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💡 Example 💡 kid

kid (noun): "Those little ones there, probably no more than ten, fifteen kilos," he says, pointing out three goats about the same size as the cattle dog, "they would be in kid."

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🌜 Future Simple 🌛

They will build an eco-friendly community that prioritizes sustainability.
🗣 Conversation 🗣

- voting is so important, but people don't bother.
- many people think their vote doesn't matter.
SCALE
scale (noun)

Sounds:
- /skeɪl/
- [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ]

Forms:
- scales (plural)

scale (noun) senses:
1. (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
2. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
3. Size; scope.
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scale (verb)

Forms:
- scales (present, singular, third-person)
- scaling (participle, present)
- scaled (participle, past)
- scaled (past)

scale (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
2. (transitive) To climb to the top of.
3. (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
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🌜 Present Continuous 🌛

The students are working collaboratively on a group project.
💡 Example 💡 unwinnowed

unwinnowed (adj): While stooping over to fill his fan with unwinnowed grain, the buck, taking advantage of his position, came like a catapult against him, and sent him like a ball from a Paixhan gun, head foremost into the chaff.

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

Jan started to put the moves on the new boy at school because they were wildly attracted to the boy.
- (Jan) I'm already putting the new moves on the new boy at school.
- You and all the other girls.
- That's why I have to move quick.
- I don't think you were quick enough.
- Why do you say that?
- Because he already gave me his number.
🌜 Present Simple 🌛

We plant vegetables in the garden.
FUNCTION
function (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈfʌŋ(k)ʃən/ (UK)
- /ˈfʌŋkʃn̩/ (UK)
- /ˈfʌŋkʃən/ (US)
- [ˈfʌŋkʃɪ̈n] (US)
- [ˈfʌŋkʃn̩] (US)

Forms:
- functions (plural)

function (noun) senses:
1. What something does or is used for.
2. A professional or official position.
3. An official or social occasion.
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function (verb)

Forms:
- functions (present, singular, third-person)
- functioning (participle, present)
- functioned (participle, past)
- functioned (past)

function (verb) senses:
1. (intransitive) To have a function.
2. (intransitive) To carry out a function; to be in action.
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🌜 Past Simple 🌛

He drew a beautiful portrait of his sister.