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she
1. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
I asked Mary, but she said that she didn’t know.
2. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat.
She could do forty knots in good weather.
She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
3. pron. (personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car.
She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.
4. pron. (personal, dated) A country.
She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
5. pron. (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
6. n. A female.
Pat is definitely a she.
holds
1. n. plural of hold
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of hold
hold
1. v. To grasp or grip.
Hold the pencil like this.
2. v. To contain or store.
This package holds six bottles.
3. v. To maintain or keep to a position or state.:
4. v. To have and keep possession of something.
Hold my coat for me. The general ordered the colonel to hold his position at all costs.
5. v. To reserve.
Hold a table for us at 7:00.
6. v. To cause to wait or delay.
Hold the elevator.
7. v. To detain.
Hold the suspect in this cell.
8. v. (intransitive) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
to hold true; The proposition holds.
9. v. To keep oneself in a particular state.
to hold firm; to hold opinions
10. v. To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
11. v. To bear, carry, or manage.
He holds himself proudly erect. Hold your head high.
12. v. (intransitive, mostly, imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
13. v. (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
14. v. To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
to hold one's bladder; to hold one's breath
15. v. To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.:
16. v. To maintain, to consider, to opine.
17. v. To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
He was held responsible for the actions of those under his command. I'll hold him to that promise.
18. v. To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
19. v. To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
20. v. (archaic) To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.
21. v. (tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game.
22. v. To take place, to occur.
23. v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
Elections will be held on the first Sunday of next month.
24. v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
25. n. A grasp or grip.
Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
26. n. A place where animals are held for safety
27. n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
Senator X placed a hold on the bill, then went to the library and placed a hold on a book.
28. n. Something reserved or kept.
We have a hold here for you.
29. n. Power over someone or something.
30. n. The ability to persist.
31. n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
32. n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
He got him in a tight hold and pinned him to the mat.
33. n. (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
34. n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
35. n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
36. n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
37. n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
38. n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
39. n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
40. n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
41. n. (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
42. adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
43. n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).
Put that in the hold.
up
1. adv. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.
2. adv. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state Thoroughly, completely.
I will mix up the puzzle pieces.
Tear up the contract.
He really messed up.
Please type up our monthly report.
3. adv. To or from one's possession or consideration.
I picked up some milk on the way home.
The committee will take up your request.
She had to give up her driver's license after the accident.
4. adv. North.
I will go up to New York to visit my family this weekend.
5. adv. To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets.
Turn it up, I can barely hear it.
Listen to your voice go up at the end of a question.
Cheer up, the weekend's almost here.
6. adv. (rail transport) Traditional term for the direction leading to the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
7. adv. (sailing) Against the wind or current.
8. adv. (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
9. adv. (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
The bowler pitched the ball up.
10. adv. (hospitality, US) Without additional ice.
Would you like that drink up or on ice?
11. adv. (academia) Towards Cambridge or Oxford.
She's going up to read Classics this September.
12. adv. To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
I was up to my chin in water.
A stranger came up and asked me for directions.
13. adv. To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite.
Drink up. The pub is closing.
Can you sum up your research?
The comet burned up in the atmosphere.
I need to sew up the hole in this shirt.
14. adv. Aside, so as not to be in use.
to lay up riches; put up your weapons
15. prep. Toward the top of.
The cat went up the tree. They walk up the steps.
16. prep. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
The information made its way up the chain of command to the general. I felt something crawling up my arm.
17. prep. Further along (in any direction).
Go up the street until you see the sign.
18. prep. From south to north of
19. prep. From the mouth towards the source (of a river or waterway).
20. prep. (vulgar slang) Of a man: having sex with.
Phwoar, look at that bird. I'd love to be up her.
21. prep. (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more remote from a central location).
22. adj. Awake.
I can’t believe it’s 3 a.m. and you’re still up.
23. adj. Finished, to an end
Time is up!
24. adj. In a good mood.
I’m feeling up today.
25. adj. Willing; ready.
If you are up for a trip, let’s go.
26. adj. Next in a sequence.
Smith is up to bat.
27. adj. Happening; new.
What is up with that project at headquarters?
28. adj. Facing upwards; facing toward the top.
Put the notebook face up on the table.
Take a break and put your feet up.
29. adj. Larger; greater in quantity.
Sales are up from last quarter.
30. adj. Ahead; leading; winning.
The home team were up by two goals at half-time.
31. adj. Standing.
Get up and give her your seat.
32. adj. On a higher level.
The new ground is up.
33. adj. Available; made public.
The new notices are up as of last Tuesday.
34. adj. (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
AAKK = aces up
QQ33 = queens up
35. adj. Well-informed; current.
I’m not up on the latest news. What’s going on?
36. adj. (computing) Functional; working.
Is the server back up?
37. adj. (anchor, Adj_railway)(of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
The London train is on the up line.
38. adj. Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.
39. adj. (bar tending) Chilled and strained into a stemmed glass.
A Cosmopolitan is typically served up.
40. adj. (slang) Erect.
41. adj. (of the Sun or Moon) Above the horizon, in the sky (i.e. during daytime or night-time)
42. adj. (slang) well-known; renowned
43. n. The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
Up is a good way to go.
44. n. A positive thing.
I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home.
45. n. An upstairs room of a two story house.
She lives in a two-up two-down.
46. v. (transitive, colloquial) To increase or raise.
If we up the volume, we'll be able to make out the details.
We upped anchor and sailed away.
47. v. (transitive, colloquial) To promote.
It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President.
48. v. (intransitive) To act suddenly, usually with another verb.
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.
magnifying
1. v. present participle of magnify
magnify
1. v. To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
2. v. To make (something) larger or more important.
3. v. To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.
4. v. To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
5. v. (intransitive, slang) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.
glass
1. n. An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
The tabletop is made of glass.
A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
2. n. A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
Fill my glass with milk, please.
3. n. (metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
4. n. Glassware.
We collected art glass.
5. n. A mirror.
She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
6. n. A magnifying glass or telescope.
7. n. (sport) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
8. n. (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
He caught the rebound off the glass.
9. n. (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
He fired the outlet pass off the glass.
10. n. A barometer.
11. n. (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
glass frog; glass shrimp; glass worm
12. n. (obsolete) An hourglass.
13. v. To fit with glass; to glaze.
14. v. To enclose in glass.
15. v. (clipping of fibreglass). To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).
16. v. (transitive, UK, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
17. v. (science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
18. v. To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
19. v. To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
20. v. (archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
21. v. To become glassy.

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