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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.
points
1. n. plural of point
2. n. (rail transport, British) Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another.
3. n. (automotive) The two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow current to flow or not through the ignition coil. Each surface is called a point singular (there's usually a moving po
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of point
point
1. n. A discrete division of something.
2. n. An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
The Congress debated the finer points of the bill.
3. n. A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
There comes a point in a marathon when some people give up.
At this point in the meeting, I'd like to propose a new item for the agenda.
4. n. (archaic) Condition, state.
She was not feeling in good point.
5. n. A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
I made the point that we all had an interest to protect.
6. n. A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
The point is that we should stay together, whatever happens.
7. n. A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
Since the decision has already been made, I see little point in further discussion.
8. n. (obsolete) The smallest quantity of something; a jot, a whit.
9. n. (obsolete) A tiny amount of time; a moment.
10. n. A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
We should meet at a pre-arranged point.
11. n. (mathematics, science) A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position
12. n. A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
13. n. (music) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of p
14. n. (by extension) A note; a tune.
15. n. A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
Logic isn't my strong point.
16. n. Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
The stars showed as tiny points of yellow light.
17. n. (now only in phrases) A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
Possession is nine points of the law.
18. n. Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
19. n. (sports) A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
The one with the most points will win the game
20. n. (mathematics) A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
10.5 ("ten point five"; = ten and a half)
21. n. (economics) A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
22. n. (typography) a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
23. n. (UK) An electric power socket.
24. n. (navigation, nautical) A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
Ship ahoy, three points off the starboard bow!
25. n. (UK) A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
26. n. A sharp extremity.
27. n. The sharp tip of an object.
Cut the skin with the point of the knife.
28. n. Any projecting extremity of an object.
29. n. An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
His cowboy belt was studded with points.
30. n. (backgammon) Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
31. n. A peninsula or promontory.
32. n. The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
33. n. Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
34. n. (nautical) The difference between two points of the compass.
to fall off a point
35. n. Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
36. n. (railroads, UK, in the plural) A railroad switch.
37. n. (usually in the plural) An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
The point color of that cat was a deep, rich sable.
38. n. A tine or snag of an antler.
39. n. (fencing) A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
tierce point
40. n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
41. n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
42. n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
43. n. Lace worked by the needle.
point de Venise; Brussels point
44. n. (US, slang) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
45. n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
The dog came to a point.
46. n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
47. n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
48. n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
49. n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
50. n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
51. n. (cricket) A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
52. n. (lacrosse, ice hockey) The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
53. n. (baseball) The position of the pitcher and catcher.
54. n. (hunting) A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
55. v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
It's rude to point at other people.
56. v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
The arrow of a compass points north
The skis were pointing uphill.
The arrow on the map points towards the entrance
57. v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
58. v. To direct toward an object; to aim.
to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort
59. v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
to point a dart, a pencil, or (figuratively) a moral
60. v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
61. v. (ambitransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
62. v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
63. v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
64. v. To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
If he asks for food, point him toward the refrigerator.
65. v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
66. v. To mark with diacritics.
67. v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
to point a composition
68. v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
69. v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
70. v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
Bear off a little, we're pointing.
Her
1. pron. honoraltcaps, her
2. det. Belonging to her.
This is her book
3. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.
Give it to her (after preposition)
He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
He treated her for a cold (direct object)
4. n. (informal) A female person or animal.
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
index
1. n. An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
2. n. The index finger; the forefinger.
3. n. A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
4. n. (printing) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
5. n. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
6. n. A sign; an indication; a token.
7. n. (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context.
8. n. (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
9. n. (science) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
10. n. (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
11. n. (computing, especially, programming, and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
12. n. (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
13. n. (obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
14. v. To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
15. v. To inventory, to take stock.
16. v. (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
finger
1. n. (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers.
2. n. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
3. n. The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
4. n. One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
5. n. One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robin, pl=s (Triglidae).
6. n. Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
7. n. (cuisine) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
chocolate fingers; fish fingers; cheese fingers
8. n. (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
9. n. (UK regional, botany, usually in plural, obsolete) (altname, foxglove) (D. purpurea).
10. n. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:
a finger of land; a finger of smoke
11. n. (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
12. n. (anatomy, obsolete) A lobe of the liver.
13. n. (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
14. n. The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
15. n. (nautical) (clipping of finger pier): a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock.
16. n. (aviation) (altname, jet bridge): the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
17. n. Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
18. n. (obsolete) (altname, hand), the part of a clock pointing to the hour, minute, or second.
19. n. (US, obsolete slang) A policeman or prison guard.
20. n. (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
21. n. (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
22. n. (units of measure) Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
23. n. (historical) (altname, digit): former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of frac
24. n. (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½(nbsp)inches (11.43nbspcm).
25. n. (historical) (altname, digit): frac, 1, 12 the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
26. n. (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
Gimme three fingers of bourbon.
27. n. (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
28. n. (informal, obsolete) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
29. n. (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
30. n. (UK slang) A person.
31. n. A chicken finger.
32. n. (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
33. v. To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in, to finger.
34. v. To poke or probe with a finger or fingers.
35. v. To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang
36. v. (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
37. v. (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
38. v. (transitive, computing) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
39. v. (obsolete) To steal; to purloin.
40. v. (transitive, obsolete) To execute, as any delicate work.
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
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
empty
1. adj. Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
an empty purse; an empty jug; an empty stomach
2. adj. (computing, programming) Containing no elements (as of a string or array), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
3. adj. (obsolete) Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
4. adj. Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
5. adj. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
empty words, or threats
6. adj. Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
empty pleasures
7. adj. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
empty dreams
8. adj. (obsolete) Producing nothing; unfruitful; said of a plant or tree.
an empty vine
9. adj. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
empty brains; an empty coxcomb
10. v. (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
to empty a well or a cistern
The cinema emptied quickly after the end of the film.
11. v. (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River.
12. n. A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.
Put the empties out to be recycled.
chair
1. n. An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair.
2. n. clipping of chairperson
Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions.
3. n. (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops.
4. n. (rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
5. n. (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
6. n. (slang) (ellipsis of electric chair)
He killed a cop: he's going to get the chair.
The court will show no mercy; if he gets convicted, it's the chair for him.
7. n. A distinguished professorship at a university.
8. n. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
9. v. To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
10. v. To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
11. v. (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.
beside
1. prep. Next to; at the side of.
A small table beside the bed
2. prep. Not relevant to.
That is beside the point
3. prep. Besides; in addition to.
4. adv. otherwise; else
Her
1. pron. honoraltcaps, her
2. det. Belonging to her.
This is her book
3. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.
Give it to her (after preposition)
He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
He treated her for a cold (direct object)
4. n. (informal) A female person or animal.
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.

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