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proper noun
- A large suburb of Dallas, Texas (USA)
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noun
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(obsolete) The spirit; the soul of man.
Then gives her grieved thus to lament. — Spenser
- The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. — Shakespeare.
I thought that I had died in sleep/And was a blessed . — Coleridge
- Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.
not a of a chance
the of an idea
Each separate dying ember wrought its upon the floor. — Poe
- A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
- An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.
- A ghostwriter.
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| gripe |
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noun
- A complaint; a petty concern.
- The name of a specific wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
verb (grip, ing)
- To complain; to whine.
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| ground |
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noun
- The surface of the Earth.
- terrain, Terrain.
- soil, Soil, earth.
The worm crawls through the .
- The bottom of a body of water.
- basis, Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- background, Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- A soccer stadium.
Manchester United's is known as Old Trafford.
- An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
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The British equivalent is earth.
- A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
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(cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; that part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground)
verb
- To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
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(transitive) To require a disobedient child to remain at home, usually as a punishment.
The teenager's father decided to ground him for two weeks after he broke curfew again.
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(transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
Becasue of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
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(baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular)) and line (verb).
Jones grounded to second in his last at-bat.
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(cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease so as not to be run out
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verb (grows, growing, grew, grown)
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(intransitive) To become bigger.
Children quickly.
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(intransitive) To appear or sprout.
The plant began to .
A long tail began to from his backside.
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(transitive) To cause something to become bigger, especially plants.
He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.
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| gunwale |
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noun
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(nautical) the top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel. Compare with bulwark.
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| gybe |
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noun
- The act of gybing.
- A sudden shift of a sail's angle, or a sudden change in the direction that a boat is sailing.
- A sudden change in direction or approach; vacillation.
- A sneer. (see gibe.)
verb
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(nautical) To change tack with the wind crossing behind the boat. (Mostly used of boats and other small sailing craft " the corresponding manoeuver in a sailing ship is to wear.)
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(nautical) To shift a fore-and-aft sail suddenly and forcefully from one side to the other, while sailing before the wind. (also jibe.)
- To sneer (see gibe.)
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gybe at: to hesitate, vacillate, or balk when faced with a proposal, plan, or course of action. (Obsolete)
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