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we
1. pron. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.)
2. pron. (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.)
3. pron. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sen
4. pron. (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.
How are we all tonight?
5. pron. (personal, generally considered patronising) A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care.
How are we feeling this morning?
6. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different.
look
1. v. (intransitive, often, with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
Look at my new car! Don’t look in the closet.
2. v. To appear, to seem.
It looks as if it’s going to rain soon.
3. v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
That painting looks nice.
4. v. (intransitive, often, with "for") To search for, to try to find.
5. v. To face or present a view.
The hotel looks over the valleys of the HinduKush.
6. v. To expect or anticipate.
I look to each hour for my lover’s arrival.
7. v. To express or manifest by a look.
8. v. (transitive, often, with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
9. v. (dated, sometimes figurative) To show oneself in looking.
Look out of the window i.e. lean out while I speak to you.
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
11. v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
12. v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
to look down opposition
13. v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
The fastball caught him looking.
Clem Labine struck Mays out looking at his last at bat.
It's unusual for Mays to strike out looking. He usually takes a cut at it.
14. interj. Pay attention.
Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely.
15. n. The action of looking; an attempt to see.
Let’s have a look under the hood of the car.
16. n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
She got her mother’s looks.
I don’t like the look of the new design.
17. n. A facial expression.
He gave me a dirty look.
If looks could kill ...
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.
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
them
1. pron. Objective case of they: third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb.
Give it to them. (after preposition)
She wrote them a letter. (indirect object)
She treated them for a cold. (direct object)
2. pron. Objective case of they: third-person singular pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb.
If someone comes and asks for the ticket, just give it to them. (after preposition)
If one of my patients calls, please bring them their dinner. (indirect object)
If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them. (direct object)
3. det. (dialectal) Those.
Them kids need to grow up.
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.
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.
Start
1. n. A typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option.
2. n. The beginning of an activity.
The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
3. n. A sudden involuntary movement.
He woke with a start.
4. n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
5. n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
6. n. (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
7. n. An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
to get, or have, the start
8. v. To begin, commence, initiate.
9. v. To set in motion.
to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business
10. v. To begin.
11. v. To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine.
to start the engine
12. v. To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
13. v. To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
14. v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
The rain started at 9:00.
15. v. (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town.
The blue line starts one foot away from the wall.
16. v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
17. v. (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
18. v. (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
19. v. To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
The hounds started a fox.
20. v. To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel
21. v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
22. v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
23. v. (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
to start a water cask
24. v. (intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation).
Have you started yet?
25. n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
26. n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
27. n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
28. n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

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