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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.
profane
1. adj. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
2. adj. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
profane authors
3. adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
4. adj. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain
a profane person, word, oath, or tongue
5. n. A person or thing that is profane.
6. n. (freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
7. v. To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate
One should not profane the name of God.
to profane the Scriptures
8. v. To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
person
1. n. An individual; usually a human being.
Each person is unique, both mentally and physically.
2. n. A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represent
3. n. (Christianity) Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.
4. n. (chiefly in science fiction) Any sentient or socially intelligent being.
5. n. (in a compound noun or noun phrase) Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.
6. n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
7. n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.
8. n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
9. n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is speaking. See grammatical person.
10. n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
12. v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.
Word
1. n. Scripture; The Bible.
2. n. The creative word of God; logos.
3. n. The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
4. n. The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
5. n. The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
6. n. A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
7. n. Something like such a unit of language:
8. n. A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning
9. n. (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
10. n. (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine (on many 16-bit machines, 16 bits or two bytes).
11. n. (computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator.
12. n. (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
13. n. The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action.
14. n. (now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
15. n. (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
mum's the word
16. n. (obsolete) A proverb or motto.
17. n. News; tidings (used without an article).
Have you had any word from John yet?
18. n. An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
He sent word that we should strike camp before winter.
Don't fire till I give the word
Their mother's word was law.
19. n. A promise; an oath or guarantee.
I give you my word that I will be there on time.
20. n. A brief discussion or conversation.
Can I have a word with you?
21. n. (in the plural) See words.
There had been words between him and the secretary about the outcome of the meeting.
22. n. (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
Her parents had lived in Botswana, spreading the word among the tribespeople.
23. n. (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
24. v. To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
I’m not sure how to word this letter to the council.
25. v. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter with words, to cajole.
26. v. To ply or overpower with words.
27. v. (transitive, rare) To conjure with a word.
28. v. (intransitive, archaic) To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.
29. interj. (slang) Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond.".
"Yo, that movie was epic!" / "Word?" ("You speak the truth?") / "Word." ("I speak the truth.")
30. interj. (slang) An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.
31. v. alternative form of worth (to become).
oath
1. n. A solemn pledge or promise, appealing to a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest to the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promi
2. n. A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
After taking the oath of office, she became the country's forty-third premier.
The generals swore an oath of loyalty to the country.
3. n. A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
4. n. A curse, a curse word.
5. v. (archaic) To pledge.
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.
tongue
1. n. The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different s
2. n. This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).−
cold tongue with mustard
3. n. (metonym) A language.
He was speaking in his native tongue.
4. n. (obsolete) Speakers of a language, collectively.
5. n. (obsolete) Voice (the distinctive sound of a person's speech); accent (gloss, distinctive manner of pronouncing a language).
6. n. Manner of speaking, often habitually.
7. n. (metonym) A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).
8. n. The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
9. n. (obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
10. n. (obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.
11. n. (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
12. n. In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
13. n. Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
14. n. A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance
15. n. A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
16. n. The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
17. n. The clapper of a bell.
18. n. (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
19. n. A small sole (type of fish).
20. n. (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
21. n. (music) A reed.
22. v. (music, ambitransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.
23. v. (slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
24. v. To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
a soil horizon that tongues into clay
25. v. To join by means of a tongue and groove.
to tongue boards together
26. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To talk; to prate.
27. v. (transitive, obsolete) To speak; to utter.
28. v. (transitive, obsolete) To chide; to scold.

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