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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.
rope
1. n. Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
2. n. An individual length of such material.
The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.
3. n. A cohesive strand of something.
The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.
4. n. (dated) A continuous stream.
5. n. (baseball) A hard line drive.
He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
6. n. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
7. n. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
8. n. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
9. n. (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
10. n. (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
11. n. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
12. n. (slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
13. n. (slang) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
14. n. (in the plural) The small intestines.
the ropes of birds
15. v. To tie (something) with something.
The robber roped the victims.
16. v. To throw a rope around (something).
The cowboy roped the calf.
17. v. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
18. v. (slang) To commit suicide.
My life is a mess, I might as well rope.
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.
lax
1. n. (now chiefly UK dialectal Scotland) A salmon.
2. adj. Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.
3. adj. Loose; not tight or taut.
The rope fell lax.
4. adj. Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
5. adj. (archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
6. adj. (maths) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
7. n. (lbl, en, slang) Lacrosse.

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