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you've
1. contraction. contraction of you have
you
1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
Both of you should get ready now.
You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to.
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis.
You idiot!
9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal.
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
failed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of fail
2. adj. Decayed; worn out.
3. adj. Bankrupt.
The government is unwilling to bail out the failed bank.
fail
1. v. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
Throughout my life, I have always failed.
2. v. Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
The truck failed to start.
3. v. To neglect.
The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.
4. v. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.
After running five minutes, the engine failed.
5. v. To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
6. v. To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
I failed English last year.
I failed in English last year.
7. v. To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.
8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
9. v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
The crops failed last year.
10. v. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
11. v. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
12. v. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
A sick man fails.
13. v. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
14. v. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
15. v. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
16. n. (slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
The project was full of fail.
17. n. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)
18. n. (slang) A failure (something incapable of success)
19. n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
20. n. A failing grade in an academic examination.
21. adj. (slang) That is a failure.
22. n. A piece of turf cut from grassland.
temporally
1. adv. In a temporal manner.
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.
eternally
1. adv. For eternity; forever.
I shall be eternally grateful for your assistance.
2. adv. Unceasingly, recurringly.
all
1. adv. (degree) intensifier.
It suddenly went all quiet.
She was all, “Whatever.”
2. adv. (poetic) Entirely.
3. adv. Apiece; each.
The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
4. adv. (degree) So much.
Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
5. adv. (obsolete, poetic) even; just
6. det. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or un).
All contestants must register at the scorer’s table. All flesh is originally grass. All my friends like classical music.
7. det. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
The store is open all day and all night. (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
I’ve been working on this all year. (= from the beginning of the year until now.)
8. det. (obsolete) Any.
9. det. Only; alone; nothing but.
He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice.
10. pron. Everything.
some gave all they had; she knows all and sees all; Those who think they know it all are annoying to those of us who do.
11. pron. Everyone.
A good time was had by all.
12. n. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of.
She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.
13. n. The totality of one's possessions.
14. conj. (obsolete) although
15. adj. (dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead.
The butter is all.
because
1. adv. (archaic) For the reason (that).
2. adv. On account (of), for sake (of).
My life is ruined because of you!
3. adv. Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer a question begun with "why", usually taken as an anapodoton of the elided full phrase "Because I said so".
4. conj. By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.
I hid myself because I was afraid.
5. conj. As is known, inferred, or determined from the fact that.
It must be broken, because I pressed the button and nothing happened.
I don't think he is a nice person, because he yells at people for no reason.
6. conj. (obsolete) So that, in order that.
7. prep. (uncommon, slang) On account of, because of.
I went to the store because hungry.
you
1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
Both of you should get ready now.
You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to.
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis.
You idiot!
9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal.
didn't
1. v. did not (negative auxiliaryArnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, , Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513)
did
1. v. simple past tense of do
do
1. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker
2. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
Do you go there often?
3. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
I do not go there often.
Do not listen to him.
4. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
But I do go sometimes.
Do tell us.
It is important that he do come see me.
5. v. (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; not generally used with auxiliari
I play tennis; she does too.
# They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
6. v. To perform; to execute.
All you ever do is surf the Internet. What will you do this afternoon?
7. v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
8. v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do; this will do me, thanks.
9. v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.
10. v. To have (as an effect).
The fresh air did him some good.
11. v. (intransitive) To fare, perform (well or poorly).
Our relationship isn't doing very well; how do you do?
12. v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
What does Bob do? — He's a plumber.
13. v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something)
"Don't forget to do your report" means something quite different depending on whether you're a student or a programmer.
14. v. To cook.
I'll just do some eggs.
15. v. To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
Let’s do New York also.
16. v. To treat in a certain way.
17. v. To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
19. v. (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
I did five years for armed robbery.
20. v. To impersonate or depict.
They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.
21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
22. v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
23. v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
He got done for speeding.
Teacher'll do you for that!
24. v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)
25. v. To cheat or swindle.
That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!
26. v. To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
the novel has just been done into English; I'm going to do this play into a movie
27. v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
Aren't you done yet?
28. v. (dated) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
29. v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
30. v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
31. v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
Do they do haircuts there?
Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
32. v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
33. v. To take drugs.
I do cocaine.
34. v. (transitive, in the form be doing somewhere) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
What's that car doing in our swimming pool? -
35. n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
36. n. (informal) A hairdo.
Nice do!
37. n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
38. n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
39. n. (archaic) Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
40. n. (obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
41. n. (obsolete, UK, slang) An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
42. n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
43. adv. (rare) (abbreviation of ditto)
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.
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
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.
guts
1. n. plural of gut
2. n. The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
3. n. (slang) Courage; determination.
It must have taken some guts to speak in front of that audience.
She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone—she's got guts.
4. n. (slang) Content, substance.
His speech had no guts in it.
5. n. (in the plural) The essential, core parts.
He knew all about the guts of the business, how things actually get done.
6. n. (slang) One's innermost feelings.
If you need someone to spill your guts out to, I'm here.
7. v. third-person singular present indicative of gut
8. v. (informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).
He gutsed out a 6-1 win.
gut
1. n. The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
2. n. (informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
beer gut
3. n. The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
4. n. A person's emotional, visceral self.
I have a funny feeling in my gut.
5. n. (informal) A class that is not demanding or challenging.
You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.
