Common English Words

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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.
321	comes	©
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of come
2. n. (music) The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.
	come
1. v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
2. v. To move towards the speaker.
322	today	©
1. adv. On the current day or date.
I want this done today.
Today, my brother went to the shops.
2. adv. In the current era; nowadays.
In the 1500s, people had to do things by hand, but today we have electric can openers.
323	point
1. n. A discrete division of something.
2. n. An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
The Congress debated the finer points of the bill.
3. n. A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
There comes a point in a marathon when some people give up.
324	ago
1. adj. (archaic, or dialectal) Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away.
in days ago/in days agone
2. adj. (archaic, or dialectal) Nearly gone; dead (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century)
Woe the day- she is agone!
3. adv. before
325	days	©
1. n. plural of day
2. n. A particular time or period of vague extent.
Things were more relaxed in Grandpa's days.
3. n. Life.
That's how he ended his days.
	day
1. n. Any period of 24 hours.
2. n. A period from midnight to the following midnight.
3. n. (astronomy) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).
326	party	©
1. n. (legal) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee.
2. n. A person.
3. n. (slang) A person; an individual.
He is a queer party.
327	hey
1. interj. An exclamation to get attention.
Hey, look at this!
Hey! Listen!
2. interj. A protest or reprimand.
Hey! Stop that!
328	yesterday	©
1. n. The day immediately before today; one day ago.
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow.
Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.
2. n. The (recent) past, often disparaging.
yesterday's technology
329	police	©
1. n. A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order.
Call the police!
The police operating in New York City operate under the New York City Police Department, several other City agencies and boards, and several public authorities.
2. n. (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Scotland) A police officer.
3. n. (obsolete) Policy.
330	haven't
1. v. have not (negative form of haveArnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, , Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513)
	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).
	not
1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
2. adv. To no degree.
331	okay
1. n. alternative spelling of OK
2. v. alternative spelling of OK
3. adj. alternative spelling of OK
4. adv. alternative spelling of OK
5. interj. alternative spelling of OK
332	anyone	©
1. pron. Any person; anybody.
333	saw	©
1. n. A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
2. n. A musical saw.
3. n. A sawtooth wave.
4. v. To cut (something) with a saw.
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
	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.
334	gets	©
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of get
	get
1. v. (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
2. v. To receive.
335	case	©
1. n. An actual event, situation, or fact.
For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.
It is not the case that every unfamiliar phrase is an idiom.
In case of fire, break glass. sign on fire extinguisher holder in public space
2. n. (now rare) A given condition or state.
336	hope	©
1. n. (lb or un) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
I still have some hope that I can get to work on time.
After losing my job, there's no hope of being able to afford my world cruise.
There is still hope that we can find our missing cat.
2. n. The actual thing wished for.
337	change	©
1. v. (intransitive) To become something different.
The tadpole changed into a frog. Stock prices are constantly changing.
2. v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
The fairy changed the frog into a prince. I had to change the wording of the ad so it would fit.
3. v. To replace.
338	quite
1. adv. To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.:
2. adv. With verbs, especially past participles.
3. adv. With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
4. adv. With predicative adjectives.
5. adv. With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
339	matter	©
1. n. Substance, material.
2. n. (physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume.
3. n. (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. (Non-antimatter matter).
4. n. A kind of substance.
vegetable matter

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