🌜 Past Continuous 🌛
We were studying ancient civilizations, unraveling the mysteries of the past.
We were studying ancient civilizations, unraveling the mysteries of the past.
✳ keep (verb)
Sounds:
- /kiːp/
- [kʰip̚]
Forms:
- keeps (present, singular, third-person)
- keeping (participle, present)
- kept (participle, past)
- kept (past)
keep (verb) senses:
1. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
2. To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
3. To maintain possession of.
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Sounds:
- /kiːp/
- [kʰip̚]
Forms:
- keeps (present, singular, third-person)
- keeping (participle, present)
- kept (participle, past)
- kept (past)
keep (verb) senses:
1. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
2. To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
3. To maintain possession of.
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✳ keep (noun)
Forms:
- keeps (plural)
keep (noun) senses:
1. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
2. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
3. (obsolete) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice.
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Forms:
- keeps (plural)
keep (noun) senses:
1. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
2. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
3. (obsolete) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice.
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💡 Example 💡 zombie theory
zombie theory (noun): The best example of a zombie theory is the one-time giant of American sociological theory, structural functionalism.
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zombie theory (noun): The best example of a zombie theory is the one-time giant of American sociological theory, structural functionalism.
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✳ bullet (noun)
Sounds:
- /ˈbʊl.ɪt/
Forms:
- bullets (plural)
bullet (noun) senses:
1. A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
2. (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
3. Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
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Sounds:
- /ˈbʊl.ɪt/
Forms:
- bullets (plural)
bullet (noun) senses:
1. A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
2. (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
3. Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
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✳ bullet (verb)
Forms:
- bullets (present, singular, third-person)
- bulleting (participle, present)
- bulleted (participle, past)
- bulleted (past)
bullet (verb) senses:
1. (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
2. (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
3. (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.
Forms:
- bullets (present, singular, third-person)
- bulleting (participle, present)
- bulleted (participle, past)
- bulleted (past)
bullet (verb) senses:
1. (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
2. (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
3. (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.
🗣 Conversation 🗣
Jordan was not supposed to have wine on the carpet, but he did and he spilled red wine on the carpet.
- (Jordan) I really should have known better than to set my wine glass down on the carpet.
- That sounds like a recipe for disaster.
- It was, I forgot where I set the glass for a moment and spilled it all over.
- That's horrible, isn't your carpet cream coloured?
- It was, now it's red because of the wine!
- Your wife's sure not going to be happy!
Jordan was not supposed to have wine on the carpet, but he did and he spilled red wine on the carpet.
- (Jordan) I really should have known better than to set my wine glass down on the carpet.
- That sounds like a recipe for disaster.
- It was, I forgot where I set the glass for a moment and spilled it all over.
- That's horrible, isn't your carpet cream coloured?
- It was, now it's red because of the wine!
- Your wife's sure not going to be happy!
💡 Example 💡 solvable
solvable (adj): It is a very strange thing, and not solvable by any moral law that I know of, that if a man loses his horse, the whole country will turn out to help hang the thief; but if a man but a shade or two darker than I am is himself stolen, the same crowd will hang one who aids in restoring him to liberty.
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solvable (adj): It is a very strange thing, and not solvable by any moral law that I know of, that if a man loses his horse, the whole country will turn out to help hang the thief; but if a man but a shade or two darker than I am is himself stolen, the same crowd will hang one who aids in restoring him to liberty.
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✳ gentleman (noun)
Sounds:
- /ˈd͡ʒɛn.təl.mən/
- [ˈd͡ʒɛɾ̃.ɫ̩.mən] (General-American)
Forms:
- gentlemen (plural)
gentleman (noun) senses:
1. (chiefly historical) A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; (UK law) an armiferous man ranking below a knight.
2. Any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man.
3. (derogatory) An effeminate or oversophisticated man.
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Sounds:
- /ˈd͡ʒɛn.təl.mən/
- [ˈd͡ʒɛɾ̃.ɫ̩.mən] (General-American)
Forms:
- gentlemen (plural)
gentleman (noun) senses:
1. (chiefly historical) A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; (UK law) an armiferous man ranking below a knight.
2. Any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man.
3. (derogatory) An effeminate or oversophisticated man.
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