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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.
inclusive
1. adj. Including (almost) everything within its scope.
an inclusive list of data formats
2. adj. Including the extremes as well as the area between.
numbers 1 to 10 inclusive
3. adj. (linguistics) Of, or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when including the person being addressed.
The pronoun in "If you want, we could go back to my place for coffee" is an inclusive "we".
affecting
1. adj. Producing strong feelings and emotions.
2. v. present participle of affect
affect
1. v. To influence or alter.
The experience affected me deeply.
The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction.
2. v. To move to emotion.
He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play.
3. v. Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
Hepatitis affects the liver.
4. v. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
5. v. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
6. v. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
7. v. To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.
to affect ignorance
He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable.
8. v. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
9. v. (transitive, now rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
11. n. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
12. n. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
13. n. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.
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.
whole
1. adj. Entire.
I ate a whole fish.
2. adj. (Used as an intensifier.)
I brought a whole lot of balloons for the party. She ate a whole bunch of french fries.
3. adj. Sound, uninjured, healthy.
He is of whole mind, but the same cannot be said about his physical state.
4. adj. (of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
whole wheat; whole milk
5. adj. (mining) As yet unworked.
6. adv. (colloquial) In entirety; entirely; wholly.
I ate a fish whole!
7. n. Something complete, without any parts missing.
This variety of fascinating details didn't fall together into an enjoyable, coherent whole.
8. n. An entirety.
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.

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