Common English Words

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520	hurt	©
1. v. (intransitive) To be painful.
Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
2. v. To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
3. v. To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
521	lives	©
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of live
2. n. plural of life
	live
1. v. (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
2. v. (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
3. v. (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
522	cut	©
1. adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
2. adj. Reduced.
The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
3. adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
523	exactly
1. adv. (manner) without approximation; precisely.
Measure exactly so we can be sure it is right.
The edge is not exactly straight.
2. adv. (focus) Used to provide emphasis.
It was exactly an Eastern gray squirrel.
524	sounds
1. n. plural of sound
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of sound
	sound
1. adj. Healthy.
2. adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
525	control	©
1. v. To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck.
2. v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
3. n. Influence or authority over something.
The government has complete control over the situation.
526	needs	©
1. adv. (archaic) Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; often with must, and equivalent to "of need".
One must needs run when the devil drives.
2. n. plural of need
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of need
	need
1. n. A requirement for something; something needed.
527	tomorrow	©
1. adv. On the day after the present day.
2. adv. At some point in the future; later on
If you don't get your life on track today, you're going to be very sorry tomorrow.
3. n. The day after the present day.
528	husband	©
1. n. (obsolete) The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
2. n. (obsolete) A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
3. n. (archaic) A prudent or frugal manager.
4. n. A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
You should start dating so you can find a suitable husband.
529	brother
1. n. Son of the same parents as another person.
2. n. A male having at least one parent in common with another (see half-brother, stepbrother).
3. n. A male fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
Thank you, brother.
I would like to thank the brother who just spoke.
530	easy	©
1. adj. (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
Now that I know it's taken care of, I can rest easy at night.
2. adj. Requiring little skill or effort.
It's often easy to wake up but hard to get up.
The teacher gave an easy test to her students.
531	state	©
1. n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
a state of being; a state of emergency
2. n. (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
3. n. (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.
532	playing
1. n. (gerund of play) An occasion on which something, such as a song or show, is played.
2. v. present participle of play
	play
1. v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
2. v. To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
3. v. To compete against, in a game.
533	early
1. adj. At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
at eleven, we went for an early lunch; she began reading at an early age; his mother suffered an early death
2. adj. Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
You're early today! I don't usually see you before nine o'clock.
The early guests sipped their punch and avoided each other's eyes.
534	suppose	©
1. v. To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
Suppose that A implies B and B implies C. Then A implies C.
2. v. To theorize or hypothesize.
I suppose we all agree that this is the best solution.
3. v. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
535	act	©
1. n. Something done, a deed.
an act of goodwill
2. n. (obsolete) Actuality.
3. n. A product of a legislative body, a statute.
4. n. The process of doing something.
536	future	©
1. n. The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
2. n. Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
3. n. Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.
There is no future in dwelling on the past.
4. n. (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
537	waiting	©
1. v. present participle of wait
Your guest has been waiting for you. (progressive) Waiting for something to happen is part of the job. (gerund) They hurried into the waiting car. (participle used as ad
2. n. (obsolete) Watching.
3. n. The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
4. n. Attendance, service.
	wait
1. v. (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
2. v. (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
3. v. (intransitive, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
538	piece
1. n. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
I’d like another piece of pie.
2. n. A single item belonging to a class of similar items
a piece of machinery
a piece of software
539	afraid	©
1. adj. (usually used predicatively, not attributively) Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
He is afraid of death.
He is afraid to die.
He is afraid that he will die.
2. adj. (colloquial) regretful, sorry

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