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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.
new
1. adj. Recently made, or created.
This is a new scratch on my car! The band just released a new album.
2. adj. Additional; recently discovered.
We turned up some new evidence from the old files.
3. adj. Current or later, as opposed to former.
My new car is much better than my previous one, even though it is older. We had been in our new house for five years by then.
4. adj. Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing.
New Bond Street is an extension of Bond Street.
5. adj. In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used.
Are you going to buy a new car or a second-hand one?
6. adj. Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
That shirt is dirty. Go and put on a new one. I feel like a new person after a good night's sleep. After the accident, I saw the world with new eyes.
7. adj. Newborn.
My sister has a new baby, and our mother is excited to finally have a grandchild.
8. adj. Of recent origin; having taken place recently.
I can't see you for a while; the pain is still too new. Did you see the new King Lear at the theatre?
9. adj. Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
The idea was new to me. I need to meet new people.
10. adj. Recently arrived or appeared.
Have you met the new guy in town? He is the new kid at school.
11. adj. Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.
Don't worry that you're new at this job; you'll get better with time. I'm new at this business.
12. adj. (of a period of time) Next; about to begin or recently begun.
We expect to grow at 10% annually in the new decade.
13. adj. (vegetables) The first of the season.
14. adv. Newly (especially in composition).
new-born, new-formed, new-found, new-mown
15. adv. As new; from scratch.
They are scraping the site clean to build new.
16. n. Things that are new.
Out with the old, in with the new.
17. n. (Australia) A kind of light beer.
18. n. See also news.
19. v. (obsolete) To make new; to recreate; to renew.
Bug
1. n. (slang) A Volkswagen Beetle car.
2. n. (slang) A Bugatti car.
3. n. (colloquial, mostly, US) Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
4. n. (entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs").
5. n. (colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.
6. n. Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.
7. n. (chiefly computing) A problem that needs fixing.
The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 5.
8. n. A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it
He’s got the flu bug.
9. n. An enthusiasm for something; an obsession
I think he’s a gold bug, he has over 10,000 ounces in storage.
to catch the skiing bug
10. n. A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device
We installed a bug in her telephone.
11. n. A small and and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
He suspected the image was a Web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.
12. n. (broadcasting) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to indicate what network or cable channel is televising it
Channel 4's bug distracted Jim from his favorite show.
13. n. (aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
14. n. A semi-automated telegraph key.
15. n. (obsolete) Hobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies.
16. n. (chiefly LGBT, "the bug") HIV.
17. n. (poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
18. n. (paleontology, slang) A trilobite.
19. n. (petroleum industry, slang) (synonym of oil bug)
20. n. (slang) A young apprentice jockey.
21. v. (informal, transitive) To annoy.
Don’t bug me, I’m busy!
22. v. To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.
Is
1. n. plural of I
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of be
He is a doctor. He retired some time ago.
Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him.
3. n. plural of i
remember to dot your is
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
more
1. det. comparative degree of many, : in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
More people are arriving.
There are more ways to do this than I can count.
2. det. comparative degree of much, : in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
I want more soup; I need more time
There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
3. adv. To a greater degree or extent.
He walks more in the morning these days.
4. adv. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
5. adv. Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.
6. adv. (now dialectal, or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18thc.)
I was more better at English than you.
7. adv. rather
He is more clever than wise.
8. n. An extra amount or extent.
9. n. (obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip.
10. n. (dialectal) a root; stock.
11. n. A plant.
12. v. To root up.
13. pron. a greater amount of people or things
virulent
1. adj. (chiefly medicine, of a disease or disease-causing agent) Highly infectious, malignant or deadly.
2. adj. Hostile to the point of being venomous; intensely acrimonious.
The politicians were virulent in their hatred of the president.
than
1. conj. (obsolete, outside, dialects, usually used with for) Because; for.
2. conj. Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
she's taller than I am; she found his advice more witty than helpful; we have less work today than we had yesterday; it's bigger than I thought it was
3. prep. introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two
Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.
4. adv. (now chiefly dialectal) At that time; then.
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.
garden
1. n. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
a vegetable garden a flower garden
2. n. (in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.
3. n. (attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
a garden party; a garden spade; a garden path
4. n. The grounds at the front or back of a house.
This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden. We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden. Our garden is overgrown with weeds.
5. n. (cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.
6. n. (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
7. v. (intransitive, chiefly North America) to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
I love to garden — this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.
8. v. (intransitive, cricket) of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.
9. adj. Common, ordinary, domesticated.
variety
1. n. The quality of being varied; diversity.
Variety is the spice of life.
2. n. A specific variation of something.
3. n. A number of different things.
4. n. A state of constant change.
5. n. (taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, below species and subspecies.
6. n. (cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
7. n. (cybernetics) Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
8. n. (linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect, accent, register, etc. and to its prestige level.
9. n. (algebra, esp. universal algebra) The class of all algebraic structures of a given signature satisfying a given set of identities.
10. n. The kind of theatrical entertainment given in variety shows.
11. n. The production of, or performance in, variety shows.
strain
1. n. (obsolete) Treasure.
2. n. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
3. n. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
4. n. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
There is a strain of madness in her family.
5. n. A tendency or disposition.
6. n. (literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style
7. n. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.
8. n. (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
9. n. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
10. v. (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.
A man straineth, liveth, then dieth.
Man, look at that cat straining that kitty.
The sun straineth light. (approx.1225, Homily on the Creed in Cambridge)
A wife he nam; a son on her he strained. (circa 1275, Layamon, The Brut)
He shall strain on her a swith selely son. (circa 1275, Layamon, The Brut)
Eadie is his spouse, whose maid-hood is unwemmed (unviolated), when he, on her, straineth. (circa1225, Hali Meidenhad - Holy Maiden-Hood)
Our Drighten sent his high angel Gabriel to ..Zachariah.. to say that he should strain a holy child and clepe it John. (approx.1225, Homilies in Cambridge)
Our healand was strained of the heavenly father ere then that heaven or earth shapen (formed) were. (approx.1225, Homilies in Cambridge)
Naked they gan; nis there none of other agramed; ne for their nakedhood ashamed; without lust of sin they strain.
Thy wife is thine alone, only thou mayest strain on her; no other man may strain on thy wife ne mayest thou strain on a wife of another.
Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel; our king has all the Indies in his arms, And more, and richer, when he strains that lady. I cannot blame his conscience. (Shakespeare)
11. v. (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
12. v. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship
Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
13. v. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
14. v. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
15. v. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
16. v. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
17. v. To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
18. v. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
water straining through a sandy soil
19. v. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
20. v. To urge with importunity; to press.
to strain a petition or invitation
21. n. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
22. n. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
he jumped up with a strain; the strain upon the sailboat's rigging
23. n. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
24. n. (engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
25. n. (obsolete) The track of a deer.

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