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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.
united
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of unite
     2. adj. Joined into a single entity.
     3. adj. Involving the joint activity of multiple agents.
     unite
          1. v. To bring together as one.
                The new government will try to unite the various factions.
                I hope this song can unite people from all different cultures.
          2. v. (reciprocal) To come together as one.
                If we want to win, we will need to unite.
          3. n. (historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, first produced during the reign of King James I, and bearing a legend indicating the king's intention of uniting the kingdoms of England and Scotla
States
     1. n. plural of State
     2. n. plural of state
     3. v. third-person singular present indicative of state
     state
          1. n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
                a state of being;   a state of emergency
          2. n.          (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
          3. n.          (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
                        In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.
          4. n.          (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
                        The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.
          5. n.          (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
                        A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.
          6. n.          (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
          7. n.          (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating
          8. n. High social standing or circumstance.
          9. n.          Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
                        The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.
          10. n.          Rank; condition; quality.
          11. n.          Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
          12. n.          A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
          13. n.          (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
          14. n.          (obsolete) Estate, possession.
          15. n. A polity.
          16. n.          Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
          17. n.          A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States or Germany; (by extension, informal, US) any provi
          18. n.          (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.
          19. n.          (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
          20. n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
          21. v. To declare to be a fact.
                He stated that he was willing to help.
          22. v. To make known.
                State your intentions.
          23. adj. (obsolete) stately
digest
     1. v. To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
           to digest laws
     2. v. To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blo
     3. v. To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
     4. v. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
     5. v. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
     6. v. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
           I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.
     7. v. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
     8. v. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
     9. v. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
     10. v. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)
     11. n. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
     12. n. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
           Comyn's Digest
           the United States Digest
     13. n. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
           Reader's Digest is published monthly.
           The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.
     14. n. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.
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