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To put or keep (papers, for example) in useful order for storage or reference.
2. To enter (a legal document) as an official record.
3. To send or submit (copy) to a newspaper.
4. To initiate (a lawsuit): file a complaint; file charges. |
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To join or fasten together: a bridge that connects the island with the mainland.
2. To associate or consider as related: no reason to connect the two events. See Synonyms at join.
3. To join to or by means of a communications circuit: Please connect me to the number in San Diego. Her computer isconnected to the Internet.
4. To plug in (an electrical cord or device) to an outlet. |
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1. To cause to exist or happen; bring about; create: made problems for us; making a commotion.
2. To bring into existence by shaping, modifying, or
putting together material; construct: make a dress;
made a stone wall.
3. To form by assembling individuals or constituents: We made a temporary information center using savvy
volunteers.
4. To change from one form or function to another:
make clay into bricks |
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1. To come apart.
2. To break up in random fashion.
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1. To bring or call together into a group or whole: The bailiff assembled the jury.
2. To fit together the parts or pieces of: assemble a machine; assemble data.
To gather together; congregate: Protesters assembled on the common.
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1. Free from dirt, stain, or impurities; unsoiled: a clean kitchen floor;
clean clothes.
2. Free from foreign matter or pollution; unadulterated:clean air;
clean drinking water.
3.Producing relatively little pollution: a clean fuel; a cleaner, more
efficient engine.
4. Producing relatively little radioactive fallout or contamination: a clean nuclearbomb.
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a. The act or an instance of inspecting or testing something, as for accuracy or quality: gave the paper a final check.
b. A standard for inspecting or evaluating; a test: The condition of the wiring can serve as a check for the level of the seller's home maintenance.
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1. To restore to sound condition after damage or injury; fix: repaired the broken watch.
2. To set right; remedy: repair an oversight.
3. To restore or renew: repair the immune system.
4. To make up for or compensate for (a loss or wrong, for example). |
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1. (tr) to keep, set aside, or accumulate for future use.
2. (Commerce) (tr) to place in a warehouse, depository, etc, for safekeeping.
3. (tr) to supply, provide, or stock.
4. To deposit or receive in a storehouse or warehouse for
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1. (intr)toexerteffortinordertodo,make,orperformsomething.
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a. To conceive or fashion in the mind; invent: design a good excuse for not attending the conference.
b. To formulate a plan for; devise: designed a marketing strategy for the
new product.
c.Topreparethepreliminarysketchortheplansfor(aworktobe
executed):to design a new bridge |
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a.To make available (something needed or desired); furnish: provide
food and shelter for a family.
b. To supply something needed or desired to: provided her family with
food.
c.Tohaveasanavailableordesirablefeature;afford:a room that
provides ample sunlight through French windows.
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a. To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity (to do something); make able: a hole in the fence that enabled us to watch; techniques that enable surgeons to repair the heart.
b. To make feasible or possible: funds that will enable construction of new schools.
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1. To examine carefully and critically, especially for flaws.
2. To review or examine officially: The commander
inspected the troops.
3.Tolookcarefullyatorover:to inspect every part of a
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a. To make or process (a raw material) into a finished
product, especially by means of a large-scale industrial
operation.
b. To make or process (a product), especially with the use of industrial machines.
c.To create, produce, or turn out in a mechanical manner:
"His books seem to have been manufactured rather than composed" (Dwight Macdonald).
d.To concoct or invent; fabricate: manufacture an excuse. |
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1. To hold or include within its volume or area: This glass
contains water.
2. To have as contents or constituent parts; comprise;
include.
3. To be capable of holding; have capacity for.
4. To keep under proper control; restrain: He could not
contain his amusement. |
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a. To come or go after; proceed behind: Follow the usher to your seat.
b. To go after in pursuit: would follow his enemy to the ends of the earth.
c. To keep under surveillance: The agent followed the suspect around town
d.Tocomeafterinorder,time,orposition:Night follows day.
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1. To keep up or carry on; continue: maintain good relations.
2. To keep in an existing state; preserve or retain: maintain
one's composure.
3. To keep in a condition of good repair or efficiency:
maintain two cars. |
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1. To alter so as to be up to date: update a textbook; update the
files.
2. To inform (someone) with the latest information.
3. To bring up to date; incorporate new information in. |
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1. To have as a requisite or necessity; need or
depend on: Do you require assistance? Most plants
require plenty of water.
2.To stipulate as obligatory by authority: The law requires full disclosure of charitable donations.
3.To demand as obligatory or appropriate:
Skiing requires practice.
4. To impose an obligation on; compel: The school
requires all students to study mathematics. |
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a. To flow, go, or come out: water issuing from a spring;
voices issuing from a room.
b. To proceed from a source; emerge or come forth: ideas
issuing from a discussion.
c. To have as a consequence; result: discontent that issued in social unrest. |
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1. To report or relate explicitly or in particulars:
detailed the charges against the defendant.
2. To provide with artistic or decorative detail: detailed the quilt with colorful appliqué.
3. To assign to a particular duty: "The musicians
and other non- combatants were detailed to carry
the stretchers" (Peter Cozzens).
