💡 Example 💡 hotfoot it

hotfoot it (verb): My writing all took place over weekends, and because I only lived about ten miles away, Peter would hot-foot it to my home on a Monday morning to collect a large parcel of hand-typed sheets of copy, for despatch to the typesetters.

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🌜 Past Perfect 🌛

They had gone to bed before their parents returned.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- I am checking out. Here is the key to my room.
- Thank you. I'll just print out your receipt, and then you're free to go. Here you go!
- Thanks.
- If you don't mind me asking, how did you enjoy your stay at New York Hotel?
- This hotel could use some insecticide, but my time in New York was thoroughly delightful.
- That's very honest of you. Rest assured that this hotel will have no insects next time.

✳ seed (noun)

Sounds:
- /siːd/ (Received-Pronunciation, US)

Forms:
- seeds (plural)

seed (noun) senses:
1. (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
2. (countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
3. (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
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✳ seed (verb)

Forms:
- seeds (present, singular, third-person)
- seeding (participle, present)
- seeded (participle, past)
- seeded (past)

seed (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
2. (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
3. (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
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💡 Example 💡 roundelay

roundelay (noun): "Ay, fool," said Tristram, "but 'tis eating dry To dance without a catch, a roundelay To dance to." Then he twangled on his harp, And while he twangled little Dagonet stood Quiet as any water-sodden log Stay'd in the wandering warble of a brook;[…]

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🌜 Future Continuous 🌛

The athletes will be training intensively to prepare for the upcoming national championships.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Hello, 332440.
- Oh hello, Sally. This is Dave Thomson here. Could I speak to Jim please?
- I'm afraid he's not in at the moment Dave. He went out about an hour ago and he's not back yet.
- Any idea when he might be back?
- Well, he shouldn't be long. He said he was just going to get some paint. But I wouldn't be surprised if he's stopped off at the pub on the way back.
- OK. well, tell him I've called, will you, and I'll try again later.
- All right. Goodbye, Dave.
- Thanks then Sally. Goodbye.

✳ so (conj)

Sounds:
- /səʊ/ (UK)
- /soʊ/ (US)

so (conj) senses:
1. Reduced form of 'so that', used to express purpose; in order that.
2. With the result that; for that reason; therefore.
3. Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question.
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✳ so (adv)

so (adv) senses:
1. To the (explicitly stated) extent that.
2. (informal) Very (positive clause).
3. (informal) Very (negative clause).
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✳ so (adj)

Forms:
- more so (comparative)
- most so (superlative)

so (adj) senses:
1. true, accurate
2. In that state or manner; with that attribute. A proadjective that replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.
3. (dated, UK, slang) Homosexual.

✳ so (intj)

so (intj) senses:
1. Used after a pause for thought to introduce a new topic, question or story, or a new thought or question in continuation of an existing topic.
2. Used as a question to ask for further explanation of something said, often rhetorically or in a dismissive or impolite manner.
3. Used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response to a question.
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✳ so (pron)

so (pron) senses:
1. Abbreviation of someone.

✳ so (noun)

Forms:
- sos (plural)

so (noun) senses:
1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale.
2. (foods) A type of dairy product, made especially in Japan between the seventh and 10th centuries, by reducing milk by boiling it.

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