Common English Words

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1260	style	©
1. n. A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
2. n. Flair; grace; fashionable skill.
As a dancer, he has a lot of style.
3. n. (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
4. n. A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
1261	fellow
1. n. (obsolete) A colleague or partner.
2. n. (archaic) A companion; a comrade.
3. n. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
4. n. An equal in power, rank, character, etc.
5. n. One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate.
1262	ministers
1. n. plural of minister
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of minister
	minister
1. n. A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
2. n. A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).
3. n. At a diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
1263	mark	©
1. n. Boundary, land within a boundary.:
2. n. (obsolete) A boundary; a border or frontier.
3. n. (obsolete) A boundary-post or fence.
4. n. A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
5. n. (archaic) A type of small region or principality.
1264	train
1. n. Elongated portion.
2. n. The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride's train as they were walking down the aisle.
3. n. A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
4. n. The tail of a bird.
1265	band
1. n. A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
2. n. A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
3. n. A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
4. n. A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
5. n. A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
1266	el
1. n. (US) An (soplink elevated train), especially for specific systems such as the metro in Chicago.
1267	missing	©
1. v. present participle of miss
2. adj. Not able to be located; gone; misplaced
my missing socks
3. adj. Not present when it (they) should be.
missing data point
	miss
1. v. To fail to hit.
2. v. To fail to achieve or attain.
1268	drinks
1. n. plural of drink
2. n. (cricket, plurale tantum) A short break in play to allow the players to have a drink, and for quick repairs to be made to equipment or the pitch.
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of drink
	drink
1. v. To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
2. v. (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
1269	computer
1. n. (now rare, chiefly historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
2. n. (by restriction, chiefly historical) A male computer, where the female computer is called a computress.
3. n. A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially
1270	mess	©
1. n. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.
He made a mess of it.
My bedroom is such a mess; I need to tidy up.
2. n. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
My boss dumped a whole mess of projects on my desk today.
1271	nearly	©
1. adv. (now rare) With great scrutiny; carefully.
2. adv. With close relation; intimately.
3. adv. Closely, in close proximity.
4. adv. In close approximation; almost, virtually.
He left a nearly full beer on the bar.
1272	hearing	©
1. adj. Able to hear.
Deaf people often must deal with hearing people.
2. n. The sense used to perceive sound.
My hearing isn't what it used to be, but I still heard that noise.
3. n. The act by which something is heard.
	hear
1. v. (intransitive) To perceive sounds through the ear.
2. v. To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
3. v. To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
1273	promised	©
1. adj. Predicted; expected; anticipated.
2. adj. Under obligation to some future commitment, such as a marriage or vocation.
3. adj. Due to become manifest because of a past promise.
4. v. simple past tense and past participle of promise
	promise
1. n. an oath or affirmation; a vow
2. n. a transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use
3. n. reason to expect improvement or success; potential
1274	fresh	©
1. adj. Newly produced or obtained.
He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.
I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.
2. adj. Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled.
After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.
1275	economic	©
1. adj. Pertaining to an economy.
2. adj. Frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value); economical.
3. adj. Pertaining to the study of money and its movement.
1276	similar	©
1. adj. Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
2. adj. (mathematics) Of geometrical figures including triangles, squares, ellipses, arcs and more complex figures, having the same shape but possibly different size, rotational orientation, and position; in
3. n. That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.
4. n. (homeopathy) A material that produces an effect that resembles the symptoms of a particular disease.
1277	arrived	©
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of arrive
	arrive
1. v. (intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
2. v. (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
3. v. (lbl, en, intransitive) To come; said of time.
1278	reasons	©
1. n. plural of reason
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of reason
	reason
1. n. A cause:
2. n. That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
3. n. A motive for an action or a determination.
1279	here's
1. contraction. Contraction of here is.
2. contraction. (nonstandard) Contraction of here are.
	here
1. adv. (location) In, on, or at this place.
2. adv. (location) To this place; used in place of the more dated hither.
3. adv. (abstract) In this context.
	is
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of be
2. n. plural of i

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