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he
1. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.
2. pron. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?
3. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown.
4. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
5. n. (informal) A male.
Alex totally is a he.
6. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
was
1. v. first-person singular past of be.
2. v. third-person singular past of be.
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
afraid
1. adj. (usually used predicatively, not attributively) Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
He is afraid of death.
He is afraid to die.
He is afraid that he will die.
2. adj. (colloquial) regretful, sorry
I am afraid I cannot help you in this matter.
that
1. conj. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
He told me that the book is a good read.
I believe that it is true. — She is convinced that he is British.
2. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
Be glad that you have enough to eat.
3. conj. (now uncommon) Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that.
4. conj. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect.
The noise was so loud that she woke up.
The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed.
5. conj. (archaic, or poetic) Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
6. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
Was John there? — Not that I saw.
How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw.
7. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.
8. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.
9. det. The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
That book is a good read. This one isn't.
That battle was in 1450.
That cat of yours is evil.
10. pron. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "t
He went home, and after that I never saw him again.
11. pron. The known (thing); (used to refer to something just said).
They're getting divorced. What do you think about that?
12. pron. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality; used together with a verb and pronoun to emphatically repeat a previous statement.
The water is so cold! — That it is.
13. pron. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; (representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition).
The CPR course that she took really came in handy.
The house that he lived in was old and dilapidated.
14. pron. (colloquial) (Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.)
the place that = where or to which I went last year
the last time that = when I went to Europe
15. adv. (degree) To a given extent or degree.
"The ribbon was that thin." "I disagree, I say it was not that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner...".
16. adv. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
I'm just not that sick.
I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult.
17. adv. (obsolete, outside, dialects) To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her.
18. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
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.
junkie
1. n. (slang) A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.
2. n. (by extension) An enthusiast of something.
English people are travel junkies, but Americans hardly ever leave their state.
My uncle is a classic car junkie.
might
1. n. Power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group.
2. n. Physical strength or force.
He pushed with all his might, but still it would not move.
3. adj. (obsolete) Mighty; powerful.
4. adj. (obsolete) Possible.
5. v. (auxiliary) Used to indicate conditional or possible actions.
I might go to the party, but I haven't decided yet.
6. v. (auxiliary) simple past tense of may Used to indicate permission in past tense.
He asked me if he might go to the party, but I haven't decided yet.
7. v. (auxiliary) simple past tense of may Used to indicate possibility in past tense.
I thought that I might go the next day.
8. v. Used to indicate a desired past action that was not done.
Hey man, you might have warned me about the thunderstorm
break
1. v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
If the vase falls to the floor, it might break.
In order to tend to the accident victim, he will break the window of the car.
2. v. (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
His ribs broke under the weight of the rocks piled on his chest.
She broke her neck.
He slipped on the ice and broke his leg.
3. v. To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
Can you break a hundred-dollar bill for me?
The wholesaler broke the container loads into palettes and boxes for local retailers.
4. v. To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
Her child's death broke Angela.
Interrogators have used many forms of torture to break prisoners of war.
The interrogator hoped to break her to get her testimony against her accomplices.
5. v. To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
You have to break an elephant before you can use it as an animal of burden.
6. v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
My heart is breaking.
7. v. To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
I've got to break this habit I have of biting my nails.
to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey
I had won four games in a row, but now you've broken my streak of luck.
8. v. To ruin financially.
The recession broke some small businesses.
9. v. To violate, to not adhere to.
When you go to Vancouver, promise me you won't break the law.
He broke his vows by cheating on his wife.
break one's word
Time travel would break the laws of physics.
10. v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, in terms of temperature.
Susan's fever broke at about 3 AM, and the doctor said the worst was over.
11. v. (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
The forecast says the hot weather will break by midweek.
12. v. (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to end.
We ran to find shelter before the storm broke.
Around midday the storm broke, and the afternoon was calm and sunny.
13. v. (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
Morning has broken.
The day broke crisp and clear.
14. v. (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
Changing the rules to let white have three extra queens would break chess.
I broke the RPG by training every member of my party to cast fireballs as well as use swords.
15. v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
On the hottest day of the year the refrigerator broke.
