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noun
- The fifteenth letter of the Appendix:Roman script, English alphabet, preceded by N and followed by P.
- A blood type that has no antigens and may only receive type O blood and nothing else, but may donate to all.
abbreviation
- (cricket) The number of overs bowled.
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noun (rfc-level, Noun at L4+ not in L3 POS section)
- A thing that has physical existence.
- The goal, end or purpose of something.
- 2000, Phyllis Barkas Goldman & John Grigni, Monkeyshines on Ancient Cultures
- :The of tlachtli was to keep the rubber ball from touching the ground while trying to push it to the opponent's endline.
- (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action.
- A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
- Mary Jane had been the of Peter's affection for years.
- The convertible, once of his desire, was now the of his hatred.
- (computing) In object-oriented programming, an instantiation of a class or structure.
verb
- (intransitive) To disagree with something or someone; to raise an objection.
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noun
- (grammar) the form of a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb or a preposition.
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noun
- (grammar) the optative mood.
- a verb or expression in the optative mood.
adjective (no comparative or superlative)
- expressing a wish or a choice.
- (grammar) a mood of verb, verbs found in some languages (e.g. Old Prussian, Latin), used to express a wish. English does not have an optative mood, but it does have some words with peculiar properties e.g., hope, wish, want, desire, which express the optative.
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noun (oxytone)
- (linguistics) A word with the stress or an acute accenton the last syllable.
adjective (incomparable)
- (linguistics) Pertaining to a word with the stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.
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