Common English Words

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1100	crime	©
1. n. A specific act committed in violation of the law.
2. n. The practice or habit of committing crimes.
Crime doesn’t pay.
3. n. criminal acts collectively.
4. n. Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
1101	companies
1. n. plural of company
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of company
	company
1. n. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
2. n. A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
3. n. (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battal
	company
1. n. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
2. n. A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
3. n. (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battal
1102	mistake	©
1. n. An error; a blunder.
2. n. (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.
3. v. To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To misunderstand (someone).
1103	thousands
1. n. plural of thousand
	thousand
1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 103
1104	gay
1. adj. (dated, possibly, archaic) Happy, joyful, and lively.
The Gay Science
2. adj. (dated, possibly, archaic) Festive, bright, or colourful.
Pennsylvania Dutch include the plain folk and the gay folk.
3. adj. (obsolete) Sexually promiscuous (of any gender).
1105	sake
1. n. Cause, interest or account.
For the sake of argument
2. n. Purpose or end; reason.
For old times' sake
3. n. The benefit or regard of someone or something.
1106	campaign	©
1. n. A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
an election campaign; a military campaign
The company is targeting children in their latest advertising campaign.
2. n. The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
3. n. (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
1107	heads	©
1. interj. A shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads.
2. n. plural of head.
3. n. (nautical) That part of older sailing ships forward of the forecastle and around the beak, used by the crew as their lavatory; still used as the word for toilets on a ship.
4. n. The side of a coin that bears the picture of the head of state or similar.
Heads, I win.
	head
1. n. The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
2. n. (people) To do with heads.
3. n. # Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
1108	sing
1. v. (intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
"I really want to sing in the school choir," said Vera.
2. v. To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
3. v. To soothe with singing.
to sing somebody to sleep
1109	tree	©
1. n. (botany) A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, with a single trunk that grows in girth with age and branches (that also grow in circumference with age).
Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.
Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
2. n. (botany) Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense.
the banana tree
1110	culture	©
1. n. the arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation
2. n. the beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life
3. n. the conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising of the accepted norms and values of a society.
4. n. (anthropology) any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings
5. n. (botany) cultivation
1111	walked	©
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of walk
	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.
1112	ourselves
1. pron. (reflexive pronoun) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
We should keep this for ourselves.
2. pron. (emphatic) We; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate.
We did it ourselves.
1113	eh
1. interj. (informal, UK, Australia, Canada, US) (Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said.)
These hot dogs are pretty good, eh?
2. interj. In isolation, a request for repetition or clarification of what has just been said. Compare what, pardon.
3. interj. (Canada) (An interjection used to ascertain the continued attention of an individual addressed by the speaker)
I went to the restaurant, eh, but my friends didn't show up.
1114	bought	©
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of buy.
She bought an expensive bag last week.
People have bought gas masks.
Our products can be bought at your local store.
2. n. (obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
	buy
1. v. To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods
2. v. To obtain by some sacrifice.
3. v. To bribe.
1115	radio
1. n. The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.
2. n. A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.
3. n. On-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media.
4. n. A device that can transmit radio signals.
5. n. (Internet) The continuous broadcasting of sound recordings via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.
1116	honest	©
1. adj. (of a person or institution) Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.
We're the most honest people you will ever come across.
2. adj. (of a statement) True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased.
an honest account of events; honest reporting
3. adj. In good faith; without malice.
1117	leaders	©
1. n. plural of leader
2. n. the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage
	leader
1. n. any person that leads or directs
2. n. one who goes first
3. n. one having authority to direct
1118	brain	©
1. n. (topics, en, Organs) The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
2. n. (informal) An intelligent person.
He was a total brain.
3. n. (plurale tantum) A person who provides the intelligence required for something.
He is the brains behind the scheme.
1119	carrying
1. v. present participle of carry
2. n. Transportation.
carryings away of goods
	carry
1. v. To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
2. v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
3. v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.

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