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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.
wagon
1. n. A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
2. n. A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.
3. n. An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck.
4. n. An enclosed vehicle used as a movable dwelling; a caravan.
5. n. short for, dinner wagon, , set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving
6. n. (slang) (short for, paddy wagon, , police van for transporting prisoners)
7. n. (rail transport) A freight car on a railway.
Synonyms: goods wagon, q1=Britain
8. n. (chiefly Australia, US, slang) (short for, station wagon, , type of car in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk));
9. n. (Ireland, slang) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.
10. v. (transitive, chiefly US) To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
11. v. (intransitive, chiefly US) To travel in a wagon.
train
1. n. Elongated portion.
2. n. The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride's train as they were walking down the aisle.
3. n. A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
4. n. The tail of a bird.
5. n. (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere.
6. n. (now rare) An animal's trail or track.
7. n. Connected sequence of people or things.
8. n. A group of people following an important figure, king etc.; a retinue, a group of retainers.
9. n. A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.
10. n. A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.
11. n. (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
12. n. A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
13. n. A series of electrical pulses.
14. n. A series of specified vehicles, originally tramcars in a mine, and later especially railway carriages, coupled together.
15. n. A line of connected railway cars or carriages considered overall as a mode of transport; (as unnoun) rail travel.
The train will pull in at midday.
16. n. A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
17. n. (computing) A software release schedule.
18. n. (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.
19. v. (intransitive) To practice an ability.
She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics.
20. v. To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.
You can't train a pig to write poetry.
21. v. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
I trained with weights all winter.
22. v. To proceed in sequence.
23. v. To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
The assassin had trained his gun on the minister.
24. v. (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
The vine had been trained over the pergola.
25. v. (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
26. v. (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
27. v. (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
28. v. (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
29. n. (obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
30. n. (obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
31. n. (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.
32. n. (obsolete) A lure; a decoy.
formed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of form
form
1. n. To do with shape.:
2. n. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
3. n. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
4. n. (dated) A long bench with no back.
5. n. (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
6. n. (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
7. n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
8. n. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
9. n. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
10. n. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
a republican form of government
11. n. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
a matter of mere form
12. n. (archaic) A class or rank in society.
13. n. (UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
14. n. (education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
15. n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
To apply for the position, complete the application form.
16. n. Level of performance.
The team's form has been poor this year.
The orchestra was on top form this evening.
17. n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
participial forms; verb forms
18. n. The den or home of a hare.
19. n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
20. n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
21. n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
22. n. (geometry) A quantic.
23. n. (sports) A specific way of performing a movement.
24. v. To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.
25. v. To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.
26. v. (intransitive) To take shape.
When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.
27. v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.
28. v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.
29. v. To constitute, to compose, to make up.
Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.
30. v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.
31. v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
32. v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead pero
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.
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.
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
protect
1. v. To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
protect a child from danger
protect your computer from hackers
protect yourself from bullying
protect a document by putting a password on it
Condoms are designed to protect against STDs.
2. v. (travel, aviation) to book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.
against
1. prep. A close but separated relationship.:
2. prep. In a contrary direction to.
If you swim against the current, you must work harder.
3. prep. Close to.
The kennel was put against the back wall.
4. prep. In front of; before a background.
The giant was silhouetted against the door.
5. prep. In physical contact with.
The puppy rested its head against a paw.
6. prep. In physical opposition to, or in collision with.
The rain pounds against the window.
7. prep. (heading, social) A contrasting or competitive relationship.
8. prep. In contrast and/or comparison with.
He stands out against his local classmates.
9. prep. In competition with, versus.
The Tigers will play against the Bears this weekend.
10. prep. In opposition to.
Are you against freedom of choice? I'd bet against his succeeding.
11. prep. In exchange for.
The vouchers are redeemable against West End shows and theatre breaks.
12. prep. As protection from.
He turned the umbrella against the wind.
13. prep. In anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.).
14. prep. (Hollywood) To be paid now in contrast to the following amount to be paid later under specified circumstances, usually that a movie is made or has started filming.
The studio weren't sure the movie would ever get made, so they only paid $50,000 against $200,000. That way they wouldn't be out very much if filming never began.
15. conj. (obsolete) By the time that (something happened); before.
Comanche
1. adj. Of or pertaining to the Comanche people, culture, or language.
2. n. A member of the Comanche people.
3. n. A light single-engine aircraft, the Piper PA-24 Comanche.
4. n. A military helicopter, the RAH-66 Comanche.
attacks
1. n. plural of attack
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of attack
attack
1. n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
2. n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
They claimed the censorship of the article was an attack on free speech.
3. n. A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
The army timed their attack to coincide with the local celebrations.
4. n. (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.
5. n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
6. n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
7. n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
8. n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
I've had an attack of the flu.
9. n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
10. n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
11. n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas t
12. v. To apply violent force to someone or something.
This species of snake will only attack humans if it feels threatened.
13. v. To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
She published an article attacking the recent pay cuts.
14. v. To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
15. v. To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
We’ll have dinner before we attack the biology homework.
I attacked the meal with a hearty appetite.
16. v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
17. v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
18. v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
19. v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
20. v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

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