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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.
Will
1. n. (American football) A weak-side linebacker.
2. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
Do what you will.
3. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
4. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
5. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive).
6. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
7. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
8. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason.
9. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will.
10. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
Most creatures have a will to live.
11. n. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
12. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.
13. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
14. v. (archaic) To wish, desire.
15. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
16. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
All the fans were willing their team to win the game.
17. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.
absolve
1. v. To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).
You will absolve a subject from his allegiance.
2. v. (transitive, obsolete) To resolve; to explain; to solve.
3. v. To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.
4. v. (transitive, legal) To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for.
5. v. (transitive, theology) To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to.
6. v. (transitive, theology) To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin.
7. v. (transitive, obsolete) To finish; to accomplish.
8. v. To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
subject
1. adj. Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
a country subject to extreme heat
Menu listings and prices are subject to change.
He's subject to sneezing fits.
2. adj. Conditional upon.
The local board sets local policy, subject to approval from the State Board.
3. adj. Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
4. adj. Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
5. n. (grammar) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
In the sentence ‘The mouse is eaten by the cat in the kitchen.’, ‘The mouse’ is the subject, ‘the cat’ being the agent.
6. n. An actor; one who takes action.
The subjects and objects of power.
7. n. The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
8. n. A particular area of study.
Her favorite subject is physics.
9. n. A citizen in a monarchy.
I am a British subject.
10. n. A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
11. n. (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
12. n. A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
13. n. (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
14. n. (logic) That of which something is stated.
15. n. (math) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
Making x the subject of xsup - 2 − 6x + 3y = 0, we have x = 3 ± √(9 − 3y).
16. v. (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
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.
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
allegiance
1. n. Loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler.

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