Did you two break the trolley by racing with it?
16. v. (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
Adding 64-bit support broke backward compatibility with earlier versions.
17. v. To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
break a seal
18. v. (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
19. v. (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination or the like.
20. v. To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
The cavalry were not able to break the British squares.
21. v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
22. v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
Let's break for lunch.
23. v. To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
He survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall.
24. v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
The newsman wanted to break a big story, something that would make him famous.
I don't know how to break this to you, but your cat is not coming back.
In the latest breaking news...
When news of their divorce broke, ...
25. v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
26. v. To change a steady state abruptly.
His coughing broke the silence.
His turning on the lights broke the enchantment.
With the mood broken, what we had been doing seemed pretty silly.
27. v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
Things began breaking bad for him when his parents died.
The arrest was standard, when suddenly the suspect broke ugly.
28. v. (intransitive) Of a male voice, to become deeper at puberty.
29. v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down; to crack.
His voice breaks when he gets emotional.
30. v. To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
He broke the men's 100-meter record.
I can't believe she broke 3 under par!
The policeman broke sixty on a residential street in his hurry to catch the thief.
31. v. (sports):
32. v. (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
He needs to break serve to win the match.
33. v. (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
Is it your or my turn to break?
34. v. (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
35. v. (transitive military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
36. v. To end (a connection), to disconnect.
The referee ordered the boxers to break the clinch.
The referee broke the boxers' clinch.
I couldn't hear a thing he was saying, so I broke the connection and called him back.
37. v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
38. v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack
39. v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
40. v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
41. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
42. v. To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
to break flax
43. v. To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
44. v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
to break into a run or gallop
45. v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
into
1. prep. Going inside (of).
Mary danced into the house.
2. prep. Going to a geographic region.
We left the house and walked into the street.
The plane flew into the open air.
3. prep. Against, especially with force or violence.
The car crashed into the tree; I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall
4. prep. Producing, becoming; (indicates transition into another form or substance).
I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale. Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
5. prep. After the start of.
About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
6. prep. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
She's really into Shakespeare right now; I'm so into you!
7. prep. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself.
8. prep. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.(R:OED Online)
Five into three is fifteen.
9. prep. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
Three into two won't go.
24 goes into 48 how many times?
10. prep. Investigating the subject (of).
Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees.
His
1. pron. honoraltcaps, his
2. det. Belonging to him.
3. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
4. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
5. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.
Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark.
Sejanus his Fall
6. pron. That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
The decision was his to live with.
7. pron. alternative spelling of His
8. n. plural of hi
office
1. n. (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
2. n. (Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
3. n. (particularly) Mass, label, en, particularly the introit sung at its beginning.
4. n. (Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
5. n. (Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.
6. n. (Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
In the Latin rite, all bishops, priests, and transitional deacons are obliged to recite the Divine Office daily.
7. n. (Protestant) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
8. n. (Christianity) Last rites.
9. n. A position of responsibility.
When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department.
10. n. Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
She held office as secretary of state until she left office to run for office.
11. n. (figuratively) An official or group of officials; label, en, figuratively a personification of officeholders.
12. n. A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role;(obsolete) moral duty.
13. n. (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
14. n. (archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
15. n. (particularly) A bodily function, label, en, particularly urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
16. n. (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
The secretary prevailed at the negotiations through the good offices of the Freedonian ambassador.
17. n. (figuratively) Inside information.
18. n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:
The office of the Secretary of State is cleaned when it is vacant.
19. n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
20. n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
21. n. (chiefly) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
22. n. (figuratively) The staff of such places.
The whole office was there... well, except you, of course.
23. n. (figuratively) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
He's from our public relations office.
24. n. (UK) A ministry or other department of government.
The secretary of state's British colleague heads the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
25. n. (Catholicism) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
26. n. A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
He worked as the receptionist at the Akron office.
27. n. (now in the dated) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly(euphemism) a house or estate's facilities for urina
28. n. (UK) clipping of, inquest of office, : an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property.
29. n. (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
30. n. (figuratively) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
31. n. (UK) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
32. n. (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
33. v. To provide (someone) with an office.
34. v. (intransitive) To have an office.

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