Common English Words

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1040	weekend	©
1. n. The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in western countries, Saturday and Sunday.
2. v. To spend the weekend.
We'll weekend at the beach.
3. adj. Of, relating to or for the weekend.
I'm wearing my weekend shoes.
1041	terrible	©
1. adj. Dreadful; causing alarm and fear.
The witch gave him a terrible curse.
2. adj. Formidable, powerful.
3. adj. Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
He paid a terrible price for his life of drinking.
1042	president	©
1. n. The head of state of a republic, a representative democracy and sometimes a dictatorship.
The vast majority of presidents have been male.
2. n. Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.
3. n. A person presiding over a meeting, chair, presiding officer, presider.
4. n. obsolete form of precedent
1043	older	©
1. adj. comparative form of old: more old, elder, senior
My older brother and I are Catholic twins. He’s older by eleven months, not quite a year older than me.
2. adj. elderly
The thoughtful lad helped an older lady across the street.
1044	welcome	©
1. adj. Whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.
a welcome visitor
Refugees welcome in London!
2. adj. Producing gladness.
a welcome present; welcome news
1045	eventually	©
1. adv. In the end.
Everyone's true colors will be revealed eventually.
2. adv. (mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.
1046	onto	©
1. prep. Upon; on top of.
My cat just jumped onto the keyboard.
2. prep. (informal) Aware of.
(The thought-police were onto my plans of World domination.)
3. prep. (mathematics) Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).
1047	clearly	©
1. adv. (manner) In a clear manner.
He enunciated every syllable clearly.
2. adv. (modal) Without a doubt; obviously.
Clearly, the judge erred in his opinion.
3. adv. (degree) To a degree clearly discernible.
1048	sun	©
1. n. (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
2. n. The light and warmth which is received from the sun.
3. n. (figurative) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
4. n. (chiefly literary) Sunrise or sunset.
5. n. The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
1049	message	©
1. n. A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
We've just received an urgent message from the President.
2. n. An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.
The main message of the novel is that time heals all wounds.
3. n. (Ireland) An errand.
1050	card	©
1. n. A playing card.
2. n. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
He played cards with his friends.
3. n. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
1051	trade	©
1. n. Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
2. n. A particular instance of buying or selling.
I did no trades with them once the rumors started.
3. n. An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
4. n. Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
1052	lying	©
1. v. present participle of lie (to rest in a horizontal position id=to rest.
2. n. The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
3. v. present participle of lie (to intentionally give false information) id=false.
4. n. An act of telling a lie or falsehood.
	lie
1. v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
2. v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
3. v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
1053	pressure
1. n. A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
2. n. A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
3. n. Distress.
1054	forever	©
1. adv. (duration) For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time.
I shall love you forever.
2. adv. (duration, colloquial, hyperbole) For a very long time, a seeming eternity.
We had to wait forever to get inside.
3. adv. (frequency) Constantly or frequently.
1055	green
1. adj. Having green as its color.
The former flag of Libya is fully green.
2. adj. (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
Sally looks pretty green — is she going to be sick?
3. adj. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
1056	note
1. n. A symbol or annotation.:
2. n. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
3. n. A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
4. n. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observ
5. n. A written or printed communication or commitment.:
1057	hide	©
1. v. To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
He hides his magazines under the bed.
The politicians were accused of keeping information hidden from the public.
2. v. (intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.
3. n. The skin of an animal.
1058	industry	©
1. n. The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.
Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.
2. n. (business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
1059	dangerous	©
1. adj. Full of danger.
Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.
2. adj. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
3. adj. (colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
4. adj. (obsolete) Hard to suit; difficult to please.

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