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you'll
1. contraction. you will
2. contraction. you shall
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.
will
1. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
Do what you will.
2. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
3. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
4. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive).
5. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
6. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
7. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason.
8. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will.
9. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
Most creatures have a will to live.
10. n. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
11. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.
12. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
13. v. (archaic) To wish, desire.
14. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
15. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
All the fans were willing their team to win the game.
16. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.
see
1. v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
2. v. To witness or observe by personal experience.
Now I've seen it all!
I have been blind since birth and I love to read Braille. When the books arrive in from the library, I can’t wait to see what stories they have s
I saw military service in Vietnam.
3. v. To form a mental picture of.
4. v. (figuratively) To understand.
Do you see what I mean?
5. v. To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
They're blind to the damage they do, but someday they'll see.
6. v. (social) To meet, to visit.
7. v. To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
to go to see a friend
8. v. To date frequently.
I've been seeing her for two months
9. v. To be the setting or time of.
The 20th century saw humanity's first space exploration.
10. v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
I'll see you hang for this! I saw that they didn't make any more trouble.
11. v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
I'll see your twenty dollars and raise you ten.
12. v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
The oracle saw the destruction of the city.
13. v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
I'll come over later and see if I can fix your computer.
14. v. (used in the imperative) (Used to emphasise a proposition.)
You see, Johnny, your Dad isn't your real dad.
15. v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
Step 4: In the system, check out the laptop to the student (see: "Logging Resources" in the Tutor Manual).
This article is about the insect. For the English rock band, see.
For a complete proof of the Poincaré conjecture, see Appendix C.
16. interj. Directing the audience to pay attention to the following
See here, fellas, there's no need for all this rucus!
17. interj. Introducing an explanation
See, in order to win the full prize we would have to come up with a scheme to land a rover on the Moon.
18. n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
19. n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric
20. n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
those
1. det. plural of that
Those bolts go with these parts.
2. pron. plural of that
iron
1. n. A common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.
2. n. (physics, chemistry, metallurgy) A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.
3. n. (metallurgy) Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
wrought iron, ductile iron, cast iron, pig iron, gray iron
4. n. A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom
5. n. (usually plural, irons) Shackles.
6. n. (slang) A handgun.
7. n. A dark shade of the colour/color silver.
8. n. (Cockney rhyming slang) A male homosexual.
9. n. (golf) A golf club used for middle-distance shots.
10. n. Great strength or power.
11. n. (weightlifting) Weight used as resistance for the purpose of strength training.
He lifts iron on the weekends.
12. adj. (not comparable) Made of the metal iron.
13. adj. (figuratively) Strong (as of will), inflexible.
She had an iron will.
He held on with an iron grip.
an iron constitution
Iron men
14. v. To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
15. v. (transitive, archaic) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
16. v. To furnish or arm with iron.
to iron a wagon
bars
1. n. plural of bar
2. n. (sports) An event in gymnastics.
3. n. (sports) The apparatus on which this event is performed.
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of bar
bar
1. n. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
The window was protected by steel bars.
2. n. (metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material
Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.
3. n. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
bar of chocolate
bar of soap
4. n. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
a bar of light
a bar of colour
5. n. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
6. n. (typography) Various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨!⟩, fraction bar (as in12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly(obsolete) inclusive of oblique marks such as the slash
7. n. (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantiss
8. n. (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is negative (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
9. n. A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
The street was lined with all-night bars.
10. n. The counter of such a premises.
Step up to the bar and order a drink.
11. n. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
12. n. (by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) A premises or counter serving any type of beverage.
13. n. An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
14. n. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
a burger bar
a local fish bar
15. n. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
The club has lifted its bar on women members.
16. n. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
17. n. (programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar.
18. n. (Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
19. n. (law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
20. n. (US, law) "the Bar" or "the bar" The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.
21. n. (law, metonym, "the Bar", "the bar") A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
He was called to the bar, he became a barrister.
22. n. (telecommunications) A bar-shaped symbol that denotes levels of reception, or reception itself.
I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.
23. n. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
24. n. (music) One of those musical sections.
25. n. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
26. n. (metaphorical) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
27. n. (football-most codes) The crossbar
28. n. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
29. n. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
30. n. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
31. n. (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstru
32. n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
33. n. A city gate, in some British place names.
Potter's Bar
34. n. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
35. n. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
36. n. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
37. n. (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
38. n. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
39. v. To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
40. v. To prohibit.
I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.
41. v. To lock or bolt with a bar.
bar the door
42. v. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
43. prep. Except, other than, besides.
He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.
44. prep. (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar.
45. n. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
weave
1. v. To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.
2. v. To spin a cocoon or a web.
Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
3. v. To unite by close connection or intermixture.
4. v. To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
to weave the plot of a story
5. n. A type or way of weaving.
That rug has a very tight weave.
6. n. Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
7. v. (intransitive) To move by turning and twisting.
The drunk weaved into another bar.
8. v. To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
back
1. adj. (not comparable) Near the rear.
Go in the back door of the house.
2. adj. (not comparable) Not current.
I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine.
3. adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area.
They took a back road.
4. adj. (not comparable) In arrear; overdue.
They still owe three months' back rent.
5. adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating backward.
back action
6. adj. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
The vowel of smallcaps - lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England.
7. adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
He gave back the money. He needs his money back. He was on vacation, but now he’s back. The office fell into chaos when you left, but now order is back.
8. adv. Away from the front or from an edge.
Sit all the way back in your chair.
Step back from the curb.
9. adv. In a manner that impedes.
Fear held him back.
10. adv. In a reciprocal manner.
If you hurt me, I'll hurt you back.
11. adv. Earlier, ago.
many years back
12. n. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
Could you please scratch my back?
13. n. The spine and associated tissues.
I hurt my back lifting those crates.
14. n. (slang) Large and attractive buttocks.
15. n. (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
I still need to finish the back of your dress.
16. n. The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
Can you fix the back of this chair?
17. n. (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
18. n. That which is farthest away from the front.
He sat in the back of the room.
19. n. The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
Turn the book over and look at the back.
20. n. # The edge of a book which is bound.
# The titles are printed on the backs of the books.
21. n. # (printing) The inside margin of a page.
22. n. # The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
# Tap it with the back of your knife.
23. n. The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
I hung the clothes on the back of the door.
24. n. Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
We'll meet out in the back of the library.
25. n. The part of something that goes last.
The car was near the back of the train.
26. n. (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
The backs were lined up in an I formation.
27. n. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
The small boat raced over the backs of the waves.
28. n. A support or resource in reserve.
29. n. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
The ship's back broke in the pounding surf.
30. n. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
31. n. (slang) Effort, usually physical.
Put some back into it!
32. n. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
Could I get a martini with a water back?
33. n. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
34. v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
the train backed into the station; the horse refuses to back
35. v. To support.
I back you all the way; which horse are you backing in this race?
36. v. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
37. v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
38. v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
39. v. (of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
40. v. To push or force backwards.
to back oxen
The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet.
41. v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
42. v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
43. v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
to back books
44. v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
45. v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
to back a letter; to back a note or legal document
46. v. (legal, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
47. v. To row backward with (oars).
to back the oars
48. n. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
49. n. A ferryboat.
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.
forth
1. adv. Forward in time, place or degree.
2. adv. Out into view; from a particular place or position.
The plants in spring put forth leaves.
The robbers leapt forth from their place of concealment.
3. adv. (obsolete) Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
4. adv. (obsolete) Thoroughly; from beginning to end.
5. prep. (obsolete) Forth from; out of.
6. adj. misspelling of fourth
7. n. misspelling of fourth

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