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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.
skirted
1. adj. bordered
2. adj. passed around
3. adj. narrowly missed
4. adj. evaded
5. v. simple past tense and past participle of skirt
skirt
1. n. An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body.
2. n. The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.
3. n. A loose edging to any part of a dress.
4. n. A petticoat.
5. n. (pejorative, slang) A woman.
6. n. (colloquial) Women collectively, in a sexual context.
7. n. (colloquial) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
8. n. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
9. n. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
10. v. To be on or form the border of.
The plain was skirted by rows of trees.
11. v. To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
12. v. To cover with a skirt; to surround.
13. v. To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).
He skirted the issue of which parties to attend by staying at home instead.
Green
1. adj. (politics) Of, or pertaining, to a Green Party or green party.
2. adj. Having green as its color.
The former flag of Libya is fully green.
3. adj. (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
Sally looks pretty green — is she going to be sick?
4. adj. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
5. adj. (figurative, of people) Inexperienced.
John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
6. adj. (figurative, of people) Naïve or unaware of obvious facts.
7. adj. (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy.
He was green with envy.
8. adj. (figurative) Environmentally friendly.
9. adj. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
10. adj. (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.“unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency”
11. adj. (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
12. adj. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
That timber is still too green to be used.
13. adj. (wine) High or too high in acidity.
14. adj. Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
a green manhood; a green wound
15. adj. (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
16. adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
17. n. The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light
(color panel, 008000)
18. n. (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
19. n. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
20. n. (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
21. n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
22. n. (British) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
23. n. A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
24. n. (mostly, in plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
25. n. Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
26. n. (UK, slang) marijuana.
27. n. (US, slang) Money.
28. n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
29. v. To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
30. v. To become or grow green in colour.
31. v. To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
32. v. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
33. v. To make (something) environmentally friendly.
hills
1. n. plural of hill
hill
1. n. An elevated location smaller than a mountain.
The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.
2. n. A sloping road.
You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.
3. n. (US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
4. n. (US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
a hill of corn or potatoes
5. n. (baseball) The pitcher’s mound.
6. v. To form into a heap or mound.
7. v. To heap or draw earth around plants.
which
1. det. (interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied.
Which song made the charts?
2. det. (relative) The one or ones that.
Show me which one is bigger.
They couldn't decide which song to play.
3. det. (relative) The one or ones mentioned.
He once owned a painting of the house, which painting would later be stolen.
For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived.
I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one.
4. pron. (interrogative) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied).
Which is bigger?; Which is which?
5. pron. (relative) Who; whom; what (of those mentioned or implied).
He walked by a door with a sign, which read: PRIVATE OFFICE.
We've met some problems which are very difficult to handle.
He had to leave, which was very difficult.
No art can be properly understood apart from the culture of which it is a part.
6. pron. (relative, archaic) Used of people (now generally who, whom or that).
7. n. An occurrence of the word which.
sparkled
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of sparkle
sparkle
1. n. A little spark; a scintillation.
2. n. Brilliance; luster.
the sparkle of a diamond
3. n. Liveliness; vivacity.
the sparkle of his conversation over dinner
4. n. The quality of being sparkling or fizzy; effervescence.
5. v. (intransitive) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles
The wood was sparkling in the bonfire. -
6. v. (by extension) To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle
The stars sparkle in the sky. -
7. v. (intransitive) To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
8. v. (intransitive) To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce
sparkling wine -
sparkling water -
9. v. To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To disperse.
11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To scatter on or over.
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.
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.
first
1. adj. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
The first day of September 2013 was a Sunday.
I was the first runner to reach the finish line, and won the race.
2. adj. Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.
3. adv. Before anything else; firstly.
Clean the sink first, before you even think of starting to cook.
4. n. The person or thing in the first position.
He was the first to complete the course.
5. n. The first gear of an engine.
6. n. Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
This is a first. For once he has nothing to say.
7. n. (baseball) first base
There was a close play at first.
8. n. (UK, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
9. n. (colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
10. n. A fraction of an integer ending in one.
one forty-first of the estate
11. n. (obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.
rays
1. n. plural of ray
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of ray
ray
1. n. A beam of light or radiation.
I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
2. n. (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
3. n. (zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
4. n. (botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
5. n. (obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
6. n. (mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
7. n. (colloquial) A tiny amount.
Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.
8. v. To emit something as if in rays.
9. v. (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
10. n. A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
11. v. (obsolete) To arrange.
12. v. (now rare) To dress, array (someone).
13. v. (obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.
14. n. The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
15. n. (obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
16. n. (music) alternative form of re
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
sunshine
1. n. The direct rays, light or warmth of the sun.Webster's College Dictionary, Random House, 2001
We were warmed by the bright sunshine.
2. n. A location on which the sun's rays fall.
We moved out of the shade and into the sunshine.
3. n. Geniality or cheerfulness.
I enjoyed the sunshine of her smile.
4. n. A source of cheerfulness or joy.
5. n. The effect which the sun has when it lights and warms some place.
6. n. (UK) Friendly form of address often reserved for juniors.
Alright sunshine, safe to cross now.
7. n. (UK) Ironic form of address used to an inferior or troublemaker.
OK, sunshine, listen up and listen good. There's five vandalised telephone boxes out there and I know you're responsible.
8. n. (humorous) Used to address someone who has just woken up and/or is very sleepy.
Good morning, sunshine!
9. adj. (chiefly US) Open to and permitting public access, especially with regard to activities that were previously closed-door or back-room meetings.
Because of the sunshine law, we could go to the planning meeting.

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