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imposing
1. v. present participle of impose
2. adj. Magnificent and impressive because of appearance, size, stateliness or dignity.
impose
1. v. To establish or apply by authority.
Congress imposed new tariffs.
2. v. (intransitive) to be an inconvenience (on or upon)
I don't wish to impose upon you.
3. v. to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
Social relations impose courtesy
4. v. To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
5. v. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
6. v. To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
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.
constituting
1. v. present participle of constitute
constitute
1. v. To set up; to establish; to enact.
2. v. To make up; to compose; to form.
3. v. To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
4. n. (obsolete) An established law.
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.
physical
1. adj. Having to do with the body.
Are you feeling any physical effects?
2. adj. Having to do with the material world.
It's not so much a physical place as a state of mind.
3. adj. Involving bodily force.
This team plays a very physical game, so watch out.
4. adj. Having to do with physics.
The substance has a number of interesting physical properties.
5. adj. (computing) Not virtual; directly corresponding to hardware operation.
6. adj. (obsolete) Relating to physic, or medicine; medicinal; curative; also, cathartic; purgative.
7. n. Physical examination.
How long has it been since your last physical?
mental
1. adj. Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process.
2. adj. (colloquial, comparable) Insane, mad, crazy.
He is the most mental freshman I've seen yet.
He went mental on us.
3. adj. (colloquial, UK, comparable) Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way.
That was a mental party last night.
4. adj. (anatomy) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
the mental nerve; the mental region
5. adj. (biology) Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure.
6. n. (zoology) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
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.
figurative
1. adj. Metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs".
2. adj. Metaphorically so called.
3. adj. With many figures of speech.
4. adj. Emblematic; representative
load
1. n. A burden; a weight to be carried.
I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
2. n. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
3. n. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.
4. n. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
5. n. (often, in the colloquial) A large number or amount.
I got loads of presents for my birthday!
I got a load of emails about that.
6. n. The volume of work required to be performed.
Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?
7. n. (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.
8. n. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
9. n. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
10. n. (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
11. n. A unit of measure for various quantities.
12. n. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
13. n. The charge of powder for a firearm.
14. n. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
15. n. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
16. n. (euphemism) Nonsense; rubbish.
What a load!
17. n. (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load.
18. v. To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
The dock workers refused to load the ship.
19. v. To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.
He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.
20. v. (intransitive) To put a load on something.
The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.
21. v. (intransitive) To receive a load.
The truck is designed to load easily.
22. v. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
The containers load quickly and easily.
23. v. To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
24. v. To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting.
25. v. To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
26. v. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
The cartridge was designed to load easily.
27. v. (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
Click OK to load the selected data.
28. v. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
This program takes an age to load.
29. v. (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
He walks to load the bases.
30. v. To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.
The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.
31. v. To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
32. v. To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
The new owners had loaded the company with debt.
The new owners loaded debt on the company.
33. v. To provide in abundance.
He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
34. v. To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead.
35. v. (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
to load wine
36. v. (transitive, archaic) To magnetize.
which
1. det. (interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied.
Which song made the charts?
2. det. (relative) The one or ones that.
Show me which one is bigger.
They couldn't decide which song to play.
3. det. (relative) The one or ones mentioned.
He once owned a painting of the house, which painting would later be stolen.
For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived.
I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one.
4. pron. (interrogative) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied).
Which is bigger?; Which is which?
5. pron. (relative) Who; whom; what (of those mentioned or implied).
He walked by a door with a sign, which read: PRIVATE OFFICE.
We've met some problems which are very difficult to handle.
He had to leave, which was very difficult.
No art can be properly understood apart from the culture of which it is a part.
6. pron. (relative, archaic) Used of people (now generally who, whom or that).
7. n. An occurrence of the word which.
can
1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
She can speak English, French, and German. I can play football. Can you remember your fifth birthday?
2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework. Can I use your pen?
3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
Can it be Friday already?
Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.
Animals can experience emotions.
4. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
Can you hear that?.
I can feel the baby moving inside me.
5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
6. n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
7. n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
8. n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
9. n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.
Shit or get off the can.
Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
10. n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
11. n. (slang) Jail or prison.
Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years.
12. n. (slang) Headphones.
13. n. (archaic) A drinking cup.
14. n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
15. n. A chimney pot.
16. v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
17. v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
18. v. To shut up.
Can your gob.
19. v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
The boss canned him for speaking out.
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
borne
1. adj. carried, supported.
2. v. past participle of bear
bear
1. n. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae.
2. n. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
3. n. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
4. n. (slang) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
5. n. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
6. n. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
7. n. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
8. n. (cartomancy) The fifteenth Lenormand card.
9. v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
to bear a railroad stock
to bear the market
10. adj. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall.
The great bear market starting in 1929 scared a whole generation of investors.
11. v. To support or sustain; to hold up.
This stone bears most of the weight.
12. v. To carry something.
13. v. To be equipped with (something).
the right to bear arms
14. v. To wear or display.
The shield bore a red cross.
15. v. (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
The jury could see he was bearing false witness.
16. v. To put up with something.
I would never move to Texas—I can't bear heat.
Please bear with me as I try to find the book you need.
17. v. To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).
In Troy she becomes Paris’ wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy.
18. v. To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
19. v. (intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
The harbour bears north by northeast.
By my readings, we're bearing due south, so we should turn about ten degrees east.
Great Falls bears north of Bozeman.
We are bearing toward the north side of the island.
20. v. (intransitive) To veer slightly in one direction (left or right, usually at a fork in the road)
21. v. (intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
22. v. (intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
23. v. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
24. v. (intransitive military, usually with on or upon) Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
25. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
to bring arguments to bear
How does this bear on the question?
26. v. To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
27. v. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
28. v. To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
29. v. To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
30. v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
31. v. To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
32. v. To carry on, or maintain; to have.
33. v. To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
34. v. (reflexive, transitive) To behave or conduct (oneself).
35. v. To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
36. n. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
That window can be a bear to open.
37. n. alternative spelling of bere barley.
only
1. adj. Alone in a category.
He is the only doctor for miles.
The only people in the stadium were the fans: no players, coaches, or officials.
That was the only time I went to Turkey.
2. adj. Singularly superior; the best.
He is the only trombonist to recruit.
3. adj. Without sibling; without a sibling of the same gender.
He is their only son, in fact, an only child.
4. adj. (obsolete) Mere.
5. adv. Without others or anything further; exclusively.
My heart is hers, and hers only. The cat sat only on the mat. It kept off the sofa.
6. adv. No more than; just.
The cat only sat on the mat. It didn't scratch it. If there were only one more ticket!
7. adv. As recently as.
He left only moments ago.
8. adv. (obsolete) Above all others; particularly.
9. conj. Under the condition that; but.
10. conj. But; except.
I would enjoy running, only I have this broken leg.
11. n. An only child.
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
11. adv. -->
12. n. alternative form of withe
effort
1. n. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
It took a lot of effort to find a decent-sized, fully-furnished apartment within walking distance of the office. He made a conscious effort to not appear affected by the stories in
2. n. An endeavour.
Although he didn't win any medals, Johnson's effort at the Olympics won over many fans.
3. n. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
4. v. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
5. v. (obsolete, transitive) To stimulate.

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