Common English Words

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840	weapons	©
1. n. plural of weapon
	weapon
1. n. An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
2. n. An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
3. n. (informal, humorous) A tool of any kind.
841	song
1. n. A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.
2. n. (by extension) Any musical composition.
3. n. Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
4. n. The act or art of singing.
842	eight
1. n. The digit/figure 8.
2. n. (playing cards) Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
3. n. (nautical) A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
4. n. (rowing, especially in plural) A race in which such craft participate.
5. n. (rowing) The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.
843	holding	©
1. n. Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
2. n. A determination of law made by a court.
3. n. A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
4. n. (obsolete) That which holds, binds, or influences.
5. n. (obsolete) Logic; consistency.
	hold
1. v. To grasp or grip.
2. v. To contain or store.
3. v. To maintain or keep to a position or state.:
844	fair	©
1. adj. (literary or archaic) Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.
Monday's child is fair of face.
There was once a knight who wooed a fair young maid.
2. adj. Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
one's fair name
845	shows	©
1. n. plural of show
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of show
	show
1. v. To display, to have somebody see (something).
2. v. To bestow; to confer.
846	excuse	©
1. v. To forgive; to pardon.
I excused him his transgressions.
2. v. To allow to leave, or release from any obligation.
May I be excused from the table?
I excused myself from the proceedings to think over what I'd heard.
847	sell	©
1. v. (transitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
I'll sell you all three for a hundred dollars.
Sorry, I'm not prepared to sell.
2. v. To be sold.
This old stock will never sell.
848	social
1. n. A festive gathering to foster introductions.
They organized a social at the dance club to get people to know each other.
2. n. (Canadian Prairies) A dance held to raise money for a couple to be married.
3. n. (UK, colloquial) (with definite article) Abbreviation of social security, referring to the UK state welfare system, or of related terms such as Social Security Office or Social Security Benefit.
Fred hated going down to the social to sign on.
849	written	©
1. adj. Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written).
2. adj. Having been written.
I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.
3. v. past participle of write
Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet?
	write
1. v. To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
2. v. To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
850	unless	©
1. conj. Except on a specified condition; if not.
I’m leaving unless I get a pay rise (AmE: raise).
2. conj. If not; used with counterfactual conditionals.
3. conj. Except if; used with hypothetical conditionals.
851	beginning	©
1. n. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states
2. n. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
3. n. That which begins or originates something; the first cause.
4. n. The initial portion of some extended thing.
The author describes the main character's youth at the beginning of the story.
	begin
1. v. To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
2. v. (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation
3. v. (intransitive) To come into existence.
852	laugh
1. n. An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
2. n. Something that provokes mirth or scorn.
3. n. (NZ) A fun person.
4. v. (intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied
5. v. (intransitive, obsolete, figuratively) To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
853	third	©
1. adj. The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
The third tree from the left is my favorite.
2. n. The person or thing in the third position.
Jones came in third.
3. n. One of three equal parts of a whole.
854	walking
1. v. present participle of walk
2. adj. Incarnate as a human; living.
Elizabeth knows so many words that they call her the walking dictionary.
Phil's mother is a walking miracle after surviving that accident.
3. adj. Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
	walk
1. v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times
2. v. (intransitive, colloquial, legal) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
3. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
855	visit	©
1. v. To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
2. v. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
3. v. Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
4. v. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
5. v. Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
856	wrote	©
1. v. simple past tense of write
We all wrote down the instructions.
2. v. (informal, nonstandard) past participle of write
	write
1. v. To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
2. v. To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
857	murder	©
1. n. An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone.
2. n. The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
The defendant was charged with murder.
3. n. (legal, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.
858	drive	©
1. n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
2. n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
3. n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
4. n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
859	allow	©
1. v. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest
2. v. To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition
3. v. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.

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