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with
     1. prep. Against.
           He picked a fight with the class bully.
     2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
           He went with his friends.
     3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
           She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
     4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
     5. prep. In support of.
           We are with you all the way.
     6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
           slain with robbers
     7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
           cut with a knife
     8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
     9. prep. Having, owning.
     10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
           Do you want to come with?
     11. adv. -->
     12. n. alternative form of withe
that
     1. conj. Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
           He told me that the book is a good read.
           I believe that it is true. — She is convinced that he is British.
     2. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
           Be glad that you have enough to eat.
     3. conj. (now uncommon) Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that.
     4. conj. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect.
           The noise was so loud that she woke up.
           The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed.
     5. conj. (archaic, or poetic) Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
     6. conj. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
           Was John there? — Not that I saw.
           How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw.
     7. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.
     8. conj. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.
     9. det. The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
           That book is a good read. This one isn't.
           That battle was in 1450.
           That cat of yours is evil.
     10. pron. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "t
           He went home, and after that I never saw him again.
     11. pron. The known (thing); (used to refer to something just said).
           They're getting divorced. What do you think about that?
     12. pron. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality; used together with a verb and pronoun to emphatically repeat a previous statement.
           The water is so cold! — That it is.
     13. pron. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; (representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition).
           The CPR course that she took really came in handy.
           The house that he lived in was old and dilapidated.
     14. pron. (colloquial) (Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.)
           the place that = where or to which I went last year
           the last time that = when I went to Europe
     15. adv. (degree) To a given extent or degree.
           "The ribbon was that thin." "I disagree, I say it was not that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner...".
     16. adv. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
           I'm just not that sick.
           I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult.
     17. adv. (obsolete, outside, dialects) To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
           Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her.
     18. n. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
in
     1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
     2. prep.          Contained by.
                   The dog is in the kennel.
     3. prep.          Within.
     4. prep.          Surrounded by.
                   We are in the enemy camp.   Her plane is in the air.
     5. prep.          Part of; a member of.
                   One in a million.   She's in band and orchestra.
     6. prep.          Pertaining to; with regard to.
                   What grade did he get in English?
                   Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
     7. prep.          At the end of a period of time.
                   They said they would call us in a week.
     8. prep.          Within a certain elapsed time
                   Are you able to finish this in three hours?   The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
     9. prep.          During (said of periods of time).
                   in the first week of December;  Easter falls in the fourth lunar month;   The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
     10. prep.          (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
                   English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
     11. prep. Into.
           Less water gets in your boots this way.
     12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
           In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
     13. prep.          Indicating an order or arrangement.
                   My fat rolls around in folds.
     14. prep.          Denoting a state of the subject.
                   He stalked away in anger.   John is in a coma.
     15. prep.          Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
                   You've got a friend in me.   He's met his match in her.
     16. prep.          Wearing (an item of clothing).
                    I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
     17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
     18. prep.          (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
                   Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
                   The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
                    Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
     19. prep.          Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
                   Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
                   His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
                   When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
     20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
     21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
     22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
           Is Mr. Smith in?
     23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
           Suddenly a strange man walked in.
     24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
           He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
     25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
           What's that in?
     26. adv. After the beginning of something.
     27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
           His parents got him an in with the company
     28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
     29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
     30. adj. In fashion; popular.
           Skirts are in this year.
     31. adj. Incoming.
           the in train
     32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
     33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
           in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
     34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
     35. n. Inch.
mind
     1. n. The ability for rational thought.
           Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.
     2. n. The ability to be aware of things.
           There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.
     3. n. The ability to remember things.
           My mind just went blank.
     4. n. The ability to focus the thoughts.
           I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing.
     5. n. Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
           He was one of history’s greatest minds.
     6. n. Judgment, opinion, or view.
           He changed his mind after hearing the speech.
     7. n. Desire, inclination, or intention.
           She had a mind to go to Paris.
           I have half a mind to do it myself.
     8. n. A healthy mental state.
           I, ______ being of sound mind and body, do herebynb...
           You are losing your mind.
     9. n. (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
           The mind is a process of the brain.
     10. n. Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
           a month's or monthly mind; a year's mind
     11. v. (now regional) To remember.
     12. v. (now rare except in phrases) To attend to, concern oneself with, heed, be mindful of.
           You should mind your own business.
     13. v. (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
           I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
     14. v. To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
           Would you mind my bag for me?
     15. v. (chiefly in the imperative) To make sure, to take care (that).
           Mind you don't knock that glass over.
     16. v. To be careful about.
     17. v. (United Kingdom, Ireland) Take note; (used to point out an exception or caveat.)
           I'm not very healthy—I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.
     18. v. (obsolete) To have in mind; to intend.
