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what
1. pron. (interrogative) Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: (used interrogatively in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.)
2. pron. (relative, nonstandard) That; which; who.
3. pron. That which; those that; the thing that.
He knows what he wants.
What goes up must come down.
Keep up with what your friends are doing.
4. pron. Whatever.
I will do what I can to help you.
5. adv. (usually followed by "with") In some manner or degree; in part; partly. See also what with
What with singing and joking, the time passed quickly.
6. adv. Such.
What a pity.
What a beautiful day!
7. adv. (obsolete) Why?
8. adv. (now rare) Used to introduce each of two coordinate phrases or concepts; both…and.
9. adv. (Singlish) (alt form, wat) (used to contradict an assumption)
10. interj. An expression of surprise or disbelief.
What! That’s amazing.
11. interj. Response that enquires what the asker desires (usually said unhappily).
12. interj. (UK, colloquial, dated) (clipping of what do you say)?
It’s a nice day, what?
13. interj. What did you say? I beg your pardon?
14. det. Which; which kind of.
What shirt are you going to wear?
What time is it?
What kind of car is that?
15. det. How much; how great (used in an exclamation).
What talent he has!
What a talent!
16. det. (relative) Whatever
Write down what things come into your mind.
17. n. (obsolete) Something; thing; stuff.
18. n. The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what.
19. n. Something that is addressed by , as opposed to a person, addressed by who.
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
11. adv. -->
12. n. alternative form of withe
clarinet
1. n. (musical instruments) A woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).
practice
1. n. Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
He will need lots of practice with the lines before he performs them.
2. n. An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
Being on a team is hard: you're always having to go to practice while everyone else is taking it easy.
I have choir practice every Sunday after church.
3. n. (especially, medicine, arts) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
4. n. A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
She ran a thriving medical practice.
5. n. The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
6. n. A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
It is the usual practice of employees there to wear neckties only when meeting with customers.
It is good practice to check each door and window before leaving.
7. n. Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
That may work in theory, but will it work in practice?
8. n. (legal) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
This firm of solicitors is involved in family law practice.
9. n. Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
10. n. (math) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
11. v. alternative spelling of practise
at
1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.
Caesar was at Rome; at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine; at Jim’s house
2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.)
at six o’clock; at closing time; at night.
3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).
He threw the ball at me. He shouted at her.
4. prep. Denotes a price.
3 apples at 2¢ (each) The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.
5. prep. Occupied in (activity).
men at work
6. prep. In a state of.
She is at sixes and sevens with him. They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff. The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.
7. prep. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
Sell at 90. Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders. I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost.
8. prep. Because of.
to laugh at a joke mad at their comments
9. prep. Indicates a means, method, or manner.
10. prep. Holding a given speed or rate.
It is growing at the rate of 3% a year. Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.
11. prep. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.
The twins were both bad at chemistry.
He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.
12. prep. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
13. n. The at sign (@).
14. n. (alt form, att) (Laos currency unit)
odd
1. adj. (not comparable) Single; sole; singular; not having a mate.
Optimistically, he had a corner of a drawer for odd socks.
2. adj. (obsolete) Singular in excellence; unique; sole; matchless; peerless; famous.
3. adj. Singular in looks or character; peculiar; eccentric.
4. adj. Strange, unusual.
She slept in, which was very odd.
5. adj. (not comparable) Occasional; infrequent.
but for the odd exception
6. adj. (not comparable) Left over, remaining when the rest have been grouped.
I'm the odd one out.
7. adj. (not comparable) Casual, irregular, not planned.
He's only worked odd jobs.
8. adj. (not comparable, in combination with a number) About, approximately.
There were thirty-odd people in the room.
9. adj. (not comparable) Indivisible by two; not even.
The product of odd numbers is also odd.
10. adj. Sporadic; scattered in frequency; occurring randomly
I don't speak Latin well, so in hearing a dissertation in Latin, I would only be able to make out the odd word of it.
11. adj. (sports) On the left.
He served from the odd court.
12. n. (mathematics, diminutive) An odd number.
So let's see. There are two evens here and three odds.
13. n. (colloquial) Something left over, not forming part of a set.
I've got three complete sets of these trading cards for sale, plus a few dozen odds.
hours
1. n. plural of hour
hour
1. n. A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
I spent an hour at lunch.
2. n. A season, moment, time or stound.
3. n. (poetic) The time.
The hour grows late and I must go home.
4. n. (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
5. n. (chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
This place is an hour away from where I live.
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.
interests
1. n. plural of interest
2. n. The persons interested in any particular business or cause, taken collectively.
the coal-mining interests
the separatist interests
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of interest
interest
1. n. (finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.
Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
2. n. A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
3. n. Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
4. n. An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
When scientists and doctors write articles and when politicians run for office, they are required in many countries to declare any existing conflicts of interest.
I have business interests in South Africa.
5. n. Something or someone one is interested in.
Lexicography is one of my interests.
Victorian furniture is an interest of mine.
The main character's romantic interest will be played by a non-professional actor.
