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this
1. det. The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
This classroom is where I learned to read and write.
2. det. The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone just mentioned).
They give the appearance of knowing what they're doing. It's this appearance that lets them get away with so much.
3. det. The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone about to be mentioned).
When asked what he wanted for his birthday, he gave this reply: “…”
4. det. A known (thing) (used in first mentioning a person or thing that the speaker does not think is known to the audience). Compare with "a certain ...".
I met this woman the other day who's allergic to wheat. I didn't even know that was possible!
There's just this nervous mannerism that Bob has with his hands, and it drives me crazy.
5. det. (Of a unit of time) which is current.
It snowed this week.
6. adv. To the degree or extent indicated.
I need this much water.
We've already come this far, we can't turn back now.
7. pron. The thing, item, etc. being indicated.
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars(...) — Sh
8. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is here; one of these.
9. interj. (Internet slang) Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material.
cob
1. n. A male swan.
2. n. A corncob.
3. n. (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
4. n. clipping of cobnut
5. n. A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
6. n. A horse having a stout body and short legs.
7. n. (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
8. n. Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
9. n. A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth about four shillings and sixpence.
10. n. (obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
11. n. A spider.
12. n. A small fish, the miller's thumb.
13. n. A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
14. n. (obsolete) The head of a herring.
15. n. The top or head of anything.
16. n. A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
17. n. A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
18. n. (music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
19. v. To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
20. v. Of growing corn, to have the heads mature into corncobs.
21. v. To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
22. v. (Northern UK, possibly colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
23. v. To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
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?
an
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
4. conj. (archaic) If
5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
An it harm none, do what ye will.
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
experienced
1. adj. Having experience and skill in a subject.
2. adj. Experient.
3. v. past participle of experience
experience
1. n. Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
It was an experience he would not soon forget.
2. n. An activity one has performed.
3. n. A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
4. n. The knowledge thus gathered.
5. v. To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.
breeder
1. n. A person who breeds plants or animals professionally.
2. n. (gay slang) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.
Since the breeders started coming here, you can never tell who likes cock.
3. n. A type of nuclear reactor that creates material suitable for the production of atomic weapons. (See Wikipedia's article on fast breeder reactors.)
4. n. (slang) a person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children.
5. n. (cellular automata) A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
has
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of have
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
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.
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.
dolly
1. n. A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore or laundry to be washed; a stirrer.
2. n. A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
3. n. In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
4. n. A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
5. n. A small truck without steering means to be slipped under a load. (traditional UK artisan usage)
6. n. A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
7. n. (film) A specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted.
8. n. (childish, colloquial) A doll.
9. n. (slang) A young woman, especially one who is frivolous or vapid.
10. n. (cricket) A ball hit by a batsman such that it goes gently to a fielder for a simple catch.
11. v. (transitive, cricket) To hit a dolly.
12. v. To move (an object) using a dolly.
13. v. To wash (laundry) in a tub using the stirring device called a dolly.
14. v. To beat (red-hot metal) with a hammer.
15. v. To crush ore with a dolly.
16. adj. (Polari) Pretty; attractive.
17. adj. , year=1967
18. adj. , writer=Kenneth Horne
19. adj. , title=Bona Bijou Tourettes
20. adj. , series=Round the Horne
21. adj. , season=3
22. adj. , number=12
23. adj. , passage=Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vadaïng the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by, or disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - you
bird
1. n. A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs.
Ducks and sparrows are birds.
2. n. (slang) A man, fellow.
3. n. (US) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
4. n. (Ireland) Girlfriend.
Mike went out with his bird last night.
5. n. (slang) An airplane.
6. n. (slang) A satellite.
7. n. (obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
8. v. (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
9. v. (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds.
10. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
11. n. (slang) A prison sentence.
He’s doing bird.
12. n. The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
13. n. (Asian slang) A penis.
this
1. det. The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
This classroom is where I learned to read and write.
2. det. The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone just mentioned).
They give the appearance of knowing what they're doing. It's this appearance that lets them get away with so much.
3. det. The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone about to be mentioned).
When asked what he wanted for his birthday, he gave this reply: “…”
4. det. A known (thing) (used in first mentioning a person or thing that the speaker does not think is known to the audience). Compare with "a certain ...".
I met this woman the other day who's allergic to wheat. I didn't even know that was possible!
There's just this nervous mannerism that Bob has with his hands, and it drives me crazy.
5. det. (Of a unit of time) which is current.
It snowed this week.
6. adv. To the degree or extent indicated.
I need this much water.
We've already come this far, we can't turn back now.
7. pron. The thing, item, etc. being indicated.
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars(...) — Sh
8. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is here; one of these.
9. interj. (Internet slang) Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material.
spring
1. v. To jump or leap.
He sprang up from his seat.
2. v. To pass over by leaping.
to spring over a fence (in this sense, the verb spring must be accompanied by the preposition 'over'.)
3. v. To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.
4. v. (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
5. v. (Australia, slang) To suddenly catch someone doing something illegal or against the rules.
6. v. To come into being, often quickly or sharply.
Trees are already springing up in the plantation.
7. v. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
8. v. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.
to spring a pheasant
9. v. (nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.
to spring a mast or a yard
10. v. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; often with in, out, etc.
to spring in a slat or a bar
11. v. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
12. v. To move suddenly when pressure is released.
A bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
13. v. (intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.
A piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
14. v. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its seed, a stream from its source, etc.; often followed by up, forth, or out.
15. v. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
16. v. (obsolete) To grow; to prosper.
17. v. (architecture, masonry, transitive) To build (an arch).
They sprung an arch over the lintel.
18. v. (transitive, archaic) To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).
19. n. A leap; a bound; a jump.
20. n. Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants spring from the ground and trees come into blossom, following winter and preceding summer.
Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.
I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.
You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable.
21. n. Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September, October and November in the southern.
22. n. The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March 21 in the northern hemisphere to the moment of the summer solstice, approximately June 21. (See (pedialite
23. n. Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter of a lunar month, or around the times of the new or full moon.
24. n. A place where water or oil emerges from the ground.
This water is bottled from the spring of the river.
25. n. The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched, etc.
the spring of a bow
26. n. Elastic power or force.
27. n. A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent, compressed or stretched.
We jumped so hard the bed springs broke.
28. n. (slang) An erection of the penis.
29. n. The source of an action or of a supply.
30. n. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
31. n. That which springs, or is originated, from a source.
32. n. A race; lineage.
33. n. A youth; a springald.
34. n. A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.
35. n. (obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
36. n. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
37. n. (nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa, to stop the vessel from surging.
You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.
38. n. (nautical) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel
39. n. (nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.

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