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✳ glove (verb)

Forms:
- gloves (present, singular, third-person)
- gloving (participle, present)
- gloved (participle, past)
- gloved (past)

glove (verb) senses:
1. (baseball, transitive) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
2. (transitive) To put a glove or gloves on.
3. (cricket) To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball.
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💡 Example 💡 apply

apply (verb): That rule only applies to foreigners.

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🌜 Future Perfect 🌛

By the time you finish high school, I will have retired from my job.
🗣 Conversation 🗣

- it's in the fridge, i think.
- oh, yes, here it is. do you want a sandwich?
🌜 Present Simple 🌛

We learn from our mistakes.
✴ FOLLOW
✳ follow (verb)

Sounds:
- /ˈfɒləʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈfɑloʊ/ (General-American)

Forms:
- follows (present, singular, third-person)
- following (participle, present)
- followed (participle, past)
- followed (past)

follow (verb) senses:
1. (transitive, intransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
3. (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
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✳ follow (noun)

Forms:
- follows (plural)

follow (noun) senses:
1. (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it.
2. (social media) The act of following another user's online activity.
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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Do I have to talk to the interviewer or just leave my application?
- You should communicate with the interviewer whose company you are interested in, and make a good impression on him or her. In that case, your chance of success will be greater.
- What should I do in the fair?
- You should take a look at all the companies, choose your favorite ones, go over to talk with the interviewer and leave your resume in the end.
💡 Example 💡 colling

colling (noun): `'Tis melancholy work facing and footing it to one of your own sort, and no clasping and colling at all.'

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🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

He has repaired a broken bicycle.
🗣 Conversation 🗣

Wanting to spoil the big surprise planned, Kendall opened all Quinn's presents.
- (Kendall) I opened up all of Quinn's presents to spoil the big surprise.
- What's the big surprise?
- All of her friends chipped in and bought her a laptop for college.
- Is she already starting college? I thought she was younger than that.
- She'll be in a month so we decided to buy her a laptop. She can't afford it.
- That's very nice of you guys to help her out.
✴ VS
✳ vs (prep)

vs (prep) senses:
1. Alternative form of vs.
✳ vs (pron)

vs (pron) senses:
1. obsolete typography of us