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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
achieve
     1. v. (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
     2. v. To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
     3. v. (obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
     4. v. To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
     5. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To conclude, to turn out.
     6. v. (transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing).
           Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.
           He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.
it
     1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals.
           Put it over there.
           Take each day as it comes.
           I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today.
     2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender.
           She took the baby and held it in her arms.
     3. pron. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
           It's me. John.
           Is it her?
     4. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)
           It is nearly 10 o’clock.
           It’s 10:45 read ten-forty-five.
           It’s very cold today.
           It’s lonely without you.
     5. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms.
           stick it out
           live it up
           rough it
     6. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject i
           It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
           I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
           It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing)
           He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
           It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if)
     7. pron. All or the end; something after which there is no more.
           Are there more students in this class, or is this it?
           That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.
     8. pron. (chiefly pejorative, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male.
     9. pron. (obsolete) (Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun): That which; what.
     10. det. (obsolete) its
     11. n. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
     12. n. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
           In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…
     13. n. (British) The game of tag.
           Let's play it at breaktime.
     14. n. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty.
     15. n. (euphemism) Sexual activity.
           caught them doing it
     16. adj. (colloquial) Most fashionable.
an
     1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
     2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
     3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
     4. conj. (archaic) If
     5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
           An it harm none, do what ye will.
     6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
     7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
     8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
           I was only going twenty miles an hour.
arduous
     1. adj. Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
           The movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle.
     2. adj. (obsolete) burning; ardent
     3. adj. Difficult or exhausting to traverse.
struggle
     1. n. A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.
     2. n. (figurative) Strife, contention, great effort.
     3. v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
           During the centuries, the people of Ireland struggled constantly to assert their right to govern themselves.
     4. v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
           She struggled to escape from her assailant's grasp.
lies
     1. n. plural of lie
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of lie
     3. adj. (Mid-Ulster) Great, wonderful
           That kebab was lies!
     lie
          1. v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
                The book lies on the table;  the snow lies on the roof;  he lies in his coffin
          2. v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
          3. v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
                to lie waste;  to lie fallow; to lie open;  to lie hidden;  to lie grieving;  to lie under one's displeasure;  to lie at the mercy of the waves
                The paper does not lie smooth on the wall.
          4. v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
          5. v. Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
          6. v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
          7. v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
          8. v. (legal) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
          9. n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
          10. n. (disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
          11. n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
          12. v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
                When Pinocchio lies, his nose grows.
                If you are found to have lied in court, you could face a penalty.
                While a principle-based approach might claim that lying is always morally wrong, the casuist would argue that, depending upon the details of the case, lying might or might not be illegal or une
          13. v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
                Photographs often lie.
                Hips don't lie.
          14. v. (intransitive) To succeed or excel at lying; lie successfully; show one's expertise or mastery in the art of lying.
                Wow, that boy can really lie!
          15. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
                Sorry, I haven't seen your keys anywhere...wait, I lied! They're right there on the coffee table.
          16. n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
                I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.
          17. n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth
          18. n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.
ahead
     1. adv. In or to the front; in advance; onward.
           The island was directly ahead.
     2. adv. In the direction one is facing or moving.
           Just ahead you can see the cliffs.
     3. adv. In or for the future.
           There may be tough times ahead.
           You've got to think ahead so as not to be unprepared.
     4. adv. At an earlier time.
           He paid his rent ahead.
     5. adv. Having progressed more.
           In all of his classes Jack was ahead.
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