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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.
sentence
1. n. (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
2. n. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler.
3. n. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
4. n. (obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
5. n. (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop
The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
6. n. (logic) A formula with no free variables.
7. n. (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
8. n. (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
9. n. (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.
10. n. (now rare) A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.
11. v. To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
12. v. (obsolete) To decree or announce as a sentence.
13. v. (obsolete) To utter sententiously.
contains
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of contain
contain
1. v. To hold inside.
2. v. To include as a part.
3. v. To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself!
4. v. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements.
If that subgraph contains the vertex in question then it must be spanning.
5. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
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.
nominal
1. adj. Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
2. adj. Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
3. adj. Existing in name only.
a nominal difference
4. adj. (philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.
5. adj. Insignificantly small; trifling.
He gave me only a nominal sum for my services.
6. adj. Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
The nominal voltage is 1.5 V, but the actual figure is usually higher.
7. adj. (finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.
8. adj. (finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
9. adj. (grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
This sentence contains a nominal phrase.
10. adj. (engineering) According to plan or design; normal.
We'll just do a nominal flight check.
Apart from the slightly high temperature, all the readings from the spacecraft are nominal.
11. adj. (economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation; contrasted with real.
My employer does not understand how low my nominal wage is.
The nominal GNP of this country is pretty low.
12. adj. (statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant.
13. n. (grammar) A noun or word group that functions as a noun phrase.
This sentence contains two nominals.
14. n. (grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives.
15. n. A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier (see also wikipedia).
Numeric codes of characters used in programming are nominals.
phrase
1. n. A short written or spoken expression.
2. n. (grammar) A word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words.
3. n. (music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
4. n. (archaic) A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.
5. v. To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words.
I wasn't sure how to phrase my condolences without sounding patronising.
6. v. (intransitive, music) To perform a passage with the correct phrasing.
7. v. (transitive, music) To divide into melodic phrases.

Dictionary entries from Wiktionary