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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. | |