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| once upon a time |
| 1. adv. The traditional beginning of children's stories, especially fairy tales. |
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| 2. adv. A long time ago (typically said of something that is not well remembered). |
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| I don't speak Spanish, but I could read it pretty well once upon a time. |
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| once |
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| 1. adv. (frequency) One and only one time. |
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| I have only once eaten pizza. |
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| 2. adv. (temporal location) Formerly; during some period in the past. |
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| He was once the most handsome man around. I once had a bicycle just like that one. |
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| Wang notes that flowers have rooted and grow in the area once covered with ice. |
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| upon |
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| 1. prep. Physically above and in contact with. |
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| Place the book upon the table. |
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| 2. prep. Physically directly supported by. |
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| The crew set sail upon the sea. |
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| She balanced upon one foot. |
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| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. |
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| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. |
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| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. |
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| I've seen it happen a hundred times. |
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| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) |
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| time |
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| 1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past. |
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| Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time |
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| 2. n. (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension. |
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| Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time. |
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| 3. n. (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy. |
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