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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.
want
1. v. To wish for or to desire (something).
What do you want to eat? I want you to leave. I never wanted to go back to live with my mother. I want to be an astronaut when I'm older. I don't want him
2. v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking or deficient; not to exist.
There was something wanting in the play.
3. v. To lack, not to have (something).
4. v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
That chair wants fixing.
5. v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
6. n. A desire, wish, longing.
7. n. (often, followed by of) Lack, absence.
8. n. Poverty.
9. n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
10. n. (mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
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
drive
1. n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
2. n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
3. n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
4. n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
5. n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use.
Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
6. n. A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
It was a long drive.
7. n. A driveway.
The mansion had a long, tree-lined drive.
8. n. A type of public roadway.
Beverly Hills’ most famous street is Rodeo Drive.
9. n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
10. n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
11. n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
12. n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.
13. n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
14. n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
15. n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
16. n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
17. n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
18. n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
a whist drive; a beetle drive
19. n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
20. n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
21. v. To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
to drive sheep out of a field
22. v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
23. v. To cause animals to flee out of.
24. v. To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
You drive nails into wood with a hammer.
25. v. To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
The pistons drive the crankshaft.
26. v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
drive a car
27. v. To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
What drives a person to run a marathon?
28. v. To compel (to do something).
Their debts finally drove them to sell the business.
29. v. To cause to become.
This constant complaining is going to drive me to insanity. You are driving me crazy!
30. v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
31. v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
I drive to work every day.
32. v. To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
My wife drove me to the airport.
33. v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
34. v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
35. v. To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
36. v. To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
37. v. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
38. v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
39. v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
40. v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
41. v. To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
away
1. adv. From a place, hence.
He went away on vacation.
2. adv. Aside; off; in another direction.
3. adv. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
4. adv. (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.
5. adv. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
sing away
6. adv. Without restraint.
You've got questions? Ask away!
7. adv. Being so engaged for the entire time.
That's where tourists go to hear great Cuban bands and dance the night away.
8. adv. At a distance in time or space.
Christmas is only two weeks away.
9. interj. (Northern England) come on!; go on!
10. adj. Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
The master is away from home.
Would you pick up my mail while I'm away.
11. adj. (following the noun modified) At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
He's miles away by now.
Spring is still a month away.
12. adj. (chiefly sports) Not on one's home territory.
Entrance for away supporters.
Next, they are playing away in Dallas.
13. adj. (baseball, following the noun modified) Out.
Two men away in the bottom of the ninth.
14. adj. misspelling of aweigh
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.
patrons
1. n. plural of patron
patron
1. n. One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
2. n. A guardian; (synonym of patron saint).
St. Joseph is the patron of many different places.
3. n. An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
4. n. A regular customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
This car park is for patrons only.
5. n. (historical, Roman law) A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights.
6. n. (ecclesiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
7. n. (nautical) A padrone.
8. n. (obsolete, or historical) A property owner, a landlord, a master. (Compare patroon).
9. v. (transitive, obsolete) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To treat as a patron.

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