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at
     1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.
           Caesar was at Rome;  at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine;  at Jim’s house
     2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.)
           at six o’clock;  at closing time;  at night.
     3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).
           He threw the ball at me.  He shouted at her.
     4. prep. Denotes a price.
           3 apples at 2¢ (each)   The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.
     5. prep. Occupied in (activity).
           men at work
     6. prep. In a state of.
           She is at sixes and sevens with him.  They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff.  The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.
     7. prep. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
           Sell at 90.  Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders.  I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost.
     8. prep. Because of.
           to laugh at a joke   mad at their comments
     9. prep. Indicates a means, method, or manner.
     10. prep. Holding a given speed or rate.
           It is growing at the rate of 3% a year.  Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.
     11. prep. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.
           The twins were both bad at chemistry.
           He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.
     12. prep. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
     13. n. The at sign (@).
     14. n. (alt form, att) (Laos currency unit)
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.
same
     1. adj. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
           Are you the same person who phoned me yesterday?
           I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force.
           Even if the twins are identical, they are still not the same person, unlike Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens.
           Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went.
     2. adj. Similar, alike.
           You have the same hair I do!
     3. adj. Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
           Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day.
           We were all going in the same direction.
     4. adj. A reply of confirmation of identity.
     5. pron. The identical thing, ditto.
           The same can be said of him.
           It's the same everywhere.
     6. pron. Something similar, something of the identical type.
           She's having apple pie? I'll have the same.   You two are just the same.
     7. pron. (formal, often, legal) It or them, without a connotation of similarity.
           The question is his credibility or lack of same.
     8. pron. (Indian English, common) It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same, for the same.
           My picture/photography blog...kindly give me your reviews on the same.
     9. interj. (Internet slang) Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material.
     10. adv. (obsolete, or UK dialectal) Together.
time
     1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
           Time stops for nobody.   the ebb and flow of time
     2. n.          (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
                   Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.
     3. n.          (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
                   Time slows down when you approach the speed of light.
     4. n.          (physics, reductionistic definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
                   An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.
     5. n. A duration of time.
     6. n.          A quantity of availability of duration.
                   More time is needed to complete the project.   You had plenty of time, but you waited until the last minute.   Are you finish
     7. n.          A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
                   a long time;  Record the individual times for the processes in each batch.   Only your best time is compared with the other compet
     8. n.          (slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
                   The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard time.   He is not living at home because he is doing time.
     9. n.          An experience.
                   We had a wonderful time at the party.
     10. n.          An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
                   Roman times;  the time of the dinosaurs
     11. n.          (with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
                   In my time, we respected our elders.
     12. n.          (only in singular, sports) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
     13. n. An instant of time.
     14. n.          How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
                   Excuse me, have you got the time?   What time is it, do you guess? Ten o’clock?   A computer keeps time using a clock battery
     15. n.          A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
                   it’s time for bed;  it’s time to sleep;  we must wait for the right time;  it's time we were going
     16. n.          A numerical indication of a particular moment.
                   at what times do the trains arrive?;  these times were erroneously converted between zones
     17. n.          An instance or occurrence.
                   When was the last time we went out? I don’t remember.
                   see you another time;  that’s three times he’s made the same mistake
                   Okay, but this is the last time. No more after that!
     18. n.          (of pubs) Closing time.
                   Last call: it's almost time.
     19. n.          The hour of childbirth.
     20. n.          (as someone's time) The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
                    It was his time.
     21. n. The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
           Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different time.
     22. n. Ratio of comparison.
           your car runs three times faster than mine;  that is four times as heavy as this
     23. n. (grammar, dated) Tense.
           the time of a verb
     24. n. (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
           common or triple time;   the musician keeps good time.
     25. v. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
           I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.
     26. v. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
           The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
           The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
     27. v. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
     28. v. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
     29. v. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
     30. v. To measure, as in music or harmony.
     31. interj. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
it
     1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals.
           Put it over there.
           Take each day as it comes.
           I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today.
     2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender.
           She took the baby and held it in her arms.
     3. pron. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
           It's me. John.
           Is it her?
     4. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)
           It is nearly 10 o’clock.
           It’s 10:45 read ten-forty-five.
           It’s very cold today.
           It’s lonely without you.
     5. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms.
           stick it out
           live it up
           rough it
     6. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject i
           It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
           I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
           It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing)
           He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
           It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if)
     7. pron. All or the end; something after which there is no more.
           Are there more students in this class, or is this it?
           That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.
     8. pron. (chiefly pejorative, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male.
     9. pron. (obsolete) (Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun): That which; what.
