Common English Words

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300	yourself	©
1. pron. (reflexive pronoun) Your own self (singular).
Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.
2. pron. You (singular); used emphatically, especially to indicate exclusiveness of the referent's participation in the predicate, i.e., that no one else is involved.
You yourself know that what you wrote was wrong.
After a good night's sleep you'll feel like yourself again.
301	took	©
1. v. simple past tense of take
2. v. (obsolete, dialectal) past participle of take
	take
1. v. To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
2. v. To seize or capture.
302	we'll
1. contraction. we will
2. contraction. we shall
	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.
	will
1. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
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).
303	start	©
1. n. The beginning of an activity.
The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
2. n. A sudden involuntary movement.
He woke with a start.
3. n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
304	friend
1. n. A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college. Trust is important between friends. I used to find it hard to make friends when I was shy.
2. n. A boyfriend or girlfriend.
3. n. An associate who provides assistance.
The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend. The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.
305	nice	©
1. adj. (obsolete) Silly, ignorant; foolish.
2. adj. (now rare) Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy.
3. adj. (obsolete) Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict.
4. adj. Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
5. adj. (obsolete) Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky.
306	coming	©
1. v. present participle of come
2. n. The act of arriving; an arrival
3. adj. Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.
We expect great things from you this coming year.
She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition.
	come
1. v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
2. v. To move towards the speaker.
307	far	©
1. adj. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) Distant.
A far land.
2. adj. Remote in space.
He went to a far country.
3. adj. Remote in time.
308	set	©
1. v. To put (something) down, to rest.
Set the tray there.
2. v. To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
I have set my heart on running the marathon.
3. v. To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
309	happened	©
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of happen
	happen
1. v. (intransitive) To occur or take place.
2. v. (transitive, archaic) To happen to; to befall.
3. v. (intransitive or impersonal, with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
310	hell	©
1. n. (hyperbole, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
My new boss is making my job a hell.
I went through hell to get home today.
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2. n. A place for gambling.
311	having	©
1. v. present participle of have
2. n. Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
	have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
312	couldn't
1. v. could not (negative auxiliaryArnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, , Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513)
	could
1. v. simple past tense of can
2. v. conditional of can
3. v. Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).
	can
1. v. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
2. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
3. v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
	not
1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
2. adv. To no degree.
313	later	©
1. adv. comparative form of late: more late
You came in late yesterday and today you came in even later.
2. adv. Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
My roommate arrived first. I arrived later.
I arrived later than my roommate.
314	says	©
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of say
2. n. plural of say
	say
1. v. To pronounce.
2. v. To recite.
3. v. To tell, either verbally or in writing.
316	hands	©
1. n. plural of hand
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of hand
	hand
1. n. The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
2. n. That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.:
3. n. A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
4. n. An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
317	week	©
1. n. Any period of seven consecutive days.
2. n. A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
3. n. A period of five days beginning with Monday.
4. n. A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.
A 4-day week consists of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
318	makes	©
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of make
Green traffic lights look white to me, which makes them hard to distinguish from streetlights from far away. - First Usenet use via Google Groups, 9 May 1981 00:31:59-PDT, CSVAX.halbert at Berk
2. n. plural of make
I would vote against a net.auto.bmw. Problems/comments regarding all makes are of interest, to me anyway. - net.auto.bmw, Aug 19 1983, 9:49 am, Joe Pfeiffer
	make
1. v. To create.
2. v. To build, construct, or produce.
3. v. To write or compose.
319	women	©
1. n. plural form of woman
Three women went for a walk.
	woman
1. n. An adult female human.
2. n. (collective) All females collectively; womankind.
3. n. A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).
4. n. A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
5. n. A female attendant or servant.
320	stay	©
1. v. To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
2. v. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
3. v. To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
4. v. To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
5. v. To cause to cease; to put an end to.

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