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| n - the place or a place where one lives - the environment or habitat of a person or animal |
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1 up to (a time) that
he laughed until he cried
2 used with a negative before (a time or event)
until you change, you can't go out
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3 often preceded by: up in or throughout the period before
he waited until six
4 used with a negative earlier than; before
he won't come until tomorrow
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1 when tr, may take a clause as object or an infinitive to fail to recall (someone or something once known); be unable to remember
2 tr; may take a clause as object or an infinitive to neglect, usually as the result of an unintentional error
5 when tr, may take a clause as object to fail to mention
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modifier denoting a computer system, esp. for word processing, that is small enough to use at a desk |
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1 adj If you are afraidof someone or afraidto do something, you are frightened because you think that something very unpleasant is going to happen to you.
She did not seem at all afraid..., I was afraid of the other boys..., I'm still afraid to sleep in my own bedroom.
4 phrase If you want to apologize to someone or to disagree with them in a polite way, you can say I'm afraid.
We don't have anything like that, I'm afraid..., I'm afraid I can't help you... |
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1 verb If you leave a place or person, you go away from that place or person.
He would not be allowed to leave the country...
3 verb If you leave your husband, wife, or some other person with whom you have had a close relationship, you stop living with them or you finish the relationship.
He'll never leave you. You need have no worry.. |
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1 verb When you say something, you speak words.
I'm sorry,' he said... V with quote
She said they were very impressed... V that
Forty-one people are said to have been seriously hurt... be V-ed to-inf
I packed and said goodbye to Charlie.. |
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1 n-count You can use thing to refer to any object, feature, or event when you cannot, need not, or do not want to refer to it more precisely.
What's that thing in the middle of the fountain?
A strange thing happened...
3 n-count Thing is often used after an adjective, where it would also be possible just to use the adjective. For example, you can say it's a different thing instead of it's different.
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To be a parent is a terribly difficult thing... |
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1 pron You use that to refer back to an idea or situation expressed in a previous sentence or sentences.
They said you particularly wanted to talk to me. Why was that?...
3 det When you have been talking about a particular period of time, you use that to indicate that you are still referring to the same period. You use expressions such as that morning or that afternoon to indicate that you are referring to an earlier period of the same day.
The story was published in a Sunday newspaper later that week...
expresssion: That's true. That looks heavy
17 You use that's it to express agreement with or approval of what has just been said or done.
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1 verb When people or organizations such as banks lend you money, they give it to you and you agree to pay it back at a future date, often with an extra amount as interest.
The bank is reassessing its criteria for lending money...
2 verb If you lend something that you own, you allow someone to have it or use it for a period of time.
Will you lend me your jacket for a little while?... V n n
He had lent the bungalow to the Conrads for a couple of weeks. |
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1 verb When people or organizations such as banks lend you money, they give it to you and you agree to pay it back at a future date, often with an extra amount as interest.
The bank is reassessing its criteria for lending money...
3 adv You use much in front of `too' or comparative adjectives and adverbs in order to emphasize that there is a large amount of a particular quality.
ADV compar, ADV too (emphasis) (=far)
The skin is much too delicate..., You'd be so much happier if you could see yourself the way I see you... |
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1 det You use more to indicate that there is a greater amount of something than before or than average, or than something else. You can use `a little', `a lot', `a bit', `far', and `much' in front of more.
DET pl-n/n-uncount (Antonym: less) More and more people are surviving heart attacks..., He spent more time perfecting his dance moves instead of gym work., ...teaching more children foreign languages other than English...
More is also a pronoun., pron
As the level of work increased from light to heavy, workers ate more..., He had four hundred dollars in his pocket. Billy had more.
More is also a quantifier., quant QUANT of def-n
Employees may face increasing pressure to take on more of their own medical costs in retirement... |
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1 adv If something is going to happen soon, it will happen after a short time. If something happened soon after a particular time or event, it happened a short time after it.
ADV with v, ADV after n/cl, ADV afterwards
You'll be hearing from us very soon..., This chance has come sooner than I expected..., The plane was returning to the airport soon after takeoff when it burst into flames..., Soon afterwards he separated from his wife. |
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1 tr to be in want of
to need money
2 tr to require or be required of necessity (to be or do something); be obliged
to need to do more work
3 takes an infinitive without: to used as an auxiliary in negative and interrogative sentences to express necessity or obligation and does not add -s when used with he, she, it, and singular nouns
need he go?
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a a great majority of; nearly all
most people like eggs
b (as pronoun; functioning as sing or pl)
most of them don't know, most of it is finished
3 ♦ at (the) most at the maximum
that girl is four at the most
4 ♦ for the most part generally
5 ♦ make the most of to use to the best advantage
she makes the most of her accent
6 ♦ than most than most others
the leaves are greener than most
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1 an amusement or pastime; diversion
2 a contest with rules, the result being determined by skill, strength, or chance
3 a single period of play in such a contest, sport, etc |
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| a device to facilitate walking on snow |
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1 to carry, convey, or take (something or someone) to a designated place or person
bring that book to me, will you bring Jessica to Tom's party? |
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1 an arrangement of repeated or corresponding parts, decorative motifs, etc.
although the notes seemed random, a careful listener could detect a pattern |
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| 1 a large jug, usually rounded with a narrow neck and often of earthenware, used mainly for holding water |
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| 1 any sure-footed agile bovid mammal of the genus Capra, naturally inhabiting rough stony ground in Europe, Asia, and N Africa, typically having a brown-grey colouring and a beard. Domesticated varieties (C. hircus) are reared for milk, meat, and wool |
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| 1 any of various bovid mammals of the genus Ovis and related genera, esp. O. aries (domestic sheep), having transversely ribbed horns and a narrow face. There are many breeds of domestic sheep, raised for their wool and for meat |
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1 to press, mash, or squeeze so as to injure, break, crease, etc.
2 to break or grind (rock, ore, etc.) into small particles
3 to put down or subdue, esp. by force
to crush a rebellion
4 to extract (juice, water, etc.) by pressing
to crush the juice from a lemon |
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