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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. | |
| football |
| 1. n. (general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team. | |
| Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football. | |
| 2. n. Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, A | |
| Each team scored three goals when they played football. | |
| 3. n. (US) American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory. | |
| Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football. | |
| 4. n. (Canada) Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory. | |
| They played football in the snow. | |
| 5. n. (Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory) Australian rules football. | |
| 6. n. (Ireland) Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball. | |
| 7. n. (Australia, New South Wales, Queensland) rugby league. | |
| 8. n. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) rugby union. | |
| 9. n. The ball used in any game called "football". | |
| The player kicked the football. | |
| 10. n. Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them. | |
| 11. n. (figuratively) An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner | |
| That budget item became a political football. | |
| 12. n. (slang) The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President. | |
| season |
| 1. n. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter | |
| 2. n. A part of a year when something particular happens | |
| mating season | |
| the rainy season | |
| the football season | |
| 3. n. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning. | |
| 4. n. (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played. | |
| 5. n. (North America, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of e | |
| The third season of “Friends” aired from 1996 to 1997. | |
| 6. n. (archaic) An extended, undefined period of time. | |
| 7. v. To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt. | |
| 8. v. To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure | |
| to season oneself to a climate | |
| 9. v. Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices | |
| The timber needs to be seasoned. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance | |
| The wood has seasoned in the sun. | |
| 12. v. (obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate. | |
