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emancipate
     1. v. To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as:
     2. v.          To set free, as a minor from a parent
                    a father may emancipate a child
     3. v.          To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit
                    to emancipate a slave
                    emancipate a country
     4. v. To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence
           emancipate someone from prejudices or error
     5. adj. Freed; set at liberty.
someone
     1. pron. Some person.
           Can someone help me, please?
     2. n. A partially specified but unnamed person.
           Do you need a gift for that special someone?
     3. n. an important person
           He thinks he has become someone.
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.
prejudices
     1. n. plural of prejudice
     prejudice
          1. n. An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.
          2. n. Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.
          3. n. An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion.
                I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
          4. n. (obsolete) Knowledge formed in advance; foresight, presaging.
          5. n. (obsolete) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
          6. v. To have a negative impact on (someone's position, chances etc.).
          7. v. To cause prejudice in; to bias the mind of.
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.
error
     1. n. The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
     2. n. A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
     3. n. Sin; transgression.
     4. n. (computing) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
     5. n. (statistics) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
     6. n. (baseball) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
     7. n. (appellate legal) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
     8. n. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
     9. v. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
           The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.
           Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there.
           This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.
     10. v. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
           The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
     11. v. (nonstandard) To err.
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