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hardy
1. adj. Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.
2. adj. Brave and resolute.
3. n. (usually plural) Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
4. n. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
likes
1. n. plural of like
They'd never before seen the likes of them.
They'd never before seen the likes of him.
I'd never seen their likes.
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of like
like
1. v. (transitive, archaic) To please.
2. v. To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
I like hamburgers
I like skiing in winter
I like the Seattle Mariners this season
3. v. (obsolete) To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something.
4. v. To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
I like to go to the dentist every six months
She likes to keep herself physically fit
we like to keep one around the office just in case
5. v. (obsolete) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).
6. v. (archaic) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.
He liked to have been too late.
7. v. To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
I really like Sandra but don't know how to tell her.
8. v. (obsolete) To liken; to compare.
9. v. (Internet, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
I liked my friend's last status on Facebook.
I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition.
10. n. (usually plural) Something that a person likes (prefers).
Tell me your likes and dislikes.
11. n. (internet) An individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet.
12. adj. Similar.
My partner and I have like minds.
13. adj. (obsolete) Likely; probable.
14. adv. (informal) For example, such as: to introduce an example or list of examples.
There are lots of birds, like ducks and gulls, in this park.
15. adv. (archaic, colloquial) Likely.
16. adv. (obsolete) In a like or similar manner.
17. n. (sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.
There were bowls full of sweets, chocolates and the like.
It was something the likes of which I had never seen before.
18. n. (golf) The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
to play the like
19. conj. (colloquial) As, the way.
20. conj. As if; as though.
It looks like you've finished the project.
It seemed like you didn't care.
21. prep. Similar to, reminiscent of.
These hamburgers taste like leather.
22. part. (colloquial, Scotland, Geordie, Teesside, Scouse) A delayed filler.
He was so angry, like.
23. part. (colloquial) A mild intensifier.
She was, like, sooooo happy.
24. part. (colloquial) indicating approximation or uncertainty
There were, like, twenty of them.
And then he, like, got all angry and left the room.
25. part. (colloquial, slang) When preceded by any form of the verb to be, used to mean “to say” or “to think”; used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase.
I was like, “Why did you do that?” and he's like, “I don't know.”
26. interj. (Liverpool, Geordie) Used to place emphasis upon a statement.
divint ye knaa, like?
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
raise
1. v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
to raise your hand if you want to say something; to raise your walking stick to defend yourself
2. v. To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
to raise a wall, or a heap of stones
3. v. To cause something to come to the surface of the sea.
The ship was raised ten years after it had sunk.
4. v. (nautical) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
to raise Sandy Hook light
5. v. (figurative) To cause (a dead person) to live again, to cause to be undead.
The magic spell raised the dead from their graves!
6. v. (military) To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersin
7. v. To create, increase or develop.
We need to raise the motivation level in the company.
to raise the quality of the products; to raise the price of goods
8. v. To collect.
to raise a lot of money for charity; to raise troops
9. v. To bring up; to grow; to promote.
We visited a farm where they raise chickens.
Chew with your mouth shut — were you raised in a barn?
to raise somebody to office
10. v. To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
A few important questions were raised after the attack.
11. v. (legal) To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
There should be some consideration (i.e., payment or exchange) to raise a use.
12. v. To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
13. v. To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
Despite all the call congestion, she was eventually able to raise the police.
14. v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
John bet, and Julie raised, requiring John to put in more money.
15. v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
Two raised to the fifth power equals 32.
16. v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
17. v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
18. v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
19. v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
A division by zero will raise an exception.
20. n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
The boss gave me a raise.
21. n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
22. n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
23. n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
24. n. A cairn or pile of stones.
hopes
1. n. plural of hope
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of hope
hope
1. n. (lb or un) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
I still have some hope that I can get to work on time.
After losing my job, there's no hope of being able to afford my world cruise.
There is still hope that we can find our missing cat.
2. n. The actual thing wished for.
3. n. A person or thing that is a source of hope.
We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.
4. n. (Christianity) The virtuous desire for future good.
5. v. (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
I hope everyone enjoyed the meal.
I am still hoping that all will turn out well.
6. v. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
7. v. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
8. v. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
I hope you all the best.
9. n. (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb.
10. n. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
11. n. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
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.
order
1. n. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
2. n. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
3. n. The state of being well arranged.
The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
4. n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
to preserve order in a community or an assembly
5. n. A command.
6. n. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
7. n. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles
St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.
8. n. An association of knights
the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
9. n. any group of people with common interests.
10. n. A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
11. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.
12. n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
the higher or lower orders of society
talent of a high order
13. n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.
to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry
14. n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic featu
15. n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
16. n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter.
17. n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
18. n. (set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.
19. n. (group theory, of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the id
20. n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
21. n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
22. n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
23. n. (algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
A quadratic polynomial,a x^2 + b x +c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2.
24. v. To set in some sort of order.
25. v. To arrange, set in proper order.
26. v. To issue a command to.
to order troops to advance
He ordered me to leave.
27. v. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
to order groceries
28. v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
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
dash
1. n. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
2. n. (colloquial) Also used to refer to a hyphen or minus sign.
3. n. (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
4. n. A short run, flight.
When the feds came they did the dash.
5. n. Violent strike, whack
6. n. A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
Add a dash of vinegar
7. n. Vigor.
Aren't we full of dash this morning?
8. n. A dashboard.
9. n. (Nigeria, and Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift
10. n. (dated, euphemistic) (A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.))
11. v. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
He dashed across the field.
12. v. (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
I have to dash now. See you soon.
13. v. To destroy by striking (against).
He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
14. v. To throw violently.
The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
15. v. To sprinkle; to splatter.
16. v. (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
17. v. To dishearten; to sadden.
Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
18. v. To complete hastily, usually with down or off.
He dashed down his eggs, she dashed off her homework
19. v. To draw quickly; jot.
20. v. To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there.
to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture
21. interj. (euphemistic) Damn!
them
1. pron. Objective case of they: third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb.
Give it to them. (after preposition)
She wrote them a letter. (indirect object)
She treated them for a cold. (direct object)
2. pron. Objective case of they: third-person singular pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb.
If someone comes and asks for the ticket, just give it to them. (after preposition)
If one of my patients calls, please bring them their dinner. (indirect object)
If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them. (direct object)
3. det. (dialectal) Those.
Them kids need to grow up.

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