.
As it’s too late, I quit.
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality.
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago.
It's not so complicated as I expected.
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’.
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though.
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that.
14. conj. Expressing concession; though.
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than.
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case.
You are not as tall as me.
They're big as houses.
17. prep. In the role of.
What is your opinion as a parent?
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra.
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value.
20. n. plural of a
His
1. pron. honoraltcaps, his
2. det. Belonging to him.
3. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
4. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
5. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark.
Sejanus his Fall
6. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
The decision was his to live with.
7. pron. alternative spelling of His
8. n. plural of hi
briefcase
1. n. A case used for carrying documents, especially for business.
2. n. (computing) In Microsoft Windows, a folder that supports file synchronization between itself and another folder.
fell
1. v. To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
2. v. To strike down, kill, destroy.
3. v. (sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
4. n. A cutting-down of timber.
5. n. The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
6. n. (textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
7. n. An animal skin, hide, pelt.
8. n. Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
9. n. (archaic outside UK) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
10. n. (archaic outside UK) A wild field or upland moor.
11. adj. Of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
one fell swoop
12. adj. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent
13. adj. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Very large; huge.
14. adj. (obsolete) Eager; earnest; intent.
15. adv. Sharply; fiercely.
16. n. Gall; anger; melancholy.
17. n. (mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
18. v. simple past tense of fall
fall
1. n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
2. n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
3. n. (chiefly North America, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.
4. n. A loss of greatness or status.
the fall of Rome
5. n. That which falls or cascades.
6. n. (sport) A crucial event or circumstance.
7. n. (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
8. n. (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
9. n. (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
10. n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
11. n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
He set up his rival to take the fall.
12. n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
Have the goodness to secure the falls of the mizzen halyards.
13. n. See falls
14. n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
15. n. A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
16. v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
17. v. To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground.
18. v. To come down, to drop or descend.
The rain fell at dawn.
19. v. To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
He fell to the floor and begged for mercy.
20. v. To be brought to the ground.
21. v. To be moved downwards.
22. v. (obsolete) To let fall; to drop.
23. v. (obsolete) To sink; to depress.
to fall the voice
24. v. (US) To fell; to cut down.
to fall a tree
25. v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
26. v. (copulative) To become.
She has fallen ill. The children fell asleep in the back of the car. When did you first fall in love?
27. v. To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); said of an instance of a recurring event such as a holiday or date.
Thanksgiving always falls on a Thursday. Last year, Commencement fell on June 3.
28. v. (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD.
29. v. (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War.
30. v. (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal.
31. v. (followed by a determining word or phrase) To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by words follow
Our senator fell into disrepute because of the banking scandal.
32. v. (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
And so it falls to me to make this important decision. The estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
33. v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
34. v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
to fall lambs
35. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
36. v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
37. v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
to fall into error; to fall into difficulties
38. v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
39. v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
40. v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
After arguing, they fell to blows.
41. v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
An unguarded expression fell from his lips.
open
1. adj. (not comparable) Not closed; accessible; unimpeded.
Turn left after the second open door.
It was as if his body had gone to sleep standing up and with his eyes open.
2. adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
an open hand; an open flower; an open prospect
3. adj. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
Banks are not open on bank holidays.
4. adj. (comparable) Receptive.
I am open to new ideas.
5. adj. (not comparable) Public
He published an open letter to the governor on a full page of the New York Times.
6. adj. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
The man is an open book.
7. adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
8. adj. (mathematics, topology, of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets ofX, that defines a topological space onX.
9. adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
10. adj. (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same file open.
11. adj. (business) Not fulfilled.
I've got open orders for as many containers of red durum as you can get me.
12. adj. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
an open question
to keep an offer or opportunity open
13. adj. (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
14. adj. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
an open winter
15. adj. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
16. adj. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
17. adj. (phonetics, of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
18. adj. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
19. adj. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
20. v. To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
Turn the doorknob to open the door.
21. v. To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.
He opened a path through the undergrowth.
22. v. To bring up, broach.
I don't want to open that subject.
23. v. To enter upon, begin.
to open a discussion
to open fire upon an enemy
to open trade, or correspondence
to open a case in court, or a meeting
24. v. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
to open a closed fist
to open matted cotton by separating the fibres
to open a map, book, or scroll
25. v. To make accessible to customers or clients.
I will open the shop an hour early tomorrow.
26. v. To start (a campaign).
Vermont will open elk hunting season next week.
27. v. (intransitive) To become open.
The door opened all by itself.
28. v. (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
The shop opens at 9:00.
29. v. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
30. v. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
After the first two players fold, Julie opens for $5.
31. v. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
Jeff opens his hand revealing a straight flush.
32. v. (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
33. v. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
34. n. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
35. n. (electronics) A wire that is broken midway.
The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
36. n. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!
Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket.
37. n. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open.

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