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does
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of do
2. n. plural of doe
do
1. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker
2. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
Do you go there often?
3. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
I do not go there often.
Do not listen to him.
4. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
But I do go sometimes.
Do tell us.
It is important that he do come see me.
5. v. (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; not generally used with auxiliari
I play tennis; she does too.
# They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
6. v. To perform; to execute.
All you ever do is surf the Internet. What will you do this afternoon?
7. v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
8. v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do; this will do me, thanks.
9. v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.
10. v. To have (as an effect).
The fresh air did him some good.
11. v. (intransitive) To fare, perform (well or poorly).
Our relationship isn't doing very well; how do you do?
12. v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
What does Bob do? — He's a plumber.
13. v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something)
"Don't forget to do your report" means something quite different depending on whether you're a student or a programmer.
14. v. To cook.
I'll just do some eggs.
15. v. To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
Let’s do New York also.
16. v. To treat in a certain way.
17. v. To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
19. v. (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
I did five years for armed robbery.
20. v. To impersonate or depict.
They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.
21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
22. v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
23. v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
He got done for speeding.
Teacher'll do you for that!
24. v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)
25. v. To cheat or swindle.
That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!
26. v. To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
the novel has just been done into English; I'm going to do this play into a movie
27. v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
Aren't you done yet?
28. v. (dated) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
29. v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
30. v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
31. v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
Do they do haircuts there?
Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
32. v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
33. v. To take drugs.
I do cocaine.
34. v. (transitive, in the form be doing somewhere) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
What's that car doing in our swimming pool? -
35. n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
36. n. (informal) A hairdo.
Nice do!
37. n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
38. n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
39. n. (archaic) Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
40. n. (obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
41. n. (obsolete, UK, slang) An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
42. n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
43. adv. (rare) (abbreviation of ditto)
My
1. n. megayear
2. pron. alternative case form of my often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.
3. det. First-person singular possessive determiner. See.
4. det. Belonging to me.
I can't find my book.
5. det. Associated with me.
My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable.
Don't you know my name?
I recognised him because he had attended my school.
6. det. Related to me.
My parents won't let me go out tonight.
7. det. In the possession of me.
I have to take my books back to the library soon.
8. interj. Used to express surprise, shock or amazement.
My, what big teeth you have!
Camel
1. n. A cigarette of a popular American brand.
2. n. topics, en, Rivers in England
3. n. A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.
4. n. A light brownish color, like that of a camel.
(color panel, C19A6B)
5. n. Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of another vessel, and then emptied to reduce the draught of the ship in the middle.
6. adj. Of a light brown color like that of a camel.
look
1. v. (intransitive, often, with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
Look at my new car! Don’t look in the closet.
2. v. To appear, to seem.
It looks as if it’s going to rain soon.
3. v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
That painting looks nice.
4. v. (intransitive, often, with "for") To search for, to try to find.
5. v. To face or present a view.
The hotel looks over the valleys of the HinduKush.
6. v. To expect or anticipate.
I look to each hour for my lover’s arrival.
7. v. To express or manifest by a look.
8. v. (transitive, often, with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
9. v. (dated, sometimes figurative) To show oneself in looking.
Look out of the window i.e. lean out while I speak to you.
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
12. v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
to look down opposition
13. v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
The fastball caught him looking.
Clem Labine struck Mays out looking at his last at bat.
It's unusual for Mays to strike out looking. He usually takes a cut at it.
14. interj. Pay attention.
Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely.
15. n. The action of looking; an attempt to see.
Let’s have a look under the hood of the car.
16. n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
She got her mother’s looks.
I don’t like the look of the new design.
17. n. A facial expression.
He gave me a dirty look.
If looks could kill ...
all
1. adv. (degree) intensifier.
It suddenly went all quiet.
She was all, “Whatever.”
2. adv. (poetic) Entirely.
3. adv. Apiece; each.
The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
4. adv. (degree) So much.
Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
5. adv. (obsolete, poetic) even; just
6. det. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or un).
All contestants must register at the scorer’s table. All flesh is originally grass. All my friends like classical music.
7. det. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
The store is open all day and all night. (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
I’ve been working on this all year. (= from the beginning of the year until now.)
8. det. (obsolete) Any.
9. det. Only; alone; nothing but.
He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice.
10. pron. Everything.
some gave all they had; she knows all and sees all; Those who think they know it all are annoying to those of us who do.
11. pron. Everyone.
A good time was had by all.
12. n. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of.
She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.
13. n. The totality of one's possessions.
14. conj. (obsolete) although
15. adj. (dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead.
The butter is all.
right
1. adj. (archaic) Straight, not bent.
a right line
2. adj. (geometry) Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall.
3. adj. (geometry) Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.
a right triangle, a right prism, a right cone
4. adj. Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.
I thought you'd made a mistake, but it seems you were right all along.
It's not right that one person gets all the credit for the group's work.
5. adj. Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
Is this the right software for my computer?
6. adj. Healthy, sane, competent.
I'm afraid my father is no longer in his right mind.
7. adj. Real; veritable (used emphatically).
You've made a right mess of the kitchen!
8. adj. (Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
9. adj. (dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
10. adj. Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points to the right: →
After the accident, her right leg was slightly shorter than her left.
11. adj. Designed to be placed or worn outward.
the right side of a piece of cloth
12. adj. (politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
13. adv. On the right side.
14. adv. Towards the right side.
15. adv. Exactly, precisely.
The arrow landed right in the middle of the target.
Luckily we arrived right at the start of the film.
16. adv. Immediately, directly.
Can't you see it? It's right beside you!
Tom was standing right in front of the TV, blocking everyone's view.
17. adv. (UK, US, dialect) Very, extremely, quite.
I made a right stupid mistake there, didn't I?
I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much.
18. adv. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
19. adv. In a correct manner.
Do it right or don't do it at all.
20. adv. (dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.
Sir, I am right glad to meet you …
Members of the Queen's Privy Council are styled The Right Honourable for life.
The Right Reverend Monsignor Guido Sarducci.
21. interj. Yes, that is correct; I agree.
22. interj. I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion.
23. interj. Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
- After that interview, I don't think we should hire her.- Right — who wants lunch?
24. interj. Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance.
You're going, right?
25. interj. Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
26. n. That which complies with justice, law or reason.
We're on the side of right in this contest.
27. n. A legal, just or moral entitlement.
You have no right to go through my personal diary.
see also in right of
28. n. The right side or direction.
The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.
29. n. The right hand.
30. n. (politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
The political right holds too much power.
31. n. The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
32. v. To correct.
Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible.
33. v. To set upright.
The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.
34. v. (intransitive) To return to normal upright position.
When the wind died down, the ship righted.
35. v. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
to right the oppressed
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
you
1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
Both of you should get ready now.
You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to.
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis.
You idiot!
9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal.

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