     19. v. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind.
you
     1. pron. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
     2. pron. (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
     3. pron. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
     4. pron. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
           Both of you should get ready now.
           You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
     5. pron. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
     6. pron. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
     7. det. The individual or group spoken or written to.
           Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
     8. det. Used before epithets for emphasis.
           You idiot!
     9. v. To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal.
break
     1. v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
           If the vase falls to the floor, it might break.
           In order to tend to the accident victim, he will break the window of the car.
     2. v.          (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
                   His ribs broke under the weight of the rocks piled on his chest.
                   She broke her neck.
                   He slipped on the ice and broke his leg.
     3. v. To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
           Can you break a hundred-dollar bill for me?
           The wholesaler broke the container loads into palettes and boxes for local retailers.
     4. v. To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
           Her child's death broke Angela.
           Interrogators have used many forms of torture to break prisoners of war.
           The interrogator hoped to break her to get her testimony against her accomplices.
     5. v.         To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
                   You have to break an elephant before you can use it as an animal of burden.
     6. v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
           My heart is breaking.
     7. v. To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
           I've got to break this habit I have of biting my nails.
           to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey
           I had won four games in a row, but now you've broken my streak of luck.
     8. v. To ruin financially.
           The recession broke some small businesses.
     9. v. To violate, to not adhere to.
           When you go to Vancouver, promise me you won't break the law.
           He broke his vows by cheating on his wife.
           break one's word
           Time travel would break the laws of physics.
     10. v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, in terms of temperature.
           Susan's fever broke at about 3 AM, and the doctor said the worst was over.
     11. v. (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
           The forecast says the hot weather will break by midweek.
     12. v. (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to end.
           We ran to find shelter before the storm broke.
           Around midday the storm broke, and the afternoon was calm and sunny.
     13. v. (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
           Morning has broken.
           The day broke crisp and clear.
     14. v. (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
           Changing the rules to let white have three extra queens would break chess.
           I broke the RPG by training every member of my party to cast fireballs as well as use swords.
     15. v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
           On the hottest day of the year the refrigerator broke.
           Did you two break the trolley by racing with it?
     16. v.          (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
                   Adding 64-bit support broke backward compatibility with earlier versions.
     17. v. To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
           break a seal
     18. v.          (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
     19. v.          (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination or the like.
     20. v. To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
           The cavalry were not able to break the British squares.
     21. v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
     22. v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
           Let's break for lunch.
     23. v. To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
           He survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall.
     24. v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
           The newsman wanted to break a big story, something that would make him famous.
           I don't know how to break this to you, but your cat is not coming back.
           In the latest breaking news...
           When news of their divorce broke, ...
     25. v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
     26. v. To change a steady state abruptly.
           His coughing broke the silence.
           His turning on the lights broke the enchantment.
           With the mood broken, what we had been doing seemed pretty silly.
     27. v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
           Things began breaking bad for him when his parents died.
           The arrest was standard, when suddenly the suspect broke ugly.
     28. v. (intransitive) Of a male voice, to become deeper at puberty.
     29. v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down; to crack.
           His voice breaks when he gets emotional.
     30. v. To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
           He broke the men's 100-meter record.
           I can't believe she broke 3 under par!
           The policeman broke sixty on a residential street in his hurry to catch the thief.
     31. v. (sports):
     32. v.          (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
                   He needs to break serve to win the match.
     33. v.          (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
                   Is it your or my turn to break?
     34. v.          (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
     35. v. (transitive military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
     36. v. To end (a connection), to disconnect.
           The referee ordered the boxers to break the clinch.
           The referee broke the boxers' clinch.
           I couldn't hear a thing he was saying, so I broke the connection and called him back.
     37. v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
     38. v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack
     39. v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
     40. v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
     41. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
     42. v. To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
           to break flax
     43. v. To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
     44. v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
           to break into a run or gallop
     45. v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
into
     1. prep. Going inside (of).
           Mary danced into the house.
     2. prep. Going to a geographic region.
           We left the house and walked into the street.
           The plane flew into the open air.
     3. prep. Against, especially with force or violence.
           The car crashed into the tree;  I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall
     4. prep. Producing, becoming; (indicates transition into another form or substance).
           I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale.   Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
     5. prep. After the start of.
           About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
     6. prep. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
           She's really into Shakespeare right now;  I'm so into you!
     7. prep. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
           The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself.
     8. prep. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.(R:OED Online)
           Five into three is fifteen.
     9. prep. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
           Three into two won't go.
           24 goes into 48 how many times?
     10. prep. Investigating the subject (of).
           Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees.
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.
sprint
     1. n. A short race at top speed
     2. n. A burst of speed or activity
     3. n. In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.
     4. v. To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period
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