4. To clean (a car interior, for example)
meticulously.
5. To market to (a physician) the drugs sold by one's company,
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1. To make available for use; provide: Does the hotel
supply towels?
2. To provide something necessary or desired to;
furnish or equip: supplied the players with uniforms.
3. To have as a necessary or desirable feature: a crime scene that supplied valuable evidence.
4. To fill sufficiently; satisfy: supply a need.
5. To make up for (a deficiency, for example);
compensate for. |
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1. To come upon by chance; meet with: to find a dime in the
street.
2. To locate, attain, or obtain by search or effort: to find an
apartment.
3. To recover (something lost). |
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a. To place something upon or over, so as to protect or
conceal: covered the boat with a tarp; covered the photo with his
hand.
b. To overlay or spread with something: cover the potatoes
with gravy.
c. To put a cover or covering on: covered jar with a lid. |
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1. To prove to be true; confirm; substantiate.
2. To check or determine the correctness or truth of by
investigation, reference, etc.
3.To insure, see to it, ensure, ascertain, check, assure, control, see - be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something.
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1. To show the way to or the direction of; point out:
an arrow indicating north; indicated the right road by
nodding toward it.
2. To serve as a sign, symptom, or token of; signify:
"The cracking and booming of the ice indicate a change of
temperature"
3. To suggest or demonstrate the necessity,
expedience, or advisability of: The symptoms indicate
immediate surgery.
4. To state or express briefly: indicated his wishes in a
letter; indicating her approval with a nod. |
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1. To put into service or employ for a purpose: I used a whisk
to beat the eggs. The song uses only three chords.
2. To avail oneself of; practice: use caution.
3. To conduct oneself toward; treat or handle: "the peace
offering of a man who once used you unkindly"
4. To seek or achieve an end by means of; exploit: used their highly placed friends to gain access to the president; felt he was
being used by seekers of favor. |
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1. To say in a loud voice; announce: called my name from
across the street; calling out numbers.
2. To demand or ask for the presence of: called the children to dinner; call the police.
3. To demand or ask for a meeting of; convene or convoke: call the legislature into session.
4. To order or request to undertake a particular activity or work; summon: She was called for jury duty. He was called to
the priesthood.
5. To give the command for; order: call a work stoppage. |
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1. to keep out of the way of
2. to refrain from doing
3. to prevent from happening: to avoid damage to machinery. |
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a. To confirm formally as true, accurate, or genuine: The police
certified that a suspect had been arrested.
b.To endorse or guarantee (that certain required standards have been met)
c. To attest as certain; confirm: He certified the truth of her claim. |
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1. To give more force or effectiveness to; strengthen: The
news reinforced her hopes.
2. To strengthen by adding extra support or material.
3. To increase the number or amount of; augment.
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1. To let do or happen; permit: We allow smoking only
in restricted areas.
2. To permit the presence of: No pets are allowed inside
3. To permit to have: allow oneself a little treat.
4. To make provision for; assign: The schedule allows
time for a coffee break.
5. To plan for in case of need: allow two inches in the
fabric for shrinkage.
6. To grant as a discount or in exchange: allowed me 20 dollars on my old typewriter. |
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a. To cause or allow to be seen; display: showed us his tattoo.
b. To make evident or reveal (an emotion or condition, for
example): showed displeasure at his remark; a carpet that shows
wear.
c.To make, be, or become visible or noticeable: to show one's dislike
d. To present to view; exhibit: he showed me a picture.
e. To indicate or explain; prove: to show that the earth moves round
the sun. |
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1. (often foll by to) to adjust (someone or something, esp
oneself) to different conditions, a new environment, etc
2. (tr) to fit, change, or modify to suit a new or different purpose: to adapt a play for use in schools.
3. to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly. |
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1. To put into practice or effect: carry out a new policy.
2. To follow or obey: carry out instructions.
3. To bring to a conclusion; accomplish: carried out the
mission successfully. |
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1. To act in accordance with another's command, request,
rule, or wish: The patient complied with the physician's orders.
2. Obsolete To be courteous or obedient. |
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a. To make competent or eligible for an office, position,
or task: Your experience qualifies you for this job.
b. To declare competent or capable, as to practice a
profession; certify: This diploma qualifies you to teach in
public schools.
c. To render deserving of a descriptor by having or
enumerating certain necessary characteristics: Do the
student's ongoingdifficulties in classqualifyhissituation as a
medicalproblem?
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a. To meet or confront with self - assurance: How
can I face your parentswhentheyknowthatI'veletthemdown?
b. To acknowledge and accept or deal with: had to face the facts; must be willing to face our problems.
c.To be turned or placed with the front toward a specified
direction.
d.To turn the face in a specified direction. |
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1. To be made up or composed: New York City consists of five
boroughs.
2. To have a basis; reside or lie: The beauty of the artist's style
consists in its simplicity.
3. To be compatible; accord: The information consists with her
account. |
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1. (also intr) to make or become smaller in size, number,
extent, degree, intensity, etc
2. to bring into a certain state, condition, etc: to reduce a
forest to ashes; to reduce someone to despair.
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