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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.
seems
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of seem
seem
1. v. (copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
He seems to be ill. Her eyes seem blue.
2. v. (obsolete) To befit; to beseem.
at
1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.
Caesar was at Rome; at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine; at Jim’s house
2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.)
at six o’clock; at closing time; at night.
3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).
He threw the ball at me. He shouted at her.
4. prep. Denotes a price.
3 apples at 2¢ (each) The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.
5. prep. Occupied in (activity).
men at work
6. prep. In a state of.
She is at sixes and sevens with him. They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff. The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.
7. prep. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
Sell at 90. Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders. I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost.
8. prep. Because of.
to laugh at a joke mad at their comments
9. prep. Indicates a means, method, or manner.
10. prep. Holding a given speed or rate.
It is growing at the rate of 3% a year. Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.
11. prep. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.
The twins were both bad at chemistry.
He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.
12. prep. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
13. n. The at sign (@).
14. n. (alt form, att) (Laos currency unit)
first
1. adj. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
The first day of September 2013 was a Sunday.
I was the first runner to reach the finish line, and won the race.
2. adj. Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.
3. adv. Before anything else; firstly.
Clean the sink first, before you even think of starting to cook.
4. n. The person or thing in the first position.
He was the first to complete the course.
5. n. The first gear of an engine.
6. n. Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
This is a first. For once he has nothing to say.
7. n. (baseball) first base
There was a close play at first.
8. n. (UK, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
9. n. (colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
10. n. A fraction of an integer ending in one.
one forty-first of the estate
11. n. (obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
very
1. adj. True, real, actual.
The fierce hatred of a very woman. The very blood and bone of our grammar. He tried his very best.
2. adj. The same; identical.
He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met. That's the very tool that I need.
3. adj. With limiting effect: mere.
4. adv. To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
You’re drinking very slowly.
That dress is very you.
5. adv. True, truly.
6. adv. (with superlatives) (ngd, Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.)
He was the very best runner there.
different
1. adj. Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
2. adj. Various, assorted, diverse.
3. adj. Distinct, separate; used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity.
Several different scientists all reached this conclusion at about the same time.
4. adj. Unlike most others; unusual.
5. n. (mathematics) The different ideal.
kind
1. n. A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
What kind of a person are you?
This is a strange kind of tobacco.
2. n. A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
The opening served as a kind of window.
3. n. (archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
4. n. Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
5. n. Equivalent means used as response to an action.
I'll pay in kind for his insult.
6. n. (Christianity) Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
7. adj. Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
8. adj. Affectionate.
a kind man; a kind heart
9. adj. Favorable.
10. adj. Mild, gentle, forgiving
The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
11. adj. Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
a horse kind in harness
12. adj. (obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
book
1. n. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.
2. n. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets.
I have three copies of his first book.
3. n. (heraldry) A heraldic representation of such an object, used as a charge; as in the arms of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
4. n. A major division of a long work.
Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.
5. n. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
6. n. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
a book of stamps
a book of raffle tickets
7. n. (theatre) The script of a musical.
8. n. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
9. n. A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book.
10. n. (legal) A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging t
11. n. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
12. n. (poker slang) four of a kindWeisenberg, Michael (2000) . MGI/Mike Caro University. (ISBN, 978-1880069523)
13. n. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
14. n. (sports) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
15. n. (cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
16. v. To reserve (something) for future use.
I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night
I can book tickets for the concert next week.
17. v. To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
They booked that message from the hill
18. v. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
The police booked him for driving too fast.
19. v. (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
20. v. (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
He was really booking, until he passed the speed trap.
21. v. To record bets as bookmaker.
22. v. (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
23. v. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
He was here earlier, but he booked.
24. v. (UK dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake
from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He left yesterday from Chicago.
Face away from the wall!
3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation.
20 from 31 leaves 11.
4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
An umbrella protects from the sun.
He knows right from wrong.
its
1. det. Belonging to it.
2. pron. The one (or ones) belonging to it.
3. n. plural of it
predecessors
1. n. plural of predecessor
predecessor
1. n. One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
2. n. A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.
3. n. (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex

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