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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
would
     1. v. As a past-tense form of will.:
     2. v.          (obsolete) Wished, desired (something).
     3. v.          (archaic) Wanted to ( + bare infinitive).
     4. v.          Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to ( + bare infinitive); indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
     5. v.          Used with bare infinitive to form the "anterior future", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
     6. v.          (archaic) Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses.
     7. v.          Was determined to; loosely, could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
     8. v. As a modal verb, the subjunctive of will.:
     9. v.          Used to give a conditional or potential "softening" to the present; might, might wish.
     10. v.          Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality (with a bare infinitive); indicating an action or state that is conditional on another.
     11. v.          (chiefly archaic) Might wish ( + verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only".
     12. v.          Used to impart a sense of hesitancy or uncertainty to the present; might be inclined to. Now sometimes colloquially with ironic effect.
     13. v.          Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
                   Would you pass the salt, please?
     14. v.          (chiefly archaic, transitive, or control verb) Might desire; wish (something).
     15. n. Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
     will
          1. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
                Do what you will.
          2. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
          3. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
          4. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive).
          5. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
          6. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
                Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
          7. 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.
          8. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
                Eventually I submitted to my parents' will.
          9. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
                Most creatures have a will to live.
          10. 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.
          11. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.
          12. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)
                He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
          13. v. (archaic) To wish, desire.
          14. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
          15. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
                All the fans were willing their team to win the game.
          16. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
                He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.
have
           Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
     1. v. To possess, own, hold.
           I have a house and a car.
           Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
     2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
           I have two sisters.
           I have a lot of work to do.
     3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
           I have breakfast at six o'clock.
           Can I have a look at that?
           I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
     4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
           What class do you have right now? I have English.
           Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
     5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
           I have already eaten today.
           I had already eaten.
     6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
           I have to go.
     7. v. To give birth to.
           The couple always wanted to have children.
           My wife is having the baby right now!
           My mother had me when she was 25.
     8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
           He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
     9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
           Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
     10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
           They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
     11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
           He had him arrested for trespassing.
           The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
     12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
           The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
           I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
     13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
           Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
     14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
           We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
           Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
           (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
     15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
           I could have him!
           I'm gonna have you!
     16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
           I have no German.
     17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
           Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
     18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
           He had a cold last week.
     19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
           We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
           He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
           I'm having the time of my life!
     20. v. To trick, to deceive.
           You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
     21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
           The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
           I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
     22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
           I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
     23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
           Thank you for having me!
     24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
           What do you have for problem two?
           I have two contacts on my scope.
     25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
           We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
     26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
     27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
     28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
           They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
wanted
     1. adj. wished for; desired; sought
     2. adj. (legal) subject to immediate detainment by law enforcement authorities on sight.
     3. v. simple past tense and past participle of want
     want
          1. v. To wish for or to desire (something).
                What do you want to eat?  I want you to leave.  I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.  I want to be an astronaut when I'm older.  I don't want him
          2. v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking or deficient; not to exist.
                There was something wanting in the play.
          3. v. To lack, not to have (something).
          4. v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
                That chair wants fixing.
          5. v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
          6. n. A desire, wish, longing.
          7. n. (often, followed by of) Lack, absence.
          8. n. Poverty.
          9. n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
          10. n. (mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
Your
     1. pron. honoraltcaps, your
     2. det. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
           Let's meet tomorrow at your convenience.
           Is this your cat?
     3. det. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
     4. det. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
           Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.
           Your Show of Shows
           Your World with Neil Cavuto
           Not Your Average Travel Guide
     5. det. (Ireland) That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)
           Your man just bought a new car.
           Have you seen what your one over there is doing?
     6. contraction. misspelling of you're
statue
     1. n. A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.
     2. n. (dated) A portrait.
     3. v. To form a statue of; to make into a statue.
built
     1. adj. (informal) well-built, muscular or toned.
     2. n. (obsolete) Shape; build; form of structure.
           the built of a ship
     3. v. simple past tense of build
     4. v. past participle of build
     build
          1. v. To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
          2. v. To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
          3. v. To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
          4. v. To establish a basis for (something).
          5. v. (intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
          6. v. (intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
          7. v. (transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
          8. v. (intransitive, computing, of source code) To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
                This code won't build any more. Have you made any changes?
          9. n. The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body.
                Rugby players are of sturdy build.
          10. n. (computing) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
                The computer company has introduced a new prototype build to beta testers.
          11. n. (video games, slang) Any structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, created by the player.
                I made a build that looked like the Parthenon in that game.
next
     1. adj. nearest, Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
     2. adj. Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately preceding or following in order.
           the next chapter; the next man I see; the next week; the Sunday next before Easter
     3. adj. (figuratively) Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind.
     4. det. The one immediately following the current or most recent one
           Next week would be a good time to meet.
           I'll know better next time.
     5. det. Closest to seven days (one week) in the future.
           The party is next Tuesday; that is, not this Tuesday, but nine days from now.
     6. adv. In a time, place or sequence closest or following.
           They live in the next closest house.
           It's the next best thing to ice cream.
           Next, we stripped off the old paint.
     7. adv. On the first subsequent occasion
           Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next?
           When we next meet, you'll be married.
     8. prep. On the side of; next to.
     9. n. The one that follows after this one.
           Next, please, don't hold up the queue!
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
Mine
     1. pron. alternative case form of mine often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.
     2. pron. My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.
     3. pron.          Used predicatively.
                   The house itself is mine, but the land is not.
     4. pron.          Used substantively, with an implied noun.
                   Mine has been a long journey.
     5. pron.          Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
                   Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.
     6. pron.          (archaic) Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
     7. pron.          (archaic) Used attributively before a vowel.
     8. n. An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
           This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.
           He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.
           Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.
     9. n. (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
           She's a mine of information.
     10. n. (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
     11. n. (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
           His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.
           The warship was destroyed by floating mines.
     12. n. (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
     13. n. (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
     14. n. (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
     15. v. To remove (ore) from the ground.
           Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
     16. v. To dig into, for ore or metal.
     17. v. To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
           We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
     18. v. To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
     19. v. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
           the mining cony
     20. v. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
     21. v. (slang) To pick one's nose.
     22. v. (computing) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
     23. n. alternative form of mien
     24. n. topics, en, Mining, Weapons, Cryptocurrency
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