✳ send (noun)

Forms:
- sends (plural)

send (noun) senses:
1. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
2. (nautical) Alternative form of scend
3. (Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
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🌜 Past Simple 🌛

He played the saxophone at a jazz club.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- I hate to do this, but I've got to cancel a reservation I made earlier this week.
- All I need is your name, phone, and reservation date.
- My name is Rudy Randolph. I'm at 818-555-1234. The reservation was for April 9.
- Randolph, Rudy. Let me hit one button, sir, and now your reservation is cancelled.
- Okay, thank you. I'll make another reservation as soon as I can.
- It's been my pleasure to help you.

🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

He has repaired a malfunctioning computer.

💡 Example 💡 against

against (prep): The rain pounds against the window.

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Do you have any apartment to rent?
- Yes. Right now I have a studio.
- Where is it.
- In the downtown, near the square.
- Is it furnished?
- Yes, and the rent includes utilities.
- That's good. When can I go to see the house?
- What about next saturday.
- Fine.

✳ secure (adj)

Sounds:
- /səˈkjʊə(ɹ)/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /səˈkjɔː(ɹ)/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /səˈkjʊɹ/ (General-American)
- /səˈkjɝ/ (General-American)
- /səˈkjɔɹ/ (General-American)

Forms:
- securer (comparative)
- more secure (comparative)
- securest (superlative)
- most secure (superlative)

secure (adj) senses:
1. Free from attack or danger; protected.
2. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
3. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
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✳ secure (verb)

Forms:
- secures (present, singular, third-person)
- securing (participle, present)
- secured (participle, past)
- secured (past)

secure (verb) senses:
1. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
2. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
3. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
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🌜 Past Perfect 🌛

The chef had prepared the meal before the guests arrived.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Foreign Currency Deposits Counter, yes. What can I do for you?
- You see, I have these Euros, and of course they are of no use to me at the moment. So I'd like to save them in my account, but I'm not sure how to go about it.
- OK. We offer 2 types of saving systems, Time Savings and Demand Savings. With Time Savings your money cannot be withdrawn for a certain period of time, but with Demand Savings your money is ' on demand ', you can withdraw at any time.
- I see. What's the interest like on those?
- There's quite a large difference. I mean, if you were to use demand deposit we could give you 0.13 % interest, but for a time deposit, of say, 1 year we would offer 0.82 %.
- Yes, I couldn't agree with you more. A 1 year time deposit it is!

💡 Example 💡 Spielbergian

Spielbergian (adj): There’s a similar level of craftsmanship on display in a subsequent nighttime raid on the stronghold and in the movie’s darkest and most Spielbergian sequence, in which the apes are forced to strangle one of their own while trying to keep quiet in a human encampment

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✳ strategic (adj)

Sounds:
- /stɹəˈtiː.d͡ʒɪk/ (UK)

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

strategic (adj) senses:
1. Of or pertaining to strategy.
2. Of or relating to military operations that are more large-scale or long-range than local or tactical ones.

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