6. n. (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
7. n. (usually plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
the iron interest; the cotton interest
8. v. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
Action films don't really interest me.
9. v. (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
10. v. (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
widely
1. adv. commonly; generally; to a great degree
2. adv. separated by a large distance
outside
1. n. The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
2. n. The external appearance of something.
3. n. The space beyond some limit or boundary.
4. n. The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
It may last a week at the outside.
5. n. (dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger riding on the outside of a coach or carriage.
6. adj. Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
The outside surface looks good.
7. adj. Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
8. adj. (baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
The first pitch is ... just a bit outside.
9. adj. Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc.
an outside estimate
10. adv. Outdoors.
I slept outside last night.
11. adv. To the outdoors or outside.
I am going outside.
12. prep. On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building).
13. prep. Near, but not in.
14. prep. (usually with “of”) Except, apart from.
Outside of winning the lottery, the only way to succeed is through many years of hard work.
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.
usual
1. adj. Most commonly occurring; typical.
The preference of a boy to a girl is a usual occurrence in some parts of China.
It is becoming more usual these days to rear children as bilingual.
sporting
1. v. present participle of sport
2. adj. (not comparable) Pertaining to sports
He got a job in a sporting goods store.
3. adj. (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.
Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
4. adj. (comparable) Having a reasonable chance of success.
You think he has a sporting chance? I wouldn't call even him a long shot!
5. adj. (comparable) Fair, generous; ‘game’.
It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.
6. adj. (not comparable) (obsolete) Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
7. n. The act of taking part in a sport.
sport
1. n. Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
2. n. Something done for fun despite being intended for and primarily used for serious goals.
3. n. A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
4. n. Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
5. n. (obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
6. n. (obsolete) Mockery; derision.
7. n. A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
8. n. Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
9. n. (biology, botany, zoology) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both muta
10. n. (slang) A sportsman; a gambler.
11. n. (slang) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
12. n. (obsolete) An amorous dalliance.
13. n. (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
14. n. (obsolete) Play; idle jingle.
15. v. (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
children sporting on the green
16. v. (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
Jen sports with Bill's emotions.
17. v. To display; to have as a notable feature.
Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes; he was sporting a new wound from the combat
18. v. (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
19. v. To represent by any kind of play.
20. v. To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
21. v. To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
22. v. To close (a door).
preoccupations
1. n. plural of preoccupation
preoccupation
1. n. The state of being preoccupied or an idea that preoccupies the mind; enthrallment.
2. n. The act of occupying something before someone else.
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.
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.
youthful
1. adj. Young or seeming young.
a youthful butler
2. adj. Characteristic of young people.
youthful vivacity
upper
1. adj. At a higher level, rank or position.
2. adj. Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.
3. adj. (geology, of strata or geological time periods) younger, more recent
4. adj. (education) Of or pertaining to a secondary school.
5. n. That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.
As the restless sleeper here, I'll take the lower berth. You take the upper.
6. n. (shoemaking) The piece of leather, etc., that forms the top part of a shoe above the sole.
7. n. A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.
8. n. (footwear) The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.
crust
1. n. A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
2. n. The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
3. n. An outer layer composed of pastry
4. n. The bread-like base of a pizza.
5. n. (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
6. n. The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
7. n. Nerve, gall.
You've got a lot of crust standing there saying that.
8. n. crust punk (a subgenre of punk music)
9. v. To cover with a crust.
10. v. (intransitive) To form a crust.
His
1. pron. honoraltcaps, his
2. det. Belonging to him.
3. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
4. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
5. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark.
Sejanus his Fall
6. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
The decision was his to live with.
7. pron. alternative spelling of His
8. n. plural of hi
demeanour
ensured
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of ensure
ensure
1. v. To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
2. v. (intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
I use an alarm clock to ensure that I get up on time.
Him
1. pron. honoraltcaps, him
2. pron. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
3. pron. With dative effect or as an indirect object.
4. pron. Following a preposition.
5. pron. With accusative effect or as a direct object.
6. pron. (now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself.
7. pron. With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.
8. pron. alternative case form of Him
9. n. (informal) A male person.
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
three
1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
2. num. Describing a set or group with three elements.
3. n. The digit/figure 3.
4. n. Anything measuring three units, as length.
Put all the threes in a separate container.
5. n. A person who is three years old.
All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
6. n. The playing card featuring three pips.
7. n. (basketball) (abbreviation of three-pointer)
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
four
1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
There are four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.
2. num. Describing a set or group with four elements.
3. n. The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
4. n. Anything measuring four units, as length.
Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.
5. n. A person who is four years old.
I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
6. n. (cricket) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounc
7. n. (basketball) A power forward.
8. n. (rowing) Quadruple sculls.
9. n. (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
very
1. adj. True, real, actual.
The fierce hatred of a very woman. The very blood and bone of our grammar. He tried his very best.
2. adj. The same; identical.
He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met. That's the very tool that I need.
3. adj. With limiting effect: mere.
4. adv. To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
You’re drinking very slowly.
That dress is very you.
5. adv. True, truly.
