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noun
- (countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
- (countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
- (countable) (slang) A police informant.
- Quotations:
- From the movie w:The Enforcer, The Enforcer.
- : If you don"t cooperate, I"ll put it out on the street that you"re an ear.
verb
- (archaic) To plough.
- Quotations:
- 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II
- : That power I have, discharge; and let them go
- : To the land that hath some hope to grow,
- : For I have none.
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adjective (earli, er)
- At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
- At eleven, we went for an lunch.
- She began reading at an age.
- His mother suffered an death.
- arrive, Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on-time.
- You're today! I don't usually see you before nine o'clock.
- The guests sipped their punch and avoided each other's eyes.
- Near the start or beginning.
- ''The play "Two Gentlemen of Verona" is one of Shakespeare's works.
adverb (earli, er)
- At a time before expected; sooner than usual.
- ''We finished the project an hour sooner than scheduled, so we left .
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proper noun
- The third planet in order from the Sun, upon which humans live; represented in astronomy and astrology by � and �.
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verb (eats, eating, ate, eaten)
- (transitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
- He"s eating an apple.
- (context, transitive, colloquial) To cause (someone) to worry.
- What"s eating you?
- (transitive) (Idiom) To take a loss in a transaction
- It"s a special order, we can"t send it back; if the customer won"t accept it, we"ll have to the 40 tons of steel ourselves.
- (intransitive) To consume a meal.
- What time do we this evening?
- Don"t disturb me now; can't you see I"m eating?
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noun
- The boundary line of a surface.
- (geometry) The joining line between two vertex, vertices of a polygon.
- (geometry) The place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- An advantage (as have the edge on)
- The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- He which hath the sharp sword with two edges. Rev. ii. 12.
- Slander,<BR> Whose edge is sharper than the sword. Shak.
- Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.
- Upon the edge of yonder coppice. Shak.
- In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge<BR> Of battle. Milton.
- Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. Sir W. Scott.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The full edge of our indignation. Sir W. Scott.
- Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices. Jer. Taylor.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening. "On the edge of winter." Milton.
- (cricket) The edge of a cricket bat.
- (graphtheory) Any of the connected pairs of vertex, vertices in a graph.
- In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
verb (edg, ing)
- (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- He edged the book across the table.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- He edged away from her.
- (cricket) (transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- (transitive) Triming the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
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noun (effig, ies)
- a dummy or other crude representation meant to represent a person or group that is hated
- a likeness of a person
| | egg |
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noun
- (context, zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals housing the embryo during its development.
- (countable) The egg of a domestic fowl as an item of food.
- (uncountable) The contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs as a culinary ingredient, etc.
- I also determine the minimal amount of egg required to make good mayonnaise.
- (context, biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
verb
- To throw eggs at.
- (with "on"): To encourage.
- To add beaten egg (cooking).
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noun
- The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
- A pipe fitting that turns a corner.
verb - To push with the elbow; to jostle or force.
- He elbowed his way through the crowd.
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adverb
- A word that implies any result with the exception of the one being referred to.
- (computing) A statement that indicates the result of a conditional statement (if) evaluating as false.
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noun
- Extreme part.
- Extreme line.
- Death.
- Result.
- Purpose.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- The Pavillion End
- The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws 8 rocks, 2 per player, in alternating fashion.
verb
- (intransitive): To finish, terminate.
- Is this movie ever going to ?
- (transitive): To finish, terminate.
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noun
- (heraldry): an individual or corporate coat of arms
- the insignia around doorknob's exterior hardware or a door lock's cosmetic plate
- a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by user's fingers
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noun (wikipedia, essence, essence (philosophy))
- The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
- A significant feature of something.
- The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
- essence of Jojoba
- fragrance, Fragrance, a perfume.
- (philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
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noun
- (context, archaic, or, poetic) evening, Evening.
verb
- To make flat and level.
- We need to even this playing field; the west goal is too low.
adjective
- Flat and level.
- Clear out those rocks. The surface must be even.
- Without great variation.
- Despite her fear, she spoke in an even voice.
- Equal in proportion, quantity, size etc.
- The distribution of food must be even.
- (arithmetic) (no comparative or superlative) Leaving no remainder when divided by 2.
- Four, fourteen and forty are even numbers.
adverb (notcomp)
- (context, archaic or rhetorical) exactly, just, fully
- I fulfilled my instructions as I had promised.
- You are leaving tonight? — Even so.
- Implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality
- Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.
- Did you make it through the front door?
- That was before I was born.
- Emphasising a comparative
- I was strong before; but now I am stronger.
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noun
- An occurrence of social or personal importance.
- (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate
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adverb
- (archaic) Always
- It was ever thus.
- At any time, particularly used as an intensifier.
- If that ever happens, we"re in deep trouble.
- Has a foreign-born man ever been president?
- Will this ever end?
- Don't ever do that again.
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noun
- Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
- (context, legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
verb (evidenc, ing)
- (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
- She was furious, as evidenced by her slamming the door.
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noun (uncountable)
- The forces/behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. Evil generally seeks own benefit at the expense of others and is based on general malevolence.
- The evils of society include murder.
- Any particular individual or state which may follow these forces or behaviors.
adjective
- Intending to harm.
- (context, of food) Gone off, fattening, etc.
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verb
- (transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
- 2007: But this ban on circumcision must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews. " Glen Bowersock, "Provocateur", London Review of Books 29:4, p. 17
- (context, intransitive, rare, construed with to or against) To take exception, to object to.
- 1658: The Athenians might fairly against the practise of Democritus to be buried up in honey; as fearing to embezzle a great commodity of their Countrey " Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 23)
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noun
- An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgement.
- Tell me why you were late – and I don't want to hear any excuses!
| | expect |
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verb
- To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated.
- Good: I will expect you. Shakespeare
- Expecting thy reply. Shakespeare
- The Somersetshire or yellow regiment ... was expected to arrive on the following day. Macaulay.
- to consider obligatory or required;
- to consider reasonably due;
- You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.
- (obsolete) To wait for; to await.
- Let's in, and there expect their coming. Shakespeare
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noun
- A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
- Husband nature's riches from . - Shakespeare, Sonnet XCIV
- That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.
- Courting popularity at his party's expense. - Brougham?
- (obsolete) Loss. - Shakespeare
- And moan the of many a vanished sight. - Edmund Spenser
verb (expenses, expensing, expensed)
- (transitive) To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.
- It should be acceptable to a business lunch with a client.
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noun (plural eyes or (archaic) eyen)
- An organ that is sensitive to light, which it converts to electrical signals passed to the brain, by which means animals see.
- A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
- A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook.
- The center/centre of a hurricane.
- A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling an eye.
- A reproductive bud in a potato.
- The ability to notice what others might miss.
- He has a good eye for talent.
verb (eyes, eyeing or eying, eyed)
- To look at someone or something as if with the intent to do something with that person or thing.
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noun (pl=eyeteeth)
- a canine tooth of the upper jaw
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