Common English Words

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1180	apparently	©
1. adv. (archaic) Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently.
2. adv. Seemingly; in appearance only.
A man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.
3. adv. According to what the speaker has read or heard.
Apparently you are quite a good dancer.
1181	trial	©
1. n. An opportunity to test something out; a test.
They will perform the trials for the new equipment next week.
2. n. Appearance at judicial court in order to be examined.
3. n. A difficult or annoying experience.
That boy was a trial to his parents.
1182	streets	©
1. n. plural of street
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of street
	street
1. n. A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
2. n. A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
3. n. The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
1183	keeping
1. n. conformity or harmony.
The songs are new but in keeping with tradition.
The foreground of this painting is not in keeping.
2. n. charge or care.
3. n. Maintenance; support; provision; feed.
	keep
1. v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
2. v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
3. v. To maintain possession of.
1184	provide	©
1. v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.
2. v. To act to prepare for something.
3. v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
The contract provides that the work be well done.
1185	star	©
1. n. Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots.
2. n. (star) A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included.
3. n. (geometry) A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points.
4. n. (acting) An actor in a leading role.
Many Hollywood stars attended the launch party.
1186	bus
1. n. (automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
2. n. An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
3. n. (medical industry, slang) An ambulance.
4. v. (transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
5. v. (transitive, automotive, transport, chiefly US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
1187	list	©
1. n. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
2. n. Material used for cloth selvage.
3. n. A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
4. n. (in the historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
5. n. (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the LISP programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or mor
1188	smiles
1. n. plural of smile
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of smile
	smile
1. n. A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of
2. v. To have (a smile) on one's face.
3. v. To express by smiling.
1189	cases
1. n. plural of case
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of case
While the detective cases the joint, they'll get away.
	case
1. n. An actual event, situation, or fact.
2. n. (now rare) A given condition or state.
1190	schools	©
1. n. plural of school
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of school
	school
1. n. (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
2. n. A multitude.
3. v. (lbl, en, intransitive) (of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.
4. n. (US, Canada) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
1191	extra	©
1. adj. Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
extra work; extra pay
2. adj. (dated) Extraordinarily good; superior.
3. adj. (North America, slang) Over-the-top; going beyond what is normal or expected, often in a dramatic manner.
You deleted your photos of her because she lost your Snapchat streak!? You're so extra!
1192	parts	©
1. n. plural of part
2. n. (plural only) Intellectual ability or learning.
He was a man of great parts but little virtue.
3. n. (plural only, usually with “these”, colloquial) Vicinity, region.
4. n. (plural only, euphemistic) The genitals, short for private parts.
	part
1. n. A portion; a component.
2. n. A fraction of a whole.
3. n. A distinct element of something larger.
1193	intelligence	©
1. n. (mostly) Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn.
2. n. An entity that has such capacities.
3. n. (mostly) Information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
4. n. A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
5. n. (dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
1194	becomes	©
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of become
2. v. (computing) The two-character symbol sequence ":=" used in some programming languages to mean is assigned the value of. Used to distinguish between assignment of value and comparison for equality.
	become
1. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
2. v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
3. v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
1195	reach	©
1. v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
He reached for a weapon that was on the table.
He reached for his shoe with his legs.
2. v. To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
to reach one a book
1196	fade	©
1. adj. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless.
2. n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
3. n. A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
4. n. (slang) A fight.
5. n. (music, cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song).
1197	justice	©
1. n. The state or characteristic of being just or fair.
the justice of a description
2. n. The ideal of fairness, impartiality, etc., especially with regard to the punishment of wrongdoing.
Justice was served.
3. n. Judgment and punishment of a party who has allegedly wronged another.
1198	smell
1. n. A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
I love the smell of fresh bread.
2. n. (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
3. v. To sense a smell or smells.
I can smell fresh bread.
1199	names	©
1. n. plural of name
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of name
	name
1. n. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
2. n. Reputation.
3. n. An abusive or insulting epithet.

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