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there
1. adv. (location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here).
2. adv. (figuratively) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place.
He did not stop there, but continued his speech.
They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there.
3. adv. (location) To or into that place; thither.
4. adv. (obsolete) Where, there where, in which place.
5. adv. In existence or in this world; see pronoun section below.
6. interj. Used to offer encouragement or sympathy.
There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right.
7. interj. Used to express victory or completion.
There! That knot should hold.
8. n. That place.
9. n. That status; that position.
You get it ready; I'll take it from there.
10. pron. Used as an expletive subject of be in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied.
There are two apples on the table. =Two apples are on the table.
There is no way to do it. =No way to do it exists.
Is there an answer? =Does an answer exist?
No, there isn't. =No, one doesn't exist.
11. pron. Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence.
If x is a positive number, then there exists =there is a positive number y less than x.
There remain several problems with this approach. =Several problems remain with this approach.
Once upon a time, in a now-forgotten kingdom, there lived a woodsman with his wife. =There was a woodsman, who lived with his wife.
There arose a great wind out of the east. =There was now a great wind, arising in the east.
12. pron. Used with other verbs, when raised.
There seems to be some difficulty with the papers. =It seems that there is some difficulty with the papers.
I expected there to be a simpler solution. =I expected that there would be a simpler solution.
There are beginning to be complications. =It's beginning to be the case that there are complications.
13. pron. (in combination with certain prepositions, no longer productive) That.
therefor, thereat, thereunder
14. pron. (colloquial) Used to replace an unknown name, principally in greetings and farewells
Hi there, young fellow.
15. contraction. misspelling of they’re
16. det. misspelling of their
are
1. v. second-person singular present of be
Mary, where are you going?
2. v. first-person plural present of be
We are not coming.
3. v. second-person plural present of be
Mary and John, are you listening?
4. v. third-person plural present of be
They are here somewhere.
5. v. (East Yorkshire, Midlands) present of be
6. n. (dialectal, or obsolete) grace, mercy
To bid God's are.
God's are is what children of God seech and seek.
7. n. (obsolete) honour, dignity
8. n. (rare) an accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a
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?
ten
1. num. (cardinal) The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10, in binary (base two) as 1010, in hexadecimal (base sixteen) as A, and in Roman numerals a
2. n. The number following nine.
3. n. (cards) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
4. n. A denomination of currency with a value of ten units.
5. n. (US, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
6. n. (US, slang) A high level of intensity
loads
1. adv. (slang) Lots, much, plenty, a great deal.
2. n. plural of load
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of load
load
1. n. A burden; a weight to be carried.
I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
2. n. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
3. n. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.
4. n. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
5. n. (often, in the colloquial) A large number or amount.
I got loads of presents for my birthday!
I got a load of emails about that.
6. n. The volume of work required to be performed.
Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?
7. n. (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.
8. n. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
9. n. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
10. n. (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
11. n. A unit of measure for various quantities.
12. n. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
13. n. The charge of powder for a firearm.
14. n. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
15. n. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
16. n. (euphemism) Nonsense; rubbish.
What a load!
17. n. (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load.
18. v. To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
The dock workers refused to load the ship.
19. v. To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.
He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.
20. v. (intransitive) To put a load on something.
The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.
21. v. (intransitive) To receive a load.
The truck is designed to load easily.
22. v. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
The containers load quickly and easily.
23. v. To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
24. v. To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting.
25. v. To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
26. v. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
The cartridge was designed to load easily.
27. v. (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
Click OK to load the selected data.
28. v. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
This program takes an age to load.
29. v. (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
He walks to load the bases.
30. v. To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.
The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.
31. v. To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
32. v. To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
The new owners had loaded the company with debt.
The new owners loaded debt on the company.
33. v. To provide in abundance.
He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
34. v. To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead.
35. v. (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
to load wine
36. v. (transitive, archaic) To magnetize.
aggregating
1. v. present participle of aggregate
aggregate
1. n. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
2. n. A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
3. n. (mathematics, obsolete) A set (collection of objects).
4. n. (music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
5. n. (sports) The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores
6. n. (roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
7. n. Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements, especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
8. n. (Buddhism) Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
9. adj. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
10. adj. Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
11. adj. Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
aggregate glands
12. adj. (botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
13. adj. Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
14. adj. United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
15. v. To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
The aggregated soil.
16. v. (archaic, transitive) To add or unite (e.g. a person), to an association.
17. v. To amount in the aggregate to.
There are ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
five
1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six. This many dots: (•••••).
2. num. Describing a group or set with five elements.
3. n. The digit/figure 5.
He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
4. n. (US) A five-dollar bill.
Can anyone here change a five?
5. n. Anything measuring five units, as length.
All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
6. n. A person who is five years old.
The fives and sixes will have snack first, then the older kids.
7. n. Five o'clock.
See you at five.
8. n. A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
Take five, soldier.
9. n. (basketball) A basketball team, club or lineup.
hundred
1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.
hundreds of places, hundreds of thousands of faces
a hundred, one hundred
nineteen hundred, one thousand nine hundred
2. n. A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
3. n. (historical) An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
4. n. (by extension, historical) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
5. n. (cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
He made a hundred in the historic match.
bushels
1. n. plural of bushel
bushel
1. n. (historical) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
2. n. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
3. n. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
a heap containing ten bushels of apples
4. n. (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
5. n. (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
Synonyms: box
6. v. (US, tailoring ambitransitive) To mend or repair clothes.
7. v. To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.

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