✳ budget (noun)
Sounds:
- /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt/
Forms:
- budgets (plural)
budget (noun) senses:
1. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
2. (by implication) A relatively small amount of available money.
3. An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
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Sounds:
- /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt/
Forms:
- budgets (plural)
budget (noun) senses:
1. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.
2. (by implication) A relatively small amount of available money.
3. An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
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✳ budget (verb)
Forms:
- budgets (present, singular, third-person)
- budgeting (participle, present)
- budgeted (participle, past)
- budgeted (past)
budget (verb) senses:
1. (intransitive) To construct or draw up a budget.
2. (transitive) To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
3. (transitive) To plan for the use of in a budget.
Forms:
- budgets (present, singular, third-person)
- budgeting (participle, present)
- budgeted (participle, past)
- budgeted (past)
budget (verb) senses:
1. (intransitive) To construct or draw up a budget.
2. (transitive) To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
3. (transitive) To plan for the use of in a budget.
🗣 Conversation 🗣
- My shirt needs ironing. Could you please help me with that, Mary?
- No way. Do it yourself.
- Please, I promise this is the last time.
- OK, I'll iron your shirt for you, but only if you make me a cup of coffee.
- My shirt needs ironing. Could you please help me with that, Mary?
- No way. Do it yourself.
- Please, I promise this is the last time.
- OK, I'll iron your shirt for you, but only if you make me a cup of coffee.
🗣 Conversation 🗣
- I tried to ask the bank teller why it changed, but she didn't speak English well enough.So I decided to go to the magazine shop. The one around the corner.And I bought an American newspaper.
- What happened?
- It seems that yesterday the Mexican government declared wouldn't pay back the loans it got from the World Bank.The government declared a default on the loans.
- That's serious.
- I know. The economy here is having serious problems.But because the government declared a default, the currency value went way down.
- So now Mexican pesos are worth about half as much.
- Yes, it's an amazing drop.
- Wow. I feel sorry for the Mexicans. But it's good for us.
- Yes, it's very good. We suddenly have twice as much money to spend here.Our hotel is now half as expensive as when we got here! Isn't that strange?
- Yes, and you know what?
- What?
- I don't really like this hotel that much.So tonight, now that we are so rich, tonight why don't we stay in the most expensive hotel in town?
- Why not? We should do it. Because now we can afford it.
- I tried to ask the bank teller why it changed, but she didn't speak English well enough.So I decided to go to the magazine shop. The one around the corner.And I bought an American newspaper.
- What happened?
- It seems that yesterday the Mexican government declared wouldn't pay back the loans it got from the World Bank.The government declared a default on the loans.
- That's serious.
- I know. The economy here is having serious problems.But because the government declared a default, the currency value went way down.
- So now Mexican pesos are worth about half as much.
- Yes, it's an amazing drop.
- Wow. I feel sorry for the Mexicans. But it's good for us.
- Yes, it's very good. We suddenly have twice as much money to spend here.Our hotel is now half as expensive as when we got here! Isn't that strange?
- Yes, and you know what?
- What?
- I don't really like this hotel that much.So tonight, now that we are so rich, tonight why don't we stay in the most expensive hotel in town?
- Why not? We should do it. Because now we can afford it.
✳ sport (noun)
Sounds:
- /spɔːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /spɔɹt/ (General-American)
- /spɔː/ (Tasmanian)
- /spo(ː)ɹt/
- /spoət/
Forms:
- sports (plural)
sport (noun) senses:
1. (countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
2. (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
3. (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
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Sounds:
- /spɔːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /spɔɹt/ (General-American)
- /spɔː/ (Tasmanian)
- /spo(ː)ɹt/
- /spoət/
Forms:
- sports (plural)
sport (noun) senses:
1. (countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
2. (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
3. (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
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✳ sport (verb)
Forms:
- sports (present, singular, third-person)
- sporting (participle, present)
- sported (participle, past)
- sported (past)
sport (verb) senses:
1. (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
2. (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
3. (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
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Forms:
- sports (present, singular, third-person)
- sporting (participle, present)
- sported (participle, past)
- sported (past)
sport (verb) senses:
1. (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
2. (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
3. (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
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💡 Example 💡 Indian wrestle
Indian wrestle (verb): Indian Wrestle. Two boys lie down alongside of each other, with the feet pointing in opposite directions. They lock the near elbows firmly. Each then raises the near leg three times, one or both counting (Fig. 9). / On the third count they interlock the legs near the knee and try by main strength to turn each other over backward.
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Indian wrestle (verb): Indian Wrestle. Two boys lie down alongside of each other, with the feet pointing in opposite directions. They lock the near elbows firmly. Each then raises the near leg three times, one or both counting (Fig. 9). / On the third count they interlock the legs near the knee and try by main strength to turn each other over backward.
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🌜 Present Perfect Continuous 🌛
They have been following a strict fitness routine.
They have been following a strict fitness routine.
🗣 Conversation 🗣
After seeing her across the room at a bar, Carson showed Aubrey interest.
- (Aubrey) I saw Carson staring at me from across the room.
- Where were you guys?
- We were at the bar.
- It must have been love at first sight.
- Maybe so. He stared at me the whole time.
- Does he stand a chance?
After seeing her across the room at a bar, Carson showed Aubrey interest.
- (Aubrey) I saw Carson staring at me from across the room.
- Where were you guys?
- We were at the bar.
- It must have been love at first sight.
- Maybe so. He stared at me the whole time.
- Does he stand a chance?
🌜 Present Perfect Continuous 🌛
They have been working on the project together for a while.
They have been working on the project together for a while.
✳ scope (noun)
Sounds:
- /ˈskəʊp/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈskoʊp/ (US)
Forms:
- scopes (plural)
scope (noun) senses:
1. The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
2. (weaponry) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
3. Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom.
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Sounds:
- /ˈskəʊp/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈskoʊp/ (US)
Forms:
- scopes (plural)
scope (noun) senses:
1. The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
2. (weaponry) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
3. Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom.
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✳ scope (verb)
Forms:
- scopes (present, singular, third-person)
- scoping (participle, present)
- scoped (participle, past)
- scoped (past)
scope (verb) senses:
1. (informal, transitive) To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
2. (medicine, colloquial) To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
3. To define the scope of something.
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Forms:
- scopes (present, singular, third-person)
- scoping (participle, present)
- scoped (participle, past)
- scoped (past)
scope (verb) senses:
1. (informal, transitive) To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
2. (medicine, colloquial) To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
3. To define the scope of something.
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