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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.
proprietary
1. adj. Of or relating to property or ownership.
proprietary rights
2. adj. Owning something; having ownership.
the proprietary class
3. adj. Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.
4. adj. Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
a proprietary extension to the HTML standard for Web page structure
5. adj. Privately owned.
a proprietary lake; a proprietary chapel
6. adj. (of a person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
7. n. A proprietor or owner.
8. n. A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
9. n. The rights of a proprietor.
10. n. A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
extension
1. n. The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length or breadth; an increase
2. n. The state of being extended
3. n. That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
4. n. A part of a building that has been extended from the original
5. n. (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
6. n. (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
7. n. (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
8. n. (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
9. n. (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
10. n. (telecommunication) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
11. n. (computing) A file extension.
Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.
12. n. (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
a browser extension
13. n. (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
14. n. (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
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
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.
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standard
1. adj. Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
2. adj. (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
3. adj. Having recognized excellence or authority.
standard works in history; standard authors
4. adj. Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
5. adj. (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
6. adj. As normally supplied (not optional).
7. adj. (linguistics) Conforming to the standard variety.
8. n. A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
9. n. A level of quality or attainment.
10. n. Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
11. n. A musical work of established popularity.
12. n. A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
13. n. The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
14. n. A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
15. n. (India) Grade level in primary education.
I am in fifth standard.
16. n. A vertical pole with something at its apex.
17. n. An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
18. n. The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
19. n. One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
20. n. Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
21. n. A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
22. n. The sheth of a plough.
23. n. A manual transmission vehicle.
24. n. (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
25. n. (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
26. n. A large drinking cup.
27. n. (sociolinguistics) standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language(Cite book, author=Jack Croft Richards, author2=Richard W. Schmidt, title=Longman Dictionary of Lang
for
1. conj. (dated) Because.
2. prep. Towards.
The astronauts headed for the moon.
3. prep. Directed at, intended to belong to.
I have something for you.
4. prep. In honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of.
We're having a birthday party for Janet.
The cake is for Tom and Helen's anniversary.
The mayor gave a speech for the charity gala.
5. prep. Supporting.
All those for the motion raise your hands.
6. prep. Because of.
He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him.
(UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight.
She was the worse for drink.
7. prep. Over a period of time.
I've lived here for three years.
They fought for days over a silly pencil.
8. prep. Throughout an extent of space.
9. prep. On behalf of.
I will stand in for him.
10. prep. Instead of, or in place of.
11. prep. In order to obtain or acquire.
I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday.
He's going for his doctorate.
Do you want to go for coffee?
People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers.
Can you go to the store for some eggs?
I'm saving up for a car.
Don't wait for an answer.
What did he ask you for?
12. prep. In the direction of: marks a point one is going toward.
Run for the hills!
He was headed for the door when he remembered.
13. prep. By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect.
Fair for its day.
She's spry for an old lady.
14. prep. Despite, in spite of.
15. prep. Used to indicate the subject of a to-infinitive.
For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely. (=It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now.)
All I want is for you to be happy. (=All I want is that you be happy.)
16. prep. (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
In term of base hits, Jones was three for four on the day
17. prep. (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
At close of play, England were 305 for 3.
18. prep. To be, or as being.
19. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.)
20. prep. Used to construe various verbs (see the entries for individual phrasal verbs).
web
The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.
1. n. Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.
2. n. Specifically, the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web).
Let me search the web for that.
3. n. (baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
He caught the ball in the web.
4. n. A latticed or woven structure.
The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
5. n. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
6. n. (rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail. Profile of flat-bottomed and bullhead railway rail showing the web
7. n. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
8. n. The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
9. n. (manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
10. n. (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
11. n. (dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
12. n. A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
13. n. The blade of a sword.
14. n. The blade of a saw.
15. n. The thin, sharp part of a colter.
16. n. The bit of a key.
17. v. (intransitive) To construct or form a web.
18. v. To cover with a web or network.
19. v. To ensnare or entangle.
20. v. To provide with a web.
21. v. (transitive, obsolete) To weave.
page
1. n. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
2. n. One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
3. n. A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.
the page of history
4. n. (typesetting) The type set up for printing a page.
5. n. (Internet) A web page.
6. n. (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
7. v. To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
8. v. (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
9. v. To furnish with folios.
10. n. (obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
11. n. (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
12. n. (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
13. n. (in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
14. n. A boy child.
15. n. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
16. n. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
17. n. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
18. v. To attend (someone) as a page.
19. v. (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
20. v. To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
I’ll be out all day, so page me if you need me.
21. v. To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.
An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?
structure
1. n. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items.
2. n. The underlying shape of a solid.
He studied the structure of her face.
3. n. The overall form or organization of something.
The structure of a sentence.
The structure of the society was still a mystery.
4. n. A set of rules defining behaviour.
For some, the structure of school life was oppressive.
5. n. (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
This structure contains both date and timezone information.
6. n. (fishing) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
There's lots of structure to be fished along the west shore of the lake; the impoundment submerged a town there when it was built.
7. n. A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
The South African leader went off to consult with the structures.
8. n. (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
9. v. To give structure to; to arrange.
I'm trying to structure my time better so I'm not always late.
I've structured the deal to limit the amount of money we can lose.

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