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to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
release
1. n. The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
2. n. (software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.
3. n. Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
The video store advertised that it had all the latest releases.
4. n. That which is released, untied or let go.
They marked the occasion with a release of butterflies.
5. n. The giving up of a claim.
6. n. Liberation from pain or suffering.
7. n. (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
8. n. (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
9. n. (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
10. n. A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.
11. n. A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
12. n. The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
13. v. To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
He released his grasp on the lever.
14. v. To make available to the public.
They released the new product later than intended.
15. v. To free or liberate; to set free.
He was released after two years in prison.
16. v. To discharge.
They released thousands of gallons of water into the river each month.
17. v. (telephone) (of a call) To hang up.
If you continue to use abusive language, I will need to release the call.
18. v. (legal) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder r
19. v. To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
to release an ordinance
20. v. (soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
21. v. (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
22. v. To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
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.
product
1. n. A commodity offered for sale.
That store offers a variety of products. We've got to sell a lot of product by the end of the month.
2. n. (cosmetics) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
Wash excess product out of your hair.
3. n. Anything that is produced; a result.
The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
4. n. The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production.
5. n. A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
Skill is the product of hours of practice. His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue.
6. n. (chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
This is a product of lime and nitric acid.
7. n. (arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
The product of 2 and 3 is 6. The product of 2, 3, and 4 is 24.
8. n. (mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of ty
9. n. Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
10. n. (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
I got some product here – you buying?
especially
1. adv. (manner) In a special manner; specially.
2. adv. (focus) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal.
3. adv. (focus) Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something.
Invite them all, especially Molly.
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.
computer
1. n. (now rare, chiefly historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
2. n. (by restriction, chiefly historical) A male computer, where the female computer is called a computress.
3. n. A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially
program
1. n. A set of structured activities.
Our program for today’s exercise class includes swimming and jogging.
2. n. A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
The program consisted of ads for restaurants and the credits of everyone connected with the play.
3. n. (broadcasting) A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
Tonight’s program was hosted by Johnny Carson.
4. n. (computing) A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task.
The program runs on both Linux and Microsoft Windows.
5. n. (especially, in the phrase "get with the program") A particular mindset or method of doing things.
6. v. To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.
He programmed the DVR to record his favorite show.
7. v. To develop (software) by writing program code.
I programmed a small game as a demonstration.
8. v. To put together the schedule of an event.
Mary will program Tuesday’s festivities.
9. v. To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.
The lab rat was programmed to press the lever when the bell rang.
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
reduced
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of reduce
2. adj. Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
the reduced prices in a summer sale
3. adj. Discounted in price.
the reduced goods at the sale
4. adj. (cookery) Of a sauce etc.: made more concentrated.
The chicken was served in a reduced red wine sauce.
reduce
1. v. To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
2. v. (intransitive) To lose weight.
3. v. To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
4. v. To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
to reduce a province or a fort
5. v. To bring to an inferior state or condition.
to reduce a city to ashes
6. v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
7. v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
8. v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
9. v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
10. v. (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
11. v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
12. v. (transitive, legal) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").
It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
13. v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
14. v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).
a book reduced into English
functionality
1. n. The ability to perform a task or function; that set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.
2. n. (US, legal) In United States trademark law, the tendency of a product design to serve a function other than identification of the product, preventing that design from being protected as a trademark.
3. n. (organic chemistry) The presence of a functional group.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
some
1. pron. A certain number, at least one.
Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder.
2. pron. An indefinite quantity.
Can I have some of them?
3. pron. An indefinite amount, a part.
please give me some of the cake; everyone is wrong some of the time
4. det. A certain proportion of, at least one.
Some people like camping.
5. det. An unspecified quantity or number of.
Would you like some grapes?
6. det. An unspecified amount of (something un).
Would you like some water?
After some persuasion, he finally agreed.
7. det. A certain, an unspecified or unknown.
I've just met some guy who said he knew you.
The sequence S converges to zero for some initial value v.
8. det. A considerable quantity or number of; approximately.
He had edited the paper for some years.
9. det. (informal) A remarkable.
He is some acrobat!
10. adv. Of a measurement: approximately, roughly
I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos.
Some 30,000 spectators witnessed the feat.
Some 4,000 acres of land were flooded.
cases
1. n. plural of case
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of case
While the detective cases the joint, they'll get away.
case
1. n. An actual event, situation, or fact.
For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.
It is not the case that every unfamiliar phrase is an idiom.
In case of fire, break glass. sign on fire extinguisher holder in public space
2. n. (now rare) A given condition or state.
