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I
1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
(audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio)
2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.
3. n. (metaphysics) The ego.
4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate.
5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case)
6. pron. nonstandard spelling of I
think
1. v. To ponder, to go over in one's head.
Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be.
2. v. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.
3. v. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
I tend to think of her as rather ugly.
4. v. To be of the opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
At the time I thought his adamant refusal to give in right.
I hope you won’t think me stupid if I ask you what that means.
I think she is pretty, contrary to most people.
5. v. To guess; to reckon.
I think she’ll pass the examination.
6. v. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
7. v. To presume; to venture.
8. n. (chiefly UK) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
I'll have a think about that and let you know.
9. v. (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.
I
1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
(audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio)
2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.
3. n. (metaphysics) The ego.
4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate.
5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case)
6. pron. nonstandard spelling of I
Will
1. n. (American football) A weak-side linebacker.
2. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
Do what you will.
3. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
4. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
5. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive).
6. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
7. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
8. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason.
9. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will.
10. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
Most creatures have a will to live.
11. n. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
12. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.
13. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
14. v. (archaic) To wish, desire.
15. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
16. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
All the fans were willing their team to win the game.
17. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.
go
1. v. To move:
2. v. (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like
Why don’t you go with us? This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going? &nbs
3. v. (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's m
Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library.
4. v. (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
5. v. To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
We've only gone twenty miles today. This car can go circles around that one.
6. v. (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
We went swimming. Let's go shopping.
7. v. (intransitive) To leave; to move away.
Please don't go! I really must be going. Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night.
8. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To walk; to travel on one's feet.
9. v. (intransitive, chiefly of a, machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
The engine just won't go anymore.
10. v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
Get ready, get set, go! On your marks, get set, go! On your marks, set, go!
Here goes nothing. Let's go and hunt.
11. v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
It’s your turn; go.
12. v. (intransitive) To attend.
I go to school at the schoolhouse. She went to Yale. They only go to church on Christmas.
13. v. To proceed:
14. v. (intransitive) To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
That went well. "How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks.".
15. v. (intransitive, colloquial, with another verb, sometimes linked by and) To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
Why'd you have to go and do that?
Why'd you have to go do that?
He just went and punched the guy.
16. v. To follow or travel along (a path):
17. v. To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
Let's go this way for a while.
She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was.
18. v. To travel or pass along.
19. v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
This property goes all the way to the state line.
20. v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
Does this road go to Fort Smith?
21. v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
You'll go blind. I went crazy / went mad. After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight.
22. v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
23. v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
I don't want my children to go hungry. We went barefoot in the summer.
24. v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
they went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock, the local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global
25. v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
The traffic light went straight from green to red.
26. v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
How did your meeting with Smith go?
27. v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
Well, that goes to show you. These experiences go to make us stronger.
28. v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter
29. v. To pass, to be used up:
30. v. (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
The time went slowly.
31. v. (intransitive) To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
After three days, my headache finally went.
32. v. (intransitive) To be spent or used up.
His money went on drink.
33. v. (intransitive) To die.
34. v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
This chair has got to go.
35. v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out:
36. v. (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket) To be lost.
37. v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To be out.
38. v. To break down or apart:
39. v. (intransitive) To collapse or give way, to break apart.
40. v. (intransitive) To break down or decay.
This meat is starting to go off. My mind is going. She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go.
41. v. (intransitive) To be sold.
Everything must go. The car went for five thousand dollars.
42. v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
The property shall go to my wife. The award went to Steven Spielberg.
43. v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
How long can you go without water? We've gone without your help for a while now. I've gone ten days now without a cigarette. Can you two go twenty minutes wi
44. v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
They've gone one for three in this series. The team is going five in a row.
45. v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
46. v. (intransitive) To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?
47. v. (intransitive) To be accepted.
Anything goes around here.
48. v. (intransitive) To be valid.
49. v. To say (something), to make a sound:
50. v. (transitive, slang) To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!".
As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid.".
51. v. To make the (specified) sound.
Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom".
52. v. (intransitive) To sound; to make a noise.
I woke up just before the clock went.
53. v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
The tune goes like this. As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.
54. v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
I'll go to court if I have to.
55. v. To apply or subject oneself to:
56. v. To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
I'm going to join a sports team. I wish you'd go and get a job. He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach.
after
1. adv. Behind; later in time; following.
They lived happily ever after.
I left the room, and the dog bounded after.
2. prep. Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
We had a few beers after the game.
The time is quarter after eight.
The Cold War began shortly after the Second World War.
3. prep. Behind.
He will leave a trail of destruction after him.
4. prep. In pursuit of, seeking.
He's after a job; run after him; inquire after her health.
5. prep. In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
We named him after his grandfather; a painting after Leonardo da Vinci.
6. prep. Next in importance or rank.
The princess is next in line to the throne after the prince.
7. prep. As a result of.
After your bad behaviour, you will be punished.
8. prep. In spite of.
After all that has happened, he is still my friend.
I can't believe that, after all our advice against gambling, you walked into that casino!
9. prep. (Irish usually preceded by a form of be followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity
I was after finishing my dinner when there was a knock on the door.
10. prep. (dated) According to an author or text.
11. prep. Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
to look after workmen; to enquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness
12. prep. (obsolete) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.
13. conj. Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
I went home after we had decided to call it a day.
14. adj. (dated) Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent
15. adj. (nautical, where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship.
The after gun is mounted aft.
The after gun is abaft the forward gun.
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.

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