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we
1. pron. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.)
2. pron. (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.)
3. pron. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sen
4. pron. (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.
How are we all tonight?
5. pron. (personal, generally considered patronising) A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care.
How are we feeling this morning?
6. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different.
mortgaged
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of mortgage
mortgage
1. n. (legal) A special form of secured loan where the purpose of the loan must be specified to the lender, to purchase assets that must be fixed (not movable) property, such as a house or piece of farm lan
We're renting a property in the city centre because we can't afford to get a mortgage yet.
2. n. (obsolete) State of being pledged.
lands given in mortgage
3. v. (transitive, legal) To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pled
to mortgage a property, an estate, a shop
We mortgaged our house in order to start a company.
4. v. (transitive, figurative) To pledge and make liable; to make subject to obligation; to achieve an immediate result by paying for it in the long term.
our
1. det. Belonging to us.
2. det. Of, from, or belonging to the nation, region, or language of the speaker.
3. det. (Northern England, Scotland) Used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend.
I'm going to see our Terry for tea.
4. v. misspelling of are
house
1. n. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
2. n. The people who live in a house; a household.
3. n. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house.
On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the monkey house.
4. n. A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house.
5. n. A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid.
The house always wins.
6. n. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
7. n. (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.
8. n. A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.
9. n. (metaphorical) a place of rest or repose.
10. n. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.
11. n. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
12. n. (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
13. n. (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
14. n. (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
15. n. (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
16. n. Lotto; bingo.
17. n. A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.
18. n. (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
19. v. To keep within a structure or container.
The car is housed in the garage.
20. v. To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.
21. v. To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
22. v. (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
23. v. To contain or cover mechanical parts.
24. v. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
25. v. (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
26. v. (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
to house the upper spars
27. n. (music genre) House music.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
order
1. n. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
2. n. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
3. n. The state of being well arranged.
The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
4. n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
to preserve order in a community or an assembly
5. n. A command.
6. n. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
7. n. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles
St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.
8. n. An association of knights
the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
9. n. any group of people with common interests.
10. n. A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
11. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.
12. n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
the higher or lower orders of society
talent of a high order
13. n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.
to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry
14. n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic featu
15. n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
16. n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter.
17. n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
18. n. (set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.
19. n. (group theory, of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the id
20. n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
21. n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
22. n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
23. n. (algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
A quadratic polynomial,a x^2 + b x +c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2.
24. v. To set in some sort of order.
25. v. To arrange, set in proper order.
26. v. To issue a command to.
to order troops to advance
He ordered me to leave.
27. v. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
to order groceries
28. v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
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
Start
1. n. A typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option.
2. n. The beginning of an activity.
The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
3. n. A sudden involuntary movement.
He woke with a start.
4. n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
5. n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
6. n. (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
7. n. An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
to get, or have, the start
8. v. To begin, commence, initiate.
9. v. To set in motion.
to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business
10. v. To begin.
11. v. To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine.
to start the engine
12. v. To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
13. v. To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
14. v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
The rain started at 9:00.
15. v. (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town.
The blue line starts one foot away from the wall.
16. v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
17. v. (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
18. v. (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
19. v. To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
The hounds started a fox.
20. v. To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel
21. v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
22. v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
23. v. (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
to start a water cask
24. v. (intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation).
Have you started yet?
25. n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
26. n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
27. n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
28. n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
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.
company
1. n. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
2. n. A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
A company of actors.
3. n. (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battal
the boys in Company C
4. n. A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
It took six companies to put out the fire.
5. n. (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
6. n. (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.
As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.
7. n. (legal) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
8. n. (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
9. n. Social visitors or companions.
Keep the house clean; I have company coming.
10. n. Companionship.
I treasure your company.
11. v. (archaic, transitive) To accompany, keep company with.
12. v. (archaic, intransitive) To associate.
13. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be a lively, cheerful companion.
14. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.

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