3. n. A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
It was one of the detective's easiest cases. Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases. The doctor told us of an interesting case he had treated that morning.
4. n. (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.
5. n. (legal) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
6. n. (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object. Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.
7. n. (grammar) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages. Latin is a language that employs case.
8. n. (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
There were another five cases reported overnight.
9. n. (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
10. v. (obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.
11. n. A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
12. n. A box, sheath, or covering generally.
a case for spectacles; the case of a watch
13. n. A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
14. n. An enclosing frame or casing.
a door case; a window case
15. n. A suitcase.
16. n. A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
17. n. The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
18. n. (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and
19. n. (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
20. n. (poker slang) Four of a kind.
21. n. (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
22. n. (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
23. n. A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
24. adj. (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
He drew the case eight!
25. v. To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
26. v. To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
27. v. (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
making
1. n. The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
2. n. Process of growth or development.
As a child he didn’t seem like a genius in the making.
3. v. present participle of make
make
1. v. To create.
2. v. To build, construct, or produce.
We made a bird feeder for our yard.
I'll make a man out of him yet.
3. v. To write or compose.
I made a poem for her wedding.
He made a will.
4. v. To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
make war
They were just a bunch of ne'er-do-wells who went around making trouble for honest men.
5. v. (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
God made earth and heaven.
6. v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
To make like a deer caught in the headlights.
They made nice together, as if their fight never happened.
He made as if to punch him, but they both laughed and shook hands.
7. v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
8. v. To constitute.
They make a cute couple.
This makes the third infraction.
One swallow does not a summer make.
9. v. 1995, Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work, p.46:
10. v. To add up to, have a sum of.
Two and four make six.
11. v. (intransitive, construed with of typically interrogative) To interpret.
I don’t know what to make of it.
12. v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
This company is what made you.
She married into wealth and so has it made.
13. v. (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
The citizens made their objections clear.
This might make you a bit woozy.
Did I make myself heard?
Scotch will make you a man.
14. v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
15. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
You're making her cry.
I was made to feel like a criminal.
16. v. (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
The teacher made the student study.
Don’t let them make you suffer.
17. v. (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
His past mistakes don’t make him a bad person.
18. v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
19. v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
20. v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
We should make Cincinnati by 7 tonight.
21. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
They made westward over the snowy mountains.
Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!
They made away from the fire toward the river.
22. v. To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
23. v. To move at (a speed).
The ship could make 20 knots an hour in calm seas.
This baby can make 220 miles an hour.
24. v. To appoint; to name.
25. v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
26. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
27. v. To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
They hope to make a bigger profit.
He didn't make the choir after his voice changed.
She made ten points in that game.
28. v. To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
29. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
30. v. To enact; to establish.
31. v. To develop into; to prove to be.
She'll make a fine president.
32. v. To form or formulate in the mind.
make plans
made a questionable decision
33. v. To perform a feat.
make a leap
make a pass
make a u-turn
34. v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.
35. v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
36. v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
37. v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
38. v. (transitive, euphemism) To take the virginity of.
39. v. To have sexual intercourse with.
40. n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
What make of car do you drive?
41. n. How a thing is made; construction.
42. n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
The camera was of German make.
43. n. Quantity produced, especially of materials.
44. n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
45. n. A person's character or disposition.
46. n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
47. n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
48. n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
49. n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
50. n. (slang) Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
51. n. (slang) A promotion.
52. n. A home-made project
53. n. (basketball) A made basket.
54. n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
55. n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.
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.
item
1. n. A distinct physical object.
Tweezers are great for manipulating small items.
2. n. , passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters (...). But the priciest items in the market aren'
3. n. (by extension, video games) An object that can be picked up for later use.
4. n. A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.
the items in a bill
In response to the first item, we deny all wrongdoing.
5. n. (psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.
The exam has 100 items, each of which includes a correct response and three distractors.
6. n. A matter for discussion in an agenda.
The first item for discussion is the budget for next year's picnic.
7. n. (informal) Two people who are having a relationship with each other.
Jack and Jill are an item.
8. n. A short article in a newspaper.
an item concerning the weather
9. n. (obsolete) A hint; an innuendo.
10. v. To make a note of.
11. adv. likewise
essentially
1. adv. in an essential manner; in essence
worthless
1. adj. Not having worth and use, without value, inconsequential.
Lies are as important as truth, for without lies, the truth is worthless.
The committee's decision is worthless and not going to be acted upon.
Don't be a worthless slouch! Go get yourself a job.

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