6. n. A narrow passage of water.
the Gut of Canso
7. n. The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.
8. v. To eviscerate.
The fisherman guts the fish before cooking them.
The lioness gutted her prey.
9. v. To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
Fire gutted the building.
Congress gutted the welfare bill.
10. adj. Made of gut, e.g., a violin with gut strings
11. adj. Instinctive, e.g., a gut reaction
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
deal
1. n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king.
2. n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
3. v. To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.
4. v. To administer or give out, as in small portions.
5. v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
I was dealt four aces.
The cards were shuffled, and the croupier dealt.
6. v. (baseball) To pitch.
The whole crowd waited for him to deal a real humdinger.
7. v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
8. v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
9. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
10. v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
She deals in gold.
11. v. To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs.
12. v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
13. v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
I can't deal with this.
I don't think he wants to go. — Yeah, well, we're going anyway, and he can deal.
14. n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing out.
15. n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
I didn’t have a good deal all evening.
I believe it's your deal.
16. n. A particular instance of buying or selling; a transaction
We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight.
17. n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
18. n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement
He made a deal with the devil.
19. n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
What's the deal?
20. n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork.
21. n. Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
22. n. A plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
23. n. (archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
24. adj. Made of deal.
A plain deal table
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
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.
world
1. n. (with "the") Human collective existence; existence in general.
There will always be lovers, till the world’s end.
2. n. The Universe.
3. n. (with "the") The Earth.
People are dying of starvation all over the world.
4. n. A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
Our mission is to travel the galaxy and find new worlds.
5. n. (by extension) Any other body, astronomical body which many be inhabitable, such as a satellite, natural satellite.
6. n. A very large extent of country.
the New World
7. n. (fiction, speculation) A realm, such as planet, containing one or multiple society, societies of being, beings, specially intelligent ones.
the world of Narnia; the Wizarding World of Harry Potter; a zombie world
8. n. An individual or group perspective or social setting.
In the world of boxing, good diet is all-important.
Welcome to my world.
9. n. (computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
10. n. (tarot) The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
11. n. (informal) A great amount.
Taking a break from work seems to have done her a world of good.
You're going to be in a world of trouble when your family finds out.
a world of difference; a world of embarrassment
12. n. (archaic) Age, era
13. v. To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.
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.
face
1. n. (anatomy) The front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
The monkey has a pretty face.
2. n. One's facial expression.
Why the sad face?
3. n. The public image; outward appearance.
The face of this company. He managed to show a bold face despite his embarrassment.
4. n. The frontal aspect of something.
The face of the cliff loomed above them.
5. n. (figurative) Presence; sight; front.
to fly in the face of danger; to speak before the face of God
6. n. The directed force of something.
They turned to boat into the face of the storm.
7. n. Good reputation; standing in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
8. n. Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
9. n. The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face
10. n. (geometry) Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron. More generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
11. n. Any surface; especially a front or outer one.
Put a big sign on each face of the building that can be seen from the road. They climbed the north face of the mountain. She wanted to wipe him off the face of the earth.
12. n. The numbered dial of a clock or watch, the clock face.
13. n. (slang) The mouth.
Shut your face! He's always stuffing his face with chips.
14. n. (slang) Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
I'll be out in a sec. Just let me put on my face.
15. n. (slang) Short for baby face. A headlining wrestler whose in-ring persona is embodying heroic or virtuous traits.
The fans cheered on the face as he made his comeback.
16. n. (cricket) The front surface of a bat.
17. n. (golf) The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
18. n. (cards) The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).
19. n. (heraldiccharge) The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
20. n. (typography) A typeface.
21. n. Mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
22. n. (computing) An interface.
23. n. The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
24. v. (transitive, of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
Face the sun.
25. v. (transitive, of an object) To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
Turn the chair so it faces the table.
26. v. To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
27. v. To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.
I'm going to have to face this sooner or later.
28. v. (intransitive) To have the front in a certain direction.
The bunkers faced north and east, toward Germany.
29. v. To have as an opponent.
30. v. (intransitive, cricket) To be the batsman on strike.
31. v. (obsolete) To confront impudently; to bully.
32. v. To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
a building faced with marble
33. v. To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress
34. v. To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
35. v. (engineering) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from t
it
1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals.
Put it over there.
Take each day as it comes.
I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today.
2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender.
She took the baby and held it in her arms.
3. pron. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
It's me. John.
Is it her?
4. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)
It is nearly 10 o’clock.
It’s 10:45 read ten-forty-five.
It’s very cold today.
It’s lonely without you.
5. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms.
stick it out
live it up
rough it
6. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject i
It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing)
He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if)
7. pron. All or the end; something after which there is no more.
Are there more students in this class, or is this it?
That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.
8. pron. (chiefly pejorative, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male.
9. pron. (obsolete) (Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun): That which; what.
10. det. (obsolete) its
11. n. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
12. n. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…
13. n. (British) The game of tag.
Let's play it at breaktime.
14. n. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty.
15. n. (euphemism) Sexual activity.
caught them doing it
16. adj. (colloquial) Most fashionable.
unfair
1. adj. (rare, or archaic) Not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive
2. adj. (archaic, or obsolete) sorrowful; sad
3. adj. (archaic) unseemly; disgraceful
4. adj. Not fair, unjust.
It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.
5. v. (transitive, obsolete) To make ugly.
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.
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.

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