6. adv. (with superlatives) (ngd, Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.)
He was the very best runner there.
close
1. v. (physical) To remove a gap.
2. v. To obstruct (an opening).
3. v. To move so that an opening is closed.
Close the door behind you when you leave.
Jim was listening to headphones with his eyes closed.
4. v. To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
The runner in second place is closing the gap on the leader.
to close the ranks of an army
5. v. To grapple; to engage in close combat.
6. v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
7. v. To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
close the session; to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction
8. v. To come to an end.
The debate closed at six o'clock.
9. v. (marketing) To make a sale.
10. v. (baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
He has closed the last two games for his team.
11. v. (figurative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
12. v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
13. v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
14. n. An end or conclusion.
We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close.
15. n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
16. n. A grapple in wrestling.
17. n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
18. n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
19. adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
20. adj. Narrow; confined.
a close alley; close quarters
21. adj. At a little distance; near.
Is your house close?
22. adj. Intimate; well-loved.
He is a close friend.
23. adj. (legal) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
24. adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
25. adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
26. adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
27. adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
a close prisoner
28. adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
29. adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
a close contest
30. adj. Short.
to cut grass or hair close
31. adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
32. adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
close reasoning
33. adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
Money is close.
34. adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
35. adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
a close translation
36. adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
The patient was kept under close observation.
37. adj. Marked, evident.
38. n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
39. n. (British) A street that ends in a dead end.
40. n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
41. n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
42. n. A cathedral close.
43. n. (legal) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.
Friends
1. n. plural of Friend
2. n. plural of friend
3. n. Participants in a two-way friendship relationship.
I tried to be a friend to Jane but we never really made friends. She was never a friend to me.
Jane and I made friends right away.
We became friends in the war and remain friends to this day.
We were friends with some girls from the other school and stayed friends with them.
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of friend
friend
1. n. A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college. Trust is important between friends. I used to find it hard to make friends when I was shy.
2. n. A boyfriend or girlfriend.
3. n. An associate who provides assistance.
The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend. The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.
4. n. A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted
a friend of a friend; I added him as a friend on Facebook, but I hardly know him.
5. n. A person who backs or supports something.
I’m not a friend of cheap wine.
6. n. (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
Wiktionary is your friend.
7. n. (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
You’d better watch it, friend.
8. n. (object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
9. n. (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
10. n. (obsolete) A paramour of either sex.
11. n. (Scotland, obsolete) A relative.
12. v. (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
13. v. To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
but
1. prep. (obsolete, outside, Scotland) Outside of.
Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there.
2. prep. Apart from, except (for), excluding.
Everyone but Father left early.
I like everything but that.
Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave.
3. adv. Merely, only, just.
4. adv. (Australian, conjunctive) Though, however.
I'll have to go home early but.
5. adv. Used as an intensifier.
Nobody, but nobody, crosses me and gets away with it.
6. conj. (following a negative clause or sentence) On the contrary, but rather (introducing a word or clause that contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence without the negation).
I am not rich but (I am) poor; not John but Peter went there.
7. conj. However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (implies that the following clause is contrary to prior belief or contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence).
She is very old but still attractive.
You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not.
8. conj. Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "ex
I cannot but feel offended.
9. conj. (archaic) Without its also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).
It never rains but it pours.
10. conj. (obsolete) Except with; unless with; without.
11. conj. (obsolete) Only; solely; merely.
12. conj. (obsolete) Until.
13. n. An instance or example of using the word "but".
It has to be done – no ifs or buts.
14. n. (Scotland) The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
15. n. A limit; a boundary.
16. n. The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
17. v. (archaic) Use the word "but".
But me no buts.
little
1. adj. Small in size.
This is a little table.
2. adj. Insignificant, trivial.
It's of little importance.
3. adj. (offensive) (Used to belittle a person.)
Listen up, you little shit.
4. adj. Very young.
Did he tell you any embarrassing stories about when she was little?
That's the biggest little boy I've ever seen.
5. adj. (of a sibling) Younger.
This is my little sister.
6. adj. Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
7. adj. Small in amount or number, having few members.
little money; little herd
8. adj. Short in duration; brief.
I feel better after my little sleep.
9. adj. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
10. adv. Not much.
This is a little known fact. She spoke little and listened less.
11. adv. Not at all.
I was speaking ill of Fred; little did I know that he was right behind me, listening in.
12. det. Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of).
There is little water left.
We had very little to do.
13. pron. Not much; not a large amount.
Little is known about his early life.
14. n. (BDSM, slang) The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
approbation
1. n. The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval, sanction, commendation or official recognition.
from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He left yesterday from Chicago.
Face away from the wall!
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
An umbrella protects from the sun.
He knows right from wrong.
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.
majority
1. n. More than half (50%) of some group
The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.
Those opposing the building plans were in the majority, so the building project was canceled.
2. n. The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
The winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%.
3. n. (dated) Legal adulthood
By the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice.
4. n. (UK) The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major
On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority.
5. n. ancestors; ancestry.

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