Common English Words

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980	silence	©
1. n. The lack of any sound.
When the motor stopped, the silence was almost deafening.
2. n. The act of refraining from speaking.
"You have the right to silence," said the police officer.
3. n. Form of meditative worship practiced by the Society of Friends (Quakers); meeting for worship.
981	dress
1. n. An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist.
Amy and Mary looked very pretty in their dresses.
2. n. Apparel, clothing.
He came to the party in formal dress.
3. n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
982	pictures
1. n. plural of picture
2. n. (dated, British) The cinema
We go to the pictures every Saturday night.
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of picture
	picture
1. n. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
2. n. An image; a representation as in the imagination.
3. n. A painting.
4. n. A photograph.
983	changes	©
1. n. plural of change
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of change
	change
1. v. (intransitive) To become something different.
2. v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
3. v. To replace.
984	cover	©
1. n. A lid.
2. n. Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
We didn't see John because he had taken cover behind the wing chair.
3. n. The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
4. n. The top sheet of a bed.
985	couch	©
1. n. An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person.
2. n. A bed, a resting-place.
3. n. (art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
4. n. (brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
a couch of malt
986	feelings
1. n. plural of feeling
	feeling
1. adj. Emotionally sensitive.
2. adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
3. n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
987	lines	©
1. n. plural of line
2. n. (film, theatre) Words spoken by the actors.
I have yet to learn my lines.
3. n. (fortifications) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
4. n. (shipbuilding) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
	line
1. n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
2. n. (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
3. n. (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
4. n. (graph theory) An edge of a graph.
988	hardly	©
1. adv. (manner, obsolete) Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.
2. adv. (manner, archaic) Harshly, severely.
I can't really deal hardly with people.
3. adv. (now rare) With difficulty.
4. adv. (degree) Barely, only just, almost not.
989	fast	©
1. adj. (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
That rope is dangerously loose. Make it fast!
2. adj. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
3. adj. (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend.)
4. adj. Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
990	apartment	©
1. n. A complete domicile occupying only part of a building.
apartment dwellers
2. n. (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
3. n. (obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
4. n. (computing, COM) A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.
991	feels	©
1. n. plural of feel
2. n. (colloquial) Feelings, emotions
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of feel
4. adj. (colloquial) (synonym of emotional)
	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.
3. v. To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
992	rich	©
1. adj. Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
2. adj. Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.
a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry
3. adj. Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop
993	surprised	©
1. adj. Caused to feel surprise, amazement or wonder, or showing an emotion due to an unexpected event.
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of surprise
	surprise
1. n. Something not expected.
2. n. The feeling that something unexpected has happened.
994	result	©
1. v. To proceed, spring up or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.
2. v. (intransitive, follwed by "in") To have as a consequence; to lead to; to bring about
This measure will result in good or in evil.
3. v. (legal) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.
4. v. (obsolete) To leap back; to rebound.
995	blue
1. adj. Of the colour blue.
the deep blue sea
2. adj. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
3. adj. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
The candle burns blue.
996	plays	©
1. n. plural of play
2. v. third-person singular present indicative 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.
997	concerned	©
1. adj. Showing concern.
There was a concerned expression on her face as I told her the news.
2. adj. Involved or responsible.
The people concerned have been punished.
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of concern
	concern
1. n. That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone. The adposition before the matter of interest is usually over, about or for.
2. n. The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
998	account	©
1. n. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
2. n. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
to keep one's account at the bank.
3. n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.
999	calm	©
1. adj. (of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
2. adj. (of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
3. adj. (of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
4. adj. Without wind or storm.
5. n. (in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.

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