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noun
- The act of gaining.
- What one gains, as a return on investment or dividend.
- No pain, no .
- (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
verb
- (transitive): To acquire possession of what one did not have before.
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noun
- An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
- On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge. " Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, s:Crime and Punishment/Part I/Chapter I, Part I, Chapter 1, Constance Garnett translation.
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noun
- A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
- I met her at a of engineers and scientists.
- A group of people or things.
- A gathering of fruit.
verb
- present continuous of gather; collecting or bringing together
- She enjoyed wildflowers.
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noun
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard; an act of measuring.
- 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence. p. 2.
- : The record of philosophy vis-í -vis silence is generally dismal, as good a as any to its overall failure.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
- The distance between the rails of a railway.
- (context, mathematics, analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
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noun
- a mixture of plaster of Paris and glue used to prepare a surface for painting
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verb
- (present participle of, glaze)
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noun
- A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
- 1823, w:James Fenimore Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper, s:The Pioneers/Chapter 8, The Pioneers - Chapter 8,
- :... on four tall pillars of pine that were fluted with a , and loaded with mouldings.
- A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
- The nail left a deep in the tire.
verb (goug, ing)
- (transitive) To make a mark or hole by scooping.
- Japanese and Chinese printers used to characters in wood.
- (transitive or intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
- 1930, w:Robert E. Howard, Robert E. Howard, s:Champ of the Forecastle, Champ of the Forecastle,
- : He tried to clinch and , but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out.
- (transitive) To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.
- They have no competition, so they tend to their customers.
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noun
- A rating.
- I gave him a good for effort.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- This fine- coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- ''The of this hill is more than 5 percent
- A level of pre-collegiate education
- Clancy is entering the fifth this year.
- An area that has been graded by a grader (construction machine)
- The level of the ground.
- This material absorbs moisture and is probably not a good choice for use below .
verb (grades, grading, graded)
- To score an academic test.
- To assign a score to overall academic performance.
- To flatten and even out or smooth a large surface.
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noun
- A horizontal metal grille through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
verb (grates, grating, grated)
- (transitive) To shred things, usually foodstuffs, by rubbing across a grater.
- (intransitive) To rub against, such as grating one's teeth.
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