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Acre
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proper noun
  1. Old name of a city in modern Israel famed from the Crusades: see Acco.
  2. A state in northern Brazil, which has Rio Branco as its capital.
air mile
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noun
  1. A unit of distance for air transport; equal to a nautical mile.
analog
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noun
  1. (alternative spelling of, analogue)
adjective
  1. (context, chiefly, US) Dealing with a continuous spectrum of values as opposed to a discrete on/off value.
ardeb
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noun
  1. A Middle Eastern unit of volume used for agricultural crops
1 ardeb of wheat equals about 150 kg
1 ardeb of barley equals about 120 kg.
are
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noun
  1. (rare) A accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a
verb
  1. (form of, second-person singular simple present tense, be)
Mary, where you going?
  1. (form of, first-person plural simple present tense, be)
We not coming.
  1. (form of, second-person plural simple present tense, be)
Mary and John, you listening?
  1. (form of, third-person plural simple present tense, be)
They here somewhere.
AS
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abbreviation
  1. Anglo-Saxon
  2. Advanced Supplementary
  3. (neurology) Asperger's Syndrome
  4. (geography) American Samoa
avoirdupois
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noun
  1. the official system of weights used in UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary system in London since AD 1300.
  2. the official system of weights used in USA between 1866 and 1959.
  3. weight; heaviness;
he has a lot of avoirdupois
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