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| 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. | |
| utmost |
| 1. adj. Situated at the most distant limit; farthest. | |
| the utmost limits of the land; the utmost extent of human knowledge | |
| 2. adj. The most extreme; ultimate; greatest. | |
| the utmost assiduity; the utmost harmony; the utmost misery or happiness | |
| 3. n. Maximum; greatest possible amount or quantity. | |
| degree |
| 1. n. (obsolete, outside, heraldry) A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder. | |
| 2. n. An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values. | |
| 3. n. A stage of rank or privilege; social standing. | |
| 4. n. (genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent. | |
| 5. n. (now rare) One's relative state or experience; way, manner. | |
| 6. n. The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent. | |
| To what degree do the two accounts of the accident concur? | |
| 7. n. A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the Uni | |
| She has two bachelor's degrees and is studying towards a master's degree. | |
| 8. n. (geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference. | |
| A right angle is a ninety degree angle. | |
| Most humans have a field of vision of almost 180 degrees. | |
| 9. n. (physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. | |
| 90 degrees Fahrenheit is equivalent to 32.2 degrees Celsius. | |
| Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. | |
| 10. n. (algebra) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial. | |
| A quadratic polynomial is a polynomial of degree 2. | |
| 11. n. (algebra, field theory) The dimensionality of a field extension. | |
| The set of complex numbers constitutes a field extension of degree 2 over the real numbers. | |
| The Galois field\operatornameGF(125) = \operatornameGF(5^3) has degree 3 over its subfield\operatornameGF(5). | |
| 12. n. (graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency. | |
| 13. n. (logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula. | |
| 14. n. (surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord. | |
| 15. n. (geography) A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface. | |
| 16. n. (grammar) Any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb. | |