     10. det. (obsolete) its
     11. n. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
     12. n. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
           In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…
     13. n. (British) The game of tag.
           Let's play it at breaktime.
     14. n. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty.
     15. n. (euphemism) Sexual activity.
           caught them doing it
     16. adj. (colloquial) Most fashionable.
shares
     1. n. plural of share
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of share
     share
          1. n. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
          2. n. (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
          3. n. (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
                Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.
          4. n. (internet) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
          5. n. The sharebone or pubis.
          6. v. To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
          7. v. To have or use in common.
                to share a shelter with another;  They share a language.
          8. v. To divide and distribute.
          9. v. To tell to another.
                He shared his story with the press.
          10. n. (agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
          11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
          12. v. cln, en, basic words, terms with multiple etymologies
No
     1. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
     2. n. Alternative form of No.
     3. n. Alternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama.
     4. det. Not any.
           no one
           There is no water left.
           No hot dogs were sold yesterday.
           No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.
           There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.)
     5. det. Hardly any.
           We'll be finished in no time at all.
     6. det. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
           No smoking
           There's no stopping her once she gets going.
     7. det. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
           My mother's no fool.
           Working nine to five every day is no life.
     8. adv. (now only used with comparatives, except in Scotland) Not, not at all.
           It is a different kind of torture, but no less gruesome.
           I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.
     9. part. Used to show disagreement or negation.
           No, you are mistaken.
           No, you may not watch television now.
     10. part. Used to show agreement with a negative question.
           "Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")
     11. part. (colloquial) As if to say, "No, don’t doubt this!", or to deny an imagined contradictory statement, used to show intense agreement
           No, totally.
           No, yeah, that's exactly right.
           "Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!".
           No, yeah
     12. n. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval.
     13. n. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.
           The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".
     14. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
     15. n. Alternative form of No.
body
     1. n. Physical frame.
     2. n.          The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
                    I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
     3. n.          The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
                    The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
     4. n.          A corpse.
                    Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
     5. n.          (archaic, or informal except in compounds) A person.
                    What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
     6. n. Main section.
     7. n.          The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
                    The boxer took a blow to the body.
     8. n.          The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
                    The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
     9. n.          (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
                    Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
     10. n.          The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
     11. n.          (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
                    In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
     12. n. Coherent group.
     13. n.          A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
                    I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
     14. n.          An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
                    The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
     15. n.          A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
                    We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
     16. n. Material entity.
     17. n.          Any physical object or material thing.
                    All bodies are held together by internal forces.
     18. n.          Substance; physical presence.
                    We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
     19. n.          Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
                    The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
     20. n.          An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise un.
                    The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
     21. n. (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
           a nonpareil face on an agate body
     22. n. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
     23. v. To give body or shape to something.
     24. v. To construct the bodywork of a car.
     25. v. To embody.
     26. v. (transitive, slang) To murder someone.
     27. v. (transitive, slang) To utterly defeat someone.
     28. v. (transitive, slang) to hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.
panels
     1. n. plural of panel
     panel
          1. n. A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
                Behind the picture was a panel on the wall.
          2. n.          (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
          3. n. A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
                Today's panel includes John Smith.
          4. n. An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
                The last panel of a comic strip usually contains a punchline.
          5. n. (legal) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury.
          6. n. (legal, Scotland) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
          7. n. (obsolete) A piece of cloth serving as a saddle.
          8. n. A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
          9. n. (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
                the panel of a door
          10. n. (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
          11. n. (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
          12. n. (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
          13. n. (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
          14. n. (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
          15. n. A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
          16. n. (historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
          17. v. To fit with panels.
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
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.
bigger
     1. adj. comparative form of big: more big
     2. v. (nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.
car
     1. n. A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation; a motorcar or automobile.
           She drove her car to the mall.
     2. n. (dated) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot.
     3. n.          (Birmingham) A four-wheeled cab, as opposed to a (two-wheeled) Hansom cab.
     4. n. (rail transport, chiefly North America) An unpowered unit in a railroad train.
           The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.
     5. n. (rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.
           The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit.
     6. n. (rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.
           From the frontmost car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel.
     7. n. A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.
           We ordered five hundred cars of gypsum.
     8. n. The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.
           Fix the car of the express elevator - the door is sticking.
     9. n. The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.
           The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top.
     10. n. The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.
     11. n. (sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
     12. n. (US, slang) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.
           Buy now! You can get more car for your money.
     13. n. (US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
     14. n. (obsolete) A turn.
     15. n. (computing) The first part of a cons in LISP. The first element of a list
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