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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.
strippers
     1. n. plural of stripper
     stripper
          1. n. Somene who removes their clothing in a sexually provocative manner, especially as a form of paid entertainment.
          2. n. A chemical or tool used to remove paint, sheathing, etc. from something.
          3. n. A tool used to strip tubing: to empty it by applying pressure to the outside of the tubing and moving that pressure along the tubing.
          4. n. A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping.
pack
     1. n. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale
           The horses carried the packs across the plain.
     2. n. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
     3. n. a multitude.
           a pack of lies
           a pack of complaints
     4. n. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
     5. n. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game
           We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
     6. n. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
     7. n. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
     8. n. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
           a pack of thieves or knaves
     9. n. A group of Cub Scouts.
     10. n. A shook of cask staves.
     11. n. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
     12. n. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
           The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
     13. n. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
     14. n. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
     15. n. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
     16. n. (rugby) The team on the field.
     17. v. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
     18. v.          To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close orde
                   to pack goods in a box;  to pack fish
     19. v.          To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow a
                   to pack a trunk;  the play, or the audience, packs the theater
     20. v.          To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
                   The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.
     21. v.          To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air
                   to pack a joint;  to pack the piston of a steam engine;  pack someone's arm with ice.
     22. v.          (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
     23. v.          (intransitive) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact
                   the goods pack conveniently;  wet snow packs well
     24. v.          (intransitive) To gather in flocks or schools.
                   the grouse or the perch begin to pack
     25. v.          (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
     26. v. (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
     27. v.          (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
     28. v.          To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.
                   to pack a jury
     29. v.          To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
     30. v.          (intransitive) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
     31. v. To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
           to pack a horse
     32. v. To move, send or carry.
     33. v.          To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack
                   to pack a boy off to school
     34. v.          (transitive, US, Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).
     35. v.          (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
     36. v.          (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
     37. v. (transitive, sports) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
     38. v. (intransitive, LGBT slang) To wear a prosthetic penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.
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.
and
     1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
     2. conj.          Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
     3. conj.          Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
     4. conj.          Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
     5. conj.          (obsolete) Yet; but.
     6. conj.          Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
     7. conj.          (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
     8. conj.          Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
     9. conj.          Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
     10. conj.          Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
     11. conj.          (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
     12. conj.          Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
     13. conj.          Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
     14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
     15. conj.          (now US dialect) If; provided that.
     16. conj.          (obsolete) As if, as though.
     17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
     18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
     19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
     20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
leave
     1. v. To have a consequence or remnant.
     2. v.          To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (somet
                   I left my car at home and took a bus to work.  The ants did not leave so much as a crumb of bread.  There's not much food left. We'd be
     3. v.          To cause, to result in.
                   The lightning left her dazzled for several minutes.  Infantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life.
     4. v.          To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
                   Leave your hat in the hall.  We should leave the legal matters to lawyers.  I left my sewing and went to the window to watch the fallin
     5. v. To depart; to separate from.
     6. v.          To let be or do without interference.
                   I left him to his reflections.  I leave my hearers to judge.
     7. v.          To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
                   I left the country and I left my wife.
     8. v.          To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
                   I left the band.
     9. v.          (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
                   I think you'd better leave.
     10. v. To transfer something.
     11. v.          To transfer possession of after death.
                   When my father died, he left me the house.
     12. v.          To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
                   I'll leave the car in the station so you can pick it up there.
     13. v.          To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
                   Can't we just leave this to the experts?
     14. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
     15. v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
     16. n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
     17. n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or onl
     18. n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
           I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss.
     19. n. (dated, or legal) Permission.
           Might I beg leave to accompany you?
           The applicant now seeks leave to appeal and, if leave be granted, to appeal against these sentences.
     20. n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
           I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance.
     21. v. To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
     22. v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed.
     23. v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.
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