Common English Words

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180	put	©
1. v. To place something somewhere.
She put her books on the table.
2. v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
Put your house in order!
He is putting all his energy into this one task.
181	maybe	©
1. adv. Modifies a verb, indicating a lack of certainty.
2. adv. (as a pro-sentence) Perhaps that is true (expressing no commitment to a decision or a neutral viewpoint to a statement).
3. adj. Possible; uncertain.
Then add those may-be years thou hast to live ― Dryden.
4. n. (informal) Something that is possibly true.
182	help	©
1. n. Action given to provide assistance; aid.
I need some help with my homework.
2. n. (usually) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
He was a great help to me when I was moving house.
I've printed out a list of math helps.
183	doesn't
1. v. Does not (negative auxiliaryArnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, , Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513)
	does
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of do
2. n. plural of doe
	do
1. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker
2. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
3. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
	not
1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
2. adv. To no degree.
184	left	©
1. adj. The opposite of right; toward the west when one is facing north.
The left side.
2. adj. (politics) Pertaining to the political left.
3. adv. On the left side.
4. adv. Towards the left side.
	leave
1. v. To have a consequence or remnant.
2. v. To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (somet
3. v. To cause, to result in.
185	old	©
1. adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
an old abandoned building; an old friend
2. adj. Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
a wrinkled old man
3. adj. Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life.
186	place	©
1. n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
2. n. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
3. n. A group of houses.
They live at Westminster Place.
4. n. An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
187	we're
1. contraction. we are
	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.
	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
	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.
188	night	©
1. n. The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
How do you sleep at night when you attack your kids like that!?
2. n. An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
a night on the town
3. n. A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a hotel or other accommodation.
189	talk
1. v. To communicate, usually by means of speech.
Although I don't speak Chinese I managed to talk with the villagers using signs and gestures.
They sat down to talk business.
We talk French sometimes.
2. v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
190	believe
1. v. To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)
If you believe the numbers, you'll agree we need change.
I believe there are faeries.
2. v. To accept that someone is telling the truth.
Why did I ever believe you?
191	money	©
1. n. A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
2. n. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.
3. n. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
money supply; money market
192	looks	©
1. n. plural of look
2. n. (pluralonly) One's appearance or attractiveness.
His charm and good looks accounted for much of his popularity in the polls.
Looks can be deceiving.
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of look
	look
1. v. (intransitive, often, with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
2. v. To appear, to seem.
3. v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
193	feel	©
1. v. To use the sense of touch.:
2. v. (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast.
I felt cold and miserable all night.
3. v. To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
194	she's
1. contraction. she is
2. contraction. she has
	she
1. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
2. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat.
	is
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of be
2. n. plural of i
195	enough
1. det. Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.
I've already had enough coffee today.
2. adv. Sufficiently.
I cannot run fast enough to catch up to them.
Are you man enough to fight me?
196	same	©
1. adj. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
Are you the same person who phoned me yesterday?
I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force.
Even if the twins are identical, they are still not the same person, unlike Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens.
Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went.
197	few	©
1. det. (preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
I was expecting lots of people at the party, but very few (=almost none) turned up. Quite a few of them (=many of them) were pleasantly surprised. I don't know how
2. det. (used alone) Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
There are few people who understand quantum theory. Many are called, but few are chosen.
3. det. (meteorology of clouds) (US?) Obscuring one eighth to two eighths of the sky.
198	every	©
1. det. All of a group (considered individually), without exception.
Every person in the room stood and cheered.
2. det. Used with ordinal numbers to denote those items whose position is divisible by the corresponding cardinal number, or a portion of equal size to that set.
Every third bead was red, and the rest were blue. The sequence was thus red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue etc.
Decimation originally meant the execution of every tenth soldier in a unit.
199	door
1. n. A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to ho
I knocked on the vice president's door
2. n. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
3. n. (immigration) An entry point.

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