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now |
1. adj. Present; current. |
2. adj. (archaic, legal) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marria |
Now wife. |
3. adj. (informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current. |
I think this band's sound is very now. |
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been |
1. v. past participle of be |
2. v. (obsolete) plural present of be |
3. v. (Southern US) of be |
4. n. (UK dialectal) plural of bee |
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be |
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence. |
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. |
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place. |
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were |
1. v. Second-person singular simple past tense indicative of be. |
John, you were the only person to see him. |
2. v. First-person plural simple past tense indicative of be. |
We were about to leave. |
3. v. Second-person plural simple past tense indicative of be. |
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be |
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence. |
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. |
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place. |
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when |
1. adv. (interrogative) Used to introduce questions about time. |
When will they arrive? |
2. adv. Used to introduce indirect questions about time. |
Do you know when they arrived? |
Do you know when they will arrive? |
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or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. |
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here |
1. adv. (location) In, on, or at this place. |
2. adv. (location) To this place; used in place of the more dated hither. |
Please come here. |
3. adv. (abstract) In this context. |
Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but here they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve. |
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who |
1. pron. (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; (asks for the identity of someone). (used in a direct or indirect question) |
Who is that? (direct question) |
I don't know who it is. (indirect question) |
2. pron. (interrogative) What is one's position; (asks whether someone deserves to say or do something). |
I don't like what you did, but who am I to criticize you? I've done worse. |
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think |
1. v. To ponder, to go over in one's head. |
Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be. |
2. v. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem. |
I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution. |
3. v. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on). |
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how |
1. adv. To what degree. |
How often do you practice? |
2. adv. In what manner. |
How do you solve this puzzle? How else can we get this finished? |
3. adj. In what state. |
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then |
1. adv. (temporal location) At that time. |
He was happy then. |
2. adv. (temporal location) Soon afterward. |
He fixed it, then left. |
Turn left, then right, then right again, then keep going until you reach the service station. |
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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. |
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time |
1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past. |
Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time |
2. n. (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension. |
Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time. |
3. n. (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy. |
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more |
1. det. comparative degree of many, : in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.) |
More people are arriving. |
There are more ways to do this than I can count. |
2. det. comparative degree of much, : in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.) |
I want more soup; I need more time |
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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). |
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some |
1. pron. A certain number, at least one. |
Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder. |
2. pron. An indefinite quantity. |
Can I have some of them? |
3. pron. An indefinite amount, a part. |
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go |
1. v. To move: |
2. v. (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like |
Why don’t you go with us? This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going? &nbs |
3. v. (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's m |
Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell. |
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you're |
1. contraction. You are. |
You’re smarter than I am! |
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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.) |
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are |
1. v. second-person singular present of be |
2. v. first-person plural present of be |
3. v. second-person plural present of be |
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be |
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence. |
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. |
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place. |
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their |
1. det. Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural). |
they will meet tomorrow at their convenience; this is probably their cat |
2. det. Belonging to someone (one person, singular). |
3. adv. misspelling of there |
4. contraction. misspelling of they’re |
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well |
1. adv. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily. |
He does his job well. |
2. adv. (manner) Completely, fully. |
a well done steak |
We’re well beat now. |
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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. |