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whenever
     1. conj. At any time that.
           Visit whenever you want to.
     2. conj. Every time that.
           Whenever he has a pair of aces, his eyelids twitch.
     3. conj. (Irish, Southern US) When.
           Whenever I was a child, I lived in Arkansas.
     4. adv. At any time.
           Feel free to visit whenever.
He
     1. pron. honoraltcaps, he
           I love the Lord for He is Great and Holy.
     2. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.
     3. pron. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
           The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?
     4. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown.
     5. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
     6. n. (informal) A male.
           Alex totally is a he.
     7. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
hears
     1. v. third-person singular present indicative of hear
     hear
          1. v. (intransitive) To perceive sounds through the ear.
                I was deaf, and now I can hear.
          2. v. To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
                I heard a sound from outside the window.
          3. v. To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
          4. v. To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
                Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties.
          5. v. To receive information about; to come to learn of.
          6. v. (with from) To be contacted by.
          7. v. To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
                Your case will be heard at the end of the month.
          8. v. (transitive, informal) To sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of.
                You're tired of all the ads on TV? I hear ya.
an
     1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
     2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
     3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
     4. conj. (archaic) If
     5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
           An it harm none, do what ye will.
     6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
     7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
     8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
           I was only going twenty miles an hour.
argument
     1. n. A fact or statement used to support a proposition;a reason.
     2. n. A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
     3. n. A process of reasoning.
     4. n. (philosophy, logic) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
     5. n. (mathematics) The independent variable of a function.
     6. n. (mathematics) The phase of a complex number.
     7. n. (programming) A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.
           Parameters are like labeled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.
     8. n. (programming) A parameter in a function definition; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
     9. n. (linguistics) Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
     10. n. (astronomy) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends.
           The altitude is the argument of the refraction.
     11. n. The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
     12. n. Matter for question; business in hand.
     13. v. To put forward as an argument; to argue.
He
     1. pron. honoraltcaps, he
           I love the Lord for He is Great and Holy.
     2. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.
     3. pron. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
           The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?
     4. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown.
     5. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
     6. n. (informal) A male.
           Alex totally is a he.
     7. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
can't
     1. v. Cannot (negative auxiliaryArnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, , Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513); is unable to; does not have the ability to.
           I can’t quite get it to work.
     2. v. Is forbidden to; is not permitted to.
           You can’t enter the hall without a ticket.
     3. v. Often with be: is logically impossible.
           The butler can’t be the murderer because he was in London that evening.
     can
          1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
                She can speak English, French, and German.   I can play football.   Can you remember your fifth birthday?
          2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
                You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework.   Can I use your pen?
          3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
                Can it be Friday already?
                Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.
                Animals can experience emotions.
          4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
                Can you hear that?.
                I can feel the baby moving inside me.
          5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
          6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
          7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
          8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
          9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.
                Shit or get off the can.
                Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
          10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
          11. n. (slang) Jail or prison.
                Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years.
          12. n. (slang) Headphones.
          13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup.
          14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
          15. n. A chimney pot.
          16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
                They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
          17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
                He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
          18. v. To shut up.
                Can your gob.
          19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
                The boss canned him for speaking out.
     not
          1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
                Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.
                Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
          2. adv. To no degree.
                That is not red; it's orange.
          3. conj. And not.
                I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
                He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
          4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
                I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not!
                Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not!
          5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function.
                You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip.
          6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not.
help
     1. n. Action given to provide assistance; aid.
           I need some help with my homework.
     2. n. (usually) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
           He was a great help to me when I was moving house.
           I've printed out a list of math helps.
     3. n. Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
           I can't find anything in the help about rotating an image.
     4. n. (usually) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
           The help is coming round this morning to clean.
           Most of the hired help is seasonal, for the harvest.
     5. n. Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
           His suicide attempts were a cry for help.
           He really needs help in handling customer complaints.
           “He’s a real road-rager.” / “Yup, he really needs help, maybe anger management.”
     6. v. To provide assistance to (someone or something).
           He helped his grandfather cook breakfast.
     7. v. To contribute in some way to.
           The white paint on the walls helps make the room look brighter.
           If you want to get a job, it helps to have some prior experience.
     8. v. (intransitive) To provide assistance.
           She was struggling with the groceries, so I offered to help.
           Please, help!
     9. v. To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
           We couldn’t help noticing that you were late.
           We couldn’t help but notice that you were late.
           She’s trying not to smile, but she can’t help herself.
           Can I help it if I'm so beautiful?
           Can I help it that I fell in love with you?
           Are they going to beat us? Not if I can help it!
     10. interj. A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance
           — Take that, you scoundrel.— Help! Robin, help! (Robin Hood (1973))
siding
     1. n. (North America) A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building.
           Ugh. If there's one thing I can't stand it's cheesy vinyl siding.
     2. v. present participle of side
           Whenever he hears an argument, he can't help siding with one party or the other.
     3. n. (rail transport) A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for loading or unloading freight
     side
          1. n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
                A square has four sides.
          2. n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
                A cube has six sides.
          3. n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
                Which side of the tray shall I put it on?  The patient was bleeding on the right side.
          4. n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
                Meet me on the north side of the monument.
          5. n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
                I generally sleep on my side.
          6. n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
                John wrote 15 sides for his essay!
          7. n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
                Look on the bright side.
          8. n. One set of competitors in a game.
                Which side has kick-off?
          9. n. (Australia) A sports team.
          10. n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
                In the second world war, the Italians were on the side of the Germans.
          11. n. (music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
          12. n. (sports) Sidespin; english
                He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball.
          13. n. (UK, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).
                I just want to see what's on the other side — James said there was a good film on tonight.
          14. n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
                Do you want a side of cole-slaw with that?
          15. n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
                his mother's side of the family
          16. n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher
          17. n. (slang) An unjustified air of self-importance.
          18. v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
                Which will you side with, good or evil?
          19. v. To lean on one side.
          20. v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
          21. v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
          22. v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
          23. v. To furnish with a siding.
                to side a house
          24. v. (transitive, cooking) To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
          25. adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
          26. adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
                a side issue; a side view or remark
          27. adj. (UK archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
          28. adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
          29. adv. (UK dialectal) Widely; wide; far.
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
one
     1. num. (cardinal) The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
           In some religions, there is only one god.
           In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.
           One person, one vote.
     2. num. (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
     3. num. (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
     4. num. (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
     5. pron. (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
           The big one looks good.  I want the green one.  A good driver is one who drives carefully.
     6. pron. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
           She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the other.
     7. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).
           One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed.  One shouldn’t be too quick to judge.
     8. pron. (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing.
           "driver", noun: one who drives.
     9. n. The digit or figure 1.
     10. n. (mathematics) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
     11. n. (US) A one-dollar bill.
     12. n. (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
     13. n. A joke or amusing anecdote.
     14. n. (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
     15. n. (Internet slang) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
           A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!
             Someone help me; I'm always losing!
           B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!
             Why don't you just go away loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     16. adj. Of a period of time, being particular.
           One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries.
     17. adj. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
           My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other.".
     18. adj. Sole, only.
           He is the one man who can help you.
     19. adj. Whole, entire.
           Body and soul are not separate; they are one.
     20. adj. In agreement.
           We are one on the importance of learning.
     21. adj. The same.
           The two types look very different, but are one species.
     22. adj. Being a preeminent example.
           He is one hell of a guy.
     23. adj. Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".
           The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”.
     24. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.
party
     1. n. (legal) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
           The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee.
     2. n. A person.
     3. n.          (slang) A person; an individual.
                   He is a queer party.
     4. n.          With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.
                   I can't possibly be a party to that kind of reckless behaviour.
     5. n. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
     6. n.          (RPG, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group.
     7. n.          (video games) A group of characters controlled by the player.
     8. n. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
           The green party took 12% of the vote.
     9. n. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
           The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party.
     10. n. A social gathering.
     11. n.          A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
                   I'm throwing a huge party for my 21st birthday.
     12. n.          A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
                   We're expecting a large party from the London office.
     13. n.          A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
                   Tupperware party
                   lingerie party
     14. n. (obsolete) A part or division.
     15. v. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
           We partied until the early hours.
     16. v. (intransitive, slang) To take recreational drugs.
     17. v. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
     18. v. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).
           If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.
     19. adj. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
     20. adj. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
           an escutcheon party per pale
     21. adv. (obsolete) Partly.
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.
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.
other
     1. adj. See other (determiner) below
     2. adj. second.
           I get paid every other week.
     3. adj. Alien.
     4. adj. Different.
     5. adj. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
     6. n. An other one, more often rendered as another.
           I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.
     7. n. The other one; the second of two.
           One boat is not better than the other.
     8. det. Not the one or ones previously referred to.
           Other people would do it differently.
     9. adv. Apart from; in the phrase "other than".
           Other than that, I'm fine.
     10. adv. (obsolete) Otherwise.
           It shall none other be. — Chaucer.
           If you think other. — Shakespeare.
     11. v. To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
     12. v. To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
Dictionary entries